Darkness Bathing
Chapter 20: Chapter 17: Expert Promotion
Previous Chapter Next ChapterSky frowns as he looks at the map and many crossed out areas. "Sn…ah…right." He said looking to the empty seat right next to him and remembers that he sent her out to check out and make sure the other fiefs were running fine. "Let's see. The messenger did come back with the word of Moonlight finished off the Nevers and Bourges fiefs. That means we are almost done and…"
"Sir, Archmage Celestia has sent a reminder that a providence leader meeting will be held soon." A messenger said stepping inside a bit.
"I know. I am counting down. What about Troyes fief? Have they buckled under our stance of surrender now or you are next?" Sky asks.
"They are wavering by the look of the forces." The messenger said.
"Apply more pressure and start posting more soldiers at the borders of their fief." Sky instructs.
"Yes sir." The messenger said before walking out.
"Now what is the state of the construction of these roads as my wife Daring likes to call them?" Sky asks.
"Construction is going along well. The stones laid out for the towns and cities are making things easier for everyone. Traders are actually willing to finance this is you allow the workers to make new routes along their choosing." An advisor says.
"Just have everything planned out before starting. I don't want us having to spend a bunch of gold fixing them because a mistake was made in the middle of creating them." Sky says.
"Yes, sir." The advisor said writing it down.
"Also, give these to the smiths. It should help fix the reloading for the crossbows." Daring says walking in.
The advisor looks over and sees her holding a scroll. "Yes, my lady." He said taking it and walks off.
"My lord, Lord Black Tail has come and he says you were right. Something was wrong and it wasn't just one pony who made the strategy for the alliance." A messenger says after bowing.
"I take it Tiny Diamond has fallen then?" Sky asks.
"Yes, sir. They found scrolls upon scrolls of plans made. Too much and too diverse for one pony to make." He says.
"Then I was right. Star Haze was not using teleportation and was at two battles at once." Sky says.
"What are your orders my lord?" He asks looking up to him.
"Tell him to come here and bring the captives." Sky says knowingly looking to Zora.
"I will see what I can do." Zora said sighing as she walks off rolling her eyes.
"Stay, I want your thoughts on this." Sky says.
Zora sighs and looks at him with a bored expression.
"I will have some tea made for you." Sky says.
"Very well." Zora said sighing as she sometimes wished her mother was of higher rank so she would have to attend these things instead of her.
"You want a life, you have to honor it." Sky said as if reading her mind and starts to make some tea with his helmet on.
Soon, Dark Tail entered with two ponies in chains.
"Ah. Good." Sky said looking over the two almost identical pegasus stallions who seemed to have different shades of brown for their coats and gray colors for their manes.
"So this is Star Haze?" Sky asks looking at them both.
"Both of them." Dark Tail said looking to them. "It was twins all along."
"As I suspected. Did you know you were both were spotted by my riders in two separate battles going on at the same time?" Sky asks.
They both remained silent as they glared at him.
"That gave you away. And it let me know Star Haze was two ponies, not one." Sky says as many officials whispered amongst themselves.
They still remained silent on the matter.
"I will get to the point. I want you two to join me." Sky informs.
Now they looked confused at that point.
"You two held up against superior force eight times your number yet you held them at bay. It was only when we suddenly took out one of their fiefs, then everything collapsed." Sky says.
They both look to each other at that before looking back at him.
"So will you join me or refuse my invitation?" Sky asks.
They frown and huff and look away.
"Is that it?" Sky asks.
They kept looking away at that.
"Imprison them for now. Then I will decide what to do with them later." Sky informs.
Dark Tail nods and pulls the chains and pulls them away out of the room. "What are you planning?" Daring asks after they left.
"The rest of you, leave us. I must think about this issue. We will continue tomorrow." Sky informs.
They all nod and bow and leaves as Daring and Zora stayed behind before the doors closed. "What are you planning?" Zora asks sipping the tea.
Sky exhaled in frustration. "I need their wits if I am to succeed, but they won't agree. What can I do?" Sky asks sounding at a loss.
"Bring over one twin and the other will have to follow." Zora suddenly said.
"But they most likely won't budge. I could see it in their eyes." Sky says.
