It was a hot day at the beaches of the badlands, me, Holly and Bob were scouting the shoreline as I had heard rumors of rogue Deer camped here, planning an attack on Canterlot, which, if they planned it around the same time as the changelings, would be bad news indeed.

Bob snickered at Holly’s expense as Vlad panted in the heat “So, you and Nick hit it off yet?”

Holly blushed and slapped Bob in the back of the head “Shut up, at least I’m not dating an anarchist!”

Bob laughed “An incredibly hot anarchist who knows how to both literally and figuratively have a blast.” He then looked to Holly “And last time I checked, his animals hated you almost as much as they hate me.”

Holly looked at him with a grin. “Well… not all of them.” And with that something landed on him and bit his ear a bit.

Bob cussed loudly as he swatted the creature away “Fucking shit that hurt!” He then looked to the Fairy dragon and frowned “I should make a pair of gloves out of you.”

The dragon stuck it’s forked tongue out at him and went to Holly as it sat on her shoulder.

Vlad then walked up to Bob and whimpered, licking him affectionately “Awww… who’s a good boy? You are Vlad!” Vlad waggled his butt adorably before barking and walking back to me.

I looked to Holly calmly “Holly, please keep Glyph under control, we don’t need infighting at the moment.”

Bob then nodded and then thought a moment “I wonder how Jinx is doing, I should go and see her soon…”

I nodded dismissively before looking into the distance, a faint silhouette barely visible “I think I see their camp. Weapons at the ready!”

Holly and Bob nodded and took out their weapons, Holly wielding a small flute and two whisps, and Bob wielding a massive cartoonish mallet. As they took a step forward Holly yelped in pain. The two of us looked back at her as she held her foot.

“What’s wrong?” I asked her. She looked down and picked up something from the ground.

It was a claw, a dragon's claw to be in fact, it was a simple black claw with some string around it.

“The hell? Why is this here?” Holly said as she held it in her hands. As I looked at it I felt something coming off the claw, I realized that it’s a token for a displaced.

I looked to Holly and held out my hand “May I see that? I think it might be a Token.”

Bob looked to the black claw and looked pensive for a moment “Is it just me, or is that claw giving off a serious Skyrim feel?”

“What do you mean by Skyrim?” a voice said behind us.

I turned to look at the source of the voice, reflexively summoning my weapon so that it would be ready if I needed it. “Who’s there?”

I saw a woman with black hair, and sharp clouded eyes. She wore simple clothes that looked like they were ripped and fixed many times. She didn't look at me as she arched an eyebrow.

“Not much of a friendly greeting but I heard worse.” she said.

Bob looked to her with a grin “Sorry, but we’re in enemy territory, so I am just gonna ask, you with the Tyrant Deer king, Gunther... or my brother the rightful ruler of the Deer, who is standing next to me? Oh, and his name is Greg.” He then gestured to Holly “And this is my other sibling, Holly.”

Holly frowned “What, you don’t introduce Vlad or Glyph?”

Bob shrugged “I was going to, but you beat me to it.”

“Why are you in enemy territory?” she asked us. Her head moved to the right as if she was listening for something.

I looked to her cautiously and decided to tell her “We are trying to see if any of the Descendents of the Deer that left my kingdom would like to join it. If not, we are going to make certain that they will not harm Equestrian citizens, as they are hurting our diplomacy with Equestria. I am also trying to find this false king and re-educate him about ethics, as he seems to have forgotten what those are.”

“Hmmm…” she said as she turned her head, it was hard to tell if she’s looking at something or she's blind. I also realised that she didn't give us her name.

I cleared my throat, not certain if waving would be effective or appropriate. “What are you looking at?”

Vlad looked at the woman and wagged his tail a little, then barked excitedly before walking up to her slowly, sniffing at her. She turned her head in his direction.

“Yes, yes, it has been a while,” she said before petting Vlad.

I relaxed a little, if this woman knew Vlad, then she probably wasn’t that bad, could even be on our side, if we play our cards right… Dear god I wish my wife was here to help me. “Erm… I don’t suppose you are here for any particular purpose are you?”

“You summoned me, so you need help,” she looked over in my direction. “That's one of the things about being a displacement.”

I nodded and looked to Vlad, who had again walked over to me “It seems you have friends all over, huh buddy?” I then looked to her “I’d ask about the fact that you know Vlad, but we have to talk to the other Deer, what should we call them, anyway? Maybe we just call them the other?”

Bob then cleared his throat “Actually, the Deer have a name for those who live as raiders or thieves, and disregard the laws of their people. The Rasharva, I think it was. The queen said that we should let them know that any who do not join will be branded as one.” He then shuddered “From what I understand, it’s like the Qunari with the Tal’ Vashoth. They are basically dead men walking.”

