Bumpy Beginnings

Author's Notes:

Any comments made on how to improve would be very much appreciated.

“It’s so cold.”

I really wish I had a blanket, or my clothes weren’t so ripped. The night air is freezing. How did I end up in such a cold forest? It’s been 3 days and I’m already about to give up on life. My red hair is matted with brown mud. My bright teal eyes now look dull in the water. My beautiful, youthful, 19 year old face, soiled by dirt.

I ran out of granola yesterday. My clothes are still soaked from last night’s rain. My socks and backpack are the only things somewhat dry and forget about my shoes, I lost them in a swamp.

I need to remove them and hang them up. At least I can find some dry wood or leaves and light a
fire with my lighter and the rubbing alcohol I have in my med kit.

So here I am. Sitting with my knees up to my chest; clutching the backpack filled with books, a laptop, some new game peripherals, and some hard drives. Buck naked in the cold forest at night.

I would try to grab some of those large leaves, but they’re too high up and I can’t reach without jumping. Last time I tried that without clothing, I ended up with chest pain from my breasts just going all over the place. I could hold them with an arm but then I don’t get as high of a jump.

But then again, maybe I could have some super jump now. After all, this forest is super weird and having a weird effect on me.

This place is so weird. Wanna know how weird? The water in the rivers are always light blue even though they’re filled with dark green moss. There are spiked tentacle trees always trying to cop a feel. So my first thought was that I was somewhere in Japan, but no. There was a lake monster. There is even a pack of wooden wolves looking at me.

Wait what? There are wolves made of wood looking at me. Not like they’re coming to ask me what my day was like. It was terrible in case anyone was wondering. But it looks like they want to eat me. If they’re made of wood there might be something magical going on. Maybe they can understand me. If they can, then I think I can BS my way out of this. Are wolves afraid of groups?

“Hey guys-” I say waving at nothing behind the tree. “I’ll be over there in a minute. I just need my clothes to dry. How many of you guys are there? 20? That’s great.” They don’t seem to care, or be listening. Either that or they know I’m grasping at straws here. They are getting closer. I need to think of something else.

“O.K.” I can’t help but stand up and slowly walk backwards. “How about a joke?” One of them growls. “I swear it’s a good one.” They’re not stopping and now their baring their teeth. I put on my backpack and reach for my jacket.

Well, time for plan B. I pull out a lighter from my tattered jacket and grab one of my dryer socks. I pour some alcohol on it then light it.

“EAT FIRE BITCH!” I say as I throw it at them. Unfortunately, I don’t have a good throwing arm. It lands relatively close to me on some dry brush and it starts to catch. Well shit.

Looks like the wolves turned tail; I think I should just gather up my clothes and leave. Or they’ll catch fire as well and I’ll be forced to run away in the buff.

Could be worse … I think.

So let’s go over what I know so far. I was transported to a strange forest in my sleep. I lost my shoes 2 days ago to a swamp. Last night it rained so hard my bra and panties were soaked. Now I hang them up to dry and am ambushed by wooden wolves whom I try to chase of by starting a fire but end up catching my clothes and starting a forest fire. That sounds about right.

So, I am currently running for my life barefoot through a forest naked on a cold night being chased by a fire. Running with these breasts and without a bra is a pain (literally). I need to hold my tits to calm them. Add into the fact that the fire is gaining on me and I’m having a real bad time. This is pretty hard to make any worse right? I was so wrong.

As it turns out, running barefoot really hurts. Especially when you are running through a forest filled with rocks, uneven paths, and random roots sticking out of the ground. My feet are killing me and I haven’t even been running for 5 minutes.

I would complain more but my adrenaline seems to have kicked in and can outrun the flames and not feel the skin being torn from my feet, so that’s a plus.

////

After running for about 30 minutes I finally manage to get to safety and really take a good look at what has happened to my feet. It was not pretty. They were pretty torn up. Cuts and scratches, rocks stuck in some of them and covered in mud.

That is going to lead to a bad infection, I know it will. If I ever make it back to civilization, they’ll probably have to amputate. That sucks because I love my feetsies.

I was brought out of this very depressing thought by the sound of something walking towards me. I instinctively cover myself only to find out that it’s a … MINT GREEN UNICORN? And an adorable one at that. It’s so small. I’d say he’s almost 4 feet tall.

I just can’t help but pick it up by its arms and give it a big hug. Turns out it’s not an it, HE’S a boy. I can’t help but snuggle him close to me and pet him, he’s so warm and cute. He also seems to like me.

It’s so cute. He’s trying to get closer to me by sticking his face between my breasts.
Then he started talking. Or what I assumed was talking. It sounded like a mixture of some strange language and English.

“Uhhh. Can you repeat that?” He does but I still don’t understand. He can understand me but I can’t for him.

And then it hit me. I’m currently snuggling and petting a sapient mint green unicorn while naked in a dark forest and it is currently making itself at home between my breasts. What else can a girl do but throw him to the ground and go back to covering herself.

He says something and motions for me to follow him, which I do. It’s much better than staying in this forest. With nothing else to look at I look at his flank (which I will admit looks pretty squishy), and they have a lyre on each side. I guess he noticed me looking and started to wag his tail. This caused me to look away.

“How long until we reach wherever we’re going?” He looks at me and says something that again sounds like a mix of English another language.

Okay, my feet are killing me. I need a break. I find a big rock and just sit on top of it and start to rub my poor red and cut feet. I look up to see that he hasn’t stopped walking.

“Hey. Can you stop for a minute?” He turns around and comes back.

He watches my hands rubbing my feet and gets a curious look. He then looks at the bottom of my other foot and freaks out. Or at least that’s how I would put it. His eyes bug, he hyperventilates and turns a slightly greener shade. After a few seconds he returns to normal (well as normal as a mint green unicorn can be).

His horn starts to glow his color and then my feet seem to also take on that magical glow. I can’t help but giggle because of how much it tickles. I can feel the rocks being pulled out of the cuts as wells as the cuts being somewhat healed. I should be more surprised, but if you met a unicorn wouldn’t you expect it to do magic.

Now with my feet healed and soothed I can walk again. Or at least I would, except the unicorn kind of magiced me into the air and onto his back. That was nice, and convenient. Now I won’t hurt my feet for the time being.

With that out of the way, I decide to rummage through my backpack and I take out my phone and unlock it. Strange thing about this place, all my electronic devices are on a permanent charge. With my phone I decide to take a picture of me riding the unicorn, when done I put my phone back into my backpack for safety.

I start to lean forward a bit to get a better look at where we are going. Again, forgetting I’m naked and just letting my breasts touch the back of this unicorns neck. Then I noticed him beginning to walk funny. I think I might be straining him, but according to the last time I checked I was only 136 pounds.

I decide to get off of him and I see what’s wrong with him. He has a raging hard on. I guess having a naked woman on his back was too stimulating. Well to be fair, my vagina was rubbing on his back and my tits on his neck. And I am pretty hot.

I’ve seen a lot of horse cock in my time. I was a student at a college with a farm and took an elective with horses. Part of it was mating them. And I might have been a bit too much into horses (if you know what I mean). So I’m no stranger to them. But this one seemed different.

Maybe it was because it was on a sapient being who was just too adorable. Maybe I feel differently towards this one because the stallion took care of me. He cleaned and healed my dirty and torn feet. He let me ride on his back for god’s sake. Or it could just be because I have been stuck a forest for 3 days with no time to masturbate.

He definitely noticed my staring. He tried to cover himself with his rear left leg and he had an adorable blush on his face. He looked away with a look of shame on his face. He’s just too cute. I just have to give him something, and I think I know what to give him.

I get on my knees in front of him and I gently grasp his face, making sure to lightly stroke his cheeks with my once perfect nails. I turn his head towards me and bring his eyes level with my breasts. I grasp and knead them and jiggle them a bit for him.

I look to the side and see his shaft coming even further out of its sheath. And what a fine one it is too. I would say it’s about 5 inches long and almost an inch in diameter. It’s also pink with black spots. I’m beaming at the fact that I can get an entirely different species an erection with just my body.

I see that his cock is slapping against his stomach. Getting erect and then somewhat flaccid in alterations. I think it’s time to give him his reward.

I take off my backpack and lay it on the ground then grab him by the front legs and hold him at arm’s length so I can stare at his eyes with a lustful look. I then turn him around and bring him close to me.

I find a place to climb on and it’s another rock, but this one is much bigger. I still manage to get on top and sit on it. I place the unicorn on my lap still facing away from me. Then the fun begins.

I lightly touch his long cock and he not only twitches but lets out a short high pitched gasp. Even when getting a handy he’s adorable. I gently run my index finger up and down the underside of his cock and he begins to leak pre. I then grasp it with one hand and bring my other to his balls.

He really seems to like this as he gives out a soft squeak but looks like he was screaming and his back arches. I start to squeeze and fondle his large (relative to his size) balls and move my other hand up and place it on his tip. I rub my palm in small circles on his tip getting my hand nice a wet while he just goes limp. By now he’s whining and his head is lolling back he’s panting heavily and his tongue is out.

I think it’s time to finish him off. My once gentle grip turns tight as my hand glides up and down on his shaft. Thanks to his precum acting as lube, I can make my grip extremely tight and still jerk him fast. I decide to move my hand away from his balls (much to his dismay) and let it rub the tip of his cock while the other continues to pump him.

I am of course, a good lover (or I would be if I had ever had anyone to love before) so I decide to move his head between my breasts. So with my hand pumping his shaft, and another rubbing the sensitive tip you would think that would be enough stimulation to make him cum.

He now is starting to hump my hands, making this much easier on me. His breath is getting rapid, he is covered in sweat, and his moans louder and faster.

I decide to give his horn a suck and see what happens. The effects were almost instantaneous. He lets out a scream and his head jerks around. I move my arms closer together so I could use my breasts to hold his head still.

I start to suck the top of his horn and go lower and back up in at a slow pace. Now he seems to be making even more noise and now I know why. His tip flares, his cock twitches, and he ejaculates. And by ejaculate I mean he lets loose an ocean of cum all over his stomach and his horn starts to give off sparks and I quickly take it out of my mouth.

After a few seconds his cum stops squirting out and only dribbles a bit. His penis becomes flaccid and slowly recedes back into its sheath. He has a look of the most happy and satisfied anything I have ever seen. Not too bad for my first handjob … and I guess blowjob. Hornjob? To be honest, all of my experience with this sort of thing comes from watching porn.

I pat his side and tell him it’s time to get up and get a move on. The sun is setting. I hate to admit this but this really turned me on. I guess I can wait until later to scratch this itch, for now we need to get going or else night predators might get us.

He had other plans. He pushes me down so I’m lying on my back which is not comfortable on a rock. He turns around and slides on his belly down to my crotch. What is he “OH MY GOD!” He was licking my vagina.

He wasn’t just doing quick laps but strong licks with his broad and somewhat rough tongue. Every lick brought jolts of pleasure. And then he started to suck my clit causing my back to arch and my mouth to let out a breathless scream of pure bliss.

He started to lick my lips again, moving his tongue in different directions. “Ooooh don’t stop.” But he does stop only to insert his tongue and pump it in and out wiggling it on occasion.

His horn then lights up and I can feel my nipples being pinched. And my breasts being pulled and kneaded. Each pinch and pull sends shivers up my spine.

I can’t stop myself from grabbing his head and pushing him deeper. My legs move and wrap around him on their own and my toes are clenching and grabbing his fur. Pretty soon, my grunts are turning into loud moans.

Soon I felt a very familiar feeling. I can’t hold it back. “AAAAHHHHH!” I squirt my cum all over his face and get light headed. He pulls his face from my crotch and … HE’S SPITTING IT OUT ON ME! WHAT A DICK!
I was feeling very conflicted. On one hand, he gives great oral. On the other hand, he spat my pussy juice on my stomach. He healed me, but I returned the favor by pleasuring him. Then again, he is a unicorn. I probably got a million years of good luck for what I did.

I shoved him off me and he landed on his hoofs … kinda. He stumbled a bit but that’s to be expected.

I pushed off the rock and landed next to him with as much grace as a person who’s legs had been turned to jelly. By this I mean I immediately face planted. Covering myself in dirt and some getting stuck on my stomach.

Now that we’re off the rock, he magics me back on top of him (along with my backpack) making a wet spot on his back. I wipe my cum covered hands on his sides, and my cum off of my stomach and onto the back of his neck. I’m not sorry about doing this. I also wipe the dirt off my feet on him. He’ll clean it later when he’s cleaning off the cum stuck to his belly.

Feeling a little dizzy and lightheaded after having to run for half an hour, not eaten, an orgasm, and smashing my face into the ground, and haven’t eaten in awhile I’m just ready for sleep. And since I don’t have to do the walking, I just gently fall asleep on this nice stallions back.
////////Harpo
I still can not believe that there is a human here. I hope she could understand me through my accent. Who am I kidding, of course she could. I am the top linguist when it comes to ancient languages and civilizations. I can’t wait to show my find to the WWSC. She looks so beautiful when she’s asleep; I wish I could just keep her to myself.

They’ll flip when they see a real live human. She could help us decode all those artifacts we found. There will be so many scientific breakthroughs. Before I show her off we will have to work on how she greets others.

I wonder if that was actually a form of greeting from where she’s from. I hope she could do it again but I don’t think she will, seeing how angry she got when I reciprocated.

How was I supposed to know that I wasn’t supposed to spit her ejaculate on her stomach. She put my ejaculate on my stomach.

But back on topic, she can’t be doing whatever it is she calls that to others, she should only do that to me when in private.

I really hope she likes being in such a large spotlight after I present her to the world.
But, what happens if she doesn’t like that and comes to hate me? What if the others want to take her from me? What if some nutball try’s to hurt her?

I can’t let that happen, she needs to stay safe for not just Equestria but for the whole planet. I know, I’ll keep her in a special room and have her decode things and explain them to me. It’s perfect. She stays safe from harm and technology advances.

Harpo, you’re a genius. This plan is perfect, all I have to do is empty the attic and put a ward spell on it so nosy ponies like Praline won’t snoop around. He can’t even access the attic because he doesn’t have magic but that won’t stop him if he thinks something’s up.

Maybe in a couple months I could introduce her to him and we could form a herd together. I love his sweet beige flanks and his pink and dark blue mane. But this human’s soft skin, large teats, and magical hands and feet make her great to the touch. Her soft long golden-red hair, teal eyes, pearl white teeth and slim figure make her any living creatures dream.

She needs to be mine, and I’ll do whatever I can to make sure that nopony takes her away from me.

Harpo's House

Author's Notes:

Note: I would like to apologize, I forgot to upload this chapter the last time I was on, so this chapter is a little dated and doesn't match the way I write now. That changed because of all the helpful comments I received. This would have been just too big of a pain to rewrite from scratch. Don't worry, the way Janet is in this chapter will be different from how she acts in other chapters. She is only this way because of my old writing style, she's in an extremely stressful situation (but it has yet to really hit her), and she has somewhat of a fascination and (kind of) infatuation with Harpo.

Note 2: /TEXT\ means the gibberish Harpo is speaking. ~~TEXT~~ means English, if spoken from a non-English speaker POV.

Note 3: Janet is somewhat of a know-it-all. She is a massive video game enthusiast and thinks she knows everything there is to know about video games and tech. Take everything written here with a grain of salt because it’s most likely not true when coming from her mouth.

P.S. Please, let me know if you would like a bio of her. It would be a great way to fully introduce her in ways that really will not be explored that much in the story.

P.P.S. I was wondering about R63 names for characters, I was wondering what Starswirls would be. Sunspin the Teated?

I wake up refreshed and warm but still hungry. Opening my eyes I see a roof, lit only by candle light. I look at my body and see that I’m not only clean, but also have a warm pony sprawled out on me. He looks so adorable when he’s asleep.

I would have just let him stay there but I could feel his penis coming out of his sheath. And it was awfully close to my vagina. Time to wake up.

I push him off me and back up a bit. He looks a bit shocked to be woken up. He stumbled onto his hooves and yawns. He wiped the sleep from his eyes and looked around.

I did the same. I noticed some posters of flying ponies with wings. There are boxes with some strange writing on it. There is also a poster with what looks like “Jimmie Hendrix?” What?

Next to it is a bookshelf filled with all kinds of books in the same language as on the boxes but some are in English.

My attention was brought back to him when he talked again in that same strange language. I can’t really understand him but he does seem to be pointing towards me.

Looking down I see that I’m still naked. I quickly cover myself by covering my breasts with an arm and drawing my knees together.

He starts to walk towards me and looks at the hand not currently attached to the arm covering my breasts. His horn starts to do that magic glowing thing again and my hand is enveloped in the same gold glow as his horn.

My hand starts to float towards him and he begins to look all over it and poke and prod it, then lick it. Gross. He then moves down my body and starts to do the same with my feet. Even grosser.

Afterwards he releases my hands and feet from his magic and uses it to summon a quill and some paper. He starts to draw my hands and feet on it and place X’s in certain areas and write down things in some unknown language.

When done, he walks towards a folded ladder and opens a latch. A hole opens below the ladder and it straightens out and he walks down it. But not before using his magic to bring me some water in a large pitcher.

I get up and try to use the ladder but he quickly closes it and the floor and ladder are in their previous position. Only this time, it can’t seem to be opened.

Looking around again, I find my backpack and take out my laptop to find it completely unharmed. I do like my games so when it came around time for my birthday, I guilted my parents into buying me a custom laptop.

I managed to guilt them into giving me a laptop, but I convinced them to get me a custom one for my straight A’s. To be fair, I was home schooled. So I got a great education, but no friends or social skills. Unfortunately no boyfriend or girlfriend either.

So I got a clunker of a laptop. Not only is it heavy or bulky, but also a total powerhouse.

I won’t get into the specifics, but it’s more powerful than most professional gaming PC’s. It even has a 4K monitor (which I highly regret).

I decided to turn it on to see if it still worked, and thankfully it did. When I see the Desktop, I cringe. It’s not like its bad, I have a great wallpaper of a Jurassic forest and all the icons are organized or in folders. What makes me cringe (and this happens every time I log on) is the 4K. Something everyone should know about 4K is that it’s a great idea, but when in practice it’s horrible (like communism).

You see, 720 and 1080 are low enough definition so that when you see a low res image or video it may look pixilated. But it can still be perceived as good and be pleasant to look at. When you move up to 4K though, everything that wasn’t made for 4K looks pixilated and visually unpleasing.

It’s also sometimes cringe worthy when it’s a 320p video. I pray to god I never see a 114p video on a 4K monitor. Because of this, all of my icons are pixilated as is my wallpaper. 4K is probably one of my biggest regrets considering that almost no games use it and now everything looks like Pac-Man puked on my screen. But I digress.

So, after getting over the cringe I decide to take out all of my equipment and test to make sure it’s working right. I test my external hard drives, my mouse, my controllers, and check my VR headset and its peripherals.

Everything is working perfectly. Looks like things are coming up Janet. Since I’m alone, and probably will be for awhile, I decide to play a new game I got and use my VR headset along with the motion controls.

*4 hours later*

Who’d have thought that you could play TOTALLY NOT A COPYWRITED NAME for so long and not get bored. So after hours of gaming (while using motion controls) I was pretty tired, even hungrier, and thirsty. To which I remember the water that unicorn left me.

After turning off my laptop and putting everything away, I look back to where it was placed and see that it had not been moved. Did he leave me a cup? Screw it. I’ll just drink the whole pitcher anyways, and so I did.

Now that I think about it, that water tastes strange. I don’t really know how to describe it. I guess somewhat metal like. Does he not have a water filter?

I guess I should look around more to see if there is any way of me to get that trapdoor open.

Looking at the far wall to my left, I see many mounted Bass. Walking towards them I notice something familiar about them. They all suddenly jump to life and start to sing. Now I’m not a wimp, I can take scares pretty easily. But when it comes to jump scares, I’m a pussy. So I accidentally let out a very loud scream.

I’m starting to feel really tired. I guess it’s from all the motion control games.

It seems that my scream caused a stir on the floor beneath me. The trapdoor opens and in comes the green unicorn and he’s looking around frantically. He calms down when he sees me near the mounted bass.

He walks over to me and gives me a hug. He’s so warm and it looks like he brought a bright red blanket with him. Good. Now I won’t be naked in this, I guess, attic.

I’m starting to feel light headed. That is not good when you’re tired.

The unicorn walks over to the pitcher and looks somewhat disappointed. I guess he wanted to share some. He picks it up with his magic and takes it with him down the ladder and once again closes and locks the trapdoor.

I’m getting way too tired. I’m even more than I was before because I’m wrapped in this warm blanket. I think it would be okay to take a little nap.

*Harpo First Person*

How could she still be awake? I left her with that water for hours and she drank all of it. I put enough drugs in that to knock out a minotaur.

I need to make those sketches of her body, inside and out. I know. I’ll go to Prince Dusk and have him try to find me a sleep spell.

First things first, I need to refill the pitcher and leave it in the attic so she doesn’t get suspicious. Then I’ll go to Dusk. Then put her to sleep. Then get some drawing of her all of her. Her hands, feet, teats, and orifices. So much can be learned.

So, after I walk into the kitchen, my hooves making a loud clop sound against the linoleum, I decide to make a daisy sandwich for her. She’ll like that. Daisy and rose with some black pepper on wheat bread. While making the sandwich I’ll just fill up the pitcher with tap water.

I walk to the trapdoor and open it. I climb up the ladder and levitate up the sandwich and pitcher only to find that she is still near the bass and sound asleep. I guess the drugs did have an effect.

Dropping the sandwich and pitcher, I pick up the pen and scroll that I left here and remove her blanket. I lay her down flat on her back, legs spread open.

I get a closer look at her hand moving them even more than before, testing flexibility that was not possible before because it might have caused pain or discomfort. I’ll get a print of these and some more detailed drawings of them.

Now to look inside of her mouth and throat. Opening her mouth with my magic, I find that she has canines. So she eats meat? But from looking at her molars she can probably eat grains, plants, fruits, and vegetables. I’ll just draw her teeth.

I can’t really get a good look inside of her throat so I guess I won’t be able to do that until later.

Next are her teats, which seem pretty large. Well, large by pony standards. After rolling them around and squishing them, I take down notes on their squishiness and mobility. I also draw them just in case I need to use a reference for later. They are quite pretty. Her pale skin works well with her pink nipples. My only problem with them is that they’re not symmetrical, but I’m sure there is a spell to fix that.

Moving on down, next is her feet. She seemed to giggle when I was touching them before, maybe they’re sensitive. That’s kind of counterintuitive considering that she walks on them. What if she steps on a rock or something sharp? What if she steps on something hot or cold? I guess that’s why when we find those remains they always have shoes. Upon touching them they seem extremely soft. Her toes don’t seem to be able to bend backwards, and they spread whenever I put pressure on certain spot on her feet. I need more drawings for future reference.

Now for her anus. Using my magic I flip her on her back and hold her but up. Spreading her cheeks I see that her anus is not only small, but somewhat star shaped. Very different from a ponies. Opening it I really can’t see inside, but I can smell it. The smell is not pleasant. I guess this, like her throat, is a lost cause. I don’t think I need a drawing of that.

Now for the moment I’ve been anxiously waiting for, time to look into her vagina. Flipping her onto her back again, and then spreading her legs wide and angling her pelvis up. I get to have a good look at what
I’ve wanted to get to for awhile. It looks beautiful, her what’s it called again? Venus cleft? It covers the whole thing but with using magic I can see her lips.

Spreading those open I can see inside and it looks pink and so warm and inviting. Bringing my nose to it I can feel the heat in there and the smell. Actually it smells not so good, a bit like fish. I don’t know if it’s very different from a mare. I’ve never seen one before.

Putting my hoof a little inside I can feel how warm it actually it. It’s a little dry but that’s expected I guess. She’s so soft, it’s amazing.

I can feel my dick fall from my sheath and become erect. Removing my hoof, I look inside and see a little wall inside. I guess that’s that hymen thing I heard about in high school. I was planning on having some fun with her but now that I see that she’s a virgin, I think that’s a bad idea.

I’ll get closer to her and make her first time special. That won’t take long because I’m sure she’s already crazy about me.

What am I going to do about this though? I can’t go around the house with a huge erection. I wonder how her mouth would feel on it. I could just mount her mouth with my back legs over her head. I could use her throat doing that. I must write down how it feels because I am, of course, doing this for science.

*Janet First Person*

Upon waking up I feel strange. My mouth has a strange salty taste in it and I’m no longer hungry. There’s also a strange feeling on my face. Opening my eyes I see light green fur. I easily pick him up and sit up. Looking at him I notice that he’s actually facing away from me. I set him down and rub my eyes.

Rubbing them I notice that my face is kind of sticky and there some strange substance around my mouth. I guess he fed me some overly salted sticky food (probably porridge) and I was just making it hard. I do toss and turn in my sleep.

Oh there’s a sandwich, but it’s filled with flowers. I guess the water next to it and the bread will have to do.

After eating and drinking, I notice that my blanket is missing. I guess he didn’t want to get that porridge on it. Grabbing and wrapping myself in it, I look towards the unicorn and I see that he has some pieces of paper near him. I look at them and notice that the ink on them is fresh and still drying.

I see a more detailed drawing of my hands and feet. Looking at another scroll I see “My breasts?” He drew them down to the last detail.

Looking at another page I see he’s drawn even more of me. This is extremely creepy. He drew my breasts and vagina.

And what’s this? A drawing of the inside of my mouth and another with a penis in it and a check mark.

Wait. Having a strange salty substance around my face. Him sleeping with his crotch on my face. He stuck his cock in my mouth while I was asleep.

What the hell? Why do that to me when I’m asleep? Why not wait until I’m awake?

I know that sounds weird but if you haven’t noticed, I’m as horny as a 16 year old boy. I’m also always ready to learn when it comes to this sort of thing. This could have been my first real lesson on giving a blowjob.

Maybe if I destroy these, he’ll do it again.

*Harpo First Person*

That was a great nap. What I did before was great too. If she wakes up I’m pretty sure she’ll be happy with what I did. She brought pleasure to the stallion she loves and is no longer hungry.

Looking around I see that my human is awake and standing a couple feet away from me. She looks somewhat disappointed or angry. Maybe both. She’s also holding onto the notes I just made.

“/Shhhh. It’s okay.\” I walk over to her and start to pet her. She pushes me back though.

“~~What the hell is wrong with you? You don’t shove a cock in some ones mouth when they’re asleep. You do it when they’re awake.~~”

What? She seems really mad. That’s probably why I’m having a hard time understanding her.

“~~Why did you also take notes of me while I was asleep? I would have been more than happy to let you do that while I was awake.~~” She points to my notes.

She is mad about what I did to her? She is clearly not thinking straight. Of course she would love what I did. Wait what’s in her hand? It’s my notes.

“/Please put those down. I need them.\” I gesture to my notes.

“~~Oh right, the notes.~~” She looks at the notes.

I nod my head. I look over to where I left the food and see that the water is gone and so is the bread from the sandwich. I hear a loud rip.

I look back and SHE’S RIPPING MY NOTES!

“~~Now do that again, but this time let me be conscious. This is something that I want to learn to do.~~”

She’s gone absolutely mad.

I quickly use my magic to subdue her and grab my notes. I need to put her somewhere she can’t destroy anything until she calms down. I know. That cage I had when I was conducting an experiment to see if dogs could be used to regrow body parts.

I bring the cage over with my magic and she seems to start struggling and screaming. I quickly put her in the cage with a magic lock.

“~~“NO! I don’t want to be in a cage. Wait a minute. Is this some sort of sex thing? Is this a part of bondage? I guess I could try it.~~”

She seems to have calmed down a lot already. It could just be an act, so I’ll keep her here.

