Xy Chromosome

XY Chromosome

Chapter six: Biological Understanding & Collar

“Ahhh shit, if I keep getting knocked out I’m going to get Amnesia.” My mind began to stir as I was coming back to reality. I could feel myself lying down on something hard and cold. My eyes slowly opened to a blinding light that quickly made me squint my vision. The back of my head throbbed as I reached to massage the pain away.

After rubbing and feeling the pain pass I sat up on what was actually a long metal table. I hadn’t noticed until now but I was wearing a mint green patient gown. The room I was in reminded me of one that were in hospitals, but larger and with more equipment. I saw a poster that read: Anatomy of the pony body. Quickly turning to my right I noticed there was a small jar on the counter labeled: Test subject nine-hundred-fifty-three. Looking down, there was the number 953, written in black marker, on the upper part of my gown.

As horror struck me I instantly knew what that jar could be used for. Getting off the table my legs failed me and I fell to the cold, hard floor. My legs were numb, especially around the thighs. So again my thoughts filled me with terror as I pouted on the ground. I had to get out of here, if there was one jar that matched my number then certainly there were more to come if I didn’t leave. With my legs dragging me down I crawled toward the door at the opposite end of the room. I cursed seeing how I would have to strain myself to get to the handle. As my arm extended my fingers toyed with the handle in order to get a grip in order to turn it, but as I finally grasped the handle the door opened and slammed into my face. “GAH! G- FUCK!!!”

“Huh, oh, oh dear! You shouldn’t of awoke yet!” A feminine voice said.

Clamping a hand around my nose I looked up to a fair coated, pink mane mare, whom was wearing the skimpiest nurse outfit I’ve ever seen.

“Are you alright? I didn’t hurt you did I!?” She panicked seeing blood coming from the creases of my fingers.

“Ohh no, you just slammed a door in my face and gave me a nose bleed. What do you think! Of course you hurt me you dumb bitch!!!”

“Oh dear, hold on I’ll get some tissues for you!” She left briefly before coming back with a box of them.

I took one and crumpled it up before shoving it up my nostril. I stared at her with an un-amused look as I took another tissue from the box, I saw that she had a name tag above her right breast that read: Red Cross. “Only word missing is American.” I mentally joked … “Why am I in a hospital!?” I demanded.

“You hadn’t been t-”

“Ahh, he’s awake.” Another feminine voice said, cutting the nurse off.

Looking toward who the voice belonged to I saw another mare, but her coat was hot pink and her mane was a deep red. She wore doctor scrubs and had stethoscope around her neck, which was probably used when they were doing God knows what on me. What surprised me though was the scowl on her face. If anyone should be scowling it should be me.

“More results came in, and I’m afraid we wasted our time with this one.” She said coldly looking down at me.

“Well fuck you too bitch! You kidnap me, and then you say you wasted your time!? Go to hell!”

“Wasted? Why?” Red Cross asked.

“All the data coming from him was perfect…, until this showed up.” She flipped a page on her clipboard and gave it to the nurse.

“…What?! The sperm isn‘t his?” She gasped, then looked down at my confused expression.

“Apparently the sperm Princess Celestia brought us didn’t belong to a pony. Which means this particular stallion lied to her.” She pointed down at me, still scowling making me want to slap her. “Red Cross, stay here I’ll be right back.” The mare left, kicking my legs away from the door.

“Rude much!” I hissed. She ignored me and shut the door behind her. I looked up to Red Cross and apparently the tables had turned for me. I could see that she wasn’t happy as she angrily arranged some of the room’s equipment, and slammed the cabinet’s doors as she brought out small containers of different contents from them. “The hell are their problems?”

I waited in the room as Red Cross finished up placing the containers’ contents in different dishes. We began playing the stare game as she and I angrily locked eyes while waiting for the doctor to return. “Knocked out, and bitched at. Trust me I’m a helluva lot more pissed off than you are.” I stated, not even blinking as we continued our stare off.

Several minutes passed and the door reopened. The doctor entered but along side her were two gold armor plated white mares that held dangerous looking spears, and heavy brass shields.

“Why do I get the feeling that I’m in trouble?” I said sarcastically, receiving several huffs from the mares with me.

“That’s because you are.” A familiar cold voice stated from behind the door.

