Chapter 24: The Incredibly Terrifying Fate of Spike the Dragon

I was dreaming.

At least, I think I was dreaming. Being a changeling for as long as I had been meant I hadn’t experienced a real dream in months, not since coming to Equestria. So I wasn’t really sure, but it had all the hallmarks of a dream. I was kind of just walking around without any control of my body and everything seemed just a little off somehow, so I guessed that what was happening had to be a dream.

I was in a hallway made of crystal, with carpeted floors. Twilight was walking beside me with a really sad look on her face but…something was off. The purple alicorn princess was…short. Really short. So short she could walk underneath me if she just dropped her head a bit. But I still had four legs, and wings, and a horn, not to mention a hell of a lot of hair near my ass, so I was still a pony.

I was wondering just what the hell was going on as I spoke. “So, have you made your decision about Spike?” I asked in a female voice that was not my own, or my female voice. It was all calm and regal.

Twilight wiped away some tears as she spoke. “Yes,” she mumbled before looking up at ‘me’. “Princess Celestia…tell me I’m doing the right thing.”

I felt my mouth move, but it was the princess’s voice that came out. “I remember not too long ago, there was a pony that adored me so much, that she would do anything just to see me smile, and I wanted nothing more than to make her happy. I wanted to keep her by side, and so I did…for many years,” Celestia said. “But as she grew, I realized that in order to become the wonderful mare she needed to be. I needed to send her out into the world, I needed her to get away from her books and studies. I needed to let her walk and stumble on her own, to see her run without me beside her. And because of that, not too long ago, I was able to watch her soar.”

Twilight blushed, and Celestia smirked. “Of course then I had to watch her crash into a tree not even a mile outside of Canterlot, ruin her coronation dress, and then hide my hoof with my face as the fastest flyer in Equestria had such a hard time getting you out of that mess of branches it looked more like Rainbow Dash was trying to hump you rather than get you free.”

“T-That’s just because my legs got wrapped in tangle vines!” Twilight sputtered as her cheeks reddened. “A-And they got on my horn too, so I couldn’t teleport out! You know how sensitive an alicorn can get when magic is pumped through it!”

A loud and continent sigh escaped from Tia’s lips. “Oh do I ever,” she said before smiling again. “Has Fae given your horn any…oral attentions?”

If I had a body, I would have winced. Oh God no.

Twilight’s eyes widened, her cheeks blushed even more and then she shook her head fiercely. “No it…um…it makes her uncomfortable,” Twilight explained she said before looking down. “She um…well…it’s a human thing, she says. Apparently…it’s like sucking on a male’s…reproductive organ and its viewed as a…well…something not good in his culture. She wouldn’t even let me do it to her when she was in disguise. As Flash Sentry I mean.”

Mostly because the thought of Twilight sucking Flash’s Sentry’s cock made me want to puke. Hell, her sucking me off even made me uncomfortable. Twilight deserved so much better than that.

“Well, human culture is quite strange,” Celestia said. “And I share your confusion. All the stallions I’ve shared the experience with found it almost as enjoyable as I did.”

NO! BAD PRINCESS! You’re not supposed to talk about shit like that! I mentally shouted while trying to force Tia to say something else to change the way the conversation was going.

Twilight’s eyes widened. “Y-You’ve been with…stallions?” she asked with a bit of worry and disappointment in her voice.

“I am over a millennia old Twilight,” the goddess said as the world went around for a second when she rolled her eyes and I could feel a tiny bit of familiar annoyance creep into her emotions. Then, Tia let out a sigh and shook her head. “When I started hitting my growth spurts and stallions became…less than able to satisfy me thanks to my added size, then my experimentation phase started and I tried mares. Then came the horn pleasuring and found I rather enjoyed a stallion’s-”

“PRINCESS!” Twilight whined, cutting her off.

Thank you magical purple goddess!

Tia giggled and bend down to nuzzle Twilight. “I promised a week ago to be more friendly and open with all of you,” she said before returning to her full elevation. “And it’s been several years since I was able to talk to another mare about such things, so I’m needing to make up for centuries of lost time of girl-talk. Sorry, but that’s just the way it is.”

It took Twilight a good long time to turn from red to purple again. Thankfully, Tia didn’t say much of anything to continue the conversation and Twilight wisely found some other thing to talk about that wasn’t Spike. It kind of had me wondering if that was exactly why Celestia steered the conversation towards sex in the first place. “So, what’s going to happen to Twinkling Guardian?”

