Aon ground her teeth together painfully, her hooves doing the same on the cold, hard, uncaring stone floor. She winced with each shock, but kept her noise to a minimum as she forced breath shakily through her nose.

"No cries or moans? Come now, where is our fun in that? Cry for me slave!"

Feeling a excruciatingly sharp pull on her tail, Aon let out a yelp and attempted to move her body backwards to lessen the force of the pull. All that achieved was making the next thrust harder and more painful, much to Nightmare Moon's amusement.

"Tell me, filly, do you enjoy my ministrations? Don't they make you realize how truly lucky you are? You have the eye of the queen after all, what more could you want?" the dark alicorn laughed cruelly. She knew exactly what her slave wanted. Not that she expected to hear what the pitiful silvery white furred mess really wanted. She was trained well after all.

"Nothing Mistress Moon. Ah....Everything I...ow....need or want is...ugh...provided by you." the mare, self named Aon, replied dutifully. She let out a sigh of relief as she felt her treatment end. Nightmare Moon's hoof landed inches from her face with a resounding crack.

"You are expected to accompany me from now on. You have made a good maid-slave, but after today, you are now elevated to royal consort. I do this because I think you have a most enjoyable ass, and you have served me well. Now, your mistress has dinner with an important group of ambassadors tonight. As such, you will be dining with me at my side. I expect you outside my chambers for a dress fitting as soon as you stop bleeding."

Aon wrinkled her nose in confusion. True, her first treatment had been rough and unwanted and her rear felt like it had been torn, but was she bleeding? Casting her gaze up to Night Mistress Moon, the mare's eyes grew in shock and worry. Nightmare Moon held in her magic a coil of thin gold wire, a needle, and what appeared to be a ring piercing of some sort.

Night Mistress Moon looked down on her with a grin that made Aon shudder.
"To ensure you remain pure until I wish to deflower that part of you, and also to show my ownership of you..."

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Aon was staring at her reflection in the silver platter that sat on the table before her. Light mint green eyes looked back at her, surrounded with whitish-silver fur akin to the colour of white gold. There, seated almost invisibly behind her platinum mane, was a small circular scar where she, as a slave of the Night Mistress, had had her horn removed negating magic use. Suddenly words cut across Aon's train of thought.

"Consort, why do you not seat yourself at my side as is your duty?" Night Mistress Moon half snickered.

Aon shifted uncomfortably before slowing lowering herself to a seated position, hissing from the pain that shot up from between her legs. She also just noticed her hiss had gotten the five ambassador's attention.

"Do not mind my consort, she was given her new position just three hours ago and is still becoming accustomed to it." the alicorn laughed.

Across the table a white stallion with a blonde mane stood and gave Nightmare Moon a small bow before speaking.
"And a most glorious consort you have found Queen Night Mistress Moon. Pray tell if it is not to forward to ask, did she not handle her first well?"

The way the stallion smirked made Aon want to be sick, but she settled with flushing red and worrying at the seat with a hoof.

Night Mistress Moon just laughed loudly.
"If it were any other I would have them imprisoned, but you have been ever so helpful since my return Blueblood, so I will say, I have not plucked her flower quite yet, but I have claimed her as my own as per ancient custom, so she is most likely a bit tender. Oh, but none of you know the ancient custom. Consort, turn abo-"

*BANG*

The doors to the dining hall suddenly slammed open with a resounding crack as a group of soldiers, led by a grizzled and scarred commander, strode in. With them were two chained and shackled ponies, one a mare, one a stallion.

"Commander Garrotte, I trust there is a perfectly reasonable FUCKING explanation for this interrauption. If not, I will see you at your execution tomorrow."

The commander stood at attention.
"Queen Night Mistress Moon, I present to you Captain Shining Armour, and rebel leader Applejack!"

Sure enough, held fast by chains, there stood Shining Armour, bruised and beaten, and the Element of Honesty herself, complete with her Stetson.
Applejack locked eyes with Nightmare Moon.
"Listen miss, if we ain't got anything else to talk about her..*pft*...then go 'head an' kill us here an' now."

Nightmare narrowed her eyes at the loogy the farm mare had spat mid sentence before she realized she now had a chance to be exceptionally cruel. Turning to her ambassadors she gave them a smile.
"As I was saying, consort, turn around and show the ambassador's your ownership marks!"