I saw Princess Celestia emerge from behind the four of them. She still wore the same outfit from our previous encounter, so my eyes were locked below the neck. “Did you think you could get away with it?” She said icily.

I couldn’t hear her because I was off in la-la land as her cleavage kept me occupied. I was immediately hit in the stomach from the butt of a spear one of the armored mares held. The wind was knocked out of me, and my stomach cringed as I tried to hold in tears.“How’d I love to break the sixth commandment right now!”

“As the ruler of Equestria you will answer!” She rushed forward and grabbed me by the gown.

“What the fuck are you talking about!?”

She slapped me making my face turn from utter force. “Damn, she’s pretty fuckin’ strong!” I noted from the way she held me, and from the slap.

“You said that jar was full of your sperm! Well, guess what? That sperm doesn’t belong to a pony!” She slapped me again but with more force, leaving a nasty welt across my face. “Now, where’d you really get that jar of sperm from?!”

I wanted to say ‘Go fuck yourself,’ but from the way she hit me I chose that decision would be unwise. “Joke’s on you.” I breathed in, filling my lungs with air.

“What!?” She raised her hand ready to slap me again.

“Well, with eyes big as yours I would’ve expected you to know I’m not a pony!” I sneered.

She dropped me, and I landed on my ass, though I couldn’t feel anything because it was still numb.

“What do you mean you’re not a pony?” She crossed her arms, her voice still cold.

“ The ears perhaps, no muzzle, or better yet how about my bare skin if you hadn’t  noticed when slapping me!”

“Wait, you’re not a pony? The doctor questioned, reviewing the results on her clipboard.

“Why the hell would I be carrying someone else’s sperm if it wasn’t mine?!”

“I guess that would explain the ears.” Red Cross said from the back.

“You people work in a hospital! How could you not notice the difference!?” I shouted. I didn’t know that they were all, before the results, too excited to have finally found a ‘stallion’ whom was very rich in sperm. So after my reply all their faces turned opposite than what they were before, except for the armored mares who I presumed were the Princess’s guards.

“But if your not a pony, then what are you?” The doctor asked.

“ A Human.” I plainly stated, I watched as they all looked at each other.

“ Human?” Celestia asked, raising a brow to me.

“I take it I’m the first one then…” I sighed. “ Humans, well you could say that were kinda like monkeys.”

“You’re a monkey!?” Red Cross gasped again.

“No! Well, not exactly. Monkeys and Humans are very closely related, but in all were both completely different species.”

“Then what are you?” The doctor asked again.

“Weren’t you paying attention? I already told you, I’m a Human.”

“But you’re mostly monkey.” She said.

“NO! I’m not a monkey, I’m not mostly monkey, and I’m not a pony! Also I’m not from here, this world, or land, or whatever!”

“Okay sorry, geeze don’t get so worked up because we didn’t know what you were.”

“No, no! I will get worked up! Y-…Which one of you knocked me out!?” My eye twitched, I was about to go on another rant.

The two guards sniggered as I asked that question, so it probably meant it was one of them. “Which one of you did it!?” I demanded, pointing at one guard then at the other.

“Wasn’t us.” One of the mares laughed. They were playing with me, I knew it had to be one of them.

“Tell me ‘Human’, how did you end up in-” Celestia began but was interrupted as the door swung open.

“Doctor!” Another skimpy outfitted nurse rushed in with a clipboard.

“Yes, what is it?”

“More results came in. The sperm from the jar, i-it fertilized the experimental eggs.”

“WHAT?!” The doctor shouted, almost dropping her clipboard.

“Some of the sperm spilled into one of the other petri dishes filled with donated eggs from former mares we tried turning into stallions.”

“How, he’s not even of the same species.” The doctor pointed at me.

“He’s not?” The nurse asked.

“Long story.” I said to the confused nurse.

“Just come quick!” The nurse said leaving with the doctor behind her.

It became very quiet in the room, the guards’ expressions turned pokerfaced, Red Cross twiddled her thumbs, and as for Celestia, a smile formed on her face as she looked at me. “ I guess I owe you an apology.” Celestia held out her hand.

I flinched thinking she was going to slap me again, which caused her and the guards to laugh. “Funny, if you both got slapped by her you wouldn’t be laughing.”