“/Now I’ll be back later to see if you’ve calmed down. If you have, then I’ll let you out.\”

I walk to the trapdoor and open it then walk down the ladder. I can hear her calling me. She must still be mad because I can barely understand her. That would be a problem if I didn’t put a sound proofing spell on the attic.

When I check back I’ll bring her some nice fresh meat and some water. If she’s calmed down then we can spend some more time together. I could re-educate her on how she should treat other people property. It is unfortunate that she destroyed my notes, but now I’m excited at the thought of remaking them. But this time, I’ll definitely be more thorough.

Lively Liberation

*Praline 1st person*

“Thank you for your purchase, please come again.” I say as the last customer for the day leaves my shop. It’s around 6:30 and it’s getting pretty dark so it’s time to clean up and leave.

I look out the window only to see Sugar Cube Corner, the only competition to Praline and Creams Confectionary. But I guess a bakery/malt shop would have more business than a candy shop when it comes to the adults.

After cleaning up and walking out of the store, I see Scooter coming up to the shop.

“Did the store close yet?”

“Yes.” He looks downtrodden, his purple main covering his orange face. “But since I’m still here I’ll let you in and buy something.”

That seemed to raise his spirits.

“Thanks Praline, you’re the best.” He gives me a large smile. “By the way, how’s Harpo?”

“He’s been acting a bit strange recently, by that I mean very defensive. Working with the Equestrian anthropology society or whatever it’s called. I think he knows more about humans than any other pony. How about you? Or Appleseed or Silver Bell?”

“The other crusaders are doing fine. Elusive grounded Silver though and AS has chores. That means I spent the whole day alone.” He looks sad again.

“Well how about I not only give you a discount on the candy you’ll buy, but also a special treat?”

This gets him excited. He starts to jump in the air his small wings buzzing.

“That would be awesome!” I open the shop door and usher him inside.

“What can I get for you?” I say as I step behind the counter.

He puts his hoof to his chin in thought. He looks over all the candies I have to offer him. Some sour, some sweet, some tart, spicy, and bitter. He takes an especially long look at the ~~Jawbreakers~~ and moves on to an empty spot.

“Do you have any caramel apples? The green ones?” Oof tough luck kid.

“Sorry. One of the first things we put away when closing shop are the caramel and candied fruits and vegetables.” This doesn’t seem to faze him as he quickly looks for some other source of tooth rotting goodness.

“I would like … a pound of saltwater taffy. Blueberry flavored. And one of those chocolate bars with the raspberry’s inside.”

“You got it.” I scoop some taffy into a paper bag and get the chocolate bar for him. I then put them in a paper bag. “So that would be 5 bits but because of your discount you only pay 3.”

“Okay.” He gets the bits from a bit bag he hid in his mane and hoofs them over. How did he learn to do that? That must be Berry’s doing.

“Thank you. So, you want to see what the special treat is?” He eagerly nods. “It’s a candy I’ve been working on. I got the recipe from one of those anthropologists Harpo works with. He said he found it at a dig and it was an ancient human recipe.”

Now Scooter looks even more excited. Yes human candies are always considered high quality and sell for a high price because of how complex they are to make.

“What’s it called?”

“It’s called a ~~Sour Belt.~~ It’s a thin but somewhat stretchy candy strip that’s both sour and sweet. The flavor I’ve been making translates to blue raspberry. Doesn’t that sound delicious? Think you can handle it?”

“Heck yeah I am. I’m not scared of a little sour candy. I’m brave and can handle it.”

“Good. Most ponies can’t handle sour.” I on the other hoof, love sour.

I take him to the back of the store inside of the freezer. I look around and find a tray filled with the long rectangular candy strips. I pick 4 up and place one in the paper bag. I then hoof the other one to Scooter.

We walk out of the freezer and back outside of the store. I lock up and see that Scooter has popped the candy into his mouth. He didn’t even try to savor it. His reaction is instant. His face puckers up and his eyes start to water.

It’s so cute that I can’t help but let out a little chuckle.

“How’s the candy?” He gives me a hooves up but his eyes say that he’s in some pain.

I hoof him his bag and watch as he gallops back home. I start to gallop home as well, it’s getting pretty late.

*10 minutes later*

Upon getting home, I go into the kitchen and pick out some left over roses from last night and quickly eat them before brushing my teeth and getting into bed. I see that Harpo’s already there facing away from me. I’ll try not to wake him.

“You’re home later than usual.”

“Yeah I am.”

“Where you with anypony?” He sounds somewhat sad as his voice is quivering yet he also sounds extremely hostile.

“Where is this coming from?” I ask indignantly.

“ANSWER THE QUESTION!”

“Yes. Scooter came to the shop after it closed but I decided to let him in and sell him some candy and give him a taste of what I’ve been working on.”

“Good. I forgive you.”

“Excuse me? Forgive me for what? You don’t control my life. Where is all of this coming from?” What is wrong with him tonight? Oh, I think I know. “Harpo, did you get rejected by another mare?”

He shuffles around in bed and sniffles. “I know she loves me but she just did something that really hurt me today. I made some sketches and took notes of these things that could revolutionize the way we see humans. But I guess I did something wrong and she went crazy and ripped them up.”

“Oh, sweetheart. I’m sure if you talk with her tomorrow you can sort it out.”

He turns over towards me and smiles. “Thanks. I can always count on you to make me feel better.”

“Now that that is over, let’s get some shut eye.” I give him a quick kiss on the lips and turn out the light.

“I love you Praline.”

“I love you too Harpo.”

*The next morning*

I wake up to see that Harpo has already gotten up and left. Judging from the note he has some urgent business to attend to involving something in the attic and bringing some notes stored there to his colleagues.

Thank Solaris It’s Sunday. I can just get back to sleep. Or I would if I wasn’t hearing some noise coming from above.

It sounds like some kind of yelling. I’ll get to the bottom of this after breakfast. Then I can go back to sleep.

So back to the kitchen I make myself some oatmeal; really how did humans think up these things? And after eating it and washing it down with a cup of orange juice I get a stool and go to where the trapdoor to the attic is. Stepping on the stool I grab the little rope dangling down with my teeth and pull.

The door opens and the ladder falls down. The yelling seems to have stopped, but I’m now hearing somepony talking in some foreign language.

I step up the ladder and see a cage that seems to be holding a creature wrapped completely in blanket. I can’t see what it is but it sounds like a mare. Harpo foalnapped a mare and is keeping her locked in a cage. Is this the mare who upset him? I have to get her out. Then I need to tell the guard.

*Janet 1st person*

“Why did I think destroying some creatures property was a good idea?! Not only did he take care of me, but he saved me as well. Yes what he did was bad, but I kind of owed him.” After what he did this morning though, he owes me.

He took blood, skin, hair, and various other samples. Why? Is he a scientist? He’s a small unicorn. Unicorns are magic, that’s the opposite of science.

“I should try to get out of here. But how? And what about the outside? If there is a magic unicorn and wolves made of wood, then who knows what else is out there.”

Yelling has not helped at all, so I’ll do the only thing I can think of to keep me occupied. Talk to myself about how I done goofed.

I’m feeling conflicted. I love that unicorn bastard even though he did some bad things to me. I probably did deserve it though. But I don’t want to be put in a cage or have samples taken whenever I act up.

My thoughts are interrupted by a loud creaking noise.

I cover my whole body with my blanket except an eye. Looking in the direction of the sound I see the trap door is open and something is walking up the ladder.

“It’s … another pony?” There are more of them? Wait, this one doesn’t have a horn. Does that mean it’s not intelligent?

Why should I care? I need to find a HUMAN that speaks my language. Maybe they would be able to let me out of this cage. Then I can get out of this place.

Maybe this one can understand me.

“Pony, I command you to release me from my prison.” He gives me a very confused look and quickly shakes his head. His facial expression changed into what I think is either determination or anger. Maybe I should have stayed silent.

“~~Don’t worry, I’ll get you out of there.~~”

I have no idea what it’s saying. But it’s walking up to me. Probably telling me how it’s going to hurt or kill me in some way.

When it reaches my cage and turns around. Upon rearing back, I can’t help but notice that this pony is not an ‘it’ but a ‘him’.

I move as far back into my cage as possible and close my eyes.

I hear a loud noise and open my eyes.

The top of the cage has been ripped right off. I take this opportunity to stand up to my full height, the blanket falling off of my head, the pony has a look of shock on his face.

“FREEDOM!” I shout and jump out of the cage and grab my backpack.

I quickly climb down the ladder and dash down a hallway. I have to crouch because of how low it is. I’d say the ceiling is about 5’4’’ high. I see a staircase and quickly run down it. I accidentally destroy some paintings and vases while running.

That pony has started chasing me and yelling angrily. I see a bookcase and get an idea. While running by I grabbed it, and threw it on the ground. That seems to have stopped him.

I see a door with an eye hole in it. That has to be the front door. I run full sprint towards it and rip it open. This in itself was an amazing feat because it had one of those chain locks on it.

I run outside without looking where I’m going. The only place I’m looking at is the house from where I just came.

I do look up into the sky and see that it’s noon. Plenty of stores should be open and it should be easy finding a police station.

I think my wallet’s still in my backpack. There should be enough money in there to buy some clothing afterwards.

I keep running, breath ragged, until I’m in what looks like the town square. I stop to catch my breath and hear a lot of gasping and object being dropped. I guess running around wrapped in a blanket with a backpack on is enough to garner some attention.

I look up and what I see leaves me speechless.

Ponies. Ponies everywhere.

Some flying. Some using magic with their horns. Some doing nothing because they suck and don’t have crazy mutant horse powers. Then I see a lavender one with both wings and a horn.

They’re all staring at me. Eyes wide mouths agape.

This is somewhat nerve wracking. Just where am I? Why is this place full of ponies? I need a quiet place to take this in. Where would be a good place to do this?

My thoughts are interrupted by sudden movement.

They’re walking closer to me.

I clutch the blanket closer to me and start to walk backwards. It looks like they’re about to jump me until that lavender one shouts something and they all back off.

He starts to walk towards me but with his wings extended and his horn lit. Is he trying to be intimidating?

He looks like he’s about to say something to me but I turn around and bolt.

I definitely should have stayed in my cage. I think I’ll go back to that forest.

*Dusk Shine 1st person*

I can’t believe it. Was that a human?

“Dusk. Was that what ah thought that was?”

“I don’t know AJ. But in case it is, go get Blitz, Berry, and Elusive. I’ll get Butterscotch. It looks like it ran into the Everfree so we’ll have to hurry. I’ll tell everypony about it when we get to the edge of the forest.”

“I need to make a stop off at my castle and tell Barb. I hope we can get to it before anything bad happens.”

With that said, both stallions galloped away. Both in a hurry to gather their friends for what they fear might be trouble.

Author's Notes:

Had actually written the rough draft for this chapter a day or two after the rough draft for the second chapter. I owe it all to that outline I made. Remember, planning is the way to go folks.

Everfree Escapades

Author's Notes:

So this is what happens when I try to write and edit a story while tired. Future me will probably face palm then rewrite/edit and re-upload. I on the other hand, am going to sleep.

*Dusk Shine 1^st person*

Reaching my crystal palace, I open the doors… slowly. They sure do take a lot of force to open don’t they? I should really put something on those crystal doors so they’re easier to open. Wait, can’t get distracted.

“BARB.” She’s not responding but I can hear some ponies arguing in the map room.

Upon entering the map room, I see a mauve stallion with a combination purple and light blue mane. His horn is glowing and carrying a small purple dragon with green spikes.

“DROP IT BARB!”

“MMMFFF MF MHH”

She seems to have something in her mouth. I should probably see what this is about. I hope it doesn’t take too long.

“What’s this about?” the stallion drops Barb and she tries to run but is caught in my magic.

“Oh hi Dusk, thank Solaris you’re here. I need your help getting something out of Barb’s mouth.”

I use my magic to pry open her mouth and levitate out what she had in there. It’s a blue heart shaped gem with something encrusted on it. I levitate it towards me and read it out loud.

“To Stellar Gleam, I would very much like to see you. Please come to The Strutting Human for dinner at 6:30. With love, an anonymous mare.” I give him a small smile as he blushes. “Looks like somepony has a secret admirer.”

Barb is jumping, trying to grab the gem but I keep it just out of reach. Until Stellar uses his magic to grab the gem and brings it closer to himself. He turns and leaves. Probably going to get ready for that meet up.

I give Barb an angry glare which she appears to be returning.

“Barb, why did you try to eat his love… whatever that would be called. Love note? Love Letter? Love Gem? Whatever. Why did you try to eat it?”

Barb start to look away and it looks like her eyes are tearing up.

“WHY DOES HE GET TO BE LOVED?!” Oh, this again. She’s been moody ever since Elusive made it apparent how he felt about her.

“Barb can we deal with this later? I need you to send an extremely important letter to King Solaris.” I quickly scribble out a letter saying what I saw and what happened. I put a seal on it marking it as urgent. “Barb send this right now; this is something extremely urgent.” After seeing the seal I used, she gives me a quick nod and sends it off.

“What’s so important? Is it something bad? Why did you have to use an urgent seal? … Can we get hayburgers after this?”

“I’ll answer your questions later Barb, right now I need to get the rest of the guys. I had AJ get Berry and Blitz who should already be informed by now and by proxy Elusive. Probably courtesy of Blitz. All I need now is to get Butterscotch.” I think I can teleport to his house.

*One teleport later*

Urrgh. My stomach. My head. My horn. Teleporting was a bad choice. While I wait for the world to stop spinning (which is scientifically impossible), I hear hoofsteps coming towards me. And a masculine yet soft meek voice coming from the same direction.

“Hello Dusk. What brings you all the way over here? Did you teleport here? Maybe I should get you some apple juice to get rid of that nausea.”

I snap out of hit with a quick shake of my head.

“NO!” Butterscotch starts to cower. “Sorry. It’s just that I need your help. It’s extremely important and AJ is getting the rest of the guys. We’re meeting at the Everfree.” I give him an intense look.

*Gasp “Oh my. I hope it’s nothing too serious.”

“It is. We must go now.”

We both start to gallop towards the Everfree.

*20 minutes later*

“What’s taking them so long?” Not only are the guys being late annoying me, but how calm Butterscotch is. Here I am pacing back and forth and he’s not breathing more heavily than usual. It’s just making me angrier.

Does he not care that what we all think and know can change in a matter of days. Maybe even hours.

“Don’t rush them Dusk. Just wait and they’ll be here.”

“It’s probably Elusive. He always takes so long to get ready for pointless crap. He even breaks the hearts of young dragoness’ in his spare time. Now my palace is a wreck and Barb is lashing out at everypony”

“Are you still on about that? My advice from before was to just forget about it and let this run its course. She’ll calm down and start looking for colts her own age. Elusive should have rejected her after meeting her instead of using her as a way to find gems. It was a somewhat abusive relationship, with one side always taking and the other only giving.”

*Sigh. “I guess you’re right. I need to let her sort through these emotions herself.” Upon finishing my sentence, I see Blitz arriving with AJ and Berry. Elusive taking up the rear and slowing his gallop to a trot.

I notice they all have saddle bags on (except for Berry) and AJ has a rope with him. “What’s with the bags and rope?”

“Well, I put some books, notes, and theories in my bag. If what AJ told me is true, then I can finally prove all of my theories to the human study club.”

“You’re a part of that? They’re just a group of nerds who look at human artifacts, scriptures, and stories to make weird fan theories that are contradictory to science.”

Blitz gives me an angry glare.

“Well what has those science groups come up with regarding human cultures, languages, and stories? Last time I checked, they could barely translate anything. We came up with translations and learned the language.”

Facehoofing from his ignorance. “Most of those translations are incorrect and that language is gibberish. Now we need to hurry. AJ tell me about that rope and bag while were walking.”

Walking into the forest (except Berry who is bouncing) I use my magic to scan for tracks that the human could have left. I found them.

“So ah brought this here rope to tie up any dangerous critters that try to harm us or that human. And maybe tie it up in case she gets a bit to out of control. You saw how she acted. And in my bag are some pastries in case we got hungry or it was hungry.”

“That might be counterintuitive with what we’re trying to do. We don’t want to scare or scar her. But the pastries sound like a good idea. Why is Berry so quiet? He looks ready to explode.”

“I told him he needs to keep his mouth shut or he might scare the human.”

“That’s not a very nice thing to say Blitz. Elusive, what did you bring?”

“Rags for the probably filthy human.” Typical.

“How long do yah think it’ll take to track it?”

“I actually think it won’t take long. It seems to have not gotten very far. In fact, I would say it’s only about 25 feet away. And she seems to be in a tree.”

They all seem to be looking at me intently. Then Butterscotch speaks up.

“How do you know that? If you don’t mind me asking. Is that spell really that powerful and accurate?”

I nod my head “yes.”

We come up to the tree she’s in and see a timberwolf pup trying to climb up it. It’s growling and looks hungry. If a pup is nearby then there should be pack within a 100 foot radius.

So it was scared up a tree by a tiny puppy. These humans don’t seem to be very brave or courageous like those stories would have you believe. Just a small spark of magic should be able to scare away the pup.

Lighting my horn I send a small jolt of electricity next to the puppy and it runs away.

“Now we just sit here and wait” I whisper.

After about 5 minutes of waiting, I see two legs dangling down from the tree and it’s quickly followed by a human who lands, oof on her face. it doesn’t seem very graceful. It also seems to be wrapped in a red, ripped blanket.

It dusts herself off. It is now looking right at us, now is a good time to prove Blitz wrong and that the equestrian anthropological studies HAS pieced together their language.

“~HABO, der gud nah?~” It’s head tilts to the side.

“~Excuse me? Were you trying to talk to me?~” It points to itself and looks around. Upon further inspection and judging by her voice, I can conclude that the human is female.

“~Der gud nah? Iz koon?~” She still looks confused. Do I have a thick accent?

“~Hello human, my name is Blitz and my friend here is an idiot. Please don’t be scared, we want to help you.~” Damn it Blitz, you’re just going to confuse her. Wait, she’s singling out Blitz. Maybe he insulted her and she’ll attack.

She looks nervous but lifts her hand up with it open and waves it. “~Oh. I didn’t know you could speak English.~”

Blitz just smirks at me. “I told you that the language we figured out was right.”

“She doesn’t seem to understand both of our languages. Just because she gave you a longer response, doesn’t mean she understands you and you understand her.” It’s impossible. How can a bunch of psudoscientists figure out an ancient language? It’s inconceivable. AJ walks towards her and she obviously backs off.

“Hey Blitz, can yah tell her that ah want to give her some food?”

“EXCUSE ME?! Why are you asking Blitz to ask her a question and not me? I am speaking her language. Blitz is speaking gibberish.” Why is this happening?

“Ahm sorry, but I don’t think you actually can speak her language. Given how she reacted to both you and to Blitz.”

“He’s right.” Et tu Butterscotch? “She seems to respond more positively and communicate more words when talking to Blitz rather than you.” Elusive seems rather quiet and not paying attention.

“Well this is just great. Hey Elusive. Do you wanna come and tell me how studying with real scientist doesn’t teach you how to translate ancient languages or learn their cultures?”

“I have no opinion on this matter. Ask Berry, he might have one. Can we please just get her out of here? It looks like it’s about to rain and I don’t want to get water in my mane or mud on my hooves. I’m already pushing it with the dirt.”

“So Berry, what do you think?”

Instead of vocalizing his opinion he points towards Blitz and nods.

“Fine. Blitz, do you’re thing.”

Walking forward with a smug look on his face and a hoof to his chest. I’ve never wanted to punch somepony so badly before.

“~As I was saying before. I am~ Rainbow Blitz ~the fastest flier in all of~ Equestria. ~What is your name?”

“~This place is called~ Equestria?” She receives a nod. *sigh “~So, my first name is Janet and I come from the United States of America. Specifically, California. ~”

“~Cool name. My orange friend here” gestures to AJ “, whose name is~ Apple Jack ~or~ AJ ~for short, wanted to know if you’re hungry. We have some pastries you can try if you want. ~”

She seems to be more relaxed but doesn’t look as if she trusts us still. Maybe that blanket has something to do with it? Taking a closer look at her eyes, it looks like she’s been crying. Or at least, that’s what I think bloodshot eyes mean on a human.

I could use some experimental magic to control the words Blitz says. It’ll come out in that language but it’ll be the words I want. I’ll also be able to understand the words spoken to him while using this. Unfortunately, when I release him I’ll forget the translation. Now is as good a time as ever to try it. Igniting my horn, a faint glow surrounds Blitz’s throat, mouth, and (you can’t really see it) brain.

She puts her hand out and shakes it. “~No. I don’t eat food from strangers. ~”

“~Why not? You don’t like pony food. ~”

She shakes her head and she looks somewhat angry.

“~Stop trying to force your damn food on me. I’m not in the mood. ~”

Blitz’s face seemed to grow a great look of surprise. He shakes his head and his hooves.

“~No no no no no no no. What we want to do is give you some clothing and food. We might also want to give you a nice warm bed and a roof to sleep under. ~ Elusive, get that cloth out of the bag and start to make a dress. Quickly.”

“If I make a dress without measurements how do I know it will look good on her?”

“Forget about the dress looking good.” Dusk chimes in. “All we need is some clothing for her.”

“Fine. But I don’t want my good name associated with that street rag.”

“~Just give that white one named~ Elusive ~a couple minutes and he’ll make you a dress that can be used for now. He can make you a better one later after getting your measurements. What are you doing out here anyways?~”

She looks away. “~I’ll answer that if you tell me what’s up with the pink one.~”

“Pink one? Oh right. I forgot that Berry was here because he wasn’t talking or bouncing.” Blitz and I look over to Berry who’s shaking so fast looks like he’s about to burst.

“~He really wants to talk to you and ask questions. His name is~ Bubble Berry ~by the way. That quiet yellow one over there who is helping~ Elusive ~is called~ Butterscotch. ~And to finish introductions, my purple friend over there who tried to talk with you earlier is called~ Dusk Shine. ~Now that you know us and I you, won’t you at least trust us enough to accept some food? How about we take you to Butterscotch’s house? He lives near the woods and his house is filled with animals if that will make you feel safer. Or we can go to the palace~”

She looks at Blitz with some emotion I can’t put my hoof on.

“~No I would not. I would feel safer if I…~”

There are loud and numerous timberwolf howls.

“~So you can come with us and we can give you shelter or you can try your luck with those wolves. ~”

It looks like she’s thinking this over. Something really bad must have happened to make her want to think between having a nice safe home and a pack of wild ravenous wolves.

“~I’ll go with you. On the condition that there will be no funny business. Or cages. ~”

“~I swear by the elder gods that there will be no ‘funny’ business or cages. ~” Elusive magics the dress over to Janet. “~As promised, one dress. It’s not that great but it’ll do for now. ~”

The dress is black and bulky. It goes from the neck down on both sides. The only openings are at the bottom near the knees, the hole for the head, and the armholes.

She grabs the dress. “~Turn around so I can change. ~”

“Okay everypony turn away. She wants some privacy.” We all turn but I luckily spotted a mirror in Elusive’s bag and magiced it in front of me. I angle it slightly so I can see her remove the blanket and put on her dress. Unfortunately, she also turned around.

“~You can turn around now. ~”

“We can turn around now.” We all do and they get a look at the dress.

“Is it spost tah be that big?” She seems to be holding it as the dress is so big and bulky that it’s falling down.

“What did you expect? I can stop it from falling if you give me that rope.”

AJ hoofs the rope over too Elusive who then uses his magic to make knots in certain areas around the dress. Making the armholes tighter and does the same to the bottom and neck.

I release my magic from Blitz.

“What was that? What did you do to me Dusk?! I was saying words that I didn’t want to.”

“That’s just a new spell I made. Oh, everypony you leave the forest now.” Everypony walks towards the forest exit except for Blitz and I. “So Blitz I decided to use the spell because you would have taken too long or messed things up.”

“I feel violated. You magicked my brain, I think I like mares now.”

“Don’t be such a baby. The effects will go away eventually. Now tell her we need to get a move on.” I turn around and walk the same way as the others.

“~Come on, let’s get going. ~” He follows me and the human follows him.

“Where are we going to take her? I think it would be best for her to stay at my palace. It has enough room and Barb could really use a female figure in her life.”

The stallions start to fight except for Berry who is still remaining quiet. I don’t need to get involved in this.

“Ah think it’d be best if she was stayin’ with me. She could get great food and she could get exercise by helping at the farm.”

“She should stay with me because I can speak her language.”

“She can’t live in a floatin’ home. She’ll fall right out.”

“Can’t she live in my cottage? She seems to like the woods and I’m sure she would like my animal friends.”

“What about me? She needs to stay with me so I can make human clothing. I could become more famous than I already was. Think of it, Elusive the human tailor in magazines.”

This was Berry’s breaking point.

“NO! She stays with me because we need to make her happy and parties make everypony happy. Also imagine all the human pastries and foods she can make. We could stay up late and tell stories in our jammies and eat s’mores and take over the Marexican government.”

“ENOUGH” I use my magic to seal all of their mouths. “She is going to stay with me so she can learn about our society and language so she can fit in. And that’s the end of it. Now keep your mouths shut until we’re back at the palace.”

They all let out disappointed groans. I look behind me and see that the human is still walking behind us.

Now that I’m actually seeing her walk, she does appear quite graceful and she seems somewhat elegant.

Descriptive Debate

*Janet 1^st person*

We decided to take a break while walking to that castle thing the rainbow horse told me about. Well, I decided to take a break. After finding a nice patch of grass, I lie down. It’s probably the most comfortable place I’ve rested on all week.

While lying down, careful not to crush the insides of my backpack, I stretch my arms, legs, fingers, and toes. Spreading all of them wide and clenching and unclenching them.

Looking towards the stallions I notice that they’re alternating between staring at my feet and hands. I guess they’ve never seen them before. To be honest, they are strange appendages. Well, feet are at least. I only know of two creatures to have them that they probably have seen. Apes and Monkeys.

They are walking closer to me, looking really closely at them. This, of course, is making me very uncomfortable. Couldn’t they back up a bit? Then the poking begins. I put my hands on the ground and push myself away from them.

Now sitting criss-cross applesauce style with my hands in the middle of my crossed legs. They’re look at each other with somewhat shocked expressions.

“Don’t touch my hands or my feet. I don’t like my feet to be touched, especially by any of you. And I just don’t want you touching any part of me. Got it?” I say in a scolding tone. ~Blitz~ walks up to me.

“Sorry, we were just curious. Never seen anything like them before except in drawings.” Then he says something in his language and they all back off a bit and lie down. By lie down, I mean lying on their stomach with their legs curled up. Blitz still stays relatively close to me.

“I have some questions I would like to ask” He says as he pulls out some paper from those bags on his side. “You see, I have this theory about a place talked about in human legends that apparently mysteriously disappeared. I think it either blew up, or flew up into the sky.” What’s he talking about.

Holding the papers up to me, I see something very familiar. This is the Legendary Hero section of Wind Waker. How did they get that down without knowing what it’s from? Also, these pictures look exactly like the ones from the game. Along with the text including the English subtitles.

“First of all, the land was named Atlantis and it sunk into the ocean. Second, this is from a myth, a story. It’s not real.” He has a strange look on his face. I guess it’s a more shocked look than before considering that his eyes are as wide as saucers, and his mouth is open wider than a feeding snake.

“THAT’S IMPOSSIBLE! HOW CAN THIS NOT BE REAL? THERE ARE SO MANY RECORDS OF THIS!”

“I don’t know. Maybe because it was such a mystery and people had always tried to prove its existence.”

