Screaming, they were always screaming. I was lying in my bed clutching my head, why wouldn’t they leave me alone. The dreams… or rather nightmares had started just a few days ago. I had told Celestia what I remembered from the lab where I was kept captive for so long, but the truth is that most of it is still a blur to me. But now, every time I closed my eyes I could see myself back in that cage, surrounded by screaming and pleas for mercy.

As I readied myself to get out of bed I did the same thing I always did. I put on the same fake smile I had worn for so many years, Fake it till you make it I thought to myself. As I got out of bed and went into the bathroom I cast those thoughts aside tough. No reason to dwell on the past, I had made plans for today and I was going to enjoy them.

Yesterday’s preparations had been executed perfectly. I had gone down to the wine Cellar and switched out the normal wine they were supposed to serve at the meeting with the supercharged one. Now I just had a little time to kill before all hell would hopefully break loose.

I was standing in my room; a cool breeze flew past me as I was sitting in the opened window, leaning against the side of it while enjoying the warmth of the early sun. Looking out I could spot several pegasi soaring through the sky, and some just resting on nearby clouds. As I watched them fly about an idea came to mind. I had seen Melandra stand on and interact with clouds as well in her pegasi form… maybe I could too? There’s only one way to find out. But if I was going to get onto a cloud I needed to get a little higher. I jumped down from my window and headed towards one of the castles many towers.

“For the last time. Leave. Me. Alone” I had hoped to get through the castle without any delays. I wanted to test my little cloud theory as fast as possible. No such luck though. Professor Strings had spotted me and once more decided to try to get some information out of me. I had accidentally mentioned that I wasn’t from this world, after that he had been trying to extort me for info at every opportunity he had.

“But you have the knowledge of an entirely different civilization. The possibilities and things we could learn from you are endless.” Needless to say, I did not care much for the Professor and I had no intention of telling him anything.

“Don’t wanna.” I picked up the pace, trying to lose him. But ponies in general are rather good runners, so he caught up with me rather easily.

“Don’t be like that. I have caught you telling those Orphans stories about yourself and your people and their history. So why won’t you talk to me, I am a highly educated professor that specializes in foreign and extinct civilization’s.” it was true, they could probably benefit from some of the knowledge I had from Human civilization and culture. And if it was Celestia or anyone else asking I might even have told them. But I really did not like old Professor Strings here, he was way too annoying, and in a way he reminded me of someone that I hated intensely.

“Simple. I don’t like you.” I decided to cut our conversation short and used my tail to grab a hold of one of his legs, causing him to trip. And who says that you can’t run from your problems? I thought as I reached the stairs leading up to my destination.

“Stairs.” Huff “so many stairs. Somepony really” wheeze “needs to invent a magic elevator” pant “or some sort of teleportation device” I had finally made it to the top of the tower. The climb had drained me of all the energy I had, and a little more. So I was currently lying on the floor trying to regain my breath and silently cursing the pony that invented stairs, may he burn for all eternity.

It took me awhile, but I finally managed to make my way over to one of the windows in an upright state. I opened the window to see a sight that was beyond majestic. I could see clouds covering the tops of the mountains in the horizon. Several forests that stretched themselves across the beautiful landscape. Streams and rivers snaked themselves across the land, separating and reconnecting at many points. I could even spot a small village close to the border of one of the darker forests. A somber thought struck as I witnessed the true untouched beauty of nature, I wish you were here to see this. It was a thought that had come up several times, but she would be better off back in her world.

I lost track of time as I stood there. I really hadn’t had any time in Equestria so far when I could just enjoy the silence like this. Or if I had, I hadn’t appreciated them. This really is a beautiful land. But my sense of serenity could only last for so long.

I had come here with something specific in mind, to try something new. I looked out of the window and spotted a cloud just ten to fifteen meters below, but what caught my attention was another cloud that was just below the first one. On that very cloud, there was a particular dragon in disguise. It was a little hard to see at this distance but if I had to take a guess, I would say that she was sleeping. I looked down to the cloud that was closest to me time to see if this works I thought as I readied myself.

