The Dungeon Master of Equestria
Chapter 70: What Have I Become?
Previous Chapter Next ChapterThe Dox-Blue growled as her horn shined with a rainbow aura, and vines began rapidly rising from the waters, each as thick as a small tree and long enough to put most giant serpents in the world to shame. “H-hey! That’s my Growth magic!” Blue shouted as she fluttered down on uneasy wings with a few of the guards that caught her.
“Avarice, what hath thou done to our betrothed?!” Luna demanded as they all jumped away from the whipping and angry vines which started forming leaf-like blades.
“I did as I was going to do with my sister! He’s been mutated into an exact genetic clone of me, but there’s something different; sinister. His own nature and mutations are conflicting somehow, modifying my Plaga mutagen to it’s own needs.” Ava informed, growling as her eyes shined red. “I HATE Contract breakers! Even if they did it unintentionally! So this is what happens when a Contract is broken on the other end? They receive my wrath? Not fair, I get instant magic backlash!”
“So, if he got your wrath, what does that mean for us?” Bluebelle questioned, the worry evident in her voice.
“You’re clear; he was the idiot who jumped in. We’ll work something out later, but right now; I HAVE A DEAL-BREAKER TO CRUSH!”
“Not on your life.” Came the messed up voice from Dox-Blue. It sounded like a severely distorted version of Dox and Bluebelle’s voices playing at the same time. No one had much time to focus on that, though, as several new vines sprouted from the water and shot out towards Ava, pinning her down on her back, but just barely as she struggled upright. “What deal did I break, huh? None. I stopped a stupid deal that you were making with my fiance. It would have mutated her into a freak and now I’m suffering that fate, all because you told her the easy way out and she wanted to take it!”
“You’re the one who intervened! Your stupid rainbow god-genes are interfering with it and you got yourself into this mess! Who are you to tell her what she can or cannot do?!” Ava shouted, before breaking free of the vines and roaring as she shifted into a three-headed black hydragon with a cream underbelly, and the third head had whip-like purple tendril hair. “And don’t say her fiance! That isn’t how relationships work!”
“SHUT UP!” Dox-Blue screamed at Ava. Another vine sprouted from the water and shot out at Ava before impacting the wall right next to her central head, Ava having just barely dodged it with both her main head and Crescent’s head on her left, and they both bit into the vine and burned it with black void-fire, trailing down the wet vine as void-fire was harder to douse than normal fire, and Dox-Blue roared as she summoned more, only for them to be cut down by Bluebelle herself.
“Stop using my magic! I am Fertility; the promotion of life, not you!” Blue’s eyes turned white, and she roared as her blue aura overtook her horn, and all the vines began wriggling, before turning back on Dox-Blue, who easily used her wings to dodge away, until she was suddenly scissored by Luna and CS, who each grabbed an arm and used their wings to stop her wings.
“Dox, cease this outburst! Twas thine own fault this occurred! Thou art not a freak, nopony here is!” Luna shouted as she essentially tried to hug her lover, but Dox-Blue instead growled and looked her in the eyes, the rainbow orbs flashing deep blue for a second, and suddenly Luna was holding a near-perfect copy of herself.
“You would say that!” Dox-Luna hissed before charging her horn, and roaring as a rainbow pulse launched both Luna and CS away. “You love me regardless Lulu, and I love you, but stay out of this! It’s between me, and Avarice!” Dox-Luna turned to Avarice just as a silvery material started to slide off of her arm before it manifested into a double-sided scythe. “You…. You were going to go through with this…. This would have happened to her…. You know what happened to you, yet you still promised her the same fate.”
“I expected better from you Dox. I thought you were stronger than me…. I was wrong. She would’ve been fine. But like I said; your body’s conflicting with my mutagen, twisting it. Either calm down, or come at me, either way I need to get my flesh payment.” Avarice echoed from all three heads, before roaring and charging forward through the water.
