Shining’s spell released and his manly pink fireball tore towards the surprised changeling. Just before it hit, Cadences horn lit up and a blue shield protected the startled Queen.

“Great, she’s got you brainwashed already!” Shining yelled exasperatedly, fearing he had two powerful creatures to battle against now. But that didn't matter, because with his beloved Cadence's safety at stake, their shared love would give him strength. The two Cadences looked over to Shining as his horn grew bright pink in rage again, ready to release his next powerful spell.

“Calm down” one of them spoke in the soft voice that slipped in his ear and down to his very soul, with a face of concern so warm it would melt the most harshest of winter snows “I gave Chrysalis permission”

The stallion held off releasing the next attack, but kept his horn charged as was still cautious as to what was going on. “Darling, how do I know that’s you talking, and not that bug via her brainwashing?”

The three just looked at each other, Shining ready to attack. Chrysalis transformed back into her natural changeling form “Sorry Shining Armour, I was only doing what Cadence asked of me. We should have informed somepony so you wouldn't have been surprised by it. Why don't I go back to my suite for a while and let you too talk?”

“Chrysalis, there’s no need to leave” the real cadence started, before turning back to her husband “I just wanted to see how good a job she could do at coping me, I was just curious.” She approached her lover and gently nuzzled him “I didn’t realise it would upset you…I didn't think…I’m so sorry!”

Shining horn cooled down, and he looked into his wife's eyes “Hey, don't worry about me, I'm just worried about you” he cooed, following up by giving his wife a kiss. The heat of the moment transferred to the passion of the lips as the two lovebirds embraced each other.

Shining may have been ready to attack moments ago, but the embrace of his wife could turn his whole world around. It may have been love, it may have been part to do with her inherent magic, but either way he didn't care – he was kissing the mare he loved and that meant more to him than anything else.

Chrysalis sort of stood there a little awkwardly, not wanting to intrude in the moment, but equally enjoying the radiating love coming off of the pair.

When the couple managed to finally break the kiss, Cadence spoke softly to her husband again“I just wanted to see how good a job a changeling impersonation can be…I must say it is inch perfect!”

“Every inch?” Shining asked suggestively, with a look in his eye.

“Shining!” Cadence blushed at the tone, whilst turning shyly but with a hint of seductiveness.

“Sorry, when we’re up here, it’s hard to keep my hooves off you!” Shining nuzzled up next to his wife.

“That’s not the only thing that’s hard” Cadence replied, causing the stallion to blush a bit and turn to the queen as if to apologise for the pairs actions.

“Don’t mind me” Chrysalis shrugged “I may not be a voyeur but it’s nice to absorb this sort of true love. But I can’t be inch perfect if you could tell so easily!”

“Well, now I’m aware of changelings, it’s easy” Shining replied “My real Cadence emits love wherever she goes, whilst you absorb it. Besides, your magic is green, not the sweet blue of Cady!”

“Then how come you didn't notice last time?” the Princess teased her husband.

Shining looked genuinely puzzled at this, as if the thought hadn't come to him before, until Chrysalis spoke “That would be me of course, I poisoned him pretty quickly and whilst it took time to fully control his brain, it quickly destroyed any thoughts about questioning who I was.” The changeling looked really guilty, and approached the stallion. “Look, Prince Shining Armour, I am sorry for everything that happened. I know you have the most to distrust me, and what I did to you is inexcusable. Will you ever find a way to forgive me at least a little?”

The stallion had a choice to make, but his wife and his sister had made their views on the matter clear. Shining lifted the changelings head up from her gaze downward, and gave her a hug. It may not be as deep as ones he would give the other mares in his life, but it still had some feeling “As long as you never hurt anypony I love ever again, I guess you’re alright…for a bug” he teased

Chrysalis let out a fake “humph” and crossed her front legs, but the smile on her face actually gave it all away. “You didn't think I was so bad in the bedroom!”

