Courage woke in a bed that was under a starry night. She snuggled under the covers, and felt a pair of hooves reaching for her. Rubbing one of the hooves, Courage knew who the owner was instinctively, and reached out to pull Corignis against her.

Something seemed wrong; the world around Courage was too perfect. Opening her eyes, she realized that the bed was sitting in an open field with the night sky truly above them. Gazing up into the pinpricks of light, her eyes were drawn to the moon.

"What's wrong?" Corignis was pressed so tightly against Courage that she could, as she woke, sense her lover's confusion. "Wait…"

A flash of light, and the dark shape that had marked the moon for a thousand years was gone. "Hello, Courage Fire." Princess Luna herself was standing beside the bed, a tight smile on her lips.

Courage laughed at the sight and rolled from the bed and wrapped her forelegs around Luna. Hugging the Princess tightly, Courage wept for all she had been through. "Thank you! Thank you!"

Though Luna hugged Courage back, her attention was split between the mare before her and the one in the bed. "You found another pony in the Pit?"

"Ye… kinda." Courage had no idea how Princess Luna would act upon meeting Corignis, but she couldn't lie to the Princess. "This is Corignis." She let go of Luna and reached a hoof out to her sister and lover. "Cor?"

Luna looked over the mare. Corignis was now an earth pony with yellow mane and tail, and light blue fur. "If she isn't another pony then—"

"I was a demon. A succubus to be exact." Corignis reached her hoof to Courage's and let her lover pull her to the edge of the bed. "But Courage gave me something I will never forget."

Blinking and looking between the two mares, Luna ventured a guess. "Her soul?"

"Nope, her dong." Corignis grinned wide at the mortified princess. "Actually, she gave me part of her soul too. Blasted things are worse than the flu. Once you get so much as a hint, next thing you know you are fully infected."

Courage didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "You can't say that to Princess Luna, Cor…" She took a step back from the bed and shook her head. "Please, Princess Luna, she doesn't really mean—"

"It's okay, Courage Fire and… and Corignis…" Luna took a deep breath and let it out. She expelled her prejudice against Corignis with it, remembering how demonic she had been herself. "…welcome to Equestria."

Corignis tilted her head a little, then turned to Courage in surprise. "My name!" The blank stare from her sister made her no less excited. "My full name! Quick, say it!"

Blinking and trying to keep up, Courage shrugged. "Corignis el Threpin ark Turas d—"

"That's enough!" History had taught Corignis to be wary of her full name, but even a major part of it—like Courage had just said—should have made her uncomfortable. "But does that mean there's no demon in me at all?"

The question made Luna truly smile. "It means you are home, my pony." She spread a wing around both Courage and Corignis, and gently shook them from their shared dream to face their first day in Equestria together.

Though Princess Luna had visited them in a dream, she had not gone to meet with the two mares in the waking world. Courage managed to fit back into her profession, taking odd jobs to pay for the resources she needed to do better and better work; bootstrapping her way back into business.

Corignis performed odd jobs as well, although since most of her life had been spent trading in ponies in the Pit, she had a much shorter list of professional skills than Courage. Between the two of them, they built enough income to buy a nice house and settle in.

Were Luna to have visited, she would certainly have had interesting questions for the pair, mainly relating to their growing bellies. Being a good ways from Canterlot had its advantages and disadvantages. Courage got plenty of work coming from the Royal Guard, but getting the right materials and layering multiple enchantments was time consuming..

A knock at the door, one day, stole Courage's attention away from her latest project. Closing the book she had been writing in, she heaved her large belly up and slowly waddled over to answer it. "I'm coming!"

"Finally! Look, when my friend said to just mail our gear to you with the money we were a bit skeptical, but seeing what his sword could do…" The young stallion trailed off when he took in Courage's gravid state. "Oh… uh… I'm Brave Heart…"

"Come in." Courage backed away to make room for her visitors. "So you are here to pick your things up?"

"Yeah! This stuff had better be worth the bits we sent. If you are just trying to rip us off…" The stallion let his voice trail off as the room seemed to grow a little chilly.

Courage turned back and looked at him. "You paid me for the special burning enchantment on three swords. Why would I rip you off?" Courage felt her blood quicken at the insult and veiled threat. "You wanted weapons to slay devils; I made them. If you want to discuss the quality I could give you a demonstration…"

The chill in the room seemed to deepen, and the light of the crackling fire seemed to throw shadows everywhere. "Brave, maybe you should apologize…" Bright Flash, the party's unicorn mage tried to pull their friend back. At that moment the shadows flickered, making it look like Courage had a huge pair of black, demonic wings.