He facepalms, hoofs? And lets out a sigh so big he was basically screaming. After a few seconds of making angry horse noises, he finally calms down.

“Any other questions?” He looks me right in the eye.

“Do you have a boyfriend?”

“Not really. And I don’t plan to start a relationship with a miniature horse. At least, not at the moment.” What I did in the forest was a onetime thing. I think?

He looks somewhat sad at that.

“I didn’t want to start a relationship. I was just curious. I do have something else I would like to ask.” He pulls out a piece of paper and shows it to me. It’s a picture of 2 people having lotus style sex. “Do you know how to do this?” He smirks at me and lift his eyebrows.

I guess this was his attempt to seduce me.

I stand up and look down at him with my hands on my hips.

“Nope, how ‘bout you figure it out.”

“Is that an invitation?”

“No. Please never talk to me again.” He looked heartbroken. His eyes even teared up.

“Mark my words, I will get a date from you (or get you in bed). Or I’m not the fastest flier in ~Equestria~.”

“Flying’s probably not the only thing you’re the fastest at.” Looks like someone needs to be rushed to the burn ward.

I think now’s as good a time as any to start walking again. I guess we’re going to that big crystal castle thing again. Better get a move on.

*Harpo*

Why did the Anthropological society in Canterlot want to meet with me? When I got there what they wanted could have been given by any other member. They all have the human to equish dictionary. They could have even gone to a book store. Why mine?

Was it because I was amending it? I did change a lot of the translations in my book to fit what I had been learning from my human. I really should give her a name.

I’m just glad to be back in Ponyville. I can tell my human all about my day and spend some special time together. I’ll forgive her for what she did when I get back. I’m sure she learned her lesson.

As I walk through the market, I notice how empty it is. I also notice a bunch of ponies huddled near the fountain.

What’s with all the ponies huddled over there for? What are they muttering?

“Did you hear what happened today in the market?” Some unnamed mare said.

“Yeah, I heard it too.” A deep voiced stallion said. Heard what? What did they hear?

“Do you think that Prince Dusk has found it already?” Another stallion said.

“I know it’s true. I saw it with my own eyes in the market place.” They all gasp from another stallions words.

“Who’d have thought that here would be a human running around in Equestria? Or Ponyville no less?” WHAT?! Another human?

I need to get home quickly and make sure it didn’t steal mine.

*3^rd person Harpo*

After racing home, Harpo found his front door unhinged and the inside a mess.

“I knew it. Another human came in and stole her. Wait. She might still be here. I did put a magic lock on the attics trapdoor and the cage.

Running past a surprised Praline and a lot of broken vases and a shelf that was thrown to the ground, he sees that the trapdoor has been opened.

Climbing up he sees that the top of the cage has been ripped off. Running back down the ladder, he is confronted by an angry Praline.

“I’ve called the guard you know.”

“Good. Something was stolen from me. Did you see the human that came in and took it?”

“No. But I did see the one that you kept in that cage. Luckily I found her and let her go.”

“YOU DID WHAT?!”

“I let her go, sort of. And I called the guard, not on some human, but you.”

“Why? What did I do?”

“You imprisoned a young mare and kept her in a cage in the attic. She was speaking gibberish and looked like she had seen a puppy die when I found her.”

“I didn’t know she would miss me that much.”

Just then, there is a knock on the door that was still off its hinge.

“Hello?” Said Praline.

“This is the guard, can we come in?” Came a feminine voice.

“Yes, please come in. I have the criminal right here.”

“You’re really turning me in? But what about our relationship? I thought you loved me.”

“I love you, but what you did was a despicable crime. I hope when you get out of prison, you’ll realize the error in what you’ve done.”

“She loved it. How could she not love being with me?” The guards arrive and after seeing them, Harpo teleports outside of the house and runs towards the Whitetail woods.

“I’ll find her and bring her back to me. She’ll know how much I love her, and she’ll show me the love she really feels for me. Our love will prove Praline wrong and we’ll have this all sorted out.”

*3^rd person Janet*

As the Stallions and woman made their way to the palace, they could feel something was off. There was a large crowd around the palace.

“Please have ~Janet~ wait over there.” Dusk said as he pointed to an alley. “We need to see what’s going on.”

“~Hey Janet. We’re going to need to wait in this alley. We’re going to check out what’s going on over at the palace.~” Said Blitz.

“~Still not talking to you.~” She turns her head away from Blitz and continues to walk.

“She said she won’t talk to me. What the buck?”

Applejack decided to take this into his own hooves as he pushed Janet into the alley.

Janet falls unceremoniously onto her head and knees, very dazed. Her head down but her backside up.

All the stallions looked in her direction and were greeting with the magnificent sight of a full moon

“Uhh, I gotta go somewhere for a bit.” Claimed Blitz as he dashed away leaving a rainbow blur.

Elusive seemed uninterested and sat down to file his hooves, while Applejack and butterscotch turned around.

Berry on the other hand, wanted a closer look. After walking towards Janet’s behind, he turned around, moved his tail, and placed his behind on hers.

“LOOK, WE’RE BUTT BUDDIES!”

To which, after hearing this, they all proceeded to facehoof. Both Applejack and Butterscotch also had some jealous thoughts on what Berry had just done, wishing to be in his place.

Dusk had just walked back and seen what was going on. He looked at it in extreme confusion.

“Why is she lying face down on the ground? WHY IS BERRY TOUCHING HER BUTT WITH HIS?”

Applejack looked away, with a blush on his face and a shy smile with his hoof scratching the back of his head. “Well, ah might uh pushed her into the alley. She might have also hit her head. I’m not sure about the second part, but she seems a might dazed.”

“What about the butt thing?”

“That’s just Berry being Berry.” Replied Elusive.

*Sigh* “O.K. Where’s blitz?”

Elusive answered again. “I believe he is, as they say, polishing his pole.”

“O.K. WHY?! Why is he off masturbating? We have important stuff to do. The King and the Princes have arrived.”

“The King and Princes?” All of them said in unison, save Berry who was still busy being Butt Buddies with Janet.

“Yes. Solaris, Artemis, and Bolero have arrived. They even brought my sister.”

“Even Atrial Storm?” Berry nervously asked. He and Janet still cheek to cheek.

“No, He’s still at the Crystal Empire.”

With that Berry gave a sigh (and shiver) of relief causing Janet to finally come to.

She got up very quickly and started to straighten her dress and pat her behind, wondering why it felt so warm.

“~Where am I? Why is my butt so warm?~” These questions were answered when she saw Berry with his butt where hers was, with his tail to the side. “~Great, more pony balls.~” She rolled her eyes.

This immediately gained the attention of the stallions.

“Good, she’s awake. I’ll need to put this on her for the time being.” Dusk says as he magics up a brown collar and red leash.

“Ah usually don’t question what yer doin’, but this is something ah need to know. Why are you going to put a leash on her?”

“It was Solaris’ idea. He said that we need to put this on her so when we bring her with us, it will be easier to convince the ponies surrounding my castle that she isn’t really a human. He wants us to pretend that she’s a shapeshifting animal and decided to turn into that human statue that was in the Everfree.”

“This better not be one of his strange pranks again” said Applejack.

“Please, he would never do that to me. Especially not when it comes to something this important.”

A soft voice spoke up. “Actually, now that you mention it, she does look a lot like that statue that was in the Everfree. All of her features, including her backpack. But why doesn’t she have the same clothing, or any clothing for that matter?”

“I don’t know. It might have had something to do with that forest fire earlier this week, but that’s something we can figure out later. Now help by keeping her distracted.”

They all look towards Janet, who is watching Berry pull stuff out of his mane. She had a shocked expression on her face as she watched him pull out entire cakes and treats from it with no hair in it.

“She seems distracted enough. Put the collar on the beast and get a move on.” Said an agitated Elusive.

Dusk sneaks over and slowly wraps the collar around her neck and with a small click, it is magically sealed.

Janet immediately notices and starts to pull at the collar around her neck. Dusk attaches the leash to it that it also magically sealed and gives it a pull. She stumbles forward.

“Come one, we’ve held the royals up long enough.” Dusk starts to walk away while pulling on the leash.

Janet of course, did not like this. “~STOP! TAKE THIS DAMN THING OFF ME! THIS IS NOT MY FETISH!”

She digs her heels into the ground but to no avail. All she manages to do is make drag marks and hurt her feet. She might have also caused Applejack to grab the leash and pull along with Dusk.

*At The Palace*

Solaris and Artemis waited outside, while Bolero and Gleaming decided to wait inside and get something to eat. They were looking as royal as ever.

The two brothers were being swarmed by ponies, asking (and some begging) that there was some truth behind the human rumor that’s been going around. There were also some ponies flat out asking them for favors.

While Solaris took this time to answer questions in a calm, kind, fatherly manner. His brother Artemis, decided to just stare off into space and shied away when anypony tried to communicate with him.

Solaris had combed his long brown mane and tail for this occasion. He made sure he was cleaned to the nth degree. He had his fetlocks trimmed, showing off his dark polished hoofs. He had his wings preened multiple times so they showed their amazing light prismatic tips.

His teeth, sparkling white (from the bleaching), gums somewhat red (from the intense flossing he did), and breath fresh and minty.

Solaris barely brushed his teeth, this is why there is a constant dentist on staff at the castle. This was also why he needed constant teeth scrapings and whitening.

He had a kingly golden crown with an orange sun on the top of it. He was also wearing a clean black Tux (pants not included).

His brother on the other hand, looked like he has just woken up (mostly because he just did).

Artemis’ light, long, blue mane was disheveled and concealed most of his almost black crown. It even concealed his eyes. His dark blue fur was unwashed and stained in some areas. He had obviously not washed himself in weeks. His fetlocks were unshaven and covered most of his hooves, occasionally touching the ground. Artemis didn’t even preen his wings. His eyes were half-lidded and bloodshot.

The only thing about him that was presentable, was his teeth. He, unlike his brother, saw it very important to brush and floss at least twice a day. Something he learned from studying human artifacts on hygiene.

His clothing was his usual slight darker than him blue vest/regalia. He did not wear his horse shoes. He didn’t even want to get out of bed. Unlike his brother, he was not excited to hear about a human.

He might have been in love with their artifacts and history. He was even read stories of them when he was a foal. But he felt that there was something wrong with this story. He and his brother had seen many fraudulent stories and sightings in their life. Because of this, he didn’t even care if he was presentable or not.

His brother, did care. He was desperate to find a human. Artemis felt that Solaris only wanted a human so he could claim it for his harem. So he could boast about bedding a human. So he could rub that in Artemis’ face as well. Just like with all those other mares and stallions. If only I could receive at least one percent of the love he gets.

Artemis quickly realized what was happening and shook his head to clear his thoughts. ‘No, we don’t want that to happen ever again. We must keep our temper and jealousy in order.’

Artemis took a quick swig of the coffee he had, finishing what was left of it. He, of course, took it black. He hated creamer and sugar diluting the color of something as pure as the night sky (even though coffee is generally brown).

He incinerated his mug with magic and tossed it into a garbage can, thusly setting it on fire. This caused the ponies to all disperse and run in a wild manner screaming for help.

Artemis received a very angry look from his brother.

“Why must you act this way whenever we hang out?”

“You know why. We always do what you want to do, never what we want. Plus, we still have a hangover from last night.” Artemis rubs his head.

“If we ever did what you wanted to do, we would be in your room looking over human artifacts and reading. You need to get out more. Besides you should be grateful, I got you in bed with a beautiful mare last night didn’t I?”

“By beautiful mare, do you mean our personal guard?” Artemis asks giving an angry glare to his brother. “May we remind you that she is covered in deep scars and missing a part of her body.”

Solaris blushes. “Well, she USED to be a very beautiful mare. She still is quiet desirable though.” Artemis gives a thoughtful nod. “Besides, it’s not looks that matter.”

“That’s a laugh, most mares and stallions you bed are the most beautiful and handsome in the land. They’re usually as dumb as a pile of bricks and with the same personality of one. You horde them in your harem for nopony but yourself. And here we are, the lonely ‘awkward’ younger brother who can’t hold onto a single pony without them being employed by us.”

Artemis’ ears droop and his head hangs low. To which Solaris puts his arm around him, and brings him close to his side.

He turns Artemis to face him (and the ponies putting out the fire he started).

“It’s okay brother,” Solaris says patting Artemis’ back. He then smirks “maybe you just need some more practice in bed. I can set you up with that guard again, I’m sure she’d love to let you practice on her.”

“You might have more experience when it comes to matters of the flesh, but I have always had more skill. And we still do.”

“If you’re so skillful, why can’t you hold down a herdmate or start a harem Selena?”

Artemis’ face turns red with anger and embarrassment.

“How dare you call me by that name. I told you that I hate that name, and to never call me that in public or private.”

“Calm down, geez. It was just a joke. But what I said still stands. Why can’t you hold down either a herdmate or harem?”

Artemis starts to give off a sad aura as he thinks.

“I guess ponies don’t really gravitate to the dark.”

“Nope” Solaris says, shaking his head. “That’s not true. The reason you can’t hold down a mate is simple. You are a shut-in. You don’t go out, you spend all your time looking at human artifacts, and you mentally collapse in a conversation with others.”

“’TIS A LIE!” Artemis shouted in anger.

“Temper, Temper dear brother. I would like you to recall last night with your guard. When intoxicated you were suave and very much a mare killer. But before then, when she reported to you, you looked like you were about to faint. Your face red, voice a mumble, and hiding you face away from her. You could give my students friend Butterscotch a run for his money.”

“Alright, I might be timid at times b—“ Solaris interrupts Artemis by shoving his hoof in Artemis’ mouth.

“WAIT! I can see them coming now.”

Dusk looks to where Solaris is looking and sees Dusk, most of his friends, and a strange long object being dragged across the ground.

After waiting a few minutes, Dusk and his friends made it to the brothers and they all bowed.

“Rise my student, you are a royal yourself thus unnecessary.” Dusk get up, his friends wait a few seconds more. “So, Dusk, what’s that being dragged on the ground?”

He gestures towards the human, who had decided halfway through the journey that her feet hurt too much from being dragged through dirt and rocks. Her solution was to fall face first onto the ground and lie there to make life for the ponies harder.

“That’s the human. She’s not happy with the whole collar and leash thing.” Solaris’ eyes lit up at this.

He magics Janet to her feet and take her collar off. The first thing she notices is that he has a somewhat pretentious air about him, the next is the sun on his ass.

“Hello, I am Solaris. You are?” Solaris extends his hoof but it’s not taken. He is greeted with silence. “I don’t know if you know this, but it’s generally customary in most countries to shake hooves or hands in your case when people meet.” He moves to touch Janet.

“~Please, don’t touch me sun horse.~” She was very uninterested in in what could possibly become a royal pain. After all she’s been through, the collar was the final straw that made her want to never see another pony again. Or at least see the nice ones on occasion.

Janet looked over to Artemis and `saw his face hidden behind his legs. His body was in a submissive pose and he was shivering slightly.

‘~What’s up with that dark blue one?~’

Janet decided to walk over to him and get on her knees.

“~Hey, are you alright?~” She says while poking him. Artemis makes a small squeak.

Artemis tries to speak but all that comes out is incoherent babbling.

Solaris could do nothing more than look on in jealousy.

Finally able to gather his thoughts, he responds. “~I’m fine.~” He says meekly, to the shock of everypony. Even the human was shocked.

“~Can you stand up?~” Janet says still with the shocked expression slowly falling from her face. This seemed to lighten her mood, so much that she gave the timid pony a hug.

“~Yes. But I think I’d like to stay like this for some time.~” This statement caused the human to giggle.

“~Alright. Stay as long as you’d like.~”

“Brother, would you come here a moment?” Solaris stated angrily.

His request fell on deaf ears though, as Artemis was starting to fall asleep in the human’s grasp.

“~You’re such a cute, nice, little horsey. For some reason, even though I just met you, you seem the nicest out of all the other ones I’ve met.~” Stated Janet, as she rubbed her face against Artemis’ head.

The rest of the town had started to return to the palace. Seeing as the fire was now put out, and they had taken some very deep breathes.

What they saw shocked them. A human female, cuddling their Prince of the night. And their prince was sound asleep in between her breasts.

All the ponies looked about ready to pounce on her. That is, before Solaris stuck his wings out and cleared his throat.

*Ahem* “My little ponies, I have an important announcement to make to you all. Are you listening?”

All the ponies nodded, while the reporters took picture after picture.

“This is a real live human. Her name is …” Solaris looks over to Dusk.

Dusk leans over to whisper in his ear. “Her name is ~Janet.~” Though Dusk is confused as to why Solaris would openly state this. He told him that they were going to keep her low profile for the time being.

“~Janet.~ I request that you keep her existence a secret for now. You might be wondering why she looks so much like that statue in Everfree Forrest, right?” The ponies nod. “We are having that investigated at this very moment. But I have some great news.”

All the talking and noise from the ponies caused Artemis to wake up. Upon seeing this, all the ponies (Solaris included) held their breath. Hoping that he doesn’t start another fire.

“~Thank you.~” He whispered to Janet, nuzzles her, and proceeded to get up.

Janet on the other hand didn’t want to let him go. She wraps her arms around his neck as they both stand together.

‘~He’s the best horse I’ve seen here. He’s mine now.~”

“~You belong to me. Your my new pet horse, understand?~” Artemis nods his head, a large blush spread throughout his face.

“Brother, please continue.”

With that said, Solaris continues with what he was saying.

“On to the great news I have for you all. I almost forgot. The human will be staying at this palace for the time being. That is until a new room for her at my palace will be completed. Now, onto that news. Right, I forgot it’s me niece’s birthday. Oh, I also …”

“GET ON WITH IT!” Shouted the crowd.

“Fine. The great news is, that ~Janet~ and I are to be wed.”

“WHAT!”

Author's Notes:

Updated and edited.

Palace of Dreams

Author's Notes:

So, my PC was out of commission for a little over a week. That means the other chapters will also be delayed. So, because of delay and promise for a chapter this month, this one isn't as good as I was hoping it would be.

*Inside Dusk’s Palace 3rd Person*

In the lavish dining room of the enormous palace, a newlywed couple was currently enjoying their lunch. It consisted of a fruit salad, being had by a beautiful white unicorn mare, and a hayburger, by a muscular pink alicorn stallion.

The beautiful white unicorn mare, named Gleaming Shield, had a long blue mane and tail. Her hooves neatly filed and given a glossy coat. Her fetlocks were trimmed to show off her hooficure. She has a shield on both of her shapely marshmallow flanks. And her teats, larger than normal for a mare (probably from not breast feeding her foal for some time).

The muscular pink alicorn stallion had his darker pink mane neatly trimmed. His hooves were well taken care of, but not to the degree of the mares. His fetlocks touched the ground. He has a crystal heart emblazoned on his flanks. He is also the only royal (save Dusk) who didn’t wear clothing or regalia. His friends call him Bolero.

Both eating in silence and reveling in that fact. Both munching away at their food and reading books they had plucked off the former librarian’s shelves.

Everything was peaceful and quiet until “WHAT!?” Was heard coming from outside.

Both Ponies let out a loud sigh before setting their food down, closing their books, and getting up to see what was going on.

Walking through the long corridors and to the front door, they can’t hear anything that’s going on outside, because this palace was supposedly sound proof. That seems to have been proven wrong though. They both ignite their horns and open the door slightly.

The instant the door is open, they are barraged with the sound of many shouting ponies.

“ELEMENTS, ANY RESPONSE TO THIS DECLARATION?” Asked a news stallion.

“IS THAT REALLY A HUMAN?” Asked a mare.

“WHY WOULD SOLARIS SUDDENLY DECLARE A MARRIAGE TOWARDS SOMEPONY HE HAS NEVER KNOWN? HAS SHE BEEN HERE FOR YEARS BUT WAS KEPT HIDDEN?” Shouted another news stallion.

“WHY DOES SOLARIS GET ALL THE MARES?!” Shouted stallion who was very angry.

The noise got so loud, that Bolero had to put a soundproof spell on the mouths of all the ponies.

“Can you ponies just SHUT THE BUCK UP for one minute?” Gleaming had shrieked. This caused all the ponies (elements included) to back off. Some had looks of fear while others had looks of disbelief on their faces.

The royals begin to converse while staying in their own private bubble, as if they are unaware of the murmurs or whispers going back and forth between their subjects.

Princess Gleaming Shield and Prince Bolero had always been so kind and would never do those things. Their subjects knew something bad was along the horizon.

“Ahh, Princess Gleaming Shield. I assume you and my nephew enjoyed your lunch.”

“We were actually in the middle of it, before we were interrupted.” Stated Gleaming. “We heard somepony shout something and had to check it out. Do you know what caused that?”

“I have a pretty good idea. Now Gleaming, I need you to take hold of your husband and hold him tight. I have some wonderful news.”

Gleaming grabs her husband very tightly around the barrel. She sits on the ground and digs her back hooves into the dirt. She nodded to Solaris.

“I’m getting married.”

At this news, Bolero let out a loud squeal and tried to jump on Solaris. Luckily Gleaming was holding him tight enough to keep him still.

Gleaming, on the other hand decided to just smile and give him a nod. She also looked around with a curious expression.

“Where’s Artemis? I know he was out here with you when we went inside.”

“Oh him. He’s over there passed out. My fiancé is watching over him.” Solaris points to the palace doors.

Gleaming gets a good look at Artemis and was about to magic him into the palace, before freezing. She slowly and unconsciously let go of her husband. Bolero took this opportunity to jump towards Solaris and asked about all the wedding details.

“Who is it? Is it that mare from the Zebra country?”

“No.”

“Then that Griffinstone diplomat’s son?”

Solaris shakes his head. “Wrong again dear nephew. I don’t think you’ll get it though.”

“Oh please, I’m pretty sure I can figure it out.”

“I’m sure you could, but I don’t have the time. Look over there.” Solaris points to where Bolero’s wife was looking.

His face goes from expressing joy to shock in the course of 5 seconds. His mouth was open so wide, and so long that flies were starting to collect in it.

After a few minutes of shock, Gleaming broke the silence. “Is that what I think it is?”

“Yes. That is my brother.” Solaris says with a smirk.

“THAT’S NOT WHAT I MEANT AND YOU KNOW IT! IS THAT A BUCKING HUMAN OR NOT!?”

Gasped were shared by almost everypony at the foul language.

“Why yes, it is. She seems to be preoccupied with taking care of my brother though.” As Solaris says this, the mentioned human begins to nod off. Combining a stressful day with cuddling a giant warm teddy bear pony, she was ready to sleep. “That reminds me, can you bring them in? We have much to talk about.”

Solaris canters through the doors and into the massive palace.

After a few minutes of gawking, Gleaming and Bolero snap out of it and levitate both Artemis and the human.

Blitz had finally reappeared to see a bunch of news ponies standing stock still, mouths open and eyes wide along, with his friends.

“What happened here? Hey Dusk, is ~Janet~ in there?” He motions to the palace and receives a slow nod. “Right, then let’s follow her.”

Seeing as how none of his friends are moving, Blitz takes a left-over raincloud from around where Artemis started the dumpster fire. After moving it over his friends, he gives it a powerful kick sending rain and lightning onto his five (now very wet and angry) friends.

Without even looking back to them, Blitz flies into the palace. His friends following. Before He was too far inside, Dusk closed and sealed the doors with his magic.

With this all the other ponies started to disperse. Including the news ponies, they had headlines to make.

A once kind and gentle royal couple suddenly using magic to silence ponies and shout profanities.

A human suddenly appearing.

Their great and fatherly leader marrying some stranger and ignoring his subjects.

Another royal causing a large fire.

These ponies are not only making headlines, but for supply shops and masonries. They’re getting ready for what they now believe are signs of the apocalypse.

*Back Inside the Palace*

They had all gathered in the map room. Janet and Artemis were placed on the map and magicking a pillow under their heads and blanket over them.

Solaris had commandeered Dusks throne while the other elements of Harmony got to their own. Dusk teleported in 3 folding chairs. One for him, another for his sister, then the last for his brother-in-law.

Janet was sleeping happily. She had a nice big pony to cuddle as a giant teddy bear. Artemis, still passed out, being the teddy bear in question.

They were all looking at each other nervously, save the ones currently unconscious and Solaris. He currently looked like he had just won the lottery.

“So” says Dusk awkwardly. “What are we gonna do?” He looks towards his mentor, who is currently sitting in his thrown.

“Well first, I think it’d be best if we have the girls’ measurements taken and send out invitations. I think we should be ready for the wedding in a few months. Berry and Bolero will be planning of course.” Berry squeals in delight but Bolero can’t help but frown as he feels like something about this is very wrong. “Elusive for the clothing.” Elusive perks up at this.

“It would be my honor to make a suit for you my king.”

“What about ~Janet~?” Solaris askes.

“Why should I make a dress for a beast? Have you read about some of those things those creatures do? She’ll just end up destroying my dress.”

Applejack stands up to interject “ah thought you loved humans. You would always tell me about how amazing their fabrics were, an’ how you wished you or any other pony could recreate them.”

Unfortunately, what he said fell on deaf ears as Elusive was too stunned from the glare he was receiving from Solaris.

“O.K. How about this? You make her dress, and make it look really good. You do this for me, or I will make sure you never make a single stitch of clothing again.” Everypony gasps at this.

‘Would he actually do that? Why would he say that?’ Was what everypony was thinking. The pony they looked up to and saw as a father, threatening one of them.

“What’s with all those shocked stares? I am doing what I think is necessary to get the job done. And I also will not tolerate any of the racism spewing from his mouth. Especially towards my future wife.”

“Yes, your highness. Anything you say.” Elusive quickly says.

“Now Blitz, keep the skies clear, and be the usher.”

“Usher? What’s that?” He scratches his head.

“The pony that checks to make sure that only the invited ponies get in.”

“Cool. I’m a bouncer.”

“Sure. Now Applejack, you got food and will help the gardeners throughout the month to make sure the gardens look good.”

“Thank yah’. But ah can’t. Got lots to do on the farm. I could lose a lot of profits from this. Ah also don’t think it’s right to get married to sompony you don’t even know.”

“Your worries are noted. I will reveal my reasons for this marriage later. After hearing it I assume you will come to terms with it. On another note, I will have some help sent to your farm and pay you back the bits you will lose.” Applejack nods to this.

“Dusk will be in charge of making and sending invitations.” Dusk nods.

“Finally I can show you this new method for sorting and making letters.” Dusk says.

“Now Gleaming, you’re a guard and know what to do already. Butterscotch, you … will do something when I think about what you can do. Maybe keep the animals quiet. Or take Eris out somewhere nice so she doesn’t disrupt the ceremony.”

Both nod though one had a blush so red, they looked like a communist flag.

“Dusk, can you also be my best stallion?”

“No thanks.” Was Dusks response. Everypony stares at him with wide eyes. “Don’t get me wrong, I feel honored. But I also feel that this is wrong. She barely knows you and she doesn’t speak our language. You should at least wait until she knows the basics. I’ll still help with the letters, that is, if you want me to.”

Putting his hoof to his chin in thought, Solaris comes up with a response. “How about this, I shall give you 2 months. If she learns the basics, she does not marry me.”

Bolero chimes in, “you mentioned telling us the reason for the marriage. What is that.”

“I’ll tell you all later. I have much to do, like killing that homeless bill that will be put into effect soon.”

“Um, excuse me. But Your Highness, Sir, King Solaris, didn’t you put that law into place.”

“Yes I did dear Butterscotch. I don’t know what I was thinking when I wrote it but now I see how much harm it can do. With that said, I’ll be off. Please take care of my brother while I’m gone.” With that he teleports back to Canterlot.

