“Are you sure you want to see this?” Jay asked nervously, his footing repeatedly tapping as his gaze shifted between his audience. The Princesses both smiled reassuringly at him and Luna gestured with her wing for him to continue. Then she took a small sip of her tea, settling down on her pillow to watch him with Celestia doing the same right next to her. Turning his gaze, he saw Twilight nod lightly for him to go ahead, a small notepad levitating next to her.

Sighing, he nodded to them and started to shift. Unlike before, there was no pain and it was much faster. His waist quickly expanded and his torso grew, forming the natural shape of a centaur. Two more arms grew out below his originals and his head shifted into a more equine shape, with four more eyes appearing below his own. Looking at the small crystals floating around him, he saw in his reflection that two glowed orange and two more glowed blue. Three horns grew on his head, one swept back while two pointed forward like weapons. His hindquarters shifted, quickly forming a light blue scorpion tail that was soon coated in barbs. His back erupted, six razor sharp tendrils forming, while his arms shifted into a shield, a blade, a claw, and a whip. The shifting stopped for a short moment only to resume as solid black chitin plates began to form over his body, covering every inch in a powerful armor. Each bladed portion of his body, including the barbs, began to glow a soft blue.

Jay turned his attention back to the three mares, smiling at the awestruck looks. Of course, that smile bared his half-dozen rows an unnaturally sharp teeth, a fact that Jay became aware when all three mares flinched back. The virus immediately pressed his lips together and hid his teeth from sight. Seeing his reaction to their reaction, Celestia immediately trotted over and nuzzled against his side, idly noting how the chitin was almost hot to the touch. “I’m sorry for flinching, Jay.”

“I understand, Sunshine. Pony instincts and all that.” Jay whispered in reply, his voice echoing and making it sound like a dozen people were speaking like he thought it would after he remembered the roar he gave last time he was in this form. He was glad he remembered to whisper, otherwise his voice would have been incredibly loud and disorienting.

With one final nuzzle to his head- which she now had to rear up slightly to reach- she murmured to him. “Try to find your magic, dear. If you can’t sense it in this state, we’ll activate the crystal array.”

Jay nodded, giving a very gentle nuzzle in reply and a flashing the other two mares a quick smile. Luna returned it readily but Twilight didn’t notice, too busy writing in her notepad while only giving him quick glances as she took note of the various changes to his body. Shrugging it off, he maneuvered his legs underneath him and lied down, copying the way he had seen ponies lie down with their legs folded underneath them. Closing four of his eyes, he looked at his blade with his magic sight and was happy, able to physically see the currents of energy running below his skin. While that didn’t help him feel the magic, he at least knew it was there. Closing his final two eyes, he slowly began to direct his attention to his blade. He tried to feel it like he did when he had a new sense but didn’t know what it was; focusing not on what he already knew but on what he didn’t know. It was like trying to feel an entirely numb limb. He knew it was there but couldn’t feel it or find it without looking at it.

Twice, he slipped into his cellular sight and found himself examining his cells only to have to pull himself out of it. After what felt like only a few minutes, he slowly looked up only to pause, seeing that Celestia know had an entire pot of tea and several cakes, which she was sharing with Luna and Twilight. “Celestia.”

She looked up, smiling lightly at him. “Did you find your magic?”

Jay shook his head and she sighed, turning to Twilight. “Activate the array.”

Twilight nodded, her horn quickly alighting in powerful magic. The crystals that were floating around him at the eight compass directions began to pulse slowly, each one changing colors between pulses. The pulsing began to speed up slowly as the crystals began to rotate around him. The spinning accelerated quickly, the crystals soon becoming a multi-colored blur as they seemed to solidify into a ring around him. Moments later, a continuous stream of magic began to flow from the crystals into him. As it happened, he felt his body began to grow warmer and he knew it was the magic.

