“Twilight,” Applejack’s voice said as it pierced the unicorn’s slumber.

The mare in question grumbled out a response that resembled “five more minutes”.

Twilight heard a huff and then a hoof roughly jabbed her in the side.

“Twi, get up right now, There is something you have to see.”

“Ughhhh,” Twilight groaned as her eyes blearily blinked open, “what?”

Applejack’s eyes looked into Twilight’s in a slightly annoyed expression,

“Twilight, follow me.”

With that said the farmer turned around and made her way over to the library’s balcony. Twilight sighed and stumbled off the bed, her entire body felt sore. She looked behind her and saw that Asmodeus and Luna were the only ones still left on the bed. It was just before dawn, sunlight barely starting to creep above the horizon.

After a few quick stretches Twilight headed out the balcony door to see her two friends standing just outside. A few steps after they came into view, she saw what the two of them were staring at.

Celestia stood serenely near the railing, her eyes closed as her chest moved back and forth in deep breaths. Her mane was waving calmly in a non existent breeze, and the air was totally silent around her. Ponyville itself was still sound asleep, nary a single pony was out on the streets.

Twilight stepped up next to her friends, taking care to not make a single sound to ruin the moment. The two athletes gave the unicorn small smiles as she took a comfortable place in between them. Twilight opened her mouth to ask what exactly they were doing out here but she was quickly shushed.

For a few minutes they stood there together, waiting to see was the Solar Princess was going to do.

“Remember this moment,” a voice suddenly spoke from behind them.

The three jumped slightly as Princess Luna stepped up behind them, appearing completely cleansed from the previous nights activities.

“For you three are about to witness something very few mortals are ever given the chance to see.”

With a particularly deep breath, the Celestia’s began to glow a golden hue, slowing increasing in intensity until it looked like a miniature sun. An aura of power began to fill the air, causing the mare’s fur to stand on end. It was not an uncomfortable feeling, it carried a more maternal feel, protective and ancient. Their mane’s were being fluttered around as currents of magic began to flow around them.

The three mare’s mouth dropped as the sun began to crawl above the horizon, stray arcs of its light piercing the remaining darkness. The entire town seemed to be glowing, for some reason the sunrise seemed even more amazing than usual. Ponyville was gradually illuminated in the golden light as the residents of the small town began to awaken.

“Whoa….” Rainbow said softly.

“Eeyup,” Applejack softly agreed.

None of them knew how long they stood there, but eventually the blanket of power in the area gradually disappeared and Celestia’s horn’s glow dimmed to nothing. The princess heaved a final sigh and turned around to face her audience with a smile on her face,

“Good morning my little ponies, lets go back inside shall we?”

The ponies nodded as they followed Luna back inside with Celestia following, there really wasn’t anything else to say. With a soft glow of her horn, the Solar Princess closed the door behind them. A sudden string of giggles suddenly affected the group as they caught sight of the archdemon still on the bed.

Asmodeus was on his back, tongue hanging out of his open mouth with a string of drool leaking from it. One of his forelegs was held loosely against his chest, but the other was all stretched out, reaching for a corner of the bed. His back legs were spread wide in a pose that could be taken for something less than clean.

Twilight’s turned her head to look at Celestia and her mirth slowly died as she noticed the sad smile on her mentor’s face.

“Princess?” Twilight asked hesitantly.

Rainbow and Applejack noticed Twilight’s tone and looked over at her in confusion. Their smiles slowly died down as well as they caught sight of the princess.

“Lets let him sleep,” Celestia said after she licked her lips, “come downstairs, there are a few things you should know about our resident archdemon.”

Sharing nervous glances, Twilight, Applejack, and Rainbow quietly made their way down stairs to the mane room of the library. The two princesses followed them, taking care to make as little noise as possible.

When they were all in the main room Celestia motioned for them all to sit down. With only a slightly awkward silence, they all soon did.

Heaving a heavy sigh, Celestia began.

“Demons are creatures of emotion. Their passions are what makes them strong, but it also means that they suffer and revel through things that not you nor I could never fully understand. The sheer depth of their emotions pale in comparison to what we have,” her voice was soft, with a small leakage of emotion in it.