“So did you and Shining, actually…make love” Cadence asked softly, suddenly darkening the tone of the whole conversation.

Shining Armour gulped “I know we never discussed it, but I thought you knew!” the white pony looked over to his wife, and took a deep breath “Yes, and I think I was the one to instigate it” he said slowly and sadly. Chrysalis nodded her head in agreement realising she may have let slip part of the events that were better best forgotten, already breaking her promise never to hurt Cadence again.

“Oh, that’s okay then” the Princess smiled as her voiced picked up to her usual sing-song tone, the night sky seeming to brighten up instantly.

“Wait, it is?” Shining asked more than a little stunned.

“Yes, because if Chrysalis had instigated it, then she knew what she was doing – now that I would have a problem with. But if you instigated it, than all you were doing is making love to me…or what you thought was me”

“And you’re okay with that?” her husband replied in astonishment

“Why wouldn't I be? It’s not your fault sweetie!” Cadence replied, giving the stallion a gentle nose-bump “Actually, given our busy schedules during the wedding build up, I would be surprised if you didn’t take every opportunity to rut me like an animal!” Cadence blushed at her own salty language, and memories of some of the exciting times the young couple had had in Canterlot Castle, sneaking around under Aunty Celestia's watchful eye.

“And you're okay with me?” the Queen asked nervously, a little confused by the whole situation.

Cadence trotted over and nuzzled the Queen “Chrissy, I forgave you straight away. Afterall, you were only doing what was best for your subjects. I mean, Shining threw me off a balcony to help protect the crystal ponies!”

“It’s not as bad as it sounds…You. Have. Wings!” Shining mocked protested, making the two mares laugh.

As the three off them relaxed around each other, the two natural born ponies in the room looked at each other, and an unspoken moment of understanding flicked between them. It was something that both of them had always wanted to try, one of them for a lot longer than the other, and this may be the perfect opportunity.

I mean, how often do you find a member of royalty that wasn't related to either one of them…

Cadence turned to Chrysalis, trying to keep a innocent looking face “Perhaps you should turn back into me, so Shining can see how realistic you are without your poison affecting him”

Chrysalis smiled and flaring her horn she soon took the likeness of the alicorn princess - she adored taking this form as the princess was so beautiful and sexy, and she enjoyed the stares from all the stallions. Cadence approached the fake, and started looking over the queen again. She started at the tail and worked her way up to her head, before staring into the changelings eyes.

“I must say, every part appears to be an exact copy of me!” Cadence purred towards her husband

“Hmmm… every part?” he asked suggestively “Perhaps I should have a closer look”

“Oh, I think you should sweetie, it's an exquisite body!”

“Wait…what's going on?” Chrysalis asked a little surprised, but more intrigued at the pairs actions.

Cadence whispered seductively in the dopplegangers ear “Well, I think Shining should get the pleasure of your company without his perceptions being affected.”

“Wait, what, huh?" Chysralis stuttered "…so, you're okay with this?”

“Look, everypony thinks that us Princesses are stuck up due to how Celestia acts, but we’re the same as anypony else. I’ve found my Prince, but that doesn't mean I don’t find the thought of experimenting a little thrilling!” Cadence blushed at the end. “I mean, even if you're immortal, you only live once!”

“And what about you Shining?” Chrysalis asked, slightly distracted by cadence starting to nibble on her ear.

“Well, I can’t see how being intimate with two versions of my wife is cheating if she suggests it isn’t!”

The real princess removed the ear from her mouth and laughed “Oh, don’t make it sound like such a chore!” and clearing her throat “Oh no, I have to make love to two beautiful princesses, whatever is a stallion to do” Cadence replied in a deep mocking mimicry version of Shining voice, causing them all the giggle a little.

“And of course as long as you don’t mind” Shining asked, as he started circling around Chrysalis, like a predator stalking some prey.

