"Oohp." Twilight exclaimed as she quite unceremoniously stepped out of the carriage, her foot catching on the door frame and brief stumble occurring before she regained proper footing. She slowly blinked and looked around, seeing that they were almost under the Crystal Empire's southern arch and few yards away from the entrance to the castle itself.

Her slightly muddled mind did notice that the Crystal Heart remained between its usual crystal stalactite and stalagmite, spinning at high velocity as always. That meant that nothing was wrong there thankfully, Twilight could do without another Crystalling situation at the moment. After briefly confirming the status of the Crystal Heart, she turned to the shivering guards at the front of the carriage and jogged towards them.

"Thank you very much for your service, uhh. Mr. Guards?" Twilight grabbed one of the guard’s hands in order to give it a regal shake but immediately dropped it and pulled her own hand away when she felt the ice-cold fingers. Even with the large fur-lined coats, the guards were still chilled to the bone from flying through the freezing black clouds of the Frozen North as evidenced by their now purple hands and the shining ice crystals that clung to their eyebrows and helmet plumes. "Oh, my that's very cold! But, uhhh, thank you..." She awkwardly patted him on the shoulder, then did the same for the three other guards, slowly going from shoulder from shoulder until Rarity grabbed her by her own shoulder and pulled her away.

"Thank you for your service gentlemen. Please do enjoy yourself a nice hot chocolate." Rarity smiled and waved to the guards whilst pulling Twilight away. Once the ever-so-slightly out-of-it Twilight was far enough away from the guard's hearing range, Rarity spun her around and faced her. "Alright Twilight, try to act a little less tipsy than you actually are, ok? You shouldn't have even drunk that much."

"But it was you who offered me another glass." Twilight jiggled her hands and pointed at Rarity, shifting the blame of her slight tipsiness onto her friend.

"Well, sometimes Rarity is wrong. Now, look sharp, here come the others." Rarity indicated to the approaching groups of friends stepping from their own chariots and stretching their legs.

"Y'all alright?" Applejack asked, noticing that Twilight was shifting her eyes over everything that wasn't another person.

"Yes, peachy!" Rarity smiled and wrapped an arm around Twilight's slumped shoulders, the significantly drunker of the two women nodding after a few seconds. "How was your ride?"

"It was..." Applejack was stopped by a giggling Pinkie Pie poking her in the ribs with her elbow and motioning over to Spike stepping out of the carriage. Applejack rolled her eyes and shook her head in response. "Productive."

"Yeah. Real productive. I felt like we made some very hot, sweaty, passionate progress." Rainbow chuckled and playfully jabbed Fluttershy in the bicep. Fluttershy blushed profusely and rubbed the area that Rainbow had punched while shifting her eyes to the deep blue road they stood on.

"What's everybody talking abo-" Spike began speaking but a shrill cry cut his sentence off mid-word.

"Sunburst!" Starlight called out. She raised a hand and waved to the man in question who was quickly approaching the group of friends, his cape flowing as he briskly stepped towards them. But before Sunburst could reach them Starlight had already barged past Twilight and Fluttershy to meet him halfway, embracing the man in a tight hug.

"Starlight! It's great to see you." Sunburst recuperated the hug with a pair of warm arms tucked around Starlight's back, although Starlight instead chose to rest her hands-on Sunburst's waist, her hands gripping tightly but not noticeably enough that Sunburst would pull away.

"Likewise." Starlight rested her chin on the man's shoulder and sighed. She was about to rest into the hug and fully enjoy her friend's warm embrace, but he pulled away much to her disdain.

"I'm sorry, Starlight. We haven't got much time to catch up, the Princesses are urgently requesting you guys. If everyone could come with me." Sunburst was hasty with his words, quick and nervous. He turned around and began walking towards one of the castle's entrances at a high pace, leaving the girls and Spike to double their feet and catch up.

"Hey Starlight." Spike tapped the disappointed woman on the shoulder.

"Yeah Spike?" She turned her head to look at the young man.

"No offense but maybe try being a bit subtle when you handle, y'know." Spike motioned to Sunburst stepping up the door and opening it up.

"Really, you think?" She asked, seemingly unaware of the previous awkward hug.

"Yeah. Just remember, play it cool and slow. And try not to stutter." Spike whispered and patted her on the back. Starlight nodded and looked to Sunburst strutting up the stairs in front of her and two-stepped up towards him so they were on equal footing.

"So, I guess we can talk on the way, right?" Starlight asked, catching the anxious Sunburst by surprise and causing him to lose footing slightly on the stairs. From the not-all-their chuckle, off-kilter glasses, rapid steps, and hair that was frazzled even more than his usual wild orange streaked cowlick, Starlight picked up that he was a little bit stressed out at the moment.

"Huh? Oh, yea-yes of course." Sunburst smiled almost unnaturally, bearing a set of seemingly uncleaned teeth. "How are, umm, how are you... Doing?" He asked, snapping his head forward and continuing his speedy steps.

"Ummm, not bad. I'm more concerned about how you are." Starlight sheepishly rested a hand on her crush's shoulder, hoping he wouldn't find it too uncomfortable. Luckily, she felt his shoulder muscles melt as she laid her hand on him. She looked back to Spike who gave her a sly thumbs up. "No offense Sunburst but you're looking a bit worse for wear."

"Oh yeah. Sorry about that. I-I was woken up, ve-very early. I'm kind of..." Sunburst trailed off as he opened the doors to the grand halls of Crystal Castle and stepped in.

"Kind of?" Starlight left her sentence open in hope that Sunburst would finish it. However, he just turned to her with a confused expression.

"Kind of what?" He asked, apparently having no idea that he left his own sentence unfinished not seconds ago.

"Nevermind." Starlight shook her head and chuckled to herself over the humorous exchange. Although she did notice that her laugh was a little loud and girly than usual, hopefully, this wasn't any kind of giveaway. Although given Sunburst's fatigue and general inattentive nature at the moment, she was probably in the safe, which gave Starlight an idea. "Hey, you're a little tired, right?" She asked, once again making the man jolt slightly.

"Whu? Oh, I mean yes... I think." Sunburst answered quite uncertainly. Starlight chuckled once again at the man's cute mannerisms.

"Well how about after we get done with the Princesses we go get some coffee y'know. Wake you up a little? And we can catch up too." Starlight tightened her fingers on the man's shoulders. The man perked up at the mere mention of the word 'coffee', which is when Starlight knew she was in. Mentally she did a victorious fist pump and turned to Spike who once again gave her a thumbs up.

"Coffee!? I forgot about coffee. I could reeeally use some coffee." Sunburst nodded rapidly and produced a slightly goofy grin.

"Alright, then it's a dat- Get together. A little get together between two friends." Starlight corrected herself from saying the dreaded word 'date', not like Sunburst would have noticed anyway.

"Whoo." Sunburst sighed and patted his friend on the back. "Thank you, Starlight. I could really use that." Sunburst smiled through deeply sunken eyes and Starlight couldn't help but smile back at him. Just with a little friendly chat, she was set up with a date, or rather a 'get together'. Starlight didn't even look back to Spike for reassurance this time, she was so confident in herself that she didn't need his approval.

Spike smiled and nodded at his friend's handiwork, feeling a slight sense of pride for his friend, even if her target was a little bit intoxicated by sleep deprivation. But his feelings of pride were put to the side when he saw Twilight's awkwardly smiling face creep into his peripherals. He turned to see her waving at him strangely and now that Spike noticed that he realized she had been acting quite oddly ever since she exited her carriage.

"Heyyyy. How are you?" She asked, walking parallel to him and keeping a close eye on her own feet as she placed each step.

"Not bad. How about you Twilight?" He asked the peculiar woman.

"Me? Good, good, good. Yes... Good. But, how are you?" Twilight repeated herself to Spike's confusion. Just before the man was about to ask why Twilight realized what she had just done and corrected herself. "No, sorry. I mean, how are we?" She posed the question, a question that Spike found quite confusing. Did she mean how they were collectively... Or their relationship. If it was the latter Spike thought it would be quite a sensitive topic to bring up in front of their friends.

"Well if I'm good and you're also good. I'd say we're pretty good." He tried to distract away from whatever Twilight was trying to get at. But little did Spike know Twilight's slightly dulled mind was already dead set on this related discussion.

"Yeah! Hahahah... But how are we?" Twilight chuckled and swung her legs, stumbling a little bit before she looked back up to her friend. Spike couldn't quite put his finger on it, but Twilight seemed off. She seemed a bit less sharp around the edges than usual, especially given the fact that they were about to meet the Princesses for an urgent conference. She should normally be on edge all the way up to the hall doors but instead, she had a small, silly smile on her face. It was the same sort of smile she had when she had a few cocktails at Ponyville's local bar. Wait... She wasn't...

"Twilight are you drunk?" Spike asked the stumbling Twilight who immediately jerked her head back and shook it from side-to-side.

"Ha-whaaat? Na-" Twilight stopped once she felt a firm tapping of manicured fingernails on her shoulder.

"Twilight, could I talk to you?" Rarity asked in an urgent whisper.

"Oh suuure. Excuse me, Spike, Rarity wants to talk to me." Twilight conveyed the information to Spike in a low whisper as both Rarity and Spike rolled their eyes. "What is it, Rarity I'm kind of busy here." Twilight whispered back to her friend. Rarity huffed through her nose and doubled her speed so they were walking together, Rarity's heels clacking against the floor with vigor.

"What are you doing?" Rarity hissed into Twilight's ear, the drunk girl wincing as she did.

"Jeez Rarity I'm just trying to talk to him about it. Like what you told me to do." Twilight explained, her fingers intertwining with themselves as a sudden bout of anxiety washed over her.

"I didn't tell you to do that. I told you to spend time with him. Preferably when you're not drunk!" She whispered into Twilight's ear once again, directly getting her point across to the woman.

"Alright. Got it" Twilight attempted to wink inconspicuously but due to her buzzed brain, she ended up making her motion obvious. Rarity sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose, changing her breathing into slow inhales and deep exhales. "Hey, Rarity. Do you wanna talk to him about your thing." Twilight whispered a little too loud for Rarity's liking.

"I'll do that later." Rarity spat, a firm agitation forming for her tipsy friend.

"But he's right the-"

"I'll do it later!" Rarity clenched her fist and huffed.

Meanwhile, at the back of the traveling party of people, Fluttershy was twiddling her thumbs and staring dead at the floor. Her lips parted and sealed themselves several times, each time they separated she intended to speak but every time she stopped herself as the confidence flooded from her. But as the fumes of courage swelled she found her lips spewing fresh words finally.

