“Time to wake up.” I whispered into Lilly’s ear. She opened her eyes and looked at me for a few second. “Does it still hurt?” She felt her head and pulled away. “Of course it’s going to hurt if you touch it.” I said chuckling.

“No.” She said cutely and I chuckled pulling her closer to me. She had slept the whole time, I couldn’t easily, it was a little unnerving.

“Hey wake up!” I more or less shouted and Dash groaned. Twilight got up yawning. “We are pulling up in a few minutes. So get up.”

“It’s alright ta talk to a princess like that?” Lilly asked looking at me. Her draw was much light Applejack’s.

“Not for you or anyone really, but I don’t care and she wouldn’t try to arrest me for that, isn’t that right Twilight.” She sighed.

“Seffron I’m too tired.” I chuckled. “Anyway, what are we going to do with her? Are you just going to keep her?”

“I never had any offspring of my own, but I had pets, I'll make sure to feed and clean her and.” She held up her hoof chuckling, then she got up.

“I get it, I'll arrange something for her.”

“Oh I’m not joking, I’m keeping her, I literally would break her neck before I let her out of my sight. If she is eaten by a single female, there will be an army of millions at Equestria’s door step in months.” Twilgiht swallowed a little. “She’s not going anywhere without me. I’m going to keep her like a pet, she’s literally not going to leave my house unless it’s with me. We can’t afford it.”

“You’re not going to do anything weird though.” Dash asked.

“Excuse me,” I asked Dash annoyed making her flinch a little. “Are you suggesting I would do anything to harm a filly?”

“No, it’s just, you seem a bit.”

“What?” I growled.

“Um, how do I put this, sex crazed?” She looked at Twilight and I frowned.

“As if I would touch a filly like that, I was shocked when I found out that Rarity liked Spike, even in my world that was a high crime. Or at least for the lower class. Ponies could be put to death for it.”

“Okay, okay,” Twilight said. “No need to get so riled up in the morning, come on, we have to get off the train.” I picked up their bags and the train stopped.

“Lilly I need to keep you out of sight.” I put the bags on either side of her. “Don’t stick your head out or anything, but you should be able to see.” She nodded and we got off the train, I looked around on the platform seeing a group of six ponies. They smelled of dead. “Twilight remember those six right now.” She turned looking at them for a moment.

“Got them.”

“Come on.” The six ponies went into the train as we walked away. “We don’t want them noticing us yet. Dash can you track them without being seen?”

“On it.” She flew into the air hiding in the clouds.

“Twilight just go home and write down who they are and any information you have. I'll be going to Applejack’s farm for a little. Find Pinkie if you need.” She nodded and I went through town going to Applejack’s farm.

A little bit of shock went through me seeing Celestia and Luna with Applejack, Rarity and Fluttershy. I went over to them and they looked at me.

“Seffron.” Applejack said smiling a little.

“Hello.” I said looking at Celestia.

“Hello Seffron, I didn’t expect you to come here today, do you have the filly, Twilight filled me in on the situation. She also told me before you left that Applejack was organizing an army to ready for any threat, that I should help.”

“Yes, Lilly you can stand up.” She stood up smiling.

“Oh my gosh, it’s an honor.” She said and Celestia smiled.

“Back down.” Lilly sighed hiding again. “So you’ve come to help Applejack in making an army?”

“Yes, we’re made a considerable amount of progress. Next to freely joining recruits, we have about five hundred ponies that would be able to join, if we were to pay them. We would have about a thousand five hundred ready for arms in a few months at most.”

“That’s not nearly enough.”

“What?!” Applejack shouted slamming her hooves.

“The Oaka have twenty nine hundred soldiers, all able and willing to go to war. They have reason to do it, they believe that their race will get wiped out without this Lilly. Which means they will do anything. We need twice their force at least.”

“That’s not going to be easy,” Luna said. “There simply aren’t that many ponies which we can call upon, we have to remember many things, simply calling up every able body pony isn’t something we can do in a moment’s notice. We have to be careful when selecting who we choose. All of the fifteen hundred will have some battle experience. They will also be able to follow orders.” I paused.