"Then make them. You already used your magic on the castle before." Zora reminds.
"Yes, but that took a lot of planning and changed many in the castle and I can't afford to lose their intelligence. That is the main reason I want them." Sky says.
"So force them to accept the change and make a vow." Zora said raising an eyebrow.
"Would they keep such a vow?" Sky asks.
"Because once made, it can never be broken." Zora said sipping her tea again.
Sky says nothing and looks at her in interest.
Zora shrugs. "The shadow is both full of dark and light spells."
"Explain it to me." Sky says.
"If I have a plan." Sky says looking at the moon with Zora and Daring.
"But you would have one." Daring points out.
"What do you want in exchange?" Sky says going over to Zora.
"Stop and just sleep." Zora said still staring.
"You must want some sort of reward." Sky says.
"Just to stop the fighting. I can't keep helping if you drag me into a war." Zora said refilling her tea.
"You are already involved. Luna wouldn't have sent you to me if you were not to help." Sky says leaning in.
"I was brought here to teach you. Nothing more." Zora said pushing him away.
"That is helping me immensely." Sky says as she looks away.
"I think she's shy." Daring quips.
"You can wait to tell me what you want." Sky informs.
"Good." Zora said still watching out the window.
"Now that this is out of the way. I have to see if this trick works." Sky said now walking away.
"Give em' Tartarus." Daring said trying the tea.
"Told you it would be good." Zora said looking to her as Daring drinks more.
"I do like the wine we are getting." Daring says.
"It is valuable." Zora said nodding as she returns to looking out the window.
"Ok, so I have everything ready. Now I will begin." Sky says waiting for the two prisoners.
"Sir, we have arrived." Dark Tail says opening the door and pulls the chains to show the two prisoners who just glare at Sky as guards flank them.
"Leave them Dark Tail. After that, you and the others can go." Sky says.
Dark Tail nods and tosses the chains to him as he and guards leave and closes the doors behind them.
"One last chance, either join me now or I will have to switch to other methods." Sky says.
They both scoffed and looked away.
"Alright then." Sky says before lighting some incense before starting to cast a spell.
They looked at him with slight fear as the shadow creep up on them before starting to cover them up and the smaller of the two by an inch or two started to yell out as he tried to push the shadow covering his body as his brother tried to stay calm and find a way out before the shadows cover them completely. Sky smiles as he pulls the shadows back on the smaller one and shows the pony be with a red mane with yellow on the base like a fire and a white coat as the shape of the head shows it to be a mare who yells out feminily. Sky starts to pull the shadows back on the older brother and shows that the mane and coat color is the same, but the mane seemed to have a wild look on them by being more on the back of the head rather than evenly on the top like her sibling.
Sky hums as he kept pulling the shadows back to show the two pegasuses now looking to each other shocked as Sky sees the younger one a bigger breast size and the older a bigger flank before pulling the shadows to him as the younger seems to shrink in fear as the older glares slightly at him. "That'll do. Interesting results. The spell makes you into what you would be by genetics." Sky says sitting down and neither siblings never noticed the chains and restraints were taken away.
"Let us go." The older says baring her teeth.
Sky didn't reply and just waited as the incense filled the air of the closed room.
"I said let us…" The older says.
"Brother…" The younger said on wobbling hooves and rubbing her head.
"Tell me, do you know what this is?" Sky asks pointing to the incense.
The older sibling looks to the incense as it kept filling the air. "That's…that's incense." She tries to say blinking away the scent.
"Yes, you know what this one does?" Sky asks waiting.
"Brother." The younger sibling says having shaking knees as she slowly sits and lays down.
"What are you doing?" The older asks gritting her teeth.
"Oh, you don't know? Well this one…well…let's just say it is usually to get a wife in the mood." Sky says.
The older goes wide-eyed before the younger moans and starts to trudge towards Sky slowly. "He…help…"
"Not so fast." Sky says casting a spell on the older one, making her blind, deaf, and unable to move.
The younger sibling moans as she reaches him and leans on him and tries to look at him. "H…help me…it burns…"
"Oh?" Sky asks starting to undress.
She gulps as she rubs her hind legs together and bends herself down. "Please…"
Sky smirks as he starts rubbing her back slowly.
