> Lamia and the potter mare
>  by THEJamiboi
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> Encounter
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Lemon Glaze stared at the entrance to the foreboding Everfree forest, outside of her home town Ponyville. Just looking at the entrance caused her bright yellow fur to stand on end in fear, this place was not natural. She brushed her light blue mane nervously, her light purple eyes darting around. Lemon Glaze worked as a pot maker and her reason for entering the forest was for a certain flower that grew within, an ethereal lilac, said to be able to make a very beautiful shade of violet to most things, she intend to make a glaze out of some. Theory suggested it didn’t grow too deep within the forest so it should be safe... at least that’s what she told herself. Lemon Glaze took a deep breath steeling her nerves and began walking purposefully forward, sticking to the path, within five minutes the entrance was out of view and Lemon’s bravery was fading with every step.

A strange light brown stallion was nestled within the branches overlooking the path. The strong scent of lemon perfume had led him to find a blond mare walking within the Everfree. The stallion brushed his ragged short green mane out of his purple eyes to see the mare properly, she was actually quite pretty the colour of bright ripe lemons, and the way her mane fell down the left side seemingly natural was amazing. The stallion blinked
“Focus Pine!” Pine mumbled to himself 
“I could sure use some... company for winter.” Pine thought grinning.

“Let’s see if I can’t ‘help’ this mare she looks like she’d get easily lost off the path, what a shame it’d be if she ran into a less than friendly creature of the Everfree.” Pine mumbled smirking as a large serpentine tail wrapped around a branch above Pine, the tail led around the tree blending in with its light brown scales and green belly, the tail ending into Pine himself. A Lamia, a half pony half snake creature, had set his slitted eyes on poor Lemon. Pine snapped the branch his tail had wrapped around waited a few seconds then began pushing the leaves around, hidden from view, making it seem like a beast was approaching the poor mare before stopping suddenly, and waiting for the pony to bolt. Ponies are always so jumpy.

Lemon’s heart raced as the tranquil silence of the Everfree was shattered. Taking a hard gulp of air, the yellow mare stood still apprehensively, before taking another step. She knew she probably should have just galloped out but she really wanted this new glaze.
“At the next sign of danger I’ll run!” Lemon told herself but no sooner had she thought that the tree next to her began to shake. Lemon’s eyes darted around the foliage and her ears pivoted, her entire being on high alert.

Pine raised his eyebrows, so this pony wasn’t as skittish was she? Well alright then time for plan B. Pine climbed higher up the trees before switching, to ensure he was completely hidden from the alert mare below, using his long serpentine tail to do so until he was behind the stranger, who was still staring at where he’d last been. Pine grinned sliding silently up to the mare until he was almost side by side with her, staring in the same direction
“What are we looking at?” Pine suddenly asked.

Lemon jumped into the air with surprise letting of an adorable
“EEP!” Lemon jerked her head in the direction of the mysterious voice, finding, in her opinion, a somewhat handsome stallion. Lemon blinked before rolling her eyes in relief
“Oh thank Celestia another pony, maybe you can help...me...” Lemon’s voice sunk as her eyes flowed to the stallion’s peculiar rear-end, where it erupted into a torrent of brown scales with a green belly
“On second thought, I’ll just be leaving.” Lemon said nervously turning away. Forget the flower this was too much for Lemon, all that was on her mind was galloping right out of this forsaken forest!

“Where do you think you’re going?” Pine asked calmly wrapping his tail around the mare’s rear hooves and pinning them together. The poor mare was still moving causing her to fall flat on her face, this allowed Pine to easily drag her slowly back towards him
“You’ve invaded my home... I don’t like trespassers” Pine whispered coldly.

Lemon groaned softly after tripping and hitting the ground so roughly and futilely pawed at the ground, as the mysterious creature dragger her across the cool ground towards him
“I’m sorry!” she yelled panic rising in her chest “I was just looking for a flower, I didn’t know anypony lived here! Please don’t eat me!” Lemon begged.

Pine smirked 
“It’s always cute when they beg for their lives,” Pine thought pulling the mare over his head “You know what, I feel like playing with my food to work up an appetite!”  Pine thought “What flower were you looking for exactly?” Pine asked “I might consider helping you.” Pine flexed his tail slightly, he was enjoying holding the pony in such a helpless position.