“Nice to know…” the woman said.

“Okay, aren't one of you going to ask?!” Holly asked angrily.

Bob nodded somberly “Okay, I’ll ask... Holly, have you put on weight?”

I pinched the bridge of my nose and slapped Bob upside the head “What is your name, madam?”

Her eyes went towards where Bob was, then and me, then at Holly. She looked around the area for a moment.

“Telyn, Telyn Gwynn is my name,” she said as her gaze turned to my direction. “And you are an odd one, you are king yet you don’t ask questions, a fool's choice that is,” she turned to Bob. “Yes, they are real, and stop looking at my ass,” and lastly to Holly. “I do know of this Nick, suitcase with exotic beasts, top hat, etc.”

We all looked at her in surprised, Bob blushed a bit as he took a few steps away from me as Holly looked like she had a million questions to ask her. Telyn looked at me for a moment before looking away from me as she looked into the group of trees nearby.

I looked to her for a second “Tell me, is it a good idea to ask someone about themselves, when you yourself want to be unquestioned on the same topic?”

“Because you haven't ask any to me,” the woman answered.

Bob shrugged, nodding a little in agreement “We prefer to be asked as little about ourselves as possible… let’s just say we don’t like the ‘us’ subject and leave it at that.”

“I see,” she said as she looked back at us. “You all need to work on you mental defences, it's easy to pry secrets from you all.”

“Oh my god,” Holly said in shock. “You can read our minds.”

“Yes, anyone can with some magic know how.” she said nonchalantly.

Before anyone could say anything Bob went over and grabbed her by the neck. “Don’t you dare peek in my skull! I have horrible things in there, and no one needs to see them!”

“Than stop allowing your thoughts to get out of your head,” she made a strange face. “Like... hell, I’m forcing myself to not look in your head, I seen weird and you…” she turned to me with a look that says ‘Help!’

I grabbed Bob's hand and gently lowered it for him “Bob, I know that you can’t help what you think anymore, but you’ve got to try to limit what gets out, okay? We don’t need someone like Eris getting a hold of your...involuntary ideas.”

Bob grumbled and released her “Like I’m not trying? It’s like the fucking Hoover dam has been replaced with my mind… but it’s constantly cracking… this ring is the only thing keeping me sane…patches up the cracks as they form...”

The woman rubbed her neck a bit before looking over to the woods. She narrowed her eyes before looking back at Holly.

“You have questions, I can tell by your face.” she said.

Bob mumbled again “How can she tell by her face when she’s freaking blind?”

“The same way that I can tell you're still looking,” she said as she shot a glare towards Bob. “Really, stop.”

I looked to Bob curiously “Seriously? Don’t you have a girlfriend? You were JUST talking about her.”

Bob deadpanned “I. Am. A. GUY!” He then sighed and turned around and, from what I could tell, was trying hard to think about anything but her ass. She frowned a bit.

“Back to something at hand, there’s a group about a ten minute walk to the north from here, there’s about twenty ‘deer’ there with about fifteen what I can guess is hostages there as well.” she said as she looked out towards the sand. All three of us stared at her as Holly walked over to us.

“Okay, she is blind… right?” she asked.

I deadpanned “And I have no eyes, your point is?”

“You do have eyes, well an eye, your mind's eye,” Telyn said to us. “As for how I can see is none of your business.”

I nodded “Okay, I’ll respect that. But can you at least tell us if you are any good in a fight? I don’t think diplomacy is an option any more.”

“That’s yet to be seen.” she said simply.

I sighed and rubbed my temples “...Is there anything you say that is not cryptic? Or in regards to our private thoughts?”

“That’s, yet to be seen.” she said before disappearing.

I shrugged and looked to Vlad and Glyph “I think you two should head home, it’s not safe here, and I have a feeling that Rose will need you two.” I held out my hand to my siblings and smiled “Ready to go?”

They nodded wordlessly and grabbed my hand as we slenderwalked to the camp, appearing just outside the camp “Huh? Weird… I was trying to get inside the camp…”I reached out a slendril towards the camp and reeled it back while hissing in pain “What the fuck?”

Bob looked to me in worry before he walked forward, only to see that he could not use his magic as he tried to pull out something aside from his mallet. “Guys? I think we are close to some Hivestone…”

I swore mentally “Well, this is going to suck, good thing we all summoned our weapons already…”

Holly sighed before switching her flute to a polearm “Why can’t things ever be simple…”

I nodded and walked into the camp, unhappy that my magic is absolutely nullified at the moment. I then called out, lending authority to my voice “We have come here to speak to this camp's leader, may we speak to him?”