"Rainbow!" Another urgent whisper sounded off.

"Yeah, Fluttershy?" The ever-confident Rainbow Dash didn't even bother whispering back to her friend, to Fluttershy's disdain.

"When should I talk to you-know-who about you-know-what?" Fluttershy asked through clenched teeth, clearly indicating to Spike with her eyes. Rainbow looked to Spike heading the group and then back to Fluttershy covering the tail.

"Not here. Do it when it's just the two of you all alone. Not in front of all these guards." Rainbow stared dead at one of the many guards lining the hallways, only for the guard to stare dead at the wall on the other side of the hall.

Rainbow had noted that there were a lot more guards that their usual visits to the castle. Normally there would be a few pairs patrolling the hallways and watching over the Prince and Princess, but today, for some reason, there was a set of the crystal clad Crystal-Bloods stationed at each door and multiple five-man plus patrols marching down the halls. Needless to say, it put the young woman on edge, not only because it caused a small but defiantly looming sense of dread over the woman but because it implied that she couldn't handle herself and her friends. Or at least that's what she thought.

Each one of the girls and both guys stared at the stoic protectors as they strolled past, each one they crossed only adding to their paranoia as they neared their desired location. Every girl except for one. Pinkie Pie was strutting and sashaying through the halls, trying to pull the focused eyes of the guards onto her lady lumps, alas with no success. She huffed and dangled her arms in front of her like a moody teenager.

"Don't get yourself down Pinkie, they're jus' trying do their job." Applejack looked down at her Earth-Blood friend. She did notice the guards were particularly stoic however and there was a lot more of them. Their long and gleaming spears clenched in fists and seemingly ready to attack at a moment’s notice.

"Well let's just hope they'll think about me when they're 'polishing their spears' later on." Pinkie smiled to herself and Applejack chuckled in response. "Hey, hey hey." Pinkie poked Applejack in the ribs thrice.

"What?" She responded.

"You gonna talk to Spi-"

"Nope. I'm waiting until it's just me n' him alone. Besides, I think he's got some stuff on the mind right now." Applejack moved her head to the side to see Spike staring straight forward with a slightly glum and serious expression.

"Like what?" Pinkie also ducked from behind her friend's back to see Spike for herself.

"Like what the Princesses have planned for us." Applejack answered with a spark of dread in her voice.

As if on cue, Sunburst stopped in front of a door with two Royal Guards stationed by either side of the door frame, high-ranking and very grizzled officials from the looks of their armor and the insignia on their chest pieces. The two scanned over the nine people with steely, dead serious eyes, running their pupils under and over every curve of each person. After they had performed an ocular patdown on each of the nine nervous persons they both nodded in unison and motioned for Sunburst to pass through the doors. Sunburst nodded back and pushed the door open, revealing a large and homely looking room.

The Elements, Spike and Starlight were all expecting some kind of great meeting hall or even a war room but were slightly taken aback by the cozy and domestic chairs, tables, wardrobes, cupboards, and drawers found around the room and especially by the large bed at the furthest end of the room. But what was most shocking was the figure lying in the bed, surrounded by Princess Celestia and Princess Luna.

"Cadance!" Twilight sobered up immediately as she saw her Sister-in-Law laid out on the bed, eyes closed, a needle and clear tubing leading to an IV bag protruding from her arm, a breathing mask covering her mouth which ran to a pumping ventilator while a steadily beeping heartbeat monitor sat beside the white sheeted bed. Twilight sprinted to the side of the bed, even pushing past Celestia to kneel beside the unconscious form of Cadance. "Is she ok!?" The corner of Twilight's eyes welled up with tears as her over assuming nature and anxiety set in full force and she naturally assumed the worse.

"Her breathing is steady, as is her heartbeat but her brain activity has diminished significantly. She's in a coma, Twilight." Princess Celestia placed a gentle and solemn hand on her student's shoulder in reassurance. Tears began to freely cascade down Twilight's cheeks at the news until Princess Luna spoke.

"Don't worry, Twilight. She is set to make a full recovery in the coming weeks." Twilight looked up to her mentor through wobbling vision to see a reassuring smile beam back down at her. While the news was definitely great, Twilight couldn't help herself as she continued to cry for her Sister-in-Law. Seeing her laid out on a bed like this, weak and completely unresponsive was distressing to say the least, especially after she had become a mother such a short while ago. She was always such a strong and courageous character and to see her in such a weakened state was unnatural to Twilight, she saw her ex-babysitter as a superhero, not as a common person susceptible to any mortal weakness.

"How did this happen? Wh-Who did this?" Spike asked, kneeling by the opposite side of the bed and becoming a little misty-eyed himself. Spike was not forgetful of the times that Cadance had babysat him in his early days, she was as much a superhero to Spike as she was to Twilight. Spike barely found the words to ask about her condition, but through his trembling vocal cords and angered mind he asked the dignified and hardened sisters.

"That's actually what we summoned you here to talk about." Princess Celestia sighed and nodded to her sister who nodded back to her and cleared her throat.

"At approximately 10:30 pm last night Shinning Armour was taken hostage, physically attacked and... Sexually assaulted by a Draconequus." Luna spoke in a grave tone as she revealed the reason the Elements had been summoned.

"Bastard got a pretty good hit on me too." A gravely chuckle rang off on the other side of the room. The attention of everyone was immediately drawn to Shining Armor seated in a wheelchair at the other end of the bedroom, a bandaged leg propped up by a supporting stirrup.

"Shiny!" Twilight exclaimed through tears as she saw her injured brother sitting alone. She pushed past the group of her friends huddled around the bed and ran to her big brother, embracing him in a hug that almost knocked him to the floor. "What happened to you!? What happened to your leg!?" She asked, looking down to the heavily wrapped lower leg.

"About a two-inch-deep cut to the tibialis anterior. Nothing I can't walk off." Shining jested once again, still not losing his sense of humor after his traumatic experience. Twilight rested her forehead on her brother's shoulder, staining the fabric of his t-shirt with her tears.

"Shining... I'm so sorry about what happened to Cadance." She wept to her brother as he stroked a reassuring hand down her back.

"Shu, shu, shu. It's not your fault. And besides, she's strong. Stronger than you know." Shining shushed her baby sister's crying.

"Jeez Shining. I just can't believe this has happened." Spike approached the seated man and hugged his brother's free side.

"Me neither. But that's not important right now. Luna, you were talking." Shining nodded to Luna as his brother and sister detached themselves from him.

"Yeah. Did you say a Draconequus? As in Discord?" Rainbow Dash hovered in the air above her friends, studying the comatose form of Princess Cadance.

"Yes. Well..." Luna bobbed her head from side-to-side, trying to find the words to explain the situation.

"For those here who don't know, Draconequus are not creatures. Rather they are Alicorns that have been led astray from their noble path by the temptations of evil, for which they were outcasted from the council. You obviously know of Discord and Tirek but there are countless more. Cadance and Shining were attacked by a particularly unpleasant one. Her name is Cupio." Celestia continued her sister's explanation to the group.

"C-Cupio?" Twilight sniffled, rubbing away tears from her eyes. "She's the Princess of Lust, isn't she?" She asked, walking back to the bed and kneeling beside her Sister-in-Law.

"She is, or rather, was, yes." Luna nodded. "Unfortunately, she fell to evil and had to be banished to Tartarus along with her fellow subordinates many centuries ago and until now we haven't heard a peep from her. But she must have slipped past Cerberus sometime yesterday evening and travelled here to attack Cadance." Luna looked down to her niece and laid the back of her hand on her forehead in an act of dignified sorrow.

"Why would she attack Cadance?" Spike asked, his eyes darting from Princess to Princess.

"Cadance represents our Alicorn of Love, the Queen Affecti. One of the many Alicorns who stayed true to the patch of good while her daughter Cupio rejected it. This led to a long and bitter feud which Cupio attempted to end by taking Cadance's away from Affecti. Cupio attempted to meld and grotesquely mutate Cadance's mind and body until her Alicorn spirit had nothing to control. Fortunately, Affecti was able to stop her daughter's scheme before she was lost forever." Luna rested her eyes on her niece's unconscious form and frowned slightly.

"How did she stop her?" Starlight chimed in, stepping forward with a sense of intrigue.

"When an Alicorn-Blood is threatened and in a dire situation, the Alicorn that he/she represents has the ability to possess them in order to fend their worldly vessel. They can only do it for a short period of time and due to the overwhelming amount of magic needed to possess a body, the Alicorn-Blood will fall into a coma for a short while. Much like our Cadance has." Celestia explained, her voice deadly serious and close to cracking.

"If Affecti had stayed any longer she could have caused Cadance serious brain damage and possibly even death. Before she did leave Cadance's body she demanded the presence of the Elements of Harmony." Luna looked to the group of slightly stunned ladies and then to Twilight who remained by her Sister-in-Law's side.

"Wh-Why? Must we defeat this Cupio?" Rarity asked slightly shakily. Their fights against Discord and Tirek had only led to brainwashing and imprisonment for a short period of time but as Rarity gazed down at the unconscious Cadance she couldn't help but worry if she and her friends would be in a similar state if they thought this monster.

"You do, yes." Celestia confirmed with a nod and then a look to her sister. "Cupio is threatened at the current moment and will do anything to try and claim a victory. She has very few boundaries and will stop at nothing to corrupt anyone with her desire. We were informed she even attempted to..." Celestia stopped dead in her sentence as if she was about to vomit before taking a deep breath and continuing. "Molest Flurry Heart." Everyone in the room reeled back in disgust and even a few wretched gags were shared among some.

"Flurry Heart... Flurry Heart! Where is she!?" Spike yelled for his dear niece. Shining Armor placed a firm hand on his shoulder. Flurry Heart and Spike had grown a bond over his visits to the Crystal Empire whether it was by himself or if he was organizing a playdate between Flurry Heart and her many cousins. To hear someone trying do such a thing to her made his blood boil.

"She's safe Spike, no one's getting to her." Spike looked up to his big brother who bared down on him with a confident and solemn expression. Even with his wife in a coma and his year-old daughter almost sexually assaulted he was still strong as an oak tree. It reassured and humbled the young man and inspired him to mimic his strength.

"This might be a good time to explain our situation to you. If you would all please follow me to the planning room, we have much to discuss." Luna held an arm out towards the exit as the girls all mumbled to themselves. Luna and Celestia both walked past the group of still shocked girls who one-by-one all followed behind the regal sisters. All but Twilight, Spike and Shining Armor who stayed behind, Twilight actively weeping over her friend's comatose body while Spike kneeled beside her, a loving arm wrapped across her back, slowly and comfortingly rubbing up and down her side.

