Chapter Two:

Rainbow Dash observed Havoc as he slept, how he could sleep with that thing holding him up was something she’d love to know. Or not remembering what had just happened to Twilight. As she looked through the wall at Twilight, the princesses, and a few guards as they approached the door she noticed movement. Her head flashed towards the thing named Havoc of all things, she saw his ears go erect. Did he somehow hear them? That was impossible, that room was soundproofed to the inside, hay it was hard to hear them out here despite enchantments to enhance sound traveling to the room outside! Then his head rose up and he got an angry look on his dark face. As he rose to his hooves she rushed towards the hall where they were located, she had to warn them, he knew they were coming.

“Don’t go in th-” She was cut off as the door crumpled inwards. The same door that was designed to stop adolescent dragons from escaping. She and all the others stared in horror as he frowned at them and wordlessly charged. Reacting quickly she counter-charged and slammed into him in a split second. He went down hard and she heard the floor crack as they crushed into it. He headbutted her and his horn slammed into her, knocking her into the air. She dived down at him hooves first and was caught off guard as he grabbed her chest and slammed her into the floor beneath him. She got a rather close view of his most private part before a clawed wing descended towards her head and she barely got out of the way. He slid her into a wall with enough force to cause a loud thump as she slammed into it with a pained grunt.

She felt his glare as he was suddenly in front of her. A mere second before he turned and knocked her up the wall with a swing of his tail. She hit the ceiling and fell back to the floor, the impact was painful. Her eyes opened in time to see his blurred form charge a pair of blue and white blurs. She moaned as she unsteadily stood, she had to protect them especially after what he had done to her. Twilight didn’t stand a chance against him. She waited for her vision to clear, no use rushing into a fight without being able to see, that was a good way to get severely injured or worse still hurt an ally.

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Celestia cursed internally as Havoc sped towards them, she should have gone in sooner. Suddenly a cyan blur slammed into him, knocking him back into the room. She gasped as she realised that it was Rainbow Dash, element of loyalty. They used the distraction to rush into the room, the guards rushing ahead of them to support Rainbow dash. She ran alongside her sister directly ahead of her student Twilight. She saw Havoc slam Rainbow Dash up the wall with a flick of his tail and he glared at them. She glared back and their eyes met. She saw not hatred, and not mere lust, but desperation and very real fear. There was something that scared him, something that terrified him enough to attempt to assault the very creatures he idolised. The idea of that scared her and she realised this wasn’t just selfish desire on his part.

They simultaneously charged and he ploughed through the guards. Eventually they piled onto him enough to obscure his vision and the females jumped to the side to avoid the snarling mass. He slammed into a wall and began to buck and thrash to throw off the guards that still clung to him. She waited for all the guards to be dislodged, and they formed a semicircle around him trapping him against the wall. He roared and the air rippled with its power, the guards grunted and closed their eyes in pain. As he charged intending to plough through them again she grabbed him with her magic, she knew from Twilights notes that he was stronger than her but he was a novice unskilled in the use of magic and all he had was raw power on his side. He struggled and raged before grabbing her and slamming her into Luna. She saw Twilight blast him with a wave of pressure, he braced himself against it and his hooves made sparks as they dragged across the floor. He blasted her in turn and she was slammed into the wall.

Celestia sent a line of flame and lightning as she sat up. Havoc screamed in pain and turned towards her with menace in his eyes. He grabbed her and crushed her in his grip, even as he crushed her he sent a wave of force into the guards surrounding him as they recovered. Luna tried being subtle, casting a sleep spell on him. He rejected it, adrenaline letting him shake it off. He pushed her down with his magic until she was splayed on the floor, she cried out as the pressure became painful. Celestia burned him with pure heat comparable to that of her precious sun, the heat was carefully contained so as not to hurt her ponies. He roared and increased the pressure. Celestia endured it. She saw a thick bolt of purple streak towards him, he took the hit and she heard Twilight cry out. In her peripheral vision she saw Twilight being slammed into the wall repeatedly, Havoc looked right into her eyes as he slammed Twilight into the wall. She saw a streak of blood as he dragged her up to and across the ceiling and held her just above the bubble of heat that burned him. She saw the intent in his eyes.

She relented, dispelling the heat and he gently lowered Twilight onto his back. With surprising gentleness he positioned her head on his bone white mane and pulled air across her form, cooling her to ward off the heat of his still burning skin and fur. He reduced the pressure on Luna before leaping before her and slamming a hoof into the back of her head. She let out a final cry and fell unconscious. He stopped crushing her as he walked behind Celestia and stood over her, she could feel his heat and she almost felt bad for him. Despite his great pain he was silent. She felt the heat approach and claws pulled her hips up. She closed her eyes knowing what was coming. Then opened them as a rush of air brushed her face and and she felt the heat leave her.

What she saw amazed her, Rainbow Dash the first one to rush in to defend them and the first to be beaten down, slamming into his head and grabbing Twilight. He fell on his side and struggled to rise, his wounds taking their toll. Now there was nothing to hold Celestia back. She scorched him once more in her magic and he snarled in response, sending a blast of pure power towards her. Her eyes widened and suddenly the world blurred. Rainbow Dash once more. She saw Rainbow Dash preparing to charge and shared a look with her. Rainbow charged and Celestia released the heat just before she entered the radius. Celestia had the pleasure of seeing his eyes that were burnt closed open wide and spray blood as he heard Rainbow Dash’s approach.

Thump!!

Havoc dropped and slammed his scorched jaw against the wall behind him. It slid slowly leaving first ash and charred flesh, then orange and red blood which pooled around him him once his head reached the floor. He twitched and his flesh cracked and bled with this small movement. Celestia staggered over to him as she pulled Twilight and Luna along. She saw that Twilight had a long shallow cut on her back. Celestia woke them both with a jolt of magic and they woke up with screams. They saw Havoc’s scorched form and Rainbow Dash’s battered body and cringed, Luna began stumbling along under her own power. The guards had recovered and surrounded them. Celestia, Luna, and Twilight simultaneously gripped the band and slid it down to the base of his horn, it glowed blindingly for a moment. the glow lessened and and they saw the crystal grow and alter its shape, it became pyramidal and extended about half a ring past the adamantium rings surrounding it.

They sighed in relief, the fight had been hard but they now had a controllable champion and they had eliminated a threat to Equestria and possibly the world. Celestia began healing them all, all except Havoc, he would be on his own for this. He growled in his sleep, the motion tearing his blackened lips and heavily scorched tongue.

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Time: 7:45 A.M. 8 days and 10 hours since Savior Spell
Location: Canterlot Castle Royal Guard indoor training field
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Havoc awoke with a groan, his last memory being Rainbow Dash’s forehooves slamming into his burning skull. He looked at his surroundings and saw grass, healthy dark green grass surrounded him on all sides. He saw white columns and walls, he saw stained glass windows, he saw saw his blackened flesh falling off of his fresh pale grey skin. No wonder I looked bigger he thought. He began to stagger about in search of food before remembering that he could now digest grass. He lowered his head and chomped through the short grass, his teeth mangling it. He heard a shout and raised his head, bits of grass and plant blood as he knew it dripping from his mouth.

“Stop that, you’re ruining my hard work!” A winged, pale furred mare with green hair yelled at him.

He blinked at her, was she seriously yelling at him? She was less than a third of his size. He frowned at her and displayed his sharp teeth. She didn’t panic despite the chunk of blackened flesh that fell from his mouth, she simply moved back with a look of disgust.

“Will you stop shedding on my field?!” She actually sounded angry.

He looked at her before lowering his burnt head beside hers, his muzzle facing the ground. He looked into her eyes and began to speak, he was surprised by his voice. It sounded like he hadn’t spoken in days.

“One: you have no power over me. Two: I can’t, the flesh falls off as it wills. Three: Learn to watch your tone around your betters mare.”

“Hmmph.” She snorted before pointedly looking at a part of his horn.

Havoc frowned and tried to look before realising his eyes couldn’t view that angle, he looked around for something shiny.

“Look in here.” The mare said and she rolled her eyes before pulling a mirror out of a case that blended with her fur.