We were greeted with deer people pointing spears at us. One of them was standing by the fire tending to it.

“So, the false king graces us with his presence, and he brought his pets with him.” he said.

Bob looks around and sighs “Really? He can’t face us honorably, he has to nullify our magic, AND outnumber us? What happened to Deer honor?”

“Oh sure, face you all with only plant magic against yours, tell me is that fair?” he asked as he stood up.

I then grunted “I was going to ask that your three best warriors face us, I had one of Praximus’s respawn points ready to go, and I was going to say neither of us could use magic. Winner gets to command one thing of the loser. But, then I learned that you took hostages, as well as surround us, and call my regality into question. But worst of all, you call my siblings pets? Tell me why I should not take offence to this.”

The leader spent the next few moments thinking as he pulled out something and started to fiddle with it. “Do you know the way of the Wild? It’s very old, maybe older than you, but one of the well known rules is the Strong survive, it didn’t say how though, like maybe learning a bit more about Hivestone.”

He hold up a piece of stone in his hands and I saw the others have some as well. They all were grinning at us as the leader chuckled.

“It’s interesting, it can block every type of magic other than Changeling magic but there’s something else about it that’s even more interesting, like what happens if you hit two of them together.”

As he said that the rest of the deer hit their stones together and a loud high pitched sound emanated off them. The sound made my head break into new levels of agony, I clutch my head in pain as Bob yelled out also in pain. Only Holly and the Deer weren’t affected. The leader walked up to me and knelt down, picking at his ear.

“Not pleasant isn’t it, the stones make a high pitched frequency that makes any magic user that’s not using wild magic writhe in pain, and as you can tell you and your brother aren’t one of them,” he said as he stood up. “Get those two away from each other, don’t let them fuse.”

Holly growled and readied her polearm flute as she whacked anyone who neared us with it, hard enough that I heard a loud crunch “Don’t you dare hurt my brothers! We came to offer you a safe chance to rejoin the Deer Empire! This is how you respond, then Rose was right to name you rasharva ”

The leader laughs. “Rejoin the Deer Empire? Why would we do that, we found the true path, The path of the Wild!” he looked at her. “Besides you’re by yourself, who’s going to help yo-”

Before he can finish something hit him over the head. He fell over as I looked up to see… a monkey.

“Not sorry, deer talk too much,” the monkey said as he twirled his staff around. He looked around as he pulled out a weird bottle thing and took a drink before looking back at Holly. “Hello friend, nice day isn’t it?”

Holly looked blankly to the monkey “Ummm…” She then smacked a deer in the head with a wet crunch. The monkey looked around as he continued drinking.

“Mind you all stop fighting, I have drink! We can all drink Kings Brew!” he yelled. The deer looked at him with anger before their eyes clouded over as they calmed down.

“Sure.” one of them said. Soon the noise dissipated as the deer gather around to get some drinks, even the hostages came out and had some of this brew. I stood up looking at this, a battle that wasn't in our favor turned into a party.

“Uhh… what just happened?” Holly asked.

“A suggestion spell.” A voice said. I turned to see the blind woman standing beside us holding a Hivestone.

“A suggestion spe- wait how can you use magic!” Bob question her.

“Yeah, only Changeling or Wild magic can be used.” Holly said. The blind woman shrugged.

“I been around for a long time, I pick up a few things,” she said as she pops the Hivestone into her mouth and started to chew. “Hmm… a bit bland.”

I looked to her curiously “You… EAT hivestone? That is… rather odd, even for me.”

Bob rubbed his head in a tired manner “Fuck, this day is just weird… first we are saved by a monkey man, then a blind lady starts eating a rock…”

“Yes! You got saved by me!” said monkey man said as he was now standing behind Bob.

Bob looks to me helplessly before pulling a banana out of his pocket “You hungry? I was actually trying to get something else.” He then began pulling random crap out of his pockets, including what looked like… oh god why?! Why would he even have that!? I need to take away his bazaar privileges!

“No, I have brew,” the monkey said as he smiled, luckily not seeing the… ‘thing’, as he threw it into the bushes.

“So… you wanna explain this to my wife with me? Because I have no idea how to make her not execute these guys…” I asked Telyn.

“Alright,” she said as she snapped her fingers. The whole place changed and we were in the dining room back home. I looked around and saw Telyn standing near me as she looked around and munched on more Hivestone.

I looked to her curiously “Okay, one… How did you do that? And two, does that stuff taste good, or fuel you in some way, or is it just a chewing gum effect?”

“Magic and think of it like blunt candy,” the woman said as her eyes looked at Rose as she was staring at us.