“Ah yes…the one soul I wish hadn’t returned,” Celestia grumbled a bit to herself before she looked down to Twilight. “Thanks to his actions, he will spend the rest of his days in prison, and I doubt the secession movement will be in favor anytime for a lifetime or two. If it doesn’t die off completely by then. Meanwhile, Cadence’s rule has been reinforced thanks to her actions during the…battle, her refusal to harm crystal ponies and her support of Omnifarious before he…proved himself. She has shown herself to be a wise leader, capable of seeing the good in ponies that the populace could not and doing the best thing for her people despite the political pressure not to.”

Celestia shook her head and sighed. “The fact that Fae had to do it in the first place…we never should have lied about what happened in the Empire the first time.”

Twilight looked back up to her and frowned. “Why did we? Lie, I mean?”

The world stopped moving, and I felt Tia shift around as she sat down and hung her head. “Because I just had to appear to be…perfect,” she explained as she practically spit the word before she looked over to Twilight. “For one thousands years I’ve had to rule alone. Before then, Luna and I…we had each other and were able to invite a companion or two every now and then to share our lives. But after Luna was banished…something happened. I saw what happened to her and thought I needed to be strong, unapproachable…unyielding and uncompromising. I’ve done it so long, ponies refer to my name as a talisman or a curse. To them, I’m not just a big pony with wings and a horn, I’m a goddess that nopony will question and…I have experienced what such infallibility can do to those that I love. Sunset’s problems, your constant worrying to please me…and despite her return, there is a wall between my sister and I that has been built up thanks to that perceived perfection.”

The goddess blinked several times as her vision became blurry. “My apologies Twilight…I’m afraid I got into the habit of rambling to my friends about my problems when we’re alone and-”

Tia’s body shook with a light impact, and she looked down at the little alicorn hugging her. “It’s okay…Celestia. That’s why you…started having dinner with my friends, right?” she said before the white alicorn wrapped Twilight in her wings.

“Yes,” she replied softly. “I have denied myself such things for so long, told myself that it was for the good of Equestria but…the smallest taste of it has left me become aware of a ravenous hunger that I only made myself unaware of for this past millennia. Only now do I see how wrong I was in trying to fool myself that the...working relationships I had with others was enough for me to live on.”

After a few seconds, the little tender moment faded, and Tia cleared her throat to signal Twilight she needed to dislodge herself before they went back to walking down the deserted hallways of the Crystal Palace. Nothing really else was said before they came to a door.

“Do you…still want some support?” Tia asked.

Twilight nodded. “Yes,” she answered hesitantly.

After the door was opened with magic, the two alicorns stepped into the room. Twilight slowly went first, followed by the giant pony that cut off her retreat. From what I saw, it was obviously a bedroom, and fancy one at that. The sun was still up so…it couldn’t have been that much later than when I had passed out. Hell, I didn’t even get to eat lunch.

The purple goddess cleared her throat. “Spike, I know you’re in here. Come out.”

There was the sound of something slapping on the crystal floor, and I saw that it was the kid’s lizard feet. He caught sight of the two alicorns and his eyes became a little worried. “I…I heard something happened at the stadium. Um…w-where’s the changeling? Did you finally beat it?”

Tia’s vision narrowed, and I realized she was frowning at the little dragon.

“You’re still…” Twilight paused and let out a breath. “You know what? Don’t care, that’s a problem for another time. Right now, I need to talk to you about something more important.”

Spike’s head swiveled back to Tia, then to Twilight a couple of times. “About what?” he asked cautiously in a voice that made him sound closer to Sweetie’s age than the dragon in his chronological teens.

“Spike…I’m sorry,” Twilight apologized as she lowered her head, which only seemed to make the dragon even more worried. “Ever since you were born, I’ve kept you next to me. You slept in my room, and when I spent more time with Celestia than I did at home you moved in there, and when I got so worried about getting messages from Celestia and she told me about how he could send messages through you, I talked you into letting her cast a spell on you so we could send letters instantly. And I was wrong to do that.”

The dragon gulped. “W-What do you mean?”

“Spike…what do you want to do with your life?”

Twilight’s question got a confused frown out of the dragon. “What do you mean? I’m your assistant!”