“I apologize for what I did, I just wanted answers.” Celestia spoke.

“Surprised about what you heard?” I asked.

“Very.”

“Good, then maybe I can get an answer out of you. Why am I here in this hospital, and why do they (referring to the medical staff) have my sperm?”

Celestia sighed and turned her back to me causing me to roll my eyes in why I even bothered.

“Because…” She began. “Because our race is dying.” She sniffled.

“Huh?”

“Have you noticed the lack of stallions while you were in Ponyville.” She started.

“I don’t recall seeing any.”

“Well, it’s because they’re all here in Canterlot.”

“W-…let me guess, Testosterone testing?”

“Yes, and like I said before when I first met you, the stallions lack the Y chromosomes in their sperm, that is if any of them can even make enough.”

“What do you mean?”

“Stallions in the past were able to reproduce without any problems, but as the generations went by the stallion population slowly dwindled leaving only so many left, and even if they had the sperm count to fertilize the mare, ninety-seven percent of the time the foal would be a filly.”

“So the X chromosomes are more dominant in pony genetics…Wait, the number on my gown, what does it mean?”

“…It means there are only nine-hundred-fifty-two stallions left in all of the world. You not being included since you’re a different species.”

“ How many mares are there in Equestria.”

“Hundreds of thousands, but that’s just Equestria, there are many more provinces across the world that hold ponies.”

“So in all how many are there?”

“Millions.”

“Millions! Well good luck to those stallions.” I tried to keep myself from laughing at the enormous difference in population.

“Actually, I wouldn’t say that.” Celestia turned, eyeing me with one of those ‘I’ve-got-plans-for-you’ looks.

“Why?”

“Well, you heard the doctor, your sperm fertilized the eggs, and your sperm holds vast amounts of Y chromosomes.”

“Where’re you getting at?” I looked at her suspiciously.

“Me, I’m not getting at anything, well, not yet at least.” She gave me a toothy grin.

“I’ve got a bad feeling about this one…”

-

Hours later in the hospital conference room:

“So it’s decided, Daniel will help in restoring the Stallion population.” Celestia announced to the medical staff, receiving claps from the ‘all mare’ staff.

“Yay…” I dully uttered. Apparently Celestia had this grand idea that I would restore the stallion population, but what she didn’t realize is that there’s only one of me and millions of mares. Why the hell does she think I can get them all pregnant!?

“Daniel, since most mares are beginning to go through their estrus cycles, you will start your new job after the Grand Galloping Gala.” Celestia said to my more than ‘overjoyed’ expression.

“The what Gala?” I raised a brow.

“ The Grand Galloping Gala.” She repeated. “ And usually, after the Gala, all the mares are going through their heat cycles. So, after the celebration you will work here at the hospital and well, your ‘new life’ begins.” She giggled, seeing some of the mares blush.

“Umm okay, uhh…where will I be staying then?”

“Since you will prove yourself to be a reliable asset to this cause, you will stay at the castle with me.” Celestia spoke.

“Castle?”

Celestia pointed out the window, and as I looked out I saw a great white castle with the sun rising behind it. The castle had tall, slim towers that reminded me of Neuschwanstein. My pupils shrunk at the sight, for the castle not only looking like the famous German structure, but it was also probably around five times the size. It was massive, and it overlooked the city below. “I need my camera…”

-

Back at Twilight’s: (third person)

“What do you mean he’s gone?” Twilight awoke to the sound of Fluttershy panicking.

“H-he, I don’t know, I woke up and now he’s gone.”

“Did you check the bathroom?” Twilight questioned.

“I looked everywhere around the library, and I can’t find him.”

*Yawn* “Ugh, what’s with all the noise, a lady deserves her beauty sleep you know.” Rarity woke up next, quickly followed by Pinkie.

“Daniel is gone!” Fluttershy shouted, but then excused herself because of her outburst.

“What!? Where did he go? I bet he’s playing hide and seek!” Pinkie gasped as she looked in the closet from where they got the pillows from.

“No, he’s gone!” Fluttershy shouted again.

“Fluttershy calm down, we have to think about this for a moment. I mean look around, what do you see?” Twilight said.

“Pillows.?”

“Well, yes…, but no. I mean look what’s on the pillows, his clothes. Why would he leave without being dressed?”