He nodded in thanks before looking into the mirror. What he saw horrified him. Slabs of burnt meat clung to a dark grey hide. Predatory red eyes stared at him angrily, his vertical slit pupils shrinking as he watched. His horn however was the biggest shock. It was slightly yellowed and there was an odd ring at the base, shining white metal ringed a purplish pyramidal crystal on both sides. He realised it was the same band that Twilight had slipped on him last time, and like a fool he had blindly trusted her. The paranoia that had saved his life countless times had not been triggered by her innocent appearance but perhaps this wasn’t truly bad, after all he could easily remove it. He sat on his haunches and pulled at it with both hooves and it didn’t budge. Frustrated he pulled harder and felt pain, it was like trying to rip his own horn off! He grasped it with magic hoping that that would make a difference but couldn’t feel it, it was like it was a natural part of him.

He grimaced as he realised what he had to do. As the gardener, as he assumed her to be, watched he gripped the ring firmly. He proceeded to pull as hard as he could at an angle, the mare realised what he was doing and felt amazement and horror in equal measure. He was going to rip off his horn to get the band off!

“Halt!” She yelled.

To his amazement he stopped. He tried again.

“Halt!”

Again he tried.

“Halt damn you! Can you not get it through your thick skull that that’s bad? You could kill yourself or lose your magic forever!” She spoke in a panicked tone.

“I don’t care.”

“What!?!?”

“I don’t care. I don’t know what this thing does but it’s coming off even if I must die.”

“You’re insane!”

“Not yet I’m not. If I was insane we wouldn’t be talking right now. Believe me when I say this, I have extensive experience with the insane and they are a lot worse than I am.”

“Ugh, sit down and stop trying to kill yourself.”

He did so and his eyes widened. Rape and murder flashed through his mind.

“Now then, I’ve been put in charge of you so you will do as I say got it?”

“I’m going to kill you so painfully that you will welcome death with open arms, probably legs too.”

She stayed put and gave him the evil eye. And looked somewhere behind him.

“Guards, administer twenty lashes for threatening his commanding officer.”

“Yes ma’am.” They dutifully and simultaneously replied.

Havoc looked behind him and saw a pair of dark grey unicorns in ornate gold armor. They bore heavy metal whips on special hooks designed into their heavily engraved barding. They pulled the whips off with their grey magic and began whipping his rear. He laughed at the pain, it wasn’t that bad for him. He had a thick if sensitive hide and he’d suffered far worse in his life. He hopped up to his hooves, leapt backwards, and kicked their skulls in. He proceeded to laugh at the expression of horror on his “commanding officer’s” face. He stalked towards her on bloodstained hooves, psychotic glee evident on his face. She started walking backwards.

“Yo-you can’t do that! You’ve been laying there for days, I was told you would be weak! The princesses gave me temporary command over you, you have to do as I say!”

“But I am weak. If I was strong there would be clean holes in their skulls. And I did do as you said, I sat down and stopped trying to kill myself. Now prepare yourself little mare, I promise this will hurt.”

She continued backing away as he advanced. A light appeared in her eyes and she yelled at him.

“Sit down until I give you a command!”

His rear end hit the grass and he narrowed his eyes. He lashed out with his tongue,wrapping it around her throat. He pulled her close and smiled an evil smile. He constricted her with his tongue. Until of course Luna showed up, fully armoured.

Slamming into the earth before him she commanded,” Release her Havoc, and refrain from assaulting any of our ponies.”

He dropped the mare and sneered at Luna. He got a thought in his head and looked upwards. They are princesses, there are more. There are princes, there must be a king or a queen or both. When I gain my freedom I will torture them and make them watch as I rape their daughters. I will rip that thing from my horn, I will have revenge. I miss my armor.

“What dost thou want fair Luna?” He asked, his tone angry.

“Thine obedience and support vile monster.”

“Thank you Princess Luna, He was going to kill me!” The recovered mare said.

“I know Green Wings, he tried to do the same and worse to others soon after we brought him here. He is not wholly at fault for his ways however, if you knew what he had been through, and the place he cometh from...” Luna shook her head, perfectly fitted plates shifting with the motion.

“He is a monster because he comes from a world of monsters, even his birth was monstrous in nature. It is a wonder he even survived as long as he did, so do not hold it against him.” She continued and when she looked at him Havoc swore he saw pity, He did not approve, as such he grasped her in his recovering magic and pulled her towards him. She had said her ponies, she forgot to include herself, her sister too. She slammed into him but her armor held. Thinking quickly she calmly spoke a command.

“We command thee to cease this assault and any others you have planned.”

He did so and snorted. “Fine what are your orders fair princess?”

“Obey this mare, she is to be your instructor for now.”

“I’m hungry, very hungry, please release me from this spot so that I might eat those slain guards.”

“You will eat what you are given monster.”

“Then we’d best hurry to the feasting hall, whatever you’ve done won’t hold me for long.” This was true, he was twitching and moving slightly.

“Follow us.” Luna said and walked off. Havoc and Green Wings followed, Green Wings keeping her distance from Havoc. Havoc staring intently at Luna’s armored rear. He was learning, he had never seen armor like this. It was identical in composition to her armor when she was Nightmare Moon however this covered far more. Highly polished plates shifted with every motion, their contours matching those of their wearer. The armor covered most of her body leaving narrow openings at her joints, the upper joints being covered by extensions from the plates. Strapped to the armor he saw mounts for guns, he saw no external means of firing the guns held in the mounts so he assumed they were designed exclusively for magic users. He’d heard references to war machines, tanks and the like, so he was not surprised.

He drank in the view fully before paying attention to his surroundings. A magnificent corridor of marble no, granite. They sure liked their granite. He saw framed paintings of various famous ponies, horses, what he assumed were alicorns, and even a few stranger creatures including an eight legged horse. He memorised the turns he took with ease that stunned him, the clean air must be good for his head. With his great strides forcing a swift pace they made it to the gold leafed dining room quickly.

He saw a great feast had been laid out across the great table. He smiled as he approached stopping right behind Luna and looking over her head. Carrots, cakes, soup, apples, mushrooms, purple liquid in silver gilt goblets of glass, and other such herbivore food. It was laid out in elaborate ensembles that looked as delicious as they were beautiful. He looked to Luna pleadingly. She looked towards Green Wings. He turned his gaze upon her and looked at her similarly while licking his teeth. She gestured to a seat nearby and he pulled it out and sat with some difficulty, the creators of this chair did not anticipate their products use by a being of his size. She sat beside him nervously and Luna sat across from him, she swiftly removed her helm. They stared at each other. He looked on with a whirlwind of confusing emotions going through his tortured brain, she looked on with an interesting combination of sadness,hope, and measured coldness.

“Ahem, let’s get eating already. This is a waste of time as is.” Green Wings said, breaking the staredown.

“Sure.” Havoc said looking at her

They dug in, Havoc taking massive bites first of the mushrooms. They looked at him with shock but he passed it off as them gawking at either his bite radius, or perhaps it was bad table manners here. He moved on to what appeared to be watermelon with apple, some green fruit, some yellow fruit, and a lemon scented juice coating. It was delicious and he ate it all, even the watermelon’s tough skin. He moved on to the flower fruit thing and grabbed a glass of something purple. He drank it in one gulp and it tasted... funny, grape-like but there was something else familiar. He had never tasted wine, nor had he ever heard of or seen it. He also didn’t know that the mushrooms he had eaten were the same species as the ones that deer eat in order to get high, seriously they actively look for that species in, I think, Iceland, Greenland, or Russia.

By the end of the meal he’d eaten three pounds of mushrooms, and drunken gallons of wine, orange juice, and apple cider, not to mention all the other stuff he ate. He was a dangerous combination of drunk and high when they marched out to the now occupied training field, it was dangerous because where he comes from the people tend to get rather jovially violent when drunk. And when they get high, though usually from some drug that was a hybrid of hallucinogenic mushrooms, exhaust fumes, a toxin from a highly evolved vine, and some other strange plants that evolved in that post-apocalyptic nightmare, they became shockingly intelligent, insightful, and near immune to pain or exhaustion and they can survive wounds that should kill them. They often use the stuff as a combat stimulant. Combined, this was very bad indeed.

In his hazy sight he could see what looked to be a fifty pony platoon of armored royal guards, all pegasi. He looked at them and they looked back. He did not know that they were in fact slightly panicked because they could smell the mushrooms and booze on him at fifty of his paces. They knew a bad situation when they saw it and warning bells had gone off in all their heads when they saw him. The unintentionally menacing way he looked at them didn’t help.

“All right Havoc here are your opponents for now, you will fight them as a group. You are not allowed to use magic.” Green Wings said to the most dangerous thing in the castle.

“Ma’am?” Asked a random royal guardstallion.

“Yes guardstallion?” She replied.

“I don’t think this is a good idea, could we do this some other time? When he’s sober and doesn’t reek of ‘shrooms?”

