As hearth’s warming arrived, and I sat at the piano in the theatre, Snowdrop and Blaze sat atop the piano, I began to play

“He'd watch the snow fall

Pretending it all

Would go away

On hearth's warming day

He thought life all for not

But in this season he forgot

The mess he'd made

It would all fade away

But none of it changed the fact

He was broken and still alone

Until he walked by a store window

And a pink figure waved hello” I sang, beginning the song

“He said he felt his heart leap

Like it been asleep

With that sparkle in her eyes

He could barely breathe

And so he tells the story

Of that pink pony

Who changed his life

One hearth's warming eve” Snowdrop chorused

“He went inside the store

As she opened the door

He wondered why

This mare caught his eye

They sat down for a while

As they talked he would smile

Until he told

Her he was all alone

But she wouldn't let him feel abandoned

Because no one should spend the holidays alone

They spent hearth's warming together

Making memories he'd never let go” Blaze chimed

“He said he felt his heart leap

Like it been asleep

With that sparkle in her eyes

He could barely breathe

And so he tells the story

Of that pink pony

Who changed his life

One hearth's warming eve” Snowdrop and Blaze sang as a duet

“Thirty two years down the road

He had let the past go

But he hadn't forgotten

That beautiful mare from years ago

In a hospital room

His last hearth's warming he knew

He'd never see her again

That dream would never come true

But then from the hall

He heard her call

That sweet familiar voice

She found him after all

She said "I never forgot

The day you walked by the shop

I've spent these thirty two years

Looking for you non-stop"

Tears came to his eyes

As she stood by his side

Until he had to say goodbye

And promised to stay” I added, smiling at the audience as they sat, staring down at us as we performed

“He said he felt his heart leap

Like it been asleep

With that sparkle in her eyes

He could barely breathe

So this is the story

Of that pink pony

Who changed his life

One hearth's warming eve” we sang as a trio, finishing the potential masterpiece

-=-

I stood with my family, Ryōshi, Littlepip and Velvet Remedy in the main hall, Twilight and her friends trotting up toward us

“Where did you get that song from then?” Rarity batted her eyelashes at me

“Aviators” Blaze smirked as Snowdrop perched herself on my head “they’re an amazing musical artist, with an almost god-like potential”

“Speaking of Hearth’s warming, what’d you get?” Littlepip nudged my leg

“These,” I reached into my jacket, handing Littlepip and Velvet remedy a glassy, translucent sapphire sphere “I hope you like them”

“What are they?” Twilight gazed at the orbs

“Soul dews, that of which an eon turns into after they die, either by natural causes or otherwise” I smiled “and I believe I can bequeath them to you, Littlepip, and Velvet Remedy”

“They’re beautiful,” Littlepip exclaimed

“You found these in the wastelands, didn’t you?”  Velvet sighed

“I cleaned them of radiation, yes,” I nodded “took a while, having to use that sort of delicacy is a little irritating, but it’s worth it in the end”

“And you’re just giving them away, to us?” Littlepip gaped at me, I nodded

“I feel like I can trust you with them, after all, trust is the anvil on which friendship is forged” I glimmered “I love you, my little Remedy and Littlepip”

“We love you too, Tesla” the chimed, leaping at me, knocking me to the ground, pecking either cheek, nuzzling into me as I eventually sat upright,

“And what, about the rest of us?” Rainbow dash raised an eyebrow

“Ask Celestia” I winked, draping a pair of wings around both Littlepip and Velvet remedy

“But what about Nightmare Moon-err, Nyx” Twilight giggled

“What about her?” I tilted my head

“Well for one, she’s been worried sick about you,” she smirked “and for another,” her smirk turned to a look of worry “Ponies have started to worry about her return as the tyrant she was, they’re afraid of what she’s going to do”

“Fear is not evil, it shows you your weaknesses,” Blaze gestured for me to continue

“And once you know your weaknesses, you can become stronger, kinder, and gentler” I finished

“You’re calling us weak?” Rainbow Dash glowered at me

“Not at all, fear is natural, and it lies within us all,” I sighed “for instance, I’m worried about what’d happen to me should I lose my friends, family and loved ones, I can admit it, and that’s what fear is, Rainbow, it’s a part of everyone, no matter how much that person or thing might try to hide it”

“That’s rather philosophical” a regal, angelic voice called out from behind me

Turning around, I saw the three princesses stood beside Faust, all smiling at me

“I only said what I know,” I shrugged “besides, I learnt a lot from being in a guild”

“So you did,” Celestia smiled, turning her lilac-coloured gaze toward Twilight “Come, I believe it’s time to see what Tesla had in store for you, pun not intended”

As they walked out through the double doors at the front of the room, I felt a pang of guilt

“You’re wanting to get them more, aren’t you, brother?” Blaze sighed

“Sort of, it’s just that I wish I could be better than I am, personality-wise” I grumbled

“How can you hope to do that?” Velvet Remedy nickered “you’re an incredible person, and I fail to see how you could be any better”

“What did you get them?” Littlepip chuckled

“I melded the gems from the dragon’s lairs using superheated dragon-fire into a series of statuettes,” I shrugged “it’s no big deal; I even made for one for the two of you”

“For us,” Littlepip blinked “Tesla, you’re spoiling us!”

“Am I?” I smiled

“Not that we mind” Velvet Remedy pecked my cheek, leaping onto my back as I changed to eon form, as did Littlepip, Snowdrop once again perched on my head, and Blaze on my neck

“How big are these statuettes?” Littlepip smiled

“Around the same height as me” I bit my lip, flying toward the entrance of the castle, Ryōshi following me out, only to find Twilight, Spike, who was sat upon her back, her friends and the princesses stood before me, staring at each of the especially crafted statues

“You melded gemstones together to make these?” Littlepip and Velvet Remedy hopped back toward the ground safely landing on all-fours, trotting toward their crystalline replicas

“That I did” I nodded as their gaze altered between the statuettes and me

“They’re incredible,” Rarity and Twilight gleamed “But how do we move them?”

“I can teleport them” Faust smiled “Don’t worry, I can have them down to your homes within the next minute” and so she did, teleporting with each of them to each location, returning once the last eight remained, that of Remedy, Littlepip, Vinyl, Octavia, Celestia, Cadance, Luna and Faust

=-=-=

“You really are a piece of work, you know that?” Blaze cackled with insane amounts of laughter

“Tell me something I don’t know” I chuckled, turning around, I saw Vinyl, alongside Octavia, both gleaming at me

“You had to add wings?” Octavia smirked

“It felt appropriate at the time;” I smiled “considering most ponies I know are like angels, so I thought I’d give you the wings of one”

“You think I’m an angel,” Octavia blushed, whereas Vinyl burst out laughing “I’m flattered, honestly Tesla!”