“Asmodeus’ strongest emotion is obviously Lust. The bliss you feel when he has sex with you is no more to what is coursing through him as a candle is to the sun. That does not need much explanation,” she took a breath and continued, “Over his lifetime he has learned how to reign most of his emotions under control. Sloth, Greed, and Gluttony are little more than footnotes in his mind. Now, his pride is obvious, as he has a lot of things to be proud about. But, his skills at pleasing mares are not what he considers his greatest achievement,” she gave the mares a small smile, “that lies in his ability to bring ponies together through sex. Seeing ponies admit their desire for each other, and preferably act on it, are his greatest joys in life,” her smile suddenly disappeared.

“Which brings me to envy…..” she paused for a long moment, “He is jealous of us, jealous of everything from the squirrels in the Everfree to the ponies in this town. He is jealous because they can love. One of the few emotions he can’t feel..I’m sure this topic has already come up at some point hasn’t it?”

“Mmhmm” Twilight nodded, “at dinner two nights ago we talked about it a little bit. How he can’t have ‘romantic feelings’ towards other ponies...”

Celestia licked her lips,

“A gross oversimplification, but it gets the message across….. There are no real metaphors for what love is to Asmodeus. He understands the concept of it, but little more… It is something he can never have, that fact is ingrained into his very being, but for millennia he has been bringing ponies together. Neither me nor Luna know exactly why, but we think he is convinced that if he sees enough love, he could someday experience it,” her voice turned low, “he wants to love us, it is clear as day, but he can’t. And none of us can understand what is truly going on inside his head.”

“So what do we do princess?” Twilight asked.

“The only thing we can do Twilight, give him our friendship, that is something he understands. But please, do not let this ruin your time with him, as it will probably be some of the best in your life. I am telling you this so you can understand his actions.”

Rainbow scratched her head in thought,

“So hes trying to get us special someponies?”

“In a way yes, but it is more ‘getting you ready’ for special someponies.”

“Sister,” Luna interrupted, “it is time we return to Canterlot. The guards will no doubt be perturbed if we do not return on time.”

Celestia nodded and turned back the ponies,

“I’m sorry but I Royal Duties do call,” she looked pointedly at Twilight, “I shall return soon, as we have to have talk about our… changed relationship.”

“YYYeeeaaa,” Twilight responded,

With that said, the Princesses stood up and walked to an open space on the library floor.

“Luna!” Rainbow suddenly called out, “I totally forgot, but we totally have to go flying sometime. Asmodeus said you used to go all the time.”

Luna actually looked surprised,

“Tis been a long time since I have flown for fun. I.. look forward to it Rainbow Dash.”

“We can work out the details later,” Rainbow replied with a smile, “until then practice. Just because you’re a princess doesn’t mean I’m going to go easy on you.”

Luna giggled slightly,

“You have quite the mouth, we shall see if your skills match it.”

WIth that final business taken care of, goodbyes and farewells were soon said. With a final wave of their horns, the two Princesses disappeared in a flash of light.

“So,” Rainbow said, “should we wake the big guy up?”

“Nah, lets make some breakfast and call him when its done,” Applejack replied.

“Alright… so how about waffles?” Twilight asked.

“Seems good,” both of the athletes replied.

***

It was a about 20 minutes later when Twilight heard a call from the dining room.

“Twilight? Applejack?” Rainbow said, confusion evident in her voice, “umm… can you guys come out here for a second?”

The unicorn looked over at the earth pony, both of them had small splatters of waffle mix on them. Twilight had looked for some aprons, but Spike had taken his, and that left nothing else.

Applejack shrugged.

“I’ll go check.”

And with that, the farmer turned and trotted out the door. It was only a few seconds after that that the Applejack’s voice came back through.

“Twilight, you seriously have to come and see this,” a light chuckle accompanied it.

Sighing, Twilight made her way out the door and immediately wanted to burst out in laughter.

Rainbow was standing near the table, halfway through setting it, with Asmodeus pressed up against her side, nuzzling her enthusiastically. It was much in the same way that a cat would. He buried his face in her mane, sniffing deeply as he ran his snout through it.

“Asmodeus, dude, what are you doing?” Rainbow asked, her tone somewhere between amusement and worry.

“Sooooo colorful..” Asmodeus slurred, his voice sounding exceedingly excited for what the situation called for.

“Rainbow, did you do…. something?” Twilight inquired with a cocked head.