Rose, who was in her pajamas, a cute nightgown that I had purchased for her, then looked to the Deer that we had captured... sort of… I don’t know…”What is going on, and why are these Rasharva here?”

Bob looked to me and stepped away from me “Not it!”

“They are all under a spell that has them under control, so far they think they are having a party.” Telyn said as she looked back at the group. I did too and saw that the Rasharva and the monkey guy were still drinking, even the ponies were having fun with them as well.

I looked to Rose, who was eying me with anger “Who is this woman, and what is your relationship with her?”

I raised my hands placatingly “We just met today, and she saved me from these Rasharva! They had Hivestone!”

Rose instantly paled as she looked at Telyn who’s been munching on the Hivestone. “You are eating it?! Isn’t that dangerous for a mage?!”

I shrugged “Apparently it is like blunt candy to her.”

Holly raised her hand “Hey, Telyn? Could we talk?” Telyn nodded and the two of them left the room, leaving me with Bob, Rose, the monkey guy and the others in the room.

Bob then pulled a phone out of his pocket, the bottom of it wired into his pocket “Hey, Jinx? I need to beat the crap out of something with gratuitous cartoonish violence… just to clear my head, you got anything to fight?”

A portal opened up beside him and a lasso went around him before a female voice yelled “Come here!” and pulled him into the portal. I looked around and saw that the monkey guy and the rest were gone as well. I looked back at Rose and saw that she was frowning and crossed her arms.

“I am in trouble for something, aren’t I?” I sighed and rubbed the back of my head “Look, if I knew that some blind lady with huge assets was going to come through that portal, I’d of made sure to let you know, but I did not, and she saved my life even though we are complete strangers. Yes, we are strangers, honey, I’ve only known her for all of twenty minutes at most.”

Rose’s frown shrunk gradually as she heard me explain what happened, and then looked to the one Rasharva remaining with unmitigated rage “He is the one who almost killed you?”

I nodded slowly “Yes, but we still need to question him a-” I looked to where he was and he was now stuck in a corner, vines tied to his arms and legs that held him flat against the wall. “...Honey?”

Rose looked to me with confusion “What? It was the blind woman, she tied him up.”

[POV change: Bob]

“Bwahahahahaha! DIE DIE DIE DIE DI! MAY YOUR LUGNUTS RUST AND FALL OFF!”

I ran towards the robots as Jinx gunned down one to my left, me crushing them into scrap with my mallet “HAMMA TIME BEEYOTCH!”

[POV Holly]

“Say do you have a bathroom or a place to get a bath?” Telyn asked me.

I nodded “Yeah, we have a bath house, based in a hot spring. It’s supposed to feel really nice, just opened up last week.”

“I see, mind showing me it? I need a bath.” the lady said bluntly.

‘Oh thank god she noticed’ I thought quickly and quietly, making sure not to be heard by her “Okay, I’ll take you there, just… don’t drop the soap.”

“Okay?” she said. I lead her to the bath house and we stood in front of it. “It looks nice.”

I nodded and smiled “I’ll wait out here, give you some privacy. Call me if you need anything.”

“Why not come with me? You wanted to talk to me anyway.” Telyn said simply. I looked at her as she just stared at me.

I looked to her and sighed “Okay, but… just know that I’m Bi, okay? So if I get… flustered, I’m leaving.”

“If you leave then how will I answer your questions?” Telyn said as she walked into the building. I blinked at her as I thought about it.

“Screw it, time to get naked with a stranger.”I then walked after her and blushed as I left my clothes with the cleaners employed here and waded into the water, a little self conscious. Soon Telyn walked into the place and I saw her naked body. She had large full breasts and wide hips that gave her an hourglass figure. Her skin had scars on them but was smooth looking. I stared at her a bit longer than normal as she walked into the bath.

I blushed and looked away while fidgeting with my hair “Umm… so how do you know him?”

“Be more specific,” Telyn said as she looked at me. Her eyes, even though cloudy, glowed softly in the steam of the bath.

I sighed “How do you know Nick? Do you know what he likes in a girl, by chance? And… are you his type?”

“Nick? He’s a thought construct,” she informed me bluntly.

I looked downwards and sighed “Well, there go my romantic hopes with him than, do you know who’s thoughts?”

“Mine,” she said bluntly. I quickly looked up at her as she was cleaning herself. “I was stuck in stone but I have a little power so I made two thought constructs so they can travel and see stuff.”

I nodded and blushed a bit “So… when I kissed Nick… I was… kissing you?”

“It was a thought construct so you kissed a memory of me,” she said. I looked at her as she washed her hair with a small blush on her.

I looked upwards as I felt the urge to say her memory was a good kisser, or even to ask if I could kiss her for real, but I sighed and quelled the urges with a massive thought of “She would not be interested in YOU.”