“No,” the alicorn replied. “That’s what I want you to be Spike! What do you want?”

“What’re you talking about?” he cried before looking over to Princess Celestia. “What’s she talking about?”

The larger goddess let out a sigh through her nose. “Best to just tell him,” she said to Twilight.

After taking in another deep breath, Twilight took a stance that stiffened her legs and brought her to her full height. Then she put on a mask of a face that I could tell was meant to add a little strain to her mouth muscles in order to keep everything under control. “I’m sending you back to Canterlot,” she said evenly. “You’ll go back to living with my parents.”

“What?” Spike shouted in anguished disbelief. “Y-You’re kicking me out?”

Twilight sighed and lowered her head again a little bit. “Spike, that’s not-”

Before Twilight could get three words out, the Spike cut her off. “NO!” he shouted before he came forward and fell to his knees at the alicorn’s hooves and reached little claws forward to grab at the mare. “W-What about me being your assistant?”

“I should have never put you in that kind of a position in the first place,” Twilight told him sadly.

The little lizard shook his head fiercely. “No! You…you need me to be your assistant, remember?” he said. “I have to write letters, and check your checklists, and do your shopping, and cooking and-”

“Spike, please don’t make this anymore harder on me than it already is,” she whispered just loud enough for Tia to hear.

For his part, the little dragon started taking in short breaths like crazy for a few seconds before he managed to speak again. “P-Please Twilight, whatever-is this about the changeling?”

“Spike-”

“I’M SORRY!” the dragon cried out as he latched onto one of Twilight’s legs all the way with his arms. “Okay-okay, I learned my lesson! I-I won’t talk about Sunset and-and your fillyfriend anymore! I’ll be good! I’LL BE GOOD! You don’t need to send me away!”

Twilight stomped her free foreleg down on the ground. “THIS ISN’T ABOUT THAT!” she shouted back at him, which made the dragon recoil and retreat for a second. Twilight’s face twisted in pain, and she took a deep breath before continuing. “What happened with Sunset…that’s just the symptom of a larger problem! Yes it was horrible, but just saying you're sorry isn’t going to fix what caused it!

“Your entire life has revolved around doing what everypony else tells you to,” she went on. “It’s become so ingrained in your head it’s like you can’t even do anything else! And when you’re not doing what somepony else wants…when somepony else is being helpful to me, you-you get like this! You get scared and desperate and…I just… And I’m the one that did this to you!

“You need to go home, back to Canterlot! You need to figure out what you want to do, not what everypony else tells you to do all the time! You need to be able to find some value in yourself that doesn’t rely on being a-an assistant to somepony else!”

“No!” Spike whined in response as tears formed in his eyes. “I-I don’t wanna go! Please Twilight, DON’T MAKE ME!”

Another breath was choked in by the dragon, and another, and another and…I actually found myself feeling sorry for the little guy for a moment. After all, being separated from Twilight was his greatest fear, and the alicorn had done exactly what I led her into. Not that I could have just told her to get rid of Spike of course, or even hinted at it. All I could do was point out the problem in a certain way and let Twilight do the rest.

Twilight cringed and lowered her head. “I’m sorry Spike.”

“But you said you’d never send me away,” he whined. “D-Don’t you love me anymore?”

Again, Twilight’s body seemed to move as if she had been struck. She flinched and blinked tears from her eyes. “Of course I still love you! And I will always love you, but I WAS WRONG!” she shouted in the dragon’s face before taking a deep breath as I watched her get herself back under control through Tia’s eyes. Still, she spoke quickly even after taking a moment to calm down. “Everything I’ve done to you is wrong! All I’ve ever done is hurt you until…I turned you into this! It’s like you don’t even have a life of your own, you just live to supplement mine! And if you can’t do it for me, then you find somepony else to take my place and do it for them! I need to get you away from me! I need to let you find out who you are, AND WHO YOU WANT TO BE!”

Then the purple alicorn collapsed in tears and I…would have let out an uncomfortable moan if I wasn’t currently mind-linked with Tia like I had been with my goons during my first real date with Twilight and her brother. Of course getting rid of Spike as an obstacle was my goal but…I didn’t want to cause such pain to Twilight.

Oh I’m sure she would run into my arms for comfort, and we would cry and have sex and the alicorn would latch onto me all the harder thanks to her pain. But…the fact Twilight was suffering so made the whole removal of Spike somewhat…bittersweet.

