“These dwarves, why do they reside in such isolation?” Luna asked as she shivered in her heavy winter gear. She’d bundled up rather heavily in cotton sweats and winter cloak against the gusts of wind, and the biting chill of the snow around us. “One would think they have no way to sustain themselves in such harsh climes.”

“I’m not sure Lulu, all I know is dwarves tend to prefer meat, maybe they raise some sort of livestock that feeds off of cave fungus or something.” I replied, wearing nothing new, turning into a buffalo wasn’t that hard if I drew on...on the power I stole from Avarice. The thick fur made the cold an annoyance more than anything, so yay, big beefy buffalo man blazing the trail for his sexy alicorn future-wife into the snowed-in foothills and low mountains of the southern Frozen North was the sight someone could’ve seen if there was anything out here for someone to even bother being here for.

“It would be unusual then, to meet a society that is primarily carnivorous.” Luna mused as I continued to try and remember what DM said before. He said the place was in the foothills of the north, between the Crystal Empire and Neighagra Falls. That was it. That was a HUGE expanse of distance! This wasn’t some board game I could just take a dice roll on damn it! Hell, thanks to him ‘limiting’ me, I couldn’t even do that! The fucking Dice Roller Core wasn’t working properly for me! All it did, to my knowledge, was allow me to communicate through my token, which was close to nothing. Hell, I tried looking for a locater spell, even. In good news, I found one, bad news, the limit wouldn’t allow me to see anything but the fact that it existed. Not even a single bit of information on how to do it, or how it worked.

“Yeah, it would, but considering one of the guys from up here worships you like you’re the highest of gods, well, we won’t have to worry about them seeing you as food Lu.” Luna perked up at me mentioning she might have more worshipers, and my mind drifted off into a small fantasy of how her body might react, if it does again. I mean, Tia’s been her size almost her whole life, and Luna only finally caught up as ponies looked to her for guidance instead, and that was also only after the Low Elves prostrated in worship before her.

But...what if a whole clan of dwarves do? Would she…. My mind thought back to me as a giant, Ava the giantess...Lulu the giantess? I must’ve been drooling because my lips had some ice on them, and I scratched it off as I turned my focus back to the task at hand. Damn. Being a Doppelganger was much harsher on the mind than being a changeling. Especially since I often took Luna’s form lately and the more I did, the more I...became her. Is it self-cest then?

“Dox! I believe I see something in the snow!” Luna said.

Sure enough, I could see a mountain up ahead, previously hidden by all the snow flurries, and about fifteen feet up the mountain was a giant door covered in ice.

“Wow, nice eyes, Lulu. No wonder DM’s directions were vague, couldn’t miss that and we’re barely a mile off.” I said. “Just wish he wasn’t such a dick about everything. Now let’s get this quest over with so we can get back to Blue, Tia, and everyone else!” I picked up the pace, excited, and after a while we trudged through the snow and up the rocky ledges until we reached the door. “Whew, made it. If only we could’ve flown, but the damn weather….”

“Now why’d y’all climb up the cliff?” I looked up as Luna stubbornly climbed herself up the cliff behind me to see a dwarf of average short stature in a full suit of armor that seemed heated, considering every bit of snow and ice around him was slush, and his armor glowed a little yellow. “Why didn’ ye jus’ follow the trail?” He pointed to his left, and I turned to see a very obvious path cut down the mountain, and I sighed as I bowed my head in annoyance.

“And just who the hell are you?” I said, ticked at the dwarf’s attitude. “Listen, I’m here to deliver a message from Aule. It’s time to-”

“Unite the clans? We know, lad.” He cheekily replied, not seeming to actually care. “The ol’ god doesn’t know yet, but we’ve long stopped the old traditions. Been centuries since we even opened the Hall of the Honored to add a statue. Might be better if’n you see. Go on in. We never get visitors these days. I’m sure everyone’ll be tickled pink to have someone to host.” The nameless guard answered uncaringly, and knocked on the icy door, suddenly melting the ice seal off of it. “Well? In ya go then. Out of this cold and into the warmth of Bergmire. Mind the spiders; they don’t take kindly to strangers.” He seemed to stare at me for a bit longer. “And I’d be careful, lad. They probably won’t take as kindly to the Traveller being among them. They still know of the crusade against the last one.”

What?! How did he know?! Was I just that obvious?!

“It’s in yer aura lad. You cannae mask it? Hmph. Recently ascended fer sure. Jus’ stay a safe distance from the bigger spiders and they won’t try to eat ya. Their handlers can keep em calm well enough, but no promises, some are millennia old. Now truly; git in. They’ll start hollerin’ me ears off if I keep the door unsealed too long.”

“We’ll go right in, right Dox?” Luna said, snapping me out of my whole search for information in my currently messed up mind. Hell, I think I found a cloned soul developing in there during that search. “I said, right Dox?”

“Yeah, yeah. Right.” I said, following closely behind Luna as she pulled me in. The great stone and metal doors loudly closed back up, and a seal of ice formed over it from this side too. “Sorry Lulu, my head’s everywhere.”

“Dox, look at me.” I did, and suddenly I felt lighter, the fur gone, and my silver breasts pressing into hers. “Don’t think too hard, just think of me.”

“Yes Luna…” I leaned in and kissed her, and she huffed as she pushed me away gently. “Luna?”

“And don’t get so lost in me either. I know I’m irresistible, but have some restraint.” She teased, and I blushed, realizing I totally lost myself again. Been happening a lot lately. “I’m here for you Dox, but try to remember you’re you: nobody else.”

“But I’m you right...now….” I just did it again, forgot I’m not Luna. “Sorry….”

“It’s okay, just remember who you are and you can pretend to be me all you want. I find it endearing.” She grinned, and I mirrored her, until someone clearing their voice caused us to turn, still pressing a mirroring silver breast into each other without care or really acknowledging it to see a dwarf woman dressed in voluminous robes patiently waiting.

“Uh, hi.” I said to the dwarf. “Is there something you wanted?” Kinda rude, but I was having a moment with my other half, uh...wait, how many halves can I have? I mean, now that I can do all that I do? Ugh, no, don’t think, focus. Especially on that developing soul.

