This is a bad end, leading on from when Corignis teleported in to rescue Courage.

Courage was working over her latest experiment, her life felt like a dream now. Working the enchantments, folding and twisting, rebuilding them into a matrix of spells that made her old work seem like that of a foal. She was fixated on the magic swirling around the simple little orb, this was the latest step in her crusade to get free of this Circle.

"There you are!" Corignis stomped up to Courage, only to bounce into a protective shield. "Hey, Bale Fire?" She banged on the shield a little, but the mare inside seemed lost, staring at a trinket that floated in her inky-black magic.

As Courage turned to see who the intruder was, her eyes widened a little. "Master! An intruder!" She released her enchantment and turned her wrath on the succubus who was right behind her.

Corignis had a moment of staring at her friend and seeing a complete stranger looking back. "Bale—" A thick, black tendril of magic shoved into her mouth, silencing Corignis and making her feel strange at the same time. Magic trickled down her throat, strange magic that she had never felt before.

"Oh, nursing on my Insatiable Tentacles already?" Courage grinned and walked closer to the edge of her magic bubble. "Here, let me guide them." Her awareness slipped into the spell, like a hoof in a sock. She felt her extended body pressing into the demoness' mouth, leaking the addictive aphrodisiac into Corignis' belly. Snaking two new shapes up Corignis' back legs, Courage rubbed each against the demon's rear, smearing her plot with the same substance pooling in her belly.

The first of the rear-tentacles found Corignis' vulva and rubbed against it, smearing more of the goop on her. Her rear glowed with heat, her body aching more and more for the touch of the tentacles. Glancing at Courage showed the mare to be staring at her blankly. Her eyes fluttered shut as the shape shoved into her. Her body immediately tried to drink magic from the tentacles, but failed utterly.

Courage dove a third length of herself into Corignis, plowing through her tail-hole and squirming deep. She squirmed around, all her attention on how good it felt to penetrate the intruding demon. Pushing deeper, she felt Corignis squeeze around her lengths, and was enraptured with screwing her.

"My pet," Learned's voice cut through the mare's distraction, "leave the tentacles, they seem to have her under their sway. You may…"

The words rang in Courage's head. She had to yank back from the feeling of screwing Corignis and back into her body. "Play with her later." Courage's eyes danced. She loved her Master with every ounce of her being, but she also could feel his intent in ever twisted command-phrase she felt from him; as long as she stuck to the intent, she could modify things a little. She dispelled her shield and stepped forward, bowing her head to Learned. "Thank you, I hope you like her, my…"

"Master." Learned confirmed. "Do you know this demon? It is highly unusual for one such as her to travel between Circles, more so considering she looks almost exactly the same as you." He studied the newcomer. "Of course, what am I thinking. You know her as…"

"Corignis el Threpin ark Turas del Fife." Courage blinked a few times, and smiled up at her Master. "I did it! I remembered her name!" She nuzzled Learned's chin.

Terror flooded Corignis, in the depths of her pleasure-wracked mind. She knew what had just been spoken, it called to her no matter what her condition. She knew Courage had spoken her name.

"Corignis el Threpin ark Turas del Fife." Learned leaned forward. "By your name I bid you to rise." He had to jerk back as Corignis fought and struggled, fighting the clutching tentacles and her body's needs both, and standing up. "Good. You know what you must call me." He turned his head slightly, and nodded to Courage. "Dispell the tentacles, please."

Corignis struggled on her wobbly legs. She looked at the demon who had spoken her name and loathed the words she knew she had to say. "Yes, Master." It rang in her head. Her full name had hit her like a ton of bricks, and now she couldn't fight any command he gave. "What do you wish of me?"

"To start? Hearing you say those words." Learned chuckled. "Why did you come here, Corignis el Threpin ark Turas del Fife?" He enunciated each syllable carefully, and smiled wide when her ears folded back at hearing her name again. "And what do you know of my pet?"

Courage couldn't resist herself. She had implied permission to play with Corignis, and really wanted to explore the demon some more. Extending black magic, she lifted Corignis' tail and leaned under it. The heady scent of the tentacle's slimy venom hit her nose, fuzzing her own mind with more desire.

Jumping a little, Corignis felt a tongue stroke from her clit up her vulva to the top of it. She whimpered a little, but she had been given a command. "Yes, Master. I came here to help Courage Fire." her body quivered with each lick, the drug still riding her nerves. "She was a regular pony, from the normal world. I took her cherry, I fed so well on her I helped her. At first my aid was in the hope of getting more sex, then things changed. We had to work together to fight another demon, and when we did, it merged us on some level. I gained part of her soul, she gained some of my demonhood."

A groan left Courage's throat at the sound of her full name. Her head and soul burned, she felt a deep compulsion to keep servicing Corignis, to do as she wished.

"Courage Fire." Learned tasted the name. "Very tasty. So what I have is a pair of half-souled succubi?" He walked around the two, studied each of them closely. Using his magic, he gave a swift smack to Courage's plot. "Courage Fire, stop pleasuring my newest pet."

There was no question of wheedling around the command. Courage pulled her snout back and turned to her master. Giving a soft whine, she nuzzled at his foreleg, her head bent down in submission. "Please, Master, I was only playing."

"Relax, my good pet." Learned nibbled at Courage's dock, his snout pulled into a smile. "Trap her again, as many tentacles as you want. Let my new pet realize that she is on the bottom of the heap." Learned bowed his head, rubbed his horn along Courage's flank.

"Master." Courage felt a tighter bond wrap around her securely. She knew of his mind control, loved the feel of it slipping his thoughts into her head, but now she was completely Learned's pet. "Please… I need you…" She presented herself to him, she stretched her back legs and flagged her tail to the side for him. She expected her Master to mount her and take her body, but instead a thin, tapered intrusion pushed past her folds.