"Twily..." The squeak of Shining's wheels crept through the empty bedroom and he placed a hand on Twilight's hair in a slow stroke. "You have to be strong right now. Cadance will be fine here, you've got to make sure no one else gets hurt."

"I know... I know..." She sniffled, wiping the loose tears from her eyes and cheeks. "Just give me another minute." Shining agreed silently and wheeled himself away while Twilight and Spike spent another minute by their shared friend's side, a scene steeped in serene silence that neither of them dared break until Spike reared up on his feet, Twilight quickly following suite. "Let's go..." Twilight spoke sombrely as she walked towards the exit with Spike in tow. Shining Armor, however, had adopted to stay with his wife.

Within a few minutes both Twilight and Spike had caught up with the group who had entered a tall hall that held a large table in the center. Celestia walked to a nearby cupboard and pulled from it a set of nine small, plastic blocks, and one larger black one, as well as a long croupier stick and then walked back to the center table with the rest of the group huddling around the large, smooth surface. With a glow of Celestia's long horn, a holographic birds-eye-view map of the Equestrian nation spread across the crystalline surface of the table as Celestia placed the nine red plastic cubes upon the table in the center of the Crystal Empire.

"As you may know, the only way we can defeat Cupio is by using the Elements of Harmony. You six." Celestia stated, waving her croupier stick at the six women standing around the illuminated table. "Cupio fled the Crystal Empire at around 12 o'clock last night." She placed the black cube beside the nine red cubes before moving it with the long wooden stick. She slid the cube across the surface, following the railway leading from the Crystal Empire through Rainbow Falls over the Celestial Sea and to Griffonstone Station. "By 3 o'clock she had passed Griffonstone." Celestia kept pushing the black cubes all the way to the Dragon Lands and then past them. "By 6 o'clock she was past the Dragon Lands."

"But that's more than two hundred miles! You mean to tell me she travelled that on foot in six hours?" Applejack protested to the seemingly ludicrous level of speed that Cupio was traveling at.

"Yes. I regret to inform you that she accomplished this feat at her weakened state as well." Celestia bowed her head as a choir of chatter sounded off amongst the girls. "But." Celestia silenced the rapid talking with a single word before she continued. "We found that she had stopped here, at Bone Pick Ridge deep into the Dragon Lands." Celestia pointed to a jagged ridge bordering the east side of the Dragon Lands that was almost off the map entirely. "She still remains there now, no doubt building her strength and planning to move further east."

"Further east?" But nobody even knows what's further east than the Dr-Dr-Dra-Dragon Lands." Fluttershy trembled in place at the mere mention of the beasts.

"Yeah and besides, how are we even going to get through the Dragon Lands. I'm pretty sure they're not too happy with Pony-Bloods over there." Rainbow Dash commented, patting Fluttershy on the back and calming her down.

"Well, we do have ourselves a diplomat at the table," Luna answered and motioned over to the cross-armed Spike. "Do you still keep close contact with Princess Ember, Spike?"

"I reckon I could pull a few strings." The young man nodded quite cockily.

"That's all well and good but that's not our current concern." Celestia brought the attention back to the map, and more specifically the nine red cubes sitting at the Crystal Empire. "These figurines are you. And this will be your journey." Swiftly, she pushed the cubes past the Crystal Mountains and to a large lake that pooled at the bottom of the large, snowy mountains. "You will be dropped off at the Crystalline Pools here via chariot, from there you shall travel southwards, following this river until you reach Neighagra Falls." Using the stick, she snaked the cubes along the river until they reached the large waterfall. "From there you will follow the Neighagra River southward, past the Foal Mountain range to here, Horseshoe Bay by Baltimare." Celestia tapped her stick on the bay twice. "On the southern point of the bay, you will be arranged with a boat which you will then use to sail to the Griffonstone coast." Celestia pushed the cubes straight over the Celestial Sea and next to Griffenstone. "In Griffonstone you shall meet a contact who will travel with you to the southern coast and provide you with a boat to the Dragon Lands. From there you will travel through the Dragon Lands towards Bone Pick Ridge and from there... You are on your own."

"Alrighty-o!" Pinkie chimed as she snatched the croupier stick from the princess and repositioned the red cubes back at the Crystal Empire. "How about instead of doing allllll that. We just catch a train from here to Griffonstone Station..." Pinkie pushed the figurines across the railway track and into Griffonstone, making train noises as she did. "Annnnnd thennnnn just float on over to the Dragon Lands?" Pinkie jolted the cubes over to the Dragon Lands. After she was done discussing her plans Celestia politely retrieved her croupier stick back from her subject.

"Two reasons." Celestia held out her middle and forefinger straight. "Number one. As of 9:00 pm tonight a nationwide curfew will be put in place and kept until Cupio has been defeated. This means all transport shall be shut down until further notice. Secondly, Cupio is much more cunning than Discord and Tirek. It is assumable that if you had taken this course you would have encountered multiple traps set by her that would interrupt your journey." Celestia explained to the eager set of soon-to-be adventurers.

"But could we not just take those carriages that we came into the Dragon Lands." Rarity held a hand in the air and chimed in.

"Another good question but Cupio is a natural at deception and strategy. For all, we know she has eyes and ears everywhere and has planned for such an assault." Luna stepped forward and joined the conversation. "That is why you will be taking the most inconspicuous route, far away from any cities and towns as to not give away your position." The group nodded in understanding.

"So, when we get through the Dragon Lands. Through Toothpick Ridge or whatever. Then what? That whole area of Equus is uncharted by Pony-Bloods. It'll be like finding a needle n' a country-sized haystack." Applejack scoffed at the ideas.

"We are hoping that you would be able to pick up some guides in the Dragon Lands but if not-" Celestia continued before Luna butted in once again.

"Currently Cupio is like a stabbed rat. She is weakened, but her weakness will only make her more wile. But once she reaches the Dragon Lands and starts regaining her power she will only stronger. As a result of her increased magical power, she will lose some of her razor-sharp cunning. She will become sloppy as she moves, start leaving clues as she travels further and further into unknown territory. By the time you pass the ridge she'll be as easier to track than a stuck pig." Luna finished her sinister sounding monologue with a bow of her head to Celestia.

"Yes... Like Luna said from there she'll be easy to find. And besides, she won't be going far once she passes the Dragon Lands." Celestia confirmed to the group.

"How do you know she won't be going far?" Starlight cocked an eyebrow as she pondered the question.

"Well..." Celestia clenched her teeth in a rare act of nervousness. She surveyed the entire group, all eighteen pairs of eyes pinned on her as she breathed deeply. "She'll need to stay near Equestria to keep it in her... Zone of influence." Celestia felt her skin beginning to heat up and her white, angelic wings flutter in place.

"Zone of influence?" Twilight commented, finally rejoining the conversation as her tears had dried. "Zone of influence for what?" Celestia stood there, her throat suddenly becoming drier than a desert but through it all, she swallowed and opened her mouth.

"Well, you see. While Discord caused chaos and Tirek stole magic, Cupio has her own way of taking over Equestria. She likes to, ummm, make people very, very lustful." Celestia stopped mid-sentence, once again feeling the many sets of eyes laid on her like laser pointers attached to high caliber rifles. "And decrease their mental activity." She felt the eyes squint now as the pieces in her subject's minds fell into place one-by-one. "And she also physically enhances certain parts of people's bodies." With that last tidbit of information, murmurs and shaking heads filled the room, something Celestia hoped would not happen.

"We are sorry to say that Cupio will try to turn all of Equestria into..." Luna paused, not wanting to say the next words. It didn't matter anyway; all of the girls already knew what she was going to say even if they didn't want to hear it.

"Bimbos." Celestia confirmed with a bow of her head while the group began exclaiming to each other in protest or general displeasure.

"Oh, not again." Spike threw his head back and groaned in displeasure while the girls mumbled and cursed the dastardly Cupio.

"Wait. I don't understand, wh-what's going on?" Sunburst looked around the table to see the frustrated women mumbling their displeasures.

"I'll explain it later." Starlight whispered into his ear and patted him on the back. Sunburst gave a very tired thumbs up in response.

"Yes, I know. I know this is less than optimal." Celestia put her hands up in defense as she attempted to calm the agitated lot.

"Less than optimal!?" Rainbow Dash groaned and pulled down on her cheeks. "I just got done doing that for seven years!" She exclaimed followed by a shared nod of agreement from the rest of the girls.

"Well, we're making sure it doesn't happen for the rest of your lifetime." Luna butted in with an authoritative tone. "And your children's lifetime. And their children's lifetime. The only way we can stop that from happening is by defeating Cupio." The entire group fell silent as Luna brought up the children. While a slightly immoral bargaining chip, it was definitely an effective one that inspired the group. They all thought about their individual children as well as each other's children in their deep silence.

"Wait. The kids... What are we doing about the kids?" Spike interjected the silence with a worried exclamation. This adventure would take who knows how long and taking their children with them on it would be a very unwise and dangerous move. That meant that they would have to be left with the help which, while not the worst thing, was not the most preferable of ideas. Celestia sighed before she spoke, clearly being eaten up by something inside.

"Your children along with Flurry Heart and every boy and girl under the age of eighteen in Equestria will be transferred to a secure compound." Celestia confirmed in dull tone to a confused set of parents. "I know what you're thinking. Are these security measures necessary? And for the time being, yes they are."

"You see, at what rate Cupio will regenerate her magic ability and start spreading her 'disease' across our nation is unbeknownst to us. As is the degree of influence we will be dealing with. We fear that if the mental deficiency and lust aspect become too much and many people will start trying to..." Luna trailed off, an alien lack of strength preventing her from saying the next few words. The gang caught on anyway and all donned disgusted expressions at the thought of what she implied however.

"But where will they be kept?" Spike spoke up again in a worried tone.

"We don't know." Celestia spoke slowly as the others mumbled amongst themselves.

"Don't know or won't tell us?" Spike shot back. He had been through a lot for his children, grown closer to them than anyone in the world and he did not like the idea of having them taken away.

"We do not know. We planned for us to be unaware of the secure location in case we were captured by Cupio and forced to reveal the locale, the same goes for all of you. Currently, only a select few people know, and they are protected and completely loyal to their dying breath, don't worry." The reasoning was sound but Spike was still very skeptical. The Princesses were smart though and they knew he would come around eventually, after all, he didn't have much choice in the matter.