“I see the guard let you in. It is good to see two Goddesses coming so far out of the way to be here. Especially the endeared Goddess Selune.” She bowed, and Luna and I suddenly shot up an inch. Uh...welp. Guess Luna will be a full-power goddess after this. Gonna have to renovate a whole new castle just for her…. “Follow. I shall take you to Jarl Balgruuf. He would wish to meet you both.”

We looked at each other, and both followed after our diminutive red-haired guide. Luna was rather flustered, and by extension me as we passed through the streets of a giant hollowed-out mountain carved into a city. Since every other dwarf had to pause and gawk, or even bow, and each time we felt ourselves getting a little taller, a little bigger. I really hoped they had doors tall enough...this must be why Tia kept herself shut in her castle almost all the time when she wasn’t making public announcements or social events. Had she kept growing she would’ve never been able to go among the public. Worship-based gods have it rough….

“Dox...I do not think me coming along was wise….” Luna groused as she loosened her top and coat. “Being openingly and publically acknowledged as a goddess is causing too much power to center in me. At least most of the ponies we govern see us as benevolent leaders at best, but these people all see me for who and what I am and it’s-.” Her top button popped and I was just glad my outfit changed with me as our busts surged forward a bit. “I’ll have to commit sacrilege on some of my idols to shrink down after this….”

“D-don’t be ridiculous….” ‘Grow, grow baby. Oh yes….’ Where the fuck did that come from? ‘Hi.’ THE FUCK?! There’s someone else in here with me, and I do NOT like it! Wait a second, are you that underdeveloped soul? ‘I am ALL the yes for ALL the sexiness!’ Oh shit. Either this soul is going through some form of puberty, or that soul is a copy of Avarice. ‘Which one less stupid and more sexy?’ Yep, Avarice… Immature Avarice at that. ‘Put an arm around her!’ Suddenly my arm moved to pull Luna into me a bit, pressing the sides of our boobs together as I leaned my mouth up to her ear. “Don’t. You’re just getting sexier by the second.” I huskily whispered before I nibbled her ear, and she blushed as she shuddered and leaned into me.

Wait, I didn’t do that! ‘Ignorant foal! You just don’t know how to please a mare!’ Shut the fuck up! Now’s not the time to be sexy! Now’s the time to be actually NORMAL. That concept foreign to you or something? ‘If you’re not sexy all the time, you’re NOT normal!’ Knew it, you know nothing about blending in like a normal person.

“Oh~ Dox, n-not here….” Luna whispered as she didn’t really try to resist, why was I sucking her ear as we walked?! Everyone’s looking...I’m getting excited! New soul!

‘Look at the meek little foal. Such a virgin to the carnal desires of greater beings. You shouldn’t care what mortals think.’ Oh shit, it’s specifically got to be the Fertility part of Avarice’s soul I copied. ‘She wants you. You’re her in every way. You just have to use that to make her go over the edge~.’ Please. PLEASE fuck off. ‘As you wish~.’

“Luna, how about we request a room?” I asked with Luna’s voice on my lips, and she was practically panting, her face red and her heart pounding so hard I could feel it through our clothes.

“Buck yes.” Score! Wait, what? I don’t NEED to score! She’s already betrothed to me! NEW SOUL, STOP IT! ‘Not until you learn, young one.’ I know about sex. I know about how to seduce a mare. Now stop controlling me before I expel you. ‘You’re so naive, you think you know how to seduce? You got by with luck and natural charm, as well as your natural allure. I won’t stop until you can make anyone putty in your hands. Practicing with a loved one is just the easiest part. Watch.’

“Luna, have I ever told you how you look like the night sky given form? An impossible beauty, somehow captured in living motion.” Whoa...that was a thought I had earlier-

“Oh! Dox, that’s such a romantic thing to say….” Luna bashfully smiled as she giggled, holy hell that was adorable!

‘See? You THOUGHT it, but you didn’t TELL her. You’re as bumbling as a drunken child. Let me show you the ropes.’ No! Stop it! I don’t care how much we want to bang Luna right now, I just want control of my body back, and I want it back NOW! Now GET. OUT! “Luna, what made you love me?” No! No! Stop it you douche!

“What’s not to love? I mean, you’re so cute, how you try so hard to please me and others. You’re kind, and if a bit clumsy and unfortunate; you just make me feel so happy. Why did you only ask now? I had thought it obvious.” Apparently not, I had no idea-stop it! I’ll find out on my own!

‘You’re not proactive enough in your relationships. You’re detached, constantly thinking of other things. Your Wanderlust constantly gets the better of you, and even when forced on a prolonged trip with them all, you still neglected three of them even if they were happy enough.’ Stop it! Just...stop it…. “Well Luna, I just accepted your love. I didn’t need a reason to accept since you were so earnest, so true that wonderful first night on the moon.” I reminisced, oh, that was so wonderful.

“Okay buster, we’re going to the moon in a few moments if you don’t stop making me nostalgic.” She warned playfully, nudging me with a giggle. “But really, let’s save our lovemaking for after we see the state of things here and why they have not answered Aule’s summons.” Thank you for being the voice of reason Luna. I’d be so lost without you.

‘Wouldn’t you ever. See you later.’ Oh no. You’re not just shutting up now. Got it? I don’t care if I wanted you to stop, or if I’m getting control back now. I warned you. I truly did. NOW GET OUT!

The second I gained control, I dropped my disguise. Screw hiding, I needed to be rid of this fucker, even if that means ripping a part of myself out… Which is what I did. I ripped out a chunk of my flesh from my chest and stomach and threw it away from me. It landed a good two meters away, then started taking a shape of its own. It kinda looked like a 5 foot miniature Avarice in Dragon form. “Hey! That was mean!”

“Yeah, and controlling my body was even worse!” I yelled at the tiny Avarice.

“W-wait, so all those sweet things you were saying was him?” Luna asked hurt, and I ended up only looking down a little at the significantly taller mare...oh shit, didn’t notice she’d broke almost 10 feet since we came in here.

“No, it was his voice, but my thoughts.” I said. “I’m sorry Lulu, I’m not the best at being super sweet, but I at least know when the right time to do so is!” I shouted at the pouting micro-dragon, who seemed more childlike by the moment.

