The Rule of Law

Chapters

1 - The Needful Proclamation
2 - One For The Road
3 - Magical Assurances
4 - Stage Fright
5 - Last Minute Encore
Epilogue - The Inmate

1 - The Needful Proclamation

Luna looked down at the ancient, tattered spellbook laid out on the table of the palace’s tightly warded magical workroom with no small amount of disdain. This was not her idea of a wise way to spend the evening. “I know you are desperate to have what you so desire, Sister, but this … this is old magic, older than me, even older than you. We do not know much about it, and that makes it dangerous.”

Celestia looked up at Luna, taking a short break from the tome. “I know, I know. And I cannot deny that there is some measure of risk involved. But you know as well as I do that gain rarely comes without risk.”

Twilight Sparkle seemed to ignore them both completely, though. Twilight was entirely engrossed with poring over the ancient text, studying every minute detail of the page. Even if Twilight Sparkle now was the ‘Alicorn Princess of Magic’ as Celestia said, it did not assuage Luna’s worry much to see her so obsessed. She was obviously so enamored with the chance to study and practice ancient ritual magic that she was blind to all else … especially the very important question of whether this was something the three of them should be meddling with at all.

“Sister…” Luna looked at her sternly.

Celestia sighed. “Come now, Luna. We’re the two oldest alicorns, with thousands of years of experience each. And we now have Twilight, the Alicorn of Magic. Who in Equestria could possibly be better suited to this challenge than the three of us?”

“It is not our abilities that I doubt, Sister.”

Celestia looked back at her with a pained expression. “Luna…”

It was a struggle to hold back any sign of the frustration and worry she felt. This was wrong. She could feel it. They shouldn’t be tinkering with spells they didn’t fully understand. All in a desperate attempt for… “There are other ways, Sister. Other ways you could have what you desire.”

“No there isn't.” Celestia shook her head. “We’ve tried everything, Luna. Every spell, every medical procedure, every potion, every witch doctor. They’ve all failed. It’s been so long since I … since I brought new life into the world. Everypony we ask says I’m simply too old. But I can’t take it anymore. I miss those days. I miss them terribly. Seeing Cadance with Flurry Heart has reopened that old wound, and the only way to make it stop bleeding is to finally mend it, once and for all.”

“And you believe long-lost ancient magic can do such a thing?”

Celestia nodded slightly. “The Wish spell is said to be one of the oldest and most powerful magics in all of recorded history. Or even recorded myth and legend. They say it always gives you what you ask for, no matter what. I didn’t even know we had anything this old in the palace archives. For Twilight to have finally found it there, just as we ran out of other options … it seems nothing short of a stroke of fate. We were meant to find this spell, meant to use it.”

Luna frowned. “Many things are meant to happen, Sister. But that does not necessarily mean the force behind that intention is benevolent. We must take caution, lest we—”

“Okay, I think I’ve got it,” Twilight said suddenly.

“Excellent!” Celestia gushed.

Luna, however, was still leery. “You think so?”

Twilight blushed a little. “Well, uh, I mean. It’s hard to be completely certain with something this old. In order to make any sense of these runes, I had to translate it into Old Ponish, and then translate it again into modern spellcasting script. And you never really know if some of the nuance may have gotten lost in translation.” She shrugged. “But I’ve gone over every detail at least three times independently. And the instructions are very clear. The only thing that can possibly go wrong is for the spell to simply not work – dysfunction, rather than malfunction. The worst case scenario is that it simply does nothing.”

“Then let us begin immediately!” Celestia trotted happily to the center of their magic circle, her wings flittering as she went. “Please, Twilight – initiate the spell!”

“Stay, Twilight! We must be certain before we—”

Twilight ignored Luna, going to the preordained spot in the traced spell matrix while levitating the ancient spellbook – and her loose-leaf notes – in front of her. The glow of her horn was already increasing, already feeding magic into the spell.

Celestia looked to Luna earnestly. “Sister, come. Please – we need your magic for this as well! It’s the only way we’ll have enough power.”

Begrudgingly, Luna took her place on the opposite side of the magic circle. She fervently hoped Twilight Sparkle was right about this spell…

Once she fed her own magical energy into it, the tracings on the floor quickly ignited into brilliant white light, showing their full complexity. A slight shuddering feeling ran through the entire castle, shaking its very foundations as if it were being rocked by a hurricane. But it was an eldritch wind, not of the physical world. Any pegasus or earth pony in the castle would be completely oblivious to it, though any unicorn in Canterlot could surely feel something happening here.

“It’s ready!” Twilight shouted breathlessly. “Now it’s your turn, Princess! Step into the circle and state your wish!”

In turmoil near panic, Luna shouted in vain: “Take caution, Sister! Heed how it might be interpreted!”

Celestia took a deep breath and slowly stepped into the circle, strangely serene in the heat of the moment. Though she was facing away from Luna – toward Twilight – Luna could still tell how oddly, completely calm her sister was. She envied that. Worry and doubt twisted within her own chest, gnawing at her from the inside out, insisting that they had gone too far this time…

“I wish,” Celestia said, loudly and clearly, “that for the first time in thousands of years, I will be the cause of new foals being birthed into Equestria!”

Instantly, a blinding flash emanated from Celestia’s body, forcing Luna to shut her eyes.

When she blinked them open again, Celestia was gone. In her place was a small, glowing sphere. Radiant like the sun, it bore Celestia’s cutie mark in miniature. The sphere was not calm and serene as Celestia had been just a moment ago. It darted to and fro fretfully, as if searching for something. Gradually, its explorations widened.

When it became clear that it was not contained by the bounds of the magic circle, Luna knew for certain that this had gone too far. “Twilight!” she shouted, “Cancel the spell!”

“I … I can’t! It doesn't need my magic anymore! It's self-sustaining!” Twilight leafed through the book and her notes like mad. “There’s … there’s no counterspell here! This spell was written before any spell safety regulations! It seems to be using Celestia’s own magic to…”

“To what?” Luna would have blasted the orb with her own magic, if she had been a little less wise. But she knew from long experience that such things often only worsened the situation.

Before Twilight could answer, the sphere suddenly went absolutely still, hovering in the air just in front of Luna’s face. It turned its sunburst cutie mark toward the south. Had it finally located what it was seeking? After a moment like that, it shot off in that direction, no more than a brightly glowing blur. The castle wall didn’t slow it down in the slightest – a small explosion of masonry burst into the room as the sphere blasted its way out.

When the dust settled, all that remained of Celestia was a small circular hole in the wall where the sphere had punched through.

Both she and Twilight simply stared for a long moment. Luna resisted the urge to say ‘I told you so.’ Instead, something of more practical and immediate concern: “Can you trace where that sphere went?”

Twilight's horn glowed for a moment. Then she shook her head. “Not magically. But it seems to be headed south from here. Towards Ponyville maybe? Or the Everfree Forest. Hm… Let me stop by the Canterlot civil engineering office for some tools. If I can measure that hole in the wall accurately enough, we may be able to predict the trajectory and narrow down our search area.”

Luna winced. “Our … search?”

“Our search to get Princess Celestia back before sunrise.”

* * *

Dicey Morel was a simple stallion; he didn’t need much. Or at least he’d told himself so, after the world passed him by and tossed him aside as if he wasn't wanted. All he needed was his little cabin on the outskirts of the Everfree Forest. All he needed was the little mushroom patches in this vast, tree-spotted field, the patches only he knew about and only he could harvest from. All he needed was a mare who’d…

Well, nevermind about that. Not going to happen. It would take a miracle for any of them to notice the plain-looking brown and beige stallion who sometimes opened up a mushroom stall in the market. Mares in Ponyville spent more time looking at the fungi in his cart than looking at him.

So he’d just be content with what he could get. It was probably the royals’ fault anyway. After all, most things were. Discord? He’d heard reliable rumors that Princess Twilight turned him loose. Changelings? Only ever showed up after Princess Cadance was crowned. Luna? Did ponies somehow forget what Luna had done – she’d gone full monster and tried to make eternal night! And Celestia! The worst of the bunch! She kept making the sun too hot and putting it at weird angles so that it’d shine on his mushrooms and wither them up. He knew she was doing it to personally spite him – he was too close to the truth, and somehow she knew it. The royals had spies everywhere. She was probably withering his mushrooms so that he wouldn't be able to impress mares with them, taking away the last chance he had.

It was the kind of thing they’d do.

On this lovely and cool night, though, he didn’t worry himself a whole lot about that. Only the usual amount of precautions, such as wearing his lucky horseshoes. He’d never once gotten spied upon while wearing the lucky horseshoes he’d bought from that friendly stallion in town. Other ponies called him crazy for believing in such things, but Dicey knew better. He was the special kind of pony who was smart enough to see things for how they really were.

He was just about to get around to his best, most productive patch of his namesake Morels when it happened. A brilliantly golden shooting star shot in from the northeast, almost lighting up the whole sky as it flew. Seeing shooting stars during his nightly checkups wasn't unusual – maybe other ponies would have dismissed it. But not him. He was too smart for that. He knew there was something special about this one, and he kept his eyes on it the entire time it flew across the sky.

Unusual indeed! It streaked down to the ground not far from him – not far at all! Off in the direction of the always-looming Everfree Forest.

Well, the Morels could wait. This was something special. It had to be.

* * *

Dicey had been inside the Everfree Forest before. Despite what the ponies of Ponyville often said, it was possible for ponies who went in to come back out … as long as they were careful and kept their wits about them.

That said, it was an especially threatening place at night. He normally wouldn't go until sunrise, not even for the rarest of mushrooms. But this was no rare mushroom. This was something very special. He could still see the faint glow of it somewhere up ahead. Was it gold, maybe? A huge pile of bits just for him? Why … if he got rich from this, maybe then the mares would…

No. Best not to get ahead of himself. And definitely best not to get caught daydreaming – or nightdreaming – inside the Everfree Forest. That was a quick way to end up as one of those ponies the others warned about, the ones who never come back.

The light ahead was getting brighter … he must be getting close now…

And there it was!

Surprisingly small for how brightly it had been glowing. And it sure wasn't a huge pile of golden bits or anything. If it wasn't so shiny, he probably wouldn't even consider it valuable. Already, its light was fading, but it still shone almost too brightly to look at, like the sun. It was only a small sphere, though, slightly bigger than a walnut. But it glowed brightly with a sun symbol on the surface of it, almost like a freshly appeared cutie mark.

What was it? Who knew? Who cared? It sure looked valuable, so Dicey took it. Actually wasn't hot at all when he picked it up, though he’d been afraid it might burn his hoof. And then into the saddlebag it went, as if it was just another mushroom to be harvested.

Speaking of that, he still had a long night ahead of him. Better get going again.

* * *

The next day, there wasn't one. The old clock on Dicey’s wall said it was the next day, but it was still dark as midnight outside.

Weird. But whatever. Good for his mushrooms. He’d have a good crop this month, maybe make some extra dough and have enough to make some much-needed repairs to his little cabin on the edge of the forest. Not enough to repair the leaky roof, probably, but enough to fix the drafty window and the finicky door latch. Or maybe he’d spend it on another trip to the Ponyville Spa. Those twin sisters were mighty alluring, even if the only thing they really offered was overpriced hoof-jobs. Still, it was about as close as he was ever likely to get to what he really wanted.

Why was his mind on such things so much lately? Ever since he’d stashed that glowing orb under the floorboards of his woodshed, he just couldn't stop thinking about mares, mares, mares. Even though he knew he ought to spend the extra – if there even was any extra – on cottage repairs, deep down he already knew he’d made his decision. He was looking forward to the next trip into town already, and for all the wrong reasons!

* * *

When it finally came time for that trip into town – for the weekend market – it was still nighttime. Nopony had seen so much of a glimmer of the sun since the last time it had set, now a whole four days ago.

Definitely something wrong. For sure. But also not his problem. For sure.

He was just a simple mushroom gatherer, after all. Giant cosmic calamities tended to come and go, but for him, routine went on as it always had.

As he’d predicted, the mushroom harvest this time had been huge. And that should have been all the better for him because most of the other produce vendors had seemed to be doing quite poorly without any sun on their crops. Having a bumper crop and less competition than usual should have meant enormous profits for his humble little mushroom stand.

Unfortunately not, though. Most ponies seemed to be preoccupied with the darkness, too busy panicking to go grocery shopping. Despite having so much to sell and so little competition, he was still having a slow sales day. Just his luck. Looked like he could kiss that trip to the spa goodbye. Oh well, probably for the best anyway. He always ended up spending way too much money there, and usually regretting it afterwards.

Mostly, he just amused himself by watching all the passerby in the marketplace and listening to what they were all chattering about. To take the Ponyville residents’ word for it, Celestia was gravely ill, Celestia was dead, Nightmare Moon had returned, Discord was up to something, Celestia was on strike and refused to do her job until her royal allowance was increased, Celestia had turned into an apricot and shot off into the distance, Celestia and Luna had simply forgotten to do their royal duty, the sun itself was dead and would just be a black void if Celestia raised it, Twilight Sparkle had taken over the sun-raising duties and she was very bad at her job, the days had accidentally been a few minutes too long for centuries and now the princesses were making up for it all at once, or perhaps all the clocks had been running exceptionally fast and everypony still hadn’t had the usual twelve hours of darkness yet. Each theory more ridiculous than the last. It made him chuckle.

But also, more than usual, he had an eye for the mares darting to and fro through the marketplace. Of course he always liked to keep an eye out for pretty mares on market days – or nights, as it were – but usually they didn’t distract him this much. Applejack’s firm, rippling flanks as she trotted by to check on her brother’s cart. The prime view of Lyra’s little mint-green teats as she reclined on a bench. The way Pinkie Pie’s generous ass cheeks jiggled with every bounce as she pronked right past his stall. He always had an eye for such things, but now he could barely tear his gaze away from them, even when he had a customer. He was struggling to even keep his pride tugged inside his sheath – something he hadn’t had problems with since he was just a young colt catching a whiff of filly pheromones for the first time. What was wrong with him? Something about that orb. Everything had gotten so odd since he picked that thing up. Unnatural, it was. Maybe he ought to get rid of it…

“Have you seen any mysterious magical artifacts suddenly appearing lately?”

That question meshed so perfectly with Dicey’s own thoughts about the orb that for a moment he questioned if he was hearing things, just making things up in his head.

But no, there it was again, the same question. “Have you seen any unusual magical artifacts? It’s vital that we find it so we can get Celestia back and raise the sun.”

Two royal guards, going from pony to pony, asking the same thing. They were asking Lyra now, on the bench across the market from him. She shook her head no and shrugged her shoulders. He might have noticed the guards earlier, if he hadn’t been so distracted by mares lately. Even now, his eyes strayed down between Lyra’s hind legs. Goodness, those little teats of hers looked so soft and supple…

No! He shook himself, forcing himself to watch the guards instead. Maybe this was important!

Pony after pony they asked, seemingly at random, asking anypony who’d stop to talk to them. And never getting the answer they wanted. Always about getting Celestia back. Was she truly gone? Of course, they never asked him, even though they walked right by his stand more than once. Dicey was well-accustomed to the effect. He was all but invisible to anypony except those shopping for mushrooms. Nobody cared about the weird, musty-smelling mushroom guy unless they wanted what he was selling, did they?

Still, though… Could it be? Celestia disappeared, sun not rising, mysterious glowing orb with the mark of the sun on it…

Nah, it couldn't be. Things like this didn’t happen to him. He was just the mushroom pony. The plain-looking, lonely, sexless, mushroom pony that nopony cared about.

Unless…

What if he had found something incredibly valuable? Something Equestria literally couldn't function without? Ponies would have to pay attention to him then, wouldn't they? Mares would have to pay attention to him! He might finally… But no. That was stupid. Maybe he’d be in the spotlight for a day, maybe a princess would write him a letter thanking him, maybe Pinkie Pie would throw him a silly little party or something. And then they’d forget. Merely finding a lost object wasn't enough to make one an eternal hero of Equestria, not even an object this important. It was just dumb luck that he’d been the one to find it, and ponies would realize that. Handing it over to the guards would never get him what he really wanted.

Maybe there was another way to take advantage of this, though… They didn’t know where it was, and they desperately needed to. He knew where it was, he was smart enough to get his way, and he didn’t owe those snooty royals anything. Why … they’d trade anything for that orb, wouldn't they?

If anypony had been paying attention to him – which they never did – they might have been unnerved by the maniacal grin that suddenly spread over his face. Oh yes. The plan was already forming. He’d sell off the rest of his crop all at once at Barnyard Bargains first. For a terrible price compared to what he could get here in the market, but it would be more than enough to cover a one-way ticket on the next train to Canterlot…

* * *

As it turned out, he made it to the station just a bit too late to catch the last train to Canterlot that day. Even though there weren’t any days anymore and the conductors might have just as well run trains at any hour, they still refused to deviate from their normal schedule. And no he was not interested in the ‘overnight express’ to Appleloosa, thank you very much! So with an eye-roll and a muttered curse to all bureaucrats and the royals they answered to, he’d bought a ticket for the next morning train and waited.

That was a long, long night, even just judging by the clock, not even counting how morning would literally never come. It seemed like his seven thirty train departure time would never come, either. He couldn't get a wink of sleep that night, not with visions of every mare he’d ever seen dancing before his eyes every time he closed them. Would this really work? Would he finally get to go all the way with a mare? Any mare he wanted? Well, only time would tell … but why oh why did time have to pass so slowly?

* * *

If Dicey had thought Ponyville was going crazy, Canterlot was on a whole different level. Ponies ran through the streets as if the city was on fire. A few places in the city were on fire, though at least the pegasus fire crews were still responding and trying to put it out with hastily-delivered rain clouds.

Canterlot Castle – his destination – was the absolute center of all the mayhem. That posed a problem. It wasn't quite as easy to get a royal audience as he’d thought it would be. The castle gates were closed tightly, with a huge crowd of ponies – both standing and flying – clustered around the drawbridge, every last one of them clamoring to be let in, shouting their various justifications, some very sensible, others absurd. But the line of Royal Guards blocking the gate weren’t listening to a word of it. They merely pushed back anypony who got too close.