“And what’s with the weird glasses, not that I’m complaining” Vinyl gestured toward the Gurren Lagann-styled glasses I’d made on the statue

“I just thought that with the wings and horn that it’d compliment your figure” I quickly reverted to human form, covering my mouth with a free hand

“What,” she grinned “my ‘figure,’ am I that interesting?”

“I could probably make a set of them for you” I avoided her gaze

“That’d be great, thanks Tesla” she leapt at me, pressing her lips against mine as she wrapped her arms around my neck, eventually parting,, landing back on the ground beside the silver mare named Octavia “When could I get them?”

“Right now if you want” Blaze smirked, standing on her hind legs on my shoulder, grabbing an armful of gems from my bag, laying them out before me , the two of us breathing fire over them , melding them into the boomerang-shaped shades that also appeared on Vinyl’s statuette, and on a certain anime character…

“Now we just wait for them to cool down a little” I smiled, holding the shades into the sunlight, they’d come out as a crimson shade of red, pun not intended

“So,” Octavia giggled “I assume that these are our Hearth’s Warming Eve gifts?”

“That they are,” I nodded

“They’re amazing,” Vinyl whistled “How long did it take to craft each one?”

“Around an hour,” Blaze waved a dismissive paw “Tesla was quite insistent on finishing them on time for today”

“And we thank you for it, Tesla” Octavia smiled as Littlepip and Velvet stood either side of me, leaping onto my back as I changed back to eon form “Are the three of you, together?”

“Yep” Littlepip gleamed “We’re a trio, to put it in musical terms”

“So you are” Octavia nickered as a scroll flashed into existence before my eyes, I caught it, opening it, it read;

Dearest Tesla, Come alone…

The rest was apparently directions to a certain room in the castle

“Blaze, take care of Snowdrop, Ryōshi; stay here” I winked, Littlepip and Velvet staring at me as I once again reverted to human form, leaping to the ground as I did so, walking into the castle, following the directions given on the letter

Tesla,” Cadance exclaimed, lying across the bed in what appeared to be an anthro form “So glad you could make it”

“What’re you doing?” I backpedalled, only to come back-to-wooden surface as she locked the door behind me using her magic

“Shining Armour’s nice and all, but from what I’ve heard, you’ve got the potential to do better, my dear sweet eon” she ‘explained,’ her voice sweeter than glazed honey “Now come, Tesla, give me thy love…”

-=-=-

As I staggered out of the room, I managed to keep myself walking until I reached the gardens

“What happened?” Velvet Remedy and Littlepip gawked at me with a look of mild concern

“I think someone’s going to get a right seeing to, let’s leave it at that” I grinned like an idiot

“Like who?”  Littlepip blinked

“We shall see, my littlepip, we shall see” I smiled

=-=-=

Around a month later, I was on the receiving end of the so-called ‘captain of the guard’ as I sat with Littlepip and Velvet Remedy either side of me as I ate breakfast

“Does anyone mind telling me why Cadance is acting differently?” Shining Armour scowled at me

“That depends on how one were to define ‘different’” Blaze sighed “Where is she anyway?”

“That’s what I’d like to know” he grumbled

“She had an urgent matter to attend to, and as such, cannot join us this morning” Celestia winked at me

“Why do I feel like I’m missing the punch-line of this somewhat outrageous joke?” Shining Armour glowered at me

“And you think I’m to blame,” I raised an eyebrow “As if I’d do such a thing, sure I may have beaten discord within an inch of his life, and I may’ve saved a few dozen ponies in the wastes, but meh, I can handle a little disdain”

“See to it that u stay away from her,” he snarled “she’s mine, and I don’t want an alien anywhere near her” blaze burst into a fit of laughter, I quickly followed her

“And you think being like an over-protective five-year-old is going to solve anything?” I chortled

“I’m the captain of the guard” he snapped

“Brigadier of the United Nation Space Corps” I sighed “Really, how about you try stating something new if you’re going to try to one-up me, pony”

“I’ve led an army against all that is evil in Equestria” he smirked

And I’ve stopped the Halo rings from firing, saving your sorry rear in the process,” I glared at him “if one were to fire the ark, all seven halo rings would fire, relinquishing al life in the universe, nothing larger than a cat, would survive” I heard someone do a spit-take at that “you are swimming in my wake, little pony, whatever you have done in the past, us humans can double it, and then triple it!”

“Very well then” he grunted “but I must insist that you leave Cadance alone”

“Fair enough, but what if she decides to come with me anyway, should she choose to?” I tilted my head ever-so slightly, seeing as Snowdrop was, as usual, perched there

“Why would she do something like that?” he burst into abrupt laughter

“When you see an anti-war protester, smile, shake his hand, then wink at the girl next to him because she knows she’s dating a pansy” Blaze smirked

“So be it,” he chuckled

-=-

“Nice work there Blaze” I glimmered

“No problem-o, Brother” Blaze laughed “Though I think I know where you went last month, at least now we do”

“Cadance joined our little herd?” Velvet remedy whispered

“Apparently” I shrugged “I’m just as surprised as you are”

“About what,” I spun around; Cadance was stood there, in her anthro form, wearing a crimson dress that went down to her knees, wearing a cobalt necklace with a teal/aquamarine gemstone attached to it “Hello Tesla” she giggled, glancing around, before pinning me to a nearby tree, pressing her lips against mine, gradually parting, and then winking at me “Love you” she cooed as she reverted to her pony form with a glow of light

“Ahem,” Shining Armour galloped toward us, looking quite annoyed with me “What do you think you’re doing!?”

“Now Shiny, I’m sure that I can explain this-!” Cadance began only to be interrupted

“Don’t say a word,” Shining Armour blared, “we’re married, and yet I find you flirting with this, this…”

“Eon” I finished for him

“Shut up you!” he glowered at me “now I know why Cadance’s been acting off lately, and it’s all because of you!”

