It seemed like hours passed as Courage marched closer and closer to the walled-in city. Putting her hooves one in front of the other, cursing from moment to moment. "Okay, how do stallions walk like this? It feels like I keep kicking myself!"

She paused and waited, grumbling something dire when the voice was silent. Moving her right forehoof forward, she saw a strange sight atop a ridge to her right. Walking one after another, all strung together with a rope attached to each of their bridles, was a whole group of ponies. Courage saw the creature at the back, holding a whip in its mouth.

Standing a little taller than the other ponies, the strange-looking mare had a big pair of bat wings on their back and seemed to take great glee in lashing at the tied-together ponies. When the strange creature turned to face Courage, it smiled widely. "Whoa, hold pets."

Courage watched as all the ponies stopped and stood still, a few looking relieved to have a break. "What are-" She didn't get any further, the strange bat-winged pony pulled out a new bridle. "Oh no, not going to wear that!" She reached for her knife and found it missing, of course.

"You don't want my bridle, pony?" The creature narrowed its eyes. "What is wrong with you? You know where we are, right?"

"Uh, we are in the Pit. That," Courage pointed to the city, "is Fraud." She watched—what she was quickly suspecting was a demon—as the creature started to giggle and snort. "What? What is so funny? Tell me, or I-"

"Or you will what, little pony? This," the demoness shook the bridle, "will protect you in there. Do you have any idea what the laws are regarding mortals in Fraud?" She tossed the bridle down on the ground. "Last time I try to help somepony."

Courage stared at the retreating demon, feeling more than a little confused. Not wanting to waste anything, she reached down and picked up the bridle in a hoof. "Wait, what is this for? What do you mean?" She began to hobble after the demon, waving the bridle. "Ugh, slow down." Grabbing the bridle straps in her magic she started to canter after the demon. "Wait, wha-" The straps seemed to come alive in her magic, one with a ring on the end trailing down her flow of magic to latch the loop of metal over her horn. Courage opened her mouth to shout and the bit of the bridle shot toward her and jammed into her mouth, forcing her tongue down and silencing her attempts to berate the demon. The rest of the thing pulled tight around her head, magic guiding the straps and buckles to fasten.

"There, now come along, you can have the last spot on this nice rope!" The demon trotted over to Courage, reaching out for the reins with a wing-claw.

Trying to jerk back away from the demoness, Courage felt the reins get hooked and a serene calmness settled over her. Blinking, all the rage she had been mustering—to fight the demon with—was just gone. She glared at the creature.

"I wasn't lying. If you go through that gate without one of these bridles on you, you will soon have one fitted and be sold to the highest bidder. Instead, you come in with me and we work out what you want to do once inside, okay?" The demon gave a little tug on the reins.

Courage's thoughts blanked a moment, she stumbled forward at the jerk to her bridle. Walking beside the demoness without protest, she tried to desperately rally herself to regain some measure of control.

Bringing both claws forward, the demoness tied the last length of the rope to Courage's bridle. "Don't care who you are, or what your name is. We will get inside and then we can talk payment and plans. Now, getamoveon!"

The whip cracked, but now that she was part of the precession, Courage could see that the demon didn't actually strike anypony with it. The rope tugged at her bridle and her thoughts muddied again. Courage barely registered the command to stop and blinked, seeing the city walls. She fidgeted, no longer being guided by the rope. A wing carefully unfastened Courage's cloak and folded it up. She wanted to protest, she wanted to argue, but the moment she started to move the rope tugged her back, her thoughts scattering.

"More slaves? What do you do with them all? I see you haul them in, then you haul another load out the other gate…" A big demon-stallion stepped down the line, tugging at the guide-rope now and again, when he reached Courage he tugged at it, wiping out the conversation from her thoughts.

"Whoa, stop now. Calm down my lovelies." The demoness walked around the ponies, unfastening the bridles from the rope one by one. Finally, Courage was untied and her reins were draped around a hitching post.