The room fell into silence again for a few seconds, the air was awkward and stale, a far cry from the usual sense of excitement and intrigue they would get when appointed with a quest. Given the dire nature of the situation at hand, they all felt a little sick to their collective stomachs.

"Will we get to see them again...Before we leave, I mean." Fluttershy tried to hold back tears from behind her hand.

"You may contact them via your phones but I'm afraid there isn't enough time for you to visit them in person." Luna spoke in the same solemn tone. "I won't even begin to imagine how this must feel for you all of you, but while this is a mighty undesirable necessity, it still remains a necessity. Not just for the wellbeing of your children, but for the well-being of Equestria." Luna was expecting them to protest, to curse her out and attack her. But instead, they stood there in eerie silence, an image of sorrow clearly painted on their faces rather than anger.

"I'm sorry that we were forced to spring this quest on you at such short notice and for protecting you children at such extreme measures. But our time is becoming increasingly shorter and more valuable so swift action is our only option." Celestia explained further to the group, but by their already defeated expressions, they could be quelled no further. They understood that what must be done had to be done.

"How much time do we have?" Twilight asked. Her usual need for knowledge had dispersed. She didn't want to know the details, just the facts.

"Well... Cupio is a strange one." Celestia was hesitant with her words as if she didn't know how to properly describe the situation. "We know that she prefers women over men so we've hypothesized that it will take approximately three days for you girls to start showing signs of her effect while the men have around ten days until they will become affected."

"So, I'm going to have to look after seven bimbos for seventeen days on a 500 plus mile trek? Alone?" Spike asked with a tone begging to be followed up with a sarcastic comment.

"You won't be alone. You'll have Sunburst with you." Celestia pointed to the tired man with her stick and he looked up at her. A few seconds passed before he registered what had just been said.

"Wait what!?" Sunburst jumped in his skin as he blurted out, surprising everyone in the room. "Pr-Pr-Princess I-I-I can't do that, I can't go on an-on an adventure! Pl-please I've got to look after-look after Flurry Heart!" He pleaded with the Princess but she waved him off.

"Why can you not join the quest? You're a perfectly competent young Unicorn-Blood." Celestia shrugged.

"I-I'm competent at reading books an-and-and studying magic! I'm not competent at adventuring!" Sunburst spoke in an unflattering shrill and nervous voice as his hands fumbled.

"Exactly. We're not sure what the Elements will face out there, and your magical expertise is almost bar none. You'll be an incredibly useful asset." Celestia attempted to flash a reassuring smile but Sunburst had already begun hyperventilating.

"Bu-Bu-B-Bu-But-But I-I-I-I-" Sunburst stuttered rapidly before Starlight turned around and embraced him in a firm hug. She began to run her hand across his shoulder blade, slowly soothing the overreacting man into a steady lull.

"So, when do we leave?" Spike drew attention away from his fellow man and asked rather unceremoniously. Maybe by tomorrow, he would come around to the idea of an adventure, after all, he could class it as a much-needed vacation. But for the current moment, he was tired and sick and worried for his children.

"7 o'clock sharp. Underneath Crystal Castle. We'll arrange your supplies for your journey from here." The map faded from the table as Celestia placed her equipment back into its cupboard and walked to the door. "For now, I heavily advise everyone gets some rest and prepares themselves. Curfew begins in nine hours, make sure you're back at the castle by then..." Celestia sighed through her nose in a rare act of vulnerability. "Trust me, my friends, if I could have done this any other way I would have. But in these dire moments where my country is on the brink, dire measures must be pulled for my people. I don't expect you to understand now, but I hope in the future you will. Thank you for your time." Celestia was regal in the way she spoke as if she was addressing her nation directly, rather than the small gathering of people in the room.

With her small speech finished she opened the door and one-by-one everyone shuffled out into the hallway until Celestia closed the door.

"Oh my..." Sunburst slumped in his seat as the strong, brown liquid spilled down his throat and into his stomach. He was close to kissing the waiter who had brought him the steaming hot cup of coffee. The sugar and cream infused caffeine drink was like a potion of vigor to the fatigued man, he felt as if he could lift ten men with one hand thanks to the slightly bitter yet rejuvenating elixir. Starlight held her own cup of coffee in a pair of cupped hands, warming her slightly chilly appendages with her own expresso as she watched Sunburst gulp up the frothy liquid, finding the way his eyes rolled back to be slightly adorable, as if he had been searching for water in the desert and was now hungrily lapping at an oasis. "I really needed that." He panted as he finally pulled his lips away from the rim to reveal a small moustache of froth had rested on his top lip. Starlight couldn't help but stifle a girlish giggle as she watched the unaware man and his new foamy facial hair.

"You've got a little..." Starlight waggled a finger on her own top lip. Sunburst stared down to see a small white sheen above his mouth and chuckled. Starlight chuckled back as he slurped it up with an agile tongue and then looked back at the girl sitting across the table.

"Thanks. I feel like it's been forever since we talked!" Sunburst commented and crossed his legs underneath the table and rested into a more comfortable position. He was eager to engage in a nice, long chat with his best friend, as was she.

"Oh, come on Sunburst. We were texting each other just yesterday." Starlight scoffed and sipped from her own small cup of coffee.

"No, I meant like face-to-face." Sunburst rolled his eyes in response.

"Yeah, I guess it has." Starlight answered quite vaguely, keeping her knowledge that it was two months and twelve days since they had last seen each other. Wow. Maybe this crush was a little bit unhealthy. "So, what have you been up to? Crystaller duties keeping you busy?"

"More than you'd think. I mean I've been up since eleven last night dealing with... Well dealing with you-know-what." Starlight nodded sort of dumbly. She had placed an elbow on the table of the coffee shop and rested her face on her hand so she could intently watch her crush speak. She focused on his lips, his thin, pink lips moving ever so eloquently as the words slid from his tongue like honey from a hive. Even when he stammered and his lips repeated the same action two or three times in a row like a broken record player she felt admiration for it, even for his mistakes. She could spend hours just appreciating the way he spoke or any other minute detail.

"But other than that, she's coming along great. I think that she'll be bordering on adept or even expert level spells by the time she's a toddler. It's just a shame about what's... What's happened." Sunburst's eyes moved the horizon past the balcony of the coffee shops second story.

"It's amazing what you've done Sunburst." Starlight smiled at her absent-eyed friend. Starlight's compliment was designed to lure him back into a conversation as well as to butter him up, but he spent a few more seconds resting his eyes on the blinking stars dropped onto the deep purple sky behind the towering, snowy Crystal Mountains. Starlight turned her head to the side and sighed silently to herself, finding that this date (or rather 'get together') was not going the way she had planned. "Nice coffee shop, huh?" She spoke monotonously, losing some hope in regaining the conversation. However, she perked up when Sunburst swiveled his heads back around to the table.

"Yeah, a great place isn't it. There are loads of coffee shops over the Crystal Empire now. After they were introduced to coffee they went crazy for the stuff and set up a shop on every corner. I guess I would to if I woke up from a millennia-long sleep. " Sunburst sipped on his cup again and sighed. "But this one remains the best in the whole empire. Mainly because of their cappuccino." He chuckled to himself which in turn produced a chuckle from Starlight. She mentally patted herself on the back for redirecting the conversation in her favor.

"Do you come here a lot?" Starlight asked with genuine intrigue.

"Yup. I come here all the time, sometimes with Princess Cadance and Shining Armor and sometimes with Peachy Pillows." Starlight gritted her teeth behind pursed lips at the mere mention of her name. Even when it was just him and her alone she couldn't escape her. But luckily Sunburst was swift to move on. "But I like to just come here by myself sometimes." Starlight was reinvested after that tidbit. Something about that made her see Sunburst like a brooding character, a man deeply in touch with his own emotions, an idea she was very entertained by. "How have you been in the meantime?"

Starlight perked up in response to the question. She was honestly so focused on Sunburst that she had become an after-thought to herself. Her mind rushed to think of things to talk about and only one thing came to mind.

"Good..." She spoke slowly and shakily, almost as if she didn't understand the question. Sunburst looked back at her plainly and Starlight stared back awkwardly. "I mean, yeah it's good. Learning things about... Stuff. The friendship I mean. And... Yeah." Starlight continued her slow level of speech, sounding strange and unsure because of it. To Starlight's surprise, Sunburst didn't really pick up on it or at least didn't notice anything. "And y'know I've been making friends and keeping friends." Starlight quickly regained her footing after falling at the first hurdle.

"That's great Starlight. How is Trixie? It was Trixie, right?" Sunburst asked before sipping from his cappuccino.

"Oh, Trixie? She's fine. Still her same, sassy self." Starlight and Sunburst shared a chuckle amongst themselves. "And the other friend I made, Maud, she's... She's interesting." Starlight pursed her lips and looked off to the side.

"Oh yeah, Pinkie's sister, right? Wow, is she super hyperactive like Pinkie?" Sunburst asked, to which Starlight grimaced.

"Ehhhhh, not really. A little bit mellower." Starlight chuckled to herself at her vast understatement.

"Well, I'm very proud of you." Sunburst reached over the table and patted his friend on her outstretched hand laid on the table. Starlight's cheeks lit up like Heaths Warming lights at the soft contact with Sunburst's hand. His fingertips were delicate on her skin, no doubt so she wasn't made uncomfortable by the touch, but despite his barely pressuring digits she could feel the soft, almost virgin-like skin glide against her own smooth flesh. The hand hung there for a few more seconds before Sunburst caught sight of his watch. "Oh, shoot. It's almost nine."

"Oh..." Starlight turned away from her friend and rubbed her eyes. Just when she thought she was making some real progress, of course, some kind of inconvenience would pop its ugly head up to ruin Starlight's evening. If she had just said something a little sooner or reacted a little speedier to the hand-to-hand contact she would have come away from this date with some real progress. Alas, she did not seize her opportunity and was left stricken because of it.

Maybe this adventure would be fruitful, however, A close trek with few people. She could very easily trap him.

Maybe 'trap him' was a bit too creepy.

Creepy but true.

Twilight sighed as she collapsed the wooden telescope she had balanced on the Castle's balcony banister. She had previously been watching her faithful student attempt to seduce her crush at a local coffee shop, but after Sunburst made an inaudible comment about something, they had both left the balcony to retreat to the castle, Starlight looking quite glum while doing it.

Twilight naturally assumed this meant she had failed in finally talking to Sunburst about her very obvious crush. As Twilight stood the telescope up straight on the hard, crystal balcony she wondered if this would make for a good friendship lesson. Something about not keeping your true emotions from your best friends or something.

