As consciousness returned, Thomas became aware that he had awoke in his favorite sleeping spot, between Princess Luna’s soft and supple breasts. Pulling himself up atop her glorious form, the human met the alicorn’s teal eyes.

“Luna,” he sighed contentedly.

“Thomas,” she acknowledged back.

No more words were needed as Luna pulled herself up and stretched her arms and wings. Thomas batted her extra extremities away as her feathers tickled his chest relentlessly. Luna laughed as she continued to tease him with her wings, but eventually Thomas moved out of reach. He looked down with mild surprise to find that he was still wearing his loincloth when an amusing thought crossed his mind.

“Who washes my clothes?”

“Why dost thou ask?” Luna inquired as she slid her legs off the bed and stood up.

“Not sure,” Thomas shrugged. “It just occurred to me that someone-”

“Somepony,” Luna corrected.

“Somepony has to do it and I was just wondering what they might think.” Thomas said as he dangled his legs off the bed, but stayed in place.

“Tis not likely to be an interesting exercise,” Luna said as she walked around the bed. “Dost thou imagine some lonely middle aged mare sniffing thy crotch guard for her own pleasure?”

Thomas didn’t blink as he followed the approaching Princess with his eyes. “You really are a clop-minded mare, aren’t you,” he said as more of a statement than a question.

“Besides,” Luna continued as she fell to her knees before Thomas and leaned in for another kiss. “It’s not like you wear these during anything important.” For emphasis she quickly untied the loincloth and flung it off to the side.

Thomas’ heart rate quickened as Luna spoke in a deep, sensual voice. Her hungry eyes looked down to his fully erect shaft and she descended upon him. The human moaned as the alicorn began softly nuzzling his crotch and taking a few experimental licks. Luna smacked her lips like a ravenous animal before taking the full length of his shaft into her mouth. Thomas let out a surprised whimper as Luna’s warm wet mouth eagerly massaged his cock while her hand gently kneaded his balls.

“Oh, fuck Luna,” he groaned as he absentmindedly put his hands upon her head. “I love fucking your hot mouth.”

Still tasting the piece of meat between her lips, Luna smiled at her lover’s declaration. It was also cute the way he tried to bob her head down on his member as if he somehow knew how to please himself better than she did. Still, there was no harm in letting him think he was in control and so she relaxed her neck a bit and let him manipulate her head around his shaft.

“Ah. Ahh,” Thomas panted. “I’m c-cumming!” Thomas shouted as he felt himself release into the back of Luna’s throat.

The mare took several quick swallows to clear her mouth of the delicious salty seed, and then smiled up at the man who bore a dumb satisfied grin. “Did thou enjoy thyself as much as we did?”

“I think a little bit more,” Thomas gasped.

“More?” Luna’s ears perked up inquisitively as her lips curled into a devious smile. “Well that hardly sounds fair. If thou art taking more joy from this than we, then it seems thou owest us our due enjoyment.”

“Owe? Owe? Oh!” Thomas realized. “I still need to pay Talon back.” He jumped past the alicorn Princess to his dresser where he found the compartment with his stash and hastily counted out what he owed. Satisfied that he had enough, he turned around to a very unhappy alicorn with her arms crossed and hoof tapping the ground impatiently. “Um… I’m trying to get rid of a distraction?” He suggested hopefully.

Luna’s frown soon flipped into a smile. “See to it that… you do. You already owe me for taking more satisfaction than you give and it is unwise to accumulate too much debt.”

Thomas was saved from this awkward lecture by the arrival of Midnight Chain, Starry Sky, and Lunar Stone. The attendants, seeing Luna looming over her human in all her naked glory, and him shooting his hands down to cover his bare crotch, let out a collective sigh of relief that all was back to normal.

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“And then he said ‘Read it? I already ruined it.’” Lunar Stone concluded her story as she slipped Luna’s hoof guards on.