Celestia had planned that, if he couldn’t locate his magic the normal way, they would use a crystal array to feed him more magic to ‘enlarge’ he magical circuits within him. They had figured that if he could feel the magic itself, it would make it easier to find them. It was like having wings suddenly; if they were touched, the owner would be able to locate them easily. With the crystals overcharging his magic just below a dangerous level, he was able to ‘feel’ the magic flowing through his body. Using that, he tried to locate them. He looked into his blade again, feeling for the magic, until he felt his mental sight shift and he gasped, hundreds of lines of blue energy crisscrossing his body. They were chaotic; changing direction and size in moments, vanishing and reappearing every few moments. His magic was perfect for his body, ready to shift at a moment’s notice.

“I found it.” Jay said softly. Instantly, he heard what sounded like glass tinkling and opened his normal eyes, seeing that the crystals had dropped and landed on the ground. Thinking quickly, he focused on his one backward-sweeping horn and ‘grabbed’ his magic, trying to pull it to the surface. He failed utterly. No matter how hard he tried to grab his magic, no matter how hard he willed it to change, no matter how many ways he tried it, it wasn’t responding to his directions. Honestly, Jay was starting to think his magic just nothing more than a pain in his ass. “I can’t seem to pull my magic from the lines, though.”

“You aren’t going to be able to.” Celestia explained. The virus could practically hear the smile on her face, though he was still focused on his magic. “You’re next step is to find your core. Follow the pseudo-leylines back to their source, which shouldn’t take long.”

Jay nodded slowly. “That might be hard, my lines are constantly shifting and sometimes even disappearing.”

“W-What?” Celestia gasped.

“I think it has to do with my nature, Sunshine. My magic can shift as readily as I can.” Jay voiced his opinion, though he knew he had no backing for it.

“N-no, Jay. That’s chaos magic.” Luna said softly. “Discord and now you are the only ones to have ever-changing chaos magic.”

Before he could say anything in reply, Celestia continued. “Do your best to follow them, Jay.”

Nodding again, Jay picked one of the lines and began to trace it. It was like tracing a single line in a in a mess of string while someone was tugging on it. Twice he had to abandon the line he was tracing because it vanished, but he slowly followed the lines. Finally, he came upon the source. It was a small blue orb in his chest- which he kind of expected- that, unlike his magic lines, stayed the same shape and size. It pulsed rhythmically, reminding him of a heartbeat, and he could see veritable hundreds of thousands of lines coming off of it, each one heading to a different spot of his enlarged body. “I found it. Now what?”

“Focus on the core and imagine you are holding it. Then, once you have a firm hold, tell it to send more magic to a part of your body that isn’t already glowing.” Celestia explained. Jay was confused as to what she meant by a ‘firm hold’ until he tried to focus on his core. As soon as he did, he remembered the first time he was in Canterlot, treating the Princesses as long time friends rather than the rulers they were. He remembered how he felt, days later, when he realized that he had subconsciously acted like he did to disarm them, make them think he couldn’t be an enemy. Then he vigorously shook his head, dislodging the unwarranted memory.

“You’ll find yourself ridiculously easy to distract while you’re trying to focus on your core. Your mind will slip into old memories or focus on some random sound you heard or sensation you feel.” Celestia continued, her voice full of mirth. He could hear Twilight and Luna both giggling lightly, understanding what he was going through.

Jay tried again, focusing on his core. His mind started to slip to another memory- his arrival in this world- but he quickly dismissed it and imagined a pair of hands firmly grasping the orb. Another memory tried to distract him but he ignored it. He imagined standing in front of the orb, ‘holding’ it with his hands. As soon as he did, his mind experienced a phantom sensation of a slippery ball and he almost dropped his concentration only to recover in time to ‘catch’ the orb. Quickly, he willing it to direct more energy to his center horn. Moments later, he felt several of his lines thicken to allow the larger flow of magic.

Hearing the three mares lightly stomping, he opened his normal eyes and looked up, then felt stupid. He had picked the horn that faced backwards, so he wouldn’t be able to see it. “Is the center horn glowing?”

“Yes.” Celestia said with a proud smile. Jay focused on the horn, seeing that the tendrils were significantly thicker.

“What now?” Jay asked.

“Now, you return to your normal form and touch the rune.” Celestia said. “Teaching you to cast spells in going to take significantly longer than a day and a half. At least we now know that you have active magic, not passive.”