“I suppose mixed with you two we’ll be fine.”

“Wait how many ponies were in your army?” Fluttershy asked.

“At the battle of the Lich, Applejack had an army of four million personal, then a reserve of eight million, and they were called into battle as well. Over two thirds of the army was wiped out in the battle.” All of them stared at me.

“Equestria only has eight million ponies.” Celestia said and I stared at her.

“What?” I asked chuckling at her joke.

“Including fillies, old and sick, we only have eight million, two hundred thousand, five hundred and sixty three ponies.” I stepped back as if something just bucked my chest. “We don’t control breeding, we just let it happen.”

“We’re all gonna die.” I said chuckling and I started to laugh. “My world had nearly fifty million ponies in Equestria alone. We only survived because we had so many. We could fill our ranks, but this is imposs.” I stopped. “Improbable.” They looked at me oddly. “Pinkie came from the future, which means we survive. I don’t know the cost, but we live.”

“Then, what do we do?” Fluttershy asked.

“We build as large of an army as possible, I'll fit it with my tech and we’ll go to battle. I will have to hope that it’ll give us enough of an advantage to battle through. We need to first get gold, armor and materials so I can start building.”

“I have gold.” Fluttershy said smiled.

“Not nearly enough.”

“Yes I do.” She sang. “I made a killing while you were gone, I made five times what I had. Which means I can buy to your heart’s content and still have money left to spare.”

“Adding in my wealth as well,” Rarity said. “We will be able to pay for it, also if you give me large gems, I have an industrialist which wants drill bits. He’s willing to pay six times their weight in gold, up to a thousand of them.”

“And with the taxes,” Celestia started. “We’ll be able to afford anything you need in case we go over, plus under royal decree we can get as much land as you’ll need. Though just don’t go too wild with it.”

“That’ll work, we need a lot of steel, copper, lead, crude oil, and a large plot of land near the sea to start making a factory and foundry. Then we also need training grounds for Applejack’s army.”

“I'll put the plans into the works.” Fluttershy said writing a few things down and handing it to Spike. He blew the letter and it disappeared. I looked at Fluttershy and Rarity for a few seconds thinking.

“I have just one more question however,” I said. “Why are you spending your own money? Surely you both have a better use for it than funding a war machine.” Rarity and Fluttershy paused.

“Well,” Rarity started. “What will be the point of money if we get taken over? We would lose everything anyway. There are worse things to lose, than a simple bank account. Also any money I would make from those gems, would only have happen in the first place because of you.”

“I wouldn’t have made my money,” Fluttershy said. “I only was able to invest because of you, if I didn’t have these gems to help me, I would have never even met with those partners, I would been stuck in my little cottage with my pets. I only really made enough to feed them and myself, now they are happy. I can afford to give them the best foods, the best care, and take them to the hospital when they get sick.” She smiled warmly.

“I see, just make sure to save enough in your personal chests, so if things do end badly, you don’t go broke.”

“Already taken care of.” Fluttershy said with a grin.

“So wait, how are you making so much money?” I asked eyeing Fluttershy.

“Trade secret.” She winked.

“Alright, well inform me when everything is set up. I need to go home and sleep, I'll be busy when I wake up.” They all agreed and I went home.

They were much more able than I was thinking, or at least I hoped for their sakes they were. I went inside my house and set the bags down, I was going to have to return these later to Dash and Twilight.

“Seffron, your back.” Trixie said and then paused seeing Lilly.

“Hey, say hi to Trixie Lilly, your new house mate.”

“What?” Trixie asked unnerved.

“So I’m gonna to live here?” Lilly asked and I set her down. I looked outside scanning the area for a moment. Nothing had followed me, so Lilly was safe here. I closed the door and turned round, Trixie was inches from my face standing up on her hind legs.

“You bring a little filly into this house, what are you planning?” I kissed her.

