“Seffron, you there?” I paused looking at Applejack sitting across me on a sofa. She had been talking to me for a while now, and I just zoned out. She was talking about Apple-bloom and then it went somewhere else.

“Sorry I zoned out.”

“Are you tired?”

“I’m looking forward to my next meal.” I took a drink of dragon bane and looked at her eyeing me. “I sent in a request to have a large gem moved from the dragon breeding ground for me to eat it.”

“That’s nice.”

“Should be ready shortly.”

“Then you should go and eat.”

“I will once it arrives, now what were you saying?”

“Short version, Apple-bloom tried to kill herself, need you to dull her like with Scootaloo and make her forget. I have her waiting in the car with Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo. Please I need help.”

“Sure, bring her inside and I'll do it.” She got up going out of my house and bringing in Apple-bloom. She was tied up, Applejack set her on the sofa. She looked at me for a moment and then went outside closing the door. “Odd.” I snapped my claws making her ropes and gag disappear.

“What are you going to do to me?” She asked and I eyed her for a few seconds making her shutter.

“What did your sister tell you?”

“Erase my memory, but my life isn’t worth living without Ranchy.” She looked down and I leaned back relaxing. This wasn’t worth much of my time, but it would make Applejack happy.

“Then kill yourself.” I blinked entering her mind. I pulled out a knife and toss it to her hooves. She stared at it for a few seconds and then looked at me. She picked it up and felt it, it was sharp.

“What’s the catch? Why would you just let me kill myself?”

“I don’t waste my time on the dead, if you want to die, you’re dead already, just make it official so I don’t waste my time on you.” She stared at the knife and I sighed getting up and taking it from her.

“What are you doing?” She asked not moving to stop me and I moved the knife to her neck making her pause nervous.

“I told you, I don’t waste my time on the dead.” I slit her throat sending blood across my table. She gasped grabbing her throat bleeding out. I sat back down and she started to panic as I took a sip of my drink. “What’s wrong, don’t like dying?” She started feeling her throat as we left her mind. She started to panic a little.

“What was that? Where’s the blood?” She looked around.

“Mind trick, of course I wouldn’t cut your throat for real.” She started to breathe a little bit faster. “But that doesn’t mean I won’t make it feel real. I’m going to make you realize, that dying sucks.”

“You don’t have the right!”

“Doesn’t matter if I do or not.” I grinned scaring her. “The fun fact is I can, and even if you die, I can bring you back. So no matter what you do, I'll get you.” We went into her mind again and I spun the dagger on my claw tip making her get up and run to the side, only to end up running head first into my chest. I grabbed her crushing her bones.

“Wait please don’t!” She screamed and I kissed her making her bones go back into place repairing.

“It’s a trick, I’m not actually hurting you.” She paused realizing that she wasn’t feeling any pain. “Of course that doesn’t mean you won’t think you feel it. I’m going to have so much fun with you.”

“No.” I let the knife disappear and the stabbed her back with my claws, I pulled her closer to me.

“What’s wrong, that doesn’t hurt.” Tears went down her face.

“Stop.”

“This does.” I reach in through her back and grabbing her lungs choking her. “Not actually hurt. You can breathe just fine.” She bit my shoulder and I bit hers digging in deeply with my teeth making her scream. “What’s wrong?” I asked as she appeared back in my living room, tears running down her face.

“No more please.” She begged, then looked away. I entered her mind again and I got up going over to her, pinning her down to the sofa.

“Tell me you want to die.”

“I don’t want to live, but stop hurting me!” I grabbed her throat choking her.

“The dead don’t feel anything, are you dead?” I snapped her neck and I left her mind, she started to hyperventilate scared. “Just how much will it take to bring you back from the dead, I want Applejack’s little sister back.”

“No.” She closed her eyes.

“Open your eyes.”

“No.” I entered her mind again, it didn’t matter if I could see her, if I went into her mind even once I owned that pony. They would never be able to stop me from not walking right in and doing whatever I wanted. I went over to her pinning her down making her look at me, but she kept her eyes close.

“Tell, what was your first memory of him?” Images appeared around us.

“I’m not going to.” Her memories cracked and she paused. “Why can’t I remember?” She looked at me as I pulled out a knife. “No!”

“Tell me every happy moment with him.” She looked around as memories appeared around us, and they shattered. She stared at me confused. “Every good feeling toward him and every last hope of loving him.” Colors and memories appeared around us, only to shatter a few seconds later.

“Thank you.” She said wiping her eyes. “Thank you for saving me.” She smiled, she wasn’t lying. I had made Ranchy a monster to her, only remembering the bad moments of him hurting her.

“Dull.” She gave a warm smile as her pain and suffering became less and less till she didn’t even notice it.

“Seffron, why are you on top of me?” I snapped my claws and we left her mind. I drank some of my dragon bane and she looked at me.

“Still want to die?”

“No, I can’t believe I ever loved such a monster.” She looked away. When you only know the bad of another, that’s all that’s left, a monster. “But, why did you have to hurt me? I wanted to die, not be in pain.” Tears ran down her face.