I let myself simply drop out of the window, the cloud I was aiming for was fairly close to the wall and I would have missed it if I had overshot my jump. As the cloud was rapidly getting closer I took this opportunity to try to improve my feather fall, it was a good a moment as any. Remembering what Melandra had told me I imagined that the ground was much closer than it actually was. I could actually feel myself slowing down, it was only barely but I had actually managed it.

Even though I managed to slow my fall slightly I still collided with the cloud at a fairly high speed. Honestly I did not have too much faith in that this plan of mine would work, but the resistance I felt when I collided with the cloud proved me wrong.

My soft and white landing pad bounced me up again after I collided with it. Apparently clouds are white fluffy little trampolines in disguise. When I fell down again I landed softly on the cloud, I could feel the cloud softly embrace me as I sank a few inches into it. Its softness was unbelievable; I absolutely had to replace my bed with one of these. Crawling over to the edge and looking over it I spotted my intended target. Melandra was still sleeping on the cloud below, I think it’s time for me to drop in.

I jumped off and tried to aim for the spot next to her. Being a dragon I doubt that it would hurt her if I landed on her, even if she is in her pegasi form. But you don’t underestimate the surprise reaction of a being that powerful. I landed with a soft thump beside her. Surprisingly she didn’t wake up from that, she just rolled over to her side and continued her travels through the marvelous dream world. Now what? I thought. I hadn’t really planned to do anything when I got down here; she looked so cute and peaceful in her sleep. I almost decided not to disturb her, but I was a little bored and I still had some hours to kill before the meeting would start. I contemplated on how to wake her but decided to go with an easy approach.

I sat down in front of her and started to gently poke her. “Hey Melandra, wake up” but when I got absolutely no response I decided to pick it up a notch. I added my tail to the mix and started to poke and tickle her all over. When I got to her cutiemark I got a response. Hey eyes bolted open as she gasped, but before I had a chance to say or do anything else I received a hoof to the jaw, effectively knocking me back.

“Jake” her voice was dripping with venom. “What do you think you are doing?”

“I just wanted to see if I could walk on clouds” I held my jaw, talking hurt. “Turns out, I can”

“And you decided to feel me up in the process?”

“What? NO. I just wanted to wake you up, and might have decided that poking and tickling you were the way to go. I certainly didn’t ‘feel you up’. “I was getting a little confused at this point.

“Well you did rub my cutiemark did you not?” I was just giving her a questioning stare. “You don’t know what that means do you?” I shook my head to imply that I did not. She let out a sigh “A ponies cutiemark can also serve as a pleasure spot of sorts. Therefore touching one is highly rude, unless you are with a preferred partner of course.”

“I-I’m sorry I really did not mean to do that. I’m not into ponies that way.” I failed to suppress a shudder. I know that ponies are the main inhabitants of Equestria so I had to get over my sexual view of them at some point, not going to be anytime soon tough.

“Really? Well it’s your choice. But did you have a reason to wake me from my slumber?” she raised her flank into the air and stretched in a very catlike manner while yawning.

“Yea, I was bored and wanted someone to talk to…”

“…that’s it?”

“That’s it. I got a couple of hours to waste before things get fun around here. Oh and before I forget, the blind while at the same time not so blind blue dragon told me to say hi.” I could not remember her name; it had been escaping me all morning.

“You mean Naloth? Well that’s nice. So what’s this ‘fun’ that’s going to happen in a couple for hours?”

“That’s nice, that’s all you have to say… really?” she had finished stretching and had laid back down and was looking down over the edge of the cloud

“What? It’s not like we are friends or something, old acquaintances’ at most.”

“Whatever. The fun I am talking about may involve the griffins Celestia is having a meeting with today. And I may have switched out the normal wine with the super charged one.” I sat down beside Melandra and let my legs dangle off the edge while letting out a little chuckle.

She looked at me with wide eyes. “Really? You know what week it is right?” I was a bit perplexed by this; it seemed like a really random thing to ask.

“No I do not. I know that its fall but that’s about it. Why? Is there anything special about this week?”

“…No not really, but you were right. This day is going to be amusing after all.” I knew that she was hiding something from me. Did I care enough to inquire further about it? No.

We sat there for a little while in silence before I spoke again.

“So Melly-“

She cut me off “it’s Melandra to you.”