She moans and arches her back against his petting as he moves around her. "Pl…please…" She stops as Sky mounts her and places his hooves on her flank and pulls her to him. "PleASE!" She yells as Sky thrusts into her and she moans loudly before relaxing against the ground. "I…I…"
Sky chuckles and leans against her back as he kept pushing himself into her. "Who's a good mare?"
"M…me." The mare moans trying to push her flank against him in time with his thrusts before looking to her sibling as she sees her shake in place. "B…bro…brother…" She tries to call as she reaches a hoof out.
"She will get her chance soon. For now, you're mine." Sky whispers in her ear as he rubs her blank flank.
"You…your…yours…" She moans out before gritting her teeth and shakes her body against him as she freezes in place and still feels him move. "H…he…help…me…"
"Shh…now, do you want me to continue?" Sky asks.
"Mo…more…" She moans out trying to turn her head at him.
"Then you have to agree to a few things." Sky says.
"Any…thing…" She moans shaking again.
"First, swear you will never betray me." Sky says as the floor starts to admit a silverish light.
"I swear…" She cries out as she shivers in place and moans loudly. "More…!"
"Second, you must serve me with the best of your abilities." Sky says as a tendril of silver attached itself were her cutie mark should be.
"I swear!" She yells as she pushes her flank against him as a second tendril attached to her. "Please!"
"You can never let anyone know who you were. Never give a hint and say it. You must live as a different pony all together." Sky says.
"I swear." She cries as she sobs and brushes her flank against him. "Please…"
"Now final one. You must become my wife, act like a mare as time goes on, and bear my children and raise them to the best of your abilities." Sky says as the third tendril attaches to her cutie mark area.
"I swear. Please. Cum in me!" She yells pushing against him hard as the fourth attached to her.
"Here is your reward." Sky says.
She stops and goes wide-eyed as her breaths quivers and felt him push into her deeply and feels the warm feeling she thought she would never get. "I…I…I…"
"Who are you?" Sky asks rubbing her breast.
"Your wife." She says as something appeared on her flank.
Sky hums and pulls out of her and she moans loudly and looks to her flank. "Oh. You got your cutie mark. Such a great day." He teases rubbing her cutie mark of a pink flower on a map. Sky then teleports her away and faces the elder of the two.
The older sibling shakes before Sky releases everything on her except for being able to move as she blinks and tries to look at him. "You…what did you…" She stops as she doesn't see her sibling. "What did you do to her?" She demands glaring at him.
"You will see soon enough. Now how are you feeling?" Sky asks.
"Fuck you." She spits out.
"Oh, so much tension." Sky says walking over to her as she could move again.
"I said fuck you so back off!" She yells backing away.
"Shh, it's ok." Sky says lifting her chin.
She kept glaring and knocks his hoof away. "Don't touch me."
Sky smiles as he advances on her as she kept backing up. "Now don't be like that. I think you are fine mare. Any mare with a big flank can do great things for a family that will be big enough soon." He said smirking before she hits the wall and stops as Sky leans in. "Come on, admit it. You want me."
"I do n…" She was cut off when Sky captured her lips. She yells out in the kiss and tries to push him away but Sky just presses himself onto her and kept up the kiss before she pushes his head away. "Stop thaaaahhhh…" She moans out as Sky starts to kiss her neck and pulls her to the circle and then pushes her to the ground as he kept kissing her neck. "St…stop…"
"Nope." Sky said chuckling as he pulls her to him and then kisses upward to her lips and kisses her there and silences her as he lays down between her legs. "Such a sweet mare."
"Get…get off…" She moans out as she tries to push her hooves against him as he moves himself against before yelping as he pushes himself into her. "N…no…get…get off…" She cries out as she weakly pushes against his chest.
Sky smiles and gives a small kiss to her and kisses the tears. "Relax. It will be fine soon enough and you'll love it. Your sister didn't mind."
She gulps as she sniffs the air and smells the strong incense and his musk and kept trying to push against him as he moves against her and makes her jump every now and again. "I…I don't…want this…"
"Relax." Sky whispers kissing her neck and makes her moan.