“Please Shiny, can’t we work this out?” Cadance bit her lip, Shiny, however, thought differently, raising a hoof as he hobbled toward her, and he would’ve hit her, had I not dived in and blocked it, clenching down on his stump-ended appendage

“Lay so much as a finger on her, as you are now, and I’ll make you wish you’d of died” I hissed “And go and tell your subordinates what huge failure you’ve been whilst you’re pissing yourself in the middle of praying to your impudent god”, he quickly slipped out of my grasp, galloping at full sprint back into the castle, the smell of urine lacing the air as he ran

“Tesla, you-” I turned around and pressed my lips against that of Cadance’s, smiling at her as I stroked her mane afterward

“Hush, my dear Cadance, all will be well, just you wait” I simpered

“Tesla,” she whimpered, clinging onto me with both her arms and wings “Don’t ever leave me”

“I wouldn’t dream of it,” I draped my wings around her back, and my arms around her neck as we shared a warm embrace “although if you’re the princess of love, does that mean I’ll have to be prepared every time we consummate our love?” I chuckled

“I won’t do anything you don’t want me to do, my prince” she cooed, pecking my cheek as she let me go, and I her

“You’re a prince!?” Littlepip and Velvet Remedy shrieked

“Technically,” I nodded “I’m a knight, a prince, and you’re the best things to happen to me since sliced bread” they blinked “it means you’re the best things to happen to me, period”

“And you us, Tesla, and you us” Cadance smiled “You’re my little TK”

“And our little eon” Littlepip and Velvet chimed as I heard footsteps from behind me

Turning around, I saw Twilight, her friends, Spike -on Twilight’s back-, Shining Armour, and Celestia

“You’ve upset my brother!” Twilight snapped

“Wow, and even my siblings aren’t that arsehole-ish,” I blinked “no offense Blaze”

“None taken, TK, none taken at all” Blaze laughed

“Cadance; explain yourself” Celestia spoke calmly, and somewhat sternly”

“It’s simple,” Cadance winked at me “Shining Armour’s good and all, but from what you said about him, I had to see it for myself, add that to the things we’ve seen that he can do, I’d easily have him over anypony” Twilight glared at me

“And the threats were at all necessary, Teslakana?” Celestia turned her attention toward me

“I don’t care who or what it is, you have a g at me, fine, you can do as you like with me, I’ll just shrug it off, but you think about harming my friends, family and loved ones, and I’ll do everything in my abilities to make your last seconds of life a living hell” I glared dagger5s at the armour pony by her side

“You’d go that far!?” Twilight screamed

“I’d tear this country apart if I’d of thought that it’d help” I deadpanned, she shuddered

“And now you’ve declared yourself a threat” Celestia’s eyes narrowed

“Who’s to say you wouldn’t do the same,” I raised an eyebrow “maybe not as harsh, but say something were to arise that require d your immediate attention, something that put every one of your oh-so dear subjects at risk, what then?”

“I would try to negotiate” she scolded me

“And if that doesn’t work in any way shape and form?” Blaze folded her paws

“Then it’d be war” she stated icily

“And now you know what it’s like whenever someone threatens my Nakama” I growled

“Nakama?” she blinked

“It means comrade,” Blaze began “someone who you’d do anything to protect, even if it cost you your very life, without question, no matter what, it can also be translated to mean friends that’re closer than family, as it means to Tesla here” she went on “Do you have any Nakama, princess?”

“I’d never of thought…” Celestia stared at me

“That doesn’t surprise me” she spat

“I beat a god once, and if you don’t tell your little captain to put his leash on, I’ll do it again” my eyes stung as they turned to slits, or so I’d been later told

“I’ll get on it” Celestia teleported out of view, taking Shining Armour with her

“Friends that’re closer than family,” Rainbow Dash snorted “who’s ever heard of such a thing?”

“The heart wants what it wants, who’re you to say any differently?” Blaze snapped

“Love is but a chemical, we give it meaning by choice, and isn’t it said that it’s our choices that define us?” I tutted

“Poetic, at best” Rarity nodded “but you can’t just go around threatening Twilight’s brother like that”

“I said it once I’ll say it again,” I sighed “I don’t care who or what it is, you have a g at me, fine, you can do as you like with me, I’ll just shrug it off, but you think about harming my friends, family and loved ones, and I’ll do everything in my abilities to make your last seconds of life a living hell”

“Even us?” Littlepip, Cadance and Velvet stood in a line, a hopeful look in each of their eyes

“Especially you” I smiled

“I’m honoured that you feel that way about me” Cadance sat beside me “

“This is going to result in my being mobbed by the local media, isn’t it?” I grumbled, she gave a slight nod “Nothing I can’t handle”

“How so,” Rarity raised both eyebrows

“I’ll tell you when it happens” I smirked

=-= sex is coming up, for the end press CTRL+F “sex is over”

Seeing as Velvet and Littlepip were in Ponyville, as were Twilight and her friends, Cadance guided me to her ‘chambers’

“What’re you doing?” I blinked as she changed to her anthro form, sitting me down on the bed, removing her dress, revealing a set of black lingerie, which she also removed, throwing the whole lot down the side of the bed

“Just making myself comfortable, she giggled, locking the door, walking over to me, sitting in my lap “Why don’t you do the same?”

“Public indecency” I shrugged

“Ah, but we’re in private right now, we can do anything we want” she cooed “Anything, we, want” I bit my lip “Don’t look so worried, if the event should arise, I’ll defend you with my life, isn’t that what Nakama do?”

Before I could say anything, her horn had flared a cyan colour, my attire disappearing for a brief moment before reappearing as a neat pile by the side of the bed

“And they’ve been keeping this from me,” she whistled, tracing a gentle hand around my muscular structure “what naughty princesses those two are, but more about them later”

“If you say so” I chuckled

“I do say so” she nickered, removing herself from my lap, kneeling on the floor between my legs, tracing her tongue along the base of my shaft “they didn’t tell me it was salty though, Celestia you little rascal” I shuddered

“Oh,” she gleamed “you like this?” I nodded “well then, allow me to indulge myself a bit” she twirled her tongue around the head of my cock, causing me to flinch at the amount of pleasure racking throughout my body as Pre leaked from the tip, which she quickly devoured “Salty” she winked, taking the whole darn thing into her maw, pressing her lips down on it, sealing it in her mouth

“Holy…” I mumbled as she sandwiched my dick between her voluptuous breasts, slowly bobbing them up and down along with her head, constantly twirling her tongue around the head, slurping on it as she went, swallowing any seed that was unlucky enough to be fire prematurely, removing herself from my nether regions, lying on her front on the bed, her head on the pillow as she raised her rump high in the air