“No soldier now is the best time, we need to see him at his worst and I believe this is pretty bad for him.” She answered.

“Yes ma’am...” He said glumly, “We’re all gonna die aren’t we?” He quietly asked a nearby stallion.

The stallion nodded his assent. The mares moved back some distance as he stopped three meters away from the platoon.

“Begin!” Greenwings suddenly shouted and it was on.

Havoc roared and charged into the center of their formation, many leaped or flew aside. Some were trampled under his great hooves. Some clung to him as he slammed into them, others tackled him in an effort to bring him down. He started leaping at them, knocking them down with strong swipes. He attempted flight, though his instinct was strong and well built it couldn’t give him everything he needed to maintain flight. As such for the most part he just made powerful gusts with his wings. This helped against unprepared guards who were swept aside or knocked from the sky by the erratic currents. They fought like wolves, distracting him and attacking from his blindsides. Every hit he landed against them was met by multiple hits from teams of the guardstallions. Soon he was attacking as they came at him launching vicious back kicks, bucking them into the air and knocking them away, lashing out with his forehooves, and throwing them with his wing-claws. They piled onto him en masse and but he still stood, though he was immobilised. He groaned as he strained against them, and with a great roar he threw them off. They watched him warily from the ground and the air, circling him on all sides. He picked a random direction and charged, leaping into the air and kicking and flailing his wings wildly. They kicked and butted him in the air, avoiding his underside due to a logical fear of being crushed. The ones that remained groundside moved aside before he crashed into the dirt, and leapt at him within seconds. It went on like this for awhile but inevitably Havoc was triumphant, and he took deep ragged breaths as he staggered away from the piled and scattered bodies of the unconscious guards.

Luna, helm on, clapped her hooves together, a clanking noise resonating, and Green Wings joined her.

“Well done champion! That was a truly impressive show. We were right to bring you here!” Luna cried.

“The other commanders are gonna be so jealous when they hear what my subordinate did!” Green Wings cried.

“Mmmmhhmm...” He mumbled through the copious amounts of blood leaking from his mouth.

“Lets get you to the magic testing room.” Green Wings said with a grin.

She trotted off and Havoc mindlessly followed, Luna hot on his tail after sending for medical aid. They made their way through a long hallway, this was decorated with statues, various weapons, and suits of armour. Some of the suits were ancient and primitive, others were similar in nature to Luna gear. The statues all looked militant in nature, depicted stern equines and armed warriors in aggressive, defensive, or inspirational stances. They emerged into a room similar in size to the previous one. The ground was coated in short, dark green grass. The walls had runes carved or embedded into them, equestrian from Havoc’s confused guess. Several unicorns were practicing on various objects scattered throughout the room and against each other. Strange statues, thin pillars, and other less identifiable objects lay about or stood upright though upright was a questionable term for some of the objects.

“Eldritch! The new guys here so come teach him magic stuff!” Green Wings called out.

A Black unicorn with white hair looked over irritably before widening his eyes in astonishment. He galloped over to them and eyed Havoc intensely from all angles.

“He’s like a big, winged, and battered version of me!” Eldritch said once he completed his analysis.

“Huh, I didn’t see the similarity before but now that his coat and mane have grown a little, yeah it’s uncanny.” Green Wings responded.

Havoc was shocked that his hair had grown so quickly. Then the air before him became reflective. Rather than panic he looked himself over and noticed he did look rather like him now that a few centimeters of coat, mane, and tail were regrown. Even though they were splashed with blood and showed bruising underneath in many places. He looked at the unicorn and tilted his head to the side.

“Leeets start with healing spells. I know you’ve got telekinesis mastered, I looked over the reports from your attempted prison break. Follow me.”

Havoc followed him to a clear space in the field, several unicorns gathered to watch.

“Alright now here’s how it works. Wrap your mind around the injury like you do with telekinesis. Then look at it through your mind’s grasp. It’s a little startling at first and it’s difficult to grasp or even understand what you’re seeing but that’s the best way to put it.”

Havoc wrapped his entire body in his mind and tried what his instructor told him. It was a struggle to understand the magical signals in his mind, but once it gave him an epiphany of sorts he understood. Pressure indicated severity, glow indicated further depth, temperature indicated pain, a flowing feeling indicated blood flow, a light pulse indicated breathing, a tugging sensation told him of the various organs functioning. It all made so much sense.

“I get it.” Havoc rasped.

“Good, good, now then grasp until you have the entirety of the injury or rather injuries. once you have them all I want you to focus positive energy into them. If you direct negative energy you’ll make them worse and they’ll hurt more.”

Havoc focused, he wanted to heal. He did not want further pain and he didn’t want to die. With that in mind he closed his eyes and sent a steady flow of energy into his wounds, he was astounded to find how much was already at work in them but he continued so that his effort would be noticeable. His bruises disappeared, the blood stopped flowing from his mouth, and his hair grew back. All of it. Once he was sound he stopped the flow and released his grip on his body. He opened his eyes and smiled revealing razor sharp teeth. The recruits cheered, this was quite a feat for a beginner.

“Well done, now lets move on to combat spells.” Eldritch said. He proceeded to make twenty clones of a metal statue that Havoc then realised was a practise dummy.

“I want you to make a shield, the shape is up to you. As long as it stops my projectiles it’s fine. You have twenty seconds.”

Havoc closed his eyes and shaped his mind into a great dome around himself and focused on strength, stopping power. He hardened it, moments later he vaguely felt impacts against his shield. He also remembered that he liked breathing so he made it an inflexible mesh to allow airflow. He opened his eyes and looked at his handiwork or rather hoofwork, no it was hornwork. He saw a black aura that fluctuated white where it was impacted. He could barely see through the wall but he saw that the dummies were slamming into his wall and bouncing off. He focused his sight into the wall and almost dropped it as he adapted to the new vision. He sould see all around him and it was disorienting he saw that Eldritch was slamming the dummies against his barrier fruitlessly, yet he smiled. Havoc decided to try a new trick, he vibrated the barrier and pushed air through it to mimic his voice.

“YOU WILL HAVE TO DO BETTER THAN THAT ELDRITCH.”

Havoc once more nearly dropped his shield in surprise. His voice had been amplified and altered by the shield, it reverberated due to the sources of its sound. Fortunately he was not the only one surprised. Eldritch and all the other guards reared up and stepped back and even the princess and his instructor hesitantly took a step back. A single step anyway. After a moment of gawking Eldritch fell to his hooves and grinned.

“And I thought I would have to wait for you to fall unconscious to remind you about air. Well then, though I’d just recycle my air for further security you seem to have this well in hoof. I’ll teach you how to do that later, for now I want you to keep that shield up. Stallions! I want each of you to take a replicant. On my order bash it against Havoc’s shield.”

Havoc pulled his vision from the shield and relaxed as he reacclimated to normal vision. That was confusing, he now knew how flies and assassin tongues felt. Assassin tongues are evolutionary descendants of horned chameleons, grown huge and deadly. Their three horns are sharp, their sense of smell keen, their scales hardened, their eyes the same only bigger unlike their scales, Assassin tongues average forty meters to the tip of the tail. They live in the mutated jungles of Havoc’s world and they feed on huge arthropods as well as various amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. Including humans, thus the name assassin tongue. Havoc had slain one when it made the mistake of grabbing him instead of one of his fellow soldiers in the column during his days as a legionnaire participating in his first crusade. The bony head of the tongue made a great dent in his cuirass and the stickiness held him fast as it pulled him towards its waiting mouth thirty meters up and twenty to the side. When it tried to bite him Havoc stabbed it gums with his sword and grabbed its upper jaw with his free hand. Assassin tongue’s jaws are strong enough to crush the powerful armor of the huge arthropods so this was a struggle he was sure he would lose, yet it screamed and let up the pressure when he stabbed it. This saved his life as he held onto the sword for dear life as it thrashed its head about and nearly caused him to fall to his death, it tossed it head upwards and that was the last mistake it ever made. Havoc ripped his blade free, grabbed a great horn, and stabbed it to death through an open eye. He used its body to cushion his fall and got both greater respect from his fellows and a chunk of the kill at mealtime later on.

The impacts strengthened as the Guards threw the dummies against his shield with their full strength. He knew which was being thrown by Eldritch because it caused the biggest flashes of white. This went on until he heard Eldritch yell for him to stop.