“Uuh...” Cold sweat broke out on Lemon’s brow as she struggled to form words
“...The...The Ether Violet. This book I read said that they grow here in this forest. I...if you help me find it, I’ll leave and never come back...” Lemon held her breath worried that this might somehow offend the stallion.

Another one? Fourth pony that had come after this particular flower, it must work on everything from what he knew, who even made it up? Still it kept bringing ponies to Pine so no complaints from him, but he had yet to find this ‘Ether Violet’ but the mare didn’t need to know that detail
“Hmmm... Well they aren’t particularly easy to find but... I know a tunnel that leads into a small valley that, generally, only Pegasi could get into. The place is full of all different flowers I’m sure a little searching will yield an Ether Violet. I can show you the way since the tunnel there is pitch black and ponies aren’t very good at seeing in the dark.” Pine said, during all this he slowly lowered the mare back onto her hooves.

Lemon was a little uneasy about the whole situation, this snake-pony thing was intimidating, but she felt if he’d wanted to kill her he’d have done so already
“O-okay sure...” Lemon said, as her eyes danced across this lamia’s sinuous form
“Do you have a name?” she asked, admiring how light danced across his scales and noticing how smooth and cool the scaly tail around her hind legs had been now she wasn’t in impending danger
“Oh I’m Pine Wood, two words, and you are?” Pine asked gesturing with a hoof
“I’m Lemon Glaze,” Lemon said with a slight polite nod “I make ceramics in the town nearby. It’s the big reason I need this flower. It’s a pleasure Mr. Wood.” Lemon said politely, relaxing slightly this Pine Wood fellow seemed alright, except for the gigantic snake tail
“So shall we?” she asked.

“Sure follow me... And please don’t call me Mr. Wood, makes me feel old” Pine said light heartedly trying to mask the blush on his face, she was polite. Pine led Lemon through the Everfree using various dirt paths that ended randomly or simply stopped following them breaking away and finding a new path, like a labyrinth. Eventually the pair reached a large cliff face, Pine slid up to the wall where the bushes had started creeping up the rock wall and pulled back the foliage revealing a dark tunnel that slopped at the start at a dangerous angle
“Okay we’re here,” Pine said obviously and turned holding out his hoof to Lemon “I’m going to have to lead you through here, since you can’t see.” He said.

As Lemon walked, she couldn’t tear her eyes of Pine’s swerving form. It seemed to dance as he slithered alongside her. It wasn’t until Pine asked his question and held out his hoof (Which made her think of a noble knight helping a fallen lady in a story book) that Lemon’s trance was broken
“Huh? Oh sure. Just go slow, you move pretty fast, Pine.” Lemon said as she hooked her hoof with Pine’s and the pair set off down the tunnel.

He was imagining it no way she was... was staring at him like that 
“Don’t get attached to a meal, it only hurts in the end!” Pine thought which left him distracted enough that, on the downward slope, he tumbled whilst helping Lemon balance so she could get down easier. The pair rolled down the slope together and Lemon ended up lying on top of Pine nose to nose causing Pine to blush.

It was a flurry of scales and muscle that caught Lemon in a tumble down the dark hole. The slope was gentle, but moist and slipper, preventing her from gaining a grip until it levelled out at the very end. The tunnel was dark, and Pine’s massive serpentine body made things even closer than Lemon was comfortable with
“Huh I didn’t know a snake could trip.” Lemon said smiling slightly looking into Pine’s purple eyes, that were similar to her own but with slits and a darker shade of purple, the only thing visible in the deep darkness. She gently pushed Pine away, thank Celestia only his pony half fell on her, she doubted she could move her guide’s massive coils even if she wanted too.

“I didn’t know we could either.” Pine replied to Lemon’s comment before hooking his hoof back around Lemon’s and led her further, heart racing. She smelled just like her name sake, like fresh cut lemons, Pine shook his head refusing to get distracted again
“Just hypnotise her now, she wouldn’t be able to see anything but my eyes... JUST DO IT!” Pine thought but he didn’t even turn his head 
“Let her have one last look at sunshine before I feast.” Pine thought as the pair began to ascend. Bright light shined down like a spotlight on Pine and Lemon, as Pine helped Lemon reach the exit following behind her. The valley was almost a perfect circle, with the end within a good galloping distance, but still fairly large. Unlike the Everfree it had much lighter green grass and less dense trees so light could get through. Regular woodland creatures had taken shelter here and a few skittered away at the sight of the pony and Lamia. The grass was decorated with various coloured flowers, letting off a very strong scent that often made Pine have to breathe through his nose since his tongue was more sensitive to the scents on the air, though he could still find prey it was just a little awkward doing so
“Here we are... What do you think of my home?” Pine asked.