“No! I was setting the table and he just started! I didn’t even hear him until he was right next to meEE!!!,” the mare’s voice climbed a few octaves higher when Asmodeus nipped at a particularly sensitive spot on the back of her neck.

“Errmm. Asmodeus?” Applejack said, “You okay there sugarcube?”

Upon hearing his name the less-sane-than-usual archdemon turned to look at the farmer. When his eyes alighted upon her, his face broke out into a big goofy grin as he trotted eagerly to her.

“Whoa nelly!” Applejack shouted as she was suddenly tackled by the demon’s massive bulk.

Asmodeus ended up on top of the mare, who was looking up at him with a great deal of confusion. Without ceremony the demon leaned down and began nipping the farmer all along her neck. Applejack immediately broke out into great gales of laughter.

“Stop that!”, a particularly loud series of guffaws erupted from her mouth, “that tickles!”

Rainbow took this opportunity to make her way quickly over to Twilight.

“Twi? Do you have any idea what in the hay is up with him? Cause I got nothing.”

“Errmm, I’ll go send a note to the Princess, maybe she’ll know what the problem is.”

“Alright,” Rainbow said, “so what do we do for now?”

Twilight shrugged,

“I don’t know. Just keep him busy,” as she finished her sentence she started to basically run up the stairs towards her bedroom.

“How in the hay am I supposed to do hat!?” Rainbow called out after her, but received no response in return.

Biting her lip she turned back around. Applejack was still under the demon, wriggling mightly as she fought to escape from the ticklish prison, but the bulk of Asmodeus was easily holding the mare down.

“Umm.. you take care of him AJ, I’m going to go see if there is something in the kitchen.”

“Dash!” Applejack called out, “You get your flank back here!”

“I’m sorry can’t hear you!”

While Applejack started to call Rainbow every name under the sun, Twilight was pulling open a special drawer in her desk. Contained inside it was a bottle of Spike’s dragon fire, enough to be able to send one letter in case of emergencies. Somewhere in the back of her mind, Twilight wondered if suspiciously affectionate and childish archdemons actually counted as as emergency, but it got the benefit of the doubt.

Due to Twilights insatiable attitude for organization, it didn’t take long to find it at all, and Twilight quickly scribbled out a short note.

Dear Princess,

Asmodeus is acting really weird right now, as in hes acting like an overgrown cat. Do you have any idea what this is? While this is rather entertaining, we want to know if there is actually anything wrong. I’m sorry to disturb you, but I don’t know how serious this actually is.

Twilight Sparkle

The note written, Twilight popped the cock off of the bottle and poured the flame out of it. Upon contact with the paper, the fire immediately consumed it, sending it off to Celestia on a stream of magic.

Twilight hardly managed to turn around before there was a flash of light behind her. She immediately turned back around to see Luna,

“Greetings Twilight Sparkle, Tia has sent me to answer your inquiry.”

Twilight sighed in relief,

“Oh thank you, I hope its nothing bad.”

Luna shook her head,

“Tis nothing to be worried about. He is merely going through one of the quirks of being an incubus.”

Twilight cocked her head,

“Quirks?”

“Please, lead us to our archdemon, we’ll explain when all of us are present.”

Twilight nodded and led the Lunar Princess back downstairs. When they reached the base of the stairs they caught sight of an affectionate archdemon and two rather amused looking ponies.

Rainbow, Applejack, and Asmodeus were all laying on their bellies on the floor. The two mares were on either side of the archdemon, who was enthusiastically nuzzling both of the mares. With a slight giggle Twilight realized that Asmodeus was actually purring. The heavy sound was coming from deep in his chest, reverberating through the entire room.

“Hey Twi!” Rainbow said, “I know I thought this was annoying at first, but hes actually pretty cute like this.”

The mare punctuated her statement by giving the demon a little scratch under his chin. The demon smiled in delight as Rainbow giggled.

Luna chose this moment to make her presence known.

“Tis certainly is amusing, isn’t it? Tis has been a long time since we have seen him in such a state.”

“Oh, hey Luna, good to see you again!” came Applejack’s casual greeting.

“Yes, tis hast been a horrible half an hour without you,” Luna replied with a smile.

Applejack chuckled and Luna continued,

“Now, onto why Asmodeus is acting like he is,” she cleared her throat, “we are not sure how much you remember of last night, specifically the end.”

All three mares cast their minds back, but all they were able to recall was a wall of white.