“Well done soldier, well done. Now I’m going to teach you a basic combat spell: fire. I want you to focus your magic into a small point. I want you to imagine it getting hot, hot enough to burn. Then imagine the flame itself, you’ve seen fire before so it should be easy for you to picture it. You only need to hold the image for a second, after that the fire will sustain itself.”

Havoc released his shield and focused his mind in a spot the size of one of his teeth. He imagined it getting hot, he had been burned many times so he knew the feeling well. He focused on an image of fire, he had seen much fire in his time. He had seen comrades burning alive, building and vehicles alight, he’d seen dragon fire. His flame burst into being and exploded a full meter past his boundaries before he got it under control. He stared at his flame, mesmerised by its motion.

“Very good, now I want you to throw it at this dummy here.” Eldritch said, pointing at a likely replicated wooden pony.

Havoc launched his fire at it at bullet speed. Not only did it burn, it was knocked down and away by the force of his throw. Burning wood chips were scattered around it. Havoc smiled once more and grabbed it, pulling it close. He held it and made another small fire, he dropped the dummy as he launched the fire at it at such speed that it was invisible. The dummy gained a deep crater as its chest exploded, Havoc stopped the shards with a swiftly cast shield.

“That was new. You seem to be a natural at this Havoc, almost as good as Twilight Sparkle. You seem to be good with small fires and direct shooting but what about big fireballs or artillery?”

Eldritch produced fifty wooden dummies and arranged them into formations and scattered them erratically, he moved several of the objects in the part of the field they were in. He moved ten of the metal replicants and interspersed them amongst the wooden dummies. Havoc faced them and created a large fireball, it was similar in size to himself. He launched it as bullet speed at a small group of dummies. It exploded in their midst and they became burning chunks. He looked at a formation of twenty and created an identical fireball and arced it at them at great speed. It crashed down upon them and most became chunks, others fell burning a few scorched survivors stood as did a half melted metal dummy. Havoc frowned and created five fireballs and arced them down around them and they too died. He proceeded to destroy the rest of the dummy with careful arcs or direct blasts, even the ones under cover stood no chance. He looked to Eldritch.

“Good job. Now onto electricity or lightning. You’ve seen lightning right?”

Havoc nodded, he’d also seen tesla weaponry and other electricity based assault tools.

“Good. Have you ever been electrocuted or perhaps struck by lightning?”

Havoc nodded twice. It had hurt immensely.

“Alright then, I want you to imagine lightning as a small point like with the fire. Focus on the sparks, the crackling, the twitching, the essence of it and don’t forget the appearance.”

Havoc focused remembering the arcs of electricity on equipment, the way it traveled across metal, the way it just appeared with little warning. A small point of glowing white appeared and he was happy, he held with his mind lightning one of the most powerful things on his planet.

“Now then take down this dummy.” Eldritch spoke pointing an armored hoof towards a new wooden dummy.

Havoc launched it at the dummy and the dummy’s front half exploded sending it on its rear. Havoc smiled.

“Alright try to take out this formation now.” And Eldritch created a squad of ten wooden dummies and three metal ones.

Havoc blasted a metal one with a larger bolt, as expected it took the hit with minimal fuss but the lightning traveled and destroyed multiple wooden dummies as it did. Havoc blasted them with massive bolts until the metal melted into sparkling, glowing heaps. He smiled as he pulled the metal to himself once he made shields around them.

“Not bad. Onto power blasts you know those already don’t you?”

Havoc nodded.

“Good then you won’t have trouble blasting these dummies into nothing.” He pointed at yet more dummies standing amongst the burning remnants of the fire test. Some of the wooden ones caught fire.

Havoc gathered his raw destructive power, he visualised it swirling and pulsing before him. He released it at the poor dummies. When the area became visible again even the dirt was missing, atomised by the blast. Eldritch whistled in awe.

“Now that’s what I call power. No wonder they had so much trouble with you, you utterly destroyed that whole area! Hmm hey princess, permission to teach him the replication spell after I teach him what I was ordered to.”

Princess Luna looked at the section of flooring that was once covered with the training field. That was five legs deep of soil and grass roots. She turned her armored head towards Eldritch.

“We believe that he is ready to learn this spell, so yes you may.” She turned her head towards Havoc and Havoc saw a strange gleam in her uncovered eyes.

Eldritch proceeded to teach him many skills including some more mundane. Water finding spells, temperature control, blocking light, concealing his nature, and more. Eventually they finished and moved on to replication. It was rather simple for him, envelop an object with your magic, learn its properties, and use some power to make another. However when they moved on to making something new it became more complex, you could use learned properties but you had to shape them differently. They stopped when Havoc managed to make somewhat rough armor for himself. He was now clad in shining gold plates and scales of armor that hung from him, the plates were held together with spikes of gold driven through them at points. They spikes had circles of gold surround them where they pierced the plates. Havocs head was covered save his eyes, nostrils, mane, ears, and mouth. He had tried to create a jaw plate but decided against something that gripped his lower mandible tightly.

He strode over to Luna and Green Wings and asked, “So, how do I look?”

“Formidable if a bit crude.” Said Luna.

“Magnificent!” Said Green Wings.

He flexed his bare wings and raised them to the air as he made mostly illusory lightning crackle across his armored form. On his spine were scales, heavier than the ones that formed an aventail attached to his helm. His chest had a singular massive plate, at the places where his legs emerged spikes connected more scales to it. Covering his back half were multiple relatively small plates of metal, connected to scales that mostly protected his belly. His mark and rear legs were bare as was his tail. For all intents and purposes his armor was a singular item.

As Luna walked off Green Wings and Havoc followed. They went through more magnificent halls until they came to the throne room. Celestia jumped when she saw them, purposefully looking at Havoc. Havoc looked away from her eyes, focusing on her torc. After a few moments of this he looked into her eyes, ashamed of what he tried to do but ready to explain himself so she would understand and perhaps forgive him. They resumed their approach having been halted by Havoc’s sudden stop.

“Sister is he truly ready to be here?” She asked tentatively.

“I believe so sister, can you see it?” Luna said, answering a question with a question.

“I see shame. I also see hatred, defiance, and... panic, perhaps desperation.”

Havoc sucked in a deep breath of air and spoke. “I apologise, truly I do. But you have to understand that I was going feral and you have no idea what that’s like. To see it happen over and over and constantly hoping that it doesn’t happen to you. To learn about it in school and to see the end results of generations of ferals. I have been through many horrible things but of them all going feral is one of the things I fear most. So I acted in desperation to prevent it. Please... I... *sigh* I Bellator Nadeem Havoc beg your forgiveness oh mighty princess Celestia. In my lands giving the full name is a sign of one’s power over others, in doing so I have acknowledged you as a decider of my fate be it life or death.” He bowed his head low.

“I am already a decider of your fate but the gesture is accepted nonetheless and I forgive you. I looked through your mind and saw the horrible things you’ve been through, so did Luna. I spared my dear little Twilight and instead gave her a somewhat edited written version so I now understand why you were so afraid. The description your teacher provided was terrifying.” She replied and Havoc lightly clenched his jaw. She should not have gone through his mind but he understood. She looked at him sadly before hesitantly speaking.

“Havoc?” He raised his head to look at her.

“Come here.” She said.

He approached, stopping three hooves from her. She looked him over.

“Remove your armor.” He reared up on his hind legs and slid the armor off with telekinesis.

She grasped it with her own and he relinquished. She placed it beside her throne and held out her forehooves. Havoc looked at her in confusion. She locked eyes and nodded. He hesitantly approached and let his neck be enveloped in the hug. He closed his eyes and for the first time since he was a very small boy, cried tears of emotion. He struggled to contain his sobs, the tears hurt as they came out and he hugged her back. His forelegs practically covered her entire upper body. He didn’t say a word as he cried, the fear of going feral terrified him like few things could and he was traumatised by the near experience.

He felt something metal touch him and opened an eye to see a bluish blur by his side. He opened a wing to hug Luna, not minding the lukewarm metal. He felt something softer and realised she was not wearing her helmet or neck armor. They simply sat there for awhile, his heavy breathing the only sound.

When he released them he took a few steps back and sat down to rub his eyes with the front of a wrist. He felt warmth and his tears vanished. His eyes opened to see the sisters smiling at him. He felt good, better than he had when not killing than he had in years. He smiled a sad smile and was gladdened when they did not cringe. He took a final deep breath and slowly exhaled. He felt something feathered nudge his side and looked down to see Green Wings looking up at him expectantly.

“Sorry for threatening you you a death so painful that you’d offer yourself to death.” He said before picking her up in a hug with his wings.