“Apple-bloom, you still want to die, so till I bring you back to the plain of the living, I’m going to torture you till you’re so happy to be alive, that you’ll make Pinkie look like a dim candle compared to you.” She gasped as I went into her mind.

Time and time again I did things to her, her screams and pain and suffering were only in her head, but the second we came out I went back inside again. A few minutes passed and I stopped, having killed her in her mind a few thousand times.

“No more.” She said rolling up in a ball when I stopped for a few seconds. “I'll do anything, just stop.” I set my cup of dragon bane to the side empty.

“Anything?”

“Yes.”

“Come to me.” She didn’t move and went into her mind killing her again and she got up leaping over the sofa, I caught her hugging her. She was nice and warm. “Good.” I rubbed her back making pleasure wash through her and she cringed a little at it.

“What was that?” She asked looking at me.

“The good thing about being alive.” I flooded her emotions with positive ones drowning out the bad and she lay her head on my shoulder. Unlike with Scootaloo, love was mixed in so cleansing it was much harder than just augmenting emotions.

“Why’d you stop?” She asked looking at me. I kissed her head.

“You should go to Applejack and talk to her, you had her worried.” She got off of me and went outside. Applejack came inside a few minutes later and I relaxed.

“You tortured her?” She asked keeping her tone flat.

“Curing something like that isn’t easy, you wanted her to be happy to be alive, and she is now. You wanted her not to kill herself, and now she won’t.”

“I didn’t want it done like that, there’s something off about you lately, first you start killing, and now you torture, what’s up?”

“I’ve always been like this, and maybe you should come here.”

“Excuse me?” She said frowning. I snapped my claws making her float over to me and I kissed her dragon soul gem making her relax. “Let me go!” I pinned her down onto the sofa and licked the gem again making her stop fighting me enjoying the feeling.

“Tell me you love what I did.” I licked it again and she shivered a little.

“I love what you did.” I kissed her, then went to her ear.

“Good.” I whispered and she paused.

“Wait I didn’t mean that.”

“I know.” I kissed her neck making her smile.

“Please stop.” I licked the gem again and she smiled as good feelings washed through her. “Please.” I sucked on it a little and she moaned making me grin and she looked at me with begging eyes.

“Fine, but you owe me.” I moved her so she was on top of me. She kissed me and I pulled her close to me feeling her warm body against mine.

“No I need to be mad at you.”

“Do you?”

“No.” She laid down and kissed my chest. I scratched her back and she smiled nuzzling me. “I guess it’s fine, I wish you would have done it softer.” I kissed her head.

“It wouldn’t work without the torture, you need to shave off a few layers to be able to get past the armor of a pony. I made her want to be alive, that was the only way possible, or at least that I can do without hurting her.”

“Oh.” A knocked at the door made us both look.

“Come in!” I called and a soldier pony came in.

“Commander your gem is here.” I grinned.

“Thank you, I'll be there shortly.” He nodded leaving and I looked at Applejack. “I have dinner waiting for me, do you mind me going?”

“Sure.” She got off of me and I got up stretching. “So you have anything planned till the lich?” I looked at her.

“Just going to sleep, and ready myself.”

“Alright.” I walked outside and flew into the air going to the spot in the Everfree forest far from Ponyville. I smiled seeing four large dragons in armor, they were blue, green, red and brown in color. I changed form to my real form being easily four times as large as them making them back up showing a large gem about the size of my belly.

“Well, that is a nice stone.” They relaxed a little as I picked it up with one hand and swallowed it whole. It fit my belly nicely, but melted in less than a minute. I licked my lips and they looked at me.

“Is that all?” The blue one asked and I chuckled making a sound barrier around us without them noticing.

“I don’t know what you mean, I haven’t started my meal yet.” They looked around confused, but the brown one understood and tried to fly away. I grabbed his tail and pulled him to me, cleaving off his wings with a swipe. I then grabbed his back holding him.

“RUN!” The blue one shouted and I licked my claw as their wings fell off making them all roar in agony falling to the ground. I bit off the brown one’s head off and spit it to the side crushing a tree.

“Oh please, I had the greatest generals of the dragon king’s army come here, you don’t think I would honestly let you live did you?” They tried running but hit my shield which was hiding us. I pulled gutting him nicely. I blew fire onto the brown dragon’s body cooking it clean through.

“No please!” The green one shouted as I bit into the brown one eating his bones and everything. “We had no choice!” I finished with the brown one and licked my lips wanting more and they huddled together scared.

“You could have just let him kill you.” I grabbed the blue one and he blew fire at me making me grin and tears went down his face, I bit off his head spitting it to the side. I cooked him, gutted him and then ate his body.

“No.” The red one begged and I sniffed the air, it was a female.

“Come now, it won’t hurt. I’ve had my head bitten off before, it only hurts for a moment before you fade.” I grabbed the green one and he scratched at me, but it only tickled making me chuckle a little. I bit off his head and spit it out crushing another tree. I did the same as the other two and the red one rolled up in a ball crying.