It took him ages to shoulder his way through the crowd to the gate. Lots of time and a bruised hoof from where some fat stallion had stepped on him. He screamed at the fat stallion, but it only got lost in the riotous din; the other ponies didn’t even seem to notice one more scream.

And neither did the Royal Guards, once he’d finally made his way to the front of the unruly crowd. “Let me in!” Dicey shouted. “I know where Celestia is! I found her!”

But no matter how loudly he shouted, it never seemed to get through to them. It was as if they couldn't hear him at all. Maybe they couldn't. All the other ponies were yelling so loudly too… As much as he tried, it quickly became clear that he wasn't getting through to them, no matter what. In the end, he had to retreat away from the gate. Who could stand that much noise and commotion for so long? Just before he was about to give up hope and maybe go home and try talking to the Guards in Ponyville, the gate opened, and out came a pony he actually knew: Shining Armor, former Captain of the Royal Guard. Even Dicey had heard of this suspiciously fortunate stallion!

“Next shift coming in, keep up the good work,” Shining Armor said over the ruckus. Apparently he’d resumed duties as Captain? “And remember – nopony gets in until we’ve found a solution for this crisis.”

Seeing his chance, Dicey jumped at it – literally jumping back to the front, almost close enough to earn him another shove backward from the Guards. “Shining Armor!” he cried out. He seemed to have gotten the Captain’s attention thank goodness. Now to capitalize on it! “I need an audience with the princesses! I know where Celestia is! Just let me talk to them!”

Shining Armor shook his head. “Princess Luna isn’t taking audiences today. Come back tomorrow.”

Now that the Guards lining the door had switched places with fresh ones, Shining Armor turned and headed back inside as well. Dicey thought that was it – of course a pony so closely associated with the royals would be a complete ass! – but no, not quite. Just before the giant doors closed, another pony peeked out. The unmistakable purple face of Princess Twilight Sparkle herself.

“You know where she is?” Princess Twilight asked.

Dicey nodded vigorously.

“Where?”

“I have to tell Princess Luna directly!”

Shining Armor came back to the door. “It’s some kind of scam, Twiley. Half the ponies here claim to know where she is, but they’re just saying that to get inside.”

“I’m not lying! I really know where she is!”

Princess Twilight stared at him for a moment, as if trying to judge the truth in his eyes. Eventually, she turned to Shining Armor. “We have to try, just in case. If he’s lying, we’ll kick him right back out again, okay?”

Shining Armor sighed, but acquiesced. With a series of shouted orders, he had the line of guards allow Dicey through while keeping the rest of the crowd back – this seemed to make all of them even more agitated.

The exact millisecond Dicey was inside, the doors slammed closed again, each door pushed by a pair or Royal Guards, who then quickly placed a locking bar across the entrance. It was strange. Even though he could still hear the crowd outside, the interior of the castle was oddly serene. If anything, the muted sound of the near-riot outside only added to the effect. Or maybe it was just because of the sharp contrast from the chaos Dicey had just left.

“Come on,” Princess Twilight told him. “The throne room is this way. Luna should still be there.”

“I’m coming too,” Shining Armor declared.

Princess Twilight looked back at him. “Huh? I thought you needed to organize the—”

“I don’t trust him. I’m keeping an eye on this one.” Shining Armor turned to Dicey. “What’s your name? And why do you have to tell Princess Luna directly? Why can’t you just tell us instead?”

“I’m Dicey Morel. And, uh…” He realized he didn’t have a good explanation for the rest, so he just let it hang. Shining Armor’s eyes narrowed at that.

“Come on!” Princess Twilight said again. “There’s no time to lose!”

All the way to the throne room, Dicey couldn't take his eyes off of Princess Twilight's rear. To the point where he saw very little of the castle’s interior. Normally, he’d be fascinated with the unfair decadence that the royals lived within, but for some reason, all he could focus his eyes on was the decadence of Twilight's sweet little ass. She was fairly small and slim, especially for an alicorn, but her cheeks still had a really sumptuous deep curve to them. They were especially enticing as she climbed the long flight of stairs upward – Dicey’s mouth watered as he watched the Princess’s curves sway gently side to side. And oh! The flippantly casual way she held her tail so high! It was absolutely impossible to avoid catching glimpses of her pert little vulva. It jiggled ever so slightly every time one of her hind hooves touched the floor.

Of course, the direction of his gaze hadn’t escaped Shining Armor’s notice. Even without looking at him, Dicey could feel the other stallion’s fiercely protective glare. But still, Dicey couldn't stop staring under Princess Twilight's tail. It was like some kind of hypnosis…

He was so absorbed in the view that he didn’t even notice that they’d entered the throne room. Apparently, thanks to Princess Twilight's privilege, they were able to enter without any fanfare or waiting whatsoever. The only thing that was able to snap Dicey out of it was when Twilight turned around and waved a hoof in his face.

“Hey, are you okay?” she said. “This is the throne room. Princess Luna is right up there.”

Dicey looked where Princess Twilight pointed, and indeed Princess Luna sat there on the throne. There was already somepony in front of her, a yellow and orange pegasus mare wearing a dazzling flight suit and messenger bags. “More reports of crop failures already,” the pegasus said. “Without the sun, temperatures are getting much colder than usual this time of year. Places that aren’t used to the cold weather – like the farms outside of Las Pegasus – are already losing some crops to the frost. If this keeps getting worse…”

“I know, I know,” Princess Luna said dejectedly. “It appears we are due for a famine. Has the report from our emergency warehouses come back yet? How much food supplies have we stockpiled?”

The pegasus shook her head. “They’re still counting the inventory.”

“Well, if counting takes them this long, perhaps that is a good sign. Hopefully we’ll be able to provide enough relief efforts until … until, well…” Princess Luna gave a long, heavy sigh.

The pegasus cleared her throat. “Uh… Princess? Some of the other Wonderbolts were talking, and they made me promise to ask you… Why don’t you just raise the sun yourself? Princess Celestia was able to take care of the moon while you were … uh … gone, and that seemed to work fine.”

Princess Luna shook her head. “The sun is nothing like the moon. It is far more massive, and it is … unruly.” She sighed again. “Believe me, my dear Captain Spitfire, I have tried. I have tried so many times. But I fear it is beyond me, even with the assistance of the other two alicorns. I have worn myself out until my magic falters and I have yet to get that intractable thing even close to the horizon.”

“Oh…” The pegasus mare looked down. “I guess I’ll be on my way, then, Princess. I’ll get these messages delivered faster than the wind flies!”

“Fear not!” Princess Luna paused the pegasus mare’s departure with those words. “Though the art has long been lost, our best magical researchers have been hard at work reconstructing the old ways, before my sister and I. Though it may take a hundred unicorns a day and cost them dearly, we shall see the sun again.” Quietly, to the side, she added, “So long as our supplies last in the meantime…”

Finally, she seemed to notice the new arrivals. “Aha! And here comes one of the best magical researchers in all the land! Please tell me, Twilight Sparkle, that you have good news to deliver! Have you uncovered the ancient spells for raising the sun?”

“Not that, I’m afraid,” Twilight said. “But I may have other good news.” She nudged Dicey forward. “Go on, tell her!”

“Here we go…” Shining Armor rolled his eyes.

Princess Luna’s eyes finally settled on Dicey. “And who might you be? For I do not recognize your face nor your cutie mark.” As usual, he’d been invisible to everypony – especially mares – until specifically called for. Well … maybe all of that was about to end.

He cleared his throat. “I’m, uh, Dicey Morel … Your, um, Highness.” It felt weird to talk to a royal on her throne … and even weirder to do it so … respectfully.

Utter silence reigned in the hall. If he’d been expecting some sort of response or greeting, none was coming. Princess Luna merely stared down at him, waiting for him to continue.

Well, he might as well just come out with it. “I know where Princess Celestia is.”

That earned him a gasp from Princess Luna. “Where?”

“And I’ll tell you, uh … for a price.”

Shining Armor groaned. “Of course.”

Princess Luna, though, simply raised one eyebrow. “Your price?”

Phew… This was getting intense. The tightness in Dicey’s chest made it hard to even breathe. His legs were shaking! He knew what to do, but he’d never thought it would be so difficult to do it! And the betrayed look Princess Twilight was giving him… No! He had to persevere. It was the only way. “I, uh… I’ll tell you where Princess Celestia is if you make a royal decree giving me absolute authority over everypony in Equestria, allowing me to order them to do anything I please. Including, um…” Whew … okay, deep breath. “Including … sex.”

Oh, the look of utter disgust on Princess Luna’s face… “BEGONE WITH YOU! THOU FOUL LIAR! THOU PERVERSE FOOL!” she shouted, in her full deafening Canterlot Voice.

Shining Armor rushed at the opportunity, grappling Dicey in his magic and quickly hauling Dicey away.

But not before Dicey could shout out, “It’s a glowing sphere, about this big”— he held his hooves just slightly apart —“and it glows with a golden light like the sun – it has the mark of the sun on it, just like Princess Celestia’s cutie mark!”

“Hold!” Princess Luna called out, halting Shining Armor just at the throne room’s door.

“Princess?” Shining Armor questioned.

Princess Luna took a deep sigh. “He has indeed seen the sphere which my beloved sister has become. Please, Captain, set him down.”

It was much more comfortable standing on his four hooves again. Dicey shook himself.

Princess Luna looked at him earnestly. “Please, Dicey Morel, I beseech you. Withhold not your secrets. We must have Celestia back. Already, our crops are failing and the cold is coming in. It as if the ghost of Nightmare Moon has come to torture me and all of Equestria as well, with the foolish dream I wanted so badly when under the spell of that madness. Please, kind stallion, please help us retrieve my sister so that we may save Equestria from this doom! You will have my undying gratitude. Myself and all of Equestria!”

Wow… She was so earnest like that. Any other pony might have fallen for it – even Dicey almost did – but he knew the royals too well to believe them even for a moment. She was simply putting on an act to get what she wanted, like they always did.

“I will,” he said, “once you’ve given me the price I asked for.”

Shining Armor came toward him again. “Why you no good son of a—”

“No, Shining!” Twilight blocked him with a quick magical shield. “Please. We have to hear him out. I’m sure we can negotiate something, right?” She looked back up at Princess Luna.

Stomping one hoof down scornfully, Princess Luna scoffed. “We will not be held hostage to the demands of a treacherous, lecherous stallion!” She marched down toward him, her eyes glowing white. “FOOL! Did you think you could hold an entire nation hostage? Did you think us so weak? Nay! You will sooner find yourself caged in Tartarus! Chained in the lowest dungeons! Your petty secrets shall be flayed from your mind with arcane spells you have not the wit to comprehend! We should feed you to the beasts of Tartarus merely for having the temerity to speak such insults to crown and to country!”

As much as he'd intended to stand his ground, Dicey nevertheless found himself backpedaling away from the angry Princess. She was just so much taller than him, obviously so much more powerful!

And yet ... at this point, what did he have to lose? She'd already threatened him just for saying it. Even if he gave in now, they'd probably still throw him in the dungeons. And even if they were merciful, even if they let him go ... could he really live with himself if he'd come this close, only to give in to their threats? Could he really just go back to mushroom farming after this? Unthinkable. And besides, he knew that these royals lied constantly. How do you know if a royal is lyin'? Dicey's grandpapa had once told him, Her mouth is movin'!

No! Screw it. He wasn't going to back down after coming this far! He'd call their bluff and hope against hope that they really were bluffing. He shook his head. “You won't. You wouldn't do that even to the worst villains Equestria has ever faced!”

She was right in front of him now, the the point where he could feel her seething breath. “Do not test us, pathetic stallion! We will offer you this one chance – one chance only – to recant your absurd request and beg our mercy.”

“Princess Luna!” Twilight cried. “We can't do that kind of thing! It's not—”

“Shush, Twiley!” Shining Armor shoved his hoof against his sister's mouth, shutting her up.

But it was too late. Any fear of retribution and torture that might have been clawing at Dicey's heart now wafted away. Princess Twilight had all but confirmed it: this was a bluff. Right from the mouth of a royal herself. “You're bluffing!” he said, with confidence still somewhat feigned. “No ruler of Equestria would ever do that kind of thing to a fellow pony.”

“You know nothing of what we are capable!”

Even as she'd said it, Princess Luna's threat sounded hollow. Dicey huffed, almost daring to laugh at her. “You're wasting time, here Princess! The sooner you agree to my terms, the sooner Equestria can be back to normal. But if you deny it, that will only delay things and make the problem worse. Just do it already!”

Princess Luna backed down and breathed a deep sigh, shaking her head. “It is impossible. What you ask for, Dicey Morel, is not mine to give. I could not, in good conscience, make such a demand on my subjects, on the citizens of Equestria.” She paused for a long moment, deliberating. “I am, however, prepared to offer you anything which is mine to give. You may take anything you desire from the royal storehouses, including the treasury. And, if it is pleasures of the body you seek, you may have ... me.”

“Princess Luna!” Twilight shouted in shock.

The Princess held up her hoof, silencing Princess Twilight. “Please, stay your concern, Twilight Sparkle. In my long years, I have done worse for less reward. Having once before tried to force this very same endless night upon Equestria, I believe it my duty to do anything in my power to put an end to it now.” She looked back to Dicey. “So this is my offer, kind sir. I offer you everything which is mine to give. I cannot offer more.”

Once again, Dicey might have been convinced … if he didn’t already know so much about the royals and how they worked. She had the power to do more, of course she did. The royals controlled everything! She was just using this as a dirty tactic to bargain him down and get what she wanted for cheaper. No different than an old granny haggling for truffles in the Ponyville market square. Oh yes, he’d heard that ‘this is all I have’ line before. And then watched the same pony go right up to the next stall to buy something else, using the same line there too. No, he wasn't buying it. He wouldn't budge.

“Sorry,” he said. “That isn’t what I asked for.” He turned to leave.

“Wait!”

He knew it! He paused, but didn’t turn, turning only one ear rearward to hear what she had to say.

“Though it pains me greatly to thus abuse my authority…” She sighed. “I will grant you what you ask.”

“Princess!” both Shining Armor and Princess Twilight shouted at once.

“Be still!” Princess Luna shouted in return. “It is with a heavy heart I come to this conclusion, but yet I must. Dicey Morel, you will have what you seek, you have my word. Now I beg of you, tell us where we can find Princess Celestia.”

“Not so fast,” Dicey told her. “I know how you royals work. As soon as I tell you where she is, you’ll just lock me up in a dungeon for even having the nerve to ask what I asked for.”

“Oooh! Good idea!” Shining Armor said quietly to himself.

“Not helping!” Princess Twilight hissed at him as she prodded him with a hoof.

“No no no.” Dicey stomped his hoof down. “I want seven days. Seven full days to do whatever I want, whoever I want. And then I’ll tell you where Princess Celestia is.”

Princess Luna gasped a little … probably because he’d seen through her plan. “To think I should live to see such temerity…” She shook her head. “Have you not seen the state Equestria is already in? I fear we may not last seven days. It is too much.”

Well, true… And of course Dicey wasn't an evil pony. He didn’t want everypony else to suffer and starve. “Okay…” He shrugged. “How about five days?”

“This is still too long. Please, think of the suffering which will unfold over the land! Though I fear to delay even so long as this, I will offer you one day.”

“One day?” Dicey scoffed. “Come on! That’s practically nothing!” He started walking toward the throne room doors again. “Send a messenger for me when you’re finally desperate enough to really negotiate!”

“Three days!” Princess Luna shouted before he could reach the door. “I offer you three days. I dare not offer more. If too many crops fail, it may result in famine severe enough to put an end to Equestria, with or without the return of the sun. Please, Dicey Morel, be realistic! You must see how desperate is our need! Every day we go without the warmth of the sun does more harm to Equestria!”

For a long time, he just stood there, thinking about it. Honestly, three days of having his way with anypony he wanted … that sounded pretty good. And he was willing to go for it. But, since it was already working so well, he was kind of hoping that if he waited long enough, Princess Luna might offer four…

Apparently not, though. Even after the silence stretched out much too far for comfort, Princess Luna still didn’t make another offer.

Alright then. Dicey turned around. “Okay. Three days. You have to command everypony in Equestria to do whatever I say, enforced by the Royal Guard if necessary. And if anypony disobeys me, the deal is off. Three days after you give that command, I’ll tell you where Celestia’s sphere is. Deal?”

Twilight interjected, “But Princess! What if he wants to—”

Again, Princess Luna held up her hoof, silencing Princess Twilight. Though the royals often talked about equality among princesses, it was entirely clear who was in command here. Princess Luna grimaced and sighed. “Very well. The crown agrees to your terms, Dicey Morel, with the exception that you are not to make any order resulting in the death or permanent injury of any pony. I trust this is agreeable?”

Dicey nodded.

She glanced to Shining Armor now. “Send word to the Messenger Corps and to all nearby. We shall hold a public audience with an important announcement to all of Equestria as soon as may be done. Bring all who may be gathered into the throne room immediately.”

“Yes, Princess!” Shining Armor shot off a snappy salute before darting out of the throne room, already yelling to relay Princess Luna’s orders.

“You … you can’t be serious,” Princess Twilight said quietly toward the throne. “Something like this… It’s an abuse of power. It’s unheard of. It’s … well, it sure sounds like it’s going to be … rape.”

Princess Luna sighed deeply. “I know, dear Twilight Sparkle. I know all too well. But unless this stallion should relent, it seems this is our only option.” She looked at Dicey; Dicey frowned back, making it clear he wouldn't be swayed. Princess Luna shook her head. “I am sorry, Twilight. And I apologize in advance for what is likely to come. But I see no other way. A ruler must sometimes make difficult decisions, and oft must make the choice of which disaster to endure. No matter what this stallion asks of us, Equestria will survive. But if we turn him down, we very likely shall not. Be brave, Twilight Sparkle. Once again, we must make sacrifices so that the world may be saved.”