That was just a very thin veil for what she actually wanted, for Starlight and Sunburst to finally hook up. Even though Starlight didn't know she knew, Twilight was very aware of the one-sided crush her student had on the Unicorn-Blood and was very adamant on seeing her feelings come to fruition, partly because she wanted the best for her favorite student, partly because she thought they would make a cute couple, and partly so she would stop texting him on that damn phone of hers every other second.

Twilight sighed to herself once again before picking up and extending the telescope to scan the lit up the city to find another person to spy on. However, despite her voyeuristic nature, she wasn't aware somebody was watching and slowly tiptoeing toward herself.

"Hi..." A damp voice squirmed its way into Twilight's ear, causing her to jump at the shocking surprise.

"Gah!" She jolted in place, almost knocking her telescope out of her hands and stumbling half-off the balcony. Before she was in any danger, a pair of strong hands clamped down on her hips, keeping her in place.

"Wow there Twi! Be careful." Spike's boyish voice rung out as he steadied the still surprised Twilight. Twilight in response turned around and laid a slap onto his chest, making a resounding 'whack' sound as her hand bounced off the firm muscle.

"Do not sneak up on me like that! I almost got hurt." Twilight frowned at her friend's playful malice, to which he rolled his eyes.

"I'm sorry Twi..." Spike hugged his stunned friend tightly, holding her in her place where she remained annoyed until his soft embrace forced her to melt. "Wait, were you spying on people?" Twilight's relaxed frame tensed up once again as Spike spotted the telescope lying on the banister.

"Oh that... That was here when I got here." Twilight lied through her teeth, but Spike was not inclined to believe it.

"C'mon Twilight. You haven't done that since Canterlot." Spike replaced his hands gripping Twilight's body with the telescope instead, studying the gold and wood structure of it with two hands. Twilight's words refused to come out of her mouth and form a response, so the scene was left silent while Spike stared. She thought back to her days in Canterlot when she would spend long nights sitting up at the highest point of her library with a pair of binoculars or a telescope and look down on the people of Canterlot going about their nightly business, meeting their friends or otherwise spending their time. She wasn't sure why she did it, call it voyeuristic curiosity, but it made her feel better in times of stress or strife.

"I've just been... I just needed to take my mind off things for a few minutes." Twilight spoke glumly as she walked to the thick, cold rail and sat down cross-legged on the equally cold floor. As the sky darkened, the night air cooled and Twilight's breath became vaporous like smoke, gushing from her mouth and dancing across the surface of the balcony support. Spike stared down at the tired and emotionally cold woman and frowned at her, or rather her current state. She had been through a lot of emotionally heavy experiences today, Cadance in a coma, Shining Armor wheelchair-bound, a long and arduous adventure to begin tomorrow and her children taken to some unknown location without her knowledge. Just thinking about everything that had occurred today but Spike in very similar situation to his sister.

Spike himself joined Twilight on the floor, slipping both his legs between the supporting beams and dangling off the balcony. He held the closed telescope in his hands, the small cylinder feeling both heavy and delicate. A series of clicks sounded when he pulled on the small eyehole and extended the telescope to full size.

"So, what were you looking at?" Spike turned to the distressed woman and smirked. Twilight turned her head and stared back at her friend, her head resting at an angle and a small smirk growing on her face. That little snaggle tooth shining in the moonlight amongst his other teeth seemed to win her over, despite her emotional dullness.

"I was watching Starlight and Sunburst on their date." Twilight revealed.

"Date? I heard it was a 'get together'." Spike chuckled lowly which in turn made Twilight chuckle.

"I wonder if they'll call their wedding a 'get together'." Twilight joked which only made Spike giggle harder.

"So, how'd it go?" He took hold of the telescope and placed it to his left eye. He scanned the street until he spotted the unmistakable head of fiery and wild orange hair of Sunburst. Next to him was Starlight, looking to him as they walked towards the Crystal Castle, smiling, giggling, generally sending very obvious broadcasts that she had a crush on the man next to him. But Sunburst remained completely oblivious to the entire ordeal, no doubt frustrating Starlight all the more.

"I don't think she got around to talking to him about it. They left because of the curfew and knowing Starlight she won't talk to him about it for a while now. She's spooked." Twilight giggled to herself as Spike continued tracking the would-be couple until they were out of sight.

"Alright then Captain Sparkle, what booty do we be plunderin' now?" Spike spoke out of his mouth in an overexaggerated pirate accent. Twilight giggled mellowly and scanned the city streets, seeing that most targetable prey was retreating into their cozy houses. However, Twilight did spot two little playthings walking the streets. Two Crystal Guards clad in bright blue uniform patrolling the streets with long, elegant spears held in both of their hands.

"I've spotted some filthy landlubbers First Mate Spike," Twilight spoke in her own pirate accent. "I've spotted them comin' straight up the bow." She handed the telescope to Spike who took it and placed it to his eye.

"Uhhh, where's that?" Spike asked, darting the eye of the scope around in search for the 'landlubbers'.

"Down Mainstreet." Twilight revealed. Spike managed to spot them after her instructions and followed them for a few second before handing the device back to his friend.

"The guards? What about them? Do you think one of them's cute?" Spike winked at Twilight as she lined her eye up with the sight and peeped the traveling pair of guards once again.

"No!" Twilight scoffed. "Although I can't say the same for the left guard." Twilight handed the scope to Spike.

"What do you mean?" Spike asked as he regained visual on the two marching guards.

"The one on the left." Twilight pointed at the guard that marched on the left side. "Just watch him, he checks out the other guard every couple of seconds." Spike watched intently for a couple of seconds, but the left guard made no obvious checking out of the right guard. Spike took the sight away from his eye and handed it back to Twilight.

"I didn't see it." Spike's mouth frowned and his eyebrow raised as Twilight once again scoped the pair out.

"He definitely did do it, Spike. Hold on." Twilight trained her eye on the pair again while Spike turned his head to the side and looked at Twilight looking at the guards. He began to think back to what she said this morning as they were walking throughout the halls of the Crystal Castle. She had asked him a question, a tough question to crack that still rested in Spike's mind up until now.

How are we?

It was a difficult question, to say the least, one that didn't really hold a definitive answer but Spike still sought after it ever since Twilight brought it up. He wasn't an idiot, he knew his relationship with his sister had been convoluted ever since she had taken his virginity but as of late it had reached boiling point, and bubbles were currently bursting over the brim of their shared pot. Spike desperately wanted to do something to change it, something physical and swift that would answer questions and get things done.

Unfortunately, all he had at the moment was words. Damned, unreliable words.

"Hey, Twilight. You know earlier when you asked 'how are we'? What did you mean by that?" There was nothing to help the question ease naturally, no natural noise to cushion its blow, just the shattered silence of the cool night air.

Twilight took the telescope away from her eye and collapsed it into itself. She placed it standing up on the balcony floor as she looked back at Spike, her mouth parted and waiting to speak. But no words came out, not because of a dry throat brought on by anxiety, but because she was thinking. She recalled back to her conversation with Rarity in the chariot, and through the liquor haze that fogged her mind, she recalled to their talk of making Spike a friend again and simply spending quality time with one another. It didn't take long for her to figure out she had been doing that. Just now when they were spying on people, she had fun with Spike on their own, something they hadn't done in a long time, and she didn't even realize it until it was done.

She lamented on this fact. She slanted her jaw to the side and trailed her tongue around her mouth as she thought quite vividly. While their hanging out session certainly wasn't long, it did feel natural. It landed itself to Twilight's intentions, made her whole process smoother to transition into instead of just forcing the hang-out onto Spike she let him come to the hang-out with her. Instead of forcing the friendship she needed to let the friendship come to her.

"Nothing, Spike. I didn't mean anything at all." A warm and wide smile crept across her face and she chuckled lightly. "Nothing at all." She chuckled again, confusing the man sitting beside her.

"But you said..." Spike extended her forefinger and pointed it from side to side.

"I was acting weird earlier. Just ignore that." Twilight waved off her previous drunken self.

"But I was just... Did you want to talk about u-" Spike was cut-off by the shifting of a large door behind them. They both looked back to see a Crystal Guard standing beside an open door.

"Oh, Great and Honourable Spike the Brave and Glorious your company is requested by Princess Celestia." The guard was authoritative in tone and stance, even his use of Spike's full title indicated he wasn't playing around.

"Oh... I guess I gotta check this out." Spike chuckled sheepishly as he stood to his feet and walked towards the door.

"You go ahead, I'll be here if you need me." Twilight spoke back much more confidently than her friend. He waved to the woman sitting beside the balcony and she waved back before he left for the crystal hall of the castle. The guard stood beside him, watching and waiting for him to walk down the hall to Celestia's temporary quarters, so Spike did exactly that, the guard following him close behind. While Spike appreciated his own private escort, the spear held tensely in the guard's hand was a little much.

"Hey, Spikster." The voice echoed throughout the empty hallway, causing the guard to flinch and draw his spear to the source of the noise. But he verbally fumbled when he turned to see Shining Armour wheeling up behind him. "Woah there Garnet Crest, stand down!" Shining Armor held both his hands up in the air as the spearhead gleamed mere inches away from his neck.

"Shining Armor! I'm sorry your Highness! I-I-I-I was-" Golden Crest mumbled and fumbled over his words before Shining stopped him.

"Don't worry Crest. I think we're all a little on edge today. Why don't you go for your break, I can take Spike from here." Shining Armor offered Crest a much-sought-after early break from his guard duties, but the offer seemed too good to be true.

"Are you sure your Highness?" Crest asked, placing his spear back in the upright position.

"Of course, if anyone tries to attack Spike here, well, I've still got my one good leg." Shining Armor chuckled as he gave a few kicks with his previously mentioned good leg.

"Thank you, sir." Golden Crest bowed his head and walked briskly in the opposite direction. Shining Armor chuckled to himself as he pivoted on his wheels so he was adjacent to Spike.

"Sorry about that. Guards are a little antsy today." Shining Armor shook his head and began wheeling himself down the corridor with both hands.

"Can you blame them? I mean after what happened to you and..." Spike stopped his sentence before he mentioned Cadance's name, that was the last thing Shining needed to hear. And judging by the dismal expression pulling Shining's face down, he had silently agreed. "How is the leg by the way?"

"Not great, the doctors said I'll be walking again in a couple of months at least. They say I might even need a cane." Shining sighed as his wheels squeaked.