“Because he likes being naked?” Pinkie guessed.

“No, I think somepony took him away.” Twilight eyed the other three in suspicion.

“Don’t look at us Twilight, we were here the entire night.” Rarity replied to Twilight’s ‘insulting’ glare.

“We have to find him!” Fluttershy busted out again.

“Fluttershy calm down we wi-…Umm, why are you naked?” Twilight asked, now realizing her yellow pegasus friend was just wearing her birthday suit.

-

Back at Canterlot:

I thought the outside of the castle was mind blowing, the inside left me dumbstruck. There were marble support beams, ornate engravings across the walls, priceless works of art everywhere, it was like walking into a museum. As I walked alongside princess Celestia I couldn’t help but notice that half the hallways had red banners with the Sun on them and the other half had blue banners with the Moon. “Why are there two different banners.” I pointed out.

“Do you not know?”

“No…”

“Well, I don’t rule Equestria alone, my sister, princess Luna, rules alongside me.”

“So you both co-rule the land?”

“Indeed.”

“But still, why are the banners different?”

“Because I raise the sun every morning, and Luna raises the Moon every night.”

I stared at her with a expressionless face, trying to comprehend what she just said. “Bullshit.”

“It’s true.” She growled, slightly startling me.

“Noooo… The Sun being a star and the center of a solar system means that your world rotates around it due to gravity and inertia. The Moon rotates around this world  because it’s much smaller thus it being attracted to this world’s gravitational field.” I stated, wanting an ‘A+’.

Celestia stood silent for several moments, then her horn glowed. Looking out the window I saw the Sun begin to go down beyond the horizon, and come back up, and go down, then come back up once again. “What the hell?!” I was shocked.

“Maybe that’s how it works from where you’re from. Here you’ll find that science isn’t everything.”

“So what’s next, are you going to tell me you’re some kind of deity.” I rolled my eyes.

“Indeed!” Celestia’s voice thundered as her wings flared out at around fourteen feet in length.

Now I felt really small compared to her, it was enough that she was giant compared to me and the rest of the mares, but a goddess?! I began to think back to when she was playing with my hair. The words she said still slightly haunted me, ‘You want a piece of this, don’t you.’ “Can’t imagine having intercourse with a goddess.” I thought.

“Me either, but one could always find out.” She placed her hand on my shoulder causing me to shudder.

“How do you do that?” I wanted to know how she was able to read my thoughts. The mind was supposed to be place of privacy for one individual, and only one alone, but apparently Celestia can go inside my head and skim through my thoughts as if she were reading a book!

“Being a goddess has its benefits.” She giggled, taking her hand off me.

“So I’ve noticed.”

“Well, do you want me to continue to show you the castle, or do you want me to show you where you’ll be staying.” She asked, reviewing her pearly nails.

“I’m in no rush, heck if you have a dungeon I’d like to see that too.”

“You’re in luck then, because it so happens that I do have a dungeon, but tell me, why in Equestria would you want to see something so dreadful as that.?”

“ I don’t know, but I would like to see it. So if you will.” I gestured her to continue on with the tour.

“Very well, follow me.”

I stayed back about seven seconds just to get some distance between her and I. Not because I was scared, but when she walked, Jesus Christ, her ass shook from side to side. It was begging to be plowed, or at least poked. I mean who doesn’t want to slap that and see it jiggle. “I’d give my left nut to rut that.”

What I had forgotten was that Celestia could read my mind, so she heard every single thought and word that came in and out of my head. “Would you now?” She seductively spoke to herself.

-

Four hours later:

“Well, that’s the end of the tour. I’ll show you where you’ll be staying now.” She closed the door to the castle barracks.

“Well actually, I was hoping to see the two rooms that had those giant doors.”

“Giant doors, what are y-…Oh, sorry Daniel but those rooms are the royal chambers belonging to my sister and I.”

“Oh…, understandable, uhh…you were showing me to my bedroom, I think.”

“Yes, stay close too, I don’t want you to get lost when I’m not here to guide you back to it.”

We walked the hallways for about five minutes before coming to a door that led to one of the castle towers. The towers being slim from a distance, were actually very wide and spacious. Though, I wish whoever built the castle would’ve put wider stairs or at least a guard rail leading up to the tower; the stairs were only about four feet wide, and at the tip top of the tower it was a drop of about five hundred feet..