“Oh...but it was so nice to suddenly get all warm and fuzzy inside from the sudden compliments….” Luna admitted, and I shifted around nervously before turning back into her so I wasn’t looking down.

“Hey, sweetie, I can be more spontaneous if you want-”

“As if! You’re a child in a man’s world! Get with the program!” The Avarice clone yelled at me.

“Why you little!” I yelled, charging the clone and wrapping my hands around his throat in an attempt to choke him, and he does, but he laughs while it happens.

“Simp-gak-sons!” The Avarice clone choked out.

“Shut up, shut up, SHUT UP!” I swear, as I vented my rage out on this perverted little bitch, I could feel myself changing into something more…. sinister than my already horrid base form, but I paid it no mind as I continued out my objective to end the life of this crappy wannabe Avarice.

“You -gak- do know this is -gak- a form of suicide?” The clone asked while choking.

“I don’t care! It’s worth it to get rid of a horrible being like-”

“Dox!” Luna screamed at me. “You’re losing yourself again. Calm down before something happens again! Just look at yourself!”

“What?” I asked, stopping my attack on the clone of my friend. I looked down at myself and was horrified at what I saw. I expected the normal creepiness of my new base form, but instead what I got was something much more evil in nature. I could see several spikes protruding from my arms. My claws had grown to be a foot and a half long and coated in a metal substance, this probably being how the Changeling Blade manifested in this form. I could feel several spines protruding from my back, and upon running my hand across what I could reach on my back, found that they were all razor sharp. I could even feel horns on my head, if you’d believe that. I had become a true monster. A being meant for killing, and only that…. Is this what I truly was?

… No. No, I’m not a monster that kills everything. I’m the Traveler…. No, I’m Dox, just a little different now, a little better.

I could feel myself shrinking down somewhat as I calmed down. When I looked at the finished result, I was glad to see the result. Gone was the monstrous form that I was just in, instead replaced with my original changeling form. Man I was glad to see it again. I guess for now, the key is to just remain calm.

“I’m sorry, Luna.” I said to one of my many significant others. “I started flipping out, and I shouldn’t have. I’m good now.”

“Don’t tell me that, tell the person you just tried to strangle.” Luna said, gesturing to the Avarice clone. “He’s the one you should be apologizing to.”

“Right…” I said, turning to the annoying clone in question. “Listen, I’m sorry, okay? Let’s just make up and get along so this shit doesn’t happen again, alright?”

“Whatever.” The clone said. “I want back in, though.”

“You can have back in, but we’re gonna have some conditions to work out.” I said, pulling out the Changeling Blade in the form of a shortsword and brought it under his chin. Well, that was one good thing of this form. I could still actually control what it manifested into. “I’m gonna make the terms, though. It’s my body, so my rules, capische?”

“C-capische.” The Avarice clone said.

“First off, no taking control of my body unless you either have permission from me or I pass out and we’re in danger.” I said, beginning my list of terms.

“But that was the fun part!” The clone complained. I moved my sword closer to his neck. “That’s fine though. Just don’t get hasty, now. Even I can tell this form has some mortality to it.”

“Alright, good.” I said, moving the sword back a little while keeping it under his chin. “Next term, you can coach me all you want with the whole being sweeter on my lovers thing, but the second you get out of hand or do it when I’m on a serious mission, you’re getting ejected again. Depending on the situation, you may be used as a projectile. Got it?”

“Fine.” The clone said with a humph. “Any more terms?”

“Yeah, one more.” I said, dispelling the Changeling Blade. “You still have free will, just don’t do anything nuts, got it?”

“So, in summary, essentially be like that ghost lady from that sexy sex game?” Clone Avarice summised.

“Wow, uh, yeah.” I said. “But no altering my body all of a sudden either! I don’t want to suddenly have an extra set of limbs or whatever.”

“Tch, you’re no fun.” The clone pouted, before jumping into me. Literally. ‘Try not to make me feel like a babysitter though. Actually put some effort into the love.’ Why you little-! Everyone’s looking at me...oh fuck. I did that in public!

“Dox. Look at me.” I did, suddenly I shot up to her height again, and sighed at seeing the shelf of flesh at the bottom of my periphery that has become quite familiar lately. “I know it’s mean of me, but you’re more stable when you have someone else as your anchor, just don’t forget.”

“Yeah, right.” I said. “Thanks, Lulu. Not just for helping me, but for putting up with me.” She then reached forth and grabbed my shoulders, squeezing our globular chests into pleasurable pancakes as she pulled me closer, making me gasp and shudder as she grinned mischievously.

“Not for me loving you?” Luna teased as she leaned in the distance to plant a kiss on my lips, and some of the dwarves cheered, making me blush bright red through my silver fur.

‘Now THAT is a mare! Reciprocate! I’m not going to do it for you this time!’ Honestly, I’m agreeing with you for once.

I wrapped my arms around Luna, pulling her even closer and kissed her deeply I think I felt a profound tugging of something from her, but then she tugged back. I felt amazing, so warm, so right. I am her, she is me. We are one. “How about we take this somewhere else.” I said in as sultry a voice as I could manage, which in Luna’s voice was incredibly sexy. I then turned away from her to scream at the dwarves for a second. “Where can we find lodging for-”

“At my abode.” My attention was drawn down...down...uh...how? WHY ARE WE?! WHAT?! We’re how freaking huge now?! How much WORSHIP do these dwarves have for Luna?! Is this what Avarice feels? Looking down on everyone who’s at eye-level with his pelvis or lower? “I understand it is hard to hear up there! But My home is the only place large enough for you!”

“And who are you?” I asked the dwarf below, who only came up to my lower thigh. Oh gog. Being so big...I feel so powerful!

“I am Jarl Balgruuf the Greater. You were making such a scene that your guide came and informed me two greater beings were in the market square having an unusual rapport.” He was wearing a mix of fur-coat and spider-chitin, not to mention the jewelry and his crown, making him look like a proper Dwarven King rather than just a Jarl, or a clan chief like Ragnar. “Now I see; that Selune has fallen in love with the Traveler. A new one. Your love is as obvious as your power, the way you shared pieces of your souls as casually as your hearts.”