Twilight vigorously shook her head. “Yeah! Jay, I hope you don’t mind if I help teach you magic whenever you’re in Ponyville.”

Jay just chuckled and flashed her a quick smile. “Nah, I don’t mind at all. If I really can learn magic and not just make my body glow, then that’ll be a significant advantage, not to mention an incredibly useful utility. Just be patient with me if it turns out I’m slow at it, okay?”

Twilight nodded. “I doubt you’ll be slow but I’ll be sure to be patient anyway!”

With a maelstrom of tendrils, Jay was returned to his usual form, now back to normal height and size. As soon as he did so, he caught Twilight looking at him strangely. “Something on your mind, Twilight?”

“If you can change shape that quickly, why didn’t you do that to turn into your other form?” Twilight asked.

“Y’all wanted a show so I gave you one.” Jay said honestly. “You have to admit seeing me change the first time was much more entertaining than the second.”

After a moment of thought, Twilight nodded. The virus turned his gaze to Celestia, who levitated him the runestone. He had given it to Celestia while he was shifting so it wouldn’t react to whatever energies he had flowing through his blades and chitin. Grasping it in his right hand, he reached down and found his core, which was still in his chest, and took a surprising number of minutes to focus on it. In this form, it seemed noticeably harder to access his energy- still not sure if it was magic or something else- so he assumed that his other form, now referred to as the ‘Centaur,’ was better suited for using the energy since it was created at the same time as the energy. Calling his energy to his left hand, it began to glow very faintly in the light of the room. Shrugging it off, he tapped his glowing index finger to the runestone and held it there.

“Is something supposed to happen?” Twilight asked curiously after a moment of silence.

Jay just frowned. He could feel the runestone draining his energy, but it was slow. “I think it’s just slow to gather the energy it needs. I’ve noticed that my energy is harder to access and weaker in this form so I think the other is literally built for it. In any ca-”

The virus was cut off as the runestone pulsed once and his mind disconnected from his body, soaring high into the sky above Canterlot castle as his sight shifted quickly. In the short moment he hung there, he could see all of Canterlot, Ponyville, parts of the Everfree Forest, and some of Whitetail Woods below him. Then, his head seemed to turn and look off to the west. Moments later, his sight began to move. He sped over Equestria, passing over villages and cities alike. A second more and he was phasing over the ocean, moving at what had to have been thousands of miles an hour. Glittering waters surrounded him as far as he could see, not a cloud in the large blue sky either. Then, a speck of an island appeared in the distance.

He moved closer to it, close enough to see that it was clearly a tropical island and a large one at that. A forest- more of a jungle, really- covered most of the island. A large bay dominated one side, an old and rotting dock taking place in part of it. From the sky, the jungle seemed to split in two places. The eastern-most one was a large, clear lake surrounded by three steep sides and one beach side, likely the site of an old sinkhole. The other gap was seemingly an old, decrepit castle. The stone walls were collapsed and sinking into the mud of the ground. Three towers had fallen and only half of the fourth remained standing. The keep was mostly intact, though still severely cracked, with only one portion of the roof missing. Light shone down into the darkness, illuminating a broken throne. Upon it sat a single Unicorn, a silver coat and red mane his features. Softly glowing eyes stared up, seemingly looking directly at Jay.

This his vision retreated, his position rapidly moving back over the ocean. Waters, forests, plains, villages, and cities flashed by in a moment until his vision went black. Moments later, he opened his eyes and found himself on the floor of the training room, three worried mares crowded around him. Slowly sitting up, he felt Celestia’s wings support his back while Luna came to his side for him to lean on. Twilight, meaning well but forgetting his nature, summoned a glass of water and held it out to him. A small smile was all it took for her to blush and disperse it. After a moment of silence, Jay spoke. “Out west, in the ocean. There’s an island that’s mostly jungle. An old castle is his home.”

“When do we leave?” Celestia asked firmly.

“We?” Jay asked with a frown.