Staying close to the tower itself I slowly made my way up with princess Celestia. Her horn glowed bright yellow and the wooden door swung open revealing a large master bedroom with a queen sized bed. “Holy crap!”

“This tower even has its own bathroom, so you don’t have to go all the way back down to the barracks’ wash room to clean up.”

“Whoa…” My mouth was slightly agape.

“Glad to see you’re in awe, I am most certain you’ll take a liking to it. Oh, and one more thing, I’ll come back to escort you down when dinner is ready, so don‘t go wandering the castle till then.”  She said turning for the tower’s door.

“Dinner? But it’s still morning?”

“Indeed it is, see you then.” She smiled

“Wait, what about Tw-…” My sentence trailed off as her wings spread apart. I kept quiet for a few moments, and like that she jumped off the stairs edge. I rushed over to see she was alright, but as I neared the stairs I saw her sky rocket into the air and dissapear. “I’ve seen everything there is to see, no question.” I said to myself.

-

A few minutes after Celestia leaves Daniel: (Celestia first person)

“Guards, if you see the human out of his tower inform me immediately.” I ordered the guards patrolling the halls. “If he tries to run stop him, but don’t hurt him.” I left the guards as they saluted and continued to patrol the halls. “I will see if this human is capable following simple instructions.”

-

Hours later:

I looked at the clock on the wall and it read three-ten. Time was passing by very slowly, and I was starving. “This better be an early dinner.” I mumbled.

-

Thirty minutes later:

“Alright, screw waiting, I can be doing better things than lying on this bed.” I got up and opened the tower door, and as I did a gust of wind hit me sending me cowering back to the bed for safety. “Just a little breeze Daniel, no need to shit your pants…,or gown that is.” “Should’ve asked her for some clothes.”

Approaching the stairs again another gust of wind hit me, but this time I hung onto the tower’s structure to use as support. “So frickin’ high, don’t look down.” I told myself, but of course after saying that I had to. “Ehh, dammit.”

I continued down the the winding staircase unitl finally I hit the bottom, which took about an hour because of how chicken I was.

“Okay, okay, off the stairs now what.” I noticed that I had started talking to myself in order to keep calm. I then remembered the two chambers that Celestia told me about. “Well, I know where I’m going!” My mind sang as I quickly took off to ‘explore’ a little bit more.

Celestia told me not to come out of the tower, but why, is she hiding something? Whatever it was I was afraid that would have to disoblige Celestia on her request.

Also, since Celestia told me not to come out I bet that she told her guards to keep on eye me. Well it was safe to say that the patrols were easy to avoid due to all the walls of the castle

I eventually came across her chamber, or which I assumed was her chamber because of the giant sun emblems engraved on both doors. I was surprised that there weren’t any guards, well guarding her majesty’s room, but cared little for the guards at the moment. “Time to see what’s in there.” I opened one of the giant doors.

The room made my whole body twitch in amazement. The chamber had sun banners all along the walls, the bed was huge, maybe five queens put together. “Must be princess sized.” I joked. Looking at he walls I would say they were made out of polished marble due to the glimmering reflections bouncing off them. There was a large bathtub in the right corner of the room with rollable shades that would block anyones’ view if they dare take a peak. In all the room was just massive, it even had a crystal chandalier hanging form the ceiling, but what caught me most was all the furniture in this one room. Study desk, two lounging couches with a coffee table, wardrobes on every side with a matching dresser, two large mirrors on the left and right sides of the room, and to top it all off there was a stuffed collection of dolls of various mystical creatures on her bed. “Why in the world would she not want me to see this?”

Getting an eyeful I left the chamber and dodged more patrols as they went by. I came across the other chamber but instead of Sun emblems there were crescent moons. “Now let’s see what’s in chamber number two.”