I could tell in the corner of my eye that Luna had flushed as red as I had to have been. We’d just shared our souls together? That’s...amazing actually. ‘It’s like you’re already married! So romantic!’ “W-well that wasn’t...intentional. Not that I wouldn’t give her my soul if she asked, since we are to be wed.”

“Oh Dox.” Luna said lovingly as she nudged me gently. “I’d do the same.”

“Before you display your love in my streets.” The white-haired Jarl joked making us snap attention back down to our host. “Follow me. I shall lend you my entire guest hall for your purposes. Once you are sated, then you may ask for me at your leisure.” Jarl Balgruuf turned and we both followed, Luna taking my hand in hers, entwining our fingers, and I sighed out my nose as she leaned into me. God I love her.

Being a mare for sex was...extremely interesting. Among things, me figuring out everything was a little awkward, but somehow I got the hang of it pretty quickly, especially with Luna coaching me. She knew all the right positions, and...how to...um...use a horn for more than magic…. Heh, discharged a bit of magic through the whole experience, if you get what I mean. Especially when she...taught me how to...erm...suck, a horn. Being the sucker is actually more amazing than being the suckee if you’d believe me. Having raw magic just tingling into your mouth, numbing your body with such pleasant tingles you could fall asleep.

And oh gog, I had no fucking clue how flexible Luna was, or I was for that matter since I am her, and she is me. The best moment in my opinion, was when our flowers were kissing, and I kissed her deeply in an embrace, I felt complete. Why was I so scared of being a female ‘til now? This was amazing! Among things, I have legs for days! So silky and smooth~ with my shining, glistening silver fur. My thighs are thick with muscle, but just enough fat to be squeezable, my hooves, so strong, yet so perfectly pedicured. I love you Luna. I love how you’ve made me feel. About you. About myself.

“Dox.”

“Mm….”

“Dox, we need to get up.”

“No...I don’t want it to end….”

“I’m afraid we must love.” I sighed sadly, unwrapping my arms from around my beloved, removing my breasts from her back in our spooning. “Dox. You remember you’re you right?”

“But I’m you too...yes, I am me. Dox Ad Finem.” I said, and she seemed to relax a bit. “Why?”

“You called yourself Luna while we were in coitus.” Oh...that’s...that is bad…. “Please don’t forget love. I don’t want to lose you.”

“I...I’ll try.” I promised with my ears angled back in worry, because even if I don’t want to, I know I’ll lose myself again...what sort of curse do Doppelgangers suffer? ‘I’m here too pal, just know I remember. One of Avarice’s curses is he’s unable to forget anything.’ Right, Recall. Hey, if you figure out how it works, tell me immediately. That skill’s super useful, and I’d like to-. ‘No. No you don’t….’ Hey I...where….

….

I guess it’s a touchy subject…. I guess though, if you’re listening, is it okay if I call you Recall? Since you’ll remember when I can’t? ‘.... Sure.’ Thank you.

“Dox, you’re doing it again.” Luna admonished, and I blinked myself out of my thousand-yard stare.

“Sorry, talking to Recall. He says he’ll remember, so if I forget, he’ll remind me.” I told Luna. ‘Recall? Seriously? I was agreeing to remember for you.’ Hey, one of the new terms. Plus, at least you get a name other than Little Avarice. Okay? ‘Yeah, that’s fine. But I won’t ever teach you the power itself. It’s just...some things, are best left forgotten.’ But- ‘Just trust me on this.’ Well, okay then. Oh, Luna’s looking at me in concern again. “So Love, is there anything I can do to reassure you?” I asked Luna, presenting my breasts by thrusting my chest out a bit, and she giggled.

“We’ve done more than enough of that as it stands Dox. We need to ask-.”

“My Goddess!” A familiar dwarf in familiar blue robes rushed into the chamber, practically skidding on the tile as he dove into a prostrating kneel, stopping just short of the enormous lavish bed, which was just big enough for me and Luna at our gratuitous heights of 14 feet. “I came as soon as I heard you’d arrived! I’d been in my arithmancy lab the past several hours and nobody informed me Selune had come! Forgive me!” He got on all fours and smacked his forehead into the floor. HIs extreme devotion making both me and Luna jump a whole foot in height. Shit.

‘Buddy, he’s trying to steal your woman.’ … ‘You know what to do.’ On it.

I concentrated my hardest, trying to summon SOMETHING to hit him with. Somehow, I ended up summoning the Changeling Blade. It came out as a massive paddle at first, but I didn’t think that was humiliating enough, nor bad enough. No, I made it manifest into a certain weapon from the Saint’s Row series, and a giant silver rubbery dildobat was my reward of my desire to humiliate him...damn I’d love to use it later, but humiliation now! “PERV!” I screamed for both irony and to justify this; since he DID just barge in on me and my beloved, naked, in bed, in a private chamber!

“Hm?” Before he could look up to ask, the glans of the enormous dildo, and I do mean ENORMOUS since it’s scaled for my size, struck him across the head and sent him skittering across the tile floor, where Luna had teleported, and angrily added insult to injury by pressing her hoof down on him as he looked up at his imperious goddess in all her glory pressing him underhoof as she leaned down so her gigantic breasts didn’t block her vision. So hawt Lulu~! Show him what-for!

Edwercht, the dwarf who’d helped me survive the Black Forest and the Panther Crows, cowered under the furious glare of my love. “How dare thee intrude upon our chambers! And whilst we were still nude and in the company of our lover!”

“I am unworthy! I apologize my precious and fair Selune! I overstepped my bounds and I deserve any punishment given!”

“I say we castrate him.” I told Luna through my telepathy. She just glared at me with a “Are you joking?” kind of look. “What?! He stepped in on us and there’s a new voice in my head that keeps telling me he deserves the worst for it. I mean, seriously, he wants a woman, he can find his own. Leave me with my beauteous goddess of the night who shimmers like the stars in the sky.”

“No.” Luna firmly stated, rolling her hoof on the grunting-in-pain dwarf. “We may strike him blind for several hours for daring to look upon us in our beauty as we were in the company of our love.” Luna’s eyes shined white and her horn shimmered, and Ed’s eyes shimmered too, but Luna balked as she ended her spell. “What? Why didn’t my Blind spell work?”