* * *

Princess Celestia’s throne was actually pretty uncomfortable. That struck Dicey as odd. Surrounded by all this opulence and wealth, couldn't the royals at least afford a better cushion? But ah, whatever. It was worth a little discomfort to see the inquisitive and baffled looks on ponies’ faces when they saw him on the throne next to Princess Luna’s. He’d considered standing on the podium next to the thrones, or among the crowd until the time was right … but something told him that this would set the proper tone and make sure ponies knew he was serious about them doing anything he said. Now if only he had a crown to go with it…

“Is he supposed to be the new Princess?” he overheard one pony in the crowd ask a little too loudly. “They could have found a better-looking pony, at least.”

“Should have been a unicorn,” another disdainful voice said, before being lost to the general mumble of the gathering crowd.

The throne room was getting packed full of ponies. Everypony must have wanted to know what was going on, everypony must have been hoping that this announcement meant the return of Princess Celestia and the return of the sun. Including the bearers of the Elements of Harmony, all six of them. All of them except for Princess Twilight looked eager and hopeful. She must not have told them yet. Well, in a way, the ponies were right to be hopeful, right about this being an end to the long night. This announcement would herald the return of Princess Celestia … after three days. Until then… Well, soon they’d find out how a regular pony like him was able to sit upon the throne of a princess. He could hardly wait!

Once the room was full and couldn't feasibly fit any more ponies inside, Princess Luna stood from her throne. It was starting! It was starting!

She winced and cleared her throat. “To the ponies of Equestria,” she said, a touch of the Canterlot Voice making her easily heard even in the huge, crowded room, “I hereby bring thee a most urgent announcement. In exchange for his aid in returning my sister, Princess Celestia and saving our fair country from this endless night, the stallion you see here, Dicey Morel, is to be granted this boon: until further notice, all citizens of Equestria are to take this stallion’s word as law, and his every request is to be enforced by the Royal Guard and any loyal Equestrian, until further notice. This supersedes all other orders, and all requests must be honored, even … unseemly ones. However, he is not granted the right to cause injury or death to any pony or creature. From this point on, you are all to treat him as if he is the absolute monarch of Equestria, superseding even the word of princesses such as myself. I do not grant this boon lightly. It is an unfortunate necessity required to save our kingdom and our world from certain doom. Thank you all for your sacrifice and your endurance for the sake of Equestria. I apologize to you all.”

When Princess Luna sat back down, complete silence echoed through the huge room, not even broken by a cough or sneeze. Every pony in the audience – save one, Princess Twilight Sparkle – was glancing around, looking bewildered. Many looked as if they thought it was a joke, but they didn’t dare laugh until somepony else did first.

He’d need to demonstrate to them that Princess Luna was entirely serious. But that was okay. He’d figured it would be like that … and he’d been looking forward to it.

Dicey looked over at her. “Princess Luna.”

“Yes?”

Hm… That wouldn't do. “Please address me as ‘Master’.”

“Yes, Master Dicey?”

His heart thudded in his chest at the sound of those words from Princess Luna's mouth. Finally, he was able to forget about self-control and let his cock begin to slip out of his sheath … right in front of this huge audience. And speaking of Princess Luna's mouth... “Princess Luna, it's time to…” He paused. No, he didn’t need those honorifics anymore, did he? “I mean, Luna, it's time to seal the deal ... with a blowjob.”

Gasps echoed throughout the room, and a few outraged shouts, but Dicey tried to not let that distract him from the beautiful mare in the next seat over.

“Of course, Master Dicey.” More gasps rang out at Luna’s acquiescence. She bowed her head slightly. “Would you prefer to retire to my chambers first, or perhaps a suite in the castle could be prepared for—”

“No,” he said. “Right here. Right now. In front of everypony.”

Luna grimaced and sighed … but she rose from her throne once more. She wore a look of profound resignation as she came around to the front of his throne, but she did come … much to the shock and dismay of the audience.

Dicey slouched back in the uncomfortable seat, putting his half-emerged cock on full display. Normally, he’d feel nervous exposed in front of so many ponies … but the innate lack of consequences took that nervousness and turned it into something near elation. Even though Luna hadn’t so much as touched him yet, his cock was already stiffening and sliding the rest of the way out of its sheath. He’d … he’d never actually done this kind of thing before. Never anything more than a hoofjob at the spa. And for the very first pony to ever do it with him to be a princess…

She looked up at him from in front of the throne, the look in her eyes more irritated than anything, but also with a heavy dose of resignation.

When Luna dipped her head down and licked his shaft, ponies all throughout the throne room gasped loudly. Dicey gasped as well. He knew it would feel good, but he hadn’t expected it to feel like this! Luna’s tongue was so soft and tender as she slid it up his length. And she wasn't holding back, either. Even though she obviously didn’t want to be doing this, for some reason she was still putting effort into it. Some sort of weird professional pride, maybe? Or something more? It suddenly made him wonder if she’d ever sucked anypony else’s dick in her long life … who that might be, and why…

As she took his tip into her mouth, though, all extraneous thoughts flittered away. He was barely even aware of the audience looking on as she so slowly slipped more of him into her mouth. He shuddered, scarcely able to breathe. This was like a dream! How many times had he imagined something like this while getting stroked off in the spa, or when doing it himself because he couldn't afford the spa again? And yet, here it was, in real life, the incredibly alluring and mysterious Princess Luna, diligently working on swallowing his cock down her throat!

She must have done this kind of thing before – she was so good at it! She got all the way down to his medial ring before she went back up, starting to bob her head in his lap and redoubling his pleasure with every motion. He throbbed harder than ever, letting out a slight moan, despite his intention to keep his composure and assert dominance.

Surprising him, Luna let out an answering little moan of her own. He couldn't really hear it over the dismayed sounds of the crowd, but he could feel the vibration deep in her throat. Was she … was she enjoying this? Or was it just a sound of her struggling to make it fit? Either way, he found it immensely alluring, and not just because the subtle vibrations felt good.

Maybe a bit more, though? As incredible as this felt, he had a profound urge to go deeper. And what better way to demonstrate to all those ponies watching that he really was the one in control?

“Go deeper,” he commanded, loud enough for at least some of the audience to hear. And he placed his hoof on Luna’s head, running it through her lustrous, glowing mane for a moment before gripping her horn and pushing downward.

That certainly got a reaction from the crowd! The room was abuzz with their collective outrage at seeing a beloved princess treated so roughly. At this point, though, Dicey didn’t even care about them. The way it felt when his cock slid all the way down Luna’s throat was beyond his wildest dreams. Not only the slick, supple gliding against every list bit of his cock, but as Luna began to cough and gag, he felt the convulsions of her throat as if it was deliberately milking him!

And he wasn't far off, not with this kind of treatment. He wasn't used to this! It might be a poor showing to finish so quickly in front of so many other ponies, but if she kept up like this much longer, he simply wouldn't be able to hold himself back from—

A sudden burst of Luna’s magic tore his hoof away from her horn. She shot up off of his cock, sputtering and gasping. “My … my apologies—” she coughed again “—Master Dicey. But I… I must breathe.” She did at least keep her hooves working up and down his now-slick shaft, proving that she was still dedicated to her task.

Honestly, Dicey was happy to have a moment to catch his breath as well. Oh what a sight Luna was, sitting down there with her drool-covered face in his lap, his cock dripping pre-cum onto her muzzle…

All he could think about was getting his cock back inside her. Deep, deep inside her. He’d never experienced anything like this before, and he wanted to savor every moment. Ah, but what if she interrupted him with another gagging fit? She was obviously more skilled than one might expect a royal to be, but taking the whole thing seemed to be too much of a challenge for her. If only…

His eyes went wide with sudden realization; seeing the look on his face, Luna slightly backed away from him, though she still stroked him with her forehooves.

He’d meant for this to only be a blowjob, to only be a demonstration of his authority. But … after all, why shouldn’t he? Why couldn't he? This could be it – the first time he went all the way with a mare! And with a beautiful princess, no less! That would get him as deep inside her as he could possibly wish, and no breaks for a breather… Did he dare? Did he dare order her to do that?

Well, he hadn’t gotten here by being a timid stallion…

Just as Luna put her mouth back to his cock, he gripped her horn again and pulled her upward instead of pushing her down. She looked up at him questioningly, not trying in the slightest to break his grip, though with her alicorn might, she surely could have.

He leered down at her hungrily. “Get up and turn to the side,” he ordered, “and get ready to be mounted.”

There was a slight hint of a wince in Luna’s eyes, but she did as she was told without hesitation. She must have understood what he wanted, because she turned to the perfect angle for the whole crowd to see exactly what he was about to do to her.

Licking his lips at the sight of her, Dicey slipped off of Celestia’s throne and approached Luna from behind. Dutifully, she raised her tail and spread her hind legs slightly. Goddess above, she was gorgeous! If she often gave ponies a view like this, he might almost understand how ponies came to be so fond of the Princess, so ready to do anything she asked of them. Almost. Because now it was time for the tables to be turned. He gazed hungrily on the pristine blue curves of Luna’s ass, their contours heightened by the large black splotch around her cutie mark. Her thighs looked firm and surprisingly muscular, bringing to mind the old legends warrior princesses. Before, he’d dismissed that as fanciful propaganda, but now that he looked at her closely, he could kind of believe it. And right there in the middle, nestled deeply between those chiseled curves, was the crown jewel: Luna’s surprisingly small and delicate looking vulva. It was not the black of the fur splotches around it, but rather a slightly deeper blue than her coat. It looked so incredibly petite and dainty, pouting there between the cheeks of such a mighty rump. As he stared at it … it winked!

The sight literally took his breath away. Princess Luna – no, Luna – she’d … she’d just winked for him! At least at some level, Luna was getting turned on by this. She wanted this!

Propelled by blind lust and deeply ingrained instinct, Dicey rushed forward, his cock springing up as his forehooves left the floor, ready to conquer this mare and breed her the way her body was begging him to!

Only … there was a bit of a problem. A matter of height that he’d been too lust-clouded to think about in the heat of the moment. He … simply wasn't tall enough for her. He was able to get his forehooves around the glorious curves of her ass, but her pussy winked against his chest fur, and his cock sprung up between her thighs. Maybe if he stretched to his utmost, he might be able to get his tip to kiss against her pussy lips, but this obviously wasn't going to work…

And what was worse, the crowd was watching. A murmur spread among them, thankfully falling short of laughter, but he got the sense that they might have been laughing, if they hadn’t been so appalled at what they were seeing. Only one little giggle-snort could be heard in the vast hall … from Pinkie Pie, of course.

This wouldn't do. He looked ridiculous. He needed to show all these ponies who was boss! If only he had something to stand on, or if Luna could… His eyes hit upon the edge of the low dais they stood upon. It was just about the right height…

“Go to the edge of the dais and stand for me just off the side of it,” he commanded.

Luna, like the good obedient royal she was, did exactly what he said without complaint, without even any snide comment. She slipped out from under him as she walked, but she did not lower her tail as she went. Dicey was drawn along after her like a moth to the flame, staring as her ass cheeks flexed and her pussy winked again between steps.

Once she was off the edge of the dais and presenting herself to him again, then she was just about the right height for him! Maybe a little short, actually … but that was okay, he was perfectly willing to bend down a little.

There was no hesitation, no foreplay. He knew what he wanted, knew what he needed, and he was going to take it. As soon as she was in position, he scrambled onto her back, his forehooves squeezing tightly for purchase. And after just a couple blind jabs with his cock, he felt sumptuous slick warmth against the tip. This was it! Long overdue, but he was finally about to lose his virginity with a real mare!

It was lucky for Luna that her blowjob had left his cock slick, because he wasn't gentle, nor was he slow about it. All he wanted was in, in, in … and that’s exactly where he shoved his cock. Thoughtlessly and recklessly, he pushed forward. The horrified gasp from the crowd was the perfect soundtrack to match the way he felt – utter nirvana. As if he was finally doing what he was born to do. He sank his cock all the way inside Luna’s sumptuous warmth. In a way, he was glad for the little snafu that resulted from being too short for her. If he hadn’t had that little breather, he probably would be orgasming already, after only one thrust.

As he pulled back, Luna stifled a moan. This time, despite her act, it was unmistakable – the sound of a mare in the throes of pleasure. Was he … was he really that good? His confidence soared as he pushed his cock back inside her.

“Yes! Take it!” He gave her another quick thrust. “I bet you’ve never had a simple earth pony commoner inside you before, have you? Somepony like you would never even look at me before, but now I’m going to fill you up like a backcountry broodmare…”

“No! Please!” Luna moaned, her voice quivering.

Was it just his imagination, or was the tone of Luna's voice saying the opposite of her words? He could swear it almost sounded like she was enjoying the idea...

Biting down on the nape of her neck, right through her glowing mane, he gave an especially hard push, until his balls bounced off of her thighs. “I’m going to enjoy getting you pregnant. I’m going to become part of the royal bloodline forever, and everypony here is going to watch it happen!”

He’d thought he was putting her in her place, but for some reason, it only made her moan harder. Was this a secret fetish of hers or something? Or could it be some kind of magic affecting her, the same kind of magic that had been pressing on him ever since he saw that sphere? He could feel her pussy pulsing and squeezing around his entire length, as if begging him for it. Her breeding instincts had obviously already made the choice for her. And so had his. Oh fuck, oh fuck! There was no going back now – this was really going to happen, wasn't it?

Dicey threw his head back, pounding into Luna’s welcoming pussy as hard and as fast as he could. “All of you!” he shouted to the crowd. “Don’t even blink! I want you all to see it when I … when I…”

The rest was lost in an incoherent moan as he jammed his flaring cock as far inside Luna as he possibly could, his out-of-control breeding instincts overriding all else. A sort of collective pained gasp rippled through the crowd as they all saw the base of his cock throbbing. They all knew what was happening. But Dicey … Dicey could feel it. He trembled in place, his forehooves locked so tightly around her body that he might have bruised her if she wasn't an alicorn. And in overwhelming, breathtaking rush after rush, his cum surged into her. Every pulse of it was like a gasp of air for somepony who had been drowning – suddenly, everything was right with the world, everything made sense. He was doing what he was meant to do. He came like he never had before, as if his body knew this was finally one that would count. He painted Luna’s insides white, filled her to the brim, and didn’t stop until the excess began to seep out past her winking pussy lips.

For a long moment, even after that incredible orgasm, he remained firmly latched onto Luna’s back, holding on as if for dear life. He never wanted this moment to end … even though, of course, biology had its limits. Eventually, his cock softened and slipped back into his sheath. He’d pressed himself to tightly against Luna that it didn’t slip out until almost all of it was back in the sheath. When that happened – thanks to the stunned silence of the crowd – he heard the splattering of his excess cum against the dais and the floor beside it. Had such a debauched thing ever stained the floor of this hallowed room before? Could his be the very first?

Finally, he slipped off of Luna’s back, retreating a few steps before he gazed, still somewhat unbelievingly at his handiwork. Luna still stood there in the classic breeding pose, her tail high and her hind legs spread. Her pussy winked feverishly as it dribbled out a gooey white strand of cum. She … she hadn’t gotten off, had she? Maybe he should have tried harder … it would have been so satisfying to give the serene Princess an uncontrollable orgasm right in front of all her royal subjects.

Oh well. Too late now. He’d need a breather before he could do that again. Luna would just have to take care of herself.

Briefly, he considered ordering her to clop herself off right in front of everypony … but nah. He’d already made his point, hadn’t he? Trying to rub it in even more would just be a waste of time. And he’d already gotten what he wanted. He wasn't a cruel pony. He didn’t want to humiliate Luna just for the sake of it. In fact … though he always viewed the royals with very healthy skepticism, he couldn't help but feel a bit of fondness for Luna now. Maybe it was just the sex hormones talking, but he felt like he … liked her. Of course he’d never want a real relationship with her! Royals were … were… Well, anyway, maybe Luna in particular wasn't so bad. Being with her had felt so amazing. And those moans she’d made…

The crowd was starting to get a little louder. Ponies were talking to each other about what they’d just seen. The murmur was quickly growing, heading toward offended outrage…

Time to get rid of them. The last thing he wanted was to be in the middle of a riot with conflicted Royal Guards struggling to protect him from the mob. That wasn't a good atmosphere for sex at all! So he stood at the head of the dais and yelled as loudly as he could, “Go home now, all of you!” But then his eyes fell on a few of the ponies in the front row. “Except you six, the element bearers.”

The audience didn’t seem to be all that amenable to being ordered around by him. Most of them milled about, seemingly not sure if they should leave or if they should try to do something. The six he’d asked to stay in particular – Princess Twilight and her friends – seemed especially agitated. “Such a disgrace!” he heard Rarity say.

“Who does this guy think he is?” Rainbow Dash said, rubbing her hooves together threateningly. “I say we teach him a lesson about—”

“Please,” Luna interrupted, once again using her monumental voice to fill the room, above all the other clamor. She stepped to the front of the dais, regal again even if she was still dripping a little cum from her winking pussy. “Resist not on my account, nor any other. This must be done to save Equestria. All of you – do as Dicey Morel says! You must behave yourselves.” That last part seemed directed at Rainbow Dash in particular, given the way Luna stared her down.

Rainbow Dash still grumbled under her breath, but that seemed to be enough for most ponies. The great hall quickly began to empty. Quite a lot of ponies seemed eager for the excuse to leave, actually.

A few of the six he’d ordered to stay looked the same. Fluttershy, in particular, looked like she’d rather be anywhere else right now. But she stayed put as requested. All six of them did.

Ah! What a feeling! Complete freedom, complete power! He bit his lip a little wondering what – and who – he should do next…

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2 - One For The Road

Dicey peered out through a window of the throne room. It wasn't easy to see much – the stained glass distorted his view – but he could tell that things were getting very rowdy out there, not too short of something that could be called a riot. The ponies of Canterlot had already been pretty worked up by the perpetual darkness outside, and now those who had seen Luna’s royal proclamation, and subsequent royal breeding, were spreading the news to everypony outside. It seemed nopony knew what to do about it, but all of them seemed to feel the need to do something about it.