“Alright Melandra do you think you can teach me that transformation trick? It seems really neat, and it could be somewhat useful as well.”

She stared off into the horizon for a moment before answering. “I should be able to teach it to you, yes. But it is not as simple as you may perceive it.” Her body started shining in a brilliant light, not as bright as compared to when she did it back in the cave, but still really bright. Once the light dissipated the Silver coated pegasi was gone but in her place was now what looked like one of the castle maids, with uniform and all.

She brought her hoof to her mouth and laughed. “Don’t look so confused, it’s still me Jake. This transformation magic is only limited to your imagination should you master it. The only downside is that it takes more energy the more it differs from your original form.” Even her voice had changed. “Go on give it a go. Just imagine yourself being outside your body, and then you shape it into whatever you desire.”

This was beyond what I had imagined. I thought that she could only change into that one form of hers, but the possibilities that this magic opened would be endless. I can’t think of any at the moment but I’m sure there were some.

I did as she said. I closed my eyes and imagined myself outside and looking down on my own body. I reached out and began to mold the body, my body into what I had in mind. Since it was the first time I attempted something like this, I decided to try to go with somepony I already knew instead of creating something from scratch. It was like clay in my imaginary hands as I worked, it took a little longer than I had anticipated but after what I think was about 5 minutes I was finished. I could definitely feel that there was something different but at the same time it felt oddly familiar.

Slowly I opened my eyes to lay witness to this new body of mine. But my enthusiasm quickly disappeared as I saw my ordinary scaly arms. I twisted my upper body to get a proper look at myself, only to discover that nothing had changed. “Well that’s a bu-“ I quickly slapped both of my hands over my mouth. *Unbelievable* I thought. The change had apparently only worked partially, I sounded exactly like Celestia.

Melandra had changed back into her original Pegasi form when I was concentrating. “Now that is something surprising, you only got the voice part down. It was a good idea though; using the image of another is easier instead of creating one yourself. Continue to practice and I am sure that you will get it eventually.”

“Alright then, err how do I change my voice back to normal?” i said, still sounding exactly like Celestia.

“That is the easy part. You just do the same thing as before but instead of imagining a different body you just think of yourself.” Once again I closed my eyes and did exactly as she said.

“Well that was interesting to say the least. But I think I will leave you to do… whatever it is you do when I’m not around.” I jumped off the edge of the cloud. “See ya later” I yelled back as I fell towards the ground. I still had about an hour left until the meeting was supposed to take place, but with this new voice trick; passing the time was going to be the least of my problems.

I was walking towards the room that the meeting was taking place in. It had started just a little while ago and could not wait to see what was going to happen. I had met up with Razor who had joined me as I walked towards my destination.

“For some reason I don’t believe that you had nothing to do with it”

“Hey, it’s not my fault that your guards are about as competent as a piece of stale bread.” Razor had a little while ago witnessed several of his guards, dancing ballet in the training grounds. When he had asked them what the hell they were doing, they had given him some weird looks and said that he had ordered them to dance there until sundown. Obviously he suspected that I had something to do with it. I was of course guilty as charged, while I had only had the ability to change voices for about an hour, it had been hilarious.

“I have no idea how you did it, but I know that it was you. But on to other matters, you want to go grab a drink or two later tonight?” he asked.

“Yea I could go for a drink, you’re buying though.” I was still broke so there wasn’t any other option.

“Alright, I guess I can take this one. But if I’m buying then we are bringing some of that specially brewed wine. The last thing I need is you drinking up my entire salary.” We both shared a laugh at that one, mostly because it was true.

“That’s fine with me, means I don’t have to drink as much to get smashed.” I wasn’t really planning to get completely wasted, but it usually happens whenever I like it or not.

Both of us stopped as we heard some screaming noises coming from down the hall. I think Razor was going to comment on it, but he was interrupted by the three griffins that were tumbling down the hall while screaming for their life. Dam did I miss it? The meeting must have started earlier than I thought.

Razor didn’t even try to stop them as they ran past us, and while most of what I overheard them say was absolute nonsense I picked up something about the pink horror whatever that is.

“Wow, I can’t believe that I missed that.” nice going brain, just blurt that out right in front of the captain of the guard.