“Fuck me,” she moaned as I knelt behind her, lining my manhood with her sex, sliding it in as I held her ‘flanks,’ pumping my member in and out of her cunny, causing her to groan “faster,” I sped up a little “Harder” she bit her lip as I hilted her, letting out a low moan, slamming into her as seed filled her tight little cunt only slowing down as it flowed through my urethra, and into her metaphorical depths, sliding out of her once finished

“Now do me in the ass,” she wiggled her ass at me “in eon form” she winked

“As you wish M’lady” I nodded, changing to eon form, prodding the head of my eonhood at her pucker, sliding it in as she released another moan, speeding up as I pumped it in and out of her flankhole, still clinging onto said flanks, circling my claws around her cutie mark, eventually moving as a blur, almost, as I fucked her, bucking my hips against hers, grunting as I repeatedly hilted her, lightly smacking her ass

“Yes, spank me,” she screamed I’ve been a very bad girl,” I smacked her again “harder!” ad again, harder this time, more seed firing through my length into her tailhole, quickly sliding it out and hilting her tight little cunt, filling said orifice with sticky, white, hot spunk

“That was incredible” Cadance sighed as she lay on her back on the bed

“I could make it better” I suggested

“How could you-?” she was cut off by me, jamming my tongue into her dripping wet vagina “Oh, Gods, that’s amazing” she shuddered my tongue danced around the insides of her entrance, pressing it against her clit, releasing a slight waterfall of her juices to leak “Sweet Mother of faust you’re good at this!” she panted

“That’s nothing” I grinned, placing my lips around one of her nipples, and my hand around the other, tweaking it whilst I sucked on the other, she quickly placed her hand on the back of my head, keeping me there

“By the heavens,” she moaned “don’t stop, my love” I smirked

(Sex is over)

-=-=-

“Have fun?” Blaze stood on my shoulder as Snowdrop sat on my head

“Not half” I mumbled as Littlepip and Velvet Remedy stood at my side, sitting with me as I placed myself against a nearby tree

“I noticed that you arrived in your eon form,” she smirked “Do anything exciting?”

“I might’ve used enough calibre to make the world’s greatest prostitute green with envy” I whispered, winking at her with a sly grin

“Oh really?” she gleamed “What did you do, exactly, I could hear the two of you from here”

“Gave the princess of love a crash course in eating out” I deadpanned

“You really pick your poisons, dontcha?” she laughed

“I like to think I know what I’m doing” I smiled

“So you do”

I turned around, Twilight, her friends, save Fluttershy, Celestia, and Shining Armour were stood there alongside Cadance, who bounded over to me, pecking my cheek as she sat beside me

“Cadance tells me that the two of you engaged in coitus, alongside some other interesting concepts” Celestia raised an eyebrow

“One-hundred-and-one uses for the human tongue” I grinned

“How do you do it?” she smirked

“How do you think?” I shrugged

“Humour me” she winked

-=-

“That’s the last time I’m doing that” I frowned, once again sat under a tree in the gardens on the following day, Littlepip and Velvet remedy sat both in front of and beside me, Cadance sat on the other side

“You didn’t seem to mind doing it with us” Velvet Remedy winked rather flirtatiously at me

“You’re my Little Remedy; of course I’m not going to mind” I smiled

“Let’s just hope they don’t hold a moot and make you their new royal breeder, eh Tesla?” Blaze simpered with a wicked leer

“Aye,” I grumbled “that’d be the death of me for sure”

“How so,” Littlepip pecked my cheek

“Well, Celestia and Luna are what, three-thousand years old, they’ve got a lot more experience than I have, so there’s that, and the fact that their insides feel like heaven” I quickly shook my head “sorry”

“It’s Ok, you can take us anytime you want, my love” Velvet slurred, placing her lips against mine, slowly parting “you’re our little eon after all”

“I forgot to mention something” Cadance giggled “I asked for a divorce, when they asked why, I mentioned you; it’s either that a few ponies are interested in you, or they know not to anger you, Tesla”

“Are you suggesting something?” I raised an eyebrow

“Not at all” she nickered “Though I think there’re more than a few ponies after you now”

“Good to know” I blinked

“When she said a few, I thought she meant ‘a few’ as in five, maybe six or seven” I grumbled, walking toward Sweet Apple Acres, half a dozen ponies following me there as Velvet Remedy, Littlepip walking by my side as I removed my jacket when I got to the farm, placing it on a nearby branch, starting to work, getting the apples from the trees into the containers, and then carrying the containers to the wagons “This is not ‘a few’”

“Give ‘em a show, eh Tesla?” Blaze winked, standing on the branch on which I’d placed my jacket

“No, Blaze, just no” I sighed “I’m not a stripper”

“Not even just this once?” she placed her paws together, giving me her best puppy-dog eyes

“Fine” I rolled my eyes, removing my shirt, placing it on the branch

Now that I thought about it, it was rather hot

“Mornin’ Stretch,” Applejack eyed me up and down as she trotted toward me “Working here again?”

“The concerts not until next week” I shrugged, placing another pair of containers down on another wagon “that all of them?”

“Looks like it pardner” she smiled with apparent intent “Though Ah think ya’ll are gonna have a might bit of trouble Gettin back” she gestured to the now three-dozen ponies stood before me at the entrance of the farm, only to have them board onto the wagons

“Not at all” I laughed, triggering ‘Dragon Force,’ pulling the carts toward Ponyville, Velvet and Littlepip walking by my side as I hauled the wagons into the market, Applejack soon joining them thereafter

“You managed to pull them all the way here?” Velvet Remedy blinked

“Never question my skill” I chuckled

“So we won’t” Littlepip smiled

=-=

Later that week, I stood in the gardens of the castle with Littlepip Velvet Remedy, and Cadance, Blaze and Snowdrop having taken a tour of the castle

“So, what should we do?” Littlepip smiled

“I have an idea” Cadance purred

-=-

“That was fun” Velvet Remedy whistled

“Too right,” Littlepip panted for breath “when you said one-hundred-and one uses, I thought you were joking!”

“What’re you doing?” Blaze smirked

“Nothing much” I clicked my neck “orchestra waiting for me?” she nodded “Let’s go then”

“What’re you going to sing this time, not that I’ve heard you sing before?” Cadance smiled

“You’ll soon see, my Dear Cadi” I smiled, Velvet Remedy and Littlepip sat beside me on the bench as I began to play my guitar, the audience fell silent

“The burning desire

to live and roam free,

It shines in the dark

And it grows within me

You're holding my hand

but you don't understand

So where I am going

you won't be in the end.

