The Everfree Forest was home to a variety of creatures, both exotic and dangerous, and also Chrysalis, who was still out cold at two in the afternoon.

“Hrrgh…Shi…ning…” she snorted in her slumber, tossing and turning underneath her sheets, pushing more pillows off her mattress.

Her sleepy ramblings were cut short as she heard a crashing sound from somewhere else in her home. Chrysalis’s eyes shot open as she immediately went into kill mode.

She threw off her blanket and sprinted to her kitchen, ready to attack the intruder, only for all her fury to turn into annoyance.

“You really gotta stock up on cookies, Chryssie,” Cozy noted, rummaging through the changeling’s pantry. “Winter’s a-coming, and you clearly need that long beauty sleep when you hibernate!”

“...Do you have any last words before I kill you?”

“Hey, I’ve done nothing wrong!” Cozy asserted, clutching onto her chest with her hooves.

Chrysalis wordlessly gestured to the pegasus ransacking her food.

“...To you!” Cozy looked off to the side, her words getting less confident with each self-correction. “…This month! …Intentionally! …Yet…”

“Oh really?” Chrysalis scoffed, stomping towards Cozy. “And I suppose you didn’t try and send some wannabe stud my way?”

“Oh come on, why do you think I had anything to do with that?”

“I figure anything sent my way to annoy me is your doing by default,” Chrysalis hissed.

“...Fair.”

As Chrysalis stared daggers at her, Cozy raised up her hoof. “Hey, he’s been hitting on all the girls this month. That’s got nothing to do with me!”

“Then explain how he got to my home!”

“I dunno, he probably thought you were Zecora or some shit,” Cozy shrugged. “You act like it’s hard to even get here.”

“There’s not many that are brave or stupid enough to come here,” Chrysalis scoffed. “Except for you, unfortunately.”

“Well maybe Feather Bangs just happens to be brave and/or stupid. That ever occur to you?”

“Hmmph. I suppose I don’t have any proof that you sent him,” the changeling grumbled. “But thanks to that encounter, I’ve had another visitor sent to me.”

“Aww, I miss the days when I was your favorite houseguest!” Cozy cooed.

With a rage-suppressing eye-twitch, Chrysalis continued. “It seems that after loverboy’s little scare, Twilight wanted to make sure I was behaving.”

“Oh yeah? Does that mean she wanted to put a leash on you?”

“As if she could,” Chrysalis snarled. “Instead she sent Tempest over in what I assume was an attempt at intimidation.”

Cozy’s eyes lit up with recognition. “Oooh, Tempest, huh? How’d that go? Were the sparks flying?”

Chrysalis gave a self-satisfied smirk. “Well, I can at least see why Twilight thought she’d intimidate me. There’s a fire in her eyes that I haven’t seen in many ponies. And she’s also somepony who can actually back up all that tough talk. I look forward to breaking her later…”

“Ah, I already beat ya to it,” Cozy casually threw out, already back to digging through Chrysalis’s food, scavenging through her fridge.

“What.”

“Yeah, she’s out,” Cozy said, grabbing a half-eaten pint of ice cream. “Did it a couple days ago.”

Chrysalis let out a short laugh of disbelief. “You eliminated Tempest? You managed to overpower her?”

Cozy scoffed as she grabbed a spoon with her wing. “Pssh, what, like it was hard?”

“Unbe-fucking-lievable…” Chrysalis sputtered under her breath. “How did you even…?”

“Well, she’s got a tickling kink now,” Cozy said between mouthfuls of ice cream. “So there’s that.”

Chrysalis rubbed her temples to ease her headache. “One of the few in this competition I would’ve actually enjoyed having sex with and of course you had to ruin it.”

“How was I supposed to know you had the hots for Tempest?” said an indignant Cozy Glow. “Besides, Feather Bangs was clearly interested in you, why don’t you suck him off or whatever?”

“If he’s been gallivanting around for every mare, then clearly his romance is surface-level at best. That’s hardly filling or satisfying!”

“So’s half the crap in your fridge,” Cozy snickered.

With a glare, Chrysalis used her magic to yank the ice cream out of Cozy’s hooves.

“Come on, Tempest couldn’t have been your only choice left!” Cozy said, trying to reach for the tub of ice cream. “You gotta keep your options open! You act like there aren’t others here that wouldn’t wanna have sex with you!”

At the risk of going down a rabbit hole, Chrysalis sighed. “Fine, who do you suggest?”

Cozy Glow landed on Chrysalis’s back, drooping herself over her body. “Well, I’m pretty sure the biggest reason Cadence invited you is so you could have some weird threesome with her and Shining Armor.”

Chrysalis’s face softened. “Perhaps. Though it was more fun sucking the love out of him the old-fashioned way.”