“That’s disgusting,” Midnight Chain scolded as she levitated a more casual dress shirt beneath Luna’s wings.

“I don’t get it,” Starry Sky admitted as she searched through the jewelry drawer for something to match the outfit.

“What’d I miss?” Thomas asked as he exited the bathroom, whereupon he saw Luna struggling not to laugh. “I couldn’t quite hear what you were saying in there. What happened with the ducks?”

“You don’t want to know,” Midnight Chain scoffed. “Somepony just has a really dirty mind.”

“What?” Lunar Stone shrugged. “I grew up on a farm. That’s the sort of thing that happened from time to time.”

“Well if you’re not gonna share the fun, at least tell me what the plans are for tonight.” Thomas crossed his arms to let everyone know how super serious he was. The mares giggled at his gesture.

Now fully adorned in her regalia, Luna gave a light twirl to show herself off, her dress rising slightly. “How do we look?” she directed the question at Thomas.

“Like a million bits.”

“Only a million?” Luna said with a slight pout as she turned to her attendants. “You could manage to pull off a million and one?”

“Oh. I think I have one,” Starry Sky exclaimed as she dove into a little bag tied around her dress. After a bit of digging she pulled out a single gold coin and handed it over to the Princess. “There you go. Now you’re a million and one bits.”

The other mares and human couldn’t hold themselves back for long and burst out laughing. When Starry didn’t seem to understand what was going on, it only encouraged them to laugh even harder. In time they all calmed down and recomposed themselves.

“Well, dearest Thomas,” Luna addressed as the human in question came up to her side. “In answer to your question, today we shall…”

*Knock* *Knock* *Knock*

Luna stared in puzzlement at the door. Her ears flick as muffled voices seemed to be arguing on the other side. She looked to Thomas and her attendants, but they had no more answers than she did. “Come in,” Luna called formally.

The doors were flung to either side as a familiar white stallion with a blonde mane entered the room, followed by two guards in the gold colored armor of the day court.

“My apologies, Princess,” Attentive Eye said from the hall as she collected her papers from the floor. “I asked him to wait but he wouldn’t listen.”

“Auntie Luna,” Blueblood greeted with outstretched arms. He paused as if waiting for Luna to embrace him, but she didn’t budge from her spot.

“Dearest nephew,” Luna answered with convincing warmness. “What brings you here this fine evening?”

“It has been so long since we last saw one another. We really should schedule some time to catch up.”

“That would be most lovely, dearest nephew. However, you still have not said why you have entered our bedroom at such an hour. And why have you done so in the company of our sister’s guards?”

“Ah yes. Them,” he gestured to the guards behind him. “They’re just here to help me attend a little pest problem. Ah! And there’s the pest now.”

Meeting Blueblood’s eyes, Thomas felt the urge to flee to the nearest safe space, which in this case was behind Princess Luna. However, a quick glance at the Princess of the Night made him feel somewhat bolder and he held his ground beside her, though her wing still partially stood between him and Blueblood.

“That’s him, boys,” Blueblood smugly addressed the guards. “That’s the little tramp that had the audacity to defy a royal order and to assault me. Be a couple dears and arrest him.” He vainly waved his hand in Thomas’ general direction. When nothing happened, other than the human quickly surveying his surroundings for potential escape routes, the Prince turned his attention back to the guards. “Well?”

Thomas impressed himself by continuing not to budge. He knew it was only because he knew Luna was the greatest shield he could hope to have, but he still congratulated himself for not diving behind her. He peeked out from behind Luna’s wings to see that the guards were nervously shifting their eyes from him, to Blueblood, to Luna, and back to him.

“Are you deaf or something?” Blueblood spat. “That… creature is a vile criminal and, as Prince, I demand that you throw him in the dungeon.”

Blueblood’s commanding tone and mention of his title was enough to snap the guards out of their hesitation. “At once, my Prince,” they said in unison before they began moving towards Thomas. They didn’t even make it two steps before Luna flared her wings out in an aggressive stance. Thomas couldn’t quite see the Princess’ expression, but he could tell from the look of fear in the guards’ eyes that he didn’t want to be on the other end of it.