Careful not to jerk the straps, Courage turned and watched as the demon started removing bridles. It seemed strange, but once she had three off, the ponies slipped from the stables they were in. Twice more this happened until Courage was alone with the demoness.

"Now, do you promise not to run, or zap me, or zap me and run?" The demoness tucked her wings down and approached Courage. "Because if you don't, tell me. I can escort you out the other side and let you go. My name is Corignis, are you going to be good?"

Courage nodded slightly, moving a touch too much and feeling the tug on the reins. Her mind fizzed out for just a moment, her thoughts returning as Corignis lifted the bridle free.

"There, now who are you and what do you want to do here?" Corignis grinned in the most lascivious of ways at the unicorn. "Business, or pleasure?" The way the demon said "pleasure" would have sent chills up the back of even the most abstinent stallions, unfortunately for Courage, she counted as one now.

"I… business!" Courage had to fight her arousal, she dared not look down and draw attention to the growing, throbbing shaft. Backing up, each careful step she took backwards was followed by the demon taking a step toward her. "Stop, p-" Her plot pressed to the back of the stall she hadn't realized she was even backing into. "Stop it, please. I just want to get out of here. I am not meant to be here!" She stomped a hoof on the floor of the stall.

Corignis lifted her snout and sniffed, drinking in the smell of aroused stallion. Staring at the only other creature nearby, the demoness licked her lips. "What are you?" She reached out a wing claw to Courage's snout. "You owe me a favor, for getting you in here. I am starting to have thoughts about how I want it repaid."

"I… I am just a unicorn… please… just show me how-" Courage shuddered when the demon stepped closer, she couldn't move as Corignis pressed in against her neck and inhaled. "P-P-Please…"

"You have been playing with tentacle monsters. You shouldn't do that, but tell me, did it feed you, little colt?" Corignis inhaled more deeply, now sure that she could smell stallion.

"It grabbed me, I couldn't get away, couldn't think, couldn't stop it filling me and…" Courage trembled, her body shuddering as waves of pleasure rolled from that strange thing between her back legs. She wanted to slump, to collapse.

"Oh, so it was already feeding you, that makes things much more worthwhile." Corignis' nostrils flared wide at the smell, she knew full well Courage had just unloaded on the stall floor. "Your boon, pretty colt, is to mount me, breed me." She leaned up and nuzzled Courage's nearest ear. "Do that, or I put the bridle back on and you get to find out what the auctions are like, first-hoof."

"Wait, wait!" Courage used her magic to push the demon back, shoving Corignis from the stall. "Okay, so all you want is for me to… to buck you, and you are happy?"

"Yes." Corignis wore a hungry-looking smile.

"What's the catch, what do you get out of it?" Courage was still a little shaky, but it helped that the demon had left the stall. Her brain raced, taking up every ounce of mental faculty that had been denied her while wearing the bridle. "You're a succubus."

"Big dick and you are smart? Corignis, you have hit the jackpot." The demon grinned wide. "So, how new are you to this place? You stumble into a tentacle monster, you let a succubus put a control-bridle on you… Who are you?"

"Cou-" Courage felt a wing slap her face so fast she had barely seen it move. "What was that for?"

"I can't believe the things I will do to get a sexy stallion." Corignis ruffled her wing back down. "Never tell a demon your name, you do that and you give them power over you. I am a small fry down here, but if you said that openly, well, somepony would sell the information and next thing you know, you are trapped in some demon's harem, willingly."

Courage trembled at the description and couldn't help giving the demoness a smile. "So why tell me? You really want to… get with…" She blushed and trailed off.

"Yes." Corignis licked her lips, a forked tongue lashing over them as she looked up and down Courage. "How do you want me?"

The question surprised Courage, she certainly hadn't expected a "sex demon" to offer her choice of positions. "Uh, I guess, standing, and…" She was lost, Courage looking around for any excuse to get out of doing what the succubus wanted.