“Yes well, Tia thought it would be smart to cast an old ‘orgasm enhancing’ spell, but she didn’t account for the ambient magic in your nethers Twilight,” the unicorn blushed heavily, “and that increased the potency of the spell exponentially. Our resulting orgasms released so much sexual energy that even Asmodeus’ body was incapable of processing all of it.”

“So, hes essentially...” Twilight said.

“Drunk,” Luna finished, “yes, for all intents and purposes, Asmodeus is drunk. Or in more modern terms, he is completely smashed.”

Rainbow broke out into gales of laughter,

“This is hilarious!”

“Not.. really,” Asmodeus slurred.

The four other ponies in the room looked at him in mild shock, he was suddenly much more lucid.

“This.. is the closest I’ll ever get to feeling what love actually is,” the ponies cocked their heads, Luna didn’t, “Wherever there is lust energy, a minute amount of it is converted into love. The vast amount in me means that I can feel just the smallest semblance, the tiniest trace, of what love really feels like. I can almost see it right now, hovering just outside my grasp,” he let out a sad breath as his eyes began to water, “its not fair,” he licked his lips and gave the ponies an empty smile, “it is my blessing, and my curse. I will never have to suffer the death of a loved one, but I will never know what one truly is.”

The lucidity of Asmodeus’ face suddenly disappeared and he let out a loud yawn. He looked blearily around for a few seconds before laying his head down on the floor.

The ponies looked around in silence at each other, before leveling questioning looks at Luna. The princess merely shrugged.

“He comes and goes in this state, but it would be best to let him sleep for now.”

They quietly made their way back into the kitchen, leaving a slumbering Asmodeus behind. Silently they sat around the dining table.

Twilight sighed and looked at the princess,

“Is there anything we can do for him?” she asked.

Luna shook her head sadly,

“No there is not. Me and Tia have been searching for millennia, and we have found nothing.”

Rainbow slammed her hooves down on the table,

“There has to be bucking something!” she pointed a hoof towards the door that led to the demon, “he deserves something.”

Luna sighed, millennia of sadness escaping with it,

“He does Rainbow Dash, more than anypony else in Equestria he does. This... drunkenness is addicting to him. There have been a few times through the millennias he has wallowed in this state for decades, desperate for the barest shred of real love. This is his greed, this obsession, and he was worked hard to control it.”

“Golly,” Applejack said softly. “would have never thought.”

Luna smiled slightly,

“There is a lot more to him than one would think, our little archdemon.”

“Not so little,” Rainbow commented softly.

The group shared a quiet chuckle.

“But, as I said before. Do not let this ruin your time with him,” Luna continued, “for seeing you happy is the greatest joy you can give him.”

Luna’s eyes suddenly zeroed in on something over Twilight’s shoulder,

“Are those waffles?”

***

It was a fair bit of time later, and the ponies were halfway through breakfast. Their attitude had swiftly picked up after the revelations of the morning, but it did still have a presence in their minds.

Luna was currently telling the girls a story of when Asmodeus was is Princess Platinum’s harem. At first the girls were surprised to find out that one of the leaders of the old tribes had a harem, but soon were giggling as the tale descended into all the pranks Asmodeus ended up pulling on her. THe demon didn’t like the ancient unicorn much.

All of a sudden, Luna let out a loud “eep!” and looked to the floor below her in shock.

Laying on the ground next to her was Asmodeus, who some how managed to sneak up on the ponies without them noticing. He had a goofy grin on his face and was idly pawing at Luna’s flowing tail.

Luna turned a slightly scolding look towards him, but the demon just chuckled lightly.

“Hehe.. Moonbutt.”

Luna blushed a furious red as the girls looked at her in an expression of hilarious shock.

“Moonbutt?” Rainbow cackled, “does that mean Celestia is Sunbutt?”

Luna glared at the pegasus, but sadly the effect was ruined by the smile creeping onto her face.

“Tis an old nickname,” the princess explained, “but not a particularly creative one.”

“Gets the point across though,” Applejack commented.

Just then a stream of smoke flew into the room, convalescing into a single rolled up scroll. Luna caught it in her magic and unfurled it, her eyes quickly scanning its contents. The Lunar Princess let out an audible groan,

“Blasted nobles,” she muttered before looking back to the ponies, “sadly, I must be off, sister requires my assistance.