“I forgive you big guy.” She said as she snuggled into his chest fur. He wrapped his forelegs around her and closed his eyes to focus on the feeling. He did indeed like hugs.

He opened his eyes to see the guards frowning at him. He shrugged at them with his wings

“Now then, we are going to teach you how to fly. How does that sound Havoc?” Luna said.

“That sounds wonderful princess.” He said warmly.

Celestia rose from her throne and grasped Havoc’s armor in her telekinesis. Havoc moved a somewhat saddened Green Wings to the base of his neck, she perked up again. His mane was surprisingly soft, it was surprising because you don’t expect someone like him to have any soft qualities. He took his armor from Celestia and held it by his side, the spikes would impale anyone who touched the wrong parts of it. Luna put on her helm and they walked in a direction chosen by Celestia. They walked in a comfortable silence until they reached a ledge. Havoc walked up to railing and laid his armor down by it, he had no reason to fear it being swept away or damaged by the marble floor. He looked over and saw both the city of Canterlot and a great plain met by a forest, a huge river was going down through the city.

“It’s beautiful...” He said his voice reflecting his awe.

“I know right?” Green Wings said.

“We are glad you like our fair city Havoc.” Luna said and it didn’t sound like a curse when she said his name.

“Not just the city. The whole thing. Where I come from we don’t have beauty like this. The skies are filthy, black, red, and grey. The grass is sick or mutated, it sure isn’t green like yours. The water is just plain nasty. The trees.. the trees look evil. This place is paradise. No wonder the others so desperately want to come here. Perhaps they too could be changed.” He said his deep voice sounding remorseful this time.

“I almost wish one of them had been here instead. I shouldn’t be the only one here in this wondrous cleansing place. They need it even more than I do. I think my mother’s dead.”

“I’m sorry if that’s the case.” Celestia said.

“Don’t be. Almost everyone I know is better off dead if they come from my world. It’s miserable there. You should be happy she’s dead, she doesn’t have to feel pain anymore now that she doesn’t exist.”

“Your people cease to exist when they die?” Celestia asked curiously.

“It’s what we believe. After all if there is a place where we go upon death it’s bound to be as bad as the place we’re born in. *snort* I heard some religious drake manure from someone I tortured to death. He actually believed that we were judged in this life and our actions determine our ‘final’ resting place. If that’s the case then we’re all going to that Hell he told me that I was heading to. Not you fine beings, the intelligent life-forms of my world. I know I would.”

“Here when equines die if they are good then they go to the Elysian Fields a place of light and soothing darkness, lush grass and cool water. The skies go on forever.” Luna said and she tilted her head upwards.

“If they are bad then they go to Pandemonium and suffer until they are ready to come back to Terra, cleansed of sin.” She continued as she turned her armored cranium to face him.

“Then if I have a soul that is my destination. If I come back will you be waiting for me?” He asked.

“I will.” Said Celestia

“As will I.” Agreed Luna.

“So will I! If I’m not dead that is.” Green Wings entered and stroked his mane.

“Thank you. All of you.”

A pegasus approached. He was white with gold hair, though it was only evident on his tail due to his royal guard armor. He calmly approached them and flared his wings. Havoc looked in confusion until he followed where the pegasus’ eyes were pointing. And saw Rainbow Dash charging him. His eyes widened and he readied his magic. She came within a meter of him before smoothly stopping. Not of her own volition. A blanket of black magic covered her though it was white where her wings strained. Constant. Blinding. White.

“Leave the princesses alone you pervert!” She yelled.

Havoc took on a hurt look and Luna acted quickly, “Calm down Rainbow Dash he has changed.”

“It’s been less than a week since he tried that, how can he have changed?! Celestia back me up here! Surely you agree with me?!” She roared in response.

“I believe he has changed. He came before me and repented, begging for forgiveness. He even gave me power over his life in his people’s way and in his culture that is very big.”

“WHAT?! Are you serious?!”

“He even cried when I hugged him and he has not cried for anything but physical pain since he was very young and he had a very good reason for what he did. He explained it to us in detail.”

“What could justify rape?!”

“Havoc would you care to explain?” Celestia asked with a glance.

“Certainly my lady.” He responded.

He took a deep breath and said, “Rainbow Dash you don’t know what it’s like to know that you’re going feral. Where I come from going feral is a disease of the mind. The first symptom is you hear a faint screaming, after a few months you become disoriented as the scream grows louder. Eventually you begin to hallucinate, those you see appearing as monsters or old foes. After that you become driven by instinct and you begin to lose self control. Finally you become fully feral as you lose your mind and ancient buried instinct completely takes over. Going feral is a condition caused by either extreme trauma or long term isolation. Now do you understand why I did what I did? My body was new to this and I had just lost my home and been knocked out and been imprisoned here so when it reacted that way and it was denied... I began going feral. At an advanced rate, as in I was experiencing symptoms that were supposed to be months away. It was a choice between something I see on a weekly basis and going insane. Which I saw on a monthly basis. To me the choice was obvious.” And he looked balefully into her eyes.

Her jaw hung from his explanation. That sounded horrible, who would live in such a place. It was no wonder he had tried to do that. While she didn’t trust him she did understand, but she couldn’t forgive. Not that.

“I get you but I still don’t forgive you. Remember, I’ve got my eye on you. Now lemme go!”

“I thank you.” He said before releasing her. She zoomed over by them and shot a quick glare at Havoc who stood firm against it.

“So princess,” She looked at the two of them, “-es, is he the one we’re teaching?”

“Indeed Rainbow Dash.”

“How’s that gonna work? My wings are way smaller than his, I mean look at them.” She said and she grabbed and stretched out one of his wings.

The gold haired pegasus frowned and flexed his own wings, they were similar in wing to body ratio to Havoc’s own!

“Oh, sorry ‘bout that Silent Gale.” Rainbow Dash said and he rolled his eyes.

“Why do you not speak?” Havoc asked.

“Uh cause he’s a mute, part of the reason he has ‘Silent’ in his name. Don’t be insensitive dude.”

Havoc’s eyes widened slightly, “Um sorry I guess. Did I offend you?”

Silent Gale shook his head. He made some gestures with his wings while looking at Celestia. She looked thoughtful. She smiled and made some gestures with her own wings. Havoc was lost. He didn’t know pony sign language, he only knew a little human sign language and that was what he had learned for soundless communication on the battlefield.

“He says that while he thinks he would rather go mad, that in his madness he might do it anyway so he’d choose rape over madness. At least he can repent since he’s sane. Also he’s ready to begin the lesson.” She said.

Havoc nodded in response.

The other ponies flew off the edge, Green Wings leaping right off his back. Havoc looked at Silent Gale, he flexed his wings in repeated motions. Havoc began mimicking him, lifting his wings up then forwards and down and bringing the tips close to the ground and pulling them backwards before lifting them up and forwards. He’d seen birds before and it was somewhat similar. At some point he saw Silent Gale raise his wings high and slam them down strongly, it sent him into the air without him jumping. The air pressure sent him into said air due to him being lighter than the surface below him.

Silent Gale repeated this move a few times before hovering, Havoc watched him intently before looking at the others. Observing their motions as they swooped and sped along. He turned back to Silent gale and observed him nod before flying first forwards then backwards, going up and going down. He flapped more slowly than the ladies did, but that was because he didn’t need to keep up with their wing beats to match their speed. After a while of this he looked to Havoc and tilted his head up, a common gesture meaning challenge or come.

Havoc readied his wings and flapped down, his wings unyielding. His body went up and he repeated this until he was several meters into the air. He grinned before Silent Gale swooped before him and brought his face uncomfortably close. He smiled revealing shining white teeth, and Havoc backswept. Silent Gale nodded in approval before gesturing with his head that Havoc should follow him. Havoc nodded in assent. They swooped and soared, they ascended and descended, they soon joined the females in the air. Silent Gale presented him like a proud parent, or a showpony?

Havoc closed his eyes and smiled as he displayed his wings while maintaining flight. He heard clanking and knew the armored hooves of the princesses were being clapped. He made the air around them reflective and looked at the imagery. He saw himself, a massive stallion, thick black fur like a hairy raven, his feathers were tipped with a white that he only associated with bone, his long thick mane and tail were the same, his horn still looked slightly yellow. His irises were still blood red and the pupils were still slitted like a lizard’s. His muzzle was long yet it matched his cranium well and was squared off at the end, it made his smiles that much bigger. He had never seen his new form so he was fascinated by his appearance.

“Wow... I never knew I looked so good. How come nopony told me I was this handsome?”