“Well what do we do now?” Asked Blitz.

“WE SHOULD THROW A PARTY!” Berry shouted right into Blitz ear.

*Janet’s Dream 3rd Person*

She was lying in an orchard. The trees filled with apples. She was staring up at the apples, thinking of how to get them. She loved to eat apples fresh from the tree.

Should she go find a ladder? Should she get an adult? If she went back to the mansion, she would probably just be given some apples from the fridge.

She hated being 12. But in a few days, it would be her birthday and she would, according to her father, be able to roam the orchard almost completely unattended. She already took walks without guards but would get in trouble for doing so.

Getting to her bare feet, her shoes and socks in her hands, she begins to walk toward her parent’s stable.

Once she passes the tree line a faint breeze starts to ruffle her yellow and pink polka dotted sundress. The breeze was not unwelcomed, yet it was unappreciated. Janet welcomed the air cooling her down on a hot summer day, but this wind chilled her to the bone.

Reaching the stable, she sees a strange man. This man was currently cleaning her horse. Her dog was also with them, not barking, acting as if the stranger had been a part of the family.

Getting a closer look, Janet notices that the man Is wearing blue overalls and white gloves. He had skin paler than hers, and dark blue hair that sparkled and waved.

Janet also noticed that her horse was now red instead of black. Her border collie had changed to bright yellow. Had someone died her best friends? Are they sick? What’s happening?

Janet becomes overwhelmed with fear and anxiety, until a gloved hand places itself on her shoulder.

“Tis alright.” The figure speaks in a soft voice. “Tis just a dream. Nothing to fear.”

Within a second, Janet had gone from being a 12-year-old girl to her old 19-year-old self and in a longer version of her previous dress. The stable starts to melt away and is replaced with a dark room. The floor, a beige carpet that her feet and toes dig into. There is a large red bed at the center.

Janet and the stranger walk over to, and sit on, the bed.

“Who are you? Are you some manifestation of the repressed sexual urges I had towards my stable keeper as a teenager?”

“What? No. We are a dream walker. We can visit the dreams of others. We can help them or kill them.”

“So you’re like some Freddy Kruger thing? And why do you keep saying we?”

“We know not of this ‘Freddy Kruger’ but dream walking is an ability few are born with. And those born with the ability can’t fully master it without centuries of practice. We are the pony that you comforted in front of our brother’s student’s palace. And to answer your second question, we say ‘we’ because we are addressing one of our subjects. We are Prince ~Artemis~ of the night.”

“I’m your subject?” Janet says, placing her hand on her chest. Artemis nods. “I don’t remember voting for you.”

“You don’t vote for royalty.” Artemis gave her a deadpanned stare.

“So, if this is a dream does that mean I can do whatever I want?” She asks excitedly.

“Not while I’m here. And even if I leave you will not be able to. You need to have been lucid dreaming beforehoof.”

“Beforehoof? Oh, right. You’re that pony I hugged.”

“We have something important to tell you. We also ask that you respond to this with a hard NO. It is the only way to save you.”

This got Janet nervous. “What is it?”

“You are to be wed to our brother. Our brother is the white alicorn that you walked past. I implore you to tell us no, so we can relay the information to our brother and legally break it off.”

Artemis however did not get the response he wanted.

“I don’t really care.” Janet responded in an emotionless voice.

This caused Artemis to gain a shocked expression.

“BUT WHY!?”

“I’ve always had people control every aspect of my life. I guess I’m just used to having big life decisions made for me by others. The last time I tried to do things on my own, I wound up in that forest for 3 days.” She thought it best not to bring up that green unicorn.

“B-but, your marrying someone you don’t even know. You need to learn to make choices for yourself.”

“I don’t care. The only times I’ve made real life decisions have led to disappointment, pain, or suffering. I’m ready to go back to the way things used to be. If that means marrying someone I don’t know, then that’s OK with me. So, can we please talk about something else.”

“Fine, but you’re not off the hook yet.”

“I have a question. Why were you cowering when we met? Are you really afraid of a little human?” Janet says with a slight smirk.

“Yes, actually.” This caused Janet’s smirk to turn into a frown.

“Why? What about a 5’5’’ 19-year-old girl that’s afraid of the sun is so frightening to you?”

“An ancient creature appearing out of nowhere. Ponies acting not like themselves. Entire memories being locked, changed, or erased. Something horrible approaches. I fear what will come.” Pausing, Artemis puts a hand to his chin in thought. “We have our own question. Why do you fear the sun? Isn’t it that humans had a deep loving of the sun.”

Janet did not hear Artemis’ question, as she was stuck on ‘ancient creature.’

“What do you mean by ancient creature?” Her eyes narrowing.

“We’ll answer your question if you answer ours. Why do you fear the sun if other humans basically worship it?” Artemis said in a tone slightly angrier than he meant.

“Look at my skin.” Janet starts showing of her arms, legs, and stomach. “If I spend 20 minutes at the beach, I’ll be burnt to a crisp. Also, humans don’t worship the sun. They praise it.” She spoke angrily and quickly, in hopes of getting her question answered before she forgot it. She crosses her arms and turns away.

Artemis listens with rapt attention. Hearing her pause causes him to speak up.

“How do they praise it? And, if we may ask, what about the moon and stars?”

She spoke more calmly as she has already forgotten her question. “Well, I don’t think anyone actually praises it. That was more of a joke. I think people just appreciate that it provides the Earth with warmth and light. From my understanding though, people prefer the moon and night sky to the sun.”

Artemis’ breath catches in his throat. He gains a look of excitement and his eyes water which he is trying, very poorly, to conceal.

“And why is that?” His voice trembling from the thought that his domain was more favorable towards the most revered creatures to have ever walked the planet.

“I hear they like it for its beauty. I guess I think that too. I always liked to lie down on the grass in my family’s orchard and stare up at it. Of course, there were always armed guards around me so I could never do it by myself. Since I never had any friends, I couldn’t enjoy it with anyone either. But it was still nice.”

“Thank you for that.” This statement causes Janet’s face to show a look of confusion.

“Why? I just told you my thoughts.”

“We know. It makes us very happy that you and many others enjoy the night. In case you didn’t know, we are the prince of the night. We thank you for appreciating something that most seem to ignore.” This causes Janet to become more confused. “If you ever would like to, we would be more than happy to watch our night with you.”

“How can you be the prince of a time of day?”

“I control the moon and stars.”

“Bullshit.”

Artemis’ face grew a look of disgust.

“Why would you say that as a response?”

“It means you’re making this up.” She points to Artemis.

“That just raises more questions. Why would calling someone a liar, result in bull feces?”

“I answered enough of your questions, now answer mine.” She hopes he remembers it, because she doesn’t.

Huffing and giving a slight pout, Artemis relents.

“Alright. Your question was what I meant about ancient creatures. Is it not?”

“It is.” Janet says slowly, not sure if that was her question at all.

Letting out a deep sigh, Artemis begins.

“Humans died out. And by died out, we mean wiped off the face of the planet. From what we can tell from archaeological digs, your species went extinct millions of years ago after a terrible war. All the human countries warred with each other, until an unknown third party stepped in. Where did this party come from? We don’t know. It knew that humanity was weakened greatly from this large war, and decided to attack.”

While hearing this, Janet did not know how to feel. She had never really had any friends, and her parents controlled every part of her life while her brother was more of a stranger to her. And her pets were sent away when she was getting too friendly with them. She had no one she truly cared for when she left. Yet she was now the only one of her species to exist.

She had been lonely all her life, but it had felt nothing like this. This feeling is the feeling of never seeing another of her kind ever again. Not even the maids or bodyguards that she so loathed would now seem like ideal company.

“What happened next?” She asked with a strange voice. Strange because of all the emotions coming out at once. Uncaring, anger, sadness, happiness, loneliness. She didn’t know what to feel and her voice portrayed just that.

Noticing how strange her voice sounded, Artemis quickly responds. “Again, this might not be 100% true. This all comes from data we received from dig sites. It could be false speculation and theories. There could possibly be more humans out there, they just aren’t making themselves known yet. So please try to calm down.”

Sighing she takes a few deep breaths. “O.K. I’m ready to hear the rest. Please continue.”

“The human countries banded together and fought off this enemy. It turned out to be from some other planet. The humans had sent soldiers to the planet and blew it up, but not before their enemy had sent something towards the planet. When it hit, suddenly all of humanity had come down with an intense illness that slowly killed them all. They shared the same fate as their enemy. They were wiped from existence.”

Janet’s breathing had picked up again. She was hyperventilating. Now she was concerned for her safety. What if that disease is still here?

“But that could be fake. And who’s to say that this is my home planet? Maybe I fell through some wormhole or something and wound up in another universe. That sounds plausible, right?”

Janet put her hand on Artemis’. Then the world turned white.

*Artemis’ Mind 3rd person*

Janet opens her eyes to find a large, expansive, white hallway. There were no walls, no ceiling, nor any floor. She couldn’t walk, let alone stand. But she could float. All previous thoughts temporarily forgotten.

Artemis is back to his old self. In his pony form but still has his wavy starry mane. He simply walks along the nothing as if it was a floor. His hooves making clopping noises as if they were touching stone. Seething with anger and confusion, he confronted Janet in a non-too friendly manner.

“HOW THE BUCK DID YOU GET IN OUR HEAD?!”

Surprising and scaring Janet, she floats away. New tears in her eyes as she trembles.

“I d-d-don’t know.” Remembering who she was talking to, she calms down quit quickly.

“GET OUT!”

Janet stood her ground, something Artemis was not expecting.

“No. I don’t know how I got in here but, judging from how angry you are, there must be something hidden away here. Maybe you were lying the whole time.”

Taking a deep breath, Artemis speaks calmly. “I’m sorry I snapped at you, I just don’t like others in my head, not since last time. Now, it wouldn’t matter if you went looking for anything of the sort. You see these doors?” He waves a hoof towards thin air, and doors with chains and some barren appear. Some without the chains are red and others blue or yellow, the chained ones are gray.

“These weren’t there before.”

“No, they were not. Memories can only be summoned by the owner. But that doesn’t mean that they cannot be altered or blocked out or implanted by others.”

“What do these mean?”

“We have gone through all my memories, I have color coded the doors so I know which are real, and which are fake. The red doors are altered memories. The blue are implanted. The yellow doors are original memories. The grayed out doors are suppressed memories, while the grayed out ones with chains have been locked away.”

“How are they locked away?” Janet asked quizzically, her head tilted to the side.

“We do not know. All we know is that somepony is going around and altering, implanting, and locking other ponies’ memories. They are also changing their victims behavior. Only in dreams will you see their true self now.”

“There are four types of ponies, earth, unicorn, pegasi, and alicorn. The ones affected most, as it seems are the alicorns, next the unicorns, then the pegasi. For some reason the earth ponies have barely been affected by this. It is assumed because of how little their interaction with magic is.”

Janet floats over to a chained door. It had strange lettering on it that morphed into English, yet the letters did not make up any words.

“Have you found a way to break the chains?”

“No. It seems impossible.”

Janet read the door.

She grabs the handle and the door opens.

This causes Artemis great shock, not just at the door opening but because of what the door said.

Janet could feel herself being sucked into the door. She could also hear Artemis shout something. As she was sucked in, the door closed and all she could see was black.

Artemis stood in front of the door in amazement as the chains are shrinking, and the color is returning to the door. He touches the door and nothing happens. He still looks nervous as he read the carving on the door. tisfr actinoniorf

What do these letters mean?

“I hope she doesn’t see anything unsettling. I would hate for her to not like me. Maybe it’d be best for me to start to translate what this door is saying.”

The Nightmare Begins

Author's Notes:

So this is about Artemis' firsts (when it comes to sexy times) and how it's related to his transition being a villain.
This chapter isn't as good as I hoped it would be, but I suck so this is it. I also just wanted to get it over with.
FYI: This is the first time I've written clop in months so, it's not that good. Please comment on it so I could do better.
WARNING
Some light voyeurism, transformation, ball gags and cock rings, slight incest, gay butt sex, premature ejaculation (in a way), exhibitionism (kind of), and foalcon (sort of).

*Artemis’ Memory 3rd person? *

Janet finds herself in a room. Looking around she notices that the room is lavished with wealth. Red velvet curtains across the windows. Stunning white walls with intricate gold encrusted designs on it.

Looking down she notices that she is sporting an erection. Not just an erection, but that of a horse. It was the same shape, even had a medial ring. Its color was dark blue with black spots. That was when she realized that she is in a memory, and she can most likely only watch and experience.

She is beginning to feel the emotions connected to the memory. She is also beginning to feel the physical aspect as well, although somewhat muted.

‘So this is what it’s like to have an erection.’

It’s as if the aforementioned rules did not just come to her at random. It was as if she knew them all her life, then she remembered that she is in the memory of a dreamwalker. The rules of watching memories probably became ingrained in her mind when she entered the memory. She was proven right, as more information about dreamwalking came to her.

Putting that thought aside, she takes a more detailed look around and sees a large bed come into view. The bed had white sheets and large fluffy gold pillows.

It’s surrounded by nightstands with large white candles in solid gold candelabras. The flame coming from them wasn’t yellow, orange, or even red. The flame was a bright purple. It was purple yet gave off light like a normal candle. The candles next to the bed could light up the entire room.

Slowly, noises start to appear, growing louder and louder. They sound like grunts, moans, and … sighs?

As everything becomes more detailed, she realizes that she is beginning to meld to Artemis’ mind. She is slowly becoming him for the time being.

Janet waits for the full memory to materialize, then she realizes just what she is watching.

She is seeing that white alicorn from before, mounting a dark gray mare while she (Artemis) watches. Janet seems to be overcome with anger, jealousy, and lust. The emotions Artemis is currently feeling at that moment.

Janet (Artemis) felt a darkness creep inside. The darkness seems to fuse with Artemis’ (and by proxy Janet’s) mind. From what Janet could gather from the memory, the darkness was always there, it was even getting stronger.

‘Why not just kill our “dear” brother and take the mare for ourselves?’ Said the darkness.

‘We would not want harm to befall our brother. He just wishes to copulate with the mare of our dreams.’ Artemis replies and immediately sighs afterwards.

‘Why would he do that? Why would our brother want to copulate with the mare we love if he knows we love her? Why would he make us watch?’

‘He makes us watch because that is the law. Whenever a virgin is to have sex, they must be accompanied by a family member. It is to ensure that the other party is not taking advantage of them. And ponies can get a little overexcited easily, so if they get a little crazy they can be stopped. I’m also sure our brother has a good reason for doing this, he always does.’

‘You argue in his favor yet are filled with nothing but rage?’

‘Yes. I don’t like what he’s doing but I trust him, he’s probably doing this for a good reason. Now please be quiet, they are almost done. When we are in our chambers we will want a full explanation of who you are.’

‘Of course, I only wish to serve.’

With that thought, Artemis’ focus was brought back to the couple on the bed.

The moans had gotten louder. Solaris was pumping so hard that Artemis lit his horn in case the now creaking bed broke.

“OH SOLARIS YES! KEEP GOING!” Shouted the dark gray mare.

Solaris’ response was a loud grunt.

Artemis could only roll his eyes. Or was it looking away?

As the seconds went on, Solaris only became more intense, until.

“I’M GUNNA …”

“INSIDE!”

With that, Solaris let loose a torrent of cum inside the gray mare. So much that some started to seep out.

After half a minute, Solaris’ erection finally started to subside and slips from the mare’s vagina.

He gets off the mare and the bed as well. With him off the mare, Janet can see that her mane is black and she has a red curved horn. He walks towards Artemis while his flared penis still hangs limply waving back and forth between his legs. Some beads of cum still dangling from it.

He pulls Artemis into a hug, which was unfortunate for Artemis (and Janet who didn’t know how to feel). Artemis felt a jolt of pleasure in his nether regions and looking down he noticed why. He felt pleasure but was disgusted because Solaris’ cum covered cock was against Artemis’ relatively dry one.

‘EW! It’s touching mine. Please, by the elder gods let it stop?’

Artemis was also somewhat conflicted as this was his brother, but what the two were doing was perfectly legal. Sure, if they were to come out as lovers the country would be in an uproar. But not because of the incest, but because of the sun and moon suddenly becoming lovers.

“We thank thee for being here brother. We know how much she means to you, but she also means a lot to us as well.”

Artemis did his best to reel in his look of disgust and prevent his anger from showing. With much effort, he managed to put on a smile.

“Yes brother. She does mean a lot to us, but thou art very important to us as well.”

‘He’s just full of shit isn’t he?’

‘I thought you were going to be quiet.’

Solaris leans into Artemis ear, pushing their bodies closer. The action causing Artemis to become even more conflicted as he could now feel his brother’s penis retracting to its sheath while rubbing on his still erect one. Leaving a little bit of him behind.

‘Please make it stop. When will that thing go away?’

‘Maybe it’s waiting for you to give it a goodnight kiss. I wouldn’t be surprised. Your brother won’t be satisfied until he’s mounting you in front of the whole country and disbanded your night court.’

‘Will you be quiet until we are in my chambers?’

“I’m going to take a shower, go talk to her. I believe she feels the same way towards you. I’m sure that when I get back, I’ll be the one witnessing you. Then we can have a joint herd.”

With that, Solaris left the room.

The dark gray mare finally got up off the bed. She walks towards Artemis.

“Ah, fair maid…”

She puts a hoof to his mouth.

“No need for that nonsense. We’ve known each other for years.”

“Of course Umbra. Did you enjoy yourself?”

The mare nods her head.

“Yes very much. Your brother shows potential, but unfortunately not as much as you do.”

With this Artemis blushes. “Excuse me?”

The mare laughs. “Artemis, I am the most powerful wizard to have ever lived. I can read your thoughts, dreams, and even memories. ‘I even managed to gage how well you would do.”

This caused Artemis to gasp. “How can you read memories? I thought they were only able to be brought forth and read by the owner.”

“There are many things you and your brother have yet to learn.”

“What things have you glimpsed.” Artemis asks, nervously.

“Well, I know how a certain stallion feels about me.” This causes Artemis’ heart to skip a beat.

“And?” He asks her as he paws at the ground.

“No thank you.” This leaves Artemis shocked, devastated, and heartbroken.

“But … but why?”

‘She must have liked Solaris so much that she doesn’t even want to think about you.’

‘SHUT UP!’

“Artemis, something you need to know is that your brother and I are much closer in age. We are only a few years apart. While you and I are almost 14 years apart. I basically raised you when your parents died.”

“But…”

She holds up her hoof.

“I know you have an infatuation with me, but that’s it. I think of myself as more of your mother than a possible mate.” She gives Artemis a hug. Which he very much enjoyed. “But I will help you a bit, just this time.”

Her horn lit up. He could feel her magic slowly peeling Solaris’ cum off him, then suddenly Artemis screamed in pleasure and he instantly ejaculated. Umbra caught the cum in her magic and brought it to her mouth where she slowly slurped it up.

“What did you do?”

“I used magic to stimulate all the nerves in your penis. Now if you don’t mind, your brother has always had trouble properly cleaning himself.”

With that said, the mare was off but not before flicking her tail and giving Artemis a peak at her winking vagina as his brothers cum leaked from it. She left with Artemis sitting on the ground. Mouth agape, eyes wide open. Head filled with nothing but feelings of anger, confusion, and jealousy towards his brother, which is just what the new darkness in his head wanted.

Janet became separated from Artemis as her vision turned white. She is now floating and waiting for it to continue as she knew that this was not the end of the memory. It seems to be more of a chain of memories strung together for having something similar attached to it.

*A century Later*

“BROTHER!” Solaris calls out.

This time the audio came first. Then the visuals came in like water color. What Janet was seeing was mostly blurry. As if she was looking through a fogged lens.

But soon she starts to meld with Artemis again and starts to see that she is moving quickly through a gray brick hallway.

When Janet starts to feel Artemis’ emotions, she understands why everything she see is blurry. His eyes are tear filled and he is running. He feels anger and despair. He loathes his brother.

‘Well that went well didn’t it?’

‘SHUT UP NIGHTMARE!’

‘Let’s see, the mare you loved was turned into a vile tyrant who your brother had slain.’

‘Shut up.’

‘You told him about me and now he’s making you see a therapist, has suspended the night court, AND has temporarily disbanded the night guard.’

‘I said shut up.’

‘You are also now mandated to medical scans every day. And now your brother refuses to witness your first fornication. I guess you’ll be a virgin for life.’

With this Artemis teleports to his room and puts so many spells around it that not even Solaris could get through.

‘Now, stop your crying. How about you let me have control for a bit again. I can make that last problem go away.’

‘But last time, you almost severely hurt someone.’

‘I know, this time though, I swear I won’t do any harm to anypony. Cross my heart … our heart.’

After giving it some thought, Artemis relents. “Fine. Do what you must.”

Suddenly his mouth filled with blood and excruciating pain. He runs to a mirror and feels his snout get slightly longer and fangs started to protrude from his mouth.

Looking more closely at them, they seemed longer than last time.

Then he has a splitting migraine as his hair elongates and turns slightly purple. His pupils also slightly stretch vertically. And his fur turns a darker shade of blue.

Finally, Artemis’ mind recedes and the Nightmare comes forth.

Artemis and the Nightmare have thought it out and decided to call this form Nightterror Nebula as this form is somewhat scary. Well, scary to ponies at least. But it can simply be waved off as Artemis ‘trying a new look.’

Unfortunately, they found out that when the nightmare takes over he has no inner monologue. He can’t think, only speak out loud.

“Now, to find a luck mare or stallion.”

‘Now before you go doing anything, or anypony, do you know where my brother will be.’

“Please, after your little tantrum” Artemis gets a bit flustered “he most likely started Day Court. I assume that there will be no interjections seeing as it’s Saturday.”

Forgetting the tantrum comment, Artemis perked up. ‘Ah yes. It will be only him and a subject. Not counting the 2 guards. If you time it correctly, there will be no subjects.’

“Right.”

Nightterror Nebula walks out of the room, but not before putting another enchantment on it. The enchantment was unknown until later. A memory from some time in the future sprang forth telling that it turned the room into a hub of negative energy.

“Let’s go.”

*20 minutes later*

‘Maybe we should give up.’ Said a downtrodden Artemis.

“NO! We are so close. I can practically smell a pony.”

Looking around a corner Nightterror spots a lone solar guard. He was wearing the usual solar guard attire while also having the usual white.

“Jackpot.” Nightterror spits on his hoof and smooths out his mane.

‘That’s disgusting. Don’t do that with my body. And a low-class stallion guard? Have some standards.’

“I’ll do what I want.” He walks towards the stallion. “Hello dear sir. I request a small conversation.”

The stallion looks at where the voice is coming from and gains a look of fear. His fear stems from seeing a large dark alicorn with fangs.

“Fear not. For it is I, Prince Artemis. I am temporarily getting used to a new form I will be using in battle to intimidate my foes. I call it, Nightterror Nebula. Scary, isn’t it?”

The stallion nods.

“Speak. I wish to converse with you.” Nightterror’s eyes become lidded as he gives the stallion a look that he had seen before. To accentuate the look, Artemis also put a hoof to the stallion’s chin.

“W-why aren’t you using the royal ‘we’ or ‘us’?” The guard asks suspiciously.

‘Now you’ve done it.’

“That is a form of speech only used in the presence of our subjects.” Nightterror leans down to look the stallion in the eyes. “You mean so much more to me than a mere subject.”

After a few minutes of conversing, the nightmare knew that he could get the stallion to do anything for him.

“Come, follow me.” He turns around and swishes his tail. Giving the stallion (now known as Morning Star) a generous view of his assets.

To which the stallion took in as if it was the last thing he would ever see.

“Now, as you know, this will be my first time. So, it must be in front of my brother. He is in court, but since it’s Saturday we should be able to ‘slip in’” he makes air quotes with his hooves and the stallion chuckles “before anypony notices.”

Upon reaching their destination, Nightterror opens a large golden door (that changes to onyx at night) with some simple magic. Usually the door doesn’t require magic but for some reason there was a lock on the door.

Walking inside (along with Morning Star), Nightterror takes in all the differences between the day and night court. For instance, the colors were white and gold instead of purple, blue, or black. There was a large empty jury box to the right of court where the senators or delegates sat. In night court, there was none.

The throne was elevated in day court and had a stand next to it.

Currently, the only thing Nightterror cared about was making this stallion his mare in front of Solaris. And guess who was sitting in his throne with a look of surprise?

“Brother, tis I. Artemis. I have come to bear your witness.”

With that said, he magics Morning in front of him and bends him over. This was not what the stallion was expecting.

“Brother, what has happened to you? What are you doing here?”

Using a spell he learned from Umbra, before she was a tyrant, he lubed up the stallion’s anus.

Leaning over to the stallion’s ear, Nightterror whispers “You might want to bite something.”

Solaris’ face gains a look of horror. “BROTHER STOP!”

With that said, Artemis rears up onto morning’s back, taking in the cool feeling of the stallion’s cold armor. He lines himself up and, within only a few seconds, is inside the stallion.

Artemis usually couldn’t feel anything while he was letting the nightmare run around using his body. But this time, he could feel everything. Even Janet could.

The tightness, the warmth, the lube. All three of them could feel it. Suddenly, Artemis regained control. The pleasure overriding the pain of transforming back.

Artemis started to thrust his hips wildly. Bending over and biting down on Mornings mane and pulling hard.

Moaning at every thrust and every contraction of the other anus.

“Ahhhh.”

And as quickly as it began, it was over.

Not even a minute in and he was letting loose an ocean of cum inside the stallion.

To say that this was caused by his inexperience, would be somewhat of an understatement. He would later tell his brother that the stress of the transformation and forgetting to pace himself were also causes.

Slipping out of the stallion, letting his wet cock dangle between his legs as his brothers did so many years ago. Artemis looks towards his brother and gains a look of horror.

There was his brother, with an angry look on his face. His face said everything it needed to, especially the eyes. It was as if his brother had walked up to him and said “that was quick?”

The other thing that caused this look of horror and feeling of dread in his heart, was who was standing next to this brother. There he was in all his glory, the Sultan of Saddle Arabia and his 14-year-old daughter.

The Sultan was brown with a darker brown mane and black eyes. He was wearing a bridle and saddle. His daughter had brown fur with magenta hair. Her eyes were light blue and she was wearing a white dress with pockets. Artemis looked away before he could see their reactions.

Looking back to his brother, he shy’s away.

‘Why didn’t you stop when you saw them there?’

‘I didn’t see them. Honest. What are you going to do? Your brother looks upset.’

“Umm, brother. I can explain everything.” Solaris’ glare hardens as Artemis’ eyes tear up.

Artemis runs away (but not before taking Morning Star along with him in his magical grasp).

*Hours later*

Janet was forced from Artemis view and was brought to the view of, Solaris? Suddenly a memory pops up, telling her that Artemis and Solaris both have memories that they have shared with each other. It was to strengthen their relationship.

As Janet settles in, she starts to feel the memories emotions. This time though, she could tell exactly why these emotions were felt.

Anger for what his brother did in front of a royal guest and his foal. Happiness that his brother found a pony that cared enough about him. Jealous because that was a stallion Solaris had his eyes on for some time.

He was walking rather quickly with the Sultan right beside him.

“I do apologize for the behavior of my brother.” He suddenly stops and bows down so far his head touches the floor. “Please do not think too harshly of him, or Equestria. I can only ask that you forgive us and not let this harm our trade agreements.”

The sultan brings a brown hoof to Solaris’ chin and brings his head back up. Looking Solaris in the eyes, he says.

“Do not worry. After seeing the um ‘show’ your brother put on for my daughter and I, I assumed that you were rejecting our offer. Saying as you say, to ‘buck off.’ But your apology seems genuine, and any fears I had have been rested. We will continue business as planned.”