“And that’s what’s worse.” Dox-Luna said, seemingly ignoring the charging hydragon. “You wanted a payment of flesh…. From my fiance…. and that…” Dox-Luna raised the scythe she was holding in her right arm. “IS UNACCEPTABLE!” Dox-Luna screamed ala Lemongrab before she brought down the scythe, sending a massive crescent of silver energy flying from the scythe and into Ava’s body, easily bisecting the giant beast between Ava’s and Sharp’s heads, down her body, but the great beast simply roared in fury as tendrils sprouted to hold the body together while it mended at a much slower rate, and they all breathed streams of void-fire at Dox-Luna, who nimbly evaded the attacks with her wings.
“Thou art not listening! We require payment of THINE flesh for thy treachery! We considered gaining Bluebelle as a sibling payment enough!” Avarice shouted through the flames as their body finished mending, and more tendrils began sprouting from their wings and back, trying to catch the elusive new Shifter when Dox-Luna swooped in and cut off Crescent’s head, making the other two roar in pain and fury as the removed head started sprouting TWO heads at the point of severance, the new fourth head being plain. “That was just irritating! Hydras-!” Sharp’s head was lopped off. “-Are immune to-!” Ava’s head was cut off. “-Decapitation!”
“Yeah? Well how ya gonna move?” Dox-Luna demanded coldly, and Avarice tried to move, but fell over onto their chest from the extra weight of three new heads. “That’s actually a weakness of the hydras. Cut off enough heads, you can just walk away since they can’t follow yet.”
“Mother fucker! Damn it, we love this form!” Avarice shouted, before begrudgingly sinking into a formless blob again, and then coming out as her giantess form, only pure anthro dragoness this time, covered in black scales, but certain areas were cream like her breasts, abdomen, and underbelly. “You think you’re smart asshole?! It was your stupidity that started all of this in the first place!” She grabbed her wings, and ripped them off as they turned into huge broad, sweeping bone blades, and she grew new ones from the stumps as she whipped her tail to emphasize her tail blade at the end of her thin and whip-like dragon tail.
“At least I know better than to put someone through the torture that I’ve gone through.” Dox-Luna said snidely. She grabbed the handle of the scythe she was using and pulled it in half, now mocking Ava with her own dual scythes. “Now, are you going to stand there and bitch, or do I get to play harvester again?”
“I’ll be the one harvesting! Thinking of it; fuck you, I’m taking your seed. If that doesn’t settle the debt, I don’t know what, but I don’t want to kill you as much as mutilate you!” Ava’s eyes shined red, and she swept one of the wing-like blades, creating a massive gust through the chamber, and knocking all the fliers around, including Luna and the guards nervously pacing the sidelines, since this was clearly a battle out of their league.
Dox-Luna had an especially hard time, since she was used to flying with gravity and not wings. She’d been using her new body’s abilities and obtained muscle-memory, but her lack of experience cost her as the gust launched her down into the water, which despite it’s calming attributes, was only lessening the anger, not abating it. The fact the pool was turning red with blood just made the fact it’s properties remained even more impressive.
“I’m not out, you fuck.” Dox-Luna said, launching herself from the water. “No, I’m far from it. Prepare to die!” Dox-Luna hurled one of her scythes at Ava, missing initially, but nailing her in the nape of the neck, where the scythe embedded itself deep into Ava’s scales. “You may not realize what you were going to do, but I sure as hell do. And I won’t stand for it, Ava. I will end this, and in the process, you.” Dox-Luna charged at Ava, but the dragoness grinned. Before Dox-Luna could process why, suddenly she felt a yank on her body, and she fell straight down into the water and was held there by a green aura.
“Aw, did little Dox forget? I have magic too. And while I don’t know many spells, I did have more than enough time to at least practice the basics. And let me say that levitation, overcharged, can easily turn into a pulping force, or an easy restraint.” Ava explained as she strolled towards the drowning mare, whose vision was fading, the air leaving her compressing lungs, her eyes widening in fear as Ava’s voice broadcasted into her ears through the dragoness’ aura. “I mean, really, it takes all the effort out of getting something to stay. Fucking. STILL!”
Ava cleaved the giant blade down, Luna and Bluebelle screaming for her not to, but the blade crashed into the water, and cleaved Dox-Luna in half, the two halves being bisected vertically from groin to crown, but there was no blood, just white flesh between the two halves, as Dox-Luna was levitated into the air, and blinked in disorientation. “Two perspectives, one mind. Confusing as hell isn’t it? Soon you’ll be able to handle several perspectives at once. Hundreds of eyes maybe.”