Cozy continued. “There’s Celestia…Ooh, and Thorax-”

“And why, pray tell, would I want to have anything to do with Thorax?”

“Please, like you don’t have wet dreams about domming him and showing him who the superior changeling is,” Cozy rolled her eyes.

Chrysalis’s face fidgeted before slowly nodding in concession. “...Anyone else?”

“Lessie, who else…oh! Sandbar and Gallus!”

Chrysalis raised an eyebrow. “...You’re serious?”

“Sandbar’s into big chicks, and Gallus is into being stepped on. You can easily do both!” Cozy grinned. “At the same time too, probably!”

Chrysalis reluctantly bobbed her head, remembering her previous encounter with the earth pony. “Hmmph, I suppose those aren’t the worst ideas…”

“See? And if all that doesn’t work out, you still got me!” Cozy crossed her hooves and smirked before Chrysalis shoved her off her back.

“If only the pool wasn’t so shallow…” Chrysalis griped.

“Look, if you have a problem with that, take it up with Cadence or something!”

“Pssh, there’s no way!” Spike laughed in disbelief, leaning in closer to listen intently to Smolder’s story.

“I wouldn’t have believed it if I didn’t see it for myself,” Smolder shrugged..

“Just…on the pile?”

“Didn’t even bother taking her clothes off, just pants down to the ankles and that’s it,” she smirked.

Spike chuckled in disbelief. “How’d the cleanup go on that?”

“Well, considering it was my treasure pile, you can direct that question to me.”

Spike quickly turned his head. “Oh, hey Ember! All done chatting with Twilight?”

“Yep! Got all that squared away.” She glanced over at Smolder. “I’m guessing she was telling you about how she walked in on Celaeno.”

“Yyyep.”

“I mean, I gotta hand it to her,” Ember shrugged. “She went all the way out to the Dragonlands for that.”

“Saw her ship anchored nearby,” Smolder explained “It was a pretty long walk from there to the cave, but given how messily she was going at it? I think she sprinted all the way to the caves.”

“Well, she went out doing what she loved. I…guess…?” Spike snorted out some smoke. “Still, would’ve been nice to see her at the orgy.”

“Yeahhh, I think Silverstream wanted to see what pirate sex would be like,” Smolder nodded.

“Ohhh, don’t make me think of-” Spike immediately started cracking up, snickering as he pounded the floor with his fist.

Smolder gave Spike a knowing grin. “You thought of her doing a pirate voice while scissoring, didn’t you?”

“It’s so dumb…!” Spike choked out.

“Did you have any plans with Celaeno, Spike?” Ember asked.

Spike cleared his throat and composed himself. “Not officially. Just thought it’d be nice to try something out with her, ya know? Not a lot of participants have fancy fingerwork, if you get what I’m saying.”

Ember and Smolder looked at their claws, slowly curling and uncurling each of them. “I guess you have a point,” Ember nodded.

“Huh, don’t really think about it too much when it’s just Sandbar and Yona who can’t do this,” Smolder noted, using her thumb to hold her ring finger down while sticking the rest up.

“Well, there’s still Gallus, Thorax, Chrysalis, and you guys, I guess,” Spike shrugged.

Ember felt her heart accelerate for a second. She put her hands on her hips. “What, so we’re just your last resort?” she huffed, her voice having hints of both playfulness and jealousy.

“What?” Spike flinched, his voice cracking. “Aw c’mon, you know I didn’t mean it like that! I’m just kidding!”

“Yeah, you better be!” Ember smirked.

Smolder jabbed Spike’s ribs with her elbow. “I dunno, Spike. Ya better call dibs on her fast, or else Thorax might steal her for the whole night.”

Spike raised up his hands in mock-surrender. “Fine, fine. If you still got time in your schedule, Ember…”

“And I think I do…”

Spike did a half-joking bow to her. “Gotta do what I can to make the Dragon Lord happy, right?”

Ember paused. Cadence’s words from their talk started echoing in the dragon’s mind. Her face started to fill up with blush as she mashed her fingers together.

Spike raised an eyebrow as he watched Ember seemingly get flustered over what he thought was a playful joke. “Uh…Ember?”

Ember clenched her fists, feeling beyond uncomfortable, but still trying to force words out. “Spike…you…do make me happy…”

Smolder turned her head so fast she nearly got whiplash. “Are…are you alright, Ember?”

Ember felt like her whole body was burning up. Her heart was pounding in her chest, she felt like she was about to choke. She had the perfect opportunity to get everything out, and she needed to take it.

“I’m…fine!” Ember said through gritted teeth. “Just…! You mean a lot to me. Both of you!” She panted and gasped. It felt like a weight was lifted off of her, but her chest still felt the pressure.