Corignis' legs folded. She couldn't fight the tentacles as they coiled around her limbs and pulled her to the floor. "Buuuuhhhhck." She was stuffed quickly, her tail lifting obligingly for the dark tentacles. They started to piston inside her, driving her mind into a frenzy of submissive glee.

Learned charged his horn with magic, and immediately felt an answer in Courage, and her foal. Bearing a soul like their mother, the creature growing within Courage would, with the right influx of power and purpose, be the next ruler of Equestria. Drawing his horn back, he pushed forward again, shoving his horn deeper into his broodmare. Rocking his shoulders, Learned worked steadily deeper and deeper, until his forehead pressed to her plot. Closing his eyes, he began the enchantment spell.

Screaming with pleasure and purpose, Courage's own magic roared and poured out, joined her Master's and dove into her body. The foal inside her became wrapped in runes, power suffusing their being. Filly. The thought came and went, Courage only moaned louder as Learned wove more power around the growing mass inside her.

He slowly pulled his horn back, and as he did, Learned rumbled softly to the bearer of his foal. "Good pet, Courage Fire. You understand the magic so well now." Pride and satisfaction coated his voice, and he watched the emotions have their effect on Courage.

Slumping down to the floor, Courage closed her eyes a moment in bliss; power seemed to radiate from within, a mix of hers and her Master's "Master, what was that?" She turned and looked over her shoulder to the big, dark stallion. "It felt like enchantment magic…"

"Which of course it was." Learned sighed, part of him wanting the more delightfully complex control of bending Courage to his will, instead of just breaking her with her name. "It is time to play a game with your friend, we are going to…"

Every part of Courage perked up, rejoicing as she felt her master's will bend against her, shaping her thoughts. "Hypnotize her." Courage struggled to get her legs under her belly, and failed completely. Taking a deep breath to steady herself, she tried again. Bubbling laughter left Courage's throat as she gained her hooves, legs wobbling. "Master, you have left me so wobbly after…"

"Plowing our foal full of magic." Learned nipped at Courage's flank, making her dance. Glancing towards Corignis, he smiled. "Your spell is quite effective, where did you learn that one?" He walked over, circling the stuck succubus.

"Master, that spell was in Sylliph's Salacious Spells." Courage's pride swelled as she walked up and leaned down. Licking one of the tentacles—one that had a firm grip on Corignis' wing—Courage groaned in bliss as the drug it leaked gave her a warm tingle all over. "What are you going to do with both of us? Eventually?"

Learned stopped and looked at Courage. "Once she is hypnotized too, I am going to bind you both to me in a very permanent way." Flicking his magic at Corignis, the tentacles disappeared and left her rolling on her side in desperation. This won't do. Drawing more power, he pushed into her being, wrapping the spell in her name, and pulled her back from the addiction to the tentacles.

Gasping, suddenly cold-sober, Corignis looked up and whimpered.

"Corignis el Threpin ark Turas del Fife." Learned watched the mare's head jerk up to look at him. "I am in control of your body now, quite completely. Will you submit to my…"

"…will." Corignis froze, spotting Learned's horn glowing with dark magic. "What are you going to do to me, Master? I am already yours." Somehow, she knew he wanted more from her, something she likely never wanted to give.

"Just relax. Let Master's thoughts replace the ones you don't need anymore." Courage pressed her snout under Corignis' tail and nuzzled the mare's vulva, rubbing her cheeks into it. "If you are good, Master will…"

"Control you, too." Learned walked before Corignis. "Isn't that what is happening already? I am in control. Just relax yourself, Corignis el Threpin ark Turas del Fife. Let my voice guide you, make me…"

"My Master." Corignis couldn't fight his mind when he used her name, and felt Learned's will shape parts of her own. The need to resist him just melted, the first target. Then she smiled and perked her ears forward, aching for his next word. "I want…"

"Me to own you." Learned pressed his snout to Corignis', breathing into her face, letting his breath be her breath, his words be her words, and his thoughts be her thoughts. "Relax yourself, listen to me. You will start to learn dark magic, and my other pet will teach you. But first, let me bind you into…"

"Your familiars." Corignis nodded, smiling widely. She felt a touch at her side, as Courage walked up beside her. Magic welled up between the other two, pouring out into a huge rune-weave around them. Two big circles, one around Corignis and Courage, the other around Learned. Then a shaft of runes etched itself along the floor from Learned's circle to theirs. Magic flooded Corignis, but she wasn't the focus. "Master, make us…"

"Mine." Learned sank his magic into Courage like a gaff into a fish. He speared the power deep into her very core, and used more to weld it in place. A feeling of heat flooded his body, of need to be filled, stuffed, claimed. Struggling against the sensations of a needy succubus, he turned the magic on Corignis.

Corignis slammed her eyes closed, but that did nothing to stop her feeling the thick black magic squirm into her, burrowing around in the morass of Her, until it found her core. Corignis suddenly belonged, had a place to be, and no longer worried about Courage or herself. Panting at the strength of the bond now welded into her very being, she looked at Learned. "Master, please use me as you wish." They were words for Corignis to live by now, and she felt the delight her master felt at them.

"You are both very naughty mares, and I know this link is already having an effect on me. But, binding two powerful succubi as familiars will boost my power to unimaginable levels, maybe even enough to leave this cursed Circle of Avarice!" Learned drew on their power, swelling out with it, and dimly heard a voice cursing.

"This did not go so well. Let's try again."

Author's Notes:

Not the end, just what might have been if she wasn't quite as willful as she should have been. Courage and Corignis have both lost their names, their will, and their future to King Sombra's father.

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