“Oh, fuck off.” Came the echo of a ‘voice’ from Dox-Luna’s chopped up body. It didn’t even come from her mouth, or half-mouths as the case may be. No, it echoed through the minds of those around the levitated body. “I’m tired of you thinking you can just one-up me like this. Just four words….” Dox-Luna’s body melted and slipped out of Ava’s magical grip before landing in the water below. Slowly, a new form rose from the goop that was Dox’s new body, taking the shape of a beast made of the actual flesh of the Plaga, a beast covered head to bladed tail-tip in white chitin, the Verdugo. “Get. On. My. Level.”
Ava, feeling offended, and unusually territorial, hissed as she rapidly shrank down, all her biomass consolidating into a body she’d neglected since she got forms she preferred. Sexy forms she couldn’t more easily associate her monstrosity with. She formed into the 9-foot murder weapon that was the Verdugo, and clicked angrily as her solid red eyes locked with Dox’s. “You asked for this.” Ava warned before shrieking and leaping at Dox with impossible speed.
Dox-Ava grabbed the charging form of Ava and hurled her over his head and into the water behind him. “You were saying?”
“...Fuck me?” Ava asked in confusion, and Dox-Ava blinked, before shifting from foot to foot.
“Uh...why am I getting horny?” Dox-Ava asked in confusion. He was male, and she was female right now, but Verdugo didn’t have sexual dimorphism, none he could tell.
“No clue! I’ve never actually been around other Plaga until now! But I want to fight! And fuck!” Ava shouted before she jumped to her feet, and charged at Dox-Ava again. “Fight me! I want to FEEL it!”
“FUCK OFF!” Dox-Ava roared, slashing into Ava with his claws, only to get his claws caught in Ava’s chest. “LET GO!”
“Ah~! Holy fuck! Why does that feel good?!” Ava demanded as she hugged Dox-Ava to her, and purred as he tried to yank his claws back out, getting purple blood and grunts of pleasure out of the black plated beast. “This is supposed to hurt, but oh~ it feels good when you do it!” She bit into his neck, puncturing, and Dox-Ava’s tail curled up as he groaned in unexpected pleasure.
“Holy shit! Plaga have fucked up nerves if other Plaga hurting them feels this good! Get off!” Dox-Ava managed to shove Ava off of him, yanking his claws free, and none of their wounds were healing, both panting as they were incredibly turned on. “Agh, it doesn’t hurt, it just keeps feeling good, like I’m still being stimulated instead of hurt.” Dox-Ava shuddered and backed away from the prowling and excited female. “Hell no, you’d win in this form, not letting you get another one over me so easily.”
“GIVE ME EGGS YOU PRUDISH PRICK!” Ava demanded as she tried to pounce again, but Dox-Ava leaped up and kicked Ava back.
“Why are you so fucking weird?!” Dox-Ava yelled at Ava as he landed and took a few steps back.
“I don’t know! Ask the fucking Merchant who Displaced me as this thing! Now either fuck me or be eviscerated!” Ava screamed as she charged again, coming in low on all fours this time, ready to leap up if he tried that again, which he did. She jumped and tackled him, shoving her mandibles into his, locking the mobile mouth-parts together as they tumbled into the water, being a shallow enough part near the rim that they didn’t go under, and she writhed against him, Dox-Ava groaning as he clutched her back, tails twisting together, but his eyes snapped open and he shoved her off, panting.
“THE FUCK?!” Dox-Ava screamed. “Stay the fuck back. I’m not going to fuck you, and I’m not going to get eviscerated here. Just fuck off!”
“I wouldn’t have to fuck off if you’d just fuck ME!” Ava roared as she charged, but Dox-Ava tried something his instincts told him was possible, and suddenly grabbed his chest, before ripping himself open, exposing a sort of rainbow vortex that sucked the shocked Ava into it, and he closed his chest, panting, before groaning, laughing, and then his chest opened back up, jettisoning Ava across the massive chamber, and his rainbow eyes turned red as his chest closed back together seamlessly.