“You don’t know that,” she said out of nowhere. I blinked at her and remembered that she can read minds.

I blushed a deep crimson red and looked to her “You… your memory that is… is a good kisser…” I blushed even harder as I continued “C-could I...kiss you for real?”

“If you want,” she said stopping her brushing.

I went over to her and timidly kissed her on the lips, they tasted sweet, like cherries...but there was a bit of a burning sensation...I liked it… I pulled away and resumed washing myself, making sure to get my back using my magic, one of the perks of having a chaotic nature deities powers, I guess… “S-sorry, if I was too forward, I know I’m not that impressive, and I’m a bit… tomboyish, but I hope you liked getting kissed by me…”

“A tomboy with curves you mean,” she pointed out.

I laughed and blushed “Y-yeah… I know, but… I am sorry, I forced you into this uncomfortable situation, I know you just met me, it’s probably not appropriate…but… would you… go on a date with me?”

“Sure,” she said. I looked at her wide eyed as she stared at me. “I like tomboyish girls, they have spunk.”

I looked to my mask, which I brought with me into the bath, lest it get put on by some doofus and cause a Termina incident “If you want, I could wash your back for you…”

“Sure,” she said as she came over to me and showed me her back, moving her hair out of the way. There were scars on her back but they seemed old and smoothed over.

I began to wash her back and smiled as I scrubbed and cleaned her back, sneaking a kiss on her cheek “Well, Let’s get going then!”

“Clothes,” she said with a look on her. I smiled and put on my mask before I snapped my fingers, causing our clothes to appear right outside the bath on a table.

“Your clothes are clean and dry!” I said happily. She nodded as we got out of the bath and walked out to get our clothes. I couldn’t help but noticed that her breasts jiggled with each step.

I smiled and got my clothes on before looking to her again “So, what place would you like to go to? We have neighponese food, which is very similar to japanese food, chineighse-”

“You pick,” she interrupted me as she put on her shirt. I noticed that she didn’t have any underwear that she put on before hand.

I blushed at the thought of her going commando before shaking my head ‘No, bad thoughts, bad!’

“What bad thoughts?” she asked looking at me.

I blushed “I was just thinking about how you were going commando…”

“So?” she asked.

“Umm… it’s… very tempting… to look… but I won’t! I’m not a pervert like Bob!” I waved my hands erratically as I tried to not seem like I was trying to imply anything.

“Something wrong with how I look?” she asked me.

I shook my head quickly “No! Nothing! You are beautiful! It’s just… you have private places… and I should not look at them…” She raised an eyebrow at me.

“You saw me naked, you stared at my breast, what’s the big deal?” she asked shamelessly.

I blushed deeply and looked to her “I… Guess there isn’t?” I then thought about where we should eat and smiled “How about we go to the upper branches of the Elder Oak? The stars are beautiful from there. And I could pack whatever you’d like to eat.” her eyes widened at this.

“Umm, sure… anything will do, I’ll meet you outside then.” she said before heading out.

I smiled and teleported to the castle and walked outside, materializing a picnic blanket and basket in my hands and waited for Telyn.

She arrived a few minutes later and looked up. “Need help getting up there?”

I smiled “We still have to get the food, but after we do, sure. You like seafood? We have some fish caught fresh this morning.”

“I can eat fish,” she said with a smile.

I snapped my fingers and summoned some various fish dishes that were prepared by the royal chefs for me after I told them I like fish. Soon when I got everything, even drinks, I nodded at her and waited for some kind of teleport. Instead she wrapped her arm around me and draconic wings burst out of her back and we shot into the air until she landed on one of the large branches.

“This good? I can’t tell,” she said as her wings folded back.

I paused for a second “You have wings?! Dragon wings?! That is awesome!” I then froze “...You are blind, so this is the worst possible date idea… I am a dummy…”

“It’s fine… just tell me what the sky looks like… please,” she said softly.

I smiled and held her hand after placing down the blanket and basket. “Well, there are a completely different set of stars than the ones on earth, no big dipper, or any such stuff. The sky is a swirl of purple, blue and green, with stars speckling it, but the weird thing is, while the stars are constant, the actual sky is always different every night… apparently there is a constellation commemorating each of equestria's heroes, funny thing is that my brother Greg isn’t up there, even though he stopped Eris twice, and I’m not even mentioning his fight with Zalgo… Come to think of it, only Ponies are up there…”

I looked over at her and saw that she had a look of wonderment, she looked up at the night sky smiling.

I smiled and hugged her “However, I see someone much more beautiful than any night sky right here.”