She moans as she slowly moves a hoof from his chest to the back of his neck and pushes his head harder onto her neck. "Stop…"
Sky smirks as he kept kissing up and down her neck and kept moving against her as he moves his hooves down to her flank and holds her there against the ground to make sure she doesn't get away. "Who's my mare?" He asks teasingly.
"Fu…fuck you." She moans out as she tries to guide him along her neck while still trying to push him away.
"No. Now how about our official vows? I'm sure you always wanted to be married in some way." Sky asks looking up to her as he kept trying to kiss her.
"Fuck off…" She said through gritted teeth before Sky suddenly sits up and started to thrust into her harder and makes her bite her lip to try not to cry out.
"What was that?" Sky asks smirking down to her.
"Fuck…" She stops as Sky stops deep inside her and she moans as she felt him empty into her flank. "Noooooo…"
"That's one down. Now let's go for two." Sky says pulling out of her flank.
"Two…?" She asks breathlessly as she realized what he just did.
"Brace yourself." Sky says before entering her again from another way.
She screams a silent scream as she arches herself and freezes as Sky forces himself as far as he can go before stopping. She tries to move her eyes toward him before he starts to move in and out of her and makes her move himself as he held onto her flank. "S…st…st…stop…" She moans out trying to reach toward him and grab him.
"Swear, you will never betray me." Sky says petting her flank now.
"Fu…fuck you…" She moans out as she tries to move away from him.
"Swear you will never betray me." Sky repeats as the floor started to glow silver again.
"F…fu…I…I…I swear…" She moans and actually pushes her flank against him as silver tendrils of magic attaches itself to where her cutie marks can be.
"Now swear to serve me with the best of your abilities." Sky says.
"I…I…" She moans as more tendrils appear and attaches itself to her flanks and joins the others. "I swear…"
"Next, swear to never give a hint and say who you once were. You must live as a different pony altogether." Sky says.
"Swear!" She calls sitting up and grabbing onto him and wraps her hooves around him as she bounces on his lap.
"And finally, you must swear to become my wife, act like a mare as time goes on, and bear my children and raise them to the best of your abilities." Sky adds.
"Swear." She moans out and drops herself on him and stops as her whole body shakes from the long winding feeling.
"Your reward." Sky says before filling her.
She gasps shakily as Sky kept her pushed down on him before letting go and let's her fall onto the ground as the tendrils let go of her and leaves behind a cutie mark of a red flower on top of a feather as she starts to close her eyes from exhaustion. "You…you…"
"What am I to you?" Sky asks.
"Hus…husband…" She moans out. "Fucker…"
"Good mare." Sky says before kissing her.
She moans into the kiss and lightly wraps her hooves him before letting them fall limp as she tries to kiss him as best she could before he pulls away. "Fuc…fucker…"
"So having a fun time there Snow?" Sky asks as Snow feels up the two new mares.
"What do we have in terms of underwear?" Snow asks as Sky smirks.
"Well…there is something called swimwear. Supposed to be more sexy than underwear." Sky said chuckling.
"Hum?" Snow asks feeling up the younger sister's breasts as she pushes her onto her back.
"Very good, right?" Sky asks chuckling as she watches the younger blush. "Still need names."
"Give me a moment." Snow says before starting to make out with the younger one and straddles her.
"Butea, after the flower, Butea monosperma. It is known as flame of the forest." Sky says before walking over to the older one and makes her lean onto him.
"Good enough." Snow says sitting up from the kiss before getting off of her and then smacks her flank and makes her yelp. "Good."
"You will be Butea Bloom and your little sister will be Butea Sprout." Sky says before Snow walks over and starts making out with Bloom. Sky hums and looks to Sprout still on the ground. "I think I will need these two sticking with each other and also, makes this one here gets her little sister into this life. Make her tease her younger innocent sister." Sky says chuckling.
"I will see to getting them clothes." Snow says.
"Thank you. So tell me, how are the knight orders? Any hint of them being swayed?" Sky asks walking over and hugging Snow.
"Close. We just need to keep proving it." Snow said rolling her eyes.
"Come on my loveable wife. I am just showing you I care." Sky says petting her.
Snow knocks his hoof away. "Stop it."
"How about we try to make you the next mare?" Sky asks.