I lovingly patted my giant dick-bat as I sauntered over with an evil grin. “Can I beat him senseless with my toy here?” I asked, and Luna looked at it for the first time and blushed, before she leaned closer to me and whispered.

“Where was THAT earlier?” She asked, and I blinked before blushing brightly. Oh~ I want to give this thing a try now.

“I-I don’t know, it just popped up when I wanted something humiliating to hit him with.” I whispered back. “Works pretty well that way, eh? Maybe we’ll use it later for some more fun reasons.” I offered, nearing the glans to her groin, and she grinned as she moved her pelvis a bit closer.

“Why not now?” Oh~ yeah, round sixteen! Oh, right, multiple orgasms. Women have those! Fucking awesome!

“B-but I am still here my Goddesses!” Edwercht declared. Oh yeah, he was still in the room.

“Maybe we should humiliate him further.” I said, looking at Luna, then subtly motioning from the bat to him. “What do you think, Lulu? What do you say we make this guy a bitch?”

“Hm...we don’t know. T’would be interesting. But, no. Too small.” She emphasized small, and I grinned, making Edwercht blush and look aside in shame. “So little dwarf. For what reason were you so bold as to intrude upon us? Tell us, and mayhaps we will let you go.” Luna teased, running her hoof a bit lower on his frame, pressing into his groin, making him hiss in pain, and us grin in our superiority.

“I was shamed by my lack of courtesy and not showing up as soon as you’d arrived as a true devotee would. I fear my eagerness to try and please you with my worship has instead left you wrathful with my lack of tact.” Ugh, he’s such an ass-kisser. Then again, our asses are glorious. ‘That’s the spirit! Flaunt it!’ Shut up, but yes, I will.

“No, just with your over eagerness to say hello.” Luna answered, and snorted out her nose, gosh that was cute. “We shall let you go, but only if you explain why my spell had no effect on your senses.”

“Hey! Not so hasty!” I said telepathically. “I really want to torture him. Please. I don’t care what his response is, I just really, really, REALLY hate kiss-asses.”

“How?” Luna asked, not open to the idea really, but then I leaned in and whispered something, and Luna perked. “Oh...that...would be interesting….” Luna looked back down at the worried dwarf, and proceeded to lightly rub her hoof into his lower body, making him blush. “Let’s make him squirm.”

Woo! Damn that was stupidly fun! Toying with someone a fraction your size is ridiculously entertaining! But, some of the play did get a bit rough, and he got a nosebleed when I went a bit too far and squeezed his head in my boobs. It was rainbow...I know now.

I’ve…. I’ve been replaced…

It hurt, so much, knowing my dad replaced me with a...a fucking, tiny, defenseless little dwarf! How DARE he?! How dare he replace ME with that, that...little….

The sad thing is. I know he’s the right choice. Especially when he somehow avoided me CRUSHING him when I realized it, and played it off like he just got lucky to avoid me stomping on him, and I played it off as an accident against my will. The fucker got a roll...I...I can’t do that anymore….

Why?! Why did THIS guy have to be my replacement?! I mean, seriously! And why did the DM keep trying to restrict and screw me at every turn?! That Saving Throw was against a FUCKING GODDESS! That’s almost impossible with the conditions it was in! I didn’t try again, knowing father dearest might just make a counter-roll and somehow make things even WORSE for me.

“So, when did it happen?” I asked, looking down at the dwarf I now hated. “Tell me before I start committing murder in the first degree.” I was seated on the edge of the bed, Luna rubbing my shoulders consolingly to calm me, but I spitefully left my legs wide open. Look at it you fucker. I won’t let you have any sense of security right now. But damn it, he looks up, past everything into my eyes. I hate him. So damn much. I can’t even use my body to throw him off. ‘Can’t win them all, especially cheaters.’ Good point Recall. Oh shit, call him a cheat, heh, irony.

“It happened barely a day ago. Suddenly; the Master of Dungeons, the Lord of Adventure, the Dungeon Master proclaimed me his champion from nowhere.” Edwercht explained. “I tried asking him about his previous champion, the noble warrior known as Dox, but he said to forget about him. He said that he was gone and would not speak further about it.” Oh great, he’s not just a kiss-ass to ‘his goddess’ but also to me. Oddly arousing, if annoying. And what’s this about the DM saying to forget about me, that ‘I’m gone’?!

“Well news-flash bud: I’m still here! I may have been thrown from his graces, but I’m still alive! You can hear me you fucking bastard! I know you’re listening! You always are! I’m still here!” I roared at the stoic dwarf, who stonily remained passive. “What did he say! Tell me or I’ll rip out your soul!”

“Dox, no!” Luna slapped my back, and I panted as I rubbed my temples.

“He refuses to allow me to convey. But you have my condolences Goddess Dox Ad Finem, for your bastardization.” Ed bowed earnestly, and I felt tears prick at my eyes. Bastard. I’m...a bastard…forsaken by my father….

“FUCK YOU, YOU CLICHE CLOAK WEARING DICK!” I yelled at nobody in particular, aiming my insult at the DM. “I WILL FIND YOU! I WILL TRAVERSE THIS MULTIVERSE UNTIL I WALK UP TO YOU AND RIP YOUR DICK OFF! YOU HEAR ME?! I AM NO ONE’S BASTARD!” I choked as I suddenly felt a lancing pain in my skull, and I hissed as I felt tears pour forth. “Damn it...just...I hate you...so much...nothing you do to me will make me change my mind.” ‘Fucker! Tried to rip me out! Well, I’m the clone of a god soul, so fuck him!’ Thank goodness for that. Fucking Pure Neutral my ass.

“Dox, stop. Please, don’t antagonize him. When you were his champion he could yank us into his realm at will. I don’t want to risk losing you.” Luna said as she hugged me under my breasts and put her head next to mine, making me raise and arm to caress her cheek.