“Oh! That’s fucking genius! I have the same ability as that faker Seth from Street Fighter! Now I know how to do everything you do! And how to BE you!” Dox-Ava crowed before his chitin turned the same exact black as Ava’s, and Ava felt an instinctive terror from all the way across the room, shivering as she backed away, her lust gone as her instincts screamed to run. “I’m a Doppelganger...I can become you, take you entirely! I AM YOU NOW!”
“Stay away!” Ava screamed, backing as far as possible, up against the wall, the soldiers all giving space as she quickly turned back into her giantess dragoness form, breathing fire as a warning. “Stay away from me!” She wailed as she kept up the stream of fire in a wall.
“I know I can do better…” Dox-Ava said as he walked calmly through the flames and shifted fluidly into Ava’s giant dragon form, his muscular masculinity a perfect contrast to Ava’s femininity. “I’ve always known I can do better. My magic’s better, my knowledge is better, my skill is better. Just accept it, Ava. I’m going to end you, and then I’m going to replace you.” Ava whimpered in fear as he pressed his cream-scaled pecks into her mountainous creamy breasts as his beefy arms hugged her to him, his chest rumbled with his purring as he neared her terrified face and cooed into her face. “I’ll just be taking all of you.”
He kissed her, and she was paralyzed, she couldn’t move, she screamed in agony and terror in her mind as she felt her souls, all of them being sucked through her lips into his. She tried to weakly shove him away, but her struggles were lessening, and she was almost gone when Luna and Bluebelle blindsided Dox-Ava from both sides of his head, stabbing giant swords through into his brain, getting him to roar in pain and fail to finish the transfer, and Ava gasped as her energy returned to her, and she shoved him away desperately, causing him to crash all 100 feet away on the opposite wall, getting the guards to start evacuating.
Ava shivered and hugged herself as she sank to her knees. “No, no. I’m fine. Cres, Sharp, you there? Please say yes. Please….” She wept, tears dumping into the water as she shivered and tried to hide in her wings.
“How dare thou! You tried to kill her! Where is the man we fell in love with?!”
“I… I-I...” Dox-Ava choked out after pulling the swords out of his head. He seemed to be faltering, unable to process what he was doing now.
[Dox PoV]
Dox…. Look at yourself.
‘DM?’ I questioned in my mind. What…. What had just been happening? It was all just a blur. A haze of rainbow colors… What did I just do?
I said: TAKE A LOOK AT YOURSELF! Do you not see what you’ve become?!
‘What are you talking abou-’ I thought, only to look down and see the first thing that surprised me. I was MUCH larger, several hundred times larger than I had originally been. The next thing that surprised me was that I seemed to be a suspiciously familiar dragon… No way, I had become Avarice’s dragon form!
No. You became Avarice, period. Now look in front of you. Look at what you’ve done to your so called ‘friend’.
I looked up from myself…. Only to see something that shall scar me even past the grave. In front of me, curled up on… well, it was currently herself, was Avarice. She was sobbing on the floor and seemed frightened for her life, as if she had just seen someone who was trying to-
Replace her? Yes. Good job, Dox. You’ve just scarred your friend for life. In your little tantrum, you attempted to replace her. In the process, you even used forbidden dark magic to try and steal everything from her. Her body, her mind, her souls. An atrocity only committed by the Doppelgangers such as the former god: The Traveller. When Solaris had become my champion, his first action was to hunt him down and kill him, then find any Doppelgangers and Changelings in Equestria that refused to turn away from his ideals. He slaughtered thousands before the lands of Man caught wind of my orders and misguidedly slaughtered all they could find, even innocents, causing the exodus from the Material Plane by the survivors, and the banishment of Man from the Material Plane to other realms. I do not believe you understand the gravity of what you’ve just done. I cannot let you remain my champion if this is what you are going to do.
‘What do you mean?’ I asked the DM through my thoughts.
Until things are fixed, and you’ve made amends and you have proven yourself worthy again….
No.
I cannot let you be my champion…..
No….
Even if you have achieved a new godship, that is as far as you shall go.
No… Wait, what?!