Im dreaming in colours

Of getting the chance

Of dreaming of trying the perfect romance

The search of the door, to open your mind

In search of the cure of mankind

Help us we're drowning

So close up inside

Why does it rain, rain, rain down on Utopia?

Why does it have to kill the ideal of who we are?

Why does it rain, rain, rain down on Utopia?

How will the lights die down, telling us who we are?

I'm searching for answers

Not given for free

You're hurting inside

Is there life within me?

You're holding my hand but you don't understand

So you're taking the road all alone in the end

Im dreaming in colours, no boundaries are there

Im dreaming the dream we all seem to share

In search of the door, to open your mind

In search of the cure of mankind

Well help us we're drowning

So close up inside

Why does it rain, rain, rain down on Utopia?

Why does it have to kill the ideal of who we are?

Why does it rain, rain, rain, down on Utopia?

And when the lights die down, telling us who we are

Why does it rain, rain, rain down on Utopia?

Why does it have to kill the ideal of who we are?

Oh, why does it rain, rain, rain down on Utopia?

Now when the lights die down, telling us who we are

Why does it rain?” Velvet Remedy, Snowdrop, Blaze, Littlepip and I sang as a quintet

“What shall we do for a second song brother?” Blaze winked

“I know the one” I smiled

“The stars lean down to kiss you

And I lie awake and miss you

Pour me a heavy dose of atmosphere

Cause I'll doze off safe and soundly

But I'll miss your arms around me

I'll send a postcard to you, dear

Cause I wish you were here” Littlepip and I began the song

“I'll watch the night turn light blue

But it's not the same without you

Because it takes two to whisper quietly

The silence isn't so bad

Till I look at my hands and feel sad

Cause the spaces between my fingers

Are right where yours fit perfectly”  Blaze almost sang with the voice of the perfect being

“I'll find repose in new ways

Though I haven't slept in two days

Cause cold nostalgia chills me to the bone

But drenched in vanilla twilight

I'll sit on the front porch all night

Waist deep in thought because when

I think of you I don't feel so alone

“I don't feel so alone

I don't feel so alone” Velvet Remedy chorused

As many times as I blink

I'll think of you tonight

(Tonight, tonight, tonight...)

I'll think of you tonight” Snowdrop chimed, Blaze once again singing the background vocals

“When violet eyes get brighter

And heavy wings grow lighter

I'll taste the sky and feel alive again

And I'll forget the world that I knew

But I swear I won't forget you

Oh if my voice could reach back through the past

I'd whisper in your ear:

“‘Oh darling I wish you were here’” we sang again as a quintet

“And again” Littlepip nickered

“This time, I wonder what it feels like

To find the one in this life, the one we all dream of

But dreams just aren't enough

So I'll be waiting for the real thing, I'll know it by the feeling

The moment when we're meeting, will play out like a scene

Straight off the silver screen

So I'll be holding my breath, right up 'til the end

Until that moment when, I find the one that I'll spend forever with” I started the song

“Cause nobody wants to be the last one there

Cause everyone wants to feel like someone cares

Someone to love with my life in their hands

There's gotta be somebody for me like that

Cause nobody wants to do it on their own

And everyone wants to know they're not alone

There's somebody else that feels the same somewhere

There's gotta be somebody for me out there” Velvet Remedy added to the potential masterpiece

“Tonight, out on the street, out in the moonlight

And dammit this feels too right, it's just like de Ja vu

Me standing here with you

So I'll be holding my breath, could this be the end?

Is it that moment when, I find the one that I'll spend forever with” Blaze continued further

“Cause nobody wants to be the last one there

Cause everyone wants to feel like someone cares

Someone to love with my life in their hands

There's gotta be somebody for me like that

Cause nobody wants to do it on their own

And everyone wants to know they're not alone

There's somebody else that feels the same somewhere

There's gotta be somebody for me out there” Littlepip and I formed an almost god-like duet, as if our souls themselves were resonating from one-another

“You can't give up, (when you're looking for) a diamond in the rough (cause you never know)

When it shows up, (make sure you're holding on)

Cause it could be the one, the one you're waiting on

Cause nobody wants to be the last one there

And everyone wants to feel like someone cares

Someone to love with my life in their hands

There's gotta be somebody for me, oh” Velvet Remedy, Blaze and Snowdrop sang as a trio with the voices of angels

“Nobody wants to go it on their own

And everyone wants to know they're not alone

There's somebody else that feels the same somewhere

There's gotta be somebody for me out there

Nobody wants to be the last one there

Cause everyone wants to feel like someone cares

There's somebody else that feels the same somewhere

There's gotta be somebody for me out there” we finished as a third quintet, the audience slowly beginning to stand on their hooves, clapping said hooves in applause

“That was phenomenal” Cadance glimmered

“So it was,” a familiar tall cobalt pony with a dark blue mane and tail, Toe-Tapper, stood beside Torch Song and Rarity alongside Twilight, her friends, Spike and the princesses

“I must ask,” he raised an eyebrow “Are you trying to upstage us?”

“Pun intended?” Blaze laughed

“Maybe” he frowned “Answer the question”

“If I were to do that, it’d be solo, not as a quintet” I rolled my eyes

“You think you can do better than us, on your own?” Torch Song spoke rather haughtily

“I know so”

I know you, who are you now?

Look into my eyes if you can't remember.

Do you remember, oh?

I can see, I can still find

You're the only voice my heart can recognize

But I can't hear you now, yeah.

I'll never be the same

I'm caught inside the memories, the promises

our yesterday’s when I belong to you.

I just can't walk away

'cause after loving you

I can never be the same.

And how can I pretend I've never known you?

Like it was all a dream, no.

I know I'll never forget

the way I always felt with you beside me

and how you loved me then, yeah.

I'll never be the same

I'm caught inside the memories, the promises

our yesterday’s when I belong to you.

I just can't walk away

'cause after loving you

I can never be the same.

You led me here,

then I watched you disappear.

You left this emptiness inside

and I can't turn back time

No, stay!

Nothing compares to you.

Nothing compares to you.

I can't let you go,

Can't let you go.

I can't let go.

I'll never be the same,

not after loving you,

not after loving you, no.

I'll never be the same

I'm caught inside the memories, the promises

our yesterday’s when I belong to you.

I just can't walk away

'cause after loving you

I can never be the same.

I can never be the same.

I will never be the same.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

I just can't walk away.