Lemon’s eyes lit up at the sight of the beautiful valley. It existed in pristine isolation, an oasis in the harsh forest waiting outside. She took a deep breath, letting the gentle scents waft in her nostrils, her earth pony instinct revelling in such vibrant nature
“Pine it’s beautiful, you live here? It seems uncharacteristic of a monster, though I’m beginning to think such a name ill-suits you,” Lemon said turning to her guide and smiling
“My mother always told me to never judge a book by its cover, and I suppose that applies to ponies as well, even if they are giant half-snake creatures” Lemon’s eyes once more drifted to the distance
“So you said Ether Violets grew here? Not surprising, seeing as how many other flowers bloom here. Well, you lead, I’ll follow.”

She didn’t think he was a monster, Pine sighed a soft smile spreading across his face
“Yes I live here. Anyway, follow me we’ll have a look around,” Pine said inwardly thinking 
“Hypnotise her, she’ll enjoy it... whether she wants too or not.” Pine tapped his hooves on the ground
“Hey Lemon... Mind if I show you something else first, please?” Pine asked “It shouldn’t take too long but I think you’ll like it.” Pine smiled a mischievous glint in his eyes.

Lemon’s curiosity was piqued, there were even more wonders in store here? She momentarily forgot about the flower wondering what they could possibly be
“Sure, what is it? Is it some sort of pretty flower or cute animal, Pine?” she asked. Of course she didn’t mind a delay, the place was nice and Pine was even a little cute, the way his pony half pawed at the ground.

Pine turned to face Lemon
“It’s not a flower I want to show you... It’s my eyes.” He said with a soft smile. Pine’s eyes had lit up with colourful pulsing rings of light that blocked out his original eye colour. They spread across his eyes before changing; following no patter or matching in either eye. The colours drew Lemon in wrapping around her mind like a mental blanket, as Lemon fell deeper Pine began to coil his tail around her causing Lemon to sit down to get into a more comfortable position as she was coiled up.

“Oh, what a pretty trick,” Lemon said as she was captivated by the amazing display “How are you doing it?” she added as she looked deeper, completely oblivious to their enchanting power, with each successive ring, Lemon felt herself get drawn in deeper and deeper into a relaxed state. Her pupils began to dilate and Pine’s colours began to reflect in her own eyes, she felt like she should be scared, but the touch of Pine’s smooth, muscular tail around her soft flank caused all of her worries to melt away. She sat down without resistance and sighed with content as she felt his tail curl around her belly.

Pine continued to wrap his tail high up Lemon’s body, securing her from fleeing, if she managed to look away. It was so cute to watch ponies subconsciously try to resist and then want to keep watching until they fell asleep
“Oh all Lamia’s can do it, I believe you call it hypnosis,” Pine answered Lemon’s question grinning “The ability to control what a pony does, thinks and feels,” Pine’s tail reached the base of Lemon’s neck “And you’re under my spell now, cutie.” He whispered letting the spirals speed up.

Pine held Lemon’s head up so she wouldn’t have to put the effort in herself, further helping her to relax
“Isn’t it painful and tiring to keep resisting, wouldn’t you much rather stop resisting and relax?” Pine flexed his tail all along Lemon’s body as he said ‘relax’ Pine coiled the end of his tail gently around Lemon’s neck, no need to stop her from making the cute moaning sounds she was currently making, attempting to keep what little of her mind she had left
“Go on Lemon, let go and you’ll see... it’s amazing, pure bliss.” Pine dragged out the s’ in bliss darting his tongue against her nose.

“Ughn, hypnosis?” Lemon groaned, this was getting a little dangerous now, Lemon tried to move her front legs, only to realise that Pine had already looped a meaty coil around them, firmly securing her in place. The earth pony mare knew she had to look away, but... she couldn’t. The colours were utterly captivating, and the more and more she felt Pine’s tail engulf her, the more and more helpless she felt.