"A cane? Damn." Spike shook his head at the mere idea of his big brother using a walking stick for the rest of his life. Seeing how tough he was and everything he had been through only to be reduced to a hobble in the future. It was preposterous, Shining Armor was invincible as far as Spike was concerned.

"I know. I didn't think I would need a can for a couple of decades..." Shining Armor chuckled gravely in an attempt to lighten the mood.

"I dunno. You might be able to pull it off." Spike backed his laugh up with his own cheeky comment.

"You think so?" Shining responded.

"Yeah, it just depends on whether you want to be a grizzled war chief or an old-school pimp." Spike giggled with Shining at the thought of Shining Armor in a big fur coat turning out hoes.

"I don't think the old ball-and-chain will appreciate me pimping." Shining laughed with his younger brother. They laughed and joked between themselves until they reached the door to Celestia's private quarters. Spike stopped and looked at the large door in front of him, noticing there wasn't the usual pair of guards stationed at either side of the entrance.

"This your stop?" Shining turned himself on the wheels of his chair.

"Yep. See you later Shining." Spike grabbed a hold on the handle.

"Hold on Spike." Shining stopped him from turning the handle and instead looked over to his big brother. "This may be the last chance I get to speak to you before you have to leave so I just want to say something. Do you remember what I told you when you moved to Ponyville?"

"Yeah..." Spike knew what he was talking about, some standard brotherly advice.

"And what I told you again when Twilight became an Alicorn?" Shining looked up to Spike, his face unmoving for any sort of smile.

"Mhmm." Spike confirmed with a nod.

"And then what I told you again after Twi gave birth to Violet Star?"

Spike just nodded this time.

"What was it?" Shining asked.

"Take care of her." Shining spoke, half compassionate, half dead-serious.

"Take care of her." Spike repeated the phrase and Shining nodded.

"That's all I'm gonna say. Shining turned on his wheels and began to roll away. "Goodnight Spike." Shining left his brother standing in the hallway, the phrase bouncing around his mind. It was minimalistic and cliché but from Shining's tone and devotion to his baby sister, it held more weight than Spike could know. Spike felt some pressure on his chest like Shining was putting weight on him despite Spike's knowledge of his good intentions.

With the pressure on Spike, he decided to move on and see what Celestia could hurl at him to make him feel even worse. He opened up the door to her chambers and slipped in through the crack. He closed the door behind him and scanned the room, it was dark, almost pitch black in some areas with only a few brightly burning candles illuminating certain sections of the room in an orange glow.

One particular candle highlighted a very beautiful sight indeed. Princess Celestia was sitting upon a cushy red velvet ottoman and leaning over a writing desk, incessantly scribbling upon piles of notes with a long quill. However, it wasn't what Celestia was doing that peaked the young man's attention, but what she was wearing.

Or rather what she wasn't wearing.

The only thing that covered her body was a negligee composed of almost completely transparent white lace. But the small, lacy nightie was almost minuscule on the woman's massive frame meaning that the negligee stopped halfway down her back to leave her completely bottomless, a point accentuated by her massive ass resting upon the cushions of the ottoman. As Spike approached the woman from behind he noticed that no signs of any kind of panties were wrapped around her waist, meaning she was completely naked from the bottom down.

It was quite obvious what she was pinning for Spike's presence for but he still approached silently.

"Good evening Spike." Celestia's voice was low and sweet in the silent room, dripping into Spike's ears like honey.

"Good evening Your Highness." Spike responded in his own raspy voice, Celestia shivered in response to the use of his pet name for her.

The two remained in silence until Spike was behind Celestia's near naked form, standing still and ready to pounce like a predator. But instead of pouncing on her, ripping the lace from her body and ravaging her on the desk, he climbed onto the furniture his lover was seated on, kneeling on the small space that Celestia's gargantuan booty didn't take up. A pair of hands slipped up and danced across the woman's tanned shoulders, a set of deft fingertips slipping over the almost microscopic mesh of Celestia's nightie and tickling her through the fabric. Spike continued sliding his agile digits over Celestia's tired and sore shoulders for a few more seconds, teasing her until she was about to command him to stop. But before she did demand he quit his pestering, he laid his palms on her shoulder blades and firmly planted his fingers on the curve of Celestia's large shoulders.

"Will Luna be joining us tonight?" Spike eased into the conversation as his hand eased into the massage, firmly squeezing her muscles and gaging the stress that was held within them. Given by the knots of seized muscle fighting back, Spike could tell that a lot of stress rested within them.

"Unfortunately, no." Celestia responded, her quill still scribbling away. She grumbled as Spike's palms flexed, applying pressure to her shoulders and releasing endorphins at the contact. She was glad she had invited Spike to her quarters tonight. She had left her professional masseuse back at Canterlot in the rush to get here and was too bogged down in paperwork to request another one from the Crystal Empire, but Spike made a fine replacement.

"Why not?" Spike whispered as his thumbs dug into the firm flesh of her lower neck, working out all the small tangles of muscle that resided within her elegant, swan-like neck. Her head physically dipped in response to the contact and a heavy sigh left her lips.

"She's worried about her subject under this curfew. She's currently dream-hopping." Celestia finished her sentence with a moan of enjoyment at Spike's palms kneading the tense muscle of her shoulders, making her relax.

"Ah..." Spike acknowledged Luna's dream-hopping with a nod. Spike knew of Luna's dream-hopping abilities for a long time, she had even visited a few of his dreams back in the day. "So, does she tell you about any dreams or nightmares?" Spike continued his conversation as his hands continued to work, making the Princess melt into putty.

"Mmmm... Occasionally... The ones that stand out anyway..." Celestia crooned as the stress in her shoulders dissolved under Spike's hardworking hands.

"So, tell me... Has she ever encountered any wet dreams?" Spike asked the question with a chuckle. Celestia rolled her head from side-to-side while Spike's hands rolled over her flesh, liquefying her muscles under his touch. She greatly appreciated the massage which she made very apparent through various moans and groans of pleasure bordering on pure sexuality, each moan building in pitch and volume as Spike worked.

"Mmmyes... Yes, she likes to end with one... Every night." Celestia smiled as she thought of her sister's voyeuristic tendencies.

"Really? Wow... Any examples?" Spike lowered his voice into a soft whisper into Celestia's ear. Celestia's mind was slightly slow from her massage numbing her body and mind, but she managed to recall a few examples for Spike.

"She likes to find dreams where I am the main focus. Apparently, something about watching her sister be taken by 'common' subjects peaks her interest. Although those aren't her favorite dreams. She likes finding dreams where she is the one being showered with 'love' by her subjects. She enjoys watching her subjects dream about her, seeing how each individual one takes her. Some enjoy the idea of her dominating them, standing above them and making them worship her. Others enjoy dominating her, dragging her down to the degrading level of a common street whore. Others just fuck her normally. Some even make love to her... She enjoys it all." Celestia explained her sister's perversion, finding herself quite turned on just thinking about it. Spike himself found the story quite arousing to think of, knowing just how depraved Luna was made a rush of blood shoot southward.

"Holy shit... Any standouts?" Spike asked. His hands now smoothly and loosely rubbed over her shoulder, the massage proper was done now so instead he slowly and tenderly rubbed over her tanned smooth skin and artificial sleekness of her nightie.

"There's a young boy from Trottingham that seems to have an infatuation with my sister. He dreams of her almost every night, each night different from the last. Sometimes he makes love to her, other times he fucks her like an animal. Luna has watched them do every position imaginable with one another... And she loves it!" Celestia smiled dopily as she thought of her kinky sister's antics. "She's told me she wishes to visit him and 'make all his dreams come true'." Celestia giggled.

"Damn, only if I can watch." Spike's roving hands snaked their way down Celestia's sides and wrapped around to feel her tight waist and toned stomach, finding the soft skin pleasurable to feel against his fingertips. But of course, his hands had to end up somewhere, and he naturally found his appendages drawn towards her huge, heaving breasts hidden beneath a thin layer of fabric.

Spike's left hand slipped over the negligee and found her velvet- soft nipple over the smooth fabric. The small pink nub was already erect and ready so Spike slowly traced a finger around the thick bump, making Celestia breath slowly through her nose and letting a small, trembling moan escape her mouth. Despite the lone finger tickling her nipple, she remained writing on the mountain of documents present on her desk, flourishing the large quill from left to right as she scribbled whatever notes Spike couldn't see.

Spike rolled his eyes and plucked the quill from her hand and laid it on the desk amongst the papers without saying a word. Celestia in turn also said no words and simply sighed in defeat. She grabbed his wrist and moved his unoccupied right to her right breast. She held the hand in place for a few seconds before letting it go, the hand staying stuck in place as Celestia's own hand slipping into one of the drawers of her drawing desk.

She pulled something Spike couldn't see but by the following clink of glass and heavy thud on the wooden surface could tell it was a bottle and glass, a bottle that was promptly popped and a glass that was now being filled with the contents of said bottle. Celestia lifted the large, curved glass over her shoulder for Spike to examine. Given from the brownish-golden liquid and the strong, burnt smell, Spike could tell that is was a strong, dark liquor, possibly brandy.

"No thanks." Spike rejected the drink with a shake of his head. He was never a fan of any kind of liquor or alcohol, after all the actual alcohol always burned up in his stomach anyway, meaning he only ever got the foul taste of booze with none of the drunken benefits. Celestia placed the glass down and picked the bottle up, placing the neck to her lips and sipping the strong liquor straight from the bottle. "Sure, you can handle that?" Spike sneered.

"I'm one thousand years old Spike, I can handle my liquor." Celestia shot back as she took another swaggerous swig. Spike took this as a sign he could continue playing with her lovable nipples. His hand that was previously frozen mid-air now descended on the intended target of Celestia's right nub while his other hand rubbed the semi-rough/semi-smooth material of her nightie over her sensitive nipple.

A needy moan escaped her lips as Spike began plucking and pulling at Celestia's right nipple, jiggling her massive mammaries as he pulled the nipple forward and released it like a slingshot, sending the breasts from an elongated cone shape back to their perfect, perky globe form. He continued playing with her breasts for many minutes, one hand teasing and tickling her nipple with tiny flicks, drags and minuscule pinches to the now hyper-sensitive button while his other hand was harshly squeezing, pulling and twisting the other red-raw nipple all while Celestia herself moaned at the molestation between glugs of the brandy.