Inside the throne room, things weren’t much better. Only Luna, the Element Bearers, and a few royal guards remained. And it was all Luna could do to keep those Element Bearers from working themselves into a frenzy and ripping Dicey’s head off.

“You know what I need?” he said to himself. “A change of scenery!”

To his slight disappointment and annoyance, nopony seemed to have noticed that he said anything. They were all too busy arguing amongst themselves. And if the royal guards noticed, of course they didn’t react because they never reacted to anything.

So he trotted over to where Luna was huddled up with the Element Bearers and announced more clearly to them: “I’ve decided that I don’t like Canterlot very much, so I want you all to take me back to Ponyville.”

“But Dicey— I mean Master Dicey…” Luna grimaced at saying that, but continued. “I have duties here in Canterlot which cannot be neglected. If I must come with you, please at least allow me a few hours to arrange a suitable—”

“You can stay.” Whatever. He’d already had his fun with Luna, and there were so many other mares he wanted to get to in his precious three days. There was no time for repeats.

Twilight spoke up as well. “And, actually, I also have quite a few duties to—”

“No,” he said firmly. “You six are coming with me.”

There was quite a bit of moaning and groaning about that, but Luna shushed them. “Do as Master Dicey says,” she reminded them. “The fate of Equestria hangs in the balance.”

Twilight sighed. “Fine. I guess.” She shook her head. “Well, the next train to Ponyville should be leaving at about three in the afternoon, if I remember the rail schedule right, which I usually do. So we have a couple hours here before we need to get going.”

Dicey shook his head. “No, the train’s too slow anyway. I don’t want to waste any time on that…” He thought back to when he’d seen Princess Celestia visiting Ponyville. “Don’t you royals have some flying chariots we could use?”

“Those are only for emergencies!” Rainbow Dash shouted at him confrontationally.

Right, right. Dicey rolled his eyes in a way the other ponies were sure to notice. Like the emergency of Celestia coming to visit her ‘most faithful student’ and have a tea party at the local sweets shop. Royals. He shook his head. “Don’t care. You!” He pointed at Rainbow specifically. “You know where those chariots are kept, don’t you? Take me there. And Luna, make sure that three of them are prepped and ready to go to Ponyville.”

“Of course, Master Dicey.” Luna took her opportunity to leave, presumably heading off to arrange that. Dicey grinned when he saw that she still had a little bit of his cream dribbling down her hind legs.

And as for the others… He turned back toward Rainbow Dash. “Well?”

She growled at him – actually growled! But after getting that out of her system, she shook herself and turned toward the throne room doors. “Fine. They’re down this way.”

* * *

Getting to the royal chariot hangar had taken longer than he’d expected. Not because it was a terribly long way. It was, in fact, only a couple floors above the throne room. Because a very gorgeous unicorn mare by the name of Fleur De Lis had caught his eye along the way. She hadn’t been there for the proclamation, and it had taken the begrudging efforts of all six Element Bearers to convince her that she had to let Dicey breed her. The actual act hadn’t taken long at all – goodness she was sexy – but, overall, it had been enough of a delay that the chariot-pulling pegasus ponies in the hangar were already harnessed up and looking bored.

And at least it meant he was coming into the hangar in a good mood. He was a little surprised at himself, doing it so soon again after Luna. Was his body already waking up to the kind of stamina it would need for the rest of these three days … or could it be something else that got him up and going again so quick?

The moment he walked in, the chariot-pulling ponies started looking a bit nervous, rather than bored. For the most part, Dicey ignored them. Though… One of them was a cute pegasus guardsmare, and as he inspected the three chariots that had been prepared, he also inspected her a little, running his hoof up and down her rump and even groping her pussy a little bit. The way she shuddered despite her tail instinctively rising … so adorable! Maybe he’d sample her later … but for now, she had a job to do. And he had a decision to make.

Each of the chariots could seat two ponies. So the question was … which pony would he be spending the trip to Ponyville with?

He looked hungrily at the Element Bearers, all of them neatly lined up in a row for him. His cock already began slipping down from his sheath again as he considered his options. Hm… Applejack’s well-toned muscles and familiar country flair… Rarity’s carefully cultivated beauty and elegant charm… Rainbow Dash’s lithe, slim figure and feisty nature… Twilight Sparkle’s pertly developing alicorn body and adorable awkwardness about it… Pinkie Pie’s ample curves and engagingly bubbly enthusiasm… Or there, hiding at the end of the row…

His eyes went wide when he set them on Fluttershy. Ah! The way she nervously peeked at him from behind the forelock of her mane! And her supple, subtly perfect body! Her never-cracking, always perfectly demure personality! It was no wonder she’d enjoyed a brief stint as a supermodel. He’d be crazy to take anypony else as his first pick from among the Element Bearers.

“Fluttershy,” he said, pointing at her, “you ride with me in Celestia’s chariot. The rest of you, split up between the other two.”

Fluttershy squeaked and vanished behind Pinkie Pie the moment he said her name. But he ignored that. He was already sure that they’d obey. They had to. The others would force her if she resisted too much.

And, in fact, he was completely right. Applejack and Pinkie Pie were already coaxing Fluttershy toward the chariot, with lots of whispered assurances about how it would be okay and how they knew she was strong enough to handle this.

The others were on his side now. Except for Rainbow Dash, of course. She got right up into his face, staring him down. “I don’t care what the princesses say!” she snarled at him. “If you so much as touch one hair on Fluttershy, I’ll … I’ll … I’ll drag you all the way up to the stratosphere and then just let you drop!”

“Rainbow!” Twilight said, using her magic to hold Rainbow back, pulling her away from him slightly. “You can’t!”

“Princess Luna only said I had to obey him! She didn’t say anything about keeping him alive!”

Twilight forced Rainbow back to the floor with her magic. “We need him alive. He’s the only one who knows where Princess Celestia is!”

Rainbow growled again, but she didn’t seem to have any counter-argument to that. So she just stayed put. Not that she had much choice, anyway, with Twilight's magic holding her firmly in place.

Smiling at how well things were turning out, he brazenly approached the very hostile mare in front of him, looking her right in the eyes. “Give me a kiss, Rainbow Dash,” he said quietly.

“What? I’m not gonna—!”

“Rainbow…” Twilight warned.

With a wince and an obvious shudder, Rainbow Dash closed her eyes and puckered her lips.

Dicey didn’t start with the lips. First, he brushed his hoof through her rainbow-colored mane. He rubbed his muzzle against hers, taking a deep whiff of her surprisingly girly scent. And only then did he meet her lips. She jerked away from him at first, but he persisted, pressing against her again, savoring the feeling of her soft lips against his own. It was … oh wow. This was his very first kiss with a real live mare, wasn't it? He even slipped her a little tongue, forcing his between her lips … though she did not reciprocate – she kept her teeth tightly clenched, barring any further access.

He smiled as he separated from the kiss; Rainbow spat and sputtered, hanging her tongue out as if disgusted by it … though he could see the way her tail was rising up behind her.

Apparently, though, with her putting on that much of a show of being disgusted by him, she still hadn’t really gotten with the program, had she? He’d have to find some way to get her in line … she was still trying to undermine his absolute authority, wasn't she?

“Um, Dicey Morel, sir,” Rarity’s voice cut in. “There seems to be a bit of a problem. You see, there are six seats on these chariots, but there are seven of us. I’m afraid it seems that at least one of us shall have to remain behind here in Canterlot.” Ah, that last part sounded awfully hopeful. He wondered if she wanted herself to be the one left behind or if she was trying to save one of the others from him…

But, as his grandfather had always said, ‘Every problem is an opportunity in disguise.’ And this opened up a wonderful opportunity to discipline Rainbow Dash a little bit.

“I have a better solution,” he announced, still staring Rainbow in the eyes. “Rainbow Dash, you take the place of that royal guard stallion there and help pull Celestia’s chariot. Then we can all go.”

“Seriously? Come on! You’re asking ME, the undeniably best flier in all of Equestria to … to pull a chariot?”

“I’m not asking – I’m ordering.”

There was a lot of grumbling from Rainbow Dash about that … but she did go over to take the stallion’s place in the harness after only a little bit of hesitation. Good. She seemed to be improving her manners.

And even better, Applejack and Pinkie Pie seemed to have finally gotten Fluttershy into Celestia’s chariot, and gotten her settled down enough that she wasn't immediately bolting out of it again. They were almost ready to take off! Grinning and trotting with his half-erect cock bouncing beneath him, he headed for Celestia’s chariot as well, hopping up next to Fluttershy, who shivered and shrank down as he approached.

Ah… It was going to be a very pleasant flight!

* * *

Dicey lounged in the chariot’s seat, luxuriating in the serene flight over the fields between Canterlot and Ponyville. Oddly, the royal throne was uncomfortable, but the royal chariot was incredibly plush and wonderful to ride in. He luxuriated as well in the sight of Rainbow Dash right in front of him, beating her wings like mad. Was she trying to make the trip as short as possible? Silly pony, Dicey knew even with the famously speedy Rainbow Dash pulling, it was still a long way to Ponyville. He had plenty of time. It was nice to see her working so hard for him, though. And even nicer to see the way her slim and lithe flanks moved as she made the odd running-on-air motions characteristic of a pegasus pony pulling a load through the sky.

One of his forehooves casually rested over Fluttershy’s back next to him, and his cock casually rested against his thigh, leaning over toward her. She, of course, was huddled into a trembling ball-like shape, as if trying to shrink down so much that she’d disappear into the cushions of the chariot. He gently stroked the buttery-supple fur on her back, hoping to coax her out a little.

“You know,” he said, “my cabin actually isn’t very far from yours. We both live on the outskirts of the Everfree Forest.”

She peeked up at him from under her mane, but otherwise stayed huddled down.

“I’d see you out there, from time to time, taking care of your animal friends. And I even gave you some mushrooms a few times, for those critters that needed the extra protein.”

No change. She was still shaking.

“And every time I saw you, I always thought you were the most beautiful mare in the world. If ever there was a mare I could settle down with and sire foals with, I always hoped it could be a mare just like you.” He leaned a little closer. “To be honest, I’ve fantasized about you. Like, you know, a lot. I dreamed that one day you’d come visit my cabin to thank me for those mushrooms, and maybe we’d end up cosied up by the fire…” He brushed a hoof through her mane. “And then, when you looked up at me, I’d kiss you on the cheek. And even though you’d be blushing and nervous, you’d turn and kiss me on the mouth instead, and then we’d…” He laughed a little and actually did kiss her on the cheek. “Well, you get the idea. You have no idea how badly I’ve wanted a mare to call my own, to make love to every night, to start a family with… And all this time, a mare like you… You’re so perfect! Maybe, even after this is all over, the two of us could…?”

She looked away from him. Somehow, his sweet words weren’t helping. Dang it. If only he’d had a chance to get a little more practice with dating and wooing mares … so unfair! He was sure that if he just knew the right words to say, he could get her willing and eagerly begging for his cock… If he only knew the right words, he’d be able to see this gorgeous demure pegasus mare walking down the aisle toward him in an elegant wedding dress…

Well, he didn’t know the right words, apparently. Oh well.

At least there were other words he could use to get at least a little bit of what he’d wanted and fantasized about. “Alright,” he said more firmly, “time for some in-flight entertainment. Bend down right here in front of me and lift your tail.”

“Eeep!” She covered her head with her hooves.

“That was an order. And you know what happens if anypony disobeys my orders…” He gave her a helpful little shove with the hoof he’d been rubbing her back with.

That seemed to do it. Fluttershy crawled down onto the floor in front of him, facing away from him. All four of her legs were trembling horribly, but she did manage to brace them in place, her hind legs slightly apart, ready to be mounted. Her tail, though, was still clamped firmly down, hiding her treasure from his eyes, instinctively protecting herself.

He reached forward and grabbed her tail in his hoof, allowing him to hoist it up for himself. And finally, finally he saw her. Wow … Fluttershy’s pussy. The Fluttershy’s pussy. Unlike a lot of mares in Ponyville, who were quite flippant with their tails, Fluttershy rarely raised hers. Dicey had never seen her smooth and supple dark yellow vulva before. Now, he drank in the welcome sight. Surprisingly petite and tiny, and yet lusciously smooth and perfect, Fluttershy’s teardrop-shaped pussy lips pouted up at him pertly. They were closed tight, not even a hint of a wink, sealing her secretive clit safely inside, not showing him even a hint of the pink wonders within.

Aww… Did she need a little help being coaxed into it? He lowered his head beneath her tail, taking a deep whiff of her scent. Like spring flowers! Only a tiny hint of the sharp-smelling mare musk that waited within. With any other mare, he’d suspect that she smelled like spring flowers because of careful washing and a dash of perfume. But with Fluttershy … well, with her, he could easily be convinced that it was her natural scent. That she was just so pure she naturally smelled like that.

She was shaking even more now. The anticipation must have been driving her crazy. So he finally gave her his tongue, planting a long, lazy lick from the bulb of her vulva almost all the way up to her tail-hole. Fluttershy gasped at that, and encouraged by the sound, he dove in even more enthusiastically, exploring every delicate contour of her pussy lips with his tongue.

He, of course, didn’t really know what he was doing. He’d never touched a mare’s pussy before today, much less tried to pleasure one with his mouth. But the little mewling gasps Fluttershy let out as he plunged his tongue inside her served as his guide. He had to be doing something right! And before long, nature took its course. The slight sheen of slick wetness left by his own spit was soon overrun by the thicker, more sultry slick honey that seeped out from deep inside her – her body was instinctively preparing itself for him.

And his own body? Well, he’d been ragingly hard ever since taking his first whiff of her!

His muzzle now dripping with Fluttershy’s nectar, he stood back up and lunged onto her back. His cock slapped up against her plush teats, but a few rocking motions of his hips soon got it up into just the right spot. The warm slickness he’d helped create now spread over the head of his cock. Already, her pussy lips were beginning to part and stretch open.

“Master Dicey!” Fluttershy suddenly whined. “Please don’t! I’m … I’m a virgin!”

Oh wow! A virgin? He couldn't believe his luck! Deflowering a virgin was definitely on his to-do list for these three days, but he’d never thought Fluttershy would be the one. Surely, somepony as popular as her… And yet, it made perfect sense. Given how famously shy she was, she’d probably never had so much as a foalhood coltfriend, had she?

He licked his lips and whispered in her ear, “Not for much longer…”

But there was just one other thing he wanted to do first. He looked up past Fluttershy’s windswept mane and found Rainbow Dash – as expected – staring daggers back at him, her face red with impotent rage. It was a good thing the other chariot pony was watching where they were going, because she was paying absolutely no attention to that.

“That’s right, Rainbow Dash!” He pressed his lips as if blowing a kiss to her. “I want you to watch. Don’t even blink! I want you to see it when I take her virginity!”

Whether out of obedience or blind rage, Rainbow did keep staring intently … as Dicey slowly pressed his hips forward.

Her slickened pussy lips spread over the blunt head of his cock, finally allowing it to slip slightly inside her. Fluttershy squealed the moment he was even the slightest bit inside. It was the loudest sound he’d ever heard her make. Breathing hard, he looked down to see the end of his shaft disappearing between Fluttershy’s pussy lips. He was really doing it! He was really mounting the pony he’d fantasized about for so long! Even after everything he’d already done today, he could scarcely believe it.

Rainbow Dash’s face contorted as if she’d just been stabbed. “Look at me, Fluttershy!” she said desperately. “Just look at me and pretend it’s not real. It’s not real, Fluttershy! Please, just look at me! It’s all just a bad dream, and it’ll be over soon, I promise!”

Cute. Well, whatever made Rainbow feel better about it, Dicey supposed. He pushed, and more of his cock glided into Fluttershy’s virgin channel. Mmm… She was just as soft and buttery-warm on the inside! And surprisingly wet. Despite her inexperience and reluctance, Fluttershy was easily the sloppiest and slipperiest of the three mares he’d experienced so far. And that made it so easy to slip more and more of his cock into her tight virgin pussy, until he’d hilted himself all the way to the sheath!

“You’re strong, Fluttershy,” Rainbow insisted. “You’re the strongest pony I know! You can handle this!”

Rainbow's desperate reassurances were an odd soundtrack to have as a background to fucking his favorite mare, but Dicey didn’t mind it too much. He could feel Fluttershy’s pussy instinctively winking, imprinting her wet clit against the cleft of his balls. Silly Rainbow Dash – this was probably worse for Rainbow than it was for Fluttershy. But that was alright. Rainbow deserved it after all the back-talking she’d already done.

Ignoring Rainbow's constant litany, Dicey instead focused on the sensations. Fluttershy’s velvety yellow fur and soft, squeezable body between his forelegs. The wonderful warmth and squeezing slickness along his entire shaft as he drew it out of her. The incredibly pleasurable slight resistance as he slid it all the way back in until his already-flaring head kissed the entrance of her womb…

Already flaring?

Fuck! He was so close already! And it could only have been a few minutes since he first claimed her virginity! Ah, who could blame him, though? Fluttershy was such a wonderful mare, and such a divinely pleasurable cocksleeve! Her soft and agreeable pussy contoured itself perfectly to the shape of his cock, opening in welcome to the first ever stallion to be inside her. So deep inside her! He groaned – he could feel his orgasm coming already. Should he hold himself back? No! Impregnate her! It was as if some mystical force was speaking directly into his brain! Of course, that was probably just his own breeding instincts … but he didn’t mind giving in. It was still a long way to Ponyville … maybe he’d have a round two with her.

For now, he did exactly as his body – and that mystical force, if there was any – demanded of him: squeezing Fluttershy’s perfect flanks between his forehooves, he rammed his achingly hard cock all the way inside her. His flare squeezed her open inside and ensured his cock would be in the perfect position … the perfect position to pump an extraordinary stream of cum directly into Fluttershy’s waiting womb. There, in a place never before touched by a single drop, his cum splashed and gathered into a swirling pool. It felt almost like his soul was leaving his body as his balls clenched again and again, his cock pulsing gush after gush of precious cum into this perfect virginal mare.

Even Fluttershy couldn't resist the passion of it. She cried out – so very slightly – as an answering orgasm from her body shook through her pussy. It instinctively milked his cock, gulping down every drop he could give her and ensuring the best possible chance of impregnation.