No, I can't walk away from you” I snag alongside a familiar, soothing voice, glancing behind me, I saw Crystal hovering there, looking rather upset about something

“I just came to say that I’m sorry for what I did, I shouldn’t have acted out, at all” Crystal bit her lip

“We all lose control at one point or another Crystal; you are of no exception to that rule, welcome back”

“Thank you, Tesla” she smiled

“You’re welcome” I sighed “just try not to do it again, Ok?”

“Ok” she chuckled

“How about another song, just for us” Littlepip smiled “you and Crystal could do a duet

“Baby I Think We Both Know It's Gone

Wrong, Wrong, Wrong

And I Know You Don't Think We Can Carry It On

Baby I Think We Both Know It's Gone

Bad, Bad, Bad

Think Of All The Good Times We Had

Driving To Your House

Member When We First Met

Dancing' On A Friday Night

Under The Moon Light

Talkin' Till The Night Was Gone

In The Back Of My Truck With The Radio On” I sang, beginning the timeless classic, still playing he guitar, as I’d somewhat conveniently carried it with me

“Then That Ol' Song Comes On

Together We're Singin'

Forever We're Singin'

When That Ol' Song Comes On

Together We're Singin'

Forever We're Singin'

That Ol' Country Song

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah” Crystal and I formed a duet

“Baby I Think We Both Know

It's Alright, Alright

But How Could I Forget What You Did That Night

Baby You Told Me You Loved Me In Tennessee

Where We Were Gonna Live

But Now You've Done A Few Things That I Can't Forgive

Driving To Her House

Tellin' Her You Love Her

Lying On A Friday Night

Ring In Your Pocket

Lying To Me All Along

In The Back Of Your Truck With The Radio On” Crystal sang

“Then That Ol' Song Comes On

Together We're Singin'

Forever We're Singin'

When That Ol' Song Comes On

Together We're Singin'

Forever We're Singin'

That Ol' Country Song

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah” we formed another duet

“Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah”

Then That Ol' Song Comes On

Together We're Singin'

Forever We're Singin'

When That Ol' Song Comes On

Together We're Singin'

Forever We're Singin'

That Ol' Country Song

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah”

“Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah” Crystal and I formed one final duet as we ended the serenade

“Me and Tennessee, really?” Blaze chortled

“Sounded good at the time” I shrugged

“So did reading MLD, Right Tesla?” Blaze smirked

“How was I to know what the ending was like?” I frowned

“Sappy” she slowly nodded “you really pick your poisons dontcha?”

“So I do,” I smirked

“Do you think we could join together at one point?” Toe-Tapper smiled

“It could work, but we’d have to switch songs a little bit, pun not intended” Little pip nickered

“But of course,” I chimed

-=-

As I sat with Littlepip, Velvet Remedy, Twilight and Spike in the library, I glanced at the book Twilight was reading

“What’re you going to attempt this time?” I smiled

“A basic Summoning spell” Twilight smiled, her horn flaring a bright magenta colour as a vortex of pitch-black magical energy appeared between us, said vortex released a momentous amount of energy in a wave-like motion, creating a blinding light

When I could see again, I saw what I guessed to be an anthro pony with a white mane and rabbit suit, complete with ears, with pointed horns between her ears, smiling at me rather sultrily with a pink bow-tie and bright red eyes, her crimson coat gleaming in the sunlight that filtered through the windows as he Blood-red-cutie mark shone in the sunlight, that of which was a love-hear with devil horns which complimented her devil-like wings

“Hello, master” the being spoke “I’m Chilly Pepper, a succubus, and your personal slave”

“I thought you said this was a basic spell?” I glanced toward Twilight as the succubus pecked my cheek, tracing a light hand around my chest area

“I don’t get it, I researched the entire set of notes thoroughly, and repeatedly” Twilight blinked, glancing between her books and the being who was now attempting to undo my pants

“Please stop that” I mumbled

“Ok, Master,” Chilly Pepper giggled, her tiny fangs glimmering like snow-white icicles, turning her attention to Twilight “the reason your spell failed was that Tesla has a larger amount of willpower in him, just waiting to be released alongside his magic that’s also stored within his body, mind, and soul, plus he’s stronger in general, kind of cute too” she pecked my cheek again

“Have you a normal form?” I grumbled, she changed to an apparent pony form with a flash of light, minus the suit and ears, and with a long, slender devil-like tail

“Do I not please you in that form?” she blinked

“it’s just that I don’t want to be surrounded by awkward stares when I go outside, assuming you’re going to be with me now” I shrugged “love the forms though”

“Thank you, Master”

“I’m Tesla” I sighed

“Thank you Master Tesla” she bowed

“Just Tesla will suffice, I’m eighty, not eighty-million” I chuckled

“Thank you, Tesla” she smiled

“I wonder how you’re going to explain this to the princess” Spike drooled at the sight of the crimson ‘mare/devil’ curled up in my lap

“That’s what I’m worried about” Twilight bit her lip

“Just say it was an accident, and the explain the rest when she gets here,” I smiled “leave the rest to me”

“She’s beautiful, for a succubus” Velvet Remedy hummed “I’d heard legends that they’d mate with you until they eventually suck out your soul, and then rut you senseless anyway”

“I love you Tesla,” Chilly Pepper mumbled “Do you love me?”

“I love every one of my friends,” I smiled “including you”

As we walked out of the library, Chilly got an awful lot of stares

“Told you” I sighed as Celestia appeared in a bright flash of light

“What is this… thing?” Celestia’s eyes narrowed at the sight of Pepper “Explain”

“I was trying a summoning spell, and then there was a vortex of magical energy and then a bright flash of light and then, she appeared” Twilight gestured toward the crimson she-devil-mare stood beside me

“And the reason you summoned a being of tartarus?” she scowled at Chilly “she does not belong here, she needs to go back, and she needs to stay there”

“I won’t go without Tesla!” Chilly snarled, baring her fangs at the solar princess

“And I won’t let you take one of my friends away from me, I’m not having a repeat of that happening again” I growled, triggering ‘Dragon Force’

“Explain” Celestia frowned at me

“I had my whole, life, world and heart torn to shreds, all in one event, that was seventy years ago, and I refuse to allow it to happen again!” I glowered at her, my fangs growing slightly as my nails turned to claws, and horns sprouted from my skull

“I see” she slowly nodded “then I shall leave the demon to you, Tesla, if I hear that you’ve let her do as she pleases, and that she’s caused any form of chaos, she goes back, are we clear?”