Aon started at the thought, her mind reeling and confused for the precious seconds it took her to realize Night Mistress Moon meant for her to reveal herself to everypony in the room. Despite wanting nothing more than to disappear in to the floor, Aon did as instructed, blushing furiously as a couple of wolf whistles rang out.

"Good, now that that's been exemplified, show my ambassadors what happens to ponies who threaten my rule."

Again the poor mare was left with precious little to do other than what she was told, and quickly found a ornate knife hovering next to her mouth for her to use. In desperation to get out of the task, Aon cast a panicked glance at everypony in the room, but only one responded.

"Ah kin see ya don' know what ta do, so let me tell ya. Take that knife, an' stick it right at the base o' me an' Shinin's skull. Not a lot a blood, not a big mess. Quick'n'clean like."

It was Applejack, giving the mare a sympathetic smile. Aon just shook her head fearfully. She couldn't do it! Hell, five hours prior she was just a maid, and now she'd been sodomized, violated, mutilated, and now was being told to kill! The knife dropped to the floor with a clang as tears began to flow from her eyes.

Night mare Moon just spat angrily at the mare. Moving past the consort, the alicorn used her magic to kill the two prisoners before turning to Aon.
"You have failed me for the first time, consort. I must ensure you know never to do it again."
With a shriek of rage, Nightmare Moon delivered a powerful kick to the mare's nethers, causing her to scream in agony as it connected with her already traumatized body. Aon fell and passed out.

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Three weeks had passed since Aon had become the royal consort to Night Mistress Moon. Her life for the time being had consisted of eating meals with the Queen, servicing the Queen, and leaving the Queen the hell alone when thrown from her bed each morning when the sun was raised. Other than that it was just stay out of everyponys' way and do what your told.

Well, except for this day.

Today, or at least at this exact moment, Aon was stepping off the Queen's carriage in Ponyville. It was time for the sixth annual 'Parade Celestia's preserved severed head and skinned of cutiemarks through Ponyville to incite rebellion again' day. There was an official name for it, but Aon had never bothered to remember.

As the proceedings and the march began, Aon did as was expected and fell into step behind Nightmare, for once thankful she was being made to wear a fancy dress. Aon hated dresses with a passion, but with her piercing as well as her 'proof of purity' she had a habit of drawing unwanted attention.

On the note of unwanted attention, she seemed to be getting a fair amount of it, most likely because she'd never been seen around the Queen before.

As the group carried on Aon noticed that many of the ponies looked like they didn't want to be out watching the 'parade'. In fact a number of them seemed downright angry. It was about then that it happened.

A single rock flew over the crowds of ponies and landed harshly against Nightmare's cheek, scoring a small gash.

"Guards, find the perpetrator of that attack!" the alicorn roared.

Just as Nightmare gave her orders, a horde of armed rebels came pouring out towards the guards, and Nightmare took to the skies.

It was then Aon realized she was alone in the middle of a battlefield. Following instinct, she took off towards the edge of town praying she'd make it out alive. As she ran ponies were dying all around her, a fact that disturbed her greatly, but she didn't let it get to her, she was nearly free of the town!

"Well look at this boys, the Queen-bitch's bitch." a menacing voice taunted.

Aon stopped short when she realized a group of rebels had stopped her up short and cut off her escape.

A second stallion slowly pulled a sword from its scabbard.
"So what, you use the tyrant, and as soon as you can, cut and run. Meanwhile real families and ponies have to work and slave under her whip for scraps?"

Little did they realize that that was essentially her job in a nutshell, but the semantics didn't seem to be what they were interested in. Instead Aon began to back away slowly until she realized that three more rebels had come up behind her.

"So then, what do you say we show this consort how to do her job?" one of the stallions jeered.

Aon immediately flushed and huddled close to the ground.
"P..pl..please, no...I just...want...to go away..please..."
Her words did nothing to deter the soldiers though, and one of them gripped her dress roughly, tearing a shoulder strap. Just as he made to tear it more, a cyan hoof collidded with his jaw, then a orange blur slapped him in hoof cuffs.

"Dis-fucking-graceful! We are the true Equestrians, yet you think raping a prisoner of war is acceptable. If this is how you're all going to act, then go join Nightmare Moon. Otherwise get to the wounded, and once back at base I expect to see you all doing extra pt to start!" a pegasus mare roared at the soldiers. She then turned to Aon. "And now that that's out of the way...Scoots, take this mare to our h.q. and I'll take that stallion in."