For a long while after he was finished, Dicey held himself tightly in place, sealing his own cum inside her with his slowly softening cock. Rainbow Dash had finally stopped talking. Instead, she was crying, her tears streaming backward in the wind of their flight. A few of them even hit Fluttershy’s fur.

Fluttershy herself now stood oddly still, no longer even trembling. It was as if she’d completely disassociated from herself…

So sad. Why couldn't she just enjoy it as much as he had? Obviously, her body had known what to do. That orgasm she’d had must have been so satisfying … at least on some level. If she could just get over it and accept him as her coltfriend and soon-to-be husband, she could be enjoying this at every level. It was obvious that they were a great match for each other.

Finally, his cock retreated into his sheath to the point where it plopped out of Fluttershy, allowing a fair bit of his cum to drop free and also be blown in the wind … mostly over Celestia’s seat cushions. Fluttershy dropped to the floor of the chariot as he settled back onto the seat.

“Is it … is it over?” she asked, her voice barely audible over the rush of the wind.

“Don’t worry,” Rainbow assured her. “That’s it. He’s done. You’re safe now.”

“Hm…” Dicey pretended to mull it over, even though he knew he’d already made his decision. “Actually…”

Rainbow stared up at him. “No! Don’t you dare!”

Ignoring her, Dicey bent down to stroke his hoof down Fluttershy’s mane and then along her wings. “Turn around, Fluttershy.”

Unlike Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy was absolutely obedient. She turned around to face him, still huddled on the floor in a small puddle of cum.

“You know, since I always fantasized about you having my foals, I want to make sure I have the best possible chance of getting you pregnant. So we’ll be doing it again. And again. And again. Until we reach Ponyville.”

She looked up at him, and her woeful, glistening eyes almost – almost – broke his heart. Until she glanced down between his legs. “But, um, your…”

“That’s okay.” He reached down through her mane and lovingly caressed the back of her neck … while drawing her up closer to himself. “I’m sure you can get it hard again if you just suck on it a little.”

Fluttershy winced, but quickly did as she was told, lowering her face to his sheath and beginning to gently lick him. More quickly than he’d expected, his cock began to emerge again. A fat, sticky drop of residual cum plopped down onto the top of her muzzle as she began to caringly slide her soft, delicate tongue up and down his growing length.

“Leave her alone, you monster!” Rainbow shouted. “You’ve already had enough! Way more than enough with her!”

Dicey took Fluttershy’s head between his hooves and helped guide her into taking his cock completely inside her mouth. “Don’t get too jealous, Dashie,” he said with a wink. “You’ll get your own turn soon enough. But for now, let Fluttershy have her fun.” He shuddered a little as Fluttershy put her tongue to work in addition to bobbing her head between his hind legs to the rhythm dictated by his forehooves. “Oh wow… For a mare who’s never done this before, she’s really good at it!”

“You’re disgusting!”

He grinned at Rainbow and gave an extra deep push that made Fluttershy choke a little. “Oh? You think you can do it better, Rainbow Dash? Well, you’ll get your chance to prove it – I promise.”

At that point, Dicey’s cock was already starting to get pretty hard again. That was part of the reason Fluttershy was gagging so much. Wow … what kind of magic was inside of him to give him this kind of stamina? He felt almost like he had all the power of an alicorn! But in a sexual way somehow? Anyway, time to put that to good use!

He pulled Fluttershy off of his cock. She sputtered and gasped, her head drooping down as she coughed, which left her muzzle nestled between his sheath and balls. He stroked her mane as her own throat spit dripped off of his cock and down onto her face.

“Ready for another one?” he asked.

She shook her head no. Ah! It felt so good to have her soft little nose nuzzling against the root of his cock!

“Turn around,” he ordered anyway. It wasn't as if she really got a say in this, after all.

Fluttershy, ever the good little mare, did turn around. And even better, this time she raised her tail on her own. Her pussy was winking at him now, in a lewd display so very different than her original reluctance. Every time her pussy winked open, he saw not only her welcoming pink contours inside, but also a soupy mix of his cum and her own juices dripping outward. She was still huddled down close to the floor of the chariot, but that was alright. He mounted her prone body, his cock easily sliding into the proper place, ready to refill any cum she might have dripped out … to refill it ten-fold!

Rainbow Dash whimpered as she saw him begin to penetrate Fluttershy. “I’m … I’m sorry, Fluttershy,” she said. Fluttershy only squeaked.

Ah! It was so easy to slide inside her this time! Her throat had left his cock slicker than ever, her pussy was still warm and relaxed from her previous orgasm, and the copious juices inside her – even including his own cum! – made her slicker than ever as well. He slid all the way inside her, to the very hilt, with astonishing ease. And when he felt the depths of her pussy once again hugging him with their heat, when he felt her winking clit once again kissing his balls, when he felt his sheath once again nestled between her plush yellow ass cheeks … he knew – he knew that this was where he belonged. Surely Fluttershy would come to realize that soon as well. They were absolutely made for each other.

He looked forward to the day, after all of this was over, when he’d live together in one cottage with Fluttershy, raising their foals together and filling her with new ones every single night. The way he slid in and out of her sumptuously juicy pussy right now was only a dim preview of that wonderful future, only a small sample … but that wouldn't stop him from enjoying that sample to the absolute utmost!

Author's Note

3 - Magical Assurances

Dicey stepped off the chariot as soon as it landed in Ponyville. Fluttershy stumbled off of it rather a bit later. Poor mare could barely walk, staggering with her hind legs still spread and a constant stream of his cum still oozing out of her. He grinned. Wow – what a well-fucked mare! He’d filled her over and over and over again on the way here. What a good job he’d done! He’d be sure to come back to her later and give her some more, but now that they’d arrived, he had all of Ponyville at his disposal, and it seemed like poor Fluttershy needed a bit of a break anyway.

So… What to do next? Or, perhaps the more pertinent question was who to do next?

For a moment, he eyed Rainbow Dash hungrily … but Rainbow was already ripping herself out of the harness and rushing to Fluttershy’s aid. Hm… Better not interrupt her. Dicey wasn't an evil pony, after all. And since Fluttershy was one of his favorite mares, he’d want her well looked after. Ooh! That gave him an idea! Maybe later, he’d have Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash eat each other out while somepony else sucked him off … and then he’d fuck them both until they were pregnant!

But no, that was getting lost in the future again. The most pertinent thing to do right now was to address the growing crowd around Celestia’s chariot. Its arrival had sparked a lot of interest in the fearful ponies of Ponyville, probably hoping that it would herald the return of sunshine. Though they looked very confused to see Dicey arriving on it … not to mention the appalled looks they were giving when they saw the state Fluttershy was in.

Thankfully, the other two chariots were now coming in for a landing as well – Luna’s, carrying Rarity and Applejack; and a nondescript one in royal guard livery carrying Twilight Sparkle and Pinkie Pie. And that latter one … that was the one with a cute pegasus guard pulling it!

Now there was an idea!

He grinned, heading right on over to it – to her – getting there just as she unharnessed herself. “You there,” he said, pointing at her. “I need somepony to explain to everyone in Ponyville what’s happening and make sure they all know they have to obey me. And you’re the one.”

She grimaced, but gave a curt, businesslike nod. “Yes sir.”

Dicey eyed her up as she stepped to the front of their little group and prepared to address the onlookers. Hm, yes. Quite shapely. The guard training had obviously done good things for her. He wasn't sure if the beefy, muscley look of her legs and hindquarters – complete with veins visible just under the fur – were quite his favorite type, but he absolutely did have to admit that the deep cleft of her ass cheeks hiding her petite vulva inside was absolutely gorgeous. And as he peeked under the skirt of her armor … wow, he hadn’t been expecting such full, bountiful teats on a mare as lean as her! His cock was sliding out of its sheath. Yeah – he’d definitely take a little time for this guardspony mare…

“Citizens of Ponyville!” the mare started. “By order of Princess Luna—”

She stopped suddenly when she felt his hoof squeezing her firm backside, and for a moment, that caused him to stop as well, jerking his hoof away as if he’d been caught doing something he wasn't supposed to. Ah, old habits die hard. He had to remind himself that he could do anything he wanted now. Forcing himself to do it despite her obvious disapproval and everypony watching, he came even closer, reaching up underneath her to fondle and squeeze her gloriously soft and jiggly pair of teats.

And then he whispered to her in the shocked quiet: “I don’t remember telling you to stop.”

She nodded, cleared her throat and began anew, her voice sounding much more tense this time: “Citizens of Ponyville! By order of Princess Luna all commands given by this stallion, Dicey Morel, are to be taken as…”

His cock already getting quite hard again, Dicey unclipped the mare’s armor and pulled it off of her, causing quite a few gasps from among the crowd. Nowhere near the gasps it caused when he casually mounted her, though, already working on angling his hips and getting his tip up against the guardsmare’s sweet pussy lips.

She paused again, looking back at him with desperate eyes. “Please, sir! I have a husband back in Canterlot!”

“I guess it sucks to be him.” Dicey laughed a little and pressed the tip of his cock against her, spreading her pussy lips and entering slightly inside, just enough to feel the warmth of her around his tip.

“But sir! We’re… We’ve been trying to have a foal together. We had a unicorn cast fertility enchantments on me. If you—” she squealed a little as he slid his cock all the way into her unprepared – and yet very receptive – pussy. “Please, sir! If there are any other mares who could—”

“No, I want you.” He squeezed down on her and began thrusting inside of her. The thought of her magically enhanced fertility was really making his head spin. Hm, was that why her teats had been so magnificently full? An effect of those fertility spells? It felt so good to know that he was about to impregnate her. Not just maybe impregnate her, but one hundred percent for sure knock her up! “Now finish your announcement while I put a foal in you.”

“Yes … sir.” Trembling now, the guardsmare turned back toward the crowd and resumed. “W-with the exception that no order of his is to cause permanent injury to anypony. All requests from him are ordered to be enforced by the royal guard and any loyal citizen of Equestria…”

Wow, she was really burning up inside! Or was that him? The heat he felt welling up through his cock was almost unbearable. He squeezed it into her tight, fertile pussy over and over as fast as he could, recklessly pushing toward the orgasm he could feel coming all too soon. Ah, those big teats swinging under her belly … they’d be feeding his foal soon! He could feel her firm body twitching around his length in unwilling excitement. No matter what she wanted, her body obviously wanted to be pumped full, to swell up with a foal, and his own body screamed at him to give hers exactly that.

Before she was even finished with her speech, he was finished. With a trembling, snarling cry, he pressed his flaring cock as deep as he could possibly reach inside of her, pushing her forward in his exuberance. She nearly stumbled to the ground as his cock throbbed and pulsed inside of her, dousing her with thick loads of cum and absolutely ensuring that she’d be carrying his foal.

The mare’s voice had become very robotic sounding by the end. “Princess Luna thanks you all for your understanding and your sacrifice,” she said, his cock still lodged inside her and drooling out the last little bit of cum. “Please bear with us in this time of dire need and cooperate fully, for the—” She faltered for a moment as he pulled out, releasing a white splash on the ground behind her. “For the good of Equestria and for all ponykind.”

For a long moment, she just stood there, her eyes closed and her still-spread legs trembling.

He came around her and kissed her on the forehead. “Hey… What’s your name?”

She opened her eyes, expressionlessly. The stoic, studiously blank stare of guardspony training. “Lieutenant Shining Star, sir.” It was only a flicker, but her eyes did dart up to look at him. “Will that be all, sir?”

“Just one more thing.”

It was very subtle and not at all easy to see, but her jaw definitely clenched when she heard that. “Sir?”

“Name your foal after me, and tell your husband why.”

That earned him an outright wince, despite her guard training. Would she actually follow through with that, after his three days were up? Who knew. Heck, probably not. But it was still fun to think about for now. His foal, being rased by this guard mare and her husband. Was her husband also a guard, or perhaps some other kind of pony entirely?

He considered asking her about her husband and how she’d raise his foal … but as his head began to clear from the cloudiness of lust and he began to be more aware of his surroundings, he started to notice the full-on panic that the announcement had caused in Ponyville. A few ponies were already struggling to come at him with hatred in their eyes, though so far the other royal guards were doing a very diligent job of holding those back. Other ponies were fleeing in panic and bolting their doors. Far more stood in stupefied shock or ran about in blind circles. Pinkie Pie was one of these latter … apparently running around in circles for the fun of it, rather than actual panic, since she already knew everything the guard had announced … right?

And then his eyes fell on Twilight Sparkle. She was in the midst of trying to calm down her pet dragon, explaining the situation to him, and it definitely didn’t escape Dicey’s notice that bending down to talk to the little dragon tended to make her rear rise, giving a glorious view of her pert, round cheeks.

But that wasn't all. He was surrounded by beautiful mares of all sorts who were now suddenly available to him. What caught his interest especially was her reputation with magic. If that pegasus guard had gotten a unicorn to cast fertility spells on her, then surely Twilight Sparkle, the Princess of Magic herself, would be able to do the same. Probably even better spells! And, after all, he only had three days to sow his oats, didn’t he? It was actually really important that he make completely sure he was getting the most possible benefit out of every mare he claimed. Not just ‘maybe’, not just ‘probably’, but certainly making every single one of them pregnant. Knowing exactly what he’d been doing to that guardspony mare had been such a thrill – he wanted that with every mare now!

Twilight didn’t even notice him as he trotted up behind her … not until he gave her ass a firm squeeze. She yelped and stood back up straight again, whirling to face him, her tail held low over herself once more.

Seeing the way he looked at her, she gulped. “Is there … something I can help you with, Dicey?”

“Do you know any good fertility spells?” He grinned, just barely refraining from licking his lips at the cute way she blushed.

“I, um…” Her eyes darted all around, though she seemed to glance especially often at where Rainbow Dash was still trying to comfort the huddled wreck he’d made out of Fluttershy. “I’m … I’m afraid not, sorry. It’s, uh … not exactly my area of expertise, you know.” She smiled a little too brightly.

Maybe it was all the sex getting to him, but he was ashamed to admit she’d almost, almost got him. Only his inherent distrust of royals saved the day. “Wait a minute…” He peered at her sideways. “I’ve always heard that you were great with magic, that you could do any kind of magic. So how come you wouldn't be able to do that kind?”

“I just never practiced it, I guess. Maybe if we went to, um, the Dragon Lands! Yes! It’s a long journey, but if we go there, I’m sure we could find some way to—”

He stopped her with a raised hoof. “You’re lying, Princess.”

“What? No I’m not! I…”

Dicey stared her down. “Oh… Clever pony!” He even laughed a little. “You knew you had to do anything I told you, but nopony ever said anything about telling the truth. You really thought you found a loophole there, didn’t you?”

“I… I just think that if we went to the Dragon Lands, we might—”

“No more questions, no more lies,” he told her bluntly. “This is an order. Tell me the truth about whether or not you know any fertility spells.”

She thought for a moment, but obviously couldn't find any loophole in that. Eventually, her head sank almost all the way to the ground. Her voice was quiet and glum, but loud enough to be heard: “I know thirty-seven different types of fertility spells.”

That was more like it! And it really got the gears in his head turning… Oh yeah – nice! This was going to be so, so good. He sidled up next to her and laid a foreleg over her withers. “Okay, Twilight. You’re going to take me to your castle and put your very best fertility enhancing spell on me.” He glanced up at the crowd. “The rest of you can go home … for now. But don’t wander off too far. I want you all nearby, ready to come whenever I call for you!”

* * *

Despite living in – or at least near – Ponyville for his whole life, Dicey had never been inside the Friendship Castle, that enormous crystal monstrosity that hat sprouted right out of the ground after Twilight and her friends fought off some baddie or other. Allegedly. He’d always viewed it with a wary skepticism and thought it looked particularly unnatural and out of place in a small pastoral town like Ponyville.

But… Now that he was inside, he did have to admit the place was pretty swanky, and it seemed more cozy and comfortable in here than the stark crystalline exterior would suggest. Hm… Come to think of it, he could use a place to stay in Ponyville overnight. No reason to go all the way out to his cabin and back. That would just be wasting time – time that he could be using to have his way with every mare in town.

“Okay,” Twilight said, after taking inordinately long to track down the right spellbook. “I’m pretty sure this is the one.” With her magic, she quickly flipped through the pages until she found what she was looking for. “Here, just like you asked for … the most powerful fertility enchantment I have in my library: ‘Peach Plunder’s Fast-Acting Foaling Folly’. Hm… I’m going to need a crystal amulet to be the focus of the spell. Just give me a moment…”

Dicey watched from his comfortable chair with a wry grin as Twilight darted to and fro through her library’s magic section. Now that she was in the process of actually doing magic, she was a lot less reluctant about it. Must have been getting caught up in the work. He especially noted the cute roundness of her ass as she reached up to a high shelf. Ah… She’d probably be a lot less enthusiastic about this if she knew who he was going to use this magic on first…

Though she muttered things like, “No, that one has a crack in it,” and “Hm, no, that one’s been used for contraceptive spells in the past…” she actually did manage to turn up a little amber bead on a silver chain before long. “Here,” she said, holding it toward him. “Put this on. I was just using it for a bookmark before, but it should work.”

It sure didn’t look like much, but still... Probably would have cost a month’s earnings for him, but to a princess it was nothing, just a trinket. Royalty. Despicable. But whatever. If it was riches he wanted, he could command them to give him everything they had. Maybe he would do that, just before his three days were over… But for now, he’d just accept this. Without complaint, he put it on, hanging it around his neck, where it rested fairly comfortably.

Twilight went back to her spellbook, holding it in her magic next to him. “Now hold still for this next part. I need to concentrate.”

Reading fervently and tilting her head awkwardly in order to still read the book while touching her horn to the amber crystal, she started feeding magic into it. This was not the usual sort of unicorn magic; Dicey watched it with interest. Even as an earth pony, he could tell that the magic was flowing in strange and complex patterns, not the usual smooth glow of mere telekinesis. And as the Princess worked, the amber bauble began to glow in answering matterns that mirrored her magic … but in orange and gold instead of her violet.