The Princess stood up and walked to the open area in the main room of the library. She was followed by the the girls, who were going to bid her goodbye for the second time that morning. Luna turned around agve gave them a wide smile

“Farewell, I look forward to seeing you three again.”

The ponies said their goodbyes, and with a smile the Lunar Princess teleported away.

Rainbow turned to Twilight to say something, but a bang from the kitchen interrupted her.

“Almost forgot these,” they heard Luna mutter, and once again they heard the sound of teleporting.

The three ponies returned to the kitchen to see the plate that was piled high with waffles was nowhere to be found, but to their surprise there was a lucid looking Asmodeus looking at the table. He gave them a plaintive stare on the way in,

“I got drunk again didn’t I?”

The girls nodded,

“freaking smashed,” Rainbow said softly.

The demon groaned and his head hit the table with a soft thump,

“What did I say?”

The girls licked their lips,

“Ummm.. love came up a lot,” Twilight offered hesitantly.

“Ugghhhhh…” the demon picked his head up and looked at the girls apologetically, “I’m sorry, the last thing I wanted to do was bring my troubles into your lives.”

Twilight immediately dove forward and wrapped the demon in a deep hug, Applejack and Rainbow Dash quickly followed suit.

:You’re our friend,” Twilight declared.

“And what kind of friends would we be if we didn’t care about your problems?” Applejack said.

Asmodeus gave them a grateful smile,

“Thank you.”

The girls hugged him a tad tighter.

Sadly, the moment was ruined by a knock at the door, which was quickly followed by a mutual groan from the ponies inside.

Grumbling, Rainbow made her way to the door where she threw it open with a hostile,

“What!?”

Standing outside was a very afraid looking Thunder Lane. The stallion opened and closed his mouth a few times, but found himself speechless as the sight of his enraged boss.

Rainbow, seeing his expression, immediately took a deep breath and calmed herself,

“What?” this time much more neighborly.

“Errmm.. theres some stray clouds moving in from the Everfree. They could uhhh.. turn into a storm if we don’t go and bust them up right now.”

Rainbow sighed,

“Dammit.”

“Is there a problem Rainbow?” Asmodeus called out from over her shoulder, peeking his head out from the door that led to the kitchen.

Thunder Lane blanched slightly at the demon’s imposing figure, and straightened out his posture in order to look a tad more muscular.

“No,” Rainbow said over her shoulder, “just some weather stuff I gotta go take care of, if it ends up raining today I’m gonna have a ton of paperwork to do.”

“Ahh,” the demon said as he walked up to the mare, “well, good luck.”

The two of them nuzzled tenderly and turned back to Thunder Lane, who was doing his best to look as masculine as possible, not an easy thing to do when face to face with an archdemon.

“Alright, see ya Asmodeus,” Rainbow turned and shouted into the library, “Gotta go girls! Weather stuff!”

“Alright, bye!” the two mares responded, busy with the final cleaning of the kitchen.

With the goodbyes done, Rainbow trotted out and swiftly took to the skies, followed by the black stallion. After watching the prismatic mare go for a few seconds, Asmodeus turned back around to come face to face with Applejack,

“Gotta get around you there pardner, the farms a callin.”

“Trying to get away from me too Applejack?”

The farmer rolled her eyes and pushed him out of the way,

“Calm down, I’ll be back tonight.”

Asmodeus chuckled and nuzzled the farmer as she passed him.

After watching her go, the demon turned around to see Twilight standing there.

“Don’t tell me you’re leaving as well,” he said dryly

Twilight rolled her eyes.

“No, theres just no more breakfast for you, so we’re going to go to out to get something to eat.”

“I don’t have to eat you know,” Asmodeus said.

Twilight gave him a look that brokered no argument,

“You’re going, and theres a pony you have to meet anyway.”

Asmodeus sighed and followed the mare out onto the street, in his entire life he had never won an argument against a mare, it was simply impossible.

“So we are we going?” Asmodeus asked Twilight as she led him out onto the early morning streets.

Ponyville itself was well into the process of waking up, with a few ponies leaving their homes for their jobs already. Neighborly greetings drifted with the morning breeze, giving the town a very comfy feel.

“Sugar Cube Corner,” the mare responded as they rounded a corner. The house of confectionary delights literally leapt into view, its bright colors in stark contrast to the early morning light.