With a couple of nods, Aon was left with an orange filly about 2 inches taller than her, and a hell of a lot more muscled.
"So, queen's consort...fancy-" Aon winced at the expression but said nothing. "-, anyway come on."

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Aon had been following after Scootaloo for what seemed like hours. They had entered a forest a while ago and the pegasus was only just now slowing down.

"Entrance is up here. Try not to look imposing or sca..." The filly trailed off as she looked back to see that Aon was acting like Fluttershy used to. "Never mind."

Aon just ducked her head lower and kept following Scootaloo. Eventually they happened across a door hidden amongst some brambles and disappeared down it. As Aon came down the stairs she entered a room that held a number of important ponies that she'd heard tales of and knew Nightmare hated. It also scared the daylights out of her. The lavender mare stepped up first.

"Scootaloo, you're back! Dash got here just five minutes ago. I take it the attack went well? Oh, and who is this, a new recruit?"

Scootaloo gave the mare a warm smile.
"Course I'm back Twilight. Can't keep me or Dash down. The attack went really well, we only have nine out of thirty ponies wounded. Nightmare ran, and finally, well, maybe I shouldn't be the one to explain who this is."

Scootaloo's cryptic answer caused the group to study the mare's face, but nopony save Rarity knew her. The fashionista mentioned then powered up her horn with a snarl.

"Nightmare's consort, its Nightmare's consort!"

Immediately almost everponjy in the entrance room dropped to some sort of battle stance while Aon settled with cowering in the nearest corner.

"I'm sorry, I'll leave! Don't hurt me please!" the silvery mare cried.

It was like an off switch. Everypony stopped their aggression at this point. They had expected the consort to have been a high level mage or warrior, but here the consort was cowering in the corner trying not to cry. Twilight felt it would be prudent to find out more about the filly.
"Hey, I am Twilight Sparkle. As long as I'm here, nopony will hurt you, okay? Now, why don't you tell me why you're here?"

Aon gave a slight sniffle and stayed in the corner, but she looked up and responded.
"Scootaloo told me to follow her, so I did."

Twilight cocked her head at this.
"And you didn't think to ask where she was taking you?"

Blush building up, Aon dropped her head down and pressed her ears flat. The mare was beginning to just wish she could crawl in a hole and make every go away. No ponies to hate her, no Night Mistress to hurt her.
"I'm not supposed to question things..."

This immediately threw up a couple of obvious signs that the mare had not chosen the role of her own free will.
"Well, you are free now, and can do what ever you wish. First, why don 't you and I go with Rarity and see about getting your dress fixed?"

Aon nodded dumbly, but then she realized who Rarity was and froze. Twilight noted her fear an immediately tried to smotth it over.
"Relax, Rarity won't hurt you, she was merely being cautious. We feared that Nightmare's consort was a skilled warrior. As it turns out, you seem like the decent type."

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"I want her back, Garrotte! There is a reason I chose her, there is a reason I want her, and that means you will find her and bring her back! The little filly...mmm...yes that specific filly, I don't just want her, I need her! Well, why are you still here? Go get her!"

~^~^~^~

It had taken Rarity but seconds to mend the torn seams, and though the mare had offered to store it Aon wished to keep it on, fore personal reasons. After that she'd pretty much taken to following Twilight around, her practice making the mare constantly forget Aon was there.

As for Aon, well she was simply enjoying the surroundings. Sure, not many ponies paid attention to her, but unlike in Nightmare' service, the ponies that did would give her a smile or a nod. The mere acknowledgement was nice. Eventually dinner time came up though, and that was where ponies finally began to notice Aon.

"Still following me? You do realize you could have done whatever you wished, right Aon?" Twilight smiled.

Aon just scuffed the ground with her hoof.
"I'm sorry, I didn't realize it bothered you. I, uhm, I got used to following ponies..."

Twilight softened her smile a bit and nodded.
"Well, as long as your happy. I forget your situation. Anyway its dinner time, so why don't we head that way?"

Aon nodded and started off after Twilight, this time the lavender mare making a point to talk to her. After about a five minutes walk Aon was shocked to find herself a buffet of amazing looking foods, the likes of which she'd only ever seen Night Mistress Moon or the ambassadors eat. She was still staring about a minute later when Twilight nudged her.