The earlier humorous look on his face was now replaced with one of pure anger; one of his eyes was even twitching. “What did you do”? He stood up on his hind legs and pushed me against the wall. “Can’t you just go one day without messing something up? Now tell me, what you did” his voice had calmed down as he pushed off me and got down on all four again.

I sheepishly rubbed the back of my head. “Well, I may have attempted to make the meeting a bit more interesting. So I switched out the normal wine they were supposed to serve with the special, super strong one.” the look on the Razors face switched to one filled with terror.

“Y-you d-did what? Don’t you know what week it is? Oh no, this is bad, this is very bad.” He took to the air and shot off down the hall, leaving me standing there clueless on what was actually going on.

I started running after him, he had mentioned the same thing as Melandra had. *What is it about this week that’s so special, and how come I don’t know anything about it?* I thought as I desperately tried to catch up with the speeding Pegasus in front of me. I had next to no chance of keeping up with a flying Pegasus and lost sight of him rather quickly.

Even though I had been here for a little over a week, I had no idea how to properly navigate this place; it was like a God dam maze. I remembered where the meeting had taken place but that was the last place I wanted to go to right now. With all the mess I had apparently made I did not want to bump into Celestia just yet, *I think I will let things calm down a little first*. By some miracle I managed to find Razor after a little while, He had a frantic look on his face as he was giving orders to a small group of guards.

“We got a code pink on our hooves here, a code pink. You all remember the protocol; get every civilian out of the castle immediately before you seal off all exits. No one leaves or enters this castle until it has been dealt with.” He noticed me and shot a death glare in my direction. “And move quickly, we have no idea how much time we have. Give all other guards you come across the same message, this is top priority and they are to drop whatever they are currently doing, UNDERSTOOD?” The group Responded with a traditional “Sir, yes sir” before taking off in all directions.

Razor walked over to me and poked me in the chest. “You, you are coming with me. You caused this and as much as I would love to lock you up right now you are technically a civilian and I need to get you out right now”. I was beyond confused at this point.

“What’s going on here? I just spiked a couple of drinks but you are all behaving like it is some sort of catastrophe. What is actually going on Razor? And why do all the Civilians need to leave? Can’t I help in some way?” I didn’t really want to help, but it was kind of my fault so I guess I should do something.

Razor paused for a second, but shook his head. “No, no way. The garden entrance is the closest lets go.” The bastard still would not say what was going on and it was getting really annoying.

We were getting closer to the entrance, just a few more turns and we would be by the exit. I had tried to get Razor to reveal what was going on but he had avoided the question at every opportunity.

We rounded the second last corner before we would get the exit, but as soon as we cleared it Razor stopped dead in his tracks. He just stood there with wide eyes staring straight at… Celestia.

However something seemed off about her. She wore none of her usual royal jewelry, no crown or anything. Her normally vibrant hair was now a few shades darker than it would normally be, and her pristine white coat had turned slightly pinkish. But the biggest difference, the thing that made my scaly skin crawl, was the look she had on her face. She had the biggest grin I have ever seen and the moment I came into view her eyes had locked onto me and her pupils had shrunk to the size of pinpricks. She licked her lips and slowly started trotting towards us with the same hungry look in her eyes.

“Run...” Razor had finally gotten a hold of himself. “She is coming after you, RUN.” He didn’t have to tell me thrice. “I’ll meet up with you later, but for now I shall stall her for as long as I can.” I immediately turned and started running back the way we came.

Exhausted. I had ran as far as I could, and had collapsed in the kitchen. I was trying to catch my breath and figure out what the fuck was going on. Why did the princess freak Razor out that much when he saw her, and what was with that hungry look in her eyes. I sat there, nibbling on some of the kitchen knives as a playful laugher echoed through the castle.

Just as the laugher ceased a voice took its place, it sounded like Celestia “Jaaaaake, oh little Jaaaake. Why do you run? All I want is a little fun”. Once again the castle was filled with laugher. “But don’t you worry, I will fiiiiind you… eventually.”

Oh shit. I thought as I finished eating the knife and started looking for a better hiding spot.

After a while I came across two guards that had finished sealing the castle, hopefully I could actually get some answers out of them. I waved to them as I got closer “Hey there guys, any of you mind telling me what’s going on here?”