“No, Luna. He didn’t yank us into his realm.” I explained. “He pulled us into the void. It’s just like his realm, but others can exist there. The only one that can exist in his realm is him, otherwise the being that foolishly enters his realm becomes a part of him. Fun part is, he can’t do that without risking his precious world.” Would serve him right, too. But I’d lose Lulu, and Tia, Emmy, Sapphire, Athena, and Blue. I’d lose Arbok, too, if she tried to come back. I’d even lose Avarice. Not even he could help me there. “But….” A devious, cruel, and evil plan formed in my mind, and I smiled darkly. “If. I were to say...sever him from THIS reality forever….” Ed finally showed an emotion: fear.

“Y-you wouldn’t dare!” Edwercht gasped as he balked at me.

“I would!” I declared. “And I know I can, too. Like I said, I’m the bastard of no one.” ‘Oh~ he mad. He can’t peek in here! Ha! I feel him trying to get in, but nope! Cockblocked!’ Can you control what he sees? ‘Yeah! Making him see a sodomy train right now!’ Good. That’ll help teach him to stay out. “Now then, away from...personal issues.” I stressed as I finally closed my legs, crossing them as I pointed a hoof at him, not seeing him worth raising an arm from the bed or away from Lulu’s cheek. “Why haven’t the clans answered Aule’s summons? He’s furious, and forcing the clan that secured Blackreach to craft statues. By hand.”

“That’s just cruel and unusual!” Ed shouted in shock, only to calm down and clear his throat. “Well. From what I understand, the Goddess Lolth of the-.”

“Whoa-whoa-whoa! Lolth?! What the fuck?! What does the Matron Goddess of the DROW, THE MOTHER OF LUSTS, have to do with this?!” I demanded, quite angrily and worriedly. Because damn it: the Drow?! DROW! Them Chaotic Evil fucks! They’re here? In my world?! I remember those guys from a campaign I played! They’re crafty motherfuckers! And they come in all flavors of class! If they’re here, this world could be screwed!

“Y-yes, as I was saying; the Head Priestess of our Church of Lolth-.”

“WHY THE FUCK DO YOU HAVE A SECT HERE?!” I demanded furiously, my teeth turning to fangs and my eyes slitting without my knowing, and I growled draconically as my wings started losing their feathers to become bat-like. “Where is it! I shall purge it from the face of this world!”

“I will allow no territorial disputes between gods here!” Edwercht surprisingly shouted back, his deep and powerful bass tone echoing through everything, even me and stunning me back into pure-Luna form. Holy hell...it was like Albus Dumbledore just used his voice charm in my face. “Lolth is a cruel witch, I acknowledge that, but she is the sole reason my clan has been able to thrive in this desolate frozen waste! She provided the spiders that feed on mana, and birth livestock for us. She has given us the silk and chitin that makes many of our clothes and armor that protect us from the harshest of weather and the sharpest of swords. But she corrupts us, she twists those who fall into her charm into spider-folk, driders! But that is the extent of it, we have assured she won’t turn us all, and she has failed for centuries. Until we have another way; we will not risk an assault on her church.”

“Then follow me.” I said, shifting back into my new base form. “I am at least nicer than her. I won’t corrupt those who decide to fall for me, or defy me. I’m not that witch. I am the Giver of Gifts, and I shall give one to your people.” Edwercht blubbered, and looked between his naked goddess and the Traveler, before scurrying after the Chaotic Neutral god, and Luna sighed.

“Dox...always one to shake things up.” The Chaotic Good goddess smirked as she chuckled and moved to find her clothes. “Even if it is with that bitch….”

Dox stood before the Church of Lolth. It was rather obvious; being the only pure-black gothic-styled building in the city, towering over all but the Jarl’s castle and coated in silken spider webs. Well, more-so than the rest of the city aside from the stables where they apparently kept them. “Please Traveller, I beseech you! Do not antagonize her!” Edwercht again begged me in futility. Sorry replacer, but I can’t ignore her presence, especially if she’s ordering them to ignore Aule, when he rightfully lays claim to the Dwarven Race, not her!

“Either leave or shut up. Daddy-dearest or no; I will CRUSH you if you utter another word against me. I am the Traveler, I go where I please.” I growled, and began ascending the steps up to the church, which was grand enough in design to allow my 15-foot disturbing form in with ease as I barged in through the doors, interrupting a service as a rather large drider man at the altar wearing black robes and his knotted beard balked at my entry. “Priest! Where is your High-Priestess! I demand an audience!”

He seemed about to deny me, but he stopped, and his eyes widened in a fear deeper than my visage could inspire, and he promptly bowed and gestured his commune to do the same as he backed away through a towering tapestry behind him that must’ve also served as a door for another chamber. I strode idly past the pews, every single person in here was a drider, an “honor” to be gifted to Lolth’s devoted. She must be desperate if she’s trying to convert Dwarves of all folk into them. What about her Drow? Wouldn’t she be happy enough with them?

“Traveler~!” The voice was sickeningly sweet, and filled with a level of longing and desire that I rarely hear. Out of the tapestry came a form that couldn’t POSSIBLY be a mortal! Lolth herself came?! “Oh my! You’ve been through a hard time lately haven’t you? If this is how you see yourself?” The drider woman was as big as me, in height. That meant in total she was much larger considering the giant spider she had for a lower body. Her giant fanged mandibles just below her human torso that served as both a mouth and her privates rubbed together in anticipation, her exposed, admittedly huge pitch-black breasts were only covered by two long silk-like strands of her stark-white hair, and her beautiful face was full of familiarity, and desire as she combed her great mass of long white hair out of her face and around her trio of towering angular horns.

“I’m not here on a whim, Demon Queen of Spiders. Well, not that big of a whim.” I said. “No, this is more of a business trip. I’m here to shoo you out. I don’t appreciate what you’ve done to the dwarves, even if it is a rather chaotic change.” I looked over the driders, they looked nothing like dwarves now, their upper bodies that of humans rather. “A...delicious change. But the dwarves are the children of Aule. Neither of us have the right to steal them ALL from him.”

“Hm? But you just said yourself; all. I’m not trying to steal them all, just make him a bit more...serious, about his children.” Lolth waxed poetically as she sidestepped around me, I turned to keep facing her as her long, sexy, velvety spider legs easily stepped just right without her having to look, over her followers, who all gazed longingly up at her swollen spider abdomen with desire, and she loved it, especially when a few were daring enough to reach up and touch her, making her spinnerets at her rear drool. I’d love it too. “Even if it means I must take custody for a while. He’s been so lazy, stuck in the spiritual plane and not actually trying to come back. Letting a prophecy play out like a fool.