"Take all you want, as long as you don't waste it."

"I...I...I'm not supposed to take my own food...." Aon finished lamely as she turned her gaze to a spot between her fore hooves.

Twilight just gave the mare a soft pat on the shoulder.
"That's fine, I'll get you some food, you just sit here, okay?"

Aon gave a nod and watched Twilight canter off towards the food. As she waited a familiar looking stallion with what appeared to be healing lashings across his back started moving her way. It wasn't until he had flipped her over and slammed her on her back that she recognized him as the gardener that Nightmare had made her whip four days ago.

"You little bitch, what are you going to do now? Yeah, you were big tough and scary when Nightmare had your back, but what are you now?" the stallion growled as he pushed a fore hoof harshly against her chest.

"I..I'm sorry..."

Before the stallion could drive a hoof into her muzzle he suddenly backed off of her in disgust. In her fear Aon had peed herself and the floor.

"You sick little..." the gardener stallion roared as he lifted up to drive both his forehooves into Aon's face.

There was a flash of purple, but that's all she knew as her vision faded to black.

~^~^~^~

"-I'm just saying its obvious nopony wants her here Twilight, and there isn't a good chance that that specific detail will change any time soon. When she wakes I think we should just erase her memory and send her on her way!"

"Really Rarity? Really, that's so generous. I think you fail to remember that I know first hoof the sick pleasures Nightmare enjoys taking from us ponies and-"

"I..Twilight, I didn't mean to bring that up, darling."

"-and I know for a fact that she probably won't attempt anything but to hide from all you ponies due to how you treat her. Let me tell you, it was six months Rarity! Six months before I could sleep without fear, six months before I wouldn't flinch when a pony came near me, six months before I could bear to show my face to you girls due to the shame of what I'd suffered! I still ache on the inside some days, and you want to just abandon somepony who's gone through that!? I suffered for four hours before my escape, she's suffered three weeks of depravities!"

Aon was clinging to every word. She did not know Twilight had been hurt by Nightmare Moon. She thought she was alone, but no, she wasn't. It gave the mare an odd sense of comfort, knowing that despite what she'd been forced to endure, there was another who had grown stronger for it. It gave her a sense of hope.

"I understand Twilight, and you are right, but we still need to figure out where Applejack and your brother got off to."

Aon let out a light noise at the mention of Applejack, and immediately sympathetic sorrow raced through her body at the realization that their friend and brother were both dead. Her gasp had also drawn the two ponies attention.

"Aon, you're awake!" Twilight smiled cheerfully whilst Rarity just stood further back. "I was worried about you. When you passed out after I slammed the oaf into the wall I was worried he'd hurt you."

For Aon's part she just shifted uncomfortably at the thought of somepony actually protecting her. The she shifted her hindlegs a second time as her eyes grew wide. Wrenching off the sheets that lay over her body the mare let her hindlegs fall wide to see that the gilded wire that had held her closed was gone.

Twilight continued looking at Aon's face, ignoring her splayed legs.
"She'd done the same thing to me when she caught me that first year. The only difference is that there's an enchantment I couldn't get past on the piercing, but other than that you should be fin-urk!"

The mare's words were cut off abruptly as Aon threw her hooves around Twilight, wrapping her in a tight embrace. Tears flowed straight from Aon's chin and onto Twilight's shoulder as the mare sobbed against her. With a smile Twilight wrapped her own hooves gently around Aon and patted her back.

"There there, you're going to be okay."

Slowly Aon's sobs settled into shudders as she took in long ragged breaths. It was then that she realized she had hugged Twilight without permission, but a part of her mind kept note on how the mare hadn't cared in the slightest.
"Thank you so so so much Twilight...I just...I've not been treated like a pony since I started working for Night Mistress Moon a year ago, and these past three we...weeks...I ..."
Aon devolved right back into her sobs as shame and self loathing washed through her body like a flood, but one thing kept her mind rooted in a more rational state.

Twilight was still holding her close, humming a soft tune in her ear and telling her it would all be okay.

Some how, some way, Aon felt that Twilight was right. It would all be okay.

Author's Note

So chapter one is up, it was most definitely a dark chapter, and a disturbing one.

I must say, I'm not proud of the harsh content I've written, but I can now say I have two stallions and an alicorn I want to beat the fuck out of so hey.

Characterization for Aon will start up next chapter.