This shocked Solaris. “But what of your daughter? She witnessed my brother doing that with a stallion.”

“Worry not, it’s very common in the streets of my country. We take it as a way of expressing ourselves. Speaking of my daughter, do you know where my daughter has gotten off to?”

Solaris’ face turned paler, “I think a guard is giving her a tour.” Solaris walks to a guard and whispers. “Send out a search party for the Sultans daughter. Have her by the gate at sundown.” The guard saluted and went off on his quest.

Janet found herself ripped from Solaris and brought back to Artemis.

Artemis had just come out of the bath. A towel in his magical grasp, wiping down his body and hair. Morning Star had just left to report back to guard duty. Who’d have thought that Artemis was ready for another 6 rounds.

That stallion was walking funny on his way back to work. He had to keep his tail down and hold his legs together. Artemis wanted to mark the stallion, so he didn’t use any magic to take out his cum. He even told the stallion to hold it in all day.

Sitting back on his bed, he lies on his back. His hooves sprawled out. He just lies there, thinking on the events of the day.

‘Why did I let the nightmare take over?’

‘Because you need me.’

‘Why do I feel so unimportant and weak without the transformation?’

‘Because I give you strength. I give you presence. I give you respect.’

‘This is horrible. I’m satisfied, I have free reign to choose any pony of the country to copulate. Yet I feel empty. Like what I did was wrong. I hope that the Sultan doesn’t cut off trade. I wonder what his poor daughter must be going through.’

‘Come on. The Sultan seemed to enjoy himself, as did his daughter.’

‘I didn’t even last all that long. I embarrassed myself in front of the leader of our countries major trade partner.’

There suddenly was a large tingle of pleasure rush up his spine.

Looking down between his legs, he saw the Sultans daughter blowing on his testicles. She slowly takes one in her mouth. The warm wet sensation caused his penis to slowly come out of his sheath.

Artemis’ mind stopped working.

“Whuuuu?”

‘Looks like somepony liked your show.’

She popped the ball out of her mouth and reached her hoof to touch Artemis semi-flaccid penis. Causing pleasure to course through his body.

“NNFFF”

“I enjoyed your performance.”

‘Called it.’ The Nightmare thought smugly.

“Even though you didn’t last all too long.” As she speaks, she pumps her hoof, causing Artemis to become more erect. “I can help. I’m used to seeing these things so I know just what to do.”

“Ahh. Don’t stop.” Artemis was close, He was leaking precum already.

“Do you want me to help you build up your stamina?”

“YES!” He shouted as he came. Only a small amount came out though, as this was the eighth time today.

It splattered across his chest. He was starting to sweat and was already panting.

“First, let’s have you experience what a mouth feels like, then we’ll try pony traditional. We won’t get into the human stuff until later, considering that I forgot all my human stuff at home.”

“O.K. but let us rest for a bit.”

Nodding her head “Fine, I’ll give you 5 minutes.”

True to her word, five minutes later, she was stroking Artemis’ sheath.

His penis quickly became erect, and then came time for the main event.

The Sultans daughter starts to lick Artemis, starting from his balls and slowly moving up to his tip. She places her hooves back around his shaft and slowly pumps him.

The only sounds in the room was the Sultans daughter sucking Artemis cock and Artemis’ own panting.

She licks the tip of his cock while keeping her mouth over it. Lapping up his precum. She felt his tip begin to flare. He feels a familiar feeling. He’s about to cum. Then she stopped. She released him from her mouth.

“Why did you stop?” Artemis said, extremely disappointed.

She took her dress off, then pulled 2 things out of a pocket. It was some strange ball with a strap on it. There was also a glowing ring with a hinge and clip on it. They made Artemis nervous.

“What are those?” Artemis points a hoof towards the objects.

“They’re something I bought back in my home country. They were just recently discovered. They were found during an excavation of some old human settlement. They’re sex ‘toys’ called a ball gag and cock ring. You strap the gag over a pony’s muzzle, humans used it during sex to temporarily ascend to the heavens, or so I’ve heard. The cock ring goes on a pony’s … well … cock. It’s enchanted to make a stallion last longer.”

“Is that gag safe? It sounds dangerous.” Artemis asks, nervously rubbing his hooves together. He didn’t ask about the ring as it sounded safe enough already.

She nods her head, “definitely.” She lays down on him, he behind right in Artemis’ face. She moves her tail to give him a look at her wet winking vagina.

She grabs one of Artemis’ hooves and brings it over to her pussy. “Play with it, get familiar with it.” And he does.

After putting the ball in his mouth and having it strapped on, he immediately starts to salivate. He has to constantly swallow to prevent himself from drowning in his spit.

Then the filly clamps the ring around his erection, his flare goes down and he no longer feels like he’s going to cum. He begins to play with her pussy. Moving his hooves around it, stretching it. Putting his hooves in it.

“BY THE ELDER GODS! You’re doing much better than expected.”

The filly got back to her work, she put her mouth on his tip. She started to suck the tip. Waves of pleasure started to course through his shaft.

“MMMMFFFF!” He paused his vaginal ministrations from the surprise, but got back to work.

She started to use her tongue to lap up the precum seeping out of where she was sucking. She started to move her mouth. She took his entire shaft in one quick movement. Feeling her warm, tight, wet throat and mouth contracting around his shaft almost caused Artemis to cum.

Fortunately, she decided to just take a small break. They just laid there, him on his back hoof deep inside her and her with his cock in her throat. Then she started to move.

She slowly started to bob her head up and down while wrapping her tongue around his phallus. She started to hum and swallow, causing even more pleasure to rush through Artemis.

“MMF MMMMMFFF MF MMF”

She began to mover her head faster and moved her hooves. One began to fondle his balls while the other went to play with his anus.

Her moans of pleasure from Artemis gave him more confidence and he started to thrust into her mouth. The filly begins to move her head to match Artemis’ thrusting.

He was panting and moaning into his gag. He felt the vagina his hoof was in start to clench and the owner made a small scream around his cock. The filly just had an orgasm.

Artemis was close to his. He began to thrust faster, the filly now keeping her head stationary as she let Artemis face fuck her. His tip flared in her throat, he hilted himself deep inside her and let loose a torrent of cum that he didn’t even know he could.

He kept himself so deep inside her for so long that the filly started to have problems breathing and she quickly removed her head from his cock. Artemis gave one final spurt and it landed over her face.

Moving very slowly and weakly, the filly moved and went to Artemis’ head where she removed the ball gag. After removing it, she snuggles up to Artemis.

“How’s about we take a little break? We’ll pick back up in a few minutes.” She panted out.

Artemis swallowed the last of his spit and took a couple deep breaths.

“Yes. I feel exhausted after today. I just realized, I don’t know your name.”

The filly looks up to him and says “My name is Princess.”

“A fitting name I guess for what is basically a princess.”

Princess stands up, “Where I come from ponies are generally given a name that says what they’re future job will be.”

“Then why Princess? Won’t you at some point be queen or ruler? Are prostitutes named prostitute? Do names change with their job?”

Letting out a sad sigh, “no. I have a brother who, even though he’s younger, will inherit the throne as he is male. And to the other questions, kind of. The pony is given a name, but are often referred to as their position.” She lightly taps Artemis’ arm. “But enough of that sad talk, let’s finish what we started.”

“Already?” Artemis asked nervously. “It hasn’t even been 2 minutes.”

“The ring lets you regain stamina faster. Now get up.”

Princess stands up, as does Artemis. They both hop off the bed as Princess puts her front hooves back on the bed and leans into it.

She swings her tail to the side as Artemis mounts her. He’s careful to shift his weight to the bed as to not crush the filly.

He uses his magic to line up his now erect penis and slowly pushes in. As he slowly pushes his way inside her, he stifles a moan as he feels her warmth. She felt extremely tight, so much so that Artemis had to use some force, but she was also very wet ensuring that he only had to use a little.

After getting half an inch in, Artemis feels a wall. Without thinking he makes a hard thrust and breaks past it. Hitting a second impenetrable wall. He hears her give out a slight scream.

“What’s the matter? Am I hurting you?”

Princess speaks in a shaky voice. “Well kind of. I don’t’ really have experience with this sort of thing.” Artemis looks down and sees blood. “Don’t worry though, I should be fine in a couple seconds.”

“All right, I’ll start when you’re ready.”

There is a loud noise on the other side of the room. Artemis and Princess look.

At this moment, Solaris and the sultan walk into Artemis’ room.

Artemis was horrified as was Solaris. Princess on the other hand, was not.

“High daddy.” She waves at him.

“So, this is what you’ve been up to. I do hope you both are enjoying yourselves.”

“We are.” Princess looks to Artemis.

“It’s time to go Princess, you two can continue the next time you visit.”

“Alright.” Princess slips Artemis out of her and walks over to her father. She turns to Artemis. “We should do this again sometime.”

Artemis and Solaris were too shocked to speak.

After a minute Artemis finally gathers his thoughts. ‘Yes I did enjoy it, no this is not illegal or unheard of. So why am I hesitating.’

‘Just do it. That was amazing.’

“Yes. I would love to. Actually, I was thinking of starting a harem like your father. Would you like to join?”

“Of course.” She answers quickly, after looking to her father for approval to which he gives with a nod.

With that Janet leaves Artemis’ body and a door appears. It opens and some unseen force throws her out of it.

She is greeted by Artemis, who looks distracted.

“Hello, you are back.” His face becomes crestfallen. “I hope what you saw did not disturb you.”

What she saw was strange. She should be disturbed, but wasn’t. Her thoughts were that it was a sign of the times and he couldn’t really be blamed for it. What did disturb her though, was the nightmare.

What was the nightmare? Where did it come from?

She holds up her hand. “It was alright at the time you did it. It was okay then and somewhat common. I’m fine with it, as long as you don’t do that now. I really can’t fault you for doing anything wrong. Well, some of what you did was wrong but again, it was ok and common at the time.”

“Still, I feel bad about this. But look.” He motions his hooves to the door which is now colored in and unlocked.

“So, me entering the door and reliving your memories brought them back?”

Artemis nods his head. “Yes. I believe that if you were to go through all my memories I would become me again in the waking world.”

Janet was surprisingly ecstatic at the thought of doing this. What could an already primitive pony civilization look like over a thousand years ago?

“I’ll do it. But I have one question. Why did you start to use ‘I’ with me? I thought you only used that when not talking to a subject.”

“Because you saw one of our most vulnerable and explicit moments. I believe we are less like acquaintances or a royal and a subject. We are now closer than that. Now let’s bring back my memories.”

Artemis and Janet spent the entire night fixing Artemis’ memories. By the time Janet was waking up, she had done almost all of them. She and Artemis even came up with a plan to fix other ponies.

Waking World (Edited)

Author's Notes:

edited it. Taking a brief hiatus to edit and make changes to the story.

*2 weeks Later in Front of Dusks Palace 2^nd person*

“So, how is she?” asked a very concerned Applejack.

“I don’t know. She seems kind of down.” Replied somewhat distracted.

“What does down mean?”

“Down means down. Now leave, it’s 4 in the morning and I have important business in the morning.”

“What important business could be more important than the human?”

“SLEEP! NOW LEAVE!” Dusk slams the door in Applejacks face.

With that said, Applejack walked turned around and walked away, somewhat angry. Never had he thought that he would see the day that Dusk would have a normal sleep schedule.

But, his friends seemed to be having mood swings lately, all save for Bubble Berry. One day they’re their normal selves, the next their rude and seem to just remember things wrong.

Something strange was going on and Applejack was not going to let it slip by him.

*Later in the Day in Front of Dusks Palace*

“Again Applejack?” Said Dusk.

“Yeah, now yah don’t seem busy or have an excuse to be rid uh me. What did yah mean by ~Janet~’s feeling down?”

Dusk looked around nervously before finally replying.

“She doesn’t really pay attention when I’m trying to teach her. She’s always looking off into space with a somewhat sad expression. She also seems to be losing weight. She doesn’t eat all the things I’ve been giving her. Based on her height and what she used to weigh, she should be eating and drinking more.”

“Anything else.”

“She spends most of her time in bed, often struggling to get out. She seems to have low energy and sleeps a lot. I sent a letter to the king and prince about this. I hope it’s nothing serious.”

*Janet’s Room 1^st person*

Why does the world suck?

I lived a life of leisure, I could do whatever I wanted (within reason) if a guard accompanied me, and I had my parents’ permission.

I could play all the games I wanted, read, or watch anything. I had servants that would do whatever I wanted. I was highly educated and wouldn’t have to do anything for my entire life.

Why did I run away? Well, I know why. All it did was end with me being millions of years in the future? The jury’s still out on whether it’s the future or an alternate dimension. There are probably no other humans because they all died out.

This would have probably hit me harder if I had a social life. It’s still upsetting, but I’m mostly over it.

I live with ponies that try to feed me fruits, bugs, and plants. The water isn’t even that clean. It’s clean enough to drink, but it has a strange dirt taste to it. It’s as if they don’t filter their water that thoroughly.

Why get up? I don’t get to make any of my own choices. I have nothing to do except wait for a language tutoring session and sleep. In case you were wondering, they’re so boring that I hardly pay attention.

The only thing I look forward to is when I get to go into pony’s memories. ~Artemis~ made a full mental recovery in the real world, I’m still trying to fix the (as he calls them) elements of harmony. They seem to slowly revert after I fix them. It’s a waste of my time. Luckily ~Artemis~ said he might be able to permanently fix them.

I’m not even going to tell you about his brother, he’s real messed up and not touching that. At least not anytime soon.

Still, I just wish I could stay asleep forever. Going into other creatures dreams to fix their memories is a great distraction against the whole ‘I might never see another one of my species again’ thing.

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK

There appears to be someone knocking on my door.

“COME IN.” I yell.

The door opens and in comes … ~Artemis~? And he’s carrying what looks like 2 open tubs of mango ice cream.

“I heard you were feeling ill.” ~Artemis~ levitates a tub towards me along with a scooper and walks over.

Mango is probably one of my favorite fruits (despite my upbringing) and one of my favorite ice cream flavors. It’s also very well like by my blue buddy. ~Artemis~ and I have really gotten to know each other over these past 2 weeks.

“Your skin.” ~Artemis~ puts his hoof on my arm. His hoof is cold, most likely because he’s wearing those metal hoof shoes.

“What about it.” Still not too comfortable with the whole touching thing, especially hooves. I just don’t like being touched in general.

Hooves are like feet (by that I mean they are constantly on the dirty ground) but ponies use their front ones like hands. That means they’re getting what they’ve been stepping on, on everything else. I push his hoof off.

Looking at his face I see a somewhat sad expression befall it. It’s either from pushing his hoof off or he’s concerned about something. Maybe both, he did get that expression when I pushed his hoof off and he did mention me being sick.

“Your skin is becoming paler. You should be getting out of this room and into the sun.” He holds up a hoof. “Yes, before you say anything I am of sound mind. Maybe stand on one of the balconies for a bit.” He brought the tub of ice cream up to his face (with his hooves) and dug in.

It was actually kind of cute. It kind of reminded me of my dog. The way his eyes closed to keep the ice cream out of them. How his tail starts to wag and his ears stand straight up. Even the noises he made.

After looking away, I’m brought back into my previous thoughts. “What’s the point in going out? What can I do outside beside standing on a balcony?”

~Artemis~ stops eating and looks away. He seems to have become very interested in the wall.

“Well” he says while rubbing the back of his neck. “You can go on a picnic with friends, which currently I’m your only one and I’m very busy.” *Sigh “There is the beach, but with skin as pale as yours you’ll probably be burned bad. How about reading a book? I guess you could just stay inside and read though.”

“You got nothing.”

He drops his ice cream on my bed (which needs to be cleaned now) and waves his hooves in my face.

“Nononono. I’m sure I can think of something you can do outside, that won’t draw that much attention to you. And that you can do without friends. Oh, I know. You can go around town under an illusion spell and see the sights.”

“I don’t speak your language. And what was that about not drawing attention to me?”

“Right, I forgot you can’t speak ~Equish.~ And Rainbow Blitz is out of the question at the present time. I’m sure I can introduce you to some of my friends that can speak your language. But for now, please focus on learning ours. While we’re on the subject, I got a letter from your teacher, you’re not paying attention in class.”

He magics up the remains of his ice cream.

“You didn’t answer my other question though. Why don’t you want me to have attention? I practically paraded around the town with this countries most honored hero’s and had my picture taken hugging you.”

He starts to hum. The kind of hum you use to pretend you’re not listening. At least, the hum when he’s pretending to not listen.

“Hello? Earth to ~Artemis.~” I start to wave a hand in his face.

The humming gets more intense.

I’m tired of this kind of shit. He always does this when I ask him questions about leaving, or trying to find other humans. Well, I’m not in the mood so there really is one thing to do.

I smack the bitch outta him.

Unfortunately, this really fucking hurts my hand. But that horse is probably willing to speak now. That’s how it works in the movies right?

Looking at him I can see that he’s not fazed by this at all, so I punch him. Still nothing.

“You know, you are only going to end up hurting yourself. You seem to forget that I’m a god. It’s going to take more than a punch from, no offense, someone with your musculature to harm me.”

Damn, he’s right. But this gives me an idea.

I smack him again.

“Stop it.”

I smack him again, but harder.

“Seriously, stop.”

“Not until you tell me what I want.”

I punch him. My hands are really starting to hurt.

“Really, you’ll only hurt yourself.”

Now, I start wailing on him. At least until his magic grabs me and pulls me away from him.

“I’m not going to let you go until you swear you’ll stop. Look at your hands, they’re getting bruised and bloody.”

“I’m not going to stop until you tell me.”

He looks away for a couple of seconds and sighs.

“Fine. I’ll tell you.”

He sets me down on the bed. He summons 2 bags of ice and a first-aid kit and starts to work on my hands.

“We don’t want you to have any attention because it might cause a ruckus. I already told you that your species is extinct. That your species is credited for all the great things all the races of the world use daily. There is also the matter of foreign powers and what they would want to do or use you for. But what concerns me most is that there are some that outright worship humans.”

That’s … interesting? Or is that creepy? Maybe that green unicorn was a human worshipper.

“What could happen if a human worshipper found out about me?”

“My brother and I are at a loss. We have no idea. They could treat you as their queen and be your slaves. Or try to do other rather unsavory things to you. Or you might just be flat out killed. My brother and I are currently trying to figure out a good solution to introducing you to the public.”

Being a queen with countless slaves doesn’t sound that bad. But I’m way too young to die.

“O.K. And what about all those photos?”

“My brother and I managed to convince the newspapers to have a recall and print apologies. Calling you some sort of doll that ~Dusk~ was making.”

He finished bandaging my hands and puts the ice on them.

“Thanks for fixing my hands, but why not just use magic?”

“You’ve already been healed once by magic recently. I could sense it. Since what happens with your species when magic is used on them is unknown, I decided to wait for it to be out of your system.”

I guess I should apologize to him. I’ve been so depressed and upset about my situation that I haven’t thanked him or his friends for all they’ve done. Nor have I shown any appreciation of ~Artemis~ looking out for me.

I give him a hug. “Thanks for looking out for me. I might not show it at times, but I really appreciate all that you’ve done for me.” He blushes and gets a goofy grin. I have him right where I want him. “Now about those other humans?”

“Oh those?” He moves his head to the side and gets a whiff of my somewhat dirty hair, but doesn’t seem to mind. “I sent out a search party. It might take a few years, but if any humans exist then they’ll report back to me.”

Letting him go, I get up off the bed and walk towards the door.

“where are you going?” He too gets up.

“I’m going to take a bath.”

He trots over to me, with a smile on his face.

“Oh, I’ll come with you. I can do your hair and you can do my mane and tail. It could be a great bonding session.”

I would say no, but he seems genuinely innocent about this. As if this is just a normal thing. Well, these ponies do walk around naked all day. And from the memories I saw, this is normal. When in Rome, do as the Romans I guess.

“Alright. But only the hair, got it? And maybe my back.” I accentuate my point with a stern voice while pointing at him.

He nods his head. “Of course, I wouldn’t dare wash your back … or legs … or chest … or hands … or feet … or pelvis without permission.” He looks at each part of me as he calls them. His face getting redder and his mouth starts to drool a little.

Maybe his intentions aren’t as innocent as I thought.

*The Giraffrica capitol castle; throne room*

A brown and blonde pony stallion with a dust devil for a cutie mark by the name of Desert Breeze, a somewhat short stallion, runs through one of the many throne rooms of his king’s castle. Each throne room has a large, ornate, gold door that the poor stallion must push open by himself.

He has urgent news that he needs to report to his king. He just hopes that his kingship isn’t with his harem at the moment. He would not like to run into his boss copulating with his sister or daughter again.

After searching the sixth throne room, he comes to his final stop. At least he hopes it is. Opening the large door, he is greeted with the sight of his king finishing business with a local sculptor. He’s been more interested in world problems and having his image preserved ever since he returned from his vacation. He also seemed more interested in having a harem and expanding than ever before.

The sculpture is of him, surrounded by his harem. They are all in various sensuous poses except for the king. He is calmly mounting a white and brown female griffin, Georgia, at the center with a sword in one hoof and a glass in the other.

The Zebra King Zulu (named after human royalty) is somewhat large. Both in height and weight. He is wearing his cape and crown today but that’s mostly because he’s modeling for the sculpture. The artist leaves with drawings of the scene from various angles.

“MY KING, I BRING IMPORTANT NEWS!”

The King dismounted the griffin and talks to his harem about something Dessert couldn’t hear. But it caused a lot of the harem to walk towards the door the stallion came from.

“MY KING PLEASE, THIS IS IMPORTANT!”

The king halted, he raised his hoof and shouted “STOP!” causing everyone in the room to cease their movement as if time itself had stopped.

“What is so important that you interrupt one of my sessions?” The king asked Dessert angrily.

“It’s this my king.” Dessert Breeze tosses a bunch newspapers to the king.

He reads the titles and a bit of the articles. “A human in Equestria?” Zulu smiles at the thought.

“That’s right. There are two versions. The first states that there is a human female in Equestria. There is a huge story about it. The second version states that it was a hoax. But sources say that was after the headquarters of the individual newspaper companies were confronted by the Equestrian secret service.”

“Looks like the Equesrians have stumbled upon another thing that they will so selfishly hoard. We will need to have a meeting with Solaris. Are there any photos of her?”

“Yes, they were inside the newspapers. You know how Equestrians are? They put the headliners photos inside of the newspaper instead of on the front to coerce you into buying it.”

Zulu looks through the newspapers and sees many pictures of Janet.

“She is quiet the beauty, isn’t she? She will make a fine addition to my collection.”

He motions towards a minotaur who was on the opposite side of the room next to a door. He pulls a large rope that’s right next to him.

The door opens and another stallion walks through the door.

“Send a message to King Solaris that I’m requesting a meeting with him. The meeting will be in two weeks on a Monday. After sending that message, prepare my ship for the voyage to Equestria.” The stallion nods and leaves.

*Solaris’ office*

By now, many other rulers of other foreign countries had found out about the human. They also found out about the attempts to cover it up. Many letters flooded Solaris’ office demanding to meet with both him and the human, as well as to chastise him for selfishly trying to keep her to himself.

Here was Solaris, laying on a pillow and reading all the letters. He responded to each and every one of them with the same message.

‘I call a grand meeting of the United Nations of Equis. I request all nations (even unregistered ones) to attend. It will be held in my palace in 1 month to discuss a most glorious event.’

Even though he says for all nations to attend, he knows one will not be able to. After all, he has done his best to prevent them from receiving any more news from Equestria.

The Changeling activity since the overthrow of King Metamorphosis by the newly allied Queen Mesosoma had died down. The changelings that had reformed with her seemed too busy rebuilding their country to attend. Solaris believes Mesosoma will be able to attend for a few hours.

Unfortunately, some changelings from the old nation remain. And according to Mesosoma, King Metamorphosis has already established a new nation with the remaining changelings. The new nation is called the New Changeling Republic.

Solaris is so excited and nervous for his wedding that he hasn’t been sleeping. And the wedding gift he has for his fiancé is an old red diamond that was given to him by his old mate Umbra. It’s crimson red glow had slowly grown over the past few months. It’s almost as bright as when Umbra gave it to him.

Solaris can’t wait to see Janet wearing the diamond, and only the diamond.

He can’t wait for the marriage, but is also afraid that maybe King Metamorphosis will find out somehow and ruin it.

After sending the last letter, he finally has a chance to read Dusks letter. After reading it, he couldn’t figure out what emotion to feel.

Happy, because he would be able to marry Janet. But sad because she seems to be depressed about something. Then came the nerves of something actually being wrong with her. Maybe she’s sick? He needs to make sure she’s all right.

“I must go tell Artemis that I’m going to be away for the rest of the night, and maybe tomorrow as well.”

Another letter magically appeared, which Solaris read immediately. Apparently his archaeologists have found a human hospital that is intact. They are requesting extra assistance on their next expedition because it’s near King Metamorphosis’ new territory. What a coincidence.

“Since their expedition will be after my wedding, I don’t see the harm in letting ~Janet~ go and help afterwards. I’ll of course send the Elements of Harmony and a small platoon with them. I’ll respond to this tomorrow.”

‘I had better leave before I receive any more letters, else I might be here all night.’

Solaris got up and walked outside his office and was greeted by the sight two guard mares. He walks towards them.

“Can you two do me a favor?” Both mares nod. “Good, can you tell my brother that I’ll be gone for a bit?”

“Excuse me your highness, but your brother had left for Ponyville hours ago.”

“What?”

“Prince Artemis left to Ponyville a few hours ago.”

Solaris’ eye twitched. He’s slightly upset that his brother is already spending more time with his fiancé than he is, but this is going too far.

“Well, carry on then. Oh, and reschedule all my appointments for today and tomorrow to next week.” Solaris opened a nearby window and jumped out. He set his course to his former students’ library. next to himL��$�[

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Author's Notes:

Sorry for the long wait. I've had no free time between school, my internship, huge amounts of homework, and Breath of the Wild.
I've become a bit rusty on my writing so constructive criticism is appreciated.

Janet and Artemis had been walking towards one of the palace’s baths. Along the way, they had started to discuss family. Particularly Artemis’ relationship with Solaris, and how seemingly horrible it is, it made Janet forget what had made her depressed in the first place.

“I think I’ve figured you out.” The statement from Janet caused Artemis to turn his head.

“How so.” Was Artemis’ reply, making sure to keep one eye on her and the other on what was in front of him.

“Well, in your memories you’re always timid and shy. You always seclude yourself, believing no one wants you around. To keep yourself occupied during those times you read and study, which is how you learned my language.”

Artemis lets out a sigh. “I know that, it’s something I’ve always had problems with.”

“Now, after looking through all your memories I found something interesting. Your brother. He always takes what he wants. He’s an alpha male. And you have been unfortunate enough to have been raised by one while they were a hormonal teenager who was hailed as a god.”

Artemis gasped in shock. “Are you implying that my brother wasn’t caring while he and Umbra were raising me? I’ll have you know they both loved me very much.” His voice becoming angry.

“What? No, I’m not implying that.” Janet responded quickly trying to dissipate Artemis’ anger.

“What I meant was, because you were raised by someone like your brother you became used to having things you liked taken from you and always being in someone’s shadow. You never learned to stand up for yourself, AND instead of doing that you began to become jealous. Yet you were unwilling to do anything about your jealousy until it overtook you.”

Artemis paused in thought. “I guess you’re right. What should I do?”