"No. I have a job to do and I can't skip it." Snow said frowning to him.
"You can't keep putting it off my Snow. I am going to make you a mother." Sky says.
"Well not yet. Now is not the right time." Snow said walking out of his grip.
"If we wait for this 'right' time, you will never have one." Sky says walking after her.
"It might be soon in a few months. We are close to taking over Gaul." Snow informs.
"Yes, we are. Now show me some love." Sky says before kissing her.
Snow frowns and just kisses back. "Should I be worried?" Tear asks suddenly right next to them.
"No, Snow just gets too wound up at times." Sky says.
Tear nods. "What are the plans for now?"
"How is your tribe doing holding the Fief of Nine Docks?" Sky asks.
"They are fine. They are holding out quite well given we are still at war." Tear said shrugging.
"Already making themselves at home. I have decided to let them keep the fief." Sky says.
Tear smiles. "Thank you."
"Now how are you?" Sky asks.
Tear smiles greatly. "Great, but I don't know if you are getting an heir yet."
"So helping remodeling the castle?" Sky asks.
Tear nods. "It needs a lot of repairs."
"Don't you mean overhaul?" Sky asks before nuzzling her as he holds Snow.
Tear giggles and nuzzles back. "Whatever is needed."
"Well I want to make this castle a major trade hub as one of the entrances to Gaul." Sky says.
Tear nods. "I'll see what I can do."
"No need to hurry my lovely wife." Sky says bringing her into the hug as well.
"Maybe here and then…no. I need to move the army here." Sky said to himself as he draws on a map.
As he does this both Butea Bloom and Butea Sprout kept moving army pieces on the map.
"Girls, tell me, what do you propose is the best way to handle this?" Sky asks without looking up.
"Three armies will not be enough." Sprout says.
"Agreed. You will have to divide your forces even more into different armies." Bloom adds.
"That means I need more capable leaders for the army." Sky says as a knock was heard at the door. "Come in."
"Overlord, we have news from some of the fronts." A messenger says holding out a parchment. "It seems some of them have agreed to surrender."
"Wait? What?!" Sky asks surprised as both twin stop moving their pieces.
"They surrendered." The messenger said still holding the parchment. Before moving out of the way of a pony in ceremonial like robes holding something wrapped in cloth.
Sky raises an eyebrow and takes it to which the pony bows and leaves as Sky places the bundled cloth on the table and unwraps it and they all stopped and stared. "Whoa."
"Is that?" Sprout starts.
"The Blade Peruro. The fabled fire sword." Bloom said smiling widely as Sky picks up the sword by its blood-red leather hilt and pulls out the blade to see it is a tinged crimson as Sprout looks around and sees a parchment in the cloth.
"Here's a message." Sprout said picking it up and reads it. "This is from the Auxerre fief."
Sky takes the parchment and starts reading it carefully, not making a sound.
"Overlord?" Bloom asks worried.
"We accept the surrender." Sky says.
The messenger nods and talks with somepony outside the door.
"Did either of you suspect this?" Sky asks.
Both were quiet for a bit before Sprout admitted. "We considered the possibility."
Sky slowly nods and puts the sword down. "So…how does this figure into our plans?" He asks walking over to Sprout.
"A few different ways, but there is no way all will start surrendering to us." Sprout says taking hostile colored army pieces out of Auxerre and replaces with blue, symbolizing friendly army.
Sky nods before wrapping a hoof around her and pulls her close. "One can dream, especially with you thinking of a foal." He whispers to her.
"Stop it." Bloom says pushing him away as he laughs as he made her blush.
Sky grins. "You weren't saying that last time."
"I really wish I could hit you right now, but I have to work." Bloom growls.
"But your sister loves it." Sky whispers in her ear.
"My husband, is there a reason why you are trying to hinder us?" Bloom growls.
"You owe me." Sky simply said wrapping a hoof around Sprout who was trying to hide in his coat.
"Do you want strategies or not?!" Bloom yells at him.
Sky suddenly kisses her and holds her before smirking at her. "I always need those smart brains of yours." He whispers.
"Then why are you not letting us work?" She growls again.
"I am." Sky said pushing her back to the table.
"Not now." Bloom growls.
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