Opening the heavy door I peered inside. It was rather dark and dim lit, but the light proved to be enough for me to see. Compared to Celestia’s room this one was somewhat similar. The beds were equal in area and the room itself was just as big. The bathtub was in the same spot, but really it actually kind of creeped me out as I saw empty suits of armor, and plaques with mounted shields and weapons on them. The room had medieval theme to it. The walls weren’t marble but cold dark stone that had the hue of blue. Chandalier looked the same, and so did the furnature, but there was one piece that caught my eye, there was a broken mirror on the right side that still had shardded pieces lying on the floor. Walking up to the shattered mirror  I looked into it and of course I saw a disfigured body that was mine, but as I continued to look my reflection slowly turned into something monstrous. I saw a tall disfigured black mare that wore blue clad plate mail, and as I looked closer I saw long sharp fangs that reminded me of a vampire, and her eyes, the pupils were slits and were dilated as if she was looking right at me. Slowly backing away from the mirror the mare’s face began to smirk, but then quickly disappeared. “Creepy…” I shuddered. The mirror was enough, I didn’t really want to look at anything else that might be in the room. So, as turned around, my head still looking at the mirror I bumped into something stiff, or should I say someone.

Before me stood a dark blue mare that wore a gown of different hues of blue, and just like Celestia‘s dress a vast amount of cleavage showed making it hard for me to focus. “WHY ARE THOU IN OUR ROOM?!!” Her voice boomed like thunder.

Getting my attention I saw her for what she completely was. She had a long blue horn and wings that matched a small tiara on her head. Her Aqua eyes, complimented by her metallic blue eye liner, stared daggers at me. Her blue mane blew in the non existant breeze just like Celestia’s giving her a valiant look. I didn’t have to be a genius to know who this mare was, Luna.

“YOUR PRINCESS DEMANDS OUR PEASANT TO SPEAK!!!” Luna’s voice thundered once more.

I was too frozen with fear to speak. Unlike her counterpart she spoke in the old English dialect, and shouted at me like a drill sergeant.

“I’LL GIVE THOU ONE LAST CHANCE TO SPEAK, OR WE WILL BE FORCED TO BE RID OF YOU!!!”

“Exploring…” I worked up the nerve to say.

“PEEPING IN THE ROYAL CHAMBERS IS FORBIDDEN!!! IF IT WERE TWO-THOUSAND YEARS BEFORE WE WOULD ALREADY HAVE THY HEAD ON A PIKE!!!” She grabbed me by the neck and held me up.

She had an iron grip, I could barely breathe as her fist clenched tighter. “Uh…d-don’t *ack* you…think cho-choking me is going t-” I couldn’t finish as I felt my voice slip away from her grip. My eyes darkened and I thought it would be the end. “Being chocked to death, just how I planned to die!”

“THOU SHALL GIVE THY TRUE REASON OF ENTERING OUR CHAMBER!!!” She barked.

I couldn’t answer her, not that didn’t want to but because I literally couldn’t. I was out of it, still conscious, but only barely.

“USELESS STALLION!!!” She tossed me to the side like a rag doll.

-

Five hours later:

“Knocked out four times in just twenty-four hours, there’s some real potential to you bud.” My conscience spoke to me again. I sat up and shook my head relieving me of my dizzyness. Looking around I saw that I was in the throne room with several guards standing at attention at their posts.

I stood up and tried to walk forward, but as I did I felt something pull at my neck forcing me to stop. Feeling around I felt some kind of metal brace around my neck, and to make it worse there was a chain connected from the throne to my brace, only giving me so many steps to move around. “What the fuck.”

“Oh good, you’re awake.” I heard the soft motherly tone of Princess Celestia.

Turning around I saw her walking toward me with a large ceramic dish that had a metal top covering it. “P-princess, what’s going on!? Why am I chained up!?” I demanded, fiddling around with the brace.

“I gave you simple instructions to stay in the tower, and you disobeyed.” She said placing the dish next to my feet.

“So you chained me to your throne?!”

“It could’ve been worse, because after hearing my sister’s royal Canterlot tone I immediately sent guards to her chamber to see what was going on. My guards found you lying on the floor, and since going into the royal chambers without permission is a grave offense they locked you up in the dungeon.”

“Ironic.” Before I had asked to see the dungeon, then I’m thrown in it.

“However, after my guards informed me of what happened I came down to the dungeon myself, and decided to punish you in a more ‘civilized manner’.”

“So chaining me up like an animal is your view of civilized.” I raised a brow.

“Just be glad that you’re not in the dungeon anymore, as well as still being alive.”

“Alive?”

“My sister still follows the old rules, even after her b-…uhh, well she just follows the archaic laws.”

