Nightmare Night update and new story from AJA · 1:19am Jul 3rd, 2019
The next chapter of Nightmare Night now stands at 6500 words, with four completed sections and two half-finished ones. The latter, to little surprise, are the CMC scenes. They were coming along agonizingly slowly until I found the proper angle for them. Like Rarity, they needed proper treatment that respected their characters and even let them shine. Is that possible here? Based on what I came up with, yes! But no spoilers there.
I will, however, give the intro to the chapter as a teaser. Some of you asked how Eclipse captured and converted Zecora? This chapter will show it as a prelude:
The interior of Zecora’s home was a mess of knocked-over furniture, shattered vials, and broken barriers, both physical and magical. And yet, the home’s owner continued to resist despite her near-exhaustion, struggling to stay on her hooves and keep her foe’s magical constructs at bay behind a hastily erected shield that was slowly crumbling around her, assaulted from magic above and below.
“Give up, Zecora,” an unwinded Eclipse advised with a smug tone and grin, having deftly turned all of the zebra mare’s alchemic efforts to restrain or capture her aside, now focusing on her final defense, battering it down. “You can’t win. And I promise that losing will be so much more fun.”
“No!” Zecora shook, but stayed on her hooves, trying desperately to ignore her own arousal and increasing desire to just give in, a product of both a corrupted Twilight’s spellcasting and the incredibly alluring pheromones she was constantly pumping into the air. “It is clear to me, Twilight, that you are not well! This curse upon you, I must now dispel!” With that, she tossed another vial at Eclipse’s hooves, knowing its coating rendered it impossible to be magically grabbed or levitated.
Eclipse didn’t try, allowing it to shatter at her hooves. Cleansing bluish flames instantly erupted from the broken flask and consumed its quarry briefly. But the fire was extinguished by a single magical flare, and the former Twilight emerged from its fading smoke, completely unaffected. “It’s Eclipse!” she automatically corrected. “Your new Queen and the future ruler of all Equestria! And what you call ‘curse’, I call a simple act of evolution! It hasn’t consumed me, my old friend—it set me free! And shortly you as well…”she created a phallic shape from her aura and licked it meaningfully, her slitted eyes locked with Zecora’s the whole time.
Despite her fatigue and fear, Zecora couldn’t help but blush, her zebra marehood winking hard behind her as her mind immediately dredged up fantasies of Twilight’s construct filling her. “Such insidious evil has made you impure! But I swear on all holy, I will yet find the cure!” she proclaimed as she reinforced her defenses with a powder thrown into the air, briefly illuminating.
But Eclipse only laughed as she continued her advance on the other mare. “Sorry, Zecora, but I’m not interested in a cure! And in a few minutes, neither will you!”
That is not the end of the section, but only the very beginning. I estimate it's going to be an 8-9k word chapter when all is said and done, and I'm now aiming for a weekend release or sooner. Prereaders, stand by... unlike other chapters, I'm not sending this one out for comment until it's a completed draft!
Also, I'd like to announce that AJ_Aficionado has launched another clopfic called Fertile Ground: Earthmother.
Set as a sequel to his popular fetish fic Fertile Ground but not requiring that the original be read, it's an M-rated earth pony/batpony story that explores thestral coming-of-age and dating/mating culture through the eyes of a total stranger to it. If you've enjoyed the Highborne/Nightborne thestral lore I've been using in earlier chapters, AJA is the source of it. I drew almost entirely on his canon for the bat-pony races, which he expands on even further here.
So if you like the character of Roseluck and you're interested in hearing more of how the thestrals live and love, give this story a look! Edited by me and the rest of my prereading team, it has my stamp of approval, and you may yet see some more of his ideas and concepts for the thestrals not just in this story, but in the Firefly series as well!
Available at the top his story page: https://www.fimfiction.net/user/196773/AJ+Aficionado/stories
I'm sorry to inform whoever shows up at this blog late that Fertile Ground: Earthmother has been taken down off the site. Sorry.