Chrysalis was about to response, when Cadence started nibbling on the ear again, causing the changeling to moan. Recognising his wife’s voice of pleasure, shining laughed “I’ll take that as a yes!” He started gently outlining the cutie mark on fake cadences flank “Love. The very essence of both of you.” and he gently kissed the heart. But as he did his hoof started moving across towards the general dock area. “But I guess I should be checking every part of you to see if there are any other differences than magic auras”

Meanwhile, Cadence had started using her tongue to tease Chrysalis’s ear. Being an exact copy of the princess, who knew her own ears were very sensitive, the changeling found the sensation very different to normal. Her mind was focused on this when suddenly a soft brush of a hoof across one of her teats brought her attention downwards.

Noticing that their playthings attention had instantly switched to her husband's actions, Cadence decided to up the ante. Gently removing her mouth from the ear, Cadence used a hoof to turn the changelings face towards her, and looking deeply in her excited eyes, leant her muzzle forwards until their lips met.

The Princess of Love had never kissed a mare before, and had only kissed one pony in the past few hundred years – Shining Armour, who always took the lead. However, with Chrysalis a little shy at the current situation she found herself in, Cadence had to take point. The lips met, and the pair only applied gentle pressure as they both processed their feelings. Whilst there wasn’t the raw passion that she shared with the stallion, or even her lover as a nervous colt, there was a more tender intimacy.

However, with Shining’s hoof teasing Chrysalis teats, she was a little more eager than Cadence and began to flick at Cadences lip with her tongue. Cadence let the changelings attempts to part her lips succeed, and Chrysalis dove in for a more passionate embrace, but Cadence fought back to keep it slower…as far as the Princess was concerned they had all night. She had been imprisoned away from her groom for weeks by the Queen, so Chrysalis could wait a little while for what the pair were going to do to her.

Shining continued playing with one of the changelings teats as he watched the two wives making out for a while, not really feeling left out as he could see his wife was enjoying the experiment. But the stallion did want in as well, and decided that the current positioning was less than optimal. With his military training he scoped out the landscape, and taking into account the relative advantages and disadvantages of various locations for engagement, he settled on the optimal place to set up camp.

“Well, if I aim to check this wonderful body over, I need a better angle” he confidently purred. He lifted his toy a little into the air with his magic, slowly enough that Cadence could flare her wings and hover. Shining slowly moved the Queen over to the royal couple’s large bed, the princess flying as to keep her lips locked onto their prey.

Chrysalis mind was working a mile a minute as she was being gently carried through the air. Only moments ago the stallion was threatening to attack her, and now he was carrying her towards the bed he usually shared with his wife. And said wife was flying to keep her lips locked on hers. Paranoid thoughts of the whole thing being a set up for an attack did flit through her thoughts, but the excitement of what was to come forced any negative thoughts out.

As the trio reached the bed Cadence broke the kiss much to everypony’s dismay. She jumped up and propped herself up against the headboard with a number of the many cushions on the bed. Shining slowly flipped and then lowered his cargo, and Chrysalis found herself lying with the princess on her back, her head resting on Cadences shoulder and the Alicorn’s hooves gently hugging her from behind. Cadence also wrapped her legs around the queens, embracing the copy closely into her body.

“Don’t worry, we’ll look after you” Cadence cooed into her likenesses ear, and started licking and sucking on Chrysalis neck. The queen wanted to close her eyes and be lost in the moment, but equally she wanted to watch what Shining was about to do. He jumped up onto the bed, and stood over the lower half of the changeling’s body, looking the changeling in the eyes.

“Well, I know this face is the same, so let’s check out the rest of you shall we?” He lay down gently on top on the queen and started kissing the changeling’s neck on the other side to his wife. Chrysalis eyes involuntary closed as the two lovers planted kisses and licks on her alicorn neck, whilst in the middle of a Royal sandwich.

Whilst she had been with mares and stallions before, the changeling had never had more then lover at the same time. It wasn't something she had ever thought about before, as there had always been three in any relationship she had previously had; her, the creature she was fooling and the creature she was impersonating.