"Really? What is this, your first… oh fuck me sideways, you are a virgin?" Corignis rushed forward, both wings spread in excitement. "Okay, shit is changing, I need to do a ritual for this, we need to get you into me and feed me every drop of that… I'll get you out of this circle."

A little shocked and embarrassed, Courage blinked as the demoness started gesturing to the floor of the stable, making little symbols appear in burning red. "I… what is so important about that? I mean, the tentacle thing-"

"Is a tentacle thing. You can be despoiled by them, but that cock of yours is pristine… and I worked you up to waste a blast on the floor! I could have sold that for a fortune… no, stop, getting ahead of myself. Right, I have a virgin colt-"

"Mare." Courage was grinning a little on edge, she tried to examine the runes the succubus had made. "Corignis, what are these? I used to make enchantments, I never saw anything like… like these buckin' things."

"Oh, big dick, smart, and have a way with magic? I may put that bridle back on you and ride you home." Corignis stepped up beside Courage and gestured in the air with one wing, the other covering Courage's back. "They work like this. Inscribing the rune for lust, adding a directional target, then an enhancement."

Courage felt an ache run down from her neck all the way to that spot between her back legs, where her throbbing shaft was growing again. The smell of the demon beside her had the unicorn breathing heavy. She saw all the runes flare brightly, felt the wing around her back urge her forward. Then the runes found her and latched on.

"Perfect, you are amazing." Corignis drew her wing back and turned, offering Courage her back. Normally she would coo and invite a stallion, but her newest conquest was so far ahead of the class that she had to lift and flag her tail, letting the other mare inspect her.

When she sank her snout into the succubus' vulva, Courage inhaled, drawing in their essence. The next breath had her body as ready as it ever could get. With a single lick, she mounted Corignis. Power surged into Courage, she felt the runes around the room bore their energy into her, focusing it carefully and almost driving her body. She bucked, missed, bucked again.

"Aim damn you, what is this your-" Corignis' voice choked off into a moan of pleasure as the mare atop her found her mark. With the enchantments in place, Courage had all the power, all the drive she needed to buck the demon into bliss. Grinding back into every thrust, Corignis soon found the moment she wanted.

Courage's body was wound like a spring, the demonic magic enhancing both her arousal and the sex itself until a precipice came. She trembled as her second male orgasm came, showing the first for the waste it was. Closing her eyes, Courage felt raw power being drained from her, torrents of it, waves of it, and she wouldn't have stopped it if she could. Shoving as deep as she could, she exploded into Corignis, forelegs pulling the demon back onto her.

The power was like a roar in Corignis' ears, fire and lust spilled up through her, the flood of seed binding the magic and power into a conduit. But it would not last. She trembled on her hooves as the bulk of the pleasure wound down, her own climax fading into happy twitches, and finally into weariness. "Now that is how you buck." She looked back, seeing the mare atop her slumped and tired.

Courage jerked awake, curled up in some hay and feeling a lot better than she had any right to feel. "I… I can't believe I-" She choked her words back as Corignis seemed to appear, as if summoned. "Did that… do you have enough power?"

"I do, but," Corignis' eyes roamed over the mare, taking in every inch of her. "Stay here, spend the night with me, and I will make you a demon lord too." Her eyes flashed with promise.

"One night?" Courage stretched, looked down, and laughed. "Well, something is saying yes…" Her thoughts kept catching on something, a fact she had thrown away as not important earlier. "Just the night, no more?"

"When dawn comes, you can leave my care and fly free." Corignis smiled.

"Dawn… no." Courage blinked in surprise. "How long has it been night here?"

"Since I have been in existence. Can you blame me? That was amazing sex; the power, the energy… I could send two ponies to the next Circle." Corignis sighed and folded her legs. "Just one for the road?"

Courage was about to resist, to tell the demon "no," when Corignis' lips wrapped around the morning wood she sported and Courage was once more sighing. "After… after this… this one..."

Author's Notes:

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