“Not, allowing it, to happen” I reiterated “ever”

“I won’t cause any trouble if that’s what you’re thinking” Chilly Pepper spoke up, almost nervously “I’d never do what my master won’t allow me to do, his word is the law of my life, and it shall be so long as I can see the sun as it burns brightly above the horizon”

“If you insist” Celestia scowled, vanishing via teleportation

“A demon, really?” I blinked

“You can talk,” she giggled “you’ve grown horns!”

“I’m part dragon” I shrugged

“And I’m part devil” she winked slyly at me

“You entered ‘Dragon Force,’ and then ‘Double Dragon Force’!” Blaze stared at me

“It appears that my emotions are the key to my power” I studied my nails and wings with great curiosity “curious, almost demonic, and yet it’s pure dragon slayer magic”

“You can slay dragons?” Chilly simpered

“I can, and if I have to, I will” I stated frigidly

“Fair do’s” she gave a cute giggle “by your word, Master- I mean, Tesla”

“So how old are you?” Spike sighed with a dreamy look in his eyes as he gazed at Chilly

“On Equis, less than twenty minutes, in general, I am as old as the realm I used to inhabit, I am a timeless chorus, join your voice with mine, and sing victory, everlasting!” she and I spoke in unison toward the end of the sentence  

“You know devil script?” she blinked

“That’s what that is?” I blinked “I was just quoting the Gravemind”

“He’s the founder of the ancient textures” she stared at me “What others do you know?”

“Time has taught me patience, basking in a new freedom; I know all that I possess” I growled in my impression of the Gravemind

“Dude, that’s creepy” Spike shuddered

“Perhaps we could form a duet?” Chilly nickered

“Perhaps we could,” Littlepip “or maybe you could join us, we need a seventh member to or band!”

“You play music?” she blinked

“We sing, I play the guitar,” I sighed “it’s a work in progress”

“Perhaps you could teach me, master?” she batted her eyelids at me

“Perhaps I could,” I nodded “and I will”

-=-=-

“Are you serious?” Crystal burst into laughter before our next ‘gig’ “you want her in our group?”

“You haven’t heard her sing” I winked

“Very well then,” she sighed, turning her gaze to the crimson mare “What’s your name?”

“Chilly-Pepper, but master calls me ‘Pepper’”

“Master?” Crystal grinned

“I was summoned by the purple one known as Twilight’s spell” she shrugged

“So I see, and he asked for it?” Crystal nodded toward me

“No, I simply came of my own volition, after all, we succubi need masters to rule over us, lest we go mad” she giggled

“Good to know” Crystal shuddered as we crowded the stage, placing the guitar on the bench, Littlepip and Velvet Remedy sat either side of me, Pepper sat in front of me , Snowdrop and Blaze positioning themselves on my head and shoulder respectively as the audience took to their seats, al staring at Pepper in somewhat apparent confusion

“Shall we?” Velvet smiled as Crystal hovered beside her, I nodded

“Just a small town girl

Livin' in a lonely world

She took the midnight train goin' anywhere” I began the song

“Just a city boy

Born and raised in South Detroit

He took the midnight train goin' anywhere” Chilly Pepper chorused, her voice, ironically enough, like that of an arch-angel

“A singer in a smoky room

The smell of wine and cheap perfume

For a smile they can share the night

It goes on and on and on and on” she continued

Strangers waiting

Up and down the boulevard

Their shadows searchin' in the night

“Streetlight, people

Livin' just to find emotion

Hidin' somewhere in the night” Snowdrop chimed as she added to the song

“Workin' hard to get my fill

Everybody wants a thrill

Payin' anythin' to roll the dice

Just one more time” Velvet Remedy and Littlepip sang as a duet

“Some will win, some will lose

Some are born to sing the blues

And now the movie never ends

It goes on and on and on and on” Blaze and Crystal formed a second duet

“Strangers waiting

Up and down the boulevard

Their shadows searchin' in the night

Streetlight, people

Livin' just to find emotion

Hidin' somewhere in the night” Snowdrop, Blaze and I serenaded, almost

“Don't stop believin'

Hold on to that feelin'

Streetlight, people

Don't stop believin'

Hold on to that feelin'

Streetlight, people

Don't stop!” Pepper, Snowdrop, Blaze, Crystal, Velvet Remedy, Littlepip and I completed the song as septet

“When I see your smile

Tears roll down my face I can't replace

And now that I'm strong I have figured out

How this world turns cold and it breaks through my soul

And I know I'll find deep inside me I can be the one I began the second song

“I will never let you fall (let you fall)

I'll stand up with you forever

I'll be there for you through it all (through it all)

Even if saving you sends me to heaven” Snowdrop chorused as Pepper sang the background vocals

“It's okay. It's okay. It's okay.

Seasons are changing

And waves are crashing

And stars are falling all for us

Days grow longer and nights grow shorter

I can show you I'll be the one” Blaze and Crystal chimed together

“I will never let you fall (let you fall)

I'll stand up with you forever

I'll be there for you through it all (through it all)

Even if saving you sends me to heaven” Littlepip sang with Velvet Remedy serenading the background vocals

“Cuz you're my, you're my, my, my true love, my whole heart

Please don't throw that away

Cuz I'm here for you

Please don't walk away and

Please tell me you'll stay woah, stay woah” I sang, solo

“Use me as you will

Pull my strings just for a thrill

And I know I'll be okay

Though my skies are turning grey” Pepper sang her heart out, her wings giving off a blinding light as they changed from devil-like wings, to those of an angel, although their colour remained the same

“I will never let you fall

I'll stand up with you forever

I'll be there for you through it all

Even if saving you sends me to heaven

I will never let you fall

I'll stand up with you forever

I'll be there for you through it all

Even if saving you sends me to heaven” we sang a second time as a group

“And here’s the third song running” Blaze declared as I sat on the bench, my friend snad family crowding around me as I began to play the guitar

“The burning desire

to live and roam free,

It shines in the dark

And it grows within me

You're holding my hand

but you don't understand

So where I am going

you won't be in the end” Chilly Pepper chorused

“I'm dreaming in colours

Of getting the chance

Of dreaming of trying the perfect romance

The search of the door, to open your mind

In search of the cure of mankind” Littlepip and Velvet Remedy formed a duet, both smiling at me as they sang

“Help us we're drowning

So close up inside

Why does it rain, rain, rain down on Utopia?

Why does it have to kill the ideal of who we are?