“Nephew,” Luna addressed Blueblood coldly as the guards made a brisk backwards retreat back to their position behind him. “Thou hast accused the Senior Concubine to Princess Luna’s Harem of criminal actions. Defying a royal order and assault, was it? Please enlighten us as to the nature of these crimes.”

For a moment Blueblood looked as terrified as his guards, but he quickly collected himself with a smug grin that proclaimed ‘I am a Prince and you will do what I say’ before he answered his aunt. “Auntie Luna. I offer my humblest apologies for bringing this to your attention in such a brash manner. However, like I said, that monkey hiding behind you like a coward is a criminal.”

“Coward!?” Thomas stepped out into the open and faced Blueblood with as tall and straight a posture as he could manage. “Who the hell are you calling a coward? I wasn’t the one who screamed like a little bitch when he saw the BABY dragon walking around the castle. Seriously, the little guy’s been here for years and you somehow never saw him before? You must be even more oblivious than me.”

The attendants and guards began snickering at the reminder while Blueblood fumed in silence. Emboldened, Thomas would have regaled them with more tales of the Prince’s ‘heroism’ but Luna threw her hand out in front of him in a signal to stop. Thomas looked up at her to ask why, but her determined eyes never left the Prince.

“We did not think a member of the royal family would need reminding of this fact,” Luna lectured through gritted teeth. “But when a Princess asks a question, she expects to be answered quickly and concisely. Thou hast accused Thomas of defying a royal order and assault. If we have to ask thee again, it will be thee who is sent to the dungeon. Are we clear?”

Blueblood was visibly shaken from the threat, but pressed on in absolute certainty in his rightness. “Ah, yes. I suppose it will be relevant to the courts when they hear exactly why the little beast is rotting in the deepest darkest dungeon in all of Canterlot,” he boasted to the amusement of no one. “Auntie, I know that you have taken a fancy to this… thing, so it saddens me to inform you that, several days ago, this little ape refused an explicit order to join me in my chambers.” He concluded, confidently oblivious to the gawking stares of the surrounding ponies. All he cared about was Luna who still wore a stern expression.

“I was utterly distraught at having been stood up by such a creature,” he continued. “I went to go find him, but alas it had already fled the castle. So it was not until just yesterday that I was able to find him again, no doubt he has just come out of hiding.”

“I was visiting the city and came back later that night,” Thomas said incredulously, but Blueblood did not seem to hear.

“I found the little beast lifting weights in the gym as though he was not a guilty criminal,” Blueblood scoffed. “The nerve. Anyway, when I moved to confront him about his transgression, offering to forgive him if he only spent the next few weeks in my chambers as my plaything, he set that vile griffon on me in a vicious assault. I fought her off as best I could, but a gentleman such as myself was simply no match for her barbarism. See?” He pointed at a slight bruising on his collar bone where Talon had grabbed him. “I was lucky to get away with my life. But fear not, auntie. For once we have taken this beast into custody, we shall move to subdue the savage griffon as well.”

All eyes widened in disbelief at Blueblood’s tale. Even the guards he’d brought turned to face him to check if he was actually being serious right now. To their horror, he was.

Luna looked down at the human by her side. “Is this true, Thomas. Did thou refuse to accompany the Prince to his chambers?”

“Y-yes,” Thomas answered hesitantly.

“Interesting,” Luna nodded. “And did you not also explain to us just last night how the griffon, Lady Talon, came to your defense when you were being threatened by our nephew?”

“Now hold on a second,” Blueblood huffed. “That’s not…”

“And did you not also say that this all occurred in the presence of dozens of witnesses?”

Seeing where this was going, Thomas gave a more confident nod.

“Very well. Now that we have heard all the facts, we are confident in our ability to dispense justice appropriately. Prince Blueblood.”