“As if I would do something like that, now then Lilly, go pick a room upstairs that’s empty, you’re not allowed to leave this house unless I tell you. I have to talk to Trixie for a little bit.”

“Alright.” She ran upstairs and I looked at Trixie making her back up.

“You really need to realize I don’t take orders from you.” I pulled her close. “And if you need to be reminded of that fact, I'll be happy to.” I growled. “Or have I gotten too lazy to teach you the meaning of the word master?”

“No, I didn’t mean anything by it.”

“Good, but I would never do anything like that to any filly, or any youngling for that matter, you know what happen when I was young, don’t make this more complex than it needs to be.” She nodded. “Now why don’t you go and fix us something to eat. I’m sure Lilly is hungry once she comes down.”

“Y-yes, I’m sorry.” She went into the kitchen and I went upstairs to Lilly which was jumping around on a bed.

“Enjoying yourself?” She looked at me sitting down.

“Yes, um sorry, I know I shouldn’t jump on the bed.”

“It’s fine, I have a few replacements, so jump all you like.” She got into a playful position smiling.

“Really?!” She asked smiling.

“Yep, but just pad the floor when you do, I don’t want you jumping and breaking your neck.” She nodded and I sighed. “But I need you to listen to me.” I walked over to her sitting down next to the bed and she sat down looking at me.

“Yes?”

“I need to set rules with you, understand you might not like them.”

“Oh.” She looked sad.

“First rule, you can do anything you like in this house, from jumping on the bed, to breaking a window, you can even tearing down a wall if you like. Be as destructive as you want to here.” Her eyes popped and she bit her lip. “You can even annoy Trixie out of her mind.” She giggled a little making me smile.

“But those don’t sound like rules.” She said eyeing me.

“No they don’t, do they? But they sure sound fun don’t they?”

“Yeah.” She grinned.

“Good, now if you do something you think was bad, or just wrong, come to me. I'll never get mad, I'll never yell at you, or hit you. Well I might yell at you, but never hit. I lose my temper very easily, but that’s just me being me. It’s just a dragon thing.”

“Okay.”

“Now for the ones that sound like rules, no going outside without my permission, that means no leaving the house. If it’s on fire, then stay close to Trixie, till the situation with the Oaka is solved, which I hope will be soon. You can’t be seen by any pony. No one can be allowed to know you’re here. No answering the door or anything like that, is that clear?”

“Yes.” She nodded.

“I'll, or more you’ll be home taught for a while, and I'll be teaching you magic myself for the most part. You’re going to have fun with that.”

“What other rules?”

“You can do anything else you like, just make sure to mind your manners.” I rubbed her cute little face. “Oh, and when I’m doing something privet, you have to stay in your room and not come out. That means for nothing, I'll add a bathroom and small kitchen into your room later, but you need to stay in here. I do some things which aren’t meant for your eyes. Well for no pony’s eyes, but you understand.”

“Yes.”

“Good, now then, write things down that you want in your room and I will get them, also here.” I pulled out a white filly doll the same size as her from my arm, it was completely bank, no color or face, but everything was there. She stared at it for a few seconds and then gave me a confused look.

“What’s that?” It looked very real in some sense.

“It’s called a clay doll, but it’s a special doll.” I set it on the bed. “Touch it real fast.” She touched it and it grew eyes, mouth, nose, horn and ears. A mane came out being a nice white, curling around a bit. The head remolded becoming a mare in form. A decency barrier appeared as it became atomically correct.

“Hey!” The doll said making Lilly back up scared.

“Hello.” I said and it looked at me smiling.

“Hi, who are you?” It tilted it’s head a little.

“I’m Seffron, this is Lilly.” It looked at Lilly smiling. “You’re going to be Lilly’s new playmate, keep her safe and be her best friend.”

“That thing scares me!” Lilly said backing up and it smiled wider jumping and pushing Lilly down onto the bed. It licked Lilly making her whimper a little. “Get off of me! I don’t like you!”