“I’m not letting you go alone.” Celestia replied, though he felt there was more to it than just that. She knew very well that he could handle himself, even if she did still feel a healthy bit of worry for him at times. A moment of staring with a raised eyebrow was all it took to get her to talk. “Fine. Jay, he killed an entire town of ponies. Maybe I’m not as powerful as you or maybe I’m more powerful since I have mastery over most of the spells I know, but I want to be there.”

Jay shifted his gaze to Luna, who only smiled. “We talked about it already. I’m staying behind to keep the number of panicking populace to a minimum. That doesn’t mean I don’t worry for you both or that I don’t want to go, but I understand how much this means to Celestia.”

Jay turned his attention back to Celestia and replied. “Alright, I trust you know what you’re doing. You’ve got plenty of experience and your magic may become exactly what we need.”

“I’ll ask again, when do we leave?” Celestia asked once more, gently nuzzling him. After a moment’s thought, he answered.

“A week, to give us time to prepare. Snow needs to know this, too. She should be back in Ponyville, what, tomorrow? In any case, I’m sure she’s going to want to come along, too. If she’s not back tomorrow, I’ll head her off in her patrol and talk to her.” Jay said, acutely aware that Twilight wasn’t privy to all the secrets regarding him and those he was with.

“I’ll make sure the ponies of Ponyville aren’t wondering where you went.” Twilight added. “Are you going to tell everypony what you are going to do, Princess?”

“No.” Celestia replied near immediately. “Not the full truth, to prevent as much worry as I can. They’re going to be upset as it is with me leaving to handle business. I’ll tell them that I’m investigating a lead involving the Trotsdale incident. Tell anypony who asks that I took Gene with me due to his understanding of woodlands.”

Twilight frowned, upset. The idea of lying to her friends upset her greatly. She understood that some things needed to remain a secret, but her friends were supposed to be the ponies who she could be entirely truthful to. She understood why the official report was not the full truth; if anypony knew that Princess Celestia was going miles off of Equestria’s coast to an uninhabited island to confront a powerful pyromancer, there would be no end of panic. That didn’t stop her from wanting to be honest to her friends. “Princess, if I can get my friends to Pinkie Promise not to spread the word, can I tell them the truth?”

Celestia thought about it for a few moments, then nodded. “I see no harm in it. Tell them in a private location where you can’t be overheard. I dread the panic that will spread if word gets out about this.”

After that, Twilight turned her attention to Jay. “Jay...can I tell the girls about you today?”

Jay paused, thinking about it for a time. He wasn’t unaware of the curious looks both Princesses gave him along with the hopeful look from Twilight. He didn’t answer for a time, debating it. On one hand, telling the truth to more ponies was something he wanted to do. Twilight would tell her friends and they would all talk once he returned to Ponyville. On the other hand, he wasn’t particularly close to any of them except Pinkie and Twilight and they already knew the truth. He wouldn’t mind getting to know the others, but he hadn’t yet. Even so, he had wanted to deliver the news himself. But… he trusted Twilight. If she wanted to tell others about him, he would allow it.

“Go ahead, Twilight, if you think they won’t react badly to the information. Once I return to Ponyville, which will likely be tomorrow morning, we’ll all gather together and talk about what they’ve learned. I trust you, Twilight.” Jay said honestly, making her smile brightly. Twilight nodded rapidly and gave him a light hug, then turned her attention back to Princess Celestia.

“Princess, if there’s nothing you need me for, may I return to Ponyville and gather my friends?”

Celestia leaned down and gently nuzzled her student, smiling to her. “Of course, Twilight. It was good to see you again.”

Twilight eagerly returned the affection and replied in kind. “It was good to see you too, Pr-Celestia.”

Celestia’s smile was so bright it seemed to literally shine, a possibility he believed due to her magic and connection to the sun. With another hug, Twilight teleported away. Jay doubted she was able to teleport all the way to Ponyville, but he was sure she at least went to the train station. To his surprise, Jay was knocked backwards. Instead of landing on the marble floor, his back hit soft bed as his vision shifted to reveal Luna’s room. From what little he could see through the closed canopy bed, dark blue and royal purple dominating the color scheme with black and silver used as accents. Two mares landed on him moments later and he suddenly found himself wrapped up in wings and hooves, entirely trapped beneath two mares he loved. Of course, he had absolutely no desire to break free of their grasps.