Green Wings and Rainbow Dash laughed almost simultaneously. Silent Gale simply rolled his eyes. Luna just looked at him.

Celestia on the other hoof raised an eyebrow and said, “I honestly find it difficult to focus on such a thing.” She blinked and giggled, “Oh that was a joke, I see you’re becoming a bit of a comedian.”

Havoc blinked and said, “I wasn’t joking, seriously I am a really attractive stallion, why did nopony inform me of this? It would have been nice to know. And it would have taken but a moment.”

“I figured it would be better for you to find out on your own Havoc.” Luna said to his surprise.

“While you’re nice to look at you’re way too big for me.” Green Wings said conversationally as he reverted the air wall to its normal state

“I understand that.” Havoc replied, suddenly he realised he couldn’t see Silent Gale. He looked down frantically. Suddenly there was a weight on his back and he lost altitude, he flapped more powerfully to compensate and returned to the females level. He felt something stroking his mane and slowly turned his head. He beheld a content Silent Gale sitting in fur that reached halfway up the sides of his legs, smiling as he gently petted his mount. His wings were making odd gestures.

“He says that Rainbow Dash and Luna should join him. This is one of the most comfortable seats he’s ever had the pleasure of sitting on. Also it flies, and the view’s great.” Celestia informed them.

Rainbow Dash swiftly alighted upon him, the small mare making far less of a drop than the massive armored stallion. Luna gently approached and he braced himself. To his surprise she slid out of her armor before sitting on him. She was closest to his tail so she grabbed it and pulled the tip to her. He strained to refrain from bucking them all.

“This is quite soft, I could sleep in it.” She said and proceeded to wrap herself in tail, curl up, and fall asleep. Luckily her sister was carrying her armor.

“Is this a test of some sort.” Havoc asked attempting to sound casual.

“No she seems to be genuinely asleep.” Rainbow Dash said with a poke to Luna’s rump.

“I mean is she sleeping on me as a test.” Havoc said.

“No she would be sleeping with you as a test dear Havoc.” Princess Celestia said with a smirk.

Havoc didn’t get it. “Oh well that makes sense, if you trust someone enough to just go to sleep alongside them then you really do feel safe with them.” Where he came from sleeping with people meant exactly that, you usually didn’t sleep right after sex. It wasn’t considered safe.

Celestia gaped in surprise at his ignorance. Rainbow Dash was more vocal.

“Do you seriously not know what that means?”

“I thought it was what it sounded like.”

She facehoofed, “Okay here in Equestria when somepony says they slept with another pony they usually mean that they had sex with them. Similarly when somepony says that they want to sleep with you that means they want to do the two pony bed bounce.”

Havoc gaped and his cheeks turned red, his cheeks were long so this was a very interesting sight. He looked at her, adorable wrapped in his tail with her sparkly mane fluttering in the breeze. Surely she wouldn’t do that after all he was... Wait she was actually taller than the guard now that he thought about it. It would hurt more on her end but it might just work.

“You... You’re kidding right? She’s a bit small don’t you think?”

“Yes but she’s growing all the time, and she’s already of age. And most potential suitors in Equestria are put off by her history, besides they’re too small. As such that makes you the perfect stallion for her, you can’t possibly be intimidated by her past as Nightmare Moon, you’re actually bigger than her, and you are handsome as you pointed out. Not to mention your huge-”

“I get it! Great stallion, perfect stallion maybe! But since we’re on that subject what of you? You’re surely feeling that size problem even more than her. In fact when’s the last time you mated?”

She looked thoughtful and her cheeks turned pink, “ Last month actually, there’s a reason I pick the Royal Guards as big as I do.”

Havocs vision blanked momentarily and his left eye twitched, “That’s why the Royal Guards are so big!? So you can F*** them? You wanted me in that organisation too and I... I... Oh leak now I get it.” He hissed. He looked at her with newfound respect.

“Yup, your rank is in fact Royal Guard: Chosen Champion. If I so desire I can call you to my room as long as you’re awake, I’d rather not do that with a stallion who was just awakened from his sleep. They aren’t as skilled as they would be, nor do they last as long.” She said with a pink cheeked smile.

“Hey I’m quite a catch you know. Also as Chosen Champion you officially answer only to Luna and I, though you know Twilight can command you as well due to the ring on your horn. Even if king Rex himself calls you, you don’t have to answer the summons. You are bound to my sister and I alone, and now that you’ve changed you may find that a little literal from time to time.”

Havoc blinked, this was a lot to take in. He looked to Rainbow Dash, she didn’t even look surprised. Just bored like she’d heard this before.

“Did you know about the princess f****** her guards Rainbow Dash?”

“Duh. Isn’t it obvious? That’s like half the glory and privileges. Even I, a straight mare, would love to get physical with princess Celestia.”

“You’re rather open about this.”

“Well she already knows that just about everypony wants her so its not like its big news for her, it would be shocking if somepony admitted that they found her unattractive somehow.”

“Clever then, rather than just taking a single mate you take everypony you want as a potential mate. Fewer disappointments and you ensure that they remain useful. Though how do the females feel about this, from what I’ve seen they vastly outnumber the males and you’ve taken a rather large herd for yourself so I doubt they’re happy.”

“They don’t mind, stallions can keep harems if they want and it’s not like the guards only have permission to copulate with me.Then there would be far fewer stallions for me. It usually keeps them close for when I feel like it. You know ‘ease of access’.”

“Meh, it figures you would do that with multiple generations. As long as they’re not your foals it’s okay right?”

“Right!” She answered, the whole conversation been spoken in a hushed tone so as to not awaken Luna.

“Hey does Luna get to use the Royal Guard like that too?”

“Yes but she uses her Lunar Legion, its less well known but it’s that way on purpose. They serve as both her elite guard and the Equestrian stealth force.”

“Good to know.”

“Well let’s head back in shall we? It’s been a long day and I’m ready to turn in for the night.”

“What about Luna’s moon?” Havoc asked.

“She’ll wake up when it’s time, we always do.”

“K.”

They flew back to the castle or rather, Havoc flew back to the castle. Celestia glided on the slipstream he generated while the others literally rode him. He came down smoothly and kept trotting but slowed down letting Celestia take the lead. Rainbow Dash, Green Wings, and Silent Gale hopped off at intervals with the former two informing him that this was their stop. The latter was as silent as a ghost and Havoc only knew he dismounted by the loss of weight. Havoc had left his armor on the ledge but was confident that nopony would touch it, it would not only be heavy but if they weren’t a unicorn it would probably hurt.

Celestia guided him to Luna’s room, she quietly opened the door and helped him get her into bed. She nuzzled her sister who swiftly stopped groping the bed around her and latched onto her sister’s face. She then proceeded to pull her sister into a surprise kiss. Celestia managed to slip her way out without waking her, and scrubbed her tongue with her magic. She and Havoc soundlessly made their way out and closed the door. They then proceeded to Celestia’s room a short walk later. Havoc stood by the door in silence for a moment before letting out a low giggle.

“You know how many bronies dream of a moment like that? Heh. Who do you think she thought she was kissing?” Havoc asked.

Celestia spat and it evaporated midair, then she answered. “Probably you funny colt.”

“Seriously?”

“Who else even approaches my size in Equestria, not counting things we wouldn’t be attracted to?”

“Well I don’t know, I really don’t know much about your homeland, much less your homeworld.”

“Well there isn’t anypony in Equestria who is my size or larger, not even the male alicorns. I’m a giant as you can clearly see.”

“Oh. Well can you tell me where my room is, I’m not tired yet but I’ll need to know for later.”

“Oh you don’t have a room, not yet. Construction on a new tower has commenced though the going’s slow. They have to compensate for your size you see.”

“Then where am I to sleep Princess?”

Her eyelids lowered to half mast, “Well due to your status you’re free to use the rooms of Luna and I. In fact why don’t you join me right now?”

Still getting used to the new phrase he was slow to catch on, “But I’m not sleepy.”

“I know that’s why I’m inviting you.”

Havoc tilted his head to the side quizzically.

“It involves a bed but not much sleeping...” She hinted.

Havoc looked up and thought. Then he got it. Sex, she wanted sex. He felt warmth, he felt something slide out of him. His posture stiffened immediately and his eyes widened. Celestia was concerned but his cheeks turned red. She looked between his legs and smiled.