“Lilly,” I said and she looked at me. “This doll is waiting for a name, and if you’re not careful in taking care of it, it’ll become obsessed with you. That means it’ll start doing things you may not like. You need to take command, not just with words.”

“But it scares me.”

“Lilly, I won’t always be around to protect you, that means you need to be able to take care of yourself, and that means becoming a leader. If you don’t become a leader, this thing is going to own your butt.” She swallowed.

“But!”

“When I was young my mother give me five of them to deal with. I at first was scared to, in fact I ran from them till my lungs gave out. I found myself strapped to a bed and each of them laughing at me. As if it was funny, I realized these things are evil, they will never be a friend, only pets.” The thing wagged its tail.

“But it’s stronger than me.”

“Really?” Lilly kicked it sending it flying into the wall. It fell to the bed with a broken leg, and indented chest. The leg cracked back into place and the chest healed. It smiled wagging its tail even more.

“You want to play?” It asked.

“It’s a doll Lilly, it’s not strong, or fast, it is however nearly impossible to kill. So you could rip off its head, or break it’s legs. It’ll get up and want to play more. Of course it’s made from a special clay, so ripping it apart won’t matter, it’ll regrow limbs. Then if you cut it half like this.” I swiped my claw cutting it down the middle. It fell in half, both halves got up making two full ones, instead of one. They then smiled looking at each other, before grinning at Lilly making her yip.

“Wait, but there’s two of them!”

“Yep, and if you slam them together.” I slapped one and it hit the other molding into it becoming one again. “They mold together again. Now what is its name?” She paused.

“Um, Dodge.” The doll turned a light brownish orange, its hair grew long turning dark brown with a blond second tone, freckles across her face. I tied her tail near the end, then her long mane near the end as well. I chuckled lightly, if Applejack and some pony had a filly, this is what it would look like. I snapped my claws making a hat appear like Applejack’s hat.

“Whoa,” Trixie said and I looked at her in the doorway. “You made her a protector doll! I thought those were expensive.”

“They would be if someone sold them, but it turns out the clay mines are completely untouched. I got tons of it, enough to make an army to take over. Of course that was before Pinkie Pie came back and told me. Now I'll have to use it to clean this world as a last case measure if everything else fails.”

“That’s, um, fun.” I looked at her a bit confused.

“You think me wasting my army is fun?”

“Well I mean you’ll have fun, won’t you?” I got up. “Please I mean it’ll be fun there’s no reason to get mad.”

“I’m not mad.” I growled lightly. “Lilly, enjoy Dodge, I’m sure you two will get along just fine. Just don’t give up, they like to test you the first few hours. Now stay in your room, I need to talk to Trixie for a while.”

“O-okay.” Lilly said unsure as Dodge took a pouncing position.

“We’re gonna have some real fun.” Dodge said with a drawl, just like Lilly’s. I chuckled a little.

I walked out of Lilly’s room closing the door. Trixie started running down stairs the second the door closed. I chuckled snapping my claws and locking the front door, metal went down over the windows. It was the only way out of the house besides the windows. I had made sure Trixie’s magic, even as great as it was, wouldn’t be able to scratch it.

She started blasting the door trying to get out. I chuckled grabbing her from behind and she yipped as I picked her up. Tears ran down her face scared. I licked her neck burning her with my tongue.

“Trixie, Trixie, Trixie.” I chuckled and she whimpered. I set her on the sofa on her back and she closed her eyes. I licked her belly up to her neck and her flesh cooked making her whimper in pain.

“Please, I didn’t mean it, I'll do anything.”

“Really now.” She spread her legs. “You think I’m going to give you a treat? You got it mixed up my dear, I only have sex with you because you enjoy it.” She blushed. “Not because I do, actually I don’t care for sex. I don’t have to touch you, I have other ways to fill that need, you don’t.”

“I.” She started to cry. I kissed her neck making her gasp, but she healed herself not being able to breathe. “Please, I won’t do it again.”