“That seems… sugary,” he commented.

“Well it is a bakery,” Twilight responded, “but the coffee there in unbelievable, and I could use a scone.”

“Didn’t you eat already?”

He got another look.

With soft thunks as their hooves hit the wooden steps, Twilight pushed open the door to the establishment. An explosion of activity and sound rolled over the two of them, there were far more ponies inside the bakery that Asmodeus had expected. A few looked up as they entered, and surprisingly the only response was some welcoming smiles and greetings.

Granted a few mares stared at the hunky archdemon a tad longer than what was appropriate, but stares Asmodeus could deal with.

Suddenly, a veritable wall of pink appeared in front of him,

“Oh my gosh! Twilight!” an extremely high pitched voice cried out, “How come did you didn’t tell me you had a new friend!”

Asmodeus realized that the wall turned out to be a pony. The pink mare soon backed away, bringing her bright blue eyes and poofy pink mane into vision.

“I’m Pinkie Pie! Whats your name!” the pony said to him, practically bursting with energy.

“Asmodeus”

“Oh wow thats such a cool name! I wish my name was that cool! How long have you been here! I have to throw a party for you!”,’ as she said this she was practically bouncing in place.

“Pinkie,” Twilight said, “stop.”

The mare immediately ceased motion and looked at the unicorn.

“Hes been here for a few days, and you do not have to throw a party for him.”

Pinkie leveled a piercing glare at the mare,

“Ohh, so you already threw him a private party didn’t you Twilight?”

The unicorn immediately started stammering as a blush invaded her face. Pinkie Pie just giggled,

“It must have been especially fun with Rainbow and Applejack there too.”

“How did you know about that?”

“Well duh silly,” Pinkie replied as she bopped Twilight on the muzzle, “you think I’m the only one that heard the screams?”

Twilight blanched and looked around the restaurant, and sure enough a few ponies were hiding knowing smiles behind breakfast confectionaries.

“Oh relax, so everypony knows you had some fun! No pony cares!”

It seemed as if that Twilight was about to have a mental breakdown, but instead she just took a deep breath and calmed herself.

“Alright, is there an open table Pinkie?”

Asmodeus looked at the unicorn with approval.

“Uh huh!” Pinkie said as she motioned towards a recently vacated table.

Smiling gratefully, Asmodeus and Twilight sat down.

“I’ll be right back to take your orders!” Pinkie said as she dashed away to take care of some other customers.

Asmodeus watched the pink pony bounce around the restaurant in rapt fascination, which didn’t go unnoticed by Twilight.

“Is something wrong?” the unicorn asked.

“Your friend,” Asmodeus said, “is the most perfect blending of chaotic and harmonious magic I have ever seen.”

Twilight’s brow furrowed as she looked at her friend in confusion,

“What do you mean?”

“Look at her!” Asmodeus declared as it was the most obvious thing in the world, “she is probably the world's only self-perpetuating machine!”

Twilight gave him another look.

Asmodeus sighed,

“Watch her, she basically voids all common sense. She breaks the laws of physics, the universe, everything. This is chaotic magic, this breaking gives her immense stores of energy. And she uses this energy to form bonds of friendship between ponies, which in turn creates more energy. And then the cycle repeats. Its nothing short of amazing. She is somehow keeping two forms of energy, that are extremely unstable together, in complete and total balance.”

Twilight cocked her head,

“Really? That makes sense, but I’m not really seeing it. Pinkie is an Element of Harmony, thats not very chaotic.”

Asmodeus leveled a serious stare at Twilight,

“Twilight, I am an avatar of demonic magic, but I can use other types. Do not make the mistake of thinking that the universe is so black and white.”

The unicorn gave him an apologetic look, but a pink blur interrupted further conversation,

“I’m back! So what can I get you!”

Asmodeus looked at the mare and thought for a bit,

“Do you have any hot chocolate?”

****

It was almost three quarters of an hour later now, and both Twilight and Asmodeus had each eaten their fair share of breakfast treats. Asmodeus alone had 3 cups of hot chocolate. Pinkie had suggested some chocolate syrup on top of it as well as marshmallows and whipped cream. Needless to say, Asmodeus had never heard a better idea in his life.

Twilight finished the last of her second scone with a gulp, her stomach full almost to the point of bursting. She should have stopped after the first scone, but they were just too good to refuse.