“I suggest you stand up for yourself. Show your brother that he can’t push you around anymore. Try to get out of that shadow and show him that he can’t always get what he wants. I’ll support you and be there for you if you need help with that.”

*Solaris*

Solaris was rushing to Dusks palace, hoping he would somehow arrive before his brother. He knew his brother was already there, but he could still hope he got distracted along the way.

Upon his arrival, he noticed that Artemis’ chariot was in front of Dusks palace. Chained to it were Artemis’ fastest fliers.

“OK, so your brother is here. Maybe he just arrived.”

He landed next to the chariot and knocked on the door. A disgruntled Dusk opens the door.

“WHAT!?” Upon looking at who was knocking, Dusk almost went catatonic. He knelt so fast he almost hit his face on the crystal. “YOUR MAJESTY, I APOLOGIZE!”

Solaris held up a hoof. “It’s all right. You must have been having a rough day. Why don’t you take Barb and Stellar Gleam someplace nice? I need to speak with my Brother. Do you know where he is?” Upon finishing his sentence, Solaris was practically seething.

“In ~Janet’s~ room.” With his tail between his legs, Dusk ran to get Barb and Stellar for a night out. He could tell that Solaris and Artemis’ conversation wasn’t going to be a pleasant one.

Solaris began making his way to Janet’s room. It wasn’t until 10 minutes in that he realized he had no idea where her room was. Well, maybe she wasn’t in her room. Where could the two be?

“I guess I should just check every room.”

And he does. Solaris opens every door he comes across with growing frustration.

*The Bath, 3RD person*

The bath in Dusks palace wasn’t that big. It had a station for washing yourself and then there was an actual bath next to it. But this bath was more like a large crystalline hole in the ground filled with water.

Janet had started washing Artemis but was having some problems. The first of her problems was that the towel she had wrapped around herself kept mysteriously falling off, but she had an inkling of what was happening. The second problem is that Artemis’ mane and tail are extremely hard to clean.

After minutes of tirelessly scrubbing, lathering, and shampooing Artemis’ mane is finally clean. Janet moves onto Artemis’ tail, clearly frustrated.

“You don’t need to do my tail if you don’t want to. You’re clearly getting frustrated, and this is about bonding and relaxing.”

Janet stops lathering Artemis’ tail. “Really? OK then I’m done with you.” She lets go of Artemis’ tail.

Artemis lets out a sigh as Janet let go of his tail.

Artemis moved back as Janet got up and took her place in front of him, crossing her legs because she didn’t have anything to sit on.

Sitting cross legged caused her towel to ride up, slightly exposing her very lower back and butt crack as she was sitting on the crystal without covering.

Artemis took a second to burn that image into his mind.

He squirted some shampoo in his hooves and started to lather it up. Once it was sufficiently bubbly, he started to work it into Janet’s hair.

A hoof is somewhat hard, and a human’s head is somewhat soft. Because of this, the experience wasn’t as soothing to Janet as Artemis thought it would be.

For the next few minutes, the bathroom was filled with the sounds of somewhat pained grunts accompanied by small ows.

When Artemis was finished, an angered Janet rinsed her hair out.

“How do you feel?”

Janet turned towards Artemis.

“I feel like someone tried beating me to death. Never do that again.”

To say Artemis was crushed would be an understatement.

“But I tried to be soothing and gentle.”

“Your hooves hurt, a lot. Let’s just forget about this and get into the bath.”

Think fast Artemis, you’re losing her. He thought, nervously clapping his hooves together.

“Hows about I do your hands. Please, as a chance to redeem myself.”

After a minute of thought and deep breaths, Janet relented.

“Fine, you can wash my hands.” She stretches her hands towards him.

“If I do a good job, maybe I can wash other parts of you. Like your back, stomach, or feet.”

Janet got a cross look on her face, tired of Artemis trying to persuade her to let him do that. “Just concentrate on my hands for now.”

*3rd person in the castle*

Solaris slammed another door shut, cracking it. The crack slowly faded as the palaces magic repairs them.

The palace is somewhat alive. It could tell that something was off about Solaris this visit and was doing its best to keep him away from others. And it also liked to mess with ponies. A palace does have to entertain itself somehow.

The palace has a history of changing where rooms are. Either to help ponies find their way or to make them get lost.

After almost half an hour of searching, Solaris finally found a bedroom. He at least assumed it to be a bedroom because of the large bed inside it. He walked into the room without much hesitation.

“Is this the right room?”

After looking around, he noticed that the bed had a large hole in the center shaped like a large basket. Inside was a doll that looks like a white unicorn.

Solaris looked under the bed but quickly pulled his head out. What he found seemed to be a dildo collection. A collection which featured many different shapes and sizes from many different creatures. Some still seemed wet from use.

After burning the images of them from his mind, he walked over to the closet.

“I really hope this room doesn’t actually belong to who I think it does.”

After opening the closet what Solaris saw unnerved him. It was a gigantic picture of Elusive taken from some bushes. The picture was surrounded by hearts and had a mahogany frame. The frame stood on an alter surrounded by candles. In front of the picture was a doll that seemed to be made of fur and pieces of mane taken from Elusive.

“Now I’m 100% sure of who this room belongs to. I’m going to need to have a long talk with Barb later. And maybe put some guards around Elusive, just in case.”

Solaris closed the closet and left the room, ready to continue his quest.

*Bath*

Artemis’ second attempt at comfortably washing Janet went pretty well. There were some parts where he got too excited and accidentally harmed her. But the overall experience of having her hands washed/massaged by someone else felt nice.

The two of them were currently soaking in the large bath together. Artemis soaking nude while Janet was still wrapped in her towel.

“So, what was your life like back home?” Artemis asked Janet.

“Very secure I guess. I lived in a large house on one of my family’s orchards.”

This caused Artemis to raise a brow.

“You’ve never mentioned anything like that before. What do you mean by ‘secure’ and ‘orchards’?”

“My family was somewhat wealthy, I come from a long line of farmers who grew things like apples and oranges. We owned multiple orchards across the country and most apples and oranges came from our family’s company. It was a comfortable life. I could probably get away with doing more things than most people, and get most anything I wanted within reason.”

“That is very interesting. But again, ‘secure’?”

“Yeah, the females in my family are usually the companies’ mascot. Because of that, I was often surrounded by body guards and my activities limited. I actually ended up here the night I was running away.”

Artemis didn’t really know how to feel about this information. Throughout all his life he has been struggling. Back when he and his brother weren’t alicorns, he was always starving. When he became the prince of the moon he struggled to be appreciated. He even struggles now to regain the trust of the ponies he betrayed.

He usually didn’t even have guards around him. Before his banishment, the two brothers were required to defend themselves. After an order by Solaris 100 years after Artemis’ banishment, he has guards almost always constantly following him. He really enjoys their company.

And now he was talking to a human that ran away from home and didn’t even know the meaning of hardship. She could do anything she wanted (within reason with slightly more limitations) and have anything she wanted (within much less reason than most others).

Artemis’ feelings were mixed, but maybe he had misunderstood her. Maybe she was treated poorly and everything else was to keep her from doing exactly what she did.

“Was anyone ever mean to you? Were your parents ‘cold’ or distant?”

Janet takes a second to think about it.

“Not really. I’ve been scolded before, but the servants and my nanny were very kind to me. And my parents were always kind and loving. That is, when I would see them. Now my brother, that’s a different story. A story that I don’t want to get into right now.” Janet got upset just thinking about it.

Artemis understood what it’s like to have a brother that could be hard to deal with. Apparently talking about him will make her uncomfortable. But he would like to know more about why she ran away from what seemed like such a good life.

“Hey, how’s about we change the subject?” Janet looked him in the eyes. “How about we discuss human science?”

Janet perked up at this. “OK. What kind of science exactly?”

Artemis got very excited from this. “Can we discuss Astronomy? I would love to hear how the universe and the planet were created.” He said extremely quickly, causing him to speak in a slight accent.

Janet rubbed the back of her neck. “I actually don’t know how the universe was created. Nor do I know how the Earth was formed.” Artemis became crestfallen. “There really is no way to know because of how far back it was, so there are only theories.” Artemis’ mood took a 180.

” I personally believe in the Big Bang, I don’t really want to go that much into detail about a subject I’m not well versed in. I’ll just say that basically there was either nothing or a singularity, then there was something and it started to expand.”

Artemis listened with rapt attention.

“Fascinating.” He says in a whisper. “And the Earth?”

“Well, the theory I believe in is that the Earth was struck by another planet named Thea where the planets fused and parts of Thea became the moon. Eventually the distance from the sun caused the planet to cool. This caused certain gasses, or at least atoms, in the atmosphere to combine creating water. Eventually life formed then evolved until it became what it is now.”

“Amazing. But what are atoms?”

“Basically, one of the smallest things in the universe that make up everything. The only things smaller are what makes them up and what makes that up.” Janet suddenly seems to be very deep in thought. But before Artemis could question her, she speaks up. “Can we not get into all this stuff at the moment? My laptop has more information on this stuff than I do.”

Artemis looked confused. “Lap top?”

Janet waves her hand “I’ll explain when I show you.”

There was an awkward pause.

“So, how have you been doing recently?” Said Janet.

Artemis smiles at that, and happily told her about his day. He also told her of Dusks letter and the general concern for her wellbeing. This managed to convince her to concentrate more on learning their language.

*5 Minutes later*

Janet and Artemis had left the bath and gotten dressed. They were currently on their way back to Janets’ room.

On their way, they heard a loud noise.

Suddenly, Solaris appeared before them. His brown mane and tail disheveled. His breathing haggard and his face a mix of exhaustion and anger. His mind somewhat hazy.

“Dear brother, what happened to you? And why are you here?”

Solaris took a few deep breaths and started to fix his mane. Once he had composed himself, he responded.

“I think I should be the one asking that question.”

Artemis turned toward Janet “~Why don’t you walk back to your room, I think I can handle this. I’ll be with you in a few minutes.~”

The human just shrugged and continued on her way.

“What did you tell her?” Solaris demanded.

Artemis, taken aback by his brothers’ attitude, followed in his brothers hoofsteps and took a few deep breaths.

“Well, I’m waiting.” Solaris began impatiently tapping his hoof.

“I told her I would meet her back in her room when I was finished with you.”

“That is something you will not be doing. You are leaving right now.” Solaris’ eyes started glowing red as well as one of the gems on his crown.

The glowing was unexpected, as Artemis had seen his brother mad and had never seen that happen before.

Artemis, remembering what Janet told him, and stood his ground. “No.”

The red glow began to fade. “Excuse me.” Solaris said in confusion.

“I am not leaving. I have as much right to be here as you. I received a letter from Dusk and thought she could use a friend.”

Solaris stomped his hoof into the ground.

“I am her fiancé. If she’s having problems she can talk to me.”

“You don’t even know anything about her. She barely even knows who you are. You don’t even speak her language.” Artemis shouted with fury.

“That part is irrelevant. I’m trying to save her.”

“FROM WHAT? She is a living sentient being, and an adult at that. She can make her own decisions.”

Solaris stood still and listened to what his brother was saying. He didn’t know why, but for some reason Artemis’ voice was calming him down and making his mind clearer.

“I need to tell you brother. I am in love with the human, and I hope that someday she’ll reciprocate my feelings. And I will not let you get in my way. I will not let you have her.”

Solaris got in Artemis’ face. “Then I guess if you’re vying for her hoof in marriage and are unwilling to share, then that means we are enemies.”

“Naturally.” Artemis snorted.

“Then I guess I already have a hoof up on you, I’m already engaged to her.”

“An engagement that SHE can call off at any time.” Solaris froze at that. “And I’ll be helping Dusk from now on tutor her so she can get out of your contract.”

After saying his piece, Artemis ran towards Janet’s room without looking back. He was anxious as he didn’t know how his brother would respond. But was excited that he defied his brother without the help of an outside force.

He would have to tell Janet of this when he got back to her room. He will also tell Dusk about Solaris’ strange behavior and red glowing eyes.

How the Alicorns Came to be

Author's Notes:

Wow, I've been out of this for awhile. Gonna need to practice to get back into ... whatever I was doing before.

Just uploading this because it's New Year's. Will edit this later 'cuz it's a little rough.

“Hello, my name is Janet.” Said Artemis. He motioned with a hoof towards the human sitting on a bed.

“Hwlo, ey nemc ic Janet.” Was her response.

Artemis and Janet are currently having a lesson. This lesson, like all others involving language are being held in her room. But unlike her usual lessons, this one was being conducted in the evening.

“You’re getting better. At least you understand the words now.”

When Artemis finished his sentence, Dusk had barged in.

“She’s not progressing fast enough. The wedding’s in two weeks.” He shouted angrily.

Artemis recoiled a bit. “She has learned quite fast. She knows more than I expected her to in such a short period of time.”

“But it’s not enough.” Dusk said with a sigh.

“Come now, she already learned our written language … mostly.” Artemis says while wrapping a wing around Dusk. “Maybe that’s all she needs. All she must do is refuse Solaris’ proposal.”

Janet, deciding that the conversation between the two weren’t going to end soon, got up and left the room. Most likely to raid the fridge … again.

Dusk and Artemis had noticed that She had been putting on some weight. Their conclusion, stress eating and a lack of exercise. Or maybe humans hibernated, winter was approaching.

Because of this, they’ve put locks on the fridge and pantry along with charms. This however, has yet to stop her.

They are unfortunately right, at least when it comes to the stress eating as humans don’t hibernate. But they are only partly right with the stress eating.

She is not only stress eating, but also eating out of boredom. But there’s more to her weight gain. After taking residence in Dusk’s palace, she’s become more sedentary. Instead of spending time outside, and with her physical trainer, she’s been cooped up inside.

She hasn’t been spending all too much time with the other inhabitants of the castle either. She’s basically a stranger to Barb, Dusk’s live in assistant, and Stellar Gleam, Dusk’s live in student.

When she’s not eating, she’s studying or sleeping. While sleeping she’s spending all her time in her hosts dreams, keeping him sane.

As she spends no time outside, she has no idea that her focus on him has caused the town to be thrown into chaos. So much chaos that dear old Eris would shed a tear if she were there to see it.

“The king won’t let her off unless she explicitly says ‘no’. I’ve been his student for years, I know him.”

“Nay, you don’t truly know him. Yes, he is kind and paternal. He thinks of others before himself. But lately, it seems he’s fallen back into bad habits.”

“What kind of bad habits?”

“Do you know of our first appearance?”

“You both descended from the heavens after the unification of the three tribes.” Dusk states matter of factly.

“No. Is that what everypony’s being told? We were an earth pony, and Pegasus. Solar Winds, and Lunar Tides.”

Never missing the chance to record previously unknown data, Dusk brings up a quill and paper.

“I was of course the earth pony. We were born to a union between a Pegasus general, and an earth pony mare. She was the recent spoils of war. To be the slave and ‘public servant’ of the rest of the Pegasus population.” Artemis practically spat out the information.

“As our mother was defiled countless times, she eventually became pregnant. Twice even so. First of course was a Pegasus, Solar Winds, then I second. After six more years, she eventually perished most likely due to her poor treatment. I didn’t even know her name.”

Dusk felt less and less easy about his note taking as the story progressed. But he knew it was something he must record for future readers.

“That was when we met Her.”

Artemis stopped his story long enough to warrant concern from Dusk. Artemis decided to sit down for this.

“Who was, Her?”

“After our mother died, not knowing out father we were never allowed in any other family. Alone, homeless, and winter coming around the corner, we had resided ourselves to death. Until we met Penumbra. A unicorn mare who took us in an adopted us. She was quiet young. Her parents didn’t even question her.”

“Why would they question her?” Dusk had a genuine look of question on his face.

“At that time, most ponies wouldn’t be so happy or thoughtless to adopt. Especially one as young as she was. As she was only 20 when she adopted us. She raised us like her own. We were somewhat ostracized by villages for being an interracial family with a single mother. Despite this, she loved us very much.”

“But how does this relate to the kings ‘bad habits’?” Dusk asks make quotation marks with his hooves.

“She spoiled him. As he knew more about our mother and what was going on. I also felt that she was specifically trying to breed him to be her pet. He started to hate everypony. He only had love for himself. He though of mares as only means to please oneself. He became stubborn, and selfish.”

“This went on for years before we had an especially bad winter. He decided to hoard food for himself. This caused us to almost perish.”

Dusk had stopped taking notes, as he was to dumbstruck to realize that his mentor could do something like this. Though looking at resent actions, it seems viable.

“He eventually came to his senses and helped us. He decided to be more selfless and thoughtful. A few months passed, and our town was almost demolished by a beast. I remember not what it looked like, but my brother and I were the only ones to stand up to it. We luckily defeated it, along with Penumbra.”

Artemis stood back up and began to pace.

“How could we not have defeated it though? We had known it was coming, and the town evacuated. But our brother and I had stumbled upon a human scripture. We couldn’t understand what it meant, but when touched a bright light shown from it and pierced our skulls. We felt strange afterwards and had somehow used magic to defeat the beast, we were slowly becoming alicorns.”

“Please excuse me, I’m going to get a drink of water.”

Dusk didn’t respond, as he was too stunned to do anything.

Artemis left the room and got a glass of water for his throat which had become very parched.

Upon drinking, he noticed Janet about to eat a large sandwich.

“NO!” He magics the sandwich away from her and swats her over the head.

“No eating. You’re going on a diet.”

Right then, there was a knock on the door.

“Ugh.” Came from both Artmeis and Janet. For different reasons of course.

“COMING!” Shouted Artemis as he walked towards the front door, sandwich in his magic.

Upon opening the door revealed Elusive along with a box carrying unknown items and possible treasures. At least, that’s how Artemis saw it. He’s always had an affinity for boxes.

“Excuse me.” Said Elusive as he barged past Artemis without so much as a greeting.

“You are quite excused.” Came the confused reply.

“I’m here to make the beasts wedding gown. Where, pray tell, is it?”

The way Elusive was speaking was getting on Artemis’ nerves. But he knew he had to hold back, as the stallion wasn’t in control of himself.

Artemis points a hoof towards the kitchen.

When Elusive walks into the kitchen, he lets out a rather unstallion like screech.

“WHY ARE YOU SO FAT?!” a small whimper was heard as the response.

Artemis was about to close the front door, but a mare came up to it. It was a guard.

She bowed to Artemis and quickly got back up.

“Your highness, we have important information regarding that stallion you asked us to look for.”

“Ahhh yes. Harpo, I believe. Well? Get on with it.” He rolled his hoof at her.

“We have found that he has left Ponyville. We have intel he might be in Canterlot. It is believed he plans to crash your brothers wedding. Your brother, has not taken too kindly to this.”

Artemis sighs. “How much does it take to find one crazed stallion? Wait, my brother knows of this? This won’t end well for Harpo, or the inhabitants of Canterlot.”

Right as those words were spoken, a white and blonde mare arrived at the front door.

“Hello uncle. Excuse me.” She said as she squeezed past the guard and into the palace.

She was being followed by other guardsmares who were carrying her luggage.

Artemis was puzzled and confused to say the least.

“Bluebelle, what exactly are you doing here?” He asks confusedly.

“Uncle Solaris kicked me out. He kicked out a lot the others staying at the castle. Even evacuated most of the city near the castle. OH! Before I forget, he wanted me to give you this letter.” She roots around in her mane and pulls out a letter.

Artemis magicks it out of her hooves.

‘Dear Brother,

Fuck you.

Love,

The better brother.’

This got Artemis mad. He was so mad he almost threw the letter away. Mostly because Bluebelle spoke up before he could do anything.

“There’s stuff on both sides. Just letting you know. While you’re doing that, my guards and I’ll find a room to stay in.”

Artemis turned the letter over.

‘Dear Brother (seriously this time),

After receiving intel of that stallion after MY fiancé was in Canterlot, I have decided to keep the houses and business by the castle on lockdown. I have evacuated them so the guards can search them on a regular basis.

I have also had many of the castle staff sent off with their family.

Bluebelle has shown some concern over the possibility of a crazed stallion able to avoid my guards, soldiers, and search teams for so long. Because of her concern, I have decided to send her to Ponyville where she will hopefully be much safer.

Se might even keep you and its residents company. I know that everypony and human could use some female company.

If there’s anything serious, don’t hesitate to send me a letter.

With Love,

King Solaris’

Artemis was slightly stunned to read this. Not at what he had done to Canterlot, but because of how different this side was from the other. Also the fact that the letter was so coherent.

Usually when Solaris sends Artemis a letter it’s babbling nonsense or casual, filled with grammar or spelling errors.

In fact, what was on the first side was more akin to what he was usually sent from Solaris.

Artemis was broken from his stupor after hearing a shriek. It came from the kitchen.

He quickly ran towards it, and saw Bluebelle passed out, and her guard who’s eyes were bugging out. Then he saw Janet, sitting quietly with an apple in hand, looking distraught.

He lets out a sigh, and speaks to the guard “Take Bluebelle to a room. Put her to bed, I’ll explain when she wakes up.”

The guard salutes, and picks up her charge. The poor mare had to carry both the princess, and her baggage to a random room. A random room in a palace she’s never been in.

Artemis turns to Janet and asks “~What’s wrong?~”

“~Besides being forced to marry a pony? Or having to spend every night going into the dreams of other ponies to make them sane again? That I might be the last of my kind? Or the fact that I’m getting fat? Pick one.~”

The room fell silent after that. It was minutes before Artemis finally spoke up.

“~Well … that’s something. Uhh, I’ll get you a personal trainer, if we can get you to speak our language properly you won’t marry him. Besides, I’m sure he has a good reason for making you marry him. And I’m sure he’ll make a good husband.~”

Looking around, he noticed something. A certain pony that was supposed to be with them. A certain stallion that seems to have gone missing.

“Elusive?” Artemis says in a questioning tone.

“~He’s run off somewhere. After calling me fat, he took my measurements and ran off.~”

“Oh boy.” Artemis says while rubbing the back of his neck.

He knew something bad was bound to happen.

“OUT!” Came Dusk’s voice.

“Please. Just one.”

“NO! GET OUT!”

Artemis could hear loud crashes and the pounding of hooves. Then suddenly.

Dusk walked past the kitchen opening with a bruised Elusive carried in his magic. He opened the front door, and tossed him out.

Afterwards, Dusk walked into the kitchen and sat at a stool next to Janet. “Can you believe this? He tried to steal the gems out of the elements of harmony and the ones from Barbs horde. I can’t take my friends anymore.” Dusk was, and sounded, very angry. And rightfully so.

He put his face on the table.

Artemis walks to him and sits next to him, then wraps him with his wing.

“Come now, they’re under some mind control. We’ll find the underlying cause of this and fix this. When Eris gets back, we can enlist her help. She knows more about mind control than anypony.”

“I know, but it’s ju”

“PUT THAT DOWN!” Artemis shouted after glancing at Janet.

To which, she put down a piece of cake.

“We’ll need to put a stronger spell on the food.”

Janet huffed and Dusk sighed.

“How about, we double our efforts? We can have another study session in few minutes. This will keep her too busy to eat, and help her progress faster.”

“OK.” Dusk said with another sigh. “I’ll get the material ready.”

“Janet, we’re going to have another session in a few minutes. Will you be ready by then?” Artemis said.

“~Yeah, just let me shower.~”

*20 minutes later*

Artemis and Dusk were back in Janet’s room. They were going to have a lesson after she got out of the shower.

“Prince Artemis? Can you tell me the rest of your story?”

“Yes, of course. Where was I?”

“You and King Solaris had just become Alicorns.”

“Ah, right.” He says and brightens slightly before his voice becomes somewhat strained at the miserable memories.

“When becoming Alicorns, Penumbra trained us in magic. We eventually managed to get our respective cutie marks in moving celestial objects. Though we didn’t change our names until years later, after IT happens.”

Artemis sighs.

“Remember what happened to our mother?”

Dusk nods.

“Well, with our new power, Solaris and I came up with an idea. For many years we thought of nothing but revenge, and by the maker did we get it. I had never seen my brother so happy, as when he was starving those that ravaged our mother and left us for dead. My brother had loved it so much, he started to do it more. But to those undeserving. I defeated him in battle very easily, and talked him down after he demolished three other towns.”

“Wait, what did he do exactly?”

“We would destroy their crops, and put a bubble around the village. We would wait until they either starved, or resorted to eating each other.”

Dusk turned slightly green at this while at the same time having his views of the two royals being turned upside down.

“The other towns and villages learned of what had happened and began to fear us. And that’s how Equestria was founded. They feared us, and thought to make us their rulers to save themselves. Solaris had gone back to his kind and selfless demeanor, until Penumbra returned into our lives. Though now, she went by the name Umbra.”

A large gasp could be heard from Dusk.

“Being a very powerful unicorn, she managed to manipulate Solaris’ mind into however she saw fit. The way she had him act, is very reminiscient of how he is acting now.”

“Wait, Umbra’s dead.” Dusk stated.

“Maybe. But her essence could be lingering in something. That’s possibly what’s been causing Solaris and your friends to be acting up. Eris will be able to tell us for sure.”

After a few minutes, Dusk spoke up. “Anything else you want to tell me?”

“Solaris and I have an older sister. She too is an alicorn.”

Out of all the things he has learned today, this was the one that left him the most shocked.

“Her name is Cosmos. We had her sealed away because of how much of a danger she posed to Equestria as a whole. She was birthed before our mothers capture.”

They sat in silence. Artemis had a look of sadness and regret, while Dusk had a look of disbelief and some nausea from the cannibalism in the story.

At this moment, Janet walked in clothed in pink silk pajamas. Her stomach having a muffin top to the once slightly loose clothing.

After looking at the two ponies and noticed something was wrong.

“~What’s up?~”

Applejack

Author's Notes:

Wow, it has been awhile, sorry about that. I got bored one day a couple months ago and decided to make a video game. That (and school) had made me completely forget about this. So when i finished the game I kind of rushed this out to make up for it.

Equestria is in an excited stupor, while many of the surrounding countries are on an extreme edge. The cause? The royal wedding is only a few days away.

Though there are a few places in Equestria that have been put on edge as well. Canterlot for one, as it’s being evacuated to both make room for the wedding and to hunt down the unicorn they suspect is hiding there. While Ponyville is running to ruin from the once heroic element bearers turning on their friends.

The surrounding countries are scared by the rumors surrounding what could have possibly caught the eye of the ever-promiscuous King Solaris for him to marry it.

There was of course the king of the Zebras, who knew exactly what it was. After gaining such knowledge it seemed that he felt the need to expand his army. This caused even more stress and paranoia between the surrounding countries as they all began to build up their armies as well.

It seemed as though the world was about to come crashing down all because of one human, and practically no one seemed to know of its existence.

This fact didn’t deter said human though, mostly because she didn’t know most of what was going on.

Artemis though, was feeling a little stressed out. To the point where he decided it’d be best to try and bring the elements back to their original mentality. You know why, just in case he had a relapse. This meant he needed to help of Janett, so she had been skimping on her Equestrian lessons and had spent much of her time in recent weeks going through dreams and bringing the minds that weaved them back into reality.

She had ‘fixed’ all of the elements but the problem with the magic they’re being infected with, is that unless the magic ceases, or the source is destroyed/stopped, then the symptoms and effects will return.

So, she has spent her time managing these ponies minds to keep them sane.

As she needs to be asleep to do this, she has been sleeping for much longer hours than usual. This surprisingly made her extremely tired. Who knew sleeping more than you needed would make you feel less energized.

She recently found big surges of this magic in the elements and has decided to deal with them before they become a problem. And to prevent them from causing massive problems during the wedding.

She started with Applejack. As he and Bubble Berry were the least effected by the magic, so it would take much longer for it to take hold again.