Before he knew it, she was done. The magic stopped, and she rose back up, cricking her neck after holding it awkwardly for a while. “There,” she said, “that should do it. All set.” She actually gave a genuine smile. “I’ve never done that particular enchantment before. Usually these kinds of spells are done directly on the mare who wants to conceive. It’s actually a pretty complicated process in order to generalize the targeting of the spell matrices like this while also fusing it into a static configuration within crystal. I’m glad I found an amber pendant for this – the amorphous crystalline structure is actually perfect for this kind of complex—”

“So all I need now is somepony to test it on.”

That snapped Twilight out of it. She looked around the library nervously. Of course nopony else was there. And he’d reminded her of what this little trinket was for. Her excitement of creating it fizzled quickly, replaced by worry.

After all the work he’d been putting in today, it felt nice to rest, but he didn’t have time for rest like that. He only had three days, after all. He smiled and stood up out of his chair. “Turn around.”

“You … you can’t be serious…”

Dicey shrugged. “Well, I don’t see anypony else around here to try it out on…”

Twilight's eyes darted frantically. She still didn’t follow his order. “But … after everything I just did to help? I could … I could find you somepony else! It wouldn't take long to find, um, um…”

“Would you really do that?” Dicey laughed a little. Royals! They were always the same! “Who are you going to go get, Princess Twilight? Who’s the Princess of Friendship going to sacrifice in order to save herself?”

He waited. He honestly did want to know. Whoever she said, maybe he’d get them here, then impregnate Twilight in front of them, while telling them exactly what Twilight did. And then, if they were cute, maybe he’d impregnate them too, anyway, just because he could!

Eventually, though, Twilight sighed. “You’re right. I … I couldn't do that to anypony. Not to my friends, not to anypony in Ponyville, or even to a complete stranger.” Slowly, hanging her head low, she turned around and raised her tail for him.

He had to admire her as he approached. Royalty or not, she was really cute. Even when she wasn't exactly doing her best to entice him or anything, seeing her there with her tail lifted for him made his cock slap up against his belly, ready to finally take her. Because, yeah, of course he’d had his eye on the Princess of Friendship for a while. She was just so perky and adorable. Coming up behind her, he squeezed her nice round ass cheeks – they were surprisingly soft and squeezable. He spread them apart, causing her pussy lips to open slightly, showing the pinkness inside. So nice…

“Hey, I’m a little new to all this magic stuff,” he said, “so why don’t you tell me exactly what your fertility spell is doing. You know, as I impregnate you.”

Her pussy winked open the moment he said that. Was it an effect of the spell, or was she actually excited about getting knocked up? “Well, um, the spells began their effect the moment you touched me while wearing the amulet. First, it’s preparing my body, both for penetration and to … to become a mother.”

Dicey reared upward and gripped her flanks between his forehooves. “Oh? And what exactly is it doing?”

“Well, um, right now it’s causing my vagina to secrete lubrication, causing my vulvar constrictor muscles to contract and wink my vulva, and it will already be causing my mammary glands to expand in preparation for foaling…”

Oh, so her winking was only a product of the spell. Still nice to see, though. And what was that about her mammary glands? “You mean your teats?” he asked.

“Yes. My, um…” It seemed she couldn't bring herself to say ‘teats’. “Yes. They should be enlarging significantly at the moment.”

He had to see it! Even though his tip had only kissed her entrance yet, he slid off of her back and came around to her side, blatantly sticking his head under her belly and looking upward between her hind legs.

There, right before his eyes, Twilight's darker purple teats were visibly swelling larger. His eyes widened as if growing sympathetically. Though he’d always enjoyed a nice set of teats on a mare, it added a surprising extra level of eroticism to it to see them growing bigger and fuller right in front of him, to see them preparing for the foal he was about to put inside her. Preparing to be bred. Gradually, but noticeably, they grew from tiny nubs to substantial swells, to juicy mounds, and even to the point of being big sloshing and jiggling udders. They stopped there, though – not disproportionate to Twilight's slightly larger than normal frame, each of them had grown to around the size of his hoof, looking as if Twilight was already far along in her pregnancy, even though her belly was still slim and waiting to be filled.

He licked his lips. “Can I … can I suck on them? Would you mind it?”

“Um…”

Still under her belly, he glanced forward, finding her head still low as she warily watched everything he was doing.

“Well, um, to quote Harmony Mareville, ‘I would prefer not to…’”

Dicey had to laugh at himself then. What was he thinking, asking for permission? He didn’t need anypony’s permission to do what he wanted with her. He turned his attention back to those glorious purple teats … and this time, he didn't hesitate.

Goddess above, they were so soft and delicate! So warm! So delightfully squishy and jiggly! Twilight gasped uncomfortably as he buried his muzzle between her purple mounds, as he explored the plush curves of bare skin with his tongue, as he took one of her big protruding nipples into his mouth and lightly pinched it. Honestly, the sounds she made as he did it were almost as much fun as the teats themselves. It was so obvious that she was enjoying the sensations and yet trying so very hard not to let it show. To his slight surprise, no milk came out of her, though. The spell must not have had any milk-producing component to it yet. Oh well, that would come later. For now, he enjoyed bathing his muzzle in the soft, warm skin of Twilight's fatly dangling teats.

Until, that is, he noticed a fat dollop of clear mare nectar dropping down to the floor between her hind legs.

Oh! It really was getting to her, wasn't it? And her body was so ready for him! Mainly due to the spell, perhaps, but did that really make any difference? She must have been getting so wet and eager as he played with her teats…

Quickly, he withdrew himself from underneath her and went back behind her again. He was not disappointed in what he found. Her legs were spread wide now, and her hips even dipped down a little. And between her cute round cheeks, her lovely smooth purple pussy lips winked open over and over again endlessly. Her juices dripped to the floor and ran down each of her hind legs, soaking her fur to a darker purple color and highlighting the curves of her inner thighs.

His cock slapped against his belly again, ragingly hard now. And this time, he heeded its call and did exactly as nature – and Twilight's spell – intended. He mounted his new broodmare, quickly adjusted himself to find the perfect position, and then sank his cock deep inside her pussy in a single well-lubricated push. There was almost no resistance at all. Her body was so ready for him, so welcoming to the intrusion of his cock.

Even Twilight couldn't help herself. Though she muffled her mouth with a forehoof, he still heard her moan deeply … and then moan again as he bottomed out inside her.

“Don’t stop,” he commanded. “Tell me what the spell is doing now.”

It took Twilight a moment to regain control of herself. “Well, um…” She gave a needy little whimper as he began to thrust inside her in earnest. “Well, now that you’ve, uh, achieved penetration, the temporal acceleration mechanism of the spell will be triggered. In each of my ovaries, it will select an ovum and accelerate its cycle, bringing it to full maturity in only seconds and then sending it toward my uterus to be fertilized and implanted. It will also be preparing my uterine lining for—”

Dicey paused with his cock as deep inside her as it could go. “In each of them? Two?” he asked. “So… You’re going to have twins?”

She winced. Her body tensed and twitched around his cock deep inside. “Probably. After all, these spells were designed for couples struggling to conceive, so it’s intended to give the best possible chance…”

Wow, what a spell! Twilight had really outdone herself, hadn’t she? Dicey grinned and resumed thrusting inside her, savoring the feeling of her receptive love tunnel and fantasizing about filling her with twins. She’d really earned that Princess of Magic title, hadn’t she? He couldn't wait to see what other effects the spell might have … and then try it out again, again and again, on every mare in Ponyville! On every mare in Equestria if he could find the time!

Twilight's voice was strained. “As copulation continues, the spell is … is enhancing my—” she moaned deeply, not hiding it at all now “—is enhancing the sensations within the nerves of my reproductive system, increasing the sensation of pleasure and driving my body toward unavoidable orgasm, though that orgasm will as yet be blocked from happening.”

Didn’t pause his motions this time – he was getting too close! “Blocked? Why?” Having her own spell drive her to orgasm while he was inside her sounded great! Why was it blocked?

“For the best possible chances of fertilization, it won’t be released until you—” she moaned again “—until you… Mmmnh! Do it! Please do it soon! I can’t take it anymore!”

Briefly, the thought crossed his mind of holding back, just out of spite, just for the impertinence of this royal still trying to tell him what to do. But only briefly. Because the needs of his own body – and of that odd, almost magical drive inside of him – were screaming at him to finish, to climax, to breed this needy mare!

And it didn’t take long to reach that point. His cock flared and expanded deep inside her, making her already-snug fit feel even tighter. He could feel her pussy twitching as if milking him with every thrust. The sound of her now-uncontrolled moans and gasping breaths drove him nearly to a frenzy – hearing her wordlessly beg for more made him want to pound his cock into her harder than he had with any mare before!

Until, finally, he hilted inside Twilight one last time. His teeth clenched hard. His trembling forehooves gripped her flanks mercilessly; he could feel her flanks heaving underneath him with her every desperate breath.

“It’s— It’s happening!” Twilight cried as his cock began pumping straight into her magically fertile womb. “The spell!” She gasped for air, her pussy clenching down on him hard. “Your orgasm! … It triggers … my own org—” The rest was lost to incoherent moaning as she collapsed underneath him, faceplanting into the crystal floor with her hind end still held up by his unwavering grip around her body.

Dicey could feel her pussy practically gulping down his cum as fast as he could give it to her. Every pulse of her orgasm – perfectly timed with his own – practically sucked the cum out of him, her greedy body slurping it down as deeply as possible, rushing to bring it together with those magically induced eggs. His eyes went into tunnel vision as his body devoted all of its resources toward pumping more and more cum for this oh-so-receptive mare, ready to soak every last bit of her with his cream, from the inside out. He wasn't sure if it was an effect of the new amulet or just because the thought of impregnating Twilight excited him, but he felt like this was one of his biggest loads yet. Despite how tired and dried-up he should have been at this point, he felt like something was driving him onward to more, more, more!

They stayed in that position for quite a while, even after he’d given Twilight every last drop he possibly could. Even though he’d just had the orgasm of a lifetime, it still felt good to feel the heat of her pussy hugging his spent and softening cock.

Eventually, though, nature took its course and his cock retreated into his sheath, slipping out of her. He slipped off of her back as well, allowing her to flop onto her side on the floor. A thick stream of cum soon oozed from her slit and over the curve of her ass cheek toward the floor. She didn’t seem to notice.

As soon as she’d caught her breath, though, Twilight doggedly continued to do as she’d been told. “The … the spell will now be drawing a pseudo-magnetic locus, drawing together sperm and egg cells.” She breathed deeply, her sides still heaving. Her tail twitched weakly. “It will also be weakening the natural protective layer around the egg, ensuring that the sperm can instantly fertilize it.” Wearily, she raised her head and looked at him. “At that point, the locus of attraction changes, focusing on attaching the eggs to the uterine wall, where additional spells adapted from earth pony plant rooting magic will absolutely ensure proper implantation, so that they can develop into…” She blinked, slowly. “Oh Celestia … what have you done to me?”

Well, he’d impregnated her with twins, thanks to the help of her own magic. That’s what he’d done. She obviously shouldn’t need to be told that.

All the exertion had left him feeling fairly tired, though, and it was getting late. He’d need to find some kind of accommodations, wouldn't he? No sense in going all the way back to his cabin just for a bed. At some point, he’d had a vague notion of going to the hotel and demanding a free room … but why sleep in some dingy hotel when he could sleep in a castle instead?

“Hey,” he mused, “this castle has guest suites, right?”

Twilight nodded dejectedly, apparently too weary to play games with him right now.

“Good, good. As soon as you’re able to get up, I want you to set up the best guest suite in the place for me. Oh, and have your little pet dragon go to the Ponyville Cafe and pick up a few triple deluxe hayburgers for me, too.”

She sighed, but shakily got up onto her hooves, heading toward the door.

Just as she reached the door, though, somepony else barged in. Starlight Glimmer.

“There you are, Twilight!” she said. “Woah! You look terrible! What happened? And what’s this I’ve been hearing about some stallion that everypony has to obey no matter what? There’s got to be some mistake – that’s even worse than what I was doing back in my old village! We’ve got to set this straight before he … before he…” Her nose twitched, and she finally looked around the room, spotting him. “You!” She charged toward him. “It’s you isn’t it? What did you do to her?”

“Stop!” Twilight cried out, her voice a little hoarse from the uncontrolled moaning she’d just been doing. “It’s true. I’ll … I’ll explain it later, but we have to do everything he says. We really do have to. Equestria’s fate depends on it.”

Starlight sneered at him. “Equestria’s fate depends on this guy? That’s the creepy guy who sells mushrooms and ogles all the mares in the marketplace.”

Dicey shook his head. Despite how rude she was being, Starlight was a fairly attractive mare. A little thicker around the middle than he usually preferred, but also with a very generous thickness around the hindquarters as well, which he didn’t mind at all. And this one definitely needed to be put in her place. As tired as he was, he’d better do so before she went around fomenting some kind of rebellion against him or something…

He cleared his throat to attract both mares’ attention. “Actually, I think I’d like to have a mare in my bed as well. To take one last load before bed and give me a nice wakeup blowjob in the morning as well. She’ll do. As long as she keeps her mouth shut… Twilight,” he commanded, “have Starlight Glimmer prepare herself in some nice lingerie and wait for me in that guest suite. And make sure she knows to do exactly what I say no matter what.”

“No way.” Starlight stared at Twilight. “Seriously? We’re supposed to put up with this?”

Sighing as she went through the door, Twilight motioned for Starlight to follow her. “I’ll explain on the way up…”

Author's Note

4 - Stage Fright

Dicey stretched and cracked his neck as he walked out of the Ponyville Spa, a huge smile on his face. Finally, finally, he’d really gotten his money’s worth from the spa. Okay, well, he hadn’t actually paid them anything this time. Why would he? They owed him for all the times he’d come in before and gotten nothing but overpriced hoofjobs. Now, though, they’d really made up for it. He’d especially enjoyed watching them eat out each other’s cream pies while he gloated about getting both of them pregnant with only one cumshot. It had been tricky pulling out of one and shoving himself into the other in the middle of an orgasm, but it had been worth it!

Now though… Now… Who would be next? His eyes scanned the dark streets, but he didn’t see anypony. Nopony at all.

He glanced over at Twilight, who he’d ordered to come along with him on his adventures today in Ponyville. She’d seemed awfully flustered while watching him have his way with the spa twins, and he was tempted to have another go with her … but no. Repeats could wait until after he’d already had everypony he wanted. And he wanted a lot of ponies. But where were they all?

“Where is everypony?” he asked her.

“I don’t know. I’m guessing that most of them have gone into hiding somewhere when they heard what was happening.”

He sighed. “Yeah, but hiding where?”

“Well, there’s no way for me to know.” She shrugged a little. “It’s not as if they would have told me about their hiding places. I’ve been with you all day. Or … all of what should have been day, if it wasn't all nighttime. Thanks to a certain somepony not trusting Princess Luna.”

For a moment, he almost believed her. But then he remembered. Royals. She was just playing her little word games again, wasn't she?

“Tell me where they’re hiding,” he ordered.

Twilight winced.

Oh yes. She was playing games again! But now that he’d ordered her to tell the truth, there was no way for her to weasel out of it anymore. He’d really need to teach her another long and hard lesson about who was in charge here … once he was done with everypony else.

With a resigned sigh, she gave up her game. “Alright. It’s true that nopony told me where they’d be hiding. But because disasters come to Ponyville so often, the town built a secret safe room bunker underneath Town Hall, for ponies to hide in when there’s an emergency. I don’t know about everypony, but a lot of them are probably hiding in there.”

“What? They’re hiding from me like I’m a disaster? Some kind of monster attack?”

She hung her head low and looked back at herself, at her belly and her still-swollen teats. “Well, for any mare who doesn’t want to end up pregnant against her will…” When she looked back at him, there was more than a little bit of venom in her glare.

Ha! Like Royals had any room to talk when it came to doing things to ponies against their will! He shook his head. Maybe he’d make her swallow his whole cock tonight when he went to bed. Again and again until he fell asleep. Teach her a lesson about being properly obedient and subservient to her new master…

But for now… “Alright – take me to the hidden safe room! I feel like picking out a few more fresh mares!” Impregnating both of the spa sisters at the same time had been really enjoyable, and it had got him thinking. Maybe he ought to do a few more doubles like that. Could he even stretch it out to three at a time? It wouldn't hurt to try!

Of course he already knew where the Ponyville Town Hall was. Dicey didn’t need Twilight's help to lead him there. He was only following behind her for the view of her pert purple posterior. Even with her keeping her tail tightly clamped down over herself, it was still quite a nice view. He wouldn't really need her until they got there, so she could show him the entrance to this secret bunker… Hmm, for that matter, why hadn’t anypony already told him about the secret bunker? He was a resident of Ponyville, wasn't he? Well, more or less. On the outskirts. Was that not good enough for them? Did they not care whether or not he got eaten by a monster, just because he lived a little way outside of town?

He huffed a little. Yeah – they deserved what they were going to get as soon as he opened up that secret door and found them all in there! If they wanted to treat him like expendable monster bait, then he could treat them like his personal harem of broodmares! Hmm… Maybe he’d have Twilight seal the door shut behind him, and not let anypony out until he’d impregnated every single mare hiding in there…

Oh, and speaking of Twilight, why was he settling for a sub-par view, again? “Lift your tail up!” he ordered. “I want to see you while we’re on the way.”

Twilight whined a little, but she obeyed, raising her tail high. Ah … there she was! Such a nice smooth little pussy pouting upward toward him. Maybe if he teased her a little, she’d start winking and get wet? Aw… But they were almost there anyway. He could already see the spire of the Town Hall up ahead.

As they rounded a corner, he suddenly saw Spike and Rarity. Rarity was looking the other way, but Spike spotted him. “Rarity!” Spike shouted. “He’s here! Quick, hide!”