Corignis seemed—to the group of adventurers—to slip up beside them from nowhere. "Would anypony like something to eat?" As a succubus Corignis had been all curves and soft flesh, but becoming a pony had not dulled her looks at all. She knew her pregnancy had dulled some of her finer looks, but some ponies found even that alluring.

All eyes in the room were drawn to Corignis, and just as Brave opened his mouth to reply, more shadows flickered. It seemed like Corignis grew horns, large black wings, and her features seemed to pull into a twisted countenance of hunger.

"Look, you paid half up front. There are your swords." Courage pointed to the three blades wrapped in oilcloth on a nearby table. "If you will just give me the rest of the…" Her voice trailed off. Somehow, the three ponies managed to grab the swords, drop a bag of bits in their place, and flee from their home before she got another word out.

"That was mean." Corignis reached over to the leaking bag of bits. One coin was still spinning on the table, and as she stopped it with a hoof, Corignis shook her head. "There was no need for all the theatrics." She gestured at the dancing shadows.

"But it's fun!" Courage used her magic to pull the darkness around her like a cloak. "Next time they won't even want to visit. And can you imagine how they will tell their friends about the awesome swords they got from a crazy demon-witch and her creepy, beautiful, sneaky marefriend?"

"If you haven't scared them away for good, that is." Corignis started counting the bits.

If you liked the happy ending, with everything going right, then you should stop here. This story continues, as Courage and Corignis have a little more to do before they are done with their destiny. Read on, brave soul, and find out what happens beyond "happily ever after."

One day, after getting a special package delivered, Courage decided that their time was done. "Cor, I want him."

"Alphias?" Corignis watched her sister nod. She was working on knitting, a craft she had surprised even herself with how easily it had come to her. "I miss him too, but what can we…" She trailed off and stared at what Courage was doing. Corignis wasn't a master mage. She had barely known the runes a succubus needed to get her work done, but she could recognize the items needed to make a ritual circle.

"I am not going to have our foals born without at least meeting their father." Courage layed out the necessary pattern from a book in Avarice she remembered. Her head practically rattled with lore from her time spent studying under Alphias, and the absence of him only made her heart ache more.

Corignis, now interested in Courage's latest project a lot more, put down her knitting and got up from her chair to inspect her lover's efforts. She watched as Courage used her magic to draw complicated runes on the floor with chalk. "You are doing this from memory?"

"Alphias was clear when he enthralled me: he would not tolerate a student he had to show something to more than once. It felt like years there…" Her eyes followed the runes, and added extra ones as she remembered them. "This is more than a simple summoning. I will need to burn these patterns into the floor with magic."

"Burn it… Courage, what are you doing?" Corignis knew summoning, every demon who wanted out did, but this was apparently a lot more than that. Then something clicked in her head. "I have seen those runes before…"

"In Avarice." Courage giggled. "This isn't a summoning, Cor, I am opening a gate." She double-checked her work, examining each marking once more before moving on to the next step. From the package she pulled out a little vial of metal shavings. Following the chalk lines, she sprinkled the metal around.

"This is going to blast a ton of demonic magic around though, right?" Stepping back to let Courage have room, Corignis watched her sister continue the meticulous work.

"I won't be opening it with demon energy. This will be pony magic at first." Courage finished with the metal and poured magic into the shavings. White hot metal flared, and caught up the magic that sparked it. The combined mundane and magical energy scorched the pattern Courage had formed directly into the stone floor of their little house.

Corignis could appreciate an artist at work, and when it came to enchantments and rune-work Courage was a master artist. "At first?"

"I would have done almost anything to get back to Equestria." Courage walked around the large circle, examining it carefully. "I had some lines I wouldn't cross. Some deeds I wouldn't commit. Hurting you was one, and Alphias was the other. I gave up all the power I had to get back here, but now…"

"Buyer's remorse?" Corignis giggled. "Don't get me wrong, I like being just a pony, but I miss—"

"Alphias. Sex with him was the best." Courage shook her hips a little, but then looked back at Corignis. "Sorry, Cor, you are amazing with your tongue, but this mare likes more than one flavor."

"I am going to make you climax for a week when I get my power back." Corignis stuck out her tongue at Courage. "And then I will make you make me climax for a week as payback." She nodded to the logic.

"And Alphias can join in?" Courage saw Corignis' eyes roll.