Have fun being the with the disgraced title of the Lord of all Changelings and Doppelgangers, NEW Traveller. I will not be talking to you any time soon.
What?! NO! NO-NO-NO! ‘DAD~!’
You are no son of mine.
I could feel a portion of my soul being ripped from me and myself become weaker as I shrieked out in a pain-filled draconic knell and fell to my knees, then toppled onto my side. I could feel the wounds that had been healing suddenly stop and reopen, and begin knitting together in a completely new, different, more physical than magical way, but that’s not what scared me. No…What scared me was….
My blood had changed from being a rainbow… to a pale silver, like mercury. It was hot, like lava, and hardened on contact with water into a metallic form, also similar to mercury. But this was my blood...the Blood of a Doppelganger! It’s true! I’ve become a monster! I… I… Please… No….
I was now viciously reminded I wasn’t alone by a body as large as mine snuggling up against me, arms pressing my head into comforting bosom. “Shh, shh. I’m here. I...I can feel it...you just lost something precious, didn’t you?” Ava hoarsely whispered through her sobs as she hugged me, and curled her neck around mine. “You’re not the monster who just tried to kill me. Please, stop. I can feel your pain. Please. Stop.”
“No! Stay away from me!” I screamed, trying to shove Ava away. “No! I don’t deserve this! No!” I tried to shove her away when she took my lips herself, and took some of herself back, along with a small bit of me with it, and I felt her despair, her fear, but she mostly was worried. She left the kiss and sniffled as she pressed into me, nuzzling my cheek.
“We’re both broken...aren’t we Dox?” She asked with a cracking voice, clutching onto me for dear life.
“I… I…” I choked out, trying to say something, ANYTHING that could get this all to stop, for all of this to go back to the way it was… But I had nothing.
“We shall leave thee alone for now.” Luna said, drawing my aways away from my thousand-yard stare and she was actually standing on my snout, looking into my eye. “Thou need to reconcile with thine friend, and whatever that may entail, we allow it.” Luna leaned down and kissed my cheek, before she took off, and I felt Bluebelle hugging my snout, and had to look down it to see her looking at me sadly.
“I’m so sorry. This was all to try and help me. You two kiss and make up. I’ll be meditating with Auntie elsewhere.” She kissed my snout, and quickly trotted away, I was too tired to protest as the shivering dragoness hugging me wormed her tail around mind, to assure me she wasn’t leaving.
“I’m sorry...I’m so sorry….” She whimpered into my reptilian ear, Ava’s tears staining my neck. “It’s all my fault….”
“I… It’s mine…” I said. “I got in the way… I just… I just wanted to protect Blue… I never meant… Listen, I can send you back, if you’d like.”
“No. I still haven’t helped you. I’ve caused too much damage to leave right now. And I don’t think I could ever look at you the same if we parted ways like this.” Ava moved back, and looked me in the eyes, a glint of hope in the despairing green reptilian orbs giving me hope too. “There...is a way I could reconcile, settle the debt, and the strife between us, but...I’d have to….” She reached down, and cupped my groin, making my wings pomf out and my face redden as she looked away with her own blush. “I could fulfill my aspect of Fertility as a female for once...that...that would make me feel so much better, make me able to forgive you more easily, and the fact you gave me something so precious, would of course help you too.” She looked me in the eyes, hopeful.
“I… I…I don’t deserve the help…” I said.
“I don’t care. I’m giving it.” She rolled us over, her under me as she left her arms out to the side, submissive. “I’ll give you all of me, if you’ll give me yourself. If you can give yourself too, it isn’t stealing.”
“... It’s only fair.” I said, getting a strange feeling go down my spine as her wings spread out in the water, and her eyes shined red as she cooed.
“Back within settling the Contract’s terms then. Don’t back out again, lover.” Ava pulled me down, taking my lips in a fierce kiss, and I groaned as I grabbed her glorious bosom, while our tails entwined.
I have no idea why I kept refusing until now. Fuck. And all it took was a Contract....
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And that's that. That's the end of that crossover, with that unexpected ending.... Unless you expected it. Also, I have yet to reveal Dox's NEW true form. Expect it soonish. XD
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