“Who?” she asked as her eyes moved as if she was looking for it in the sky.

I smiled and kissed her cheek “I just smooched her.”

“O-oh…” she said with a blush. She smiled a bit at this and looked at me.

I blushed as well and rubbed the back of my head “Umm… so, what do you do for fun? Most of what I’ve been doing is fight and try to keep things working around here, along with Rose.”

“Nothing really, I read, gather treasure, sort it and sleep,” she informed me, shifting a bit on the blanket.

I laughed “No rest for the wicked, it would seem.”

She shrugged a bit before one of her wings wrapped themselves around me, pulling me closer.

I smiled and kissed her cheek again “Y’know, I gotta say, I can see why Greg and Bob did this whole relationship thing. It feels nice…” I then remembered a chat I had with Eris “Oh, but I do not envy Bob, he’s got a chaos spirit with the hots for him…”

“So?” she asked as she gave me a hug with her wing.

I hugged her back “I don’t know how he’ll deal with the whole herd thing with a draconequus and Jinx ponified, probably with a lot of perverted jokes.”

“Never met them, I’m more focused on the right now,” she said with a smile.

I looked to her happily and kissed her on the lips as I held her close “Mmm… C-could we… y’know…”

“Could we what?” she asked me.

I blushed the deepest red I have in years. “C-could we… make love?”

She stared at me before pulling away from me. Her clouded eyes seemed to scan me. “What's your game?”

“W-what do you mean?” I asked.

“I met you today, we shared a bath with each other and I allowed you to kiss me, which was nice by the way, and had a nice picnic, but this…” she explained.

I looked down and rubbed the back of my head “I don’t know… I just really like you, and… like you said, I already saw you naked… I thought this was a natural step forward, but I see I was wrong, I am sorry…”

“I believe this called, overshooting it a bit…” she frowned. “Is that right? Did I say that correctly?”

I laughed and shrugged as I leaned back “Honestly? I have no idea, my only example of romance that works is Greg and Rose… and they moved really fast… Although, now that I think about it, it could be because Rose was in heat…” I said reflectively.

“Maybe, have to look into it some more,” she said as she booped me on the nose with her wing. “No making love till later,”

I rubbed my nose and fought back the urge to boop her back “So, wanna see something cool?”

“Where's that? Or do you want to describe it for me?” she asked.

I began forming a mask, this one had to be special, for the one person who ever actually showed me interest… I took the colors of the night sky and copied them onto the surface, implanting a jewel into the forehead of the mask. When I was finished, the mask looked a little draconic, but with an aura about it, beautiful and colorful, like an aurora borealis

I looked up at her as she saw I was holding something. Her face stayed neutral, but I saw her lip twitch upwards a bit.

I smiled at her and held out the mask “I tried to make you something special, this should let you see something similar to the night sky… I hope you like it.” I rubbed the back of my head and placed the mask into her hands.

She stared at it for a few moments before turning it over and slowly putting it on. She gasped as she saw the makeshift night sky.

I smiled hopefully “D-do you like it?” I hoped she liked it, I didn’t want to have made her that mask only for her to hate it… Jeez, why am I so… so nervous? Normally I’m a lot more confidant, but now I feel like the slightest thing from her could send me sprawling. She removed the mask and I saw her… crying. ‘Oh geez! What did I do?! I messed up! Oh god I messed up!’ I tried to quell my panic and calm myself, but the more she cried, the worse I felt. This all changed when she hugged me tightly.

“T-t-thank you,” she sobbed.

I smiled weakly and patted her back and rubbed her gently on the back “I am so happy you like it, I was hoping I could help you see, but that was beyond my power… seems there are things even a night and twilight god can’t do… Just sucks that It has to be this...” I tried to think of how to convey how much I wanted to make her happy, but words failed me, as per the norm with this beauty, it seems.

“This is amazing,” she said as she pulled away and smiled. “Thank you.”

[POV switch: Bob]

I laughed as I walked out a portal, leaving behind the massive number of undead robot ninja monkeys that we had killed behind in the portal “Man, that was just what I needed!” I looked to Jinx and smiled “So, anything else you’d like to do? I’m free all day now, and I’ve really missed you.” I then realized what I said and rubbed the back of my head in embarrassment “Umm… forget I said that mushy gushy stuff…”

“Eh, I'm free here,” she said before punching my arm. “And that's for the mushy gushy stuff.”

I laughed as I looked ahead, seeing Eris looking to me with a look I knew all too well, it was the one that Greg looked to Rose with “Oh holy hell… I think she has the hots for me.”

“Who, the rule sixty four Discord?” Jinx asked.

I nodded as the draconequus in question teleported over to us and she Dropped a letter in my hands with a massive blush as she then teleported away again. “Welp, I’m boned.”