But it was better than the foul taste in my mouth caused by his presence, and there was a reason sweetarts had been around since the 1960s. A little bit of sour was worth what you got at the end.

Celestia cleared her throat, and both the inhuman purple creature’s looked up to her as I felt the goddess’s mouth curve into a tiny, apologetic smile. “Now, I have arranged transport for you back to Canterlot, and my sister will be accompanying you as well Spike. You can make your goodbyes after lunch. Of which all your friends from Ponyville will be there to wish you well,” Tia told the dragon.

As the dragon continued to sniffle, the white goddess ran her lips across her tongue. “Spike, this is hardly the end. Twilight and probably others will visit you…weekly, if I remember a certain class roster at my school,” said the alicorn that was in the freaking class using disguise magic that made her look like Fleur Di Lis’s hotter big sister. “Now come along. Your friends are waiting.”

“But…what about my stuff at the library?” he asked. “What about-”

Celestia looked back to him, and bent down to be level with his gaze. “All of your possessions will be shipped to you tomorrow, and I have found it best to take your leave as fast as you can. Simply waiting will only delay the event, and prolong the pain.”

The luncheon went pretty much as anyone would expect. There was food talking, goodbyes, crying, Twilight explaining what the hell was going on before also crying and needing her friends to comfort her. Spike pussied out about telling Rarity how he felt despite the fact that she said she would probably be seeing him the most out of everyone because of her Canterlot connections.

Of course none of the princesses mentioned that he was a total douchebag towards me and just talked about how after some considerations, Twilight had decided it was best for Spike if he went back to living with her folks. The indignation I felt helped me not give a damn about the little bastard at all when it came time for more water works from the girls, and all the goodbyes.

Also helped me get over the whole Tia spying and private moment eavesdropping too. I deserved to at last watch the sweet and salty tears of my victory fall down the little brat’s face as he was wretched from the one he loved the most, like with what he tried to do to me.

Other things happened too, but they weren’t that interesting. Flash Sentry’s funeral was planned, which…okay, I might have needed to stick around for that. Sure the whole transfer into Twilight’s guard after literally running into her kind of reeked of a stalker, but…um…it wasn’t good to hold grudges with dead people, or ponies. I figure I could bury the hatchet, and dance on his grave a little.

So, I backed out of Tia’s mind bond and into the internet of Equestria that was the changeling hive mind, read the e-mail of other ponies that they paid my changelings to send through our telepathy, checked in on the latest porn posts, took a look at some of the new ponies that got copied by the rule 63 changelings, and made a mental note of three stallions that ordered sex from Princess Cadence. Royalty and world saving heroes were off the menu after all.

Unless said hero was Daring Do, she was half off when it came to anal, blowjobs, hoof jobs, spankings, and…well, pretty much anything. Hell, she almost destroyed Equestria when being late for her damn book caused me, Dash and Twilight to track her down, which led to everyone thinking I was dead and Mom getting her hands on the Crystal Heart.

Or hooves…whatever.

Then, I searched around a bit and found my connection with Tia was still open.

And with my body still in recovery mode from the battle with Smokey the smog cloud from Hell… Well, I doubted she would care about me riding shotgun in her head unless she was in the bathroom or something.

Which she wasn’t. She was actually…coming into a hospital room. Well, it wasn’t really a hospital room, but just a room in the castle set aside for crystal guard training injuries and the like. Apparently the weapons of Equestria had been upgraded in the past thousand years, and the crystal guards weren’t quite used to wielding anything sharper than a pointy stick.

The light coming from the crystal walls and the fact that the crystal lamps were on told me it was after sundown. From the looks of things, I had wasted more time that I intended to looking through gossip and other junk on the bug internet.

Since Tia was probably about to want some alone time with her daughter, I got ready to jump out when…she didn’t walk silently over to Sunset, but to the bed next to her, where an alicorn with a light blackish-gray coat was currently comatose because her consciousness was currently riding shotgun in Celestia’s cranium. The Alicorn of the Sun just moved her fat ass over to my bed, and looked down at my sexy self that Twilight had changed before I had passed out from hunger.

It kind of weird, looking at myself. It wasn’t like a mirror, more like an out of body experience. Which it kind of was. So, I just kind of floated there in the back of Tia’s head, waiting for her to do more than just…nothing.