Shining started moving his kissing lower, creeping down the shoulder and shifting his body down a little so he could start kissing the queens chest. Chrysalis tried to raise her hooves to embrace the stallion, but found that Cadence’s hug was keeping them pinned to her side. It wasn't in a forceful way and definitely not designed to prevent her from resisting, but they were holding her close. Cadence felt the changeling shifting a little, and raised her muzzle back to the changelings ear “Just lay here sweetie, let us take good care of you”

Chrysalis wanted to turn and kiss the princess, but in the position should found herself all she could do is close her eyes as Cadence started licking her ear again. Shining continued to slowly move down the changelings disguised body, until he reached two very familiar mounds. The stallion paused for a second as he realises what he was about to do, but seeing his wife enjoying herself with their guest, he decided to carry on.

Shining started teasing one Chrysalis teats his mouth, receiving a well-known moan of acceptance from the mare under him. Chrysalis tried to writhe in pleasure, but Cadence kept her close. The changelings wings had become hard in response and soon found them being stroked by Cadences magic, a soft gentle motion designed to sooth the tension rather invoke further passion.

Seeing his wife using her magic to play with their night’s entertainment, Shining moved her mouth to the other teat but started using his magic to tease the first his mouth had just vacated. Chrysalis just mumbled incoherently as her mind was being overwhelmed by the attention of two mouths, and two magic auras. As the threesome lay on the bed with the wedded couple pleasuring their visitor, the heat of the three bodies steaming up the castle's windows, the passion from within the room a stark contrast to the cold weather outside.

With two ponies pleasuring her, Chrysalis would have been happy to lay in that blissful state forever, and her mind just let itself go. However, shortly after a warm breath rushed across her marehood bringing her attention back to what was going on...and that there was more to come. Cadence saw her husbands position and moved her legs inside the queens, before slowly parting them making the changeling legs spread out before her husband.

Shining sniffed the moist flesh in front of him “I see some pony is ready for what I have for them!” and proceeded blow air out of his muzzle forcibly again, making warm air sweep teasingly across the close to dripping lips. Chrysalis tried to arch her back but cadence kept her close to her with her hooves and whispered gently in her ear again "Relax, you're in safe hooves"

Whilst a part of shining wanted to torment the changeling all night, a more primal part was eager to proceed. The stallion lifted his hoof and gently rubbed it across the exposed marehood, slowly coating it with the changeling’s juices. He continued to rub the flesh and from the familiar moans, groans and rate of breathing from his wifes double, he knew just how pleasurable it was to the Queen.

Shining then used his aura to separate the soft flesh gently, allowing direct access to the princesses pearl. Chrysalis looked down with a little fear as Shining gently used his magic to slowly tease the little bud in an upward motion, causing the Queen to buck her hips in pleasure. Cadence whispered softly into Chrysalis’s ear again to relax her and used one of her hooves to gently stroke the other mares face, the other foreleg still holding her close and her hind legs keeping the Queens own legs apart. Chrysalis was being held in a complete submissive state by the Princess, but out of love rather than force.

Shining then proceeding to massage the exposed bud with his hoof, causing waves of intense pleasure to wash over the Queen. Chrysalis felt different than the last time Shining was touching her intimately, and she realised it was because she wan’t controlling him. The stallion wanted to pleasure her, even if she did look like somepony else. But with Cadence’s attention on her as well, and the princess actually helping the stallion she was surrounded by the power of two beings absolutely in love.

After a few minutes of this, the Queen was rapidly approaching her orgasm when Shining removed his hoof and slowly released his aura from the changelings flesh. Chrysalis looked down towards the stallion with lust in her eyes.