“Ok Asmodeus, I’m going to head back to the library right now.”

“Alright,” the demon replied lifting his drink to his mouth, “just let me finish this cup.”

“Actually Asmodeus, I think you should stay here and try to make some friends.”

The demon quirked an eyebrow at her,

“Are you trying to get rid of me?”

Twilight shot him a glare, she was not dealing with his attitude right now.

“I have studies to catch up on, thanks to my heat and a certain few someponies I’m a few days behind.”

Asmodeus gave Twilight a flat stare,

“Are you sure that leaving me, alone, in the middle of a town, which has mares that are in heat, is a good idea?”

“By now most of the mares should be coming out of their heat, and for those that aren’t, I trust that you won’t do anything I’ll have to punish you for later.”

Asmodeus allowed a grin to spread across his face,

“I had no idea you were into that Twilight. This gives me a whole host of ideas.”

The unicorn’s death stare was entirely negated by her roaring blush. Twilight tried stammering out a response, but all that came out was a flurry of half-formed angry words.

“Relax Twilight,” Asmodeus chuckled, “no need to get so heated in public. Someponies could get the wrong idea.”

Sure enough a few ponies were sending a few curious glances their way.

Twilight immediately stopped her tirade,

“I’ll get you back for this,” she promised as she made a mental note to ask Rainbow to help with this..

Asmodeus grinned.

“I look forward to it.”

The slightly embarrassed unicorn narrowed her eyes,

“Stay here, make some friends, be back at the library in a few hours, or no sex for you tonight.”

With her ultimatum set Twilight turned on her hoof and trotted out of the restaurant.

Asmodeus watched her go, it was good she so easily left him behind, would make things easier later.

His thoughts were interrupted by Pinkie Pie bouncing up to his table,

“Hey As’y! I see Twilight left! Is she sure thats a good idea? I know some other mares think it is.”

Asmodeus paused, that nickname. If Celestia, Luna, or any of his current lovers heard it, his pride would take a tartarus of a beating.

“Pinkie, would you mind not calling me that?”

The mare shook her head,

“Why? Its much easier to say than ‘Asmodeus’.”

“Because its embarrassing.”

Pinkie stared at him for a few seconds,

“Sure thing As’y, I’ll get you some more hot chocolate!”

With that the mare blurred away,leaving a slightly worried demon behind. Asmodeus sighed, his pride was in fate’s hand now.

His self-pity session was interrupted by a polite cough from behind him. He turned his head to see the two musician ponies from the night before.

“Pardon me,” Octavia said, “I don’t mean to impose but would you mind if we joined you? All the other tables are full.”

Asmodeus glanced around the bakery, and sure enough it was filled to the brim with ponies. The early morning rush had given way to the larger mid-morning late sleeper rush.

“It would be a privilege,” Asmodeus said politely as he scooted his chair over, creating enough room for Octavia to pull up a third chair.

Vinyl immediately sat down in the seat across from him, leaving Octavia to take the other one.

“So sup dude?” the DJ greeted.

“Errmm… Nothing?” Asmodeus offered, the greeting unfamiliar to him.

“Sweet,” came the reply as Vinyl waved Pinkie over.

The baker immediately bounded over.

“Good morning Vinyl and Octavia! You two are late! Did you two do something last night!?”

The blush that spread across both the musician’s faces answered the question for Asmodeus. Pinkie, however, seemed to miss it entirely.

“Errm… nothing,” Octavia added, “Just the usual for me.”

“Me too,” Vinyl added.

Pinkie nodded and hurried her way back to the kitchen.

“So, how is your morning so far?” Octavia asked.

“Rather pleasant,” Asmodeus responded, “nothing to complain about.”

“So dude, you free for a while? You gotta come by our shop.”

Asmodeus thought for a moment before smiling,

“I just so happen to have nothing to do for the next couple hours.”

“Awesome!” Vinyl exclaimed, “gonna show you some wubs that will blow your buc-”

“Vinyl,” Octavia chided.

“that will blow your mind,” Vinyl finished.

“Would you mind if we showed him some real music first?” the grey mare asked.

Vinyl couldn’t pass up the opportunity to embarrass the cellist, it was too perfect.

“You mean like the music you were making last night?” the Dj asked in a very sultry voice.