“Thank you for everything,” she told me softly while I was kind of getting a weird vibe from her and a sense that maybe it would be a good idea for me to jump ship before she went on.

But I was a bit too late. “You showed me the emptiness inside my heart, and helped me find what I needed to fill it,” the goddess said before her vision started to get all blurry and her voice dropped to a whisper. “But…something’s wrong.

“I now have more than I ever wanted in a thousand years,” she continued. “More than I’ve ever had, even before the weight of Equestria was put upon my back. Ponies have started to see me as me again, as the the citizens of Ponyville see Luna.” Celestia let out a tiny laugh. “Isn’t that funny? My sister who was so jealous of me for being the unapproachablely popular one, has an ability to connect with ponies in a way that I never will. Within a single night, she had all of Ponyville playing games and just calling her Luna. Now I find myself gaining a circle of friends, and yet…I find myself wanting more.”

Okay yeah, way past time to go, I thought to myself before jumping out of that little mental connection and posting a ‘DO NOT ENTER’ sign just in case some other changeling could wander on by. To be honest, I wasn’t sure if it was possible or not. Tia was linked with me, not them. But…better safe than sorry.

Then I opened my eyes, and blinked at the closeness of the goddess. Being on the receiving end of a giant pony’s snout sure made things look a lot closer than they appeared to be from her perspective. “Hey Tia…um…is that banana I smell on your breath?”

Celestia stood back to her full height and looked at me with wide eyed surprise for a moment before she got her face under control, if not her scent. She was a little angry, disappointed, embarrassed as hell, and…kind of all super friendship feelingly. “Yes well I…wait,” she mumbled before frowning at me. “You do understand I get that reference now, correct?”

I put on a nervous smile, and she rolled her eyes while I innocently blinked mine before giving a much more toothy grin.

“Oh never mind. Whatever pleases you,” she mumbled.

Then, a moan from behind her made the goddess turn around, and I was given a perfect few of the royal plot and… Well, it was bad enough getting a full view of Tia’s ass before I kind of realized she was the personification of pony beauty. Afterwards, I might have had a purely scientific fantasy or twelve of what it was like to go at it with a pony with a sex that big. Of course it didn’t help that her giant magical tail had decided it wanted to flow in a direction that didn’t cover her private parts at all!

So, with the love tunnel of a goddess just staring at me, all I could do is think, I could probably fit my whole damn muzzle in the thing for crying out loud!

“Sunset! Did I wake you up?” she asked while wiggling her ass in way that looked all too inviting.

“P-Prin-Celestia?” the girl replied.

“Are you alright?” Tia continued you ask as she sort of fidgeted nervously, and her butt jiggled as a side effect. “Do you need anything? Food? You need food, don’t you? I’ll have a servant bring you some food.”

I heard Sunset gulp, and I managed to summon up enough willpower to turn away from the royal plot while she talked. “Celestia…um...about what you said the last time you were here.”

I should really go, I told myself.

Princess Celestia shifted around a bit more, loud enough to be heard, and I peeked back to see she had back to see she had backed up closer to my bed. Oh come on! It was bad enough that I hadn’t gotten anything good from Twilight in a week. I really didn’t need a giant princess’s pussy shoved in my face!

“Y-Yes?” she asked.

“…what did you…mean by…other title?” Sunset asked.

After a sharp intake of breath, I Smelled Tia’s nervousness skyrocket, and she shifted around a bit more. “I…well,” she said before pausing for several seconds. “I know you’re a grown mare. You’re…what? Twenty-one?”

“Twenty-two, I think,” Sunset replied. “Human time and Equestrian time didn’t really match up when I came around. They were a few months off from where I was and…I kind of lost track for awhile. But I’m pretty sure I’m twenty-two.”

Celestia cleared her throat. “Yes well,” she managed before clearing her throat again. “I know you’re kind of old for it, but…I would like to adopt you.”

“…what?” Sunset whispered barely loud enough for me to hear.

“Y-You don’t have to decide right away,” the goddess went on as she degenerated into a ramble. “Take as much time as you want. As much as you need to think it over.

“I know we’ve both made mistakes in the past,” she went on just as quickly. “I know we’ve had our troubles, and I know you’re having trouble dealing with your problems, but I promise to be open and honest, and tell you anything you wish to know. No matter how fallible it will make me seem.