“Prophecy?” I questioned. “Explain what you mean, Lady of Spiders. Explain before I decide to start using force.” I could feel the Changeling Blade start to manifest, but not as my claws this time. No, I could feel it ‘melt’ into my hand, manifesting as some sort of blade that I did not bother to look at. Could it be because I was channeling my actual position as the Traveller instead of as a beast?

“There, there. There’s no need for your strange scimitar here.” Lolth chided. Scimitar? So that’s what the Changeling Blade turned into. “Hm, but it has changed too...you’re new aren’t you?” She cooed, running a hand down her abdomen and caressing one of her mandible’s fangs, before tugging and from it came shadows that formed an elegant armor-piercing dagger. “I’m afraid I’ve kept Spider as she always was. Never needed to change~.” She taunted, still circling in sidestep, and I hissed at her taunting my beloved aspect!

“You’ve heard my stance! Allow the dwarves to reconnect with Aule, or I won’t hesitate to strike. I too can provide the dwarves with what they could need, without corrupting them.” I didn’t flinch as she suddenly bolted right into me, pressing the whole of her front to me, her mandibles hugging my hips as she pressed her luscious bosom into my chest, she cooed as she neared my face, but I simply glared.

“Mm, so serious. So unlike you. Maybe I should remind you of the great fun~ we used to be together….” She was nearing my lips, but I didn’t bother moving, but not because I wanted it. “Ah!” She was suddenly yanked away from me, and tossed across the church, over the pews and into one of the stained-glass windows, shattering it, and she hissed in fury as she looked upon Luna, who was just as furious, if not more so.

“Thou dare to move on our beloved! Wretched witch! Do not try our patience again, or we will relinquish our truce here and now! Our ponies have more than us to protect them now.” Luna declared, summoning a gloriously beautiful scythe that she twirled about herself like a staff, and planting the pole-end on the floor, cracking the tile. “Our sister Sarenrae has beaten back the various forces of darkness whilst we had been imprisoned, and we would not hesitate to finish thou off!”

“Selune! You dare enter MY chapel and-!” Luna’s scythe, which had blades on both sides of the blade, was suddenly pressed against the evil goddess’s throat from the distance, and let a drop of her molten-hot god-blood drip onto the blade, curving down it, and dropping from the tip. “Just like your personal emblem. Once again, so poetic Selune. And what’s this I hear? You stole my fuckbuddy?”

‘Is THAT why we’re so damn attracted to her? The Traveler was her fuck-friend?’ Apparently…. Though, I can kinda see why…. “Yes. Selune and I are to be wed. As is Sarenrae and I. It is a union between us, and several immortals of lesser status.”

“Really~?” Lolth’s tone did a 180, her eyes full of understanding and smirked at Luna. “Mind adding another Selune? He was one of the few who could sate me after all.”

“The fact you would offer disgusts me to no end.” Luna growled as she drew her scythe back, planting it next to her as I remained where I was. I’m just glad all that got broken was the window, and none of the mortals around us gazing upon us all in awe, but their devotion to Lolth was strong enough I couldn’t feel anything from it, and Luna wasn’t getting any larger, so there’s that at least. I was especially surprised when several of them moved to Lolth, wordlessly asking if she was okay, and she idly gestured them away.

“Lulu, Lolth, let’s just agree here that it’s not gonna happen, okay?” I offered. “Now, let’s just put away our weapons and let everything get back to peace. As much as I hate to say it, now’s not the time for this kind of chaos.” Holy shit that was hard to say. Hell, it physically hurt! I want everything to degenerate into an all-out brawl, maybe resulting in a three-way, maybe even pull in the mortals for a little pleasure for all. Ugh...being the good guy sucks sometimes…. Wait a minute, where did that come from? Is this what being the Traveler’s like?... Actually, I think I could get used to this. “Though, a three-way?”

“Dox!”

“Fuck yeah!”

“Hey, Chaotic Evil, Chaotic Neutral, and Chaotic Good. I could be the meat, you the bread~.” I tempted, and both of them looked at each other, me, then back, and both bit their lips before grumbling and shaking their heads no. Damn. “At least consider?”

“Dox, I wouldn’t touch that bitch with Moondrip if I had the choice, let alone pleasure her.” Luna stuck out her tongue, but blushed. “Even if she’s sexy.”

“I’d gladly ravish that hot body of yours Selune. What’s with you goody-good types and ruining the fun?” Lolth complained as she put away Spider, prompting me and Luna to put away our respective special weapons. “So...fine. A deal. Plainly; Traveler, give me a good rut and I’ll tell the dwarves at all my churches they’re all free to return to their father, but leave my followers to me.”

Hm, fuck sexy evil spider goddess, free a race from corruption. I don’t see how I lose here. “I-”

“Not on your life, Spider Witch.” Luna practically screamed. Damn it Lulu. I know you love me, but let me decide for myself! “I won’t let you fool him into being your plaything!” Wait, what? “The last time you did this sort of thing, the poor colt came back an insane spider-pony!”

“Oh Selune~ that was over 1700 years ago~! I’ve gotten better since then about letting my mandibles get...bitey.” The spear-like fangs rubbed together, and I would’ve paled if I could. “Besides, he started the races of spider/drider-ponies didn’t he? The little darlings are so fuzzy and cute.” She seemed to think for a second. “Well, the spider-ponies are, the drider-ponies are just sexy.”

“Anything with more than eight limbs is sexy to you.” Luna rolled her eyes, and Lolth started cackling in mirth.

“So true! Oh, the time. So sorry dears, but the daily commune is over.” Lolth called to the whole church, and got resounding “aws” in disappointment. “I know me showing up personally and NOT having an orgy is unusual, but I’m afraid business is paramount. Shoo, shoo! Off with you! Have fun on your own time!”

“But queen! We desire to lavish you in attention and pleasure!” Came a resounding chorus back from all the driders, and the evil goddess rolled her eyes.