“So, I suppose I’m comfortable?” Jay asked with a smirk.

“If I could, I would make you my permanent bed.” Luna replied, still not using her archaic grammar which partly surprised him. They had already discussed her using it in private, but she didn’t seem to want to anymore. Before he could think more on it, she continued and trailed off teasingly. “Perhaps I will be able to…”

“Oh?” Jay asked, honestly curious as to where this was going.

“If Celestia can teach me the alternative teleportation you came up with, it is entirely possible that we would be able to begin spending nights with you and Chrysalis. I can imagine few things more comforting than being able to rest with your entire herd.” Luna explained. Toward the end of her statement, Celestia began to nod as she thought it over.

“That’s why my bed is so damn big!” Jay exclaimed, laughing all the while. “You sneaky mares!”

“Is it bad that we wanted to prepare for a possible future?” Celestia asked cheekily. Jay replied by giving her a soft kiss which was all the answer she needed. The show of affection and love continued for a moment, pure happiness flowing between the two with Luna looking on with a smile, contentment filling her mind.

After they parted, Luna added her own piece, teaming up against him. “Unless, of course, you don’t like the idea?”

Jay paused, then rotated his neck to face her. He reached up and grabbed her chin gently, then guided her head down. Her eyes drifted closed then shot open when her gently nipped her ear, a low moan rolling through her and she relaxed against him. He made a mental note on the sensitivity of a pony’s ears, something that didn’t really surprise him. Then he softly whispered into her ear even as his fingers gently massaged it. “I think you just want to get me in bed with you, Celestia, and Chrysalis. You can’t deny the arousing prospect of sharing yourself with your herdmate, your sister, and your lover. Just imagine all the things two shapeshifters and a goddess could do to you. Maybe we would hold you down and satisfy your every need even as we satisfied our own.”

Luna shuddered slightly in his grip, a familiar musky scent beginning to waft from lower down the bed even as Celestia added her help by gently nuzzling along Luna’s neck. The Night Maiden fidgeted around, clearly thinking of the picture he had put into her mind. Jay grinned brightly at her flushed face, the dark red tinting her coat a deep purple. “And I thought you liked being in control.”

She stopped fidgeting, panting lightly as Celestia began to nip at Luna’s neck. “Normally, I am. But there’s just something about you that I just fall prey to.”

“Perhaps it is because you are prey and I am a predator?” Jay asked as he gently bit down on her soft ears with his sharp teeth. He made sure not to break skin, but the barest shread of pain in combination with the pleasure made her shiver again, another moan breaking the near silence of the room. At the same time, Celestia’s head drifted down and bit down on Luna’s wing as her horn lit up, teasing Luna further. Jay understood what she was doing and bit down on her again, his teeth injecting a potent chemical that fired every pleasure nerve in her body. The Alicorn screamed, the angelic sound of her passion so loud that Jay swore he heard glass break. Jay heard a splatter, Luna’s pleasure soaking his leg and her bed just below her rump. Her body kept convulsing in his and Celestia’s combined grip as her orgasm continued, soaking the bed further.

To his surprise, Jay heard the door to her room burst open and two sets of hooves charge into the room. The curtain of the canopy was yanked back violently, a pair of spears instantly locked onto him. Jay grinned up at the Night Guards, noticing that Celestia had turned invisible the moment the door was slung open. “What, I can’t give my marefriend a bit of pleasure?”

Both ponies’ eyes flickered down to Luna, seeing the disheleved state she was in. Her scent was clear in the air and they both knew it as their nostrils flared. He noticed with amusement that the mare had noticed the massive wet splotch on the bed surrounding Luna’s flanks and how her tail was flagged, though the angle prevented them from seeing anything. The mare’s eyes widened massively when another small splatter of marecum coated the bed as Luna convulsed lightly again as Celestia bit down harder on her wing. To his further amusement, and Celestia’s given the shaking laugh he could feel from her chest on him, they both began stammering out apologies as they turned tail and ran out the door. The heavy oak slammed shut, golden magic locking it shortly after. Celestia faded back into visibility and they both looked down to Luna.