“Please no.” I picked her up pausing, I was pretty full, and digesting the others would take a little while. She looked at me shaking and I licked her from her belly to her neck. I didn’t partially like eating females, always gave me heart burn for some reason.

“Why should I spare your life?” I asked sitting down. “I’m still hungry.” She swallowed and I gripped her making her yell in pain as bones were crushed easily. “I want an answer before I tenderize you.” Tears ran down her face.

“I’m fertile.” I paused.

“What?”

“I’m fertile, I can bare your offspring.” I thought for a moment healing her bones and her wings. “Please I can, I’m earlier than normal, but I’m young, I can do it.”

“That’s why you smell so good, I was saving you last as a treat, but that makes plenty more sense now, but that’s hardly a reason.” I went to bite off her head.

“I have nothing else!” I stopped with her head in my mouth. “Please,” she cried. “I have nothing else left to offer you, I want to keep my life.” I pulled her out and licked her making her take in a scattered breath. She was very much fertile, but that was odd, she was out of sync with the rest of the female dragons. It should have been at least another few decades before she should be ready for breeding.

“Fine, if you bring me a male dragon within three hours to slate my hunger, I'll spare you and take your offer to mate with you. I’ve never had offspring before and it might be interesting to see.” She gulped. I craved a seal into her chest and she gritted her teeth. It healed leaving a scar.

“What is that?”

“A seal, I can teleport you back to me at any point in time. You’re now mine, you have three hours.” I set her down. “Touch your scar with an open hand while touching the dragon, and you’ll teleport back to me. Don’t try to tell anyone either, it’ll teleport you back at even the mention of this to another. I'll teleport you back to me at three hours, so you better hurry and find me my meal.”

“I will!” She took off quickly and I laid down picking up the green one’s head.

“Hello mister overlord,” I made the head say. “How was your day today?”

“Pretty good green dragon head. I had a very good gem and three dragons.” I picked up the brown dragon head.

“Hey brown dragon head.” The green head said. I chuckled playing around and then tossed them getting bored after an hour laying down.

“Maybe I should have just ate her.” I grumbled. “Or three hours was just too long.” I rolled around crushing dozens of trees bored. I now had energy and I was crazy bored, I could rarely stay still for long after eating, and a real meal lasted me a good decade or two before I needed to eat real food again.

The second hour passed and I stared at the sky moving clouds around with my magic so I didn’t have to fly. The turned over after a while, then started digging and putting all three heads into it burying them with the entrails. I snapped my claws repairing the forest and I sighed laying down crushing a few of them again.

“Yes!” I turned seeing the red dragon and a male purple dragon twice her size, about half my size.

“Is this the, problem you had?” He asked staring and then swallowed as I got up smiling at him.

“Yes, he’ll eat me, please I'll do anything if you can stop him.” I licked my lips.

“Oh you got me a nice one with plenty of meat didn’t you?” She stepped back scared and he growled at me, then jumped and I caught him easily.

“Oh please.” I growled snapping his neck with my claw. I bit off his head and spit it out of my mouth, cooked him and then gutted him nicely eating his body and becoming nice and full. I laid down and grabbed the red dragon pulling her to me.

“Wait please I brought you food!” I licked her smearing blood on her making her whimper crying.

“I know, and I wasn’t lying. You brought me a big one, so I’m full to the brim, I won’t eat you, but I will mate with you.” I changed to my normal Celestia tall form and cracked my neck skunking her down and she fell onto the palm of my hand.

“What?! What?!” She asked as I pulled out a bottle and slid her inside capping the bottle with lid with holes. She was a rarity even among dragons, if I sold her or traded her, almost every male dragon would want her.

“What you didn’t think I would just let you go did you? I’m going to mate with you soon enough, but not here.”

I looked at her and she hit the wall turning over onto her back. I grinned and she whimpered, dragon females were meant to be dominated by males, so it was a good thing to scare them, made them accept mating more readily.

“So you’re saving me?”

“Basically, I’m going to have some fun with you, I never had a chance to mate over my life time. My old world dragons got wiped out for the most part, and the few remaining females were used to breed more dragons. I never wanted to touch them, they were disgusting whores that were used day in and day out.”

“No one?”

“My own sister also refused me as well, she was probably the only suitable one for me at the time, she’s still, hmmm, I don’t know she could’ve been released by now. Either way it doesn’t matter.”

I flew into the sky and landed back at my house. I went up to my library and books lined the walls. I went over to a bookshelf and moved a book pressing my claw to a seal and the bookshelf went down. I went behind it and it closed behind me, as I walked into a stone room with a single stone bed with sheets.

“I don’t understand?” She asked looking at me. I set her on a shelf, then set a glass box around her freezing her in time. I would enjoy her later, it would be pointless to use her now. I would wait till after the Lich. I wouldn’t chance making something related to me by blood just yet.