“Of course I’ll still love you just as much if you wish to remain your own mare, and you’d still need to remain in the Everfree for now. At least until you can be returned to your natural form and you could move back into the castle at Canterlot where we can continue your lessons. But I’d visit you as much as I am able, not-not just the dinners with the rest of the girls, although I’d be for you there as well. But...I’d try and come by to see how you were doing and talk…three times a week, maybe? I think I could manage a visit every other night.”

“Okay,” Sunset replied weakly.

Silence filled the room for a moment, and then Tia cleared her throat. “Um…good. You just think it over. Take as much time as you need, and…”

“No. I meant, okay…Mom.”

Once again, Tia backed up, and my bed jostled before I looked back to see her rear filling the whole of my vision. “Uh, Celestia,” I called out. “Not to interrupt this touching moment or anything, but you come any closer and you’re going to be sitting on my face.”

Celestia stumbled forward a bit, and looked back at me with a nervous expression. “Oh…Omnifarious, I forgot you were there,” she mumbled. For a second she seemed torn between looking to me and Sunset, and then she settled on the human. “One moment Sunset. Let me get him his food, and then we can…work out the details.”

“Okay.”

At her daughter’s permission, Tia turned around to face me fully. “Give me a minute to prepare.”

I cleared my throat. “Um, can’t you just send it through our-”

Before I could finish, Tia leaned down till her beautiful face was inches away from mine. Her magical mane fell down, completely framing her head and blocking out the rest of the world until all I could see was the face of the sun goddess. “Take as much as you want.”

Hesitation made me stop from just gorging myself right then and there. It had been a week since I had gotten a good, full meal, and Tia’s link with me didn’t taste like anything, it was just there. Which made me wonder why she didn’t just use that, but...my hunger didn’t care about my curiosity. So I inhaled…deeply.

The taste of Tia’s love was…absolutely divine. I had apparently been feeding off fast food for so long that the taste of real emotions, even friendship of Tia’s level, tasted like the most amazing thing to come onto my emotionally parasitic tongue in forever. Of course I had known Celestia would have tasted better than the first time I fed on her but…it was like expecting hamburger and getting steak. I couldn’t help myself, and I took as much as I love tolerance would allow, as much as I dared without getting high or leaving Tia a shriveled up pony just waiting to die.

Celestia let out a loud moan and buckled, which was my signal to cut the feed and pull my head back. The goddess backed away from me, panting for breath before her wings quickly unfolded to their full length into the air. “That was…more intense than the first time, I think.”

“Sorry,” I apologized.

A golden shod hoof went into the air as Tia waved the apology away. “No it’s…I um…enjoyed it,” she said before clearing her throat. “Are you full?”

I gulped down some air before looking back to the royal, and caught sight of her soon to be adopted daughter staring at Tia with wide eyes and enough shock that I could detect it even as a pony. As for Tia’s scent, her lust had apparently gone through the roof, but that was to be expected after a feeding.

“T-Technically, a changeling like me can never be full. But, I’m good,” I told her before slipping out of bed. “I should…probably go. You two have…stuff to talk about.”

As I made my way to the door, the scent of Celestia’s lust filled my senses, and images of spending a night with ‘Molly’ planted themselves firmly in my head as the sexy woman deiced tonight would be a good time for some friendly hugging that buried my face in her chest.

I got to the door and made my way into the hall while Sunset was talking to her mom to be. “So um, Celetia-”

“Mom,” the goddess corrected. “I’ll also accept Mother. Oh! I’ll also respond to… Hmm…I guess you’re a little old for Mommy though.”

Sunset groaned as I wondered if Tia was doing her totally random topic thing to distract the former unicorn. “Wait a second, are you-” she got out before I closed the door behind me and made my way into the hall.

Finding Twilight’s room was easy enough. I had gotten a rough estimate of where everything was when I was riding Tia, and just needed to look around for a bit to find something familiar. Then I backtracked along the route the princesses took when I first connected to the sun goddess. After finding it, I opened the door and found her just laying on the bed, curled up doggie style.

It was kind of weird how pony spines were so adjustable they could manage sleeping human or canine-way without any difficulty. Although, I knew enough about pony body language to tell what it meant. Stretched out and resting like they were people meant ponies were open and happy, if just a little tired. Curled up and drawn in tight meant they were sad and trying to protect themselves from the from the world in an unconscious kind of way.