Her cheeks were a massive red, so deep that her coat was actually red around her cheeks and over the bridge of her muzzle. Beyond that, she looked absolutely exhausted in all forms of the word. Her eyelids drooped in tiredness, her ethereal mane and tail moving slower as they seemed to flicker from the night sky to light blue. Her coat was ruffled all over, parts of it matted from sweat. All in all, Jay had to say that she was utterly spent from an incredibly powerful orgasm and horribly embarassed by her Guards barging in and seeing her in her current state. Speaking of seeing… “Good save, Celestia. It would have raised a lot more questions if they had seen you with Luna’s wing in your mouth.”

Luna nodded tiredly. “Word is going to already spread that Jay was pleasuring me. It would not do well for similar rumors to spread about you doing the same, Celestia.”

“I’m glad I was able to react in time.” Celestia said, agreeing with them. “It’s too bad that we were interrupted. It would have been interesting finding out if we can make you cum so hard you pass out entirely.”

“I doubt think I would have been able to wake up for a couple days after that!” Luna protested lightly, though she seemed significantly interested in the idea. To be honest, Jay was interested in it as well but he figured Luna deserved some rest after screaming so loudly and then being caught by her Guards.

“Go ahead and get some rest, Luna, I’ll be here when you awaken.” Jay said.

Right after he finished, Celestia added. “I’ll be here as well. I hope you don’t mind if I play with your wings while you sleep.”

Luna shakily nodded her consent and slowly fell asleep over the course of only a couple minutes. Sensing that she was truly out of it, Jay shifted their positions around. He set Luna in between him and Celestia as they both shifted around to give her room and make her comfortable. Instantly, Celestia’s horn alighted in magic as one of Luna’s wings was gently pulled away from her body. Her muzzle lightly closed on Luna’s feathers, gently shifting between each one as she started to preen her sister. Jay watched on, realizing that Celestia had some minor somnophiliac tendicies. Jay, after a moment, commented on it. “You’re a bit of a somnophile, aren’t you?”

“What does that mean?” Celestia asked curiously, having not heard of that word before. Jay paused, realizing it might be a word only on his old world, not this one.

“Someone who is interested in doing sexual things to a sleeping person.” Jay explained.

“Then yes, I am.” Celestia said honestly. “It was something Luna and I used to enjoy in the days of old. I enjoy the authority and rush I get from being able to play with Luna while she sleeps and she always enjoys waking up satisified and relaxed. I always made sure to ask her permission before I did anything, and I wouldn’t do something I didn’t ask to do.”

“What do you mean by that last part?” Jay asked curiously.

“I asked to play with her wings. Because of that, I’m not going to mess with her horn or any of her other, more sensitive parts. If I wanted to do anything beyond preening her wings, I would have asked.” Celestia explained. “There are a lot of rules we discussed before I started to explore this desire, but that was something we both wanted since ‘somnophilia’ can sometimes be very close to non-consentual sex if the sleeping pony doesn’t know about it or says ‘no’ and it happens anyway.”

Jay nodded, understanding her point. The more she talked about it and the more he thought about it, the more he considered joining Celestia and playing with Luna sometimes. He entirely intended to discuss it with them long before he actually did something, though.

Relaxing further, he smiled and watched as Celestia gently preened the sleeping Luna. His hand subconsciously began to run through her mane. Luna started to gently hum in her sleep, comforted by the dual ministrations from both of her lovers. Idly, Jay wondered if Chrysalis would be interested in somnophilia at all. If she was, he wondered if she would prefer to give or receive. It was something to bring up at another time.

Author's Notes:

My apologies for the late chapter. I don't have a stable internet connection and have to post when I get the chance. I am capable of writing offline, but I can't post offline.

As always, don't hesitate to tell me what you think or point out errors. Typing on a phone tends to leave quite a few.