Once she entered realm of Applejacks dreams, she found that there was practically no damage done since the last time she cleaned it up. There were things she hadn’t seen though. She made sure to stay out of all of their extremely personal memories. She didn’t want a repeat of what happened with Artemis. She frankly wishes to have the knowledge of what a male feels during sex purged from her memories.

It was strange, usually after seeing a memory she would almost instantly forget it, but that one and a few others remained. Because of this she didn’t want to take any chances.

“Hey. Whatchu doin in mah dreams again?”

She turned around and saw the stallion staring at her.

“I hadn’t done anythin’ recently.”

“This is just a brief check-up. Artemis wanted me to go through all your dreams so you won’t make too big a scene at the wedding.”

Applejack snorted angrily at the mention of the wedding.

“Yes, I know. It’s not about any of you ruining it, but about you possibly harming foreign sovereigns and dignitaries. It wouldn’t bode well for the country if it suddenly lost all its allies from some very rude national heroes.”

“That aint what the news has been callin’ us recently.”

“Tell me about it. Really, please tell me about it, I can’t read.”

“Well, we’re now being called the Elements of Disharmony.”

“This has no meaning to me as I have no frame of reference for what the value in that title is. Nor do I understand how that is an insult.”

“Elements of Harmony an’ all that. You don’t remember? Haven’t you been goin’ through our memories for weeks?”

“Yeah, but I forget after leaving the memory. Except for Artemis’ and few others. I think I suffered trauma from them and that’s why I remember.” She thought it best to leave out some memories she had retained from them all.

She turned towards the doors.

“So, where shall we start tonight?”

“Wherever you’d like. And when this is over whole mess, apples on me.”

“Thhhaaaaankssss.” She said blandly with a slight hint of disgust.

She was not fond of apples as she ate many growing up. Janet was raised on an apple orchard. She grew to dislike them from being her main food source her entire life.

“Don’t mention it. Just something I do for friends, and to repay this great debt to you that you’re puttin’ me and muh friends in.” Seeming to not pick up on her slight tone. Also not seeming to understand that giving someone apples isn’t a good way of repaying them for keeping you sane.

After a few minutes of aimless walking, the two realize something. There are no locked or altered memories. In fact, it feels as though the only ones present in his head are the two of them.

“Since there’s nothin’ to do, wanna go on another date?”

Whenever she finished early or didn’t have much fixing to do, she would go on “dates” with the other stallions. Though she doesn’t understand why they call it that, she would call it hanging out.

But she’s never been on a date or had friends to hang out with, so she doesn’t really know how to differentiate the two.

Besides, she does like spending time with them.

“Sure. Where to?”

In an instant, the world changed from a white void filled of doors to a pier. They were surrounded by stalls with carnival games. There was a large Ferris wheel off to its side. And the entire area smelt of sea water … and bird poop.

The two took in the sights of the clear blue water that shimmered from the suns mid-day rays.

And the sounds, it was just the noise of waves crashing against the shore and the piers wooden beams. Along with the sounds of seagulls flying overhead.

“I’ve never been to a place like this before.”

“Really? Mah family used to take me and muh older sister here every summer before my parents passed.”

“And?”

“Well, ah just assumed it was something that most did during the summer. Going to carnivals or the beach ah mean.”

Janet shrugged her shoulders.

“Never been off my family’s property. Excluding airports and airplanes.”

“Really? What kinda life you live?” He only half asked.

“Let’s say, upper-class people who made their money from government bonds and stocks instead of their fruit products from their orchards that they incessantly peddle.”

“Orchards? You some sorta farm gal?”

“In some sense, yes.”

They both begin to walk to a table they spot.

They walk in silence and only continue their conversation once seated.

“I grew up on orchards, but never did any work. Neither did my family. I think they stayed there because they just liked the feeling of being surrounded by apple trees.” Applejack’s eyes start to widen in awe and excitement at the mention of apples. “You see, we had people who tended to the trees and fruit for us. And the animals to a lesser extent as the business mostly focused on fruit. We barely did anything even when it came to running the one hundred and fifty year old family business. Probably because my family really made it big when they invested in government bonds before the depression. Their value skyrocketed after the economy turned around.”

“So. You ain’t a farm gal? And depression?”

“It’s complicated. I did learn how to herd cattle and ride horses. I even picked apples at times. But those were more of hobbies. I wasn’t brought up with the intention of doing work. Now for the depression, that’s a story about an incompetent president who basically ruined the country. And it’s better told at another time.”

“Alright, if you were raised on an orchard that raised animals, wouldn’t that be a ranch? And you seem to have done some stuff farmers do here.”

“I was, more or less, brought up to be an educated woman who would become the company mascot when I got old enough.”

“Beg yer pardon?”

“You see, my families mascot constantly changes from matriarch to matriarch. I was brought up to be as pretty, intelligent, and innocent as possible to be a good mascot when my mother got too old. So my ‘hobbies’ were heavily discouraged as were all activities that required heavy use of my muscles. Didn’t want a buff woman on the front of every jug of apple cider.”

“What’s wrong with a … woman? Havin’ a bit uh muscle?”

“Nothing really. At least that’s how I see things. To each their own. And I think, at least my family did, that a muscular woman was not ‘attractive’ and ‘innocent’ enough.”

“This is really confusin’.” He says as he rubs his head with a hoof.

“Don’t worry about it. It’s somewhat similar with … ugh, fat.” She looks down at her newly distended stomach sadly.

“Well I can get that one. Means you’re lazy. Need to whip that patoot into shape.”

“Did you seriously say patoot?”

Applejack’s cheeks blush as he suddenly felt waves of embarrassment.

“Uhhhh. Yes. Just used to not swearin’ ‘round the younger kin. And gramps gets right mad when we say b-b-butt.”

“Awww. You’re so cute.” Janet says as she pinches his cheeks.

“Ahm not cute. Ahm handsome.” He mutters under his breath.

Janet only giggles in response, causing Applejack to develop a deeper blush.

“How ‘bout we get some dream food in us?” He says in an attempt to save face.

“Sure.” Janet replies but taking note of his change in topic. ‘Maybe I teased him a bit too much.’

“What’ll yuh have?”

“I don’t know. Maybe one of those chilli cheese dogs I heard so much about. And a root beer float.”

“Sounds good. Ah’ll have a caramel apple with some apple cider and an apple fritter.”

After hearing his order, Janet gave him the most deadpan of stares.

“Whut?”

She lets out a long drawn out sigh before the food in question appears in front of them.

Janet seeming to forget that dream food has no flavor if you’ve never tried the food item in real life.

-------- Later

After finishing their meals, they go on many of the rides on the pier. Rollercoasters, Ferris wheels, bumper cars. They even go to some stalls.

Everything seemed all and good until …

“Let’s see how Janet is doing.”

Artemis appeared and decided to ‘check up’ on her.

After flying around the pier, trying to find her, he spots her and Applejack eating cotton candy.

Instead of charging in and simply asking them what’s going on or barging in on them like his brother would do, he instead hides in the shadows and listens in. He is specifically listening for the right moment to reveal and insert himself into their conversation. As he listens on though, he can’t help but feel jealous. A feeling he tries desperately to get rid of, as he knows exactly what it spawns.

“So Applejack, how many sibling you got?”

“Well, ah got an older sister, a younger brother, and mah grandpa. Ah also got cousins and other relatives all around Equestria. You?”

“Got my parents, and … my older brother.” She refers to him in distate.

“That didn’t sound like a tone you should have when talkin’ of family.”

“He’s an ass. He’s supposed to run the company after my dad retires but all he does is spend money and get in trouble with the cops. He spends all his time doing whatever he feels like with no restrictions. He gets to travel, go to bars, see movies in theaters. He gets to interact with people he meets when walking down the street.”

“Ah detect a hint of jealousy here.”

“It’s not fair.”

Artemis decided this was the best moment to reveal himself as he moves from the shadows and slowly moves towards the two.

“I know what that’s like.”

Both the human and Earth pony were startled by Artemis’ appearance. Though that shock quickly turned to anger. Well, anger from Janet.

“Are you spying on me?”

“Yes.”

Not expecting this response Janet’s anger settled and was replaced with confusion.

“Oh. O.K. Uuhhm. I … I didn’t expect you to answer like that.”

“Why lie about something such as this? In these trying times it’s best to be as transparent as possible.”

“Makes sense.” The farm pony added.

“He’s entered your dreams without permission. Doesn’t that upset you?”

“Not especially. It IS his job to watch over the dreams of everypony in Equestria. He’s been in muh little brother’s dreams before and his friends. And ahm sure he’s been in your dreams too. How else do you deal with nightmares?”

“Wake up. That’s how a normal person deals with them. Get some water then go back to sleep. You can’t just go into people’s dreams. Even if it IS your job, it’s an invasion of privacy.”

“The amount of hypocrisy on display here is incredible.” Artemis said quietly, but loud enough for them all to hear. Good thing too as it silenced Janet.

“It’ll be morning soon. I was wondering what was taking you so long to return to your own dreams.”

“We were on a date.” Applejack says with immense joy and confidence.

“Suuurrrrreee.” Janet added.

This, of course, brought a gasp from Artemis’ lips.

“Did … did you have fun?” Artemis says with extreme sadness.

“Yeah. Got to know a bit about him. You know he earned that cutie mark thing at his aunt and uncle’s house in a completely different city after sort of running away. Or that the only thing he eats are apples.”

Artemis almost instantly forgets his feelings of sadness.

“No. I did not know that. I just never saw fit to learn about them.” Them being a reference to Applejack and his friends.

“They are fascinating. I’ve learned so much about them. They’re very interesting ponies. You are their friend, aren’t you?”

“Yes of course.” Artemis nods with great ferocity.

“Then why do you know so little about them?”

“Excuse me?”

“They told me that you barely know anything about them save their names and titles. You aren’t really involved with your friends. Maybe when this is all over we can all be in a dream together and you can actually get to know your friends.”

“As a prince, it isn’t my duty to know anything about my subjects.”

“Now that sounds like something your brother would say.”

Applejack and Artemis gasped.

“How dare you.” Artemis responded.

“How dare I what? Tell you that something you said sounds like something someone else would say? Get over it. Besides, this is about you and your friends. From what I heard you owe them a huge debt and you haven’t been trying to pay it off in the slightest.”

Artemis’ cheeks reddened in anger and embarrassment.

“I do owe them for what they’ve done for me, my brother, and Equestria as a whole.”

“See? I’ve been getting to know them and I’m absolutely positive that they’ll just … have some feeling of affection for you. And before you ask, yes. I know it can be tough to put yourself out there especially if you’re a recluse and former convicted felon who was essentially a terrorist trying to destroy the lives of everything that lived on the planet. I know you’re a bit timid, but these guys are really kind and would be more than happy to be … near you. And if you’re having trouble with that, I’ll come with you.”

“Really?”

“That’s what friends do … I think.”

Janet looks around.

“Where’s Applejack?”

“Probably wandered off somewhere during our conversation.”

The two of them pick a direction and walk with each other. Both deciding it best to end tonight’s session. Before that though, they’d like to say their words of parting to their host before they depart.

After walking for what seemed like hours, but in real time was only a few minutes because dream time is convoluted, they stumbled upon the orange farm pony. Though he was not alone.

He was next to some strange wisp creature that was slowly seeping through a crack in the floor.

He seems to have found the source of what had been sealing off his memories and changing his mental status.

Janet couldn’t really make heads or tails of this, but Artemis instantly jumped to action. This action was to put a band-aid on the crack.

Way to go Arty.

“HEY! This is just a quick fix until I have the time to fully mend it.” He said angrily to no one in particular.

“What?” Both Applejack and Janet questioned him with varying degrees of confusion.

“Didn’t you … there was … I mean there was this voice. You know what? Screw it. I’m out. It’s almost daytime. See you later.”

He left the dreamscape and woke up. Though Janet decided to stay for an extra hour. Or so it seemed in the dream.

When she left Applejacks dream, she gave him a hug. This made Applejacks heart soar, but to her it was just a friendly thing to do.

Upon waking up, she saw Dusk in her room hovering over her bed. This would freak anyone out, but she’s gotten used to it.

“~Ready to start todays exercise routines? I have some steamed vegetables and water if you’d like to eat beforehand though. ~”

After taking a few minutes to translate what he said in her head. She quickly formulated her response.

“No.” And she promptly pulled the covers over her head and went back to sleep.

Bubble Berry

Author's Notes:

Been awhile. Here's the chapter though it's been rushed a bit so I could make it with the little free time I had.

The entire world was pink and filled with marshmallows and cupcakes and rainbows.

There was also one section that’s just a wasteland with a sign.

‘Marexico; Population 15,034 0’

“O.K. what the hell is up with Bubble Berry and his hate for Marexico?”

“It’s because their candy is so gross. I mean really, who has spicy dessert? It's a crime against Ponanity.”

Janett was surprised. Not by his casual statement of hatred over an entire country because of their choice of desserts, but how suddenly he appeared. He usually does that in the real world, but not in his dreams. He somehow makes more sense when asleep.

Janett decided it was something to discuss at a later date.

“So how’ve Arty and Dusk been? I hear they put you on a special diet.”

“Yeah.” Janett spat out. “Small portions, regulated meals, forced exercise, and no sweets.”

This caused Bubble Berry to gasp loudly. Janett turned to see the stallion’s face contorted into a look of pure horror, then morph to pity.

“You poor thing. Let’s get you some delicious num nums.”

‘Num … nums?’ Janette thought.

Almost instantly a large table with large cakes and pies appeared. The sight bringing tears of joy to the human’s face.

Then the table was zapped, and those tears turned from tears of joy, to tears of immense sorrow. And maybe some wails of anguish to spice things up. Think Nite Owl after Dr. Manhattan turned Rorschach into a pile of goop and blood, but higher pitched and with tears. And about the destruction of sweets instead of the gory murder of another human being.

Artemis suddenly swoops in and lands on the ashes. He looks Janette in the eyes and says, “your diet.”

“THE FUCK! I CAN’T EVEN EAT ANYTHING IN A DREAM?!”

“No. Eating junk in a dream can cause your thoughts to become heavier. The last thing we want is something weighing on your mind.”

Janette was about to challenge him but then decided against it. Mostly because she was incredibly confused.

Janette looked to Bubble Berry and saw that he was standing motionless. His mouth hanging open and his eyes wide.

She waved her hand in front of his face and got no response.

“Shall we get on with it?”

“Naw. He’s normal. He doesn’t have anything wrong with him.”

“But this dream, his mind, is so chaotic. There must be some dark magic at work here.”

“Nope. He’s just like that.”

After giving this some thought, Artemis realizes that Janette is 100% correct.

“Then I’ll be off. Remember what I did for Applejack? I’ll try and find any cracks in his mind and seal them. He will need to stay completely sane and not under the control of any spells when I do so though. Do your best to distract him, it makes it easier to find anomalies when they’re unaware.”

Then Artemis took off in search of cracks in the stallion’s psyche.

Janette, deciding that Bubble Berry had been spaced out for too long, gives him a little kick to the leg. This was enough to snap him out of his stupor.

“What happened?” He questioned.

“Nothing much. Artemis came in, destroyed the sweets then flew off to fix your head.”

“Right.” Berry said, unquestioning.

The two were off, headed in a random direction just taking in the sites and having a good time with each other.

“Then there was this huge rainbow explosion that made my mane all poofy.”

These stallions were still somewhat of a mystery to Janette, not just because she can’t remember most of what she experiences from re-living their memories, but because of how strange they all are. They can appear anywhere, talk to animals, fly faster than sound, it’s all strange and mysterious to the girl.

She’s still coming to grips with magic and seems to have stopped caring how or why she was sent way into the future. Or what she thinks is the future. It could just be an alternate universe where humanity was destroyed and then these strange creatures came about. But it could be that it was her universe it happened in. It’s not like she’ll ever know anyways.

She also couldn’t wrap her mind around how seeing a rainbow could change someones hairstyle.

“I realized what my calling in life was. To make ponies happy.” He said, confetti shooting out of his mane.

“Sounds exhausting.”

He jumps onto a winged orange cream popsicle that was flying by then jumps from it into a strawberry yogurt lake.

“Wanna join me?”

Janette considered it for a second before remembering what Artemis said. He might even be watching now and testing her.

“No thanks. I think I’ll just sit by and watch.” When she said that a lounge chair appeared near the lake. The kind you lie on. A booth also appeared.

“You want me to get changed into a swimsuit don’t you.” Janette says in a monotone voice.

“Mmmmaaaaaayyyyyyybeeee.” He says while dragging his hoof around in the yogurt as he looks away with a blush on his face.

She breaths a deep sigh. “Fine. But I don’t know if you’ll like it. I’ve kind of put on some weight since we met.”

He dog paddles up to the shore. “Oh, I noticed. There’s nothing wrong with a little pudge. Just because you have a little fat and are a bit overweight doesn’t mean you’re unhealthy.” He says while sadly looking at his own slightly bloated stomach.

Janette walks into the booth and swiftly takes her clothes off. She notices a mirror inside and takes a moment to check herself out. Her breasts and butt had gotten bigger because of her excess weight, so had her waist and stomach. It wasn’t as if she was overly fat (anymore) or obese. She was just a little chubby now. A healthy chub.

She looked around the booth some more and noticed that there was no swimsuit and her clothes had disappeared.

“Son of a bitch.” She sticks her head out of the booth. “You know where my clothes are. And that swimsuit you were supposed to think up.”

But Berry was gone.

She looked around and suddenly felt something furry jump onto her back.

It was Berry, he wrapped his hooves around her neck and rested his chin on her head.

“Ready to go?”

Janette let out a little scream and covered herself with her hands.

“What are you doing? I’m naked.”

“And? I’m always naked, and I’ve already seen you naked, and our butts touched, so what’s the problem?” He was right. Due to his pension for appearing whenever specific words are said at specific times, he’s seen her naked a lot. He’d come out of the toilet, shower head, or faucet. It’s not like he did this intentionally though. It just happened.

She was about to retort, but then decided she wasn’t going to win this fight. She put her arms down and left the booth.

‘Screw it. I can learn to be a nudist here. My clothing bill would be too expensive if I were to wear clothes casually considering they’re hand made here. I also don’t have a job to pay for the clothes. This is probably for the best.’

The young human walked to the folding chair near the shore and lied down on it.

“Can you think up some sunglasses and sunscreen? I burn real easily.”

“You burn?”

“Yeah. My skin’s so fair that like 10 minutes in the sun can give me a sunburn.”

“That sounds terrible. Especially considering you’ll be marrying the king of the sun soon.”

Instantly sunglasses and a giant floating blob of sunscreen appeared. Janette put on the sunglasses and jumped through the blob of sunscreen forwards, then backwards.

When she began rubbing it into her skin, she looked over to Bubble Berry and saw him ogling her.

‘Ugh, men … or stallions.’

Berry realized what the was doing and what it was doing to him, so he jumped into the yogurt lake asap.

The two spent a few hours just hanging out at the lake. Bubble Berry swimming in it and Janette relaxing by it. She occasionally joined him in a swim.

They, well Berry, talked … a lot. Janette just tuned out most of it though. She did answer questions he had, like when her birthday was or what her interests were. She answered them when she was able to make out what was being said.

She would ask a question or two whenever Berry had a break with his talking.

“Hey Berry, what was it like on a rock farm? You told me about coming from one but not what it was like.”

“Cold, gray, and depressing.” He says with a smile on his face.

“Would you care to elaborate?”

“Nope.” He went back to swimming … and began eating the lake.

“How did you get to …” but she was cut off by a sound she was familiar with but couldn’t place.

Just then Artemis landed near her and began to walk over. He was stopped in his tracks though when he saw the state Janette was in.

His mouth was practically drooling at the sight of the sitting naked women with splotches of yogurt still on her skin.

The woman was completely oblivious until she felt a shadow over her. She looked towards where the shadow was coming from and saw Artemis.

She immediately curled up to cover herself.

‘Maybe I could practice the nudism thing when I’m alone.’

“Heeey Artemis. Didn’t think you’d be joining us.”

“Joining … us.” He said in a zombified state, still staring at her.

He turned his head and looked at Bubble Berry.

He then shot out a large bolt of lightning at the stallion who was vaporized.

The action leaving Janette stunned.

“We need to get moving.” He said, seeming to have forgotten about the girls nudity.

She seems to have forgotten too as she stood up and ran up to Artemis.

“What’s happening?” She said worried.

The stallion looked around before replying. “That was not Berry. After looking around I’ve noticed there is a strangely large amount of projections in this dream. There are an especially large amount of copies of Bubble Berry. It seems like we got here soon enough to stop this magic before it could do anything. I’ve already located the source of the magic, and it’s ready to be sealed. Berry is waiting there and we must hurry before more magic takes hold.”

Janette nodded. Artemis bent down low and he made a motion with his head. Janette was hesitant due to her lack of clothes, but decided it was for the best. So she mounted him and he flew.

The two flew for what felt like seconds before landing next to the real Bubble Berry who was standing in front of a large crack where magic was seeping through. He turned to greet them.

“Oh hey Janette how ahhhhhhh….” He droned after seeing her naked body.

After she got off of Artemis, he remembered that she had just been sitting on his back while naked. This brought Artemis to a similar state of droning and spacing out as Berry.

Janette snapped her fingers. “Come on. Let’s get this over with.”

The two eventually snapped out of it and took a few seconds to properly gather themselves. Part of this involved turning away from the naked woman.

“Janette, the magic is too strong so I’ll need you to hold onto Berry here.” Artemis said with a hint of jealousy in his voice. “If you’re able to travel through their memories and push back the magic, then possibly holding onto him will weaken it. Or just weigh him down in case anything like a blast or something happens.”

Janette reluctantly walked over to Berry then knelt down and hugged him. Berry hugged her back. Of course the feeling of her bare breasts against his body making him feel like this was the best dream ever.

“Okay Artemis, go ahe HAY!” She felt something poking her side. “Is that what I think it is?” She said to Berry.

“Maaayyyybeeeee.” He says.

She responded by sighing and resigned herself to wait until this was over.

Both Berry and Janette were waiting for Artemis to put on some great show of magic to seal the large crack that magic was seeping through.

“Are you ready?” Artemis called.

“Yeah.” Both responded.

He then summoned a bucket filled with concrete along with a spackle. He began his work of sealing up the hole, whistling as he did so.

Seriously Arty, you gotta think of a flashier way to do this.

“Shut up voice in my head.”

“Seek help.” Janette half shouted at him.

After a few minutes, the concrete had dried and multiple layers were applied.

“The sun has risen.” He said.

Suddenly the entire world turned white, and all three of them woke up.

Janette jolted awake in her bed. She felt and looked all over her body just to reassure herself that she was clothed again.

When looking around, she saw Dusk staring at her. She knew it could mean two things. One, he could want to ask her questions/being creepy. Or two, he was being taken over by that dark magic and needs some dream plundering.

“Dusk.” She said in a tone reminiscent of a mother giving a warning to her misbehaving child. After translating what she could into the other language she spoke. “Remember said watching sleep.”

She still sounds like a caveman, but she’s trying damn it.

“If I keep doing it you’ll get a restraining order.”

This took her a few minutes to translate in her head and she only understood parts of it. “Yes.”

“But it’s so fascinating watching you sleep. Your body moves so differently to ours. I just couldn’t help but take notes. Besides, I have to do something while waiting for you to wake up for morning exercises.”

It still takes time to translate what he said because of how much was said and how fast as well.

“You get lot mares join me.” A statement that caused Dusk to blush.

“No thanks. I get enough attention from mares. It’ll just be more of a bother.”

Janette smiled and said “join.”

Dusk laughed nervously. “Look at the time. I gotta go.”

He ran out of the room.

Janette’s smile got bigger and she lied back down in bet, but then Artemis appeared.

“~Hello friend Janette. I have decided to join you on your morning exercises.~”

“~I miss sleeping in.~”

Rainbow Blitz

A world of white clouds and blue skies. No ground, no green forests or yellow deserts. No oceans, no nothing. All that existed were clouds and the sky above them.

This was Rainbow Blitz’s dream. A dream where everything could fly. Of all the dreamscapes, Janette preferred this one as she counted as being a part of ‘everything.’

“Hey. How’s it going?” Blitz said to the still materializing human.

After fully materializing in Blitz’s dream, she responded. “Could be better. Could be worse.”

He looked over her body. “Looks like you’re losing weight.” He pats his stomach.

“Yes. I have been.” Janette responds in a monotone voice.

“Don’t be like that. I was giving you a compliment.”

“Don’t be like what?” She replies in an obstinate tone.

Blitz sighs. “You know what? Fine. Whatever. Why are you even here?”

“Artemis and I are doing that thing we usually do with you guys. Just making sure you’re not having problems and won’t turn into assholes and ruin your countries ties with other nations. We’ve also been looking for places where that corrupting magic is leaking in.”

“Oh. I’ve been thinking. If this magic is leaking into us, does that mean that by sealing the leaks we’re going to cause some sort of backup at the source?”

“I’d prefer not to think about it. I leave that to Artemis.”

He scratched his head with a hoof.

“I’m kind of done with making my own decisions for the time being. I just want to sit and do nothing. That includes not using my brain.”

“Like a vacation?”

“Kinda, but much longer term. It seems whenever I make my own decision, it ends poorly for me.” She says while shrugging her shoulders.

“Well, my friends and I would be more than willing to help you get your brain up and running again.”

“I think I would need a more feminine anchor to keep me grounded while blowing the dust off that machine. No offense, but your group is kind of a sausage fest.”

“What’s that?”

“It’s when there’s a bunch of guys with little to no girls in proportion to the number of guys.”

“Oh. What’s the opposite?”

“Like if it’s a lot of girls with little to no guy in proportion to the number of girls? I have two names for it. I call it a clam carnival, and if it’s sexy, clam chowder.”

“That’s disgusting.” He says, gagging slightly.

“If it’s a Tuesday you can call it taco Tuesday. But I’m the only person I know that uses that one.”

“Wait. Weren’t you basically like a princess hauled up in her castle of apples? Forbidden from communicating with the outside world? I’d assume you didn’t know many people to begin with.”

She gives him a hard glare.

“You shut your whore mouth.”

“So my mouth’s your mother? Wait. I didn’t think that one through.” He dashes off.

In pops Artemis in all his majestic glory. Mane flowing in a non-existent breeze blowing rose petals around him. His body in a stance, showing he’s ready for anything. His eyes shining with knowledge and wisdom like the wise and knowledgeable stallion he is. His tail is hiked up, and his soft ears swiveled in all directions as if searching for something.

“Hey Arty.” Janette says to the stunning stallion.

“Hmmm?” He replies.

“If we’re closing up leaks of that evil magic, wouldn’t it eventually blow up from an increase in pressure?”

He looks towards Janette. Setting his piercing eyes on her.

“No my sweet child. Everything will be alright.” He slightly opens his wings in a comforting display of power.

“You’re acting weird.”

In flies Rainbow Blitz. He gives one look towards Artemis and squeals. He flies towards the royal stallion and the two embrace and gaze longingly into each other’s eyes.

“WHAT’S GOING ON?!” Janette shouts.

“Hush now, sweet Janette. You are spoiling the mood.” Artemis says, as he begins to make out with Blitz.

“I don’t need to see that.” She turns away, though it doesn’t stop her from hearing the sounds.

The sounds of two stallions furiously eating each other’s face is quite loud in fact.

Out of curiosity she looked back towards the two stallions and takes in the glorious sight of Artemis dropping from his sheath.

‘That’s a huge dick.’ Janette thought to herself when taking in the glorious sight of the prince’s perfect penis.

“Why don’t we go somewhere private?” Blitz whispered into Artemis' ear.

