Equestria Copes

Chrysalis struggled and tore at her bindings, trying desperately to rip apart her bonds. She, Tirek and Cozy Glow had been tied up, but the other two were far more subtle about trying to escape. In fact, Tirek was sawing at his bonds with a small blade hidden behind his back, and Cozy glow was using her wings to seek out the point where the bindings came together in a knot. It had to be somewhere.

Bound as they were, though, Lucifer carried them down the ladder to the surface of Equestria on his shoulder. "You're not really helping your case, the way you're struggling like that," he told them, interrupting their attempt by bumping them all. "Plus, you're not making it easy to descend this ladder."

"Wha' sha magger?" snarked Chrysalis, how lower jaw snagged in her bindings. "Afhraig ye'll fhall?"

"Hardly," he chuckled back.

Chrysalis kicked again, hard, and Lucifer "accidentally lost his grip on her." She slipped free of his grasp, smacking her head several times as she tumbled to the ground. It wasn't that far away, but she did break one of her teeth on the way.

"Thanks, Jake," Lucifer smiled, waving as the ladder disappeared back up into the clouds. "Such a useful guy..."

He approached Chrysalis, picking up the tooth she'd knocked out. "That was uncalled for," she panted.

"Perhaps," he nodded. "Then again, I could have just tossed you over the side and glided down with my wings full of breeze. Instead, I've opted to carry you right down the ladder."

"Don't pretend that you're being nice..."

"Oh, but I am being nice. Your sentence doesn't begin until I personally verify that you've been incarcerated. Personally being there to put you in your place cuts your time down by... However long it would take me to check your cell." He laughed, hoisting her back over his shoulder and pocketed her tooth before opening a large stone door and descending a dark staircase.

"More stairs?" snorted Tirek. "Have you perhaps considered an elevator?"

"An excellent suggestion, Tirek. Why don't you dig the shaft and set up the line? You'll need a few hundred kilometres of cable to reach the bottom of that hole, plus a shaft wide enough to hold the volume of creatures coming through, and some way of quickly making your way to the right level. Shall I fetch you a spoon?"

Tirek just growled, but Cozy chimed in. "Yes! I'll have that spoon!"

"And you shall have it, little one!" chuckled Lucifer, booping her nose with his finger.

Before too long, they came to a second set of gates, this one unguarded and just sitting open. On the other side, a large boat sat, and as they boarded, Lucifer exchanged a handshake with the ferryman. "Good to see you, Charon."

Tirek rolled his eyes. "Why do you both have girl names?"

Lucifer raised an eyebrow. "Pardon me?"

"Your names are Lucy and Karen. Why do you have girl names?"

Lucifer just shrugged. "Why is your name an idiot complaining about his party being ruined, "Tea-wreck?""

"HA!" belted Chrysalis. "He has you there, Tirek..."

"Doesn't the name "Chrysalis" imply that you never grew up?" spat Tirek back.

The two fought the whole way there, something Charon was obviously used to seeing. He didn't really seem to care, only stepping in and keeping them from rolling off the edge of the boat and into the river because Lucifer asked him to. There were other passengers that just went overboard and fell into the river below, only to be swept away to who-knows-where.

When they arrived at the other end, there was... some kind of lamia... wrapping his tail around a pillar before launching the applicants into the air, their distance determined by how much force was used.

Rather than going through that main gate, Lucifer opted for an auxiliary entrance, still carrying the three on his shoulder. The winds beyond the first wall howled and whistled as it blew past them.

Chrysalis stopped fighting as she caught scent of it. "This wind... This is illicit love!"

"Indeed it is," nodded Lucifer. "Lust, as it's called."

Her mouth started to water. "I could feed off of this for ages! It's so... powerful!"

"Indeed you could," agreed Lucifer. "In fact, you're going to. That's your sentence."

Chrysalis couldn't help but chortle at this news. She was supposed to be punished, but instead, she was being rewarded. All of this, she could just devour at her leisure. She was confused, then, when Lucifer brought her out of that wind and down another level. "Why are we here?"

"We're here because this is your cell," explained Lucifer. "Lust is just where you wanted to end up. In fact, it's where a lot of our tenants would prefer to be. However, you've been set up in a lust-adjacent location. Welcome to gluttony, where every day is an all-you-can-eat buffet."

No sooner had he said that than Chrysalis was grabbed and fitted for a ring gag to hold her mouth open. Once it was in place, Lucifer brought down a hose and hooked it up to the gag.

"You have a very cushy place here," he smiled. "Not only is it all-you-can-eat, but you don't ever have to chew. All the love from above can just come right to you!"

He opened a valve on the hose, and Chrysalis began to panic as the contents of the hose bulged out her cheeks as it filled her mouth, then started to run down her throat. She swallowed reflexively, but it was all coming in far too fast for her to handle, and she began to swell up like a balloon.

Cozy Glow and Tirek watched in horror as Chrysalis was force-fed whatever it was coming through that hose.

"That's not going to happen to us, is it?" trembled Cozy Glow. "I don't look good fat!"

"Oh, child," chuckled Lucifer, booping her nose again. "Of course not! This is her punishment, and hers alone. Well, aside from her various cell mates, but that's entirely beside the point. Come along, now. You have your own places down the stairs..."

They took one last look at Chrysalis, gulping down everything that she could manage, but clearly overwhelmed. Things weren't looking good for them as Lucifer carried them further down the stairs.