“Yes, auntie,” he answered with self-righteous grin.

“Get out.”

A pregnant pause followed and Thomas could have sworn he saw a tumble weed roll past Attentive Eye.

“My deepest apologies, auntie. But I don’t think I heard you right. Could you say that again?”

“Very well.” Luna cleared her throat. “Get the buck out of our room before we have thee thrown out.”

Blueblood’s ears and face drooped as he stared at Luna with flabbergasted eyes. “W-what?”

“Must we repeat ourselves again?” Luna gave an exasperated sigh. “Thou attempted to coerce dearest Thomas into thine chambers. When he refused, as was his right, you resorted to threats. Just to make it clear, you threatened OUR lover in front of us.”

“B-b-but I am a Prince and I gave an explicit royal order for him to accompany me in exactly thirty minutes. Do you have any idea how humiliated I was when I went to investigate an hour later, only to find he’d departed the castle to flee his responsibilities?”

“With all due respect, Prince,” Thomas seethed. “There’s no way in hell I’m giving you the time of day.”

“I. Am. The. Prince!” Blueblood roared, the volume of his voice making Thomas flinch. “And you…”

“Thomas,” Luna said cut the Prince off. “If we were to throw the Prince out the window, how long would he fall before a Pegasus guard rescued him?”

“Um, depends on if there are any pegasi nearby. Are there even that many in the night court?”

“A fair question,” Luna nodded, lighting her horn threateningly. “Shall we try and find out?”

“You can’t be serious,” Blueblood gasped.

“Of course not,” Luna assured.

“Heh,” Blueblood sighed. “That’s a relief.”

“If we were to do that, sister Celestia might take pity on him before administering her own punishment upon him.”

“Celestia? P-p-punishment?” Blueblood stuttered.

“Indeed. For you see, nephew, you are a charge of the day court, making you Celestia’s responsibility. We spoke with her yesterday and she was most displeased to hear of such unbecoming behavior from a Prince, her nephew.” While Luna explained the situation, Thomas wondered if she might be taking a bit too much enjoyment from watching the Prince squirm, then he decided it would be hypocritical to judge her for something he was doing too. “We suspect that you will be summoned to speak with her once preparations are made.”

“P-preparations?” Blueblood was shaking more than a Chihuahua dog.

“Most certainly,” Luna affirmed with a sinister grin. “Tia has always had a passion for elaborate punishments. How thou hath escaped them for so long baffles the mind, but thou will learn thy lesson soon enough.”

“Wonderful news, beloved auntie,” Blueblood cheered. “I have decided to drop all charges against your, uh, him. This was only a minor grievance and I’m certain he didn’t mean to be insolent. Maybe some other time then. Ta ta.” He waved goodbye, nearly tripping over his own hooves as he rushed to the door. But before he left…

“And Blueblood,” Luna called.

“Yes?”

“Tia might prefer the elaborate and complex, but I have always felt the direct approach was best,” Luna said flatly. “Threaten my Thomas again, and there won’t be enough of you left to fit in a tea cup. Understand?”

And Blueblood teleported away, leaving two very confused guards to stand around awkwardly before remembering that they had very important duties anywhere but in reach of Princess Luna. However, just as the situation began to calm, Luna shot a very disapproving look over to her attendants, who lowered their heads in shame.

Boy has this chapter been through the ringer. Originally it was set immediately following Thomas and Luna finally talking things out and expressing their feelings, but then I thought that resolved too much too quickly. Then I had come up with a really really good rant for Luna to throw at Blue Balls, but I guess I'd saved it to the wrong place or something because it vanished. Then I made these last minute edits, which were not as extensive as I'd thought. There just wasn't as much need to show off Thomas' depression here as I'd expected. Oh well. You guys get your Monday chapter, so I doubt you'll be complaining.

Blueblood will get what's coming to him. No worries there. Also, an imaginary cookie goes to the first one to spot the reference.

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