“Awww, you look just like my Cadence when she’s begging for me.” Shining smiled warmly

“Do I really look as cute as that? Cadence replied from the head of the changeling, causing Chrysalis to look over at her with the same soft and slightly confused look “No wonder you can’t keep you eyes of me”

Cadence had been content to watch up to now, but her own body was requesting to get in on the action. She gently pushed herself from under the changeling body, using her magic to keep the changeling in place as she arranged some pillows before placing the queen back down. The alicorn then delicately jumped up onto the bed, and stood over the changeling, facing her husband. Shining lifted his body and met his wife’s lips.

Chrysalis lay under the kissing pair, recovering from her previous attention slightly whilst also seeing the intimate areas of the royal couple. Despite the lack of direct attention, there was a faint wetness visible on Cadence’s revered marehood, so obviously the Princess had been excited by what had happened so far. And Shining’s royal shaft was fully extended and ready for use. To the Queen it looked bigger than before, but it may be the angle the queen was looking at it.

Cadence lowered her body over the changelings face, and the queen found a tempting marehood moving towards her muzzle. Chrysalis lifted her head slightly and met the princess’s lips with her own. Cadence settled herself down over the Queen, making sure she could comfortably squat without either crushing the queens face, or leaving her marehood too far away to get the attention it deserved.

Meanwhile, happy that his wife was receiving some pleasure, Shining attention turned back to the likeness underneath him, and his engorged member made itself known that it was ready. He shifted his body again, and lined up his hips a little nervously. Shining had only had sex with one mare in his life, his beloved Cadence. Okay, technically two he thought to himself as he readied himself I’ve done this before, even if I didn't know it Remembering that his wife had given him permission, and with his body eager for the bucking that awaited it, he moved forwards.

Chrysalis gasped as shining’s rod entered her, a feeling she hadn't had for a few months. The artificial phallus Twilight had used on her didn't compare to a real stallions member, and Shining was a particularly fine example. As he began his outwards movement, Chrysalis forced her attention to the mare above her. Cadence was kind enough to share her husband, I better repay her for that she thought as she teased the princesses slit.

Cadence tasted very different to what she expected – it was a cliché for non pony creatures to really understand, but the candy coloured ponies really did taste and smell as they looked. Therefore, being a pink princess of love, Chrysalis was expecting a very sweet taste. But the mare was surprisingly sour – not in a horrible way, more like sherbet, but definitely not what she had anticipated.

The thought soon left her mind as Shining started driving back into her, causing Chrysalis to moan in pleasure at the same time Cadence decided to do the same. Having heard a stereo production of the sound he loved most, his wife sigh of pleasure, Shining took that as a sign to continue. Shining lifted his head and the royal couple kissed as he continued his movements inside of Chrysalis. The trio formed a triangle of love, with every one of them experiencing something new.

Cadence mind was becoming as befuddled as her lookalike. She had dreamed of having more than one lover all her life and in particular during the dry centuries since her previous husband. But she never felt a threesome was likely to happen – finding one pony special enough for an Alicorn to mate with was hard enough, let alone two. Now it was finally happening, and millennia of fantasies were coming true, her hormones were on overdrive.

With the pleasure nearing its peak, Chrysalis's attention wandered away from Cadences marehood, causing her to cease her pleasuring of the goddess of love. Shining noticed this and slowed his actions to a near stop, causing the queen to whimper a little being so close, and the stallion withdrew his lips from his wife's.

“Keep going sweetie” Shining reminded in a soft but forceful tone “Else I will stop right here and now!”

The threat of missing out on the upcoming orgasm helped to refocus the changeling’s energy back onto the crystal princess, and the changeling attacked her prey with newfound vigour, only matched by that the thrusts from the captain of the guards. With the princesses intimate area right in front of her, and caught up in the moment, Chrysalis couldn't resist but taking a feeding from the mare. It wasn't a big drain, she was pretty full from feeding from Twilight, but the queen found herself falling back to old habits.