He watched with a bit of a scowl as he watched the two scurry away, back around the corner. So Spike thought Rarity belonged to him, huh? Well, Dicey would just see about that. He made a mental note to track both of them down later … and then impregnate her right in front of Spike, forcing him to watch. Everypony in Ponyville needed to know that the mares of Ponyville belonged to Dicey now, and nopony else!

But then … then, something distracted him. A sound, rather than a sight.

“Come one! Come all! Come and witness the amazing magic of the Great and Powerful Trixie!”

Dicey stopped in his tracks. He’d seen a few of the traveling showmare’s performances, sure. Who in Ponyville hadn’t? Was she just so brazen that she’d decided that ‘the show must go on’ no matter what? Hm… Or maybe she’d just gotten back from one of her trips and she hadn’t yet heard about what was happening? Either way … well, the bunker could wait. He’d never been all that impressed by Trixie’s magic tricks, but he had been impressed by the showmare’s body, which was why he’d always gone back to her shows when she was in town. And now … now he was ready to get a personal performance, just for himself!

“Change of plans, Twilight!” he called out as he changed directions and picked up the pace. “This way!”

Twilight scrambled to catch back up with him as he headed toward the sound of Trixie’s voice. She had to – after all, he’d ordered her to escort him around all day – or night, as may be – and make sure everypony obeyed his orders. And she knew as well as anypony how important that was.

Trixie’s mobile stage wasn't far. Just around the next corner. At first, she’d been scowling at the very empty space in front of her stage, but once she saw him approaching with Twilight hot on his heels, her expression brightened greatly. “Aha!” she proclaimed, “An audience! Only two, but the Great and Powerful Trixie can build on that!” She spun with a flourish of her cape in front of the stage lights. “Come one! Come two! Come and witness the amazing talents of the Great and Powerful Trixie!”

Oh, he was going to witness her talents, alright. But not the way she was expecting.

Trixie stood on her hind legs, exposing her nice plump teats as she swept her hoof over the audience of only two. Despite the lingering nighttime darkness, the stage lights lit her up and gave Dicey a perfect view. “Now,” she said, “what shall Trixie amaze you with for her first trick? Ah, yes! Behold, as with Trixie’s Great and Powerful magic, this simple everyday rope rises from the basket all on its own, as if a snake ready to strike!”

“That’s boring!” Dicey yelled out. “How about instead, you turn around and lift up your tail?”

She dropped back down to all fours and scowled at him, letting the rope drop back into its basket. “Excuse me? Trixie is not that kind of showmare!”

He was grinning now. This was about to be fun! “How about for your next trick, you make my cock disappear?”

Trixie huffed indignantly. “The Great and Powerful Trixie does not tolerate hecklers! Especially not dirty, perverted hecklers! If you don’t remove yourself from my audience immediately, Trixie will be forced to make all of you disappear. And stay disappeared!”

“Trixie, I order you to have sex with me,” Dicey said as he climbed up onto the stage next to her.

She slapped him – hard – with her hoof, her horn already beginning to glow with ominous magic. “Get fucked you perverted—”

A glowing spherical shield in the color of Twilight Sparkle’s magic protected him from whatever it was Trixie was trying to conjure against him, appearing out of nowhere just in time.

“No,” Dicey told her with a wide grin, “you’re the one who’s about to get fucked. Bred like a broodmare!”

Trixie glowered down at Twilight where she stood near the stage. “Twilight! I thought we were friends. Why are you protecting such a disgusting and rude stallion? You should be helping Trixie banish him to the the nether dimensions!”

“Nether dimensions? That’s … not a real thing,” Twilight said.

“Well, Trixie could have at least banished him to the basement beneath Town Hall!”

Wait… Dicey shook his head. Even Trixie knew about the secret bunker under Town Hall, and still nopony had told him about it. What an outrage! It was so unfair! Trixie was way more of an outsider than him!

Enough of this crap! “Twilight,” he ordered, “tell Trixie about Luna’s orders. And about what’s going to happen to her next.”

“What … orders?” Trixie said, starting to sound a little worried as Twilight obeyed and climbed up onto the stage next to her.

The whispered conversation was too quiet for him to hear much of it. Well, too quiet to hear most of what Twilight was saying, anyway. Trixie’s occasional bursts of outrage and disbelief were perfectly audible.

“No!” Trixie shouted suddenly. “Princess Luna is good and noble! She would never order something like that!”

But after a bit more whispering, Trixie’s eyes shot open wide. “You’re … you’re serious!”

“Yeah…” Twilight shrugged and shook her head. “I’m sorry Trixie, but there’s no other choice than to—”

Trixie glanced to the left, to the right, and suddenly threw something from inside her cape. “Smoke bomb!”

A huge puff of smoke enveloped the stage, and even over the sound of himself and Twilight coughing, Dicey could hear the sound of Trixie’s hoofbeats as she galloped away under cover of smoke. Ugh, he should have known she’d try one of her disappearing tricks! Yep – as the smoke began to clear, he could see Trixie running away down the street, just about to turn a corner and disappear.

“Don’t let her get away!” he told Twilight. “Teleport her back!”

With a poof even more sudden than the one she’d disappeared in, Trixie reappeared on the stage, mid-gallop, and slammed into Dicey, knocking him down.

Had Twilight planned that? He shook himself as he got back up. It would certainly fit with what he knew of royals to play a little ‘prank’ like aiming a running Trixie right at him with a carefully placed teleport spell … but then again, it could have just been an accident. And if he said anything about it, she’d surely claim that it was.

Whatever. Didn’t matter either way. He had more important things to worry about … like breeding showmares. He offered Trixie his hoof to help her get up, and she accepted the help with a wary nervousness.

Just as she stood back up, she once again reached into a fold of her cape and—

And Dicey took the smoke bomb from her before she could throw it this time. “No more games,” he said. “You have to follow my orders now. Twilight will make sure of it. Every royal guard in Ponyville will make sure of it if they have to.” He looked down at her body and grinned. “Now turn around…”

Trixie looked briefly, desperately up at Twilight … but Twilight only looked away in shame. At that point, it was like the fires inside Trixie had suddenly gone out. She visibly deflated, even seeming to shrink down a little shorter and smaller than before. Suddenly, her flamboyant cape looked more like a sad blanket.

“I’m sorry, Trixie,” Twilight said.

Nodding, Trixie turned to face Twilight, presenting her rear toward Dicey. She brushed her cape to the side and reluctantly raised her tail. “Well, Trixie has done worse in the past, I suppose. And for less good of a reason. Go ahead … at least I’ve been taking my potions, so there won’t be any worries about a Great and Powerful pregnancy.”

Twilight winced at those words, but Dicey didn’t pay it much attention. Instead, he was fixated on Trixie’s lovely rump. Maybe it was only because she typically wore that cape of hers and only showed it in brief, tantalizing flashes, but he’d always thought of hers as one of the nicest in all of Ponyville. And, really, since he didn’t get outside of Ponyville much, that meant one of the nicest he’d ever seen. On the bigger side, but not at all flabby … just pleasantly plush, and with a really juicy thickness to it. The kind of cheeks he could really sink his teeth into … so to speak. Not that he was really into biting or anything. He’d much rather just touch. And he did.

Trixie flinched when his hoof first touched her, but by now he was used to that kind of thing. He didn’t let it bother him. Instead, he traced his hoof up and down the luscious round curves of Trixie’s ass, and even reached up between her hind legs to touch her teats a little.

She lifted one hind leg when he did that, obviously straining to hold herself back from instinctively kicking him. But that wasn't the only instinct she was fighting against. His eyes lit up as he saw her big plush pussy lips wink open for the first time, showing him a brief flash of pink and already starting to drip a little. Oh yes … her body knew what was about to happen, and her body seemed a lot more enthusiastic about it. Slowly, teasingly, he slid his hoof upward from her delightfully jiggly teats, up through the deep crease between her soft ass cheeks, and finally all the way up to her pussy.

Trixie whimpered a little. “Twilight! He’s… He’s…”

“Yeah, I’m sorry,” Twilight said. “It’s probably best to just get this over with quickly.”

Spreading her hind legs just a bit wider, Trixie took a deep breath. “Fine. Go ahead, pervert. Make it quick. Before I… Before I…” She shook her head. “What? Why are Trixie’s teats growing?”

“It’s, um … a fertility spell,” Twilight mumbled.

“A what?”

Even though he’d been getting more sex lately than he’d ever before dreamed of, Dicey still took the time to savor the moment, running both hooves up and down Trixie’s luscious flanks. Big and perky, with just a little bit of softness, she really had one of the objectively best rumps he’d yet had the opportunity to grope. Even if he normally had a preference for the more petite ones, Trixie’s showmare body was undeniably incredible.

“Trixie did not agree to any fertility spells!”

“Nobody asked.” Dicey didn’t waste any more time. He reared up and mounted Trixie, prodding her with his cock and trying to find just the right spot.

The way she was squirming underneath him sure didn’t help. Why did this have to be so difficult? She knew there was no way out of what was about to happen, didn’t she?

“Help me get it in,” he told Twilight. When her horn started to glow, he shook his head. “No – with your mouth.”

Twilight winced, but did as ordered, ducking her head under his belly. A moment later, he felt the soft, warm touch of Twilight's lips against the side of his cock, which was quite nice as he thrusted against Trixie. Even Twilight had a little trouble getting it lined up, as she’d obviously never done this kind of thing before, but with her help, his tip inevitably found Trixie’s winking and dripping pussy lips. Instantly, he pushed forward, sinking himself into her.

Trixie cried out in protest, cursing him wordlessly. Twilight barely got her head out from underneath him in time before he smashed up against Trixie’s plush ass cheeks.

Dicey just sighed in satisfaction as he felt the juicy heat of Trixie’s pussy enveloping his cock. He held himself hilted inside her for a long moment, just enjoying the sensation of being inside yet another mare. This never got old, even after doing it so much lately. Squeezing her soft body between his forelegs, he pushed in even harder, managing to press his cock just slightly farther inside her.

“Trixie will not forget this!” she said from underneath him. Her body trembled … from arousal or from rage? He didn’t really care.

“I’m counting on it,” he said, beginning to thrust inside her. “You can tell my foals all about me as they grow up.”

To that, all she had to say in reply was a scared little whimper. Had he really broken her that easily? Or maybe it was the feeling of his cock moving inside her that was making her whimper… Either way, it only made him want to rut her even harder, slamming his cock into her over and over again until her forelegs collapsed, leaving her chest against the stage and her generous rump sticking up for him to plow into. He could feel her entrance winking around the base of his cock – tilted up like that, it was like she desperately wanted to catch every possible drop of cum he might provide her.

What a show! He looked out beyond the stage, halfway expecting a cheering crowd watching in awe as he bred he ever-loving ponyfeathers out of their favorite showmare… But of course it was empty out there. Not easy to see into the darkness beyond the stage lights, but it was pretty clear that nopony was watching. They were all hiding somewhere else.

Well, that was a bit of a let-down. It didn’t stop him from pushing his cock over and over into Trixie’s pliant pussy, though. Hm… Was he starting to like the idea of doing it in front of an audience? It had been pretty fun when he’d pumped Luna full right in front of everypony… Maybe after he was done with Trixie, he could have Twilight round up a bunch of ponies and force them all to stay and watch. And whoever didn’t want to look would be the first one getting bred!

With thoughts running through his head of a whole audience of mares all watching as they waited their turn, Dicey felt the familiar pressure building, felt Trixie’s depths squeezing tighter around him as his tip flared… And he didn’t hold back in the slightest.

Pressing his forehooves against Trixie’s withers, pinning her chest down against the stage, Dicey rammed his cock into her one final time, as deep as he could possibly go. Triggered by his own orgasm in combination with the fertility spell, Trixie’s pussy gushed back against him, splattering his hind legs just as his balls pulled upward and his cock began to pulse.

More than any mare he’d yet had, Trixie gulped down each stream of cum he pumped into her. She might have been whining in protest as much as she was moaning in orgasm, but her body clenched and squeezed around him, sucking his cum straight into her magically fertile womb, as if she was desperately thirsty for it. He shuddered and groaned, delivering yet another massive load – surge after surge of it, and yet not a single drop wasted. Her upturned pussy was the perfect breeding receptacle, ready to catch and cherish everything he could possibly give her.

And since she was being such a good broodmare, Dicey didn’t pull out even after his cock stopped throbbing. He kept himself tightly pressed against her, sheath to pussy lips, locking the belly-swelling load inside her for good. None of it would escape even when he pulled out of her – he made sure of that by pulling out only a little at a time as his cock softened, allowing plenty of chances for Trixie’s still-twitching inner walls to wipe away any that might still be stuck to him as he retreated out of her.

Finally, when it did come free, Dicey stepped back down onto the stage behind her and groped her soft, jiggly ass one more time for good measure. “Stay just like that,” he ordered, “make sure it all drains down into you and you don’t spill a single drop. Or else I’ll order you to be the broodmare for every other stallion in town, too.”

He wouldn't really do that, of course. No other stallion could be allowed to have a claim to his mares. But he was pretty sure that would be enough to keep her like this – with her winking, cum-filled pussy so lustfully on display on stage – for a while to come. If only there was more an audience here to witness that…

Once again, he looked out over where a crowd could have been, and once again he didn’t see a single pony out there… Except, hey! Was that … Scootaloo?

Yeah! It was! That was definitely her little orange face and purple mane peeking out from around the corner of a nearby building! He only looked at her out of the corner of his eye. She didn’t seem to notice she’d been spotted yet. Maybe she was too busy staring at Trixie?

Hm… He hadn’t been planning on messing around with anypony so young… Even though he realized there was a lot wrong with what he was doing, he still had some personal standards to maintain. Besides, his breeding chances would be better with adult mares. But… Now that he thought about it, she was probably watching because she was curious about sex, wasn't she? And if she was old enough to be curious about sex, well then she was old enough to… He smiled, his cock already slipping out of his sheath again. Scootaloo was small, but she was really cute, and her little pussy would probably feel so tight around his cock…

How had his standards slipped so quickly? How had he gotten hard and ready to go again so quickly? Important questions … which slipped away without another thought as he realized he’d already made his decision.

“Scootaloo!” he called out. “I know you’re out there, and I’m ordering you to come up onto the stage with me!”

A startled squeak came from the shadows, but not the clattering of tiny hooves running away. Instead, she reluctantly came out of hiding and slowly started toward the stage. She kept glancing around as if looking for a way out, but she must have already known she had to obey him, so there wasn't any way out of this.

Dicey stepped up to the edge of the stage to better see past the glaring lights. He licked his lips as he watched the filly approaching. His cock surged even harder underneath his belly, hungry for the tiny mare.

Slam! His world turned upside down as he was smashed down onto the stage, rolling across it. His chest suddenly ached, and he could barely breathe. The wind had been knocked out of him! “Whaa…?” he wheezed. What the heck had just hit him out of nowhere, like a bolt out of the night sky?

“Enough!” Rainbow's voice rang in his ears as she shouted. She pounced and stomped on him again, bruising his ribs. “I don’t care what the Princess’s orders say – enough is enough!” Each word was punctuated by another harsh stomp. “You are not going to touch Scootaloo! Not ever!”

Author's Note

5 - Last Minute Encore

“Stop her!” Dicey managed to cough out.

Twilight's magical glow snapped into place around Rainbow, freezing her with her hooves raised just above his head. “Hey,” Rainbow cried out, struggling against it with all her might, “whose side are you on, anyway?”

“I’m on Equestria’s side,” Twilight said with tired resignation in her voice. “And if Equestria is going to make it, we need this stallion alive. You know that. I don’t like what he’s doing any more than you do, but when the survival of every single pony in Equestria is at stake, we have to go along with it.”

Dicey shook his head and groaned as he picked himself back up. Dang it … those bruises were going to hurt for a long time. Definitely longer than the two days he had left. Rainbow would really need to learn a lesson now! The pain her bashing hooves had given him would be slowing him down and dampening his enjoyment with every mare for the rest of his free time!

Obviously, obviously, that punishment was going to involve breeding her … but that wasn't even close to enough. Aha! First, he’d have her help him mount Scootaloo, and only after that would he… Wait – where was Scootaloo?

He looked all around, rushing back to the edge of the stage to look out over the lights. Scootaloo had vanished. Gone without a trace. Dang it! Not only had Rainbow's attack hurt, not only would it be paining him for the rest of his precious time as unquestioned ruler, but it had also allowed time for Scootaloo to run away. Now his perfect idea for a punishment was ruined!

Screw it. Maybe he’d just reuse the punishment he came up with for Trixie. Every stallion in town, one after the other, right here on stage. Dicey could watch Rainbow get utterly ruined – in all three holes – by stallions both willing and unwilling, as he bred mare after mare in the audience. Though it pained him to think of his mare getting filled by other stallions, he was mad enough at Rainbow right now that it didn’t matter. Yeah. That would do.

But first… First she’d get bred by Dicey himself, of course.

“Twilight, set her down,” he ordered. “And you, Rainbow Dash – raise your tail and get ready for me.”

Twilight did as she was told, but Rainbow absolutely did not. The moment her hooves were back on the stage, she whirled around toward him, raising both forelegs for a powerful kick … that Twilight stopped just before those blue hooves made contact with his face. Wow, she really was fast! She’d almost gotten him before he even had a chance to react!

After taking a breath to settle himself after almost getting stomped again, he turned back toward Twilight. “Okay, I guess setting her down isn’t going to work. I need you to hold her down.”

“I can’t do that!”

Dicey sighed. “Why? Because she’s your friend? You said it yourself – Equestria is on the line, so you have to do anything!”

“No…” Twilight shook her head. “I mean I literally can’t, she’s really strong. I’m not sure if my magic can hold her that long. I, uh, I couldn't guarantee your safety! So, instead, how about---”

“You’re lying again, aren’t you?”

Dicey stared at her, trying to see through her deceit. So typical of royals… She looked nervous, sure, but of course that was pretty understandable under the circumstances. But in this case … maybe it was better to take her word for it? What if she was telling the truth, her magic got tired, and Rainbow Dash got loose during the middle of things? That wouldn't be good!

But then, what else could he do? He glanced around. Aha! “Trixie! You’ve got some restraints and stuff as part of your escape act, right?”

