Crystal lead us to a small room with a table in the center and a bookshelf to the side and little else. She sat down beside the table and faced us. "I can put out the call for them, but they don't always answer. We could go to them, but they get territorial at times. They usually don't get too worked up if we just come to talk, but it depends on what mood they're in at the time."

Sandra shook her head. "We don't have time to be timid, right?" She looked towards me. I couldn't argue the logic, really. The longer we waited, the more damage was being done, so I nodded. "So let's get right in there and try to get things on the right track."

Crystal nodded in kind and tapped the ground in front of her. "Then there's no time like the present, if you're ready?" She tilted her head at me. "Are you sure you want to go now? I imagine that new shape of yours is a little disorienting."

With her bringing it up, I paid more attention to my new self. I felt... powerful. My pony lower half was strong and healthy, and my more humanoid parts weren't lagging behind. Having breasts felt funny, but somehow... right? The gift was insidious in its ability to make a person accept what they were as normal. I was just glad I wouldn't have to get used to nudging things around with hooves, with my hands seemingly intact and there to stay, if fuzzy.

I took a few steps while paying attention, while absorbing the exotic play of muscles that moved my tauroid form around. I didn't feel too clumsy so long as I let my body handle itself, and I felt confident I would only get better over time.

Sandra looked at Crystal. "Does it bother you that you used to be male?"

Crystal arched a furry brow. "That's a useless question. I am what I am, and there's no going back that I can see." Sandra kept staring at her, and Crystal snorted with a sudden annoyance. "Of course it bothers me, a lot." She licked her lips lightly. "Every time one of the boys tries to 'relieve me' or a girl's trotting around with her tail in the sky, I'm reminded."

I reached for Crystal, and she didn't stop me from giving her a soft petting over her head. I felt for her gift, but it was barely humming, quite stable within her crystal body. "I don't think I could make you a boy again, but I could try anyway?"

Crystal leaned up against the hand. "You're taunting me! What would happen if it fucked up?"

Cindy spoke up. "I'll help! You've been working so hard for your ponies, I want to see you happy too."

Crystal smiled. "You didn't answer my question. I can't risk becoming something that can't lead the herd. They need me."

Cindy shook her head. "If we work together, it will be safe. I promise."

Crystal hesitated a moment, then flopped to the ground and rolled over, exposing her belly and nethers to us. "If you're so sure. I've trusted you this far."

Sandra smiled brightly up at us. "Go ahead, help her, er, him." Her broad tail swayed back and forth, sweeping the ground with her excitement.

Cindy nudged me. "Touch horns, and go where I lead, and we'll give it our best shot."

We touched horns together and focused on Crystal as one. We reached out with our magic and gently stirred that little hum of the gift, guiding it down between her hind-legs. Crystal stiffened before a moan escaped her, wriggling with obvious pleasure as the gift began to work on her with the last dredges of power it had left to shape her. There was no way we could fashion her entirely into a stallion with what little remained. Instead we grew another part, while changing things internally a tad. It felt natural to me at the time, even though I didn't really understand what I was doing.

Crystal heaved and gasped as her hips thrust up into the air. With every rocking motion, her clit grew longer and longer, developing tougher skin and a slit at the end as it become a mare cock instead, pulsing wildly with arousal as it throbbed larger and larger. Internally, she gained a new organ that would store and produce virile seed for her to use, and its presence was announced as she let out a loud cry of pleasure and began spurting wildly, painting herself and the ground around her in thick ropey strands of glittering crystal seed. She collapsed to the ground, panting for air as the change settled, and the buzz of the gift faded away entirely. She would be changed no further.

Sandra hesitated a moment before she advanced on Crystal's prone form and began cleaning her with her long tongues, running her long wet muscles across the cum-covered fur. "Mmmm..." She clearly agreed with the flavor of crystal seed, whatever that was. She ran her tongue down and paid special attention to Crystal's new member, leaving it clean before it withdrew into Crystal.

Clean and spent, Crystal rolled up to her hooves. She kissed Sandra's cheek then smiled up at me. "I feel... great. I may... break one of my own rules later and find a mare that's burning with heat. But let's focus on the matter at hand."

Sandra pointed at me. "What do you say first?"

Crystal tilted her head a little before nodding. "Thank you, William, Cindy. You two have given me something back I had already resigned to never have again. I'm still a mare, but... This is much better." She sniffed the air softly, and her new mare cock sprung back out as she licked over her lips. "I shouldn't..."

I rolled a hand at Crystal. "If you need a moment to just, you know, be you... You've worked so hard to keep the ponies here safe and happy."

Crystal squirmed a bit before she approached me, sniffing the air as she circled. Pleasure suddenly exploded through me as she shoved her snout into my backside and breathed deep. "You're entering heat. I... Well... we're both royalty, right?"

Cindy quickly replied, "Correct."

"So it would only make sense that royalty breed... right?"

I swallowed at where this was going. "Let's do the changelings first, then have this conversation?"

Crystal nodded quickly, moving back around to my front. "Yes, good idea... Though showing up with a huge hardon will probably get some laughing out of them."

Sandra raised a hoof. "Good. If they're laughing, they won't be angry. That's to our advantage."

I nodded. "That's actually a good point. Let's get going. The longer we wait, the harder it'll be in the long run."

Author's Notes:

Crystal is rewarded for her hard work, but it seems she wants more out of William than he's immediately willing to give.

Ah well, Changelings first, breeding after.