Still confused overall, Spike and Smolder slowly nodded and awkwardly smiled.

“Um…thanks?” Smolder said, scratching the back of her head with discomfort.

“Rrrgh! No, I mean, I’m glad we’re…ffffriends!” Ember craned her neck and growled. “I don’t know where I’d BE without you two!”

Spike leaned back and quietly started shuffling away. “I kinda figured…?”

“But I need you to know that!”

As Ember snarled, she felt more confused, more frustrated, more worked up. Her flustered mind tried to find a way to get her feelings across. Nothing she thought to say felt like enough. It’d be so much easier to just…!

Ember grabbed Spike by the shoulder and pulled him in, shutting her eyes and locking lips.

Spike yelped in surprise, but his tense body started to relax, even if something else started to stiffen up.

Ember broke the kiss, sweating and panting as she stared into Spike’s eyes. “Got the message?”

“Yuh-huh.”

“Good.” Ember nodded, before turning to Smolder with the same hungry eyes.

Smolder’s eyes shrunk to pinpricks as Ember lunged at her, giving the other dragon a long, passionate kiss.

Smolder’s heart was pounding, her body squirmed as Ember held her tight with a surprisingly warm and tender hug. Her muffled surprised cries slowly turned into soft squeaks.

Ember started to plant kisses down Smolder’s body, going down her chest and her stomach, until she made contact with a different pair of lips.

“Ooookay I guess this is happening now!” Smolder yelped as Ember lay on the floor, pulling Smolder over to sit on her face. “Wooaaaaah…!”

With heavy breath, Ember pointed at Spike, gesturing to her crotch. “Come on…! I still have more to give!”

Given sufficient reason and being sufficiently hard, Spike approached Ember, being put in the familiar position of standing right in front of a needy dragon lord.

“Fuck it” being his thoughts of submission and his current goal.

Smolder teetered as she tried to balance herself on Ember’s maw, feeling her tongue poking and teasing her slit. “Uh…E-Ember? Are you sure about-OHHH YOU’RE SURE!” she cried out as she felt the tongue probe deeper.

With a sharp exhale, Spike slowly slid himself into Ember’s slit, shuddering as he felt how wet she was.

Ember gripped onto Smolder’s thighs, pulling the orange dragon down towards herself as her tongue made slow drags against Smolder’s inner walls.

Smolder put her hands on her face, feeling the sweat drip down her forehead as Ember’s tongue worked her over. She clenched her teeth, leaning her head back as her hands balled up into fists.

Spike was already intimately familiar with Ember’s body already. He comfortably straddled her, thrusting in and out at a speed he knew the dragon lord liked.

“Ah! Fuck! Nngh!” Smolder tried to hold back her moans of pleasure, causing them to come out as quiet curses whenever she felt Ember’s forked tongue go over a particularly sensitive spot.

As Spike grabbed onto Ember’s thighs, he looked over at the other dragon Ember was pleasuring. “C’mon, Smolder, don’t leave me out of this.”

“Wh…huh?”

“Well, Ember clearly wants to display her love…why don’t we join her?”

Smolder looked deep into Spike’s eyes. Even as he was pounding deep into Ember’s pussy, she could tell he was being serious.

She tentatively leaned forward, putting her hands on Spike’s shoulders, and tilted her head for the kiss.

Spike met her halfway, putting a hand behind Smolder’s head to gently caress her as their lips met.

Ember felt Spike thrusting his entire length into her, causing her to subconsciously pay it forward to Smolder, extending her tongue as far as it could go.

Smolder felt an electric burst of pleasure shoot up her back. She tried to sync up with Spike’s rhythmic thrusting so that the kiss could continue uninterrupted, but the feeling of Ember’s forked tongue reaching far into her made the dragon moan into Spike’s mouth.

As Spike got into his groove, Ember’s legs wrapped around his waist. He tried to join Ember in slipping his tongue into Smolder, going past her lips and pushing against her tongue.

Ember moaned heavily into Smolder’s crotch as Spike pounded her pussy. Her toes gradually curled with each progressive thrust and her hands gripped onto Smolder’s thighs for dear life.

Sweat dripped down the scales of the interlinked trio as they humped, licked, kissed and rubbed each other. Their eyes shut tight as their passion heated up, swaying in sync with muffled moans getting louder and louder.

Cadence sprung to attention as for the first time, three crystal hearts went off at once. Each of the dragon’s hearts revealed a different piece of the full picture, though given how the purple, orange, and blue all mixed in with each other’s part, it wasn’t hard to tell what went down.

The princess let out a low whistle. “That’s…not quite what I thought would happen when I gave her that advice…”

Author's Note

These dragons, in fact, DO friends.

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