“You question me, and then you say it’s good for me to lose one of my toys.” I growled and she tensed. “Did you think I was just going to let that slide? Oh and then let’s not forget you did it in front of her. I can’t let anyone know what I’m planning, I can’t let anyone know that the mines exist, till I want it to be known. Is that clear?”

“Yes!” She said high pitched.

“Good.” I kissed her. “If you do it again.” I ripped my claws into her side making her gasp at the pain. “I'll beat you till you learn to never do it again.” She nodded and I took out my claws letting her breathe again. “Heal and.” I flung blood onto the carpet smiling. “Clean up this mess. If I find a single drop of blood on it once I come back, I'll make it so you’ll have to clean up an even bigger mess of blood and flesh. Use the brush and bucket, no magic.”

“Yes master.”

“If you ever call me that in front of any pony.” I frowned. “I'll rip out your tongue and feed it to you in a dinner.”

She nodded healing herself and running into the bathroom. I sighed looking at the sofa and carpet. She was going to have her hooves full to clean this up, she had lost a lot of blood from one little stab of my claws.

I went up stairs to Lilly’s room after a minute, and chuckled seeing Lilly tied up on her bed, and a gag in her mouth. She made a muffled yell for help and I laughed a little making her get mad crying.

“Hey Seffron, how are you?”

“Good, now you teach her well, you hear me?” She nodded smiling. I chuckled a little bit going to my bedroom and laying down.

“Seffron!” Pinkie appeared landing on me.

“Pinkie.” I growled lightly.

“Twilight wanted me to give you this list, and Dash wanted me to give you this letter about something. I’m not sure, but are you planning a party?!”

“No sadly, did you get filled in on what’s happen?”

“Yeah, real shame about the filly’s parents getting eaten. I’m glad you saved her, you’re always so nice. I’m glad you live in this world.” I kissed her. “Oh so yeah, it’s been two nights and almost two days.”

“You haven’t had any blood since Celestia came over.”

“Blood, oh yeah.” She giggled and I grabbed her sides a little making her smile. “Of course I still owe you for a lot of blood, then again who could think about blood at a time like this?!”

“Then you aren’t thirsty?”

“Oh I’m very thirsty, I was going to meet you at the train, but Fluttershy told me to wait till you got home.” Scales on my neck moved and she bit down smiling. She stopped after having her fill. She licked her lips and smiled. “How do you want payment?” She nuzzled my neck a little bit licking a bit of blood cleaning it.

“I’m tired right now, I didn’t sleep while I was away.”

“Oh come on.”

“Pinkie.”

“Alright, I do have a few parties to do, but once I come back I'll be giving you your payment.”

“Pinkie, you do realize that I never actually cared if you had sex with me, really find a stallion or a dozen, going by your appetite.”

“Why would I do that silly when I have you? Also I know things.” I paused. “I know more than you want me to, so if you don’t accept it from now on I'll tell every pony everything you don’t want out.” I stared at her a bit shocked. “You got me?” She said with a sexy voice grinning.

“Like what?”

“I suppose Trixie knows and it wouldn’t hurt to say, you’re the king of your world.” I stared at her. Talk about bad, not just bad, really bad. The kind of bad that you realize you’re screwed. “Of course I have no way to prove it, but you get the idea.”

“I have no idea what you’re talking about.”

“Me either.” She licked my cheek. “But the future me said that you would be scared if I said that. So there it is.” She smiled making me nervous. She knew what it meant fully, and she could use it against me. I couldn’t actually touch her, she could teleport and I wouldn’t be able to stop her in time. Killing her wasn’t a choice either, she was simply impossible.

“Then you know I can’t let you leave.”

“I know.” She nuzzled into my neck kissing, and I sighed.

“But I’m tired.” I whined a little bit.

“I know, you won’t have to do anything.”

“Fine.” I flipped her over and I went for five minutes with her, making her become satisfied enough, at least for now.

“Thank you my blue dragon.” I snapped my claws cleaning up. She disappeared making me lay down, feeling more mentally tired than I had for a long time. I fell asleep and woke up to the day light. I looked at Trixie next to me crying lightly.