“Did she just do a high school anime lovers thing?” she asked.

I nodded “I’m pretty sure she’s aware of the internet…” I looked to the letter and sighed “Welp, gotta find her and give it back, as I’m already dating you.”

“Eh,” she shrugged. I looked at her as she did that.

I paused a moment before opening my mouth and saying something most men would get slapped for “You don’t mind me dating other women?”

“Well… I don't know if it works here, but back home it's not really against the law to have more than one girlfriend or wife. Like seriously,” she reached up and pulled a chart down out of nowhere and a pointer. On the chart was a pie chart that eighty seven percent of it was pink, and ten percent of it was blue. There was a little sliver of purple in there as well. “As you can see here, the balance between male and female leans more the female side, so having multiple girls, or herds, are command.”

I looked to the purple sliver and raised my hand “I have a question sensei!”

“What is it my student?” she asked.

I pointed to the purple with a growing feeling of dread “What is the purple sliver for?”

“Oh, those are for herms,” she stated before rolling the chart up.

I blushed a deep crimson red and sat down in a corner as I entered the fetal position “I feel mankind's sins crawling on my back… it has affected the multiverse, our pornography has affected the fabric of reality…”

“Eh, what are you going to do about it?” Jinx asked as she leans on me. “Sooo, what are you going to do with your crush?”

I looked to her and thought a moment “If I were to say I was considering saying yes, would you be mad?”

“Do I have to pull out the chart again?” she deadpanned.

I quickly shook my head “No, god no! I crave pie enough!”

“Aww, you're so sweet!!” she said before picking me up and drop kicking me. “Now go get her stud!!”

I then realised what she was inferring and pointed to her in an accusatory manner “That was dirty, even for you!” I mean, jeez, she’s Pinkie’s mom, for crying out loud!

“No proof!” she yelled back.

I then landed at Eris’s feet, only to find she was wearing a japanese schoolgirl outfit, with teddie bear panties-AND DEAR GOD WHY AM I STILL LOOKING?! I quickly stood up and smiled at Eris “So… you like me?”

Eris looked to me nervously and nodded, a blush on her face as she played with her skirt, somehow this was more erotic than when she was naked… “I… I really like you… And I like how you use your powers to help people, instead of the dumb stuff I did… even when you get hurt by others, you keep on trying to help others… I admire that…”

I nodded as I saw something in the corner of my eye. I saw Jinx waving a flag that says, ‘GO BOB!!’ on it as she ate popcorn.

I snapped my finger and her popcorn turned to prunes as I smiled at Eris “If you are okay with sharing me, I could make a herd with you and Jinx.”

Eris glomped me and kissed me repeatedly “Yesyesyesyesyesyesyes!”

I smiled as I saw out the corner of my eye I saw Jinx. She was holding up a sign that says; ‘ Achievement! Herd Started!!’

I changed it with a snap, and the words shifted to Jinx is sexy, Eris too, what more can I say, than I love you two. Jinx turned it over and chuckled. She gave me the thumbs up and Eris continues to kiss me.

Suddenly, I grab Eris and twirl her as I kiss her back “There, now can we see what mischief we can get to? Maybe prank my big brother?”

Before I could get a reaction though, there was an incredible, earthshaking roar, I looked up to see a massive dragon, the size of a small skyscraper. It was coming toward the Elder Oak, and it was PISSED. “Well shit.”

Greg Pov (A few moments earlier)

I sighed and rubbed my head as I looked to Rose, who was looking at me with concern while she held Arvir. “I told you, she is a friend to me, nothing more.”

Rose sighed as she bounced Arvir on her lap, the little buck giggling ecstatically as he looked to me from across the room. “Daddy! Fun!” I smiled at him as there was a loud knock on the door.

A noble then entered into the court with a calm, collected manner. I felt something familiar coming off of him… it was as if I had felt him near me before, but I had never spoken with him before, nor most of the nobles. “My queen, we have urgent matters to discuss.”

Rose looked to the individual and smiled “Why hello Lord Fern, what is it you need to discuss with us?”

Fern smirked as he came next to Rose and suddenly was interrupted by a cry from the outside of the room “Lord Fern has been knocked out! Call the guards!”

I quickly turned to the imposter to find that he was a changeling, now holding my wife with a knife at her throat. “Move, and your kingdom loses two royals.” I tried to teleport, only for my magic to not work. “Oh, and don’t even bother using magic, my dagger is pure hivestone.”

Arvir looked up to Rose and looked confused “Mama?”

The changeling assassin chuckled as he looked to my son “Your mommy is as good as dead, you freak of nature.”