After a few more moments Cadence, finding herself having the least to do except keeping herself positioned over their plaything and reflect on her fantasies, came first. She screamed out in ecstasy as her her body convulsed in pleasure and the princess nearly fell over from her awkward position. Shining used his magic to help levitate his wife safely onto the bed and she slumped next to her doppelganger.

A few moments later, with the taste of her former captive coating her mouth and with her former brainwashed stallion thrusting into her, Chrysalis came. She called Prince Armours name as the aftershocks racked her body, completely lost in the moment. It only took a few more thrusts for the stallion to join the mare pair in the blissful state of orgasm, although unfortunately for the male his was much shorter.

Allowing himself a moment to recover from his exertions, he looked at the two versions of his wife panting in exhaustion and a great feeling washed over him. The stallion withdrew from Chrysalis and got himself off the bed, shaking a little from his tired legs. He went over to a nearby table and poured himself a drink of water from a pitcher, which he quickly downed. He then poured two more glasses, and brought them over to the bed in his aura.

By now both Cadences had propped themselves up and took the drinks from the stallion, thanking him in unison much to his amusement. They both sipped their drinks delicately, as a princess should, and a quiet silence filled the room.

“Well…that was…different” Chrysalis, still in the princesses form, eventually broke the pregnant pause. The real married couple looked at each other, the love flowing between their eyes.

Shining laughed “I know it’s been Cadences fantasy before my great, great, great…etc…grandfather was born” which caused the immortal princess to blush “So as her faithful current husband it was a pleasure to make it happen..and a pleasure in itself of course!”

Cadence put one of her hooves in the changeling’s “I know we should have really asked you first, but we sort of got caught up in the moment…forgive us?”

“Are you crazy? That was wonderful!” the changeling replied

“It certainly felt wonderful” Cadence added “I've never been with a mare before, it was exactly as I expected!”

“What about you Shining, I hope you got to enjoy it and wasn’t freaked out by our…lets call it history?” Chrysalis asked

Shining stood up on his hind hooves “I got to make out with my Princess wife whilst bucking another version of my Princess wife, all the while one of the princesses ate out the other. That’s like beyond every stallion wildest dreams squared!” Once he had finished his boast, he added “Look Chrysalis, I know we have had our history but I would rather let bygones be…” Shining stopped me sentence and turned to his real wife “Are you okay honey?”

“I do feel a little more drained than usual!” Cadence added, stifling a yawn.

The queen took a breath “Sorry, that would be me. I…fed off you towards the end. I didn't mean to, but I couldn't resist sampling your love” Chrysalis apologised to Cadence

“It’s nothing to worry about…I would have let you anyway as you’ll need to keep your strength up. Especially if you want to last the month with both of us” she winked at the end.

Chrysalis turned away and the confused pair watched as she started weeping into her hooves.

“Why are you crying?” Cadence asked, letting a wing drape over her likeness.

“Thank you…just thank you” she sobbed, trying to breath “…thank you both. I never expected such a reception from any ponies. I especially don't deserve it from you two – I half expected to be locked in a dungeon by the new rulers of the crystal empire!”

“Hey, that’s what we good guys do isn’t it? Redemption, second chances, all that sort of thing?” Shining replied, lying down on the other side of the real Cadence.

“Yeah, I mean the dungeon only for us two to use!” Cadence replied, giving Shining and then Chrysalis a peck on the cheek. The three of them laughed a little as tiredness washed over them. Feeling very comfortable laying as a threesome, they spooned each other from changeling through mare to stallion, and settled in for Luna’s night.

Chrysalis, still in Cadences form, started drifting off to sleep, but guilty thoughts entered her mind. The previous night she had spent with Twilight and they had discussed being more than just friends. But within a day she had slept with her brother and sister-in-law, and now was spending the night with them. Perhaps she was as evil as she had always been?

That night Chrysalis had a nightmare for the first time sense the failed coup – when her subjects were starving she often feared she wouldn't find them a suitable source of love. Now her nightmares were filled with hurting the ponies who had helped her…and possibly one who really loved her.