I didn’t need three guesses to know what she was thinking, I had saw it happen. “Hey Twilight.”

The alicorn raised her head, and her eyes widened in surprise. “Oh…Fae. You’re…awake,” she replied before her head went back down halfway to the mattress she was on. “I’m sorry, I didn’t come and see you, I…didn’t…”

My almost instinctual need to comfort a sad pony kicked in, and I had to strain not to just go over and wrap my furry forelegs around the depressed alicorn and tell her everything would be okay. After all, nobody had told me Spike was gone yet. “W-What’s wrong?”

“Spike,” Twilight said, “I…sent him back to Canterlot. It was…after lunch,” she said before going into a rather lengthily explanation of the goodbye party and everything else that Tia had been there to watch. Despite the fact I had seen it all, hearing it from Twilight with her depressed spin on things made the whole thing…regretful.

Watching the girl get even more down in the dumps, real remorse washed over me, and I walked up next to her and prepared to head into the verbal minefield. “Oh…is this because of…what…happened?” I asked, forcing myself not to go ‘what we talked about’ to keep her from putting me and getting rid of Spike together.

Twilight shook her head, which surprised the hell out of me to be honest. “No, it…well, sort of, but…to be honest…I think Spike’s had a problem for a long time, and I…I just…ignored it because…”

As Twilight trailed off, I got on the bed next to her, and kissed the mare on the cheek before putting a wing across her back. She practically sunk into the contact and the next thing I knew, I was basically holding the alicorn up with my body. “Twilight, it’s…” I couldn’t say okay, that would have been too…happy. “Are you okay?”

“…I’m sad,” she replied before I received a nuzzle from the little purple goddess.

I got a foreleg free of Twilight’s pressing body and added it to the number of limbs I was holding her with. “It’s okay to be sad every once and awhile,” I assured her in a soft tone. “And…I’m sure…maybe when Spike’s a bit more…mature, you can see him again…in Ponyville, I mean.”

For several minutes, I simply held the sad mare. She didn’t cry, although whether this was because she wasn’t really breakdown level sad, or because she had shed a good amount of tears at the goodbye party, I couldn’t tell.

“…Fae,” Twilight finally spoke as she shifted her body around to lay on her back, and pulled me around with her so I was on top. “Make love to me. Not just…food sex, like we’ve been doing. Real love, like…like we used to. Please?”

I felt like grumbling that she had been the one to insist on ‘food sex’ because of her project but…the alicorn’s pained eyes kept me silent. I knew Twilight was hurting, I could Smell the delicious aroma of her emotional pain in the air that made me want to kick my stupid changeling senses for identifying Twilight’s distress as something desirable.

Instead, I just kissed her on the lips, and got to work after a few quick words. “Anything you say, beautiful.”

I took my time to make Twilight forget about her loss, more time that I had spent pleasuring her in weeks, even during our friendly vacation to Rainbow Falls. I kissed her on the lips several times, then worked on her wings as best I could since I had no real experience with the sensitive things beyond the fact they were sensitive. Every inch of the mare’s body was given attention before I even got to the space beneath her tail.

Six orgasms later that put Twilight’s earth pony stamina to the test, and the exhausted goddess barely managed to magic my mouth clean before I climbed back up next to her to wrap everything I could around her from behind and kiss my mare on her cheek.

“I’m sorry,” she said in a weak voice after coming down from the feeding-enhanced euphoria, “for not feeding you enough, over the past week.”

I held her tighter. “That’s okay. It’s over now, and I know how much Celestia means to you,” whispered into her ear. “I should have told you I was getting upset. We both made mistakes, and now let’s just move on. Okay?”

Twilight moved her head in what felt like a nod. “Can I…move into the castle with you?”

A little giggle escape my lips. “Twilight it’s your castle…I’m just keeping it warm for you.”

Somehow, the alicorn managed to snuggle in even closer, and I felt her tail kind of wrap around one of my legs. “I love you.”

“I love you too.”

And with that, her body relaxed in a way that only came with unconsciousness, and I was left to go meet with Tia.

Was what happened to Spike perhaps a little too harsh, what with it being his worst nightmare made manifest?

Eh…what the hell did I really care?

The little bastard got in my way.