The one to the left turned his head towards me, I can’t really tell them apart. They must have some sort of cloning program with all of them looking like that. “You mean you don’t know? We are under a code pink; the princess is to be avoided at all costs”

“I see, and let’s pretend that I don’t know what this… code pink is” why couldn’t anypony just say it.

The other guard took this chance to speak up “a code pink is initiated if the Princess ingests any strong alcohol during this particular week. Somepony must have tricked her because she would never have done that willingly.”

Ooh fuck I thought. “And what is so special about this week?” Might as well find out how badly I had fucked up.

“Everypony in the castle knows this; it’s the time of the year that Princess Celestia goes into estrus. While this normally increases certain emotions, the Princess goes wild if she drinks any hard alcohol. They had a certain nickname for her in the past, I don’t quite remember what is was but I think it started with an M.”

“Right” I had no idea of what estrus meant. I could vaguely remember something from biology class but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it.

“Molestia I think it was.”

And there it came back to me. I remembered what estrus was, and I realized what Celestia wanted me for, I shuddered at the thought. While these ponies are cute in their own way, I’m not into them, not in that way at least. It just seemed… wrong.

The two guards said that they knew of a good hiding spot, where we could hide while we waited for things to calm down. Having no better option at hand I decided to join them. we were headed towards an abandoned part of the dungeon, but as we made our way down to the lower levels of the castle we encountered the very thing we were trying to avoid, Princess Celestia.

“Why hello there Jake, I’ve been looking for you. Captain Dash was fun for a little while but you, you are something entirely new.” She fluttered her wings and licked her lips again. “And I just love to try new things, mmmh”

Oh hell no I thought as I took a deep breath and filled the entire corridor in front of me with a thick mist. I wasted no time and bolted with the two guards in the opposite direction. But I only made it so far; one of guards that I was running with suddenly turned and tackled me to the ground.

“Hey, what the hell man.” I screamed as I struggled against him. The other guard trotted up to us and simply looked down on me with a neutral expression.

“I’m sorry, but both of us have a wife and foals at home. It’s you she is after, and if she gets you she will leave us alone. You have to take this one for the team.” I couldn’t believe what I was hearing; the bastards were just going to give me to her, like some sort of offering. I tried to get loose from his grasp but to no avail, he had me pinned down good.

“Let me go you fuckers. Aren’t you supposed to you know; protect and serve.”

“Hush you. Who knows, you might even enjoy it. Rumors say that she has a tendency to be a little rough though.” He stopped and gave a bow to the now Princess who was now slowly trotting towards us. “Your highness, we have captured this Jake you were chasing. Would you like to take him into your custody?”

“You backstabbing bastard, when I get lose you-“ I was cut off as the princesses tail snaked its way around my body, lifting me up, it even covered my mouth leaving me unable to speak.

“Mm yes I will take care of him now, you have my thanks.” I could see that she leaned close to him and gave him a small kiss. “I might have to reward you two later. But now I think I will go and enjoy my new toy.” She started trotting with a slight spring in her step while holding me wrapped up in her tail.

I had managed to get my upper body free after a while, so she was now dragging me along after my legs while I had my claws scraping along the floor desperately trying to grab hold of something.

“Let me go, you are not in your right mind. This is wrong and you know it.” I was trying to convince her to let me go. I knew that it was a long shot but I couldn’t just give up.

“Who cares if I’m a little tipsy? Besides, I am the princess; I make the laws and I decide what’s right and wrong. And I see nothing wrong with what’s going on here. We are just going to have a little fun.” She picked up the pace a little. “Ooh look there it is; my personal chambers. I hope you are ready.”

Panic set in as she dragged me closer and closer. I dug my claws into the floor, making small lines in the stone as she dragged me along. The doors were getting closer, her horn lit up as she opened them to reveal the inside.

I let out an incredibly girly scream as she dragged me inside and slammed the doors shut. I could only hope that it would not take too long for her to snap out of it, because there was no one coming to my rescue…

Author's Note

Just a headsup for the next chapter. I will not write any clop, if you were hoping for it, im sorry to disappoint. and if you werent, then you got nothing to fear.