"Well of course Alphias too. I love that stallion…" Corignis trailed her words off a little, marveling at how good it felt to say them. "So when are you—"

Magic poured from Courage. She shoved her power at the portal, but there wasn't enough. She had planned for this, and turned to Corignis. "Tantric energy, Corignis?"

"Aww, does my little unicorn not have enough 'oomph'?" Walking closer, Corignis nuzzled and nipped around Courage's tail. "Well, already in the mood?"

"With Alphias practically on his way, yes." Courage folded her forelegs, keeping her plot raised for Corignis. Heat burned through her as Corignis nibbled and nuzzled her way under her tail, and Courage gave a little squeal when her sister bit down on her dock. "What was that for?"

"Because you love it." Corignis bit on Courage's dock again, but this time the mare moaned instead of squealed. A musky scent rose to meet Corignis' nose. Closing her eyes, the former succubus inhaled the aroma of her sister and lover. "You love it, and I love it."

Holding the magic she had already poured into the runes was a challenge when Courage was with such a talented lover, and worse still because Corignis knew her body intimately. She didn't hold back her moans when Corignis' tongue ran along her vulva, and she felt the wet, hot power start to slowly fill her.

Warmed to her task, Corignis lapped and nuzzled, tasting more of Courage's secretions. A buzz in the air, crackling power that Corignis knew all too well, reminded her of everything she had given up. Hunger drove her. Hunger for pleasure. Hunger for power. Hunger to give both to her lover.

Courage rolled her hips, trembling again and again as mini orgasms propelled her pleasure skyward. Her vagina clutched down on nothing, but her mind imagined the stallion she had pledged herself to on her back. The runes of the circle were feeding off their lust, and Courage could feel them actively draining her. She was wondering, panting like she was an animal in heat, when her climax would hit.

Leaving her lover's folds alone for a moment, Corignis bit down on Courage's dock again. Thunder rolled through the sky outside, and the rush of power through their bodies finally did what they intended and activated the gate.

Alphias spotted the incursion to his domain the moment it happened. The old portal, a gateway that had been used centuries earlier, fizzed with power and then manifest into an open rift. He stared at it for a moment, then stepped closer. "I wonder what I will find through here…?"

Rather than simply step through, Alphias sent a probe of magic first. The demonic energy slid through the perfectly formed portal, sampled the other side and quickly pulled back. "Equestria?"

A dozen pony heads lifted from books in Alphias' library. In the middle of an influx of new souls, Alphias was loath to leave his Circle. But a hint of the magic used to make the portal tasted familiar. "Courage?" He didn't hesitate now, shoving his snout through the portal, intending to follow it.

A soft nuzzle touched his muzzle before he got more than the tip of his face through. A second nuzzle, on the other cheek, made him curl his lips into a smile. "Well, well, well." Alphias stepped through the portal, landing in Equestria and now bracketed by his two mates. The sight of their swollen bellies would have been enough to arouse him, but that combined with the scent of Corignis and Courage post coitus pushed him fully into desire.

Courage had to content herself with staring at her mate's face, not that she didn't want to look under him. "We gave up all our demonic power."

"All of it." Corignis nuzzled at Alphias' throat, nipping gently. "I don't suppose our stallion might know how to get it back?" Her tone was simpering, but in truth she was almost ready to pounce on Alphias. She had given Courage an orgasm, but now wanted one for herself.

"You are both somewhat less than when we met last, but look," Alphias gestured out the window of the little house, "we have a whole world to play in while you recover." The smell of Courage was tempting, but he could hear the need in Corignis' voice reaching frustrating levels.

Watching Alphias climb atop Corignis' back, Courage whined. She wanted him, she needed him, but then she remembered what was on the other side of the portal. Stepping closer, she checked her work for stability, and found it perfect. Stepping through, Courage felt the stifling heat of the Pit first. Looking around Avarice, she saw the shelves being patronized by many ponies, each apparently in their own little metaphysical manacles as they tried in vain to sate their hunger for knowledge.

Walking brazenly up to the first stallion she saw, Courage nuzzled his flank and nipped at him. "Come on, I have a lot of catching up to do."

Author's Notes:

Corignis: you're a succubus. You've probably had lots of the sexy times with pretty much everything, wah? What was your best/most memorable lay?

" 'Was,' honey." Corignis' body rocked to the thrusts of Alphias. Though her belly was huge, and her stallion mighty, she held her ground for him. "And my best... best lay? Look up!" Corignis arched her spine so she tilted her head up enough to nuzzle the underside of Alphias' jaw.

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