While Celestia was certainly enjoying Spike playing with her titties as she idly sipped her drink, she had a short fuse when it came to the percent teasing that Spike was so pleased with. She placed the cork back into the brandy's nozzle and rested it on the desk, then without warning she rose from her seat, Spike's hands slipping off her breasts she walked over to the bed that was stationed at the far end of her room. Spike couldn't help but follow her as she did, his focus on her drawing down to her shifting hips, shuffling those enormous ass cheeks from side-to-side, thigh to equally thick thigh. As her bottom half jiggled lushly for Spike's eyes, Celestia turned on the balls of her feet, performing a complete 180° to face Spike.

She stopped there as Spike studied her strikingly hot and insanely voluptuous body, the warm, mellow light of candle flame bending across from her low shoulders, massive breasts, slim waist, thick hips and all the way down her curvaceous legs. He also noticed the negligee was much different from the front. While from the back it looked like it stopped halfway down her torso, due to her particularly outstanding globes present on her chest, the nightie only covered half of her tits and stopped just below the nipple, leaving her perfectly flat tummy and beautifully bald pussy complete with the fat, little fold of the vulva nestled neatly between her tree-trunk-esque thighs.

"Get on the bed." The demand was playful yet firm enough that Spike did exactly as she said, jumping onto the bed like a child. "Shirt off." Another demand and Spike's t-shirt was pulled from his toned torso. "Pants off." A third demand that Spike followed to the letter, unbuckling his belt and pulling his pants all the way down, leaving himself in his boxers alone. Celestia stood above Spike, peering down at his smaller form lying on the bed.

His eyes were tracing up and down Celestia's drastic curves, a pair of watering lips indicating that he was about to jump on the Princess in front of him at any moment and worship her supple flesh. His arms were to his sides, pushing his torso up off the bed slightly so he could gaze upon Celestia's full glory. His legs were spread ever so slightly, perfectly framing the long, fat and painfully erect cock between his legs, clad tightly in a pair of boxer briefs. The cock was so strong and begging for release that the pressure of it wanting to rear up was pushing Spike's boxers up, seemingly ready to burst the tense seams and rip the underwear apart.

"Boxers off." Celestia whispered slowly and sensually, she was holding in an exclamation of pleasure from just knowing that wonderful cock was mere feet away from her more-than-ready pussy. The exclamation was released when Spike pulled his underwear down his legs, the powerful cock resting beneath them springing between Spike's thighs and performing a full 180° swing to slap his abs with a mighty 'whap' sound at the contact.

Celestia chewed her bottom lip as she eyed up her very familiar pussy-pounder, in fact, she was eyeing it up so much she decided to move to her knees in order to get a closer look. She began running her hands from Spike's knees to his waist, her large hands spreading across his firm muscle but missing his throbbing cock by mere millimeters each and every time. Spike whimpered as he felt the hot air rush past his shaft with each brush of her hands against his skin, his cock now happily spewing pre-cum from his engorged helmet, slipping and sliding all over his abs while Celestia continued to tease him.

While Spike loved to tease the ladies and get them riled up when he was on the alternate end of the stick he was very unappreciative of it. So naturally, he needed to goad the Princess.

He and Celestia were very playful and comfortable in the bedroom, often slinging filthy and downright vulgar insults to each in the midst of sex or having an occasional rough housing session with each other, so Celestia wasn't too surprised when Spike grabbed his cock by the base with his entire fist and whipped it upwards, brutally cock-slapping Celestia square in the mouth with his dense dick, splattering a healthy amount of pre onto the annoyed woman’s face.

Spike chuckled to himself as Celestia frowned, her tongue darting out and licking up a dollop of delicious pre-cum. Spike’s boyish smirk was replaced by a surprised expression when Celestia grabbed him by the ankles and pulled him down the mattress, his hips coming clean off the bed while his torso stayed on and his legs were still held in Celestia's strong hands. She slung his legs over her shoulders so the crook of his knees was bent over them and her cock was delectably close to her watering mouth. Something had to be done about that.

"Think you can cock-slap me huh, you little shit?" Celestia's low and mean hiss was harsh on Spike's ears but honey to his cock, causing the dangling dong to flex and drop a drop of pre-cum thicker than glue onto his well-defined abs. With Spike's heaving set of genitals in her face and his spicy, heady musk happily assaulting her nose and making her pristine pussy drool in anticipation.

"I think I just did and I think you just loved it, whore." Spike smirked back and shot a heated insult at her, all in good faith, however. Spike hissed in pleasure as Celestia brought her teeth to his balls to nibble on his nutsack, not enough to harm the young man's sensitive flesh but definitely enough to stimulate him with her well-groomed and lightly scathing incisors.

"Would you like it if I did that to you? Cuz I know a spell that'll give me and big fat cock of my own, then we'll see if you like getting cock-beat you little whore." Despite Celestia's frisky threat of futa fun not sound too appealing to the young Spike, the sheer filthy of her down-right disgusting dirty talk was enough to make his asshole wink.

Celestia ignored Spike's massive and mighty nibbable nuts and instead swung the deprived cock up to her mouth. Instead of slapping herself again (Although she thought that would be quite hot.), Celestia caught the cock in her mouth, enveloping the head in her mouth and swirling her tongue over it a few times, slurping up the pre-cum that freely oozed onto her tongue. But Celestia's intentions were made clear when she slowly but surely lowered her thick, pouting lips down the cock, sliding further and further down until Spike's choking length was firmly parked in her throat and her nose was pressed firmly against his belly, without even gagging once. She didn't even look Spike in the eyes before she pulled back up, making sure to retch heartily and leave plenty of slobber and spit bubbles all over the thick, musty shaft as she pulled back.

When she was back to the peak again she did not stay there for long, instead, she pushed back down to once again slob on the knob, the dick traveling quickly down her throat quicker this time until once again her chin was nestled against Spike's large, plump balls. She pulled back once again to the head before pushing back with tremendous force, hungrily throating the entire thirteen inches in seconds and layering even more spit over the shaft, she repeated this again and again until it looked like she was headbanging on a dick, obscene retches and chokes filling the room's silent space from the throat-fucking that both Celestia and Spike were enjoying. Celestia crooned her neck, popped her lips and smiled sweetly for the intent Spike while the slobber covering his beating shaft trickled down and pooled around the spit bubble covered base and sagging balls.

"You just gonna stop there? I was ready to bruise that throat." Spike smiled back as a hand reached up and idly jerked his cock, keeping it warm and pumping pre constantly.

"It's my cock I'll do what I want with it." Celestia shot back and spat at the cock, adding another thick lob of her spittle onto the shaft. Spike audibly moaned as she described the cock as her own. She loved to do that, to say that Spike's cock was her property, saying that the only reason that Spike was allowed to fuck other girls was that Celestia herself allowed them to enjoy the dick. One time she made Spike text her every time he went to take a piss, just to keep track of her cock.

Celestia pulled her breasts between the man's thighs and loudly slapped them onto his lap. She took her hands and grabbed her massive tits from each side and wrapped them around Spike's shaft, her soft skin and lube-like slobber producing a slick surface that her tits could just glide across.

Spike moaned and lost all strength in his neck as he felt the supple flesh cushion his dick from both sides like a tight seal, keeping his cock tightly in place. Celestia shot a spit-covered and sly smile to the young man as she dragged her tits upwards, slipping up his shaft before slipping back down. Spike's long cock would normally poke out of the pillowy valley of cleavage when he received a tit job from one of the girls, even from Fluttershy lovely juggs, but with Celestia's larger-than-life tits he couldn't even see the head. Normally he would enjoy it when his cock poked out of their fleshy valley so the girls could suck and kiss on the head of his cock as he pumped into their tits, but with Celestia, there was no chance of that happening, just a fully sealed cock squished and pumped between to heavenly mams.

Just as Spike was getting used to the pressure of the cushy knockers, she pulled upwards, sliding the tits across Spike's length while keeping a constant tightness. Spike released a shaky moan of delight and his hips bucked upwards, trying to fit as much of his thick cock in her crammed tits as possible. Celestia smirked as Spike fell right into her hands, he was just a puppet to her now, getting that fat load would be as simple as clicking her fingers now. She dropped her breasts again all the way down to Spike's lap before lifting them up again and dropping them down.

Spike's head slammed onto the mattress beneath him as Celestia giggled sexily. She continued to pump her tits across his rippling pole of meat, squeezing the muscle and milking more slick pre-cum into the tight enclose of flesh, only helping how Spike slipped into the pair of tits. Celestia moaned lightly to herself, thoroughly enjoying the thick, hot, pumping slab of meat firmly nestled between her huge breasts.

A few minutes had passed by the time Spike grabbed Celestia's tits in a tight grip and began to buck his hips freely into the snug valley, grunting and groaning with every thrust. With no need to keep her hands on her own tits anymore, Celestia began running her long, varnished nails against the skin of Spike's legs, tracing the creases of his muscular legs and giggling to herself at the funny, contorted faces Spike was making as his pleasure built. Celestia had become very accustomed to seeing Spike's near-O-face as well as the telltale signs: multiple grunts, jerky movements, hip bucks and of course, even more pre-cum.

Before he came, Celestia telekinetically covered the full stemmed glass of brandy over to her before grabbing it out of the air, her light-gold magic aura dispersing as she held it in her hands. She placed the brim of the glass against her lips with the intention to chug but due to the happily humping Spike below her, most of the brown liquor was spilled onto her lips and face with some dribbling down and splashing onto her tits, combining with the mixture of bubbling spittle and pungent pre-cum. After the glass was half-drunk and half-spilled into near emptiness, Celestia waited patiently for Spike to release his orgasm.

Luckily that didn't take long.

Spike released a mighty grunt as his orgasm took him over. With lightning fast speed, Celestia released Spike's cock from her bosom, letting it slap to his belly. The slap on the broad side of his long dick was enough to set him off, but luckily before any ropes of cum could land on his own face, Celestia placed the cold glass on his abs, letting thick jets of cum splatter into the ornate tall brandy glass. Celestia dipped her head and began to wildly lap at her boy toy's bulbous and dangling set of musty balls while her free hand wrapped around his cock and began jerking hard. Spike's tongue lolled as Celestia's mouth, hand and previously her tits helped him bust an extraordinarily large nut, all of his long, syrupy-thick ropes landing and pooling in the glass that he didn't even know was there. Celestia continued milking the man's huge, virile balls until he was spurting drops onto his belly which is when she let go of his sticky, still hard cock and retreated from his salty balls.