Arvir looked to Rose, then to the changeling, and began to tear up “M-mama! No, don’t hurt mama!” Arvir’s eyes then began to glow as a set of large wooden hands formed out of the floor and pulled the changeling away from Rose before pulling him into the floor, him screaming in agony as the wood burrowed into his chitin plating. Arvir then blew a raspberry at the lump in the floor that was once an assassin.

I looked to Arvir, who was hugging Rose tightly with his little toddler arms “You two stay put, get the guards on high alert, I’ve got some business to deal with…” I swear to god, Chrysalis is as good as dead.

I then made my way to the outside of the Elder oak as I heard Bob mention pranking me, and then heard a massive roar. As there was a huge dragon approaching the Faewoods border from the badlands. I growled and slenderwalked over him, growing larger and larger as I let my rage build. “How… DARE YOU?!” I landed on the dragon and pulled him back towards me, slamming his head on the ground “Who are you working for?! WHO SENT YOU TO ATTACK MY PEOPLE?!”

The dragon looked to me with rage as he prepped a massive gout of flame and blew it at me, only for me to block it with my hand, smacking him with it as he finished “Tell me!”

The dragon snarled “Dragon Lord Torch has declared war on the people of the Faewood! He shall avenge his ancestors, and burn thy kingdom to the ground, with the Changelings as his spearhead!”

I growled as I grabbed him by the head, my hands breaking his scales one by one from sheer pressure “Too bad you won’t live to see it.” I then ripped his head from it’s shoulders and threw it to the side. I then slenderwalked back to the kingdom and saw that Father Ash was staring at where I fought the dragon, then to me. “Tell me, did you let one of those dragons get away? Because it seems to me that they had a descendent, and he is the boss of the dragons at the moment. WHY DID YOU NOT TELL ME THIS INFORMATION?!”

Father Ash thought a moment “Huh, so that was the little one that ran out of the cave, I thought it was just a jewel thief.”

I sighed and was about to ask Prax if he could shut down Ashes body for a while, in what would count as a time out, as I was very frustrated with him.

I then heard a loud poof as I felt the familiar aura of Celestia appear next to me “What in the name of Faust did you do that for?! My subjects are in a state of absolute panic because of that display!”

I looked to her with barely contained rage “I am not in the mood for this shit, Torch just declared war against my people, and had a changeling try to kill my wife and son. Do. Not. Push me.”

Celestia looked to me as if I just offended her, and I was about to tell her where to shove her complaints, but Holly then appeared next to me with Rose and Arvir, both of which looked very shaken.

I looked to them and sighed “You two saw that, didn’t you…”

Rose nodded and looked like she was trying to figure out what words to say “... You… you really care about me and my people that much?”

I smiled “Yes, I love you more than life itself, and I would never let anyone hurt our kingdom, or our family.”

Holly then cleared her throat as she gestured to Celestia and smiled “Maybe we should save the mushy gushy stuff for later? Maybe after the diplomacy is handled?”

Celestia looked to me angrily “You had best not deal with the other dragons that way.”

I looked to her blankly as Bob and Prax walked over with a changeling bruised and battered.

“It seems that this one has some news to tell,” Prax said, pointing a gun at the changeling.

I looked to the changeling and got close to it, my rage barely constrained “Tell me, now. Otherwise, your death will be slow and painful.” The changeling chuckled.

“There’s really no point huh,” he grunted. “A large group of dragons are coming here, this place is going to turn into ashes, along with Canterlot.”

I grabbed him by the throat and lifted him up “I Want answers. Who sent you, Chrysalis? Torch? Tell me. NOW.”

“Chrysalis? Ba, she’s nothing,” the changeling spat.

I looked to Rose, and Arvir, who were still next to me. “I want to know who your leader is. Tell me now. Or I swear, your smart attitude will be the first of many things to go.”

The changeling didn’t say anything, a flash of worry on his face.

Celestia looked to me in shock “Do not tell me, are you planning to torture this changeling? I will not-”

I was about to say something I’d regret, when Rose spoke up “I believe you are not in power here. This is our kingdom, and this changeling attempted to assassinate the royal family, tell me, What would you do if someone tried to Kill Luna and Twilight?”

Celestia looked to Rose in shocked silence before Prax spoke up “We can torture the changeling later! We need to take care of the dragon invasion at the moment!”

Bob looked to Eris and Jynx “You two ready to party? I think we need to fight too.”

“Love to, but can’t,” Jynx said, pulling a clock out of nowhere. “My time is up, so see ya!” With that she turned on her heel and ran off.

“Wait… wasn’t that…” Celestia pondered but shook her head.

“Don’t even bother.” Prax said, shaking his head slowly.