“Well it seems your friend there made the decision for you, please come inside.” She said with a wink. That one he understood, both invitation and possibly a request. For fun stuff. At least he’d heard it was fun, he’d never had time for it and his dedication to his duties was manic. He never broke the rules and he was impossible to distract from work.This made him a rarity, both a virgin at seventeen and a loyal, devoted, skilled, soldier who took pride in his work. He tentatively entered ahead of her, she locked the door after she entered. She cast a quick spell, a sound muffler he recognised from his training.

He looked around and was impressed. Big bed, large fireplace, cushions, Twilight Sparkle, big closet- Wait a moment, Twilight Sparkle. His head whipped towards her and she raised her own upon noticing him. She hopped onto the carpet and her hair burst into flames, Havoc calmly raised his wings and smiled. Instinct made him crave a stimulant. Moments later he lowered his wings, sat down, and kept smiling. There was to be no fighting here. Twilight was confused, she had expected him to have broken his bond and charge her screaming his intent to rape. Defenselessly smiling was not expected. Her flames dissipated and she sat down herself, this left her unprepared for his glomp. She squirmed desperately until she heard Celestia say something that calmed her immensely.

“Relax Twilight we haven’t given him permission to harm anypony. He’s with me, nothing to fear.”

This calmed her unlike the next words to come from Celestia’s mouth.

“Unless you’re uncomfortable with all the noise we’ll be making while having sex. If those noises scare you then you’d best run or you’ll be cowering in a corner for quite awhile. I expect to do quite a bit of screaming, though this is his first time he should be able to go for a long time, and I expect many arrivals on both ends.”

That sent her kicking against his chest. He carefully placed her away from his length. Once she saw it so close she backed away until she felt safe, it was on eye level with her despite the fact that he was sitting. She kept backing up until she was on a cushion, she then proceeded to make an adorable pillow fortress around herself. She peered out from a well placed gap in the fortress.

“Why is there a Twilight Sparkle in your room? Aren’t Twilight Sparkles supposed to be sleeping in their own rooms right now or something?”

“Hmmph. Well before you sidetracked me by breaking down like that I was planning on enjoying her company. It’s been far too long since we last had an encounter, and while I support her decision to stay with her friends I have needs too. However this can still work.”

“How?”

“Well dear Twilight I’d like you to study this act of copulation.”

“What!” They said simultaneously.

“It only makes sense, she doesn’t look very willing to join in and I hate to isolate my little Twipie.”

“Twipie?”

“She tastes great. You tasted her before, you know what I’m talking about.”

“You have a point there.”

“What was she like for you?”

“Her saliva was like what I imagined pure, clean spring water to taste like. And her mouth was like some wonderful, impossible fruit.”

“Not so impossible here, and her saliva actually tastes like naturally mineral enriched spring water.”

“Nice.”

“Will you please stop talking about me like I’m some meal to be enjoyed?!” Twilight interrupted.

“But Twilight, in a way you are a meal to be enjoyed.” Havoc responded.

“What?!” Twilight exclaimed

“And all I got was a taste. Of course I’m going to savor it and discuss it with my friend here who has had much more than I, she knows your flavor best after all.” He continued. “And unless you join us that may be the last taste I get. So don’t begrudge me this small discussion.”

“Oh, uh sorry?” She attempted.

“So what’s your decision? Take notes and possibly record us get it on or join in.”

Celestia smiled, “Take notes.” Twilight answered.

“Oh well, lets get to it.” Celestia said cantering over to the bed.

Havoc followed dutifully. Twilight grabbed several scrolls, a quill, and an inkwell. A few steps before he reached the bed he came to a halt midstep. Paranoia surged to the fore as he realized how ridiculous this was, today within moments of waking up he had kicked two of her guards to death. Why was this happening, why were they being so nice? And why was he just going with it? They had put some sort of control ring on him in his sleep. Control. He had killed two guards and Luna wasn’t even mad. Tolerance. He had tried to force himself on Celestia when he was previously awake and she just forgave him and was now inviting him into her bed? Forgiveness. Fluttershy had suggested that he didn’t have a soul. Kindness. Then thoughts ceased as something grabbed his erection and pulled him forwards.

He returned his attention to the apparently impatient princess laying on the bed. He quickly crossed the threshold and began crawling on his knees.

“So how do we go about this? I uh... Haven’t done this before. Ever.” Havoc said nervously. The grip on his penetrator faded.

“How could you be a virgin?!” Twilight exclaimed, “Well besides the obvious, heh heh.”

“I thought Celestia would have told you, she read my mind and got my entire history as I recall.”

“I didn’t deem it necessary, there is much from your home that I intend to leave there.” Celestia answered.

“As you wish domina.”

“Now then, since your new lets start slow. Rub behind my ears and slowly work your way between my thighs.” Celestia said with glee.

“Sure thing m’lady.” Havoc said and he knee crawled by her side and began to rub behind her ears with the sides of his wing fingers.

“Mmm.” Celestia moaned and closed her eyes.

He spread the fingers as he began to rub along the back of her head towards her neck. He made sure that the blunt sides of his claws faced her soft skin and hair. Her soft mane caressed his fingers as it flowed, it was soothingly warm. His eyes noticed an ethereal, glowing, purple orb hovering near his fingers. He recognized it as a viewing spell, Twilight really was dedicated to her job wasn’t she? He worked his way down her neck at times dipping into her mane, others he worked along the sides. It was kinda like the time he had worked with that Bengaloid, he reflected. Big, tough, tiger people, yet more results of the effects of feralness over multiple generations. He honestly preferred Celestia to the Bengaloid however, she was an attractive female with sexual intent unlike the Bengaloid who was rather stressed and needed a rubbing.

He moved his wings to lift hers and rubbed the soft spot between wing and body. She gasped and he tentatively applied his hooves between her wings. He was hardly pressing at first but rapidly increased the pressure on her somewhat tense muscles and felt them soften under his hooves. He thought about how sensitive hooves were and wondered how they could be tough, flexible, and sensitive enough to give massages and then realised that there was something very similar between his legs only not as hard or flexible. He kept moving and reached her hips, he rubbed the marks with his wings and her moans grew louder. He kept his hooves moving lower while his wings circled her cutie marks, he slid them between her thighs. He felt vague moisture, there were two different kinds. One he felt everywhere, he assumed it was sweat. The other felt slightly... slimier? He eventually trailed it to a point that was somewhere below her tail and she immediately flipped it over his head. He saw what he was barely touching and slowly pulled his hooves away. Red magic appeared around them preventing their retreat, his eyes widened as he saw a red glow around Celestia’s horn.

“Don’t stop now! I’m getting sooo wet from this. How can you have never done this before?!” Celestia said pleadingly.

“Um, I’ll answer that later?” He said and returned to his gentle rubbing, this time applying his fingers to the outer edges and a hoof to the labia.

“That’s nice.” Celestia said with a sigh. The purple orb was still dutifully observing his hoof and fingers. Havoc suspected that Twilight’s face was red.

He angled his hoof and slightly penetrated the white lips and exposed pink lining almost immediately transitioning into red less than a centimeter in. He heard muffled moans. He pressed a little deeper.

“Just a little harder!” Celestia cried and he did as requested. Liquid surged out and poured down his hoof. He almost pulled away in surprise, he didn’t know this would happen! He was curious he telekinetically lifted her tail from his head and raised his foreleg over his head. He angled his hoof to his open upturned mouth and the clear liquid dripped down to his extended tongue. It was delicious, a unique flavor he could barely describe as sweet yet something else.

He lowered his hoof into his mouth and angled his head towards Celestia’s to see her mouth hanging open, her eyes open wide, her pupils dilated, and her cheeks red with blood.

“That was hot, really really hot.” She said after a moment.

“What was hot?” He asked.

“That thing you just did, where you tasted my cum.”

“Cum?”

“It’s what comes out when you orgasm. It’s also another way to say orgasm.”

“I thought mine was called sperm?”

“It is but it’s also cum.”

“Oh, okay.”

“You got all that Twilight?”

“Ye-yes princess...” She answered.

“You still sure you don’t want in on this?” Celestia asked her.

“Yes P- p- princess! I’m sure.”

“Your loss, now Havoc I want you to roll onto your back.”

He did so and felt minor relief, he was no longer pressing into her bed. He saw Celestia’ head appear between his legs and she eyed it for a moment.

“Considering the size I can’t do what I would like to, but I can work with this.” She said and began flicking the tip with her tongue.