“Huh?” Trixie looked up suddenly. Though she was still in the position he’d told her to take, she must have been kind of zoned out in her own little world over there. “Oh, um. Yes. Trixie does have some of that.”

He nodded. “Good. You can stand up normally now. And then go and get everything we’ll need to hold Rainbow Dash in place. And Twilight, once we’ve got the equipment here, you’re going to help me put her in it.”

Twilight did not look happy about the idea of doing that, but when Trixie came back with half a dozen sets of hoofcuffs, some locks and chains, and even a blindfold, Twilight acquiesced to doing what she was told. Though Rainbow snarled and gnashed her teeth at all three of them – even her friend Twilight! – there was nothing even a pegasus pony as fiery as her could do about it.

Soon, they had her locked up tight. Standing with cuffs locking every hoof to every other hoof, chains around her wings, and a blindfold so she wouldn't even see it coming. Dicey himself had helped get it all on her, despite not being as noble with it all as the two unicorn mares, and he leered shamelessly at her the whole time.

Rainbow was a very beautiful mare, and just to his tastes. Her slim and firm body tensed and strained as she fought against Twilight's magic, and then against the restraints. Tight, lean muscles highlighted every curve of her cute little rump. And though she kept her tail very tightly clamped down over herself, Dicey at least got to have a nice long look at Rainbow's teats. They’d already swollen up as if she was about to be nursing newborns. The fertility spell must have activated on touch the moment she pounced on him. And it was wonderful seeing such big, juicy teats jiggling up there under her lower belly – such a soft and plush contrast to the slim, hard muscle of the rest of her body. He couldn't wait to see the rest of her body swelling, too … swelling with his foals growing inside.

As Twilight's magic released her, Rainbow strained hard against the cuffs and chains. They creaked and groaned a little … but they held. She turned her head, looking back at him, even though she obviously couldn't see through the blindfold. “I don’t care what you do after your three days are up. I don’t care where you try to hide. I will find you and stomp you flat, you nasty perv!”

“So feisty!” Dicey laughed a little. He was really going to enjoy this one. “Twilight, lift her tail for me.”

“No! Twilight!” Rainbow squirmed as it happened, but there was nothing she could do to stop her friend’s magic from pulling her multi-colored tail up and to the side.

And right away, Dicey saw what Rainbow had been trying to hide. Either from the effects of the fertility spell or because Rainbow was secretly into this kind of thing, her adorable little pussy was winking over and over again like mad. Wetness dripped from the base of her tail where she’d pressed it against herself. Almost as much as was flowing from her lusciously smooth, almost virginal-looking lips.

Dicey’s cock, which had mostly gone soft again as they all fiddled with chains and stuff, quickly surged back to full strength. Licking his lips, he reached up with a hoof and touched Rainbow. First on the toned, deliciously rounded curve of her ass cheek, then sliding in to the true prize: the springy softness and desperate warmth of her pussy. He could feel it winking urgently against the frog of his hoof, quickly soaking anything it touched. Rainbow whimpered a little and tried to lean away from him, but with those cuffs around her hooves, she could barely move at all without losing her balance.

Wow … she looked so cute like that, her body quivering in anticipation! So many times he’d seen Rainbow Dash zip through the Ponyville market, though she’d never stopped at his stall. She probably wasn't the type to be cooking mushrooms at home. But she’d always caught his eye every time he’d seen her before. If there was ever such a thing as the perfect pony body – at least according to his tastes – she had it. He almost didn’t want to mount her; it was almost nicer to just stand there and look in awe at her perky-round butt and pink-winking pussy.

But then, his cock throbbed hard underneath him, as if goading him to do more than just look and fondle. He wanted her. He wanted her bad. And there was nothing, literally nothing at all, in his way.

As eager as he was when he mounted her, he almost knocked the poor little mare over. The cuffs prevented her from spreading her legs at all, and they didn’t let her step to keep her balance, either. If it hadn’t been for a quick burst of Twilight's magic, both Rainbow and Dicey probably would have ended up face-planting on the stage.

His breath huffed as he hunched his body, desperately trying to find his mark, probing for the feel of hot wet pussy against his tip…

“Um… Can I go now? Trixie does not want to watch this happen.”

Annoyed at the slight interruption, Dicey glanced over at her. He was halfway tempted to come up with some kind of punishment for distracting him with such poor timing … but then that would only be more of a distraction. And besides, he’d already gotten everything he wanted from her. “Sure,” he said with an annoyed little snort, “whatever.”

As Trixie made her hasty exit, Dicey turned his attention back to the mare underneath him. Maybe the interruption was a good thing after all, because the moment he started trying again – a little calmer this time – his tip slid perfectly into position. With a groan of satisfaction, and no hesitation at all, he pushed forward, sinking just a little bit of his cock into Rainbow's soft warmth.

It was funny … for some reason, he’d expected her to be just as firm and toned on the inside as on the outside, but if anything, she was even more soft and supple than Trixie had been.

Rainbow squirmed hard underneath him, growling and gritting her teeth, but every time she moved around, it only served to sink his cock a little bit deeper inside her.

Soon, he was through the tightness of Rainbow’s entrance and plunging into her soft inner depths. So nice! He hummed to himself in satisfaction, quickly shoving the rest of himself into her, all the way until his sheath kissed up against her still-winking lips. Yes! His forehooves gripped her body tighter, helping him cram his cock in as deep as possible.

Rainbow's growl turned into a yelp as he went a little too deep for her. “Get off of me!” she yelled, her voice squeaking in rage. And yet, her pussy squeezed him hungrily.

“Oh, I’ll get off soon enough,” he said with a bit of a laugh. “But I’m going to take my time and enjoy it!”

For once, that was the truth. Whatever mystical force had been at work on his libido lately had tended to keep him popping off pretty quickly inside each mare, but not this time. Maybe he’d finally started to wear himself out? Because this time, he could actually go slow and enjoy it. In fact, he found out as he slowly slid in and out of her, the slower he went, the better it felt in some ways. He could feel every little detail of her pussy rippling over the contours of his shaft, and it even gave him more time to appreciate Rainbow's desperate breathing and the little nervous spasms that ran through her as she tried so hard to deny the pleasure she must have been feeling.

Dicey himself was sure feeling it! How the heck had he managed for so long, going without this wonderful feeling of a mare’s warmth swaddling his cock? He worked himself in and out of her, consciously savoring every last detail of this wonderful feeling. Rainbow had long been a dream mare of his, and he was going to make sure to enjoy her tight body as much as he possibly could.

Already, though, he could feel his balls clenching up, making them press more firmly against her ass cheeks every time he pushed inward. And she was feeling tighter and tighter inside, which must mean his tip was flaring deep within her, spreading the entrance to her womb and sealing himself against it. If anything, trying to savor the sensations was just driving him to finish faster…

But still, he resisted. Unlike with almost every other mare he’d been with, he actually held himself back, trying to enjoy her just a little more. “Get ready,” he said through gritted teeth. “I’m gonna blow… Gonna make you … a mom!”

“Screw you!” Rainbow shot back. “You’re not ruining my Wonderbolt body! I’m on the potion!”

Dicey tried to respond and correct her, but he was just too close, just too focused on doing the deed. It came out as more of a mangled groan of pleasure.

Twilight managed it, though. She was a lot less distracted. “Yeah, um… Sorry about that, Rainbow. But the spell I put into his amulet is definitely enough to overpower any potion you took.”

“What?” Rainbow bucked violently underneath Dicey, nearly knocking him off, despite how firmly he pushed inside her.

“Hey!” Dicey growled. “Hold still!”

Of course she didn’t. Snarling in desperate effort, she pulled her legs together, almost falling over in the process, and then kicked out violently.

Snap! With a resounding series of little clinks and clangs, the chains of her cuffs broke, scattering links all over the stage. “Ha!” Rainbow shouted in her newfound freedom. “Take this!” She bucked again, this time managing to strike his hind legs with her hooves.

As he shouted in pain and surprise, she leapt out from underneath him, pulling herself off of his cock and leaving him to tumble down onto the stage. If he hadn’t rolled to the side a little, if she didn’t still have her blindfold on … well, she probably would have managed to smash his head in as she quickly wheeled around and stomped down hard with both forehooves!

Fortunately for him, though, she missed. And by the time she pulled the blindfold off with her hooves, Twilight was holding her with magic again.

Rainbow strained hard, struggling against the magical glow, but it was useless – Twilight's magic was too strong for her. “Let me go!” she snarled at Twilight.

“I’m sorry, Rainbow… I can’t.”

“This is on you!” Rainbow gasped in deep breaths. Struggling against the magic was working her hard, wearing her out. “You, Twilight! You … you might as well be raping me yourself!”

Dicey shook his head. “Hey! That’s not fair. She’s just doing what she was told, like a good little pony. Like you should be doing. You can’t blame her for what I’m doing. She has to do it.” As weird as it sounded to say something like that, Dicey meant it. He wasn't a bad pony. This was just about him and Rainbow Dash. He didn’t want to ruin their friendship over it.

He shook himself as he got up off of the stage. Thankfully, at least, Rainbow was now staring daggers at him again, not at Twilight. He legitimately hoped that she’d be able to forgive Twilight once this was all over.

And speaking of it being over… His cock was still throbbing hard and flared – he needed to finish! But now how was he supposed to do it? He groaned in frustration. “What’s with these weak cuffs? Why’s she so strong?”

“They were only stage props,” Twilight said dismissively. “What did you expect?”

Hm… True. What else could he use… Aha! The rope! Trixie’s ‘magical living rope’ was still there on the side of the stage where she’d been doing her first trick with it! But did he trust himself enough with knots to tie Rainbow Dash up properly? He did not fancy getting another kick. Twilight, maybe? But what would a bookworm alicorn princess know about ropes? Then who…?

“Hey, Twilight,” he said, the idea suddenly hitting him. “Teleport Applejack here!”

Twilight didn’t even bother pretending that she couldn't do it. She just sighed. And then her horn glowed a little brighter than it already was. And then poof! Applejack stood right between him and Twilight.

“What in tarn---” It took Applejack a slight moment to adjust to the sudden change in her surroundings. She gasped. “Horseapples! Aw… Of all the… Let me guess, he’s after me now?”

Dicey laughed. “Don’t get ahead of yourself! Rainbow still has first dibs. You’ll have to wait your turn.”

Applejack looked around, clearly confused. “Then why…?”

He picked up Trixie’s rope and tossed one end of it to Applejack, who instinctively caught it. “You’re going to help me tie Rainbow Dash up, and we’re going to get her properly tied this time.”

It actually went a lot more smoothly than Dicey might have expected. Applejack was just as reasonable and obedient as Twilight, and with the two of them working together – a master of magic and a master of ropes – they were able to get Rainbow trussed up in no time.

This time, she was on her back, squirming against the stage as soon as Twilight's magic fully released her. But there was no chance of her getting loose this time! Her forelegs were tightly tied behind her back, and her hind legs were tied together with a thick twist of rope going behind her neck, which forced her into an almost pretzel-like contortion, her hind legs spread and displaying everything to him – her pussy was still winking and dripping like crazy, and her now-full teats jiggled deliciously with every little motion of struggling she made. At Dicey’s insistence, they’d even run a few loops of the rope through her mouth, gagging her so that there wouldn't be any more rude comments … or biting.

She was doing her best to bite straight through the rope, but Trixie’s rope was a lot tougher than her sham hoofcuffs. Rainbow wouldn't be making any progress there, not enough to matter.

Finally, finally, he was ready to do her again. To finish inside her. His cock throbbed angrily, as if it had a mind of its own and it was even more frustrated with the interruption than he was. He bent down behind Rainbow's tightly stretched hindquarters, using one of his forehooves to hold her still and the other to line his cock up with her entrance.

“Uh, y’all mind if I skedaddle?” Applejack said, already backing away. “I … I really don’t wanna see this.” Despite what she said, her eyes were locked on to where Dicey’s cock pressed against Rainbow's pussy, as if she couldn't look away.

“Well, um…” Twilight looked to Dicey for confirmation.

“No,” Dicey said firmly. “You stay right here. After all, you get the next turn after Rainbow.”

Applejack made a sickened-sounding little whimper and went pale. But she stopped backing away, just as he’d told her.

Satisfied with that, Dicey turned his attention back to Rainbow. Beautiful, spunky, perky Rainbow Dash. She stared back up at him with fire in her eyes. Even after all this, her sprit wasn't broken yet! Somehow, that made him want her even more…

And why wait? Groaning with delayed satisfaction, he pushed his cock back into her. He wasn't quite flaring and an instant away from orgasm anymore, but his shaft was still slick with her juices. Even in this unorthodox position, it slipped very easily inside her.

Applejack whimpered. She mumbled some sort of apology to Rainbow that Dicey couldn't quite make out.

But what did he care? He was back in paradise, feeling the tight, soft warmth of Rainbow's pussy sliding back over his cock. It was easy to get even deeper in this position – Rainbow cried out into her gag before Dicey’s hips even touched her ass cheeks, his cock already pressing against her innermost barrier.

He licked his lips. Yes! That desperate little cry she made, it was so delicious! Ruthlessly, he pushed himself into her again and again, every time smashing up against her deepest limit, every time earning another cry. He could feel the tip of his cock – already flaring again – kissing the entrance of her womb over and over again, finally ready to fill her athletic body like a cheap broodmare. And every time he pushed into her, it made her body curl a little, lifting her hips up toward him. Once he came, her pussy would be drinking down every drop. Every time she tried to squirm and struggle, it only pressed her up against him even harder. He’d be able to pour it straight down into her womb, flooding her to completion!

The thought of doing that was quickly driving him toward the edge, and this time he didn’t hesitate. He didn’t fight it. It was time, finally time to---

“We found it! We found it!” an unfamiliar stallion’s voice cried out breathlessly.

Dicey’s head popped back up. Not another distraction! He searched as hard as he could through the glare of the stage lights, wondering what it could be this time … but then he saw the glare of another light. A deeper amber glow than the harsh stage lights. It bobbed closer and closer as the guardspony stallion ran with it, holding it up in one hoof. The orb! They found it!

No! He knew he should have hidden it better! How could he have been so stupid to think they wouldn't look for it? And now … now his leverage was completely gone!

He snapped his attention back to Rainbow Dash. His eyes met hers. She must have understood, because her efforts to get free suddenly redoubled; she screamed into the gagging ropes.

But Dicey had this one last priceless moment! And he was so close! If only he could… Straining hard, he pushed back down into Rainbow with abandon, harder and further than ever before. She fought against him, but it only squeezed him more tightly into her, helping him along. The pressure in his balls was there. Just a moment more, and…

Both Applejack’s hooves and Twilight's magic grabbed him. He held onto Rainbow's body with his forehooves, trying to fight it, but it was a losing battle, they were already pulling him out!

But not soon enough! With a shuddering cry, Dicey came, managing to pump one… two… almost three full streams of cum deep into Rainbow's magically receptive pussy, where it would drain straight down into her womb. His flared tip popped free as Applejack and Twilight pulled him away. The remainder of his orgasm splashed out over Rainbow's belly, laying thick sticky-white lines all the way from her swollen teats up to her face, as if he was marking her, claiming possession of her.

He was yanked away from Rainbow … but with a huge, satisfied smile on his face. He’d done it! One last mare! Oh, he wished he’d had time for more, but he was glad that this one final one had been a successful---

From seemingly nowhere, a hoof smashed into his head. He didn’t even know whose hoof. The world went dark pretty quickly after that, and he knew no more.

Author's Note

Epilogue - The Inmate

Dicey had lost track of how long he’d been in the dungeons underneath Canterlot Castle. It didn’t particularly matter, anyway, since there was no hope of anypony ever letting him out of here. When Princess Luna – with great personal satisfaction – had thrown him in the dungeon, she’d said he could be released as soon as every mare he’d violated forgave him for what he’d done.

Fat chance of that ever happening. A few of them, maybe, but he was sure that some of them would never forgive him, no matter what.

There was a small window in his cell – such luxury! – through which he’d witnessed the sun rising again, mere hours after he’d been left down here to rot. And that had made it quite official that they didn’t need him anymore and wouldn't be crawling back to beg for his forgiveness and honor the rest of their deal.

But all that was a long time ago. The sun had risen and set hundreds of times since then. And still, here in his little cell he sat. They weren’t cruel, of course. The food was actually quite good, and they even allowed him to request books to read, which had become a pretty nice hobby.

The better hobby, though, was listening to gossip from any source he could get it, especially about the foals – his foals. Apparently, a shockingly high number of them bore a strong resemblance to Celestia herself for some reason. And, after blaming herself for what happened, Celestia had offered to adopt and raise any of the foals who were unwanted by their original mothers. Which, if the rumors he heard were true, was most of them.

“Hey Dicey, get this one!” It was the stallion in the cell to my left. Dicey couldn't see his neighbors, but he could hear them if they were loud. And Two-Bit’s favorite form of entertainment was coming up with terrible jokes for his very captive audience, unfortunately. “So the doctor gave me one year to live, right?” He was already giggling to himself a little. “So I killed him! Stabbed him right then and there! You … you wanna know why?”

Dicey didn’t respond, but somepony in the next cell over did. “Why’s that, Two-Bit?”

“Because then the judge gave me fifteen years!” He exploded into laughter over his own joke, far overshadowing the slight chuckle from the next cell over.

Dumb joke anyway. But was that pony really in here for killing someone? Didn’t seem fair. That was way worse than anything Dicey himself had done … right? He stared up through the window at the rising moon, remembering Luna … the mare he’d given his virginity to. He’d never heard whether she’d ended up getting pregnant or not, but he really hoped so.

He huffed a little laugh himself. These other guys wanted to crack wise, huh? Well how about this. “Hey!” he said loudly. “I’ve got one! You wanna know why the moon is so high in the sky?”

There wasn't any response. Not that he was expecting any.

Dicey went on anyway: “Because I knocked the moon up!” He laughed deep belly laughs, remembering those wonderful times. It felt so good to remember! “Get it?” He laughed again.

All he got back from the other cell was a confused, “Huh?”