Why does it rain, rain, rain down on Utopia?

How will the lights die down, telling us who we are?” Snowdrop and Blaze formed another duet

I'm searching for answers

Not given for free

You're hurting inside

Is there life within me?

You're holding my hand but you don't understand

“So you're taking the road all alone in the end

I'm dreaming in colours, no boundaries are there

I'm dreaming the dream we all seem to share

In search of the door, to open your mind

In search of the cure of mankind

Well help us we're drowning

So close up inside” I sang with Pepper, it was as if our hearts had touched, and were now resonating off on-another

“Why does it rain, rain, rain down on Utopia?

Why does it have to kill the ideal of who we are?

Why does it rain, rain, rain, down on Utopia?

And when the lights die down, telling us who we are

Why does it rain, rain, rain down on Utopia?

Why does it have to kill the ideal of who we are?

Oh, why does it rain, rain, rain down on Utopia?

Now when the lights die down, telling us who we are

Why does it rain?” we sang a third time as a septet, bowing before the audience, who clapped their hooves in applaud as we marched from the stage, to the backstage area, and from there too the main hall

“That was amazing!” Octavia gaped at me, then glanced toward Pepper “who’s she?”

“I’m Pepper” Chilly Pepper smiled

“Octavia” she raised an eyebrow as Twilight, her friends and the princesses trotted toward us

“I didn’t know succubi could sing that well” Twilight glimmered, all eyes were on us, I heard faint whispers being passed back and forth “I didn’t know she could sing that well” Twilight face-hooved

“She’s a succubus?” Rainbow Dash glowered at Pepper “like one of those demon-things that hunts you down and ‘does the nasty’?”

“But her wings don’t match” Cadance blinked

“We’re all like angels with a little demon on the inside, maybe she’s a demon that found a little angel on the inside?” I suggested

“Thank you, Tesla,” Chilly Pepper smiled

“You said that once, about The ghoul in the wastes, the one who was still alive and very much sane” Velvet chimed

“She had her mind intact, what was left of it anyhow” I sighed

“For a Succubus, you’ve the voice of an angel” Twilight smiled “

“Don’t I just?” Pepper nickered

“She’s one of the demons from Tartarus?” I heard someone yell

“Get her out of here!” another pony screamed

“We don’t want one of her kind here!” a third one jeered “get her out!”

“Just keep it up” I mumbled, clenching my fists, scales appearing on my arms, hands and face

“What’re you waiting for, someone call the guards!” a fourth pony snapped

“That’s enough!” I bellowed, a burst of energy washed over me, a seemingly holographic dragon made of pure energy and fire appeared above me, my eyes shining like suns, my canines extending into fangs as I let out an unearthly roar

“Now we’re going to allow her to live an everyday normal life, just as anyone else would, and we’re going to do it without question, are we clear?” everyone in the room nodded

“Good” I sighed, my teeth, eyes, face, arms and hands returned to normal as I let out a sigh

“Dragon’s apparition” Blaze grinned “Gets shiv done”

“That it does” I nodded as the holographic dragon faded from view “It’s a little tiring though”

“That was incredible!” Pepper gasped “How did you do it?”

“Simple, and yet somewhat advanced dragon slayer magic” I glanced around the room, all eyes were on me, rather nervous eyes, at that

“That was overkill” Velvet Remedy shuddered

“I did not mean to scare you, Velvet, nor you, Littlepip, Snowdrop” I bit my lip

“It’s alright Daddy, you did what you had to” Snowdrop smiled

“Yeah, you don’t let anypony mess with your friends, ever” Littlepip gleamed

“That was both amazing and yet somewhat terrifying” Luna blinked “remind us, not to annoy thee”

“Noted” Celestia and I nodded

“But I must ask, was such an action necessary?” Celestia raised an eyebrow

“For every action in the world, there is always an equal reaction” Blaze sighed “besides, you know what Tesla said about his friends, about how he’d defend them with his life if need be”

“So you would” she sighed “then I shall leave you for today, Tesla” with a flash of light, she vanished

“I hate having to do that” I sighed

“And I thought you were awesome before!” Rainbow Dash laughed, Twilight shot her a glare “what, he beat discord single-hoofed, who else can do that other than the princesses?”

“Always fighting” I mumbled, walking with Velvet, Littlepip, Chilly Pepper, and Ryōshi out of the castle, standing in the gardens “I’ll bet it’s what the eons of old did as well, in their war against all forces that might’ve been related to the antagonist of that era” I lay on by back under the shade of a large Oak tree

“I’ll bet” Blaze nodded “and I’ll bet that they didn’t have to put up with the amount of hatred and prejudice that your little Pepper was on the receiving end of, either”

“I’m used to it” Pepper shrugged “Us demons of tartarus are used to the insults, curses and abuse that we’ve received for the past two billion years”

“Two billion,” I blinked “how old are you?”

“A few hundred years, the old tartarus was destroyed in a great civil war between the demons of what can only be described as hell; and the succubi of that same area” she sighed “There’s a reason Celestia doesn’t mentioned it to anyone, even her beloved sister, and my kind is a part of that reason” she had tears in her eyes

“You can let your emotions go you know, you don’t have to try and act tough when I’m around, I won’t laugh, and I won’t think any less of you for it” I smiled, sitting upright

“Oh, Tesla,” She burst into tears, clinging onto me, draping her wings around me, as I did with my wings around her

“It’s over now, Pepper, you’re free now” I smiled, faintly

“I’m glad for it,” she cried “I’m glad I’m free of that pit, I’m glad I had the chance to come here, and I’m glad I met you, you’re an amazing person Tesla, don’t let anyone tell you differently!”

“That’s it, let it all go,” I cooed “it’s going to be alright”

“Thank you Tesla,” she sobbed, tears cascading like Luke-warm waterfalls down her cheeks, and down my shoulder “thank you so much for loving me like you have”

“It’s Ok” I smiled, stroking her mane “I won’t leave you or any of my friends or family for anything, unless I absolutely most certainly have to, you’re my Nakama, which means you’re closer than family to me, and that I’ll do anything to be with you”

“And I you, Master,” she sniffled “And I you, with all of my pitch-black heart”

“I’d say it’s onyx” I gave a weak chuckle

“Thank you, Tesla” she smiled faintly, letting go of me, pecking my cheek “do you know what us Succubi feed on?”

“Love?” I took a wild guess

“Lust,” she gave a weak grin “Ravage me tonight, my love"

And so I did

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