“Yeah no kidding, she said that if it were two-thousand years earlier she would’ve mounted my head on a pike.”

“That’s only for extreme offenses, and unfortunately for you that’s what you committed.” Celestia’s voice turned harsh.

“So what, I just entered and looked at the scene. What’s so bad about that?”

“Whether what you did was harmless or not you still disobeyed me.”

“Whatever…, how long am I going to be chained up?”

“Till I see you act good.” She cooed, patting me on the head as if I were her pup.

I wanted to slap her across the face. Being punished is one thing, but being treated like a pet is another. “How would you like to be chained up like a dog!?”

She seductively smiled down at me and entered my comfort zone yet again. “It would be kinky.”  She saucily whispered, and seconds after she began prodding my lips with hers before backing away, then walking off.

“What the hell?” My eye twitched in confusion. “That’s the third time she tried getting to me.”

Looking down at the dish below me, my guess is that I missed dinner. Hearing my stomach rumble I took off the top, and I silently cursed to myself at what I saw: Five oats, a tiny mound of hay, and several flower petals. “So much for eating.” I pushed the tray away as I sat in silence.

-

Another hour had passed and I still sat where I was, murmuring to myself about how twisted this world was. “She’s a goddess, that means her sister is a goddess too. What about the population difference, how does that even work.? What the hell was up with Luna, choking someone to death isn’t exactly the friendliest way of saying ‘hello’.” I kept uttering my thoughts to myself.

The guards started to change shifts with  more intimidating uniformed ones. Most of their eyes were yellow, they all had fangs, and they had bat wings instead the more gentle, feathered opposite . They’re armor was darker and instead of the Sun being the emblem on their chest plate it was the crescent Moon. I found that to be a nice touch to the security, it added a little more culture to the castle.

Since I decided not to eat the sorry excuse of a meal, I shut my eyes, leaned against the throne, and dozed off.

I was quickly awoken by the sound of high heels as their steps echoed thoughout the keep. Opening an eye to see the annusance I saw Luna heading right toward me. By her expression she was probably less than pleased to see me, but that’s her problem. As she came nearer her body shifted an angle and headed for the throne.

Without a word she sat down on the throne, and the second she did the entire scene changed. The only light source was coming from the giant stainglass window from behind the throne, so the room had a shady look to it.

I didn’t say a word either, I kept my back to her because she deserved it. I heard her sigh, and tap one of her crystal heels on the floor because of boredom The tapping continued for almost an hour, and with each tap her annoyance to me grew.

“Thou shouldn’t of come to our room.” She finally spoke, making me turn to face her, but she still faced forward as if she was talking to someone else.

I still kept silent, I didn’t really care what she had to say, but facing someone when they were speaking to you is always respectful, though I can see that she didn’t have any for me making my eyes roll.

“Is thy peasant still upset about earlier?“ She finally turned to face me.

“What do you think?”

“That’s why we are asking.” She read my mind just like Celestia.

“Why speak to you when you can already hear me.?”

“It’s a sign of respect, peasant.” She growled.

“Hmf, respect or not I’m not speaking to you.” I crossed my arms. I still had a grudge against her, and for a good reason too.

“Fine, wallow in thy thoughts then.”

I knew there was already going to be a bad relationship between us, so why bother trying to fix it.

A few moments passed, and like it was intended my conscience spoke to me, “Love thy enemy as thyself.” That was one of my favorite verses Jesus told his Apostles.

“What was that?” I heard Luna ask, her expression not a scorn but more of a curious look.

“Love thy enemy as thyself.” I repeated.

“Why would one love thy enemy as thyself?”

“It’s not to be taken literally in all cases, but it means if you have a bad relationship with someone you don’t make that relationship worse. Instead you pray and try to befriend them.”

“Whose tongue did thy words come from?” She asked, probably interested because of how odd it sounded.

“Another Deity.”

“Whom?”

“I’m not in the mood to give a religious lesson, so I’m going to keep it at that.”

“Very well…”

I had nothing else to say to her, but I probably redeemed myself in her eyes from that one quote. “It’s strange how people who don’t like each other will somehow start up conversation, even if it’s not relevant to the matter at hand.” I mentally stated.

“Well versed.” She whispered.

With that said, she and I didn’t speak to each other for the rest of the night.