She was so distracted, she barely noticed the sound of someone walking next to her.

“This was unexpected.”

She turned her head, startled to see another Artemis standing next to her; she squealed in surprise. He was giving the pair of stallions a questioning stare.

“Did you too hear that voice? It was quiet flattering this time actually.”

“That’s not …” Janette looks back to the two stallions. “Oh yeah. This is a dream.”

“Yes. But I didn’t think Blitz having relations with a dreamed-up version of myself as something I would be seeing again.”

“Again?”

He clears his throat, gaining the attention of Blitz and the dream Artemis. Dream Artemis seems unfazed, though Blitz looks mortified.

Unable to formulate any sentences or process his thoughts, he takes to making squeaks instead.

“I thought we had this worked out Rainbow. It’s not healthy.” Artemis take a couple seconds to think. “Didn’t Dusk accidentally turn you straight?”

Blitz, with a massive blush on his face, nods his head. “It’s just when I get into my dream everything becomes normal again.”

He looks over to see Janette, who he begins walking to until she interrupts him.

“Put that away before coming over here.” Janette says. Artemis repeating her shortly thereafter.

‘Put what away?’ Rainbow blitz thought. He then realized he had not only dropped from his sheath but had also been sporting quiet the erection. It looked almost painful. As if he was right at the moment before climax and was interrupted. Just one touch of the hand and he’d be set off like…

Artemis cleared his throat.

“Excuse me for having needs.” Rainbow says with a huff. “If you’ll excuse me, Artemis and I will finish our business elsewhere.” He takes off with dream Artemis, presumably to further their night of passion.

“Y’know, I’ve had a lot of sexual encounters since finding myself in this world. Many seeming to be some form of molestation, sexual harassment, borderline rape, and I think maybe an actual rape. You pony’s need to get your libido’s in check.”

Artemis sighs.

“They’re usually not like this. I know, you’ll just have to take my word for it at the moment. We can prove to be better than this.” She gives his words some thought. “Besides, you know that something’s not right with the world, and he’s just a little stressed. I remember you sharing an odd bit of trivia with me before. That stallions back when you were … young, masturbated as well when they got too stressed. Even animals have desires and urges, can you really blame another animal for falling prey to some of their baser instincts under the stress we’re all under at the moment. I’m not excusing some of their behavior, some have gone too far of course, but just think. Remember what they’re going through.”

“I guess.” She replies. “Can you stop making these long speeches? It’s hard to get a word in.”

“I make no promises to stop, but I can promise to try.” He replied.

“Soooo… What now?” She asked the stallion.

“We could talk for a bit. We have time.”

She turns to the stallion. “But what about finding that … hole … leak thing?”

“I sent another me to find it. Something I’ve been working on.”

“I should have known.” She rolls her eyes.

They take a few steps before Janet turns back to Artemis.

“Something I’ve been wondering, when you plug them up, there isn’t any backlog is there?”

“Noooooooo?” He says unsure. “What’s the worst that could happen.” A lot of bad can happen Arty, you know that. He grumbles in response.

The two almost begin a new conversation, but then the world started to shake. It shook violently.

“That must be it.” Artemis said.

Janet assumed he meant the hole.

“Shouldn’t we be there? I mean, I’ve been there the other two times.”

He shakes his head.

“No. As it turns out, you don’t need to be anywhere near it. I’ve been doing my research.” Good boy Arty. Has Dusk been helping you with that? “Yes, he has.”

“Who has?” Janet replied. “I’m starting to worry about you. You’ve been talking about random things to thin air recently. Are you stressed?”

“While I might be stressed, I assure you there is nothing wrong.”

“I wouldn’t have a problem with you going off somewhere to get your rocks off. Like you pointed out, I said that stallions from back home masturbate when they get stressed. If it’s something that will help you and stop these delusions, then I wouldn’t hold it against you.”

His cheeks were beet red and his wings, and a certain other part, were standing stiff.

“I … I don’t think I’ve ever met a mare that’s been so forward about saying something like that.”

“Say what? That you should masturbate? That’s just nature. Everyone does it. I do it all the time. How else do you think I deal with the stress I’m under?”

“No… I mean your casual discussion of something so sexual. I’ve never had a conversation with a mare that would talk about it. Usually they’d show it, but were usually completely uninterested unless in heat. Or they knew I was a prince. It’s quiet refreshing, and a bit exciting, that you’re so casual about it.”

“I’m just saying that what you need is completely natural, and you shouldn’t feel ashamed or embarrassed about it. Just do it next time you’re up or go pull the prince card and get a girl.”

Yeah. C’mon Arty, you deserve a good night of fun. “I swear to me that I will find you.”

“I’m standing right in front of you though.”

“You know what I mean.”

She giggles at the statements. “Talking to voices in your head again?”

Artemis grumbles and turns his head.

“C’mon. Let’s take in the sights.”

The two fly off together, taking in the sights of whatever random thing appeared before them. Towns, mountains, fields, all with such realism that one might forget they’re in a dream.

Seemingly hours pass as the two enjoy their flight. It’s abruptly interrupted by something whizzing by them. It quickly looped back and stopped in front of them, causing them to halt their movement as well. It was none other than Rainbow Blitz.

“You got a dirty mind.” Janet said somewhat jokingly.

Dusk gives her a deadpan look. “Well excuse me for being super stressed out. At least I don’t have freak outs like Dusk. That stallion could use some release, and I know you know what I mean.”

“Blitz, we’ll need to have another discussion about personal boundaries.”

“But It’s MY dream!” He shouts.

“Yes. But when you fantasize about the prince of dreams while they’re in your dream, it becomes harassment.”

“Can it be harassment if you’ve already done it with that pony though?”

Artemis’ cheeks flush red.

“Yes. Even then.” His voice getting quieter with each word.

Janet gives the two a questioning glance before putting the pieces together, placing a very smug grin on her face.

“So you two-“

“You will say nothing. It was a mistake.” Artemis scolds her.

“I wouldn’t say that. You were totally into it. ‘OH BLITZEY, HARDER!’” Blitz says in an overly dramatic matter, covering his eyes with his hoof.

Artemis’ cheeks flushed red, his mouth went dry, and his mind turned blank. Janette on the other hand began giggling like a mad mare.

The world begins to shake violently again. Artemis is snapped out of it and breathe a sigh of relief.

“Thank me. Seems the other me’s plugged up that hole.”

“Why do we even need to be here if you can just plug it up with some random magic duplicate?”

Artemis chuckles.

“Because it can be dangerous. We’re here just in case their mind begins to unravel.”

“Wait. What?” Blitz asked.

“Never you mind.” He turns away. “Look, you’re waking up, good day.” He says quickly.

The world disappeared.
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Janet awoke to the usual crystal ceiling and light shining through the window. What was unusual though was that Dusk hadn’t immediately barged in right after waking up.

But Artemis still felt the need to greet her in the morning. Today, he chose to teleport in.

“~Friend Janet, It is good to see you wake.~”

“~Why do you talk like that sometimes?~”

“~We must hold an air of royalty wherever we go. Dreams are the one reprieve we have from such restraints.~”

“~Right.~” She says. “~You probably just forget sometimes.~”

Artemis blushed and gave her a sheepish smile.

“~Hit that nail right on the head. So next is Butterscotch. Who's after him?~”

"~We believe young Elusive is our target overmorrow.~"

Author's Notes:

Hey, sorry it's been awhile. I had three summer classes during the same session, then one more later on. But that's not the only thing that's kept me from this. One of the main things that prolonged this chapter was right after my summer classes ended, my grandmother died. It felt weird not being around her, considering she and my grandfather had lived with me for 5 years for care.

Anyways, I've been feeling weird lately. Like there's a void in my stomach that makes me nauseous. Can't eat and spend a lot of my time dry heaving. I think I figured it out though. I got, and still am, super depressed. I decided to watch the series finale leak and the episode ... got me feeling weird. Because of the message of the final episode, it got me thinking about the show, and my life in general.

I had started high school when I started watching, season 2 before the Hearts and Hooves episode leaked. Now I'm finishing college, have an internship with a possible future job. I've had friends come and go, family members including pets die, seen family get married. This has happened during the shows airing and while being a fan. Seeing the final episode and its message got me to think about all of that. How people drift, how things change, not always for the better. I thought back to all those events that happened since watching the show, and it feels a bit like another friend is leaving me.

It hit me recently. I was alone. Even before watching the show, I was drifting from my friends. The fandom was really what made me feel comfortable because it felt like I had friends again. Now just about every time I think, the thought 'I want to go back to when I was younger' pops into my head. Not just to experience the show all over again, but to maybe fix some mistakes I made. I want to be with my friends again, and my family. But, it's been so long since I had been with my friends they don't even remember me. My relationship with my family is beyond repair and awkward, with conversations almost always ending in arguments and anger. My twin sister and I seem neutral towards each other. But both of us work and have basically no time to hang out with each other. My brother though, he's always bullied me as a child and seems to want to continue, to an extent, into our adulthood. He's almost 5 years older than me, and currently jobless and lounging around my grandparents empty house with his girlfriend and our sister (who's probably paying for the electricity).

Seeing the show end really kind of makes me anxious for the future of the fandom, and my future in general. I'm not a very social person, introverted some might say, incredibly shy, and easily depressed. I'm not close with my family, other than my grandparents, so it's hard for me to make friends in real life and talk to anyone about my problems.

I've been on this site for awhile, since 2012 I believe, but I used a different account. So I've been here awhile. I've seen many a fanfic writer come and go. Many fics even going never being finished. Every time it felt kind of like losing a friend. Like loosing something I look forward to and would wake up in the morning to see or read as soon as possible. But now that the shows over, the fandom will probably begin to die out, and when I see my future, I can't see myself getting out of bed for anything.

I think I would have been able to deal with it better if the episode left on a bit of a cliffhanger and the series would end with a movie. You know, a movie where something happens and Twilight uses Deus Ex Machina #100 to save the day. The best ending would be that it changes the world and switches the way they look, their races, and be the beginning of G5. Make them their own new characters but keep some of their memories to make it feel like they were the characters from G4, just with their memories mostly wiped and a lot of changes. With something like this, I wouldn't have felt like everything's about to end. Wouldn't feel like that fandom that I felt a part of for almost 10 years of my life was about to fall apart. And I'm powerless to stop it. I'll never get to see my favorite mares go on a new adventure again.

Hell, G5 could be better if it had just changed their designs and the art style while continuing the series/story. There are just so many things you never got to see of their world that would be so interesting to explore.

I think the comic is still going to be running, for awhile at least, after the series officially ends. I think it supposed to have like 100 issues and it's on 81. And volumes 2 and 3 of the manga are going to come out next year (at least volume 2 is).

I know that people need to move on. If I learned anything from that final episode is that time flows on and there's nothing you can do to change it. But it's hard to move on when it was one of the reasons I was getting up in the morning.

Sorry for the long note and short chapter. It's just something I really felt I should/had to say. I rushed it out a bit to say this, I also couldn't figure out where to go with it. I'm not leaving the site anytime soon, and I have many more chapters, and fics, I've been working on. I'd like to say, thank you. Thank you for reading. Thank you for being there. Thank you for being you.

Butterscotch

Author's Notes:

I've kind of been out of it with this story, you can probably tell with this chapter. Honestly I think the best thing to do would be to rewrite it. If I do that, I think I'd be more interested in writing new chapters. I'd also put all the previous chapters available as one chapter if I did that. I don't know if I should though. I'm also working on something else that I'm far more interested in.

In a world covered by endless water, ponies are forced to eke out a living on the small patches of land that remain above the sea.

A world where a human spontaneously materialized on an island. A small island, of only grass and one palm tree. She had no way of communicating with anyone. Quickly beginning to panic, and desperate for rescue, she did the only thing she could think of.

“HELP!” She shouted at the top of her lungs. She received no reply. “I NEED SUNSCREEN!” Her fair skin roasting in the tropical sun.

She pulled her arms and head into her yellow shirt in an attempt to slow down the burning. She sat for what seemed like hours, the sun never setting. She sat, contemplating life. Looking at her mistakes. For the first time in a while, she was alone. Left to her own mind.

Her thoughts turned to what would have happened to her if she hadn’t left home. Would she have died with her family? The thought quickly replaced with, should I care? But she was now used to being surrounded by others that cared for her. Being left to her thoughts of time wasted by her family, never truly living life, is not something she can deal with too well anymore.

Thoughts she had never had before, began to creep through her mind. Things like, ‘what if my friends aren’t really my friends? What if they only like me for what I am, instead of who I am? Do they really like me?’

‘What is the point of living? I’m the last of my kind, no one can relate to me. If I ever do get home, will there still be a home for me there? What would happen to me upon my return? My family was probably happy once I left. They didn’t have to waste money on making me into the girl they wanted.’

‘What if I was never born? How would things have turned out? What if my parents never found out about the interest in my stallion and never sent him away? What if…’

Her mind was moving towards a darker place, then, out of nowhere, a flying ship appeared. She looked at the beautiful ship as it lazily floated by. It looked like a yellow fish with red feathered wings and yellow fins. The woman had no way of contacting them though. Or so she thought. Little did she know, her bright orange hair was reflecting the sun to the ship, acting as a sort of distress beacon; shining light into the ship’s cockpit.

Within seconds, it changes course and flies towards her. In a minute, the ship is floating in front of her; the hatch on top opening up. Out popped Artemis, wearing a familiar outfit. He wore a bright blue coat with red cuffs and white accents. He was wearing tight, brown pants that only just went down past his knee. There were grey stockings going from inside his brown shoes, to inside his pants. He jumped off the ship and gracefully glided down to the burning woman, who just stood up.

“Janet, what a wonderous find.” He patted her on the back. “We were searching for you. BUTTERSCOTCH!” He shouts. Out pops Butterscotch, who was wearing a green top with a yellow, red polka-dotted scarf. He had purple pants and a green sash around his waist. He too wore grey stockings from his shoes into his pants. He glides down to meet Janet too. “Shall we head off in search of adventure?” Artemis asks.

“You know, I can’t put my hand on it but something about you guys looks familiar.”

Artemis gasps. “Did you hurt your head?” He asks in a worried tone. “Maybe it’s heat stroke. Butterscotch we must get her inside the ship immediately. And we must treat her burns too.”

“No, I know who you are, but it’s who you’re dressed as.”

Artemis breaths a sigh of relief. “Good. I was thinking something horrible was warping your mind. But you shouldn’t recognize these. Butterscotch dreamed them up.”

“Well, that is to say, I did dream them up.” He Butterscotch rubs his arm bashfully. “But Janet showed me this memory she had of a book and I just wanted to try it.”

“I knew it.” She said.

“We have an outfit for you too.” Butterscotch says demurely, while hoofing over a box. “You can put it on inside.”

She takes the box and straddles the small yellow horse, much to Artemis’ dismay.

“Neigh fair Janet. We can take thee.” He said.

“No thanks.” She replies. “I’m going with the dashing rogue, not the flashy fop.” She gives Butterscotch a pat.

The Pegasus flies her up to the top of the ship and lands. Artemis though, has barely made it half way because of all his grumbling and forlorn looks. “I used to be the pony she rode.” He muttered sadly.

By the time he made it to the top of the ship, the other two had already boarded. When he made it inside, he could see butterscotch in the cockpit, waiting for Janet who seemed to have run off somewhere.

Artemis decides to look around the tightly packed hallway of the ship, and ignoring all other doors, he hears a noise coming from one. “Janet?” He says while opening the door. Once it’s opened, he comes face to face with Janet, currently bent over in her underwear changing.

“I would tell you to get out if you hadn’t already seen me naked so many times.” She says with no emotion in her voice.

Upon uttering those words, Butterscotch walks in.

“Janet, are you…” He’s completely stunned. His eyes widen, his mouth opens, his face burns red.

“Okay, maybe we should get out.” Artemis uses his magic to drag Butterscotch with him.

About a minute later, Janet emerged from the room wearing red shorts, a red shirt that didn’t cover her stomach, a black nylon-like material that did cover her stomach, brown gloves, red high-tops, and a poufy red hat.

“I would have chosen something more in line with what you’re wearing, but beggars can’t be choosers. Let’s get a move on.” She walks to the cockpit and takes command of the helm, a wooden steering wheel.

Within moments, the ship sets off for adventure and new horizons. Or so they thought.

Flying through the endless blue skies were peaceful. Looking through the huge window in the cockpit, the woman was lost in the sight of the clouds, and their reflections against the water below; but upon looking down, she saw the island she was just rescued from. Which was strange considering the speed they were flying.

“Hey Artemis. Why’re we still near the island?” She shouts to him.

The pony in question trots towards the window and takes a quick peak outside. Rubbing his chin in thought, he states, “because Butterscotch secretly wants us to stay here. Possibly.”

“Don’t you control dreams though?” She says nonplused.

“Of course. I can move us along, but I would like to question Butterscotch before moving on.” He shouts, “BUTTERSCOTCH!”

“Uhm, I’m next to you.” He shyly says.

“Why are we still at the island?” Artemis asks.

“Well,” Butterscotch replies, his face covered by his mane. “I really liked the island. There isn’t much land here to begin with and I thought it looked nice. I can change it if you’d like.”

There was a sudden rumbling and the island began to rise. It turned from a tiny island into a monolith the size of a mountain, complete with landing zone and cave.

“I guess we’ll go there tonight.” Janettee says as she flies the ship over to the dock for landing.

It was a bit of a bumpy landing. Bumpy as in they crashed, stranding themselves. They all had left the remains of the ship to look over the damage.

“That went well.” Artemis said sarcastically. “And here I thought you knew what you were doing.” He said with a sneer and trots off into the cave.

Janettee gave a dejected look towards him, and Butterscotch decided she needed some comforting.

“It’s alright.” He said while lightly petting her head. “It’s not your fault. You’ve never flown something before. Prince Artemis is just under a lot of stress right now. I’m sure if you give him some time he’ll apologize.” He leans in to whisper in her ear. “You think he’s being effected by that magic stuff too?”

“No, he’s not.” She sighs. “But you’re right. I really shouldn’t be all too torn up about it. We’re all getting a bit anxious. I think it’s just starting to get to him now. I think I must have broken something for him to have such an attitude change.”

“Even so, he shouldn’t say things like that.” Butterscotch chides.

“It’s fine. I’m sure he’s used to getting some leeway anyways, given his royal status.”

“I wouldn’t think that. The royal family is held to a higher standard than the rest of us. I doubt he talks to his staff that way, or they might have quit. We should be lucky we get to see this side of him, no matter how distasteful it may seem. It means he truly trusts us and views us as friends.

Janet gave Butterscotch a half-lidded glare. “I think that kind of attitude towards this will only encourage more bad behavior.”

“Come on. Let’s get a move on.” Shouted Artemis.

The two ran to catch up to the prince.

“Hey Artemis, something I’ve been wondering is your name. I recall you once being called Selena, or something like that.” Janet said.

Artemis stopped where he stood at that. “How do you know that name?”

“I told you. Sometimes I remember the memories I see.”

“W-well, when I was younger, they thought I was a filly and they gave me a filly name. When I got older, I changed it to something more masculine.” His cheeks were on fire.

“How does someone not know the gender of a child after they’re born? Their junk is just hanging out at that point, and especially with creatures that don’t wear clothes.” She gives small smirk and speaks in a smug tone. “You must have been super girly for that to have happened.”

Artemis was practically shouting in anger, in his desperate attempt to salvage his image. At least that’s what he thought he was doing. He didn’t quiet grasp the concept of teasing yet. “I was named pre-birth. My mother gave off signs of being pregnant with a filly. At least the unicorns who performed tests on her believed that.” His eyes were beginning to tear up.

Butterscotch, seeing the situation turn south, flew up and began to pat his back. “There’s nothing to be ashamed of. It’s nothing you could control.”

Janet, also seeing that she might have gone a bit far with a topic that her friend was still sensitive about, decided to console him. “Yeah. Besides, you just swapped one female name for another.” She’s not good at consoling others.

“Excuse me?” Artemis replied.

“Artemis is a woman’s name. Specifically, the name of the Greek goddess of the hunt, Artemis.”

“I… but… ye.” Artemis takes a deep breath. “It sounds more masculine.” He huffs and storms off so as to not let them see his tears.

Butterscotch giggles quietly into his hoof. “I know I shouldn’t find this funny, but he did kind of deserve it after how he treated you earlier.”

“I have my moments.” Janet responds.

“Something I’ve been wondering, ponies existed when humans were around. What were they like? What were the animals like?”

“I don’t know what a pony was like because the only frame of reference I have for ponies are you guys. But horses, I’ve had one. They are incredibly stupid animals but can be fiercely loyal. By loyal, I mean the stallions can be super possessive. Apparently having sex with them, and doing some other thing I don’t remember, they will see you as their property and will protect you even killing people they see as a threat. And mares, apparently they’re really horny when in heat and will fuck anything. Even trying to seduce their owners. Even actively seeking out sex outside of estrus with other animals.”

She stops talking to look over at Butterscotch to make sure he was still listening. When she sees him, his wings are standing at attention and there’s a blush on his face.

“I see.” He said. “How do you know all that? You mentioned experience.”

“Oh, well I got a bit curious. I looked that all up, my stallion seemed to conform to what they said online so I could only assume the sex thing was true too. Like masturbating when too stressed. That’s one I saw myself.”

“Online?” Butterscotch replied with a blush.

“Oh, right. You guys don’t have internet. Never mind that. It’s the least important part of this.”

“It’s quite alright. I love learning new things about animals. Even if those animals don’t technically exist anymore. And you sometimes only respond with highly sexually charged answers.”

“Well what else is there? The animals were dumb herd creatures that were mostly used for certain forms of labor until they were replaced with technology. People rode them, even into war. They had terrible digestive tracks and could only eat a small variety of things or they’d die. They roll on the floor, they suck on wood, they lick salt. That’s it. They’re not that interesting. Besides, animals are only designed for four things. Eat, sleep, fuck, and nothing. The only interesting thing about them is how they do those four things, and sometimes only one is interesting.”

Suddenly the room began to tremble, as if there was a large beast shaking the very ground. There was also the sound of hoofs quickly clopping against the ground.

“GET BACK ON THE SHIP!” Shouted Artemis, running towards Janet and Butterscotch.

Behind him was a giant four-legged robot with a club. But on it was what looked like a white crack with light shining out of it.

“Prince Artemis.” Butterscotch said as he stopped next to him. “You see that light on its head? I think that hole is where the magic is seeping in from.”

“Yes, I know. But now’s not the time to fix it.” Artemis tackled Butterscotch to the ground. “You need to make it stop.” He grabs Butterscotch’s face with his hooves and holds him up to the robot.

“Oh. I don’t know if I can.” Butterscotch mutters bashfully. “If this is a dream, can’t you do it?”

“I can’t. It may be of your dreams, but it holds the magic of another creature. The magic in your dreams have become so strong it’s beginning to control parts of it. I have as much sway as you do.”

“Here’s an idea, why not just end the dream.” Janette said monotonal.

“Sir Butterscotch-“

“Sir Butterscotch?”

“Hush. Sir Butterscotch, that thing may not be such a danger to you or I, but think of friend Janette.”

Butterscotch looked to the woman.

“Her race is incredibly intelligent, but they are slower than a slug trudging across a lake of molasses and salt. Do you think she could outrun the creature?”

“Oh. I don’t know if she could outrun it.”

“Then hit it.” Artemis’ stern voice convincing the shy pegasus.

The butter yellow Pegasus took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and slowly held up a hoof. He focused as hard as he could, building energy into his hoof canon. The light from the built-up energy pierced his eyelids, bathing his sight in a yellow light. He unfocused and released all the energy he built up … into the ground where his canon was pointed.

Butterscotch opened his eyes and looked at Artemis, who was giving him a very angry glare. He let the stallion fall to the ground.

Janet called out, “Arty.” Then tossed a rock to the stallion. Artemis grabbed the rock in his magic and chucked it as hard as he could at the machines glowing spot.

It instantly crumpled before them, showering its prey in a golden light before exploding. In its place exists a small hole, unleashing a golden ray upon the walls of the cave.

Artemis drew up some glue, water, a bucket, and newspaper then quickly began to papier-mâché a patch. Really going for the cheap stuff on this one, aren’t ya Selena.

“HMMMHM!” He nonverbally screams.

“You think there’s something wrong with him?” Butterscotch questioned.

“Definitely. He’s been like this for a while; talking to strange voices and all that.”

“I’m not crazy.” Artemis defends. “I just don’t understand how nopony else can hear them. I know they’re there, why doesn’t anypony believe me? I know there is one.” He stomps his hooves in frustration, almost smashing through the drying patch he just made.

“Sure there is. I’m positive it’s just a problem with us.” Janet says sarcastically.

“I know right. It must be some heavenly entity talking to me. Criticizing my every move for not doing what it could have done. Maybe for not patching things the way it wants me too.” He says quizzically while rubbing his chin with a hoof.

Janet and Butterscotch give each other a worried look. “He does have a history of mental illness.” Janet whispers in Butterscotch’s ear, who quietly agrees.

“I can hear you both!” Artemis almost shouts. “This dream is over.” His voice filled with anger and annoyance.

Butterscotch turns to Janet. “I’m sorry we couldn’t have talked more. I would have loved to learn more about the animals from your time. I mean, more than you already told me. Maybe we can see each other later today or tomorrow.”

“I’d love to. It’d break up the monotony of Dusk’s Equestrian lessons. I still haven’t learned that much. But we’ll probably need an interpreter.”

“I don’t know if we should do this around Artemis though. He seems to be getting more agitated with every dream.”

“I can still hear you.” Artemis huffs.

“Maybe Rainbow. We can figure it out later.” Butterscotch quickly says as Artemis’ horn begins to glow. He cast a spell that turned the world white and the dream ended.

Janet slowly woke to the familiar sensation of her soft bed beneath her, held in its crystalline base. She could feel the crystal beneath her, making the soft bed a bit firmer, but she liked that.

The blankets that covered her were thick and warm yet let the slight breeze from the window caress her body. Her pillow remained cool throughout the night.

There was the usual smell of the crystal walls, though there was no smell of breakfast to accompany it. Then there was the sound of birds chirping and crickets silencing their songs, readying for the nights end.

Today she wasn’t really in the mood to get up. She was tired and the sun was barely peaking over the horizon. She had definitely been woken up too early by an upset stallion throwing a tantrum.

She could hear the sound of a pony tromping their way to her room. Each loud step held anger.

The door to her room was burst open by the pony. “Friend Janet, I must speak with you of last nights conversations and behavior. I found you to be very rude and hurt my feelings greatly.”

“Well what do you expect? Are you being forced to marry a magical horse? A magical horse who’s brother goes on adventures with you in the dreams of other horses and talks to voices that aren’t there.”

“I know you are in a strange situation, but it does not call for insinuating I have mental deficiencies.”

“Then stop acting like you do. You’re talking to voices that only you can hear and right now you’re throwing a tantrum because the 19-year-old human hurt your feelings. You’re over 1000 years old, you should be more mature than this.”

Artemis gasps. “How dare you. How-how-how, I’m telling Dusk on you.” He runs out of the room.

“What the fuck just happened?”

She could barely hear Artemis waking Dusk in the distance.

~“And then she said I should be more mature.”~ He whined.

~“Artemis, go to bed.”~ Dusk replied, his voice filled with fatigue and disbelief. Disbelief at either Prince Artemis’ foalishness or Janet castigating the prince.

There was a bright light in Janet’s room as Dusk teleported inside. ~“Be nice to Artemis. He’s regressing from stress.”~ He teleported back to his room and went back to sleep.

Janet couldn't get back to sleep though, for she had no idea what Dusk had just said to her.