Octavia immediately blanched, throwing an absolutely horrified look towards Asmodeus who had a smile on his face.

“Vinyl! Not in public!”

“I didn’t know you were into that sort of thing Tavi.”

“Vinyl!”

Their argument was quickly interrupted by Asmodeus starting to laugh. The archdemon couldn’t help himself, this “DJ” was pretty good.

“That was good,” Asmodeus said.

Vinyl smirked and bumped her hoof to the demon’s.

Octavia sighed, there was no way to win with that mare.

“Tavi,” Vinyl said softly, “Are you mad.”

The cellist looked at the DJ, she wanted to be mad, but she just couldn’t bring herself to.

“No Vinyl, I’m not. But just know who knows your ‘ah-hem’ weak spots.”

The DJ blanched slightly.

“Thought so,” Octavia said as she patted the DJ’s hoof.

Asmodeus looked at them with an ancient smile on his face.

“Its good to see two ponies so in love,” the archdemon said softly.

The two musicians heard his words, as evidenced by the slight twitching of their ears, but there was silence at the table.

Meanwhile, both the mare’s thoughts were whirling. Is that what this was? Love? Neither of them said ‘it’ last night.

Vinyl shyly reached a hoof forward and grabbed ahold of Octavia’s, holding it almost delicately.

“Yea,” she mouthed silently, “yea.”

Asmodeus watched both of them, he could almost taste the sheer volume of emotions rolling off of them. Lust was a definitely a strong one, he could still feel the remnants of their previous night, happiness was there as well, a steady stream of utter contentment, but they were not what Asmodeus was searching for.

But, to the demon’s eternal disappointment, the answer he was seeking still eluded him.

After their moment had run its course, the musicians turned back to him.

“Sorry,” Octavia said, “we got...distracted.”

Asmodeus waved his hoof,

“Its no problem.”

The demon’s attention was suddenly taken by Vinyl, who was looking at him with a critical eye.

“You seem old dude,” she commented.

“Vinyl!” came Octavia’s shocked voice.

Asmodeus smiled and cocked his head,

“What do you mean?”

“I can’t put my hoof on it,” Vinyl chewed her lip, “but you seem different. Like you just know things. I met Princess Celestia once, she had the same thing going on.”

Asmodeus smiled and leaned forward,

“You are smarter than I thought.”

The DJ smirked and looked at Octavia,

“Told you I’m smart.”

She turned back to Asmodeus,

“So what are you, a prince or something?”

“Well… more of a Lord really.”

The two musicians raised curious eyebrows at him.

“Its a long story.”

Pinkie chose this moment to enter with a tray full of pancakes and syrup,

“Here you go!” Pinkie exclaimed as she hurried away, “can’t talk though, more customers to help!”

“We got time,” Vinyl said.”

*****

Twilight’s brow furrowed as she read over her copy of The Joy of Advanced Calculus, normally she would be ecstatic to review such an interesting topic but today her heart just wasn’t in it.

With a sigh of defeat she closed the book with a soft thump, and levitated it over to its place on the shelf. She ran through her mental catalogue of the library for a few seconds before standing up and making her way to the “Magical Studies” section of the library. After reaching the desired shelf she scanned it for a few seconds before her horn lit up, pulling out an inconspicuous red book. After reading the title she smiled, and headed to a second shelf.

Twilight went around the library, pulling out book after book after book, and before long she was floating over a dozen around her. She made her way back up to her room, and quickly cleared off its surface to make room for her new study material.

The unicorn sat down with a sigh, and pulled the book on top of the stack down to her.

The title read: Common Theories and Applications Regarding Love Magic.

Author's Notes:

Alright, first chapter with no clop done. I know this is shorter than usual, but im going to be busy for a while and since this is a perfectly serviceable chunk of story, I'd thought I would just post it. And funfact, I didn't plan on this story being longer than 60k words when I first started it, now I'm thinking around 100 or so.

I also managed to find an editor willing to help me out, so starting at chapter 1 he's going to go through and do his thing. I don't know when he's going to be done, so I'm not going to put a date on that.

As always, comments and critiques are welcome and greatly appreciated. Also, I really want to thank you readers, becuae of you guys this story is within spitting distance of 200 upvotes, and almost 250 favorites, sheesh, this thing could actually end up getting featured. That means a lot to me, so thank you.

Gold4tune out, pce o7