She held the glass up to notice all three hundred millimeters of it was full to the brim, some of it even breaching the brim and dripping slowly down the sides. The princess cleaned those up first, lapping up the beads of spunk running down the sides as a brief taster for the main event. After the sides were clean, she looked back at the glass and frowned. She had wanted to drink it like a fine brandy, swiveling it and smelling the pallet and slowly sip it, but there was just so much in the glass and she was so damn thirsty she couldn't help but place the brim to her lips and throw her head back. The cum was so thick that it took a few seconds for the first few drops to hit her throat, but when they did she moaned in supreme satisfaction. The pearly-white marbly jizz slid across her tastebuds, the thick, deep and oh-so-rich taste of it seeping into her tongue and driving her wild.

Celestia, the thirsty slut she was, decided that while the cum was beyond satisfactory, it was taking too damn long to get in her mouth. So, she began to claw at the sides of the glass, scraping the sticky fluid off the well-cleaned surface and licking it off her fingers like dripping ice cream, moaning like a bitch as the taste spread across her mouth. Once she had lustfully fingered as much as she could from the glass she began licking at the sides of it, trying her best to capture every single last droplet she could before she put the glass down.

It took her minutes to clean the posh brandy glass of cum, but using her fingers and mouth to grub up as much as possible she finally managed to fully clean the glass to an almost sparkling cleanliness. With an act of impulsive heat, she passionately threw the ornate and quite expensive looking glass over her shoulder, letting it smash against the floor with a loud shatter filling the otherwise fiery silence in the room. With that she playfully threw Spike's legs off of her shoulder, sending him bouncing on the bed until she held him by the wrists, pinning him to the mattress and pressing her lips against his and slipping her tongue into his mouth. Despite the fact that she had just been glugging down his cum, Spike happily excepted the kiss by sliding his own wile muscle all over Celestia's larger one in a mutual heated wrestle, although with Celestia's overbearing size, it was obvious who was to win. Celestia was dominating Spike in his own mouth, demonstrating unbridled heat and passion with just her tongue but Spike knew exactly how he could literally flip this on her.

Celestia was certainly surprised at first when Spike pushed her off him, quickly slipping away from her much larger form and pushing her flat onto the bed. Despite her much large body, Spike was still strong enough to grab Celestia's waving, multi-coloured hair and drag her to the head of the bed by it, the horny princess moaning in pleasure and pain from the rough manhandling. Spike kneeled over her thighs, Celestia's fat, wide and worshippable ass in front of him and looking delicious as always.

Spike looked down to his sticky dick dangling lazily between his legs, still shinning from the previous activities and pre-cumming onto Celestia's thighs. For what we wanted it would do, but he was feeling a little friskier than usual. He laid two firm spanks square on both Celestia's ass, leaving the fat to jiggle as he jumped off the bed and jogged to the writing desk the woman on the bed had previously been using, making sure to dodge the shattered glass as he picked up the half-drunk bottle of brandy and brought it back to the bed. He moved above Celestia, standing over her ass and uncorking the brandy with a dull pop. He tilted the bottle, the brown liquor spilling from its hole and landing on Spike's cock, covering it with the smokey alcohol and letting the rest splash onto the thick cheeks beneath them.

Once the bottle was completely empty, Spike copied Celestia's previous actions and threw the bottle to the side, letting the slightly sturdier glass drink loudly across the crystal floor before he dropped to his knees and laid another pair of slaps on Celestia's pair of cheeks. This time, however, he kept his hands on the fat buttocks, digging his nimble fingers into the pillowy, golden cheeks, the delicious flesh spilling through his fingers as he pulled his cheeks apart, smiling hungrily as he eyed up the slick, pink pussy and winking asshole. He leaned over the ass and pursed his lips before dripping a thick loogie onto her tight star and waddling up her fuckable asshole and pressing his thick, bulging cock-head against her ass. But much like her throatfucking from before, Spike wasted no time with any 'just-the-tipping' and pushed forth into her, the spit, pre-cum and brandy aiding his anal penetration easily. Celestia threw her head back and shrieked in pleasure as the thick cock stretched her snug asshole and Spike mercilessly dug more and more inches into her, only extending her shriek in pitch and volume. Spike himself gritted his teeth and groaned as the beginning euphoria slowly spread across his dick from the vacuum-like tightness of his lover's ass swallowed his dick like it had a mind of its own.

"Whose cock is inside you?" Spike growled from above Celestia, his cock still fully dug into her.

"M-M-My-My cock..." Celestia whimpered as Spike laid a rough spank across her upper ass.

"Not anymore..." Spike chuckled to himself and spanked her again, this slap leaving a red welt across her skin. "Because Princesses don't let themselves get fucked in the ass by filthy Dragon-Bloods, do they? Y'know who does let themselves get ruined by Dragon cocks?" Spike leaned down and spat his question into Celestia's ear.

"Sluts..." Celestia trembled as the words left her loose lips, making Spike smile happily.

"Filthy, little ass-sluts." Spike chuckled and readied himself. While Spike was enjoying having himself fully inserted and his balls rested and flexed against her wobbling booty, letting Celestia get used to her cock in her ass before pulling out swiftly, ripping off the band-aid with a shocked moan by Celestia.

With just his bellend resting inside her ass, Spike repositioned himself above Celestia, kneeling at the optimal pounding position and grabbing her by the base of her fluffed, white wings, a long and wobbling shriek signalling that Celestia had some particularly sensitive wings at the moment. Another harsh thrust back into her hole and Spike grunted, squeezing at the base of her wings, his thumbs putting particular pressure on the connection between her skin and feathers and causing the proud and regal Princess to melt into a trembling and near-broken whore beneath him. She was already sweating and panting and Spike was only two thrusts in, clearly she was in for a fun time. Spike looked up to her and saw her looking forward at the headboard, the large, white horn on her head standing tall and proud, but to Spike, it looked like a very handy slut-handle.

He continued pumping his hips into Celestia's wide ass, impacting the sweet asscheeks with a large set of ripples before powerfully grasping her horn and pulling it back, jerking her head backward with a wide smile on her face. As he continued pounding her guts in, one hand massaged and squeezed the bone on her forehead while his other hand worked muscle and flesh joint of both her wings, switching from one feathery limb to the other while his other hand slowly ran itself up and down the spiralled, bony shaft of her horn. One perk of being an Alicorn-Blood was the duel endogenous zones they had on their body, the combined wings of a Pegasus-Blood and horn of a Unicorn-Blood made for some excellent sexual experiences.

Much like the one she was currently feeling.

She was only a few seconds into the fervent sapsucking and she was already showing the signs of an incoming orgasm: stretched legs shaking wildly, curled toes, eyes rolled back, sweating like a pig and gripping the sheets so hard they could tear at any second. And of course, a quickly tightening asshole gripping Spike's cock harder and harder with every delve deeper into her pink and fucked-raw canal, coaxing him to fuck even harder and deeper than and drag Celestia to an anal orgasm for the ages.

And in a few more seconds and pounding thrusts into her, he did.

Celestia had previously stuffed her mouth with a corner of the duvet she laid across and as she tumbled over the edge of euphoric bliss she muffled her shrill screamed into it but her gritted teeth did little to muffle the mighty exclamation of pleasure. Her hands gripped the duvet and as her body was barraged with wave after wave of orgasmic pleasure fucking her brain with endorphins, her body seized and she pulled the blanket down. Her teeth and her hands were engaged in a game of tug-of-war until the fabric of the thick blanket gave way and tore in the middle with a loud ripping sound, spreading cotton stuffing all over the bed. Neither of the partners cared However, Spike was still slamming his hips down and reading Celestia's ass while simultaneously working her wings and horns to broaden her orgasm until she was seeing white. And Celestia was just trying not to pass out and miss this soul-shattering orgasm.

But unfortunately, Spike was getting caught up with ruining Celestia's ass that he barely even felt his own orgasm coming. He had wanted to make it a spectacle, a real money shot, he wanted to pull out and cum all over her back, or stand above her and shoot it into her hair or even cum on the floor and make her lick it up. But instead, with a grunt and a final squeeze of her horn, his balls churned and her began dumping another huge load of seed deep in her bowels, keeping himself totally hilted while he did. His ball physically flexed with every pump of glue-like spunk into Celestia's fucked-up ass until the well-worked nuts were able to spurt no more.

The two stayed there for a few minutes, each one of them panting like thirsty dogs and sweating like they were caught by a summer swell, Spike's cock still buried in Celestia's ass, of course. Spike was the first to move, slapping Celestia on her thick bootycheek hard enough to leave another red hand print and pulling out rather unceremoniously with an obscene wet sound and a pathetic whimper from the shaking puddle of woman that was Celestia.

"You've got five minutes to get back up or I'm fucking your face for the rest of the night." Spike commented dominantly as he once again slapped the ever-so-spankable ass.

"Did I miss anything?" Luna's voice was heard behind Spike. The young teenager turned to see her stepping into the room and closing the door behind her, making sure nobody in the hallway saw what was going on inside Celestia’s quarters.

"Not much. Isn't that right, slut?" Spike asked the still reeling Celestia, punctuating his sentence with another slap to her ass. Celestia just mumbled, pieces of duvet stuffing still in her mouth.

"Well is there still time for me to enjoy your 'company'?" Luna asked, beginning to remove her deep navy dress and show of a body almost equally curvaceous as her sister's. Spike turned his head around the room and found a grandfather clock positioned on the far side reading almost quarter to ten. He knew he had to wake early in the morning to travel, and if Luna wanted to join in on the action he wouldn't get a wink of sleep for a good few hours. He was about to say no and head to bed but as he turned back around, Luna had already taken his cock between her luscious lips, cleaning off all of her sister's leftover spit and the taste of brandy from his cock.

He knew this was a bad idea but for some reason, he couldn't say no.

Author's Notes:

So don't expect the updates to be this quick. The only reason this one was so fast after the first chapter was because these first two were originally supposed to one singular chapter but I decided to cut it down to make it a bit easier to read.

But anyway how about that mood shift huh? Thought you would have a nice, fun fanfiction about silly bimbo sex lol sike! Coma bitch. Don't worry, the next chapters will be much more light-hearted than this one for y'all.

Also, I guess you can add child abduction to Celestia's list of tyrannical deeds. Man, I've written her to be a real bitch in this story, haven't I?

But I guess this is a good of a place as any to ask all my lovely little fan what sticky situations our gang of would-be adventurers get themselves into on their quest. Obviously, I'm thinking of a wider scale than the previous fanfiction since the gang now has the whole of the world at their fingertips, meaning that there's basically no limit to things you can suggest. I've already cooked up a few interesting pickles they're gonna find themselves in but I could always use more. Even if it's a little thing, throw it out there and I'll see if I can squeeze it in.

Your Lazy Author, Lucien Bubblegum.