“My offer won’t change. Now either leave me, or join in. My followers can get rather grabby, and I like it too much to dismiss them now that they’ve asserted they wish to please me. So, you have two choices. Have fun with me here. Or leave, and I refuse to allow the dwarves to return to Aule. Ever. Your choice~.” Holy fuck she IS a bitch. But a sexy one...ugh…. Recall, I know you’re gonna fight me over this decision, but…

“I choose the third option.” I declared, summoning the Changeling Blade into my hand, which changed from it’s new favored form of a scimitar into a rather obscenely large sickle with an extremely large curved blade that almost went full-circle, and had a blade along both sides, in and out. It was so big, that even if they were the size of average mortals, it would’ve been large enough to tower over a person, and big enough in the thickest part of the blade to hide a waif of a woman. “Either you let the clans go, or I start a campaign on your driders, all of them, and you know you won’t be able to stop me from getting to them. I’ll even send you their heads in little ornate boxes for you to enjoy.”

Luna balked at me, but Lolth hissed in fury, clicking her mandibles and her followers slowly backing away from me. “You would...damn you. Unlike Moontits here I know you would go through with it. Fine! Have the dwarves! But I’ll be waiting for you to drop your guard.” Lolth warned with a growl, and I nodded as I and Luna turned to leave, but I dodged as a bolt of dark magic almost struck me in the back, and I turned to glare at the enraged evil goddess who bared her fangs at me. “I did say I’d wait, but not for how long. I thought you were smart enough not to turn your back to me Traveler.”

“I thought you cared enough about your followers not to risk them.” I replied, and I left with Luna before either of them could ask what I meant, until we heard a despairing unearthly wail from the church we’d exited that I didn’t even flinch at, even as Luna growled at me.

“What did thou do?!”

“Sent a message.” I answered, holding up a woman’s severed head to my lover’s horror, and I dropped it without care in the road. “You don’t backstab the god of the backstabbers. Especially when he cuts you a deal. You saw what I did, Luna. I offered to leave peacefully, but she…. Well, she refused.” Luna just gaped at me in utter terror, unable to speak to me about the atrocity I had just committed. “Worse still, when we left, I grabbed the last of them. That head back there? That was her high-priestess she’d been possessing. Hope the bitch will be in utter pain and torture growing it back since she was really there too.”

“But how?! I was right next to you the whole time!” Luna demanded, both horrified and in awe, since the whole group I’d just slaughtered were still evil at heart.

“I’m the Traveller.” I said flatly. “I go where I want, when I want, however I want. If I want to be seen doing it, that’s my choice. Though, it wasn’t easy finding the other driders. Had to ask Recall for a tracking spell. He told me he needed blood for it, then gave me locations. I was gone and back before the air around my position even registered movement. The ONLY reason I could do it was because I could feel she’d make a condition I couldn’t accept. You don’t swindle the swindler.” I looked straight down after explaining myself. “I can’t help but mourn the loss, though. Nor can I truly accept myself for mercilessly killing them. It was a slaughter, Lulu, a slaughter that took place in less than even a millisecond. I… I don’t know how to accept it.”

“Dox. Look at me.” I did, and suddenly felt my breasts touching hers again, and she lovingly caressed my cheek. “Just remember. I’m always here for you. What you did was horrible, cruel, but necessary...it’s something my sister could never understand. Sometimes. to do good, you must perform acts of evil. She’s bound to honor her end, even if she betrayed you, and the dwarves are free. But now she has a vendetta against you. When you need me, even if I’m not there. Take my form. I will always be with you.” She leaned across our silvery valley of fur and kissed me, and I lost all my tension. I was finally able to register shifting and the Changeling Blade dismissing.

“Right.” I said. ‘Well, not many forms are as good as this for a base form!’ Huh? I tried to go back to that disgusting monstrosity, only to feel nothing, and I felt tears of relief build in my eyes. ‘You’re not a monster, just practical. Like her. She may not have liked your decision, but you did warn that bitch.’ That I did...and being dead sexy instead of terrifying is an awesome trade-off! ‘Now we’re getting it together!’ I so want to high-five Recall right now! High-five! A third arm appeared from my shoulder, and I enthusiastically high-fived the hand with my opposite arm, getting Luna to giggle at the silly sight before the arm melted back into me. “Well, I need to find myself. I’m not sure I can just stay you, I need to be my own person, find my own form, even if it’s not the one my so-called father gave me.”

“I understand Love. Take all the time you need. We’ll be waiting. But~....” She reached down and I grinned as she grabbed my ass. “I wouldn’t mind if you stayed like this~....”

“Maybe when I get back.” I winked, and laughed before I kissed her on the snout, and turned to get ready to run off. “When I get back! We are getting TURBO MARRIED!”

“Wait! Dox! What do you mean?! Where are you going?!” Luna called out in shock, clearly not getting I was being literal.

“To find myself silly! I’m the Traveller! I’m out there somewhere! Haha~!” I said.
“I’ll return afterwards, though. Don’t you worry. I’ll even use Avarice’s dimension to return here so I can be back before you know it.” I started walking away from Luna.

“No! You can’t leave!” Luna cried, tears visibly welling up in her eyes. “You can’t just abandon us here!” Luna felt devastated when her love suddenly seemed to shimmer, and vanish from existence, but before she could begin to cry, she gasped as arms wrapped around her from behind, and an even taller being was holding her tenderly.

“I said I’d be back. And boy, do I have a long story to tell you, but let’s get back to the others first.”

“Dox?”

“Who else, my personal piece of the heavens?”

Author's Notes:

So yeah. If you look at the 'cover' for the story, you'll see SOMETHING changed. I know it's frightening, but it's true. This story is done, and I know it feels like I'm cock-blocking you from the story of what Dox goes and does, but that's not the case.

No, I'll be expecting to see you all in this story's sequel: The Traveller's Tales! Which will be out soon, and I mean soon.
Also, I did have a little help with this chapter.... if not a bunch, so thanks GameJunkie!
Oh! And speaking of other authors, I know I said there would be that wedding chapter, but it's not happening in this story. No, I'm not doing that until the END of the sequel. Because of that, however, I am promising ALL of you a crossover for the new story, which involves Dox's travels. So yeah.

Anyways, this is Music Mod, signing off on THIS story for one last time, but saying that I will see you in the next story soon.