He shuddered but made no sound. She got more aggressive and began to make longer licks. He sighed quietly. She began to suck on it and swirl her tongue around the opening and he felt one of his eyes close involuntarily while he tried to keep looking at her. She saw this and smiled before taking the tip fully into her mouth. He kept silent, he just wasn’t designed to make much in the way of noise for this, he didn’t react like she did. Her mouth barely fit him and she took it to her throat, she moaned and the vibration further stimulated him and he felt a leg twitch. She began humming as she orally pleasured him and he felt a pressure building behind his penis.

“Celestia?”

“Mff?”

“I feel.. pressure.”

“Mff gmm.”

It grew as he watched her bob her head slightly, eyes closed and she resumed her humming. Her tongue began to lick at the opening and soon after he felt a tingle.

“Celestia I think i’m going t-to cum-m-m.”

She looked right into his eyes as she moved ‘till her lips were back around the head, she moaned and he felt something shoot out of it. She closed her eyes and he felt the sucking change. He heard her swallowing. He felt and saw her pink magic pushing on his phallus and for a moment he wondered why and then more came out. She pulled her head off and smiled, she pressed once more and he saw a white, clear, and grey liquid leak out. She levitated it near him.

“See this? This is your cum. It doesn’t taste bad to me but it’s not for you, but you knew that already.” She said before levitating it onto her outstretched tongue and swallowing it.

“Now let’s try what we call a 69 position. Just stay like that.” Celestia said.

She stood up and walked over to his head before walking over him and getting on her knees to position her crotch over his head. He looked at her marehood and wondered what came next.

“Now I’d like you start using that tongue of yours to do what your hoof was doing.” She said and began to lick at his still hard member. He reached up with his tongue and began stroking at the spread lips. Their slight clenching encouraged him to go deeper and he could feel her gratefulness. He pointed his tongue directly into her and began moving it up and down at that slanted angle. Her body clenched and he felt his own react to Celestia sudden sucking. He slid his tongue deeper feeling her out and enjoying the flavor, he liked meat and he liked whatever else she tasted of. She was a magical princess so he was sure she was clean. He thrust his tongue deeper still and she sucked harder, he came closer. He was glad for his long tongue seeing as he was a full meter taller than her, it allowed him to reach her without straining his neck, powerful as it is. He felt the pressure approach its conclusion and thrashed his tongue harder in an attempt to reach mutual arrival.

He pressed his mouth to her entrance and rubbed against it as he felt himself arrive, seconds later her fluids rushed into his mouth and he prevented them from spilling. She pulled away, shuddering as his length exited her body. He felt himself retracting slightly but a light kiss had it hard again. Celestia moved off of him and kneeled facing away, he could see her entrance and the tiny twitching hole above it due to her raised tail. She looked back at him.

“Please mount me.” She said.

He got up and positioned himself behind her. He placed it against her stomach and pulled it up while maintaining contact with her skin. He felt her welcoming moisture and pushed his slightly drier member inside. It was very tight, if he hadn’t cum twice he might have risked doing so after he got the head in. He slowly pushed deeper into her pausing when he got halfway. He felt her clenching walls and closed his eyes before he resumed pushing with greater speed. He got most of himself inside before stopping against her toned buttocks. He felt his tip touching something smooth that seem to be parting slightly and had to assume it was her cervix, otherwise it was her uterus.

“This... This is wonderful. I understand why the others did this so quickly now.” He said.

“Glad to have such an impact, now keep going.” Celestia said with a moan.

He pulled out leaving the head in before pushing back in, he built up a rhythm born of ancient instinct. His body knew what to do and he had the muscle to do it. He heard her volume increase and began to thrust harder feeling sweat leaking through his fur. He pulled her hips up and began pounding against her. She yelled in pleasure. He felt his body prepare to deliver its load of sperm.

“I’m gonna cum Celestia.” He grunted.

“Go ahead!” She answered and her horn glowed pink.

He slammed harder until he came. He pressed as deeply into her as he could, instinct guiding him. When he felt it stop flowing he resumed his thrusting and soon felt her ejaculate as well. Her fluids felt nice.

“Pull out and get on your back now Havoc.” She panted.

He pulled out and flipped onto his back, making her cum had made him hard again. She moved over him to straddle his hips. She pushed down and it felt good to enter her again. Then he felt himself push deeper than before. Yes he had pushed into her cervix he was sure. She cried out and closed her eyes. She quickly began moving up and down, thrusting him into her. He was glad he’d followed his dick for once and it agreed. She moved differently, he felt her walls clenching frantically and pushed up in response. Her eyes opened and she smiled tiredly as she looked into his own. He too smiled as he began humping against her.

Their efforts were rewarded by a nearly synchronous ejaculation, her before him this time. Her fluids helped push him along and his seed spilled into her willing body. She fell against him her head landing at the base of his neck. She moaned and rubbed against him. He wondered if he could go again and pushed up to test this. Miraculously he felt himself harden once more and grinned. Her legs gripped him and they began again.

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Time: 3:00 P.M. 8 days 17 hours 15 minutes since savior spell
Location: Celestia’s royal bedchambers
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“That was wonderful, possibly the best I’ll ever have though I hope not. Hah.” Havoc said as he laid there. The sheets were stained with sweat and other fluids. He was laying on a rather big wet spot but didn’t care.

“Thanks, it means a lot. Maybe Luna will like it just as much when you two finally hook up.” Celestia said. She too was exhausted, that was a marathon if there ever was one. Apparently years of violence incited exercise had given him incredible endurance. Life in a polluted environment such as his had taught his body to make use of everything it could get and in this world there was a lot to take.

“You’re sure she doesn’t mind sharing with you? I’d ask you something similar but you’re the one suggesting that I mount her.”

“She’ll be fine. She understands that there is a very limited supply of male alicorns. Before you came there were at most four and one of them’s our father. Neither of the others live in Equestria”

“But didn’t you say there were male alicorns in Equestria? And why didn’t she take one of those ones living elsewhere?”

“The other three are directly related to each other. One’s the father of the other two and he is considered an enemy. He was banished from the ancestral home of our kind and happened upon the remnants of the tribes that refused to leave their frozen homeland. He killed most of the windigoes and took over, rather I think they begged him to lead them after what he did. He was angry at father for banishing him and since we’re in his good graces decided to take out his frustration on the available target. Chances are he’s been killed by one of his own since we’ve been at peace until recently.”

“That sucks.”

“Not like I suck.”

“No it does not.”

“I... I need to go to sleep. Good... Good night princess.” Twilight said. She had recorded everything and was now quite red in the face as well as tired from taking all those notes.

“Good night Twilight. I love you.” Havoc said.

She looked to Celestia.

“I love you too Twilight, rest up I have something planned for you later on. And Havoc? If you do extra well I may just give you a reward next time.” Celestia said and fell asleep on Havoc’s chest. He was still inside her at the time but was mostly soft and barely leaking ejaculate.

Twilight wordlessly made a pillow fort and Havoc saw a purple glow as she curled up.

Havoc fell asleep to the soft sound of Celestia’s breathing and the comforting feel of her body against his. He wondered what that reward could be if this wasn’t one.

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Time: 4:30 A.M. 9 days 3 hours 45 minutes since savior spell
Location: Celestia’s royal bedchambers
…

Celestia awoke and quickly cast a spell to clean the bed. All the stains disappeared but her fur was still stiff in places, she didn’t mind. She saw Havoc’s massive black form and smiled, she stood and felt a tingle as the last of him that had been sustained by their fusion retracted from her. She kept smiling as she looked at Twilight’s fort, what dreams the filly was having she would love to know. She got off the bed and looked at Havoc and got an idea. A hilarious idea.

She quickly levitated him and quietly got him out the door. Her guards grinned as they saw her, they wouldn’t do this in public but here they had privacy. They recognised the signs of Celestia’s special fun and high hoofed. They had just won a bet and were entitled to it, Celestia too had placed a small bet early on. They had placed their bets on something like this happening before the champion was summoned and were now reaping the benefits of their clever judgement. Celestia did indeed f*** the new champion on his first “official” day on the job.

She flew through the halls ignoring them for the moment and went to the top of the castle. Once there she placed him upright against her banner and magicked up some replicated silk. She tied him to the top of the pole by the already waving banner and quietly left. She laughed once she reached the gateway she’d come from, and a few more guards grinned. Some frowned before grinning all the same. This was a bet she was aware of but not participating in. This time the bet was whether or not she’d prank him right after she had her fun. It would have been changed to after his first day if she hadn’t slept with him. Quiet laughter echoed through the castle as the guards eagerly awaited their turns patrolling the skies, none of them wanted to miss the 'princess of pranks' next joke.