As Pine’s tail crept around her neck she felt completely at Pine’s mercy, but she struggled to stay awake. She wanted to keep looking, and Pine’s touch became more and more electrifying the more she fell into the trance, she relaxed her head and let it be supported by the soft, thick tail around her neck and Pine’s hooves, and she couldn’t help but smile when her captors exotic forked tongue flicked against her nose. She tried to say something in weak protest, but all that happened was that her mouth was left gaping in awe.

Pine chuckled softly, Lemon had pretty much given up the fight for her mind now, the last of her will used just to process what he’d said and reply, even if all she managed was a solitary word. Still she needed a little more; just to be one-hundred percent sure she was under... didn’t need her running off. When Lemon smiled though, just slightly, Pine felt the heart in his pony chest stop for a second. Momentarily panicking that he was going to die he smacked it with one hoof to make it start beating again, Pine blinked his eyes still spiralling, Lemon was now smiling non-stop, she must have surrendered her mind whilst Pine had that strange heart problem. Pine let his eyes stop spiralling and inspected his new prize cupping his hooves on both of Lemon’s cheeks, she looked so cute and helpless but happy about it, so innocent. Pine blinked shook his head and lowered his hoofs
“Well I don’t know about you Lemon but I’m feeling rather peckish, shall we have... somepony to eat?” Pine asked but his grin was forced.

Lemon was in pure bliss right now, deep in an all-encompassing trance. Pine’s coils were heaven on her fur, and each one of his words reverberated in her head. The Lamia encompassed her thoughts; she couldn’t stop thinking of his handsome face, his tickling tongue, his powerful coils and his enchanting eyes. Even though they lacked the colours they once had, her deep trance compelled her to still look into them dreamily
“A-anything you s-say, Pine.” Lemon said with a gentle moan, barley able to process his words, she didn’t even care anymore; all that ran through her mind was pleasing the new centre of her world.

Pine grinned; they were always so compliant once he showed them his view of things. Pine lifted Lemon off her hooves and into the air rising with her, he brought her close preparing for his next meal, Lemon smiled up at him as if there was nothing else she would rather do or be, than become a meal for Pine. She had such a beautiful smile, it would be a shame when it was gone. Pine opened his mouth and hovered over Lemon’s head, easily able to begin eating. A few seconds past and he pulled back, Pine blinked in bewilderment at not beginning to eat the mare then groaned, burying his head into Lemon’s mane which smelt amazing, if the flowers could be jealous of anything, it’d be this little mare’s scent.

He’d done it for the second time, fallen for a normal pony, last time he’d ended up being smacked with a branch, it had only left a bruise but it had shattered his heart and made him despise ponies. Yet here Pine was again, another mare totally helpless and smiling up at him with that gleam, as they thought of how he was the centre of their world. Pine let several coils fall, not enough to let Lemon go, but so she could move her front hooves again. Pine wrapped his hooves around Lemon and lowered them both to the ground, Pine let his eyes light up again as he thought of what to do. He rested his forehead against Lemon’s and let her scent wash over him causing Pine to smile softly, with his eyes pulsing any ideas he was thinking were, unintentionally, being sent to Lemon, all of them.

As Pine’s coils suddenly fell, Lemon began to feel the shock of cool air, but immediately fell back into her bliss when Pine wrapped his forelegs around her. She meekly tried to return the favour, but her trance prevented her from doing little more than cupping Pine’s torso. Her dulled mind experience a brief moment of electricity when Pine began to hypnotise her more. She fell even deeper into the trance, even deeper under his power. The Lamia’s warm, caring thoughts began to leak into Lemon’s mind through the hypnosis. Unable to think, she was experiencing Pine’s very soul, all that she knew was that he would command and she would obey... even forever... if Pine wanted her too. All that mattered was pleasing him, through his spell, his pleasure was her pleasure.

Pine blinked stopping the hypnosis realising how far he’d gone with it, generally little wisps of thoughts broke through the hypnosis and brought the pony back but Lemon didn’t have a single thought at the moment she was a total blank slate now
“Well there you go re-make her, she won’t leave you then!” Pine thought
“No, not like last time... I don’t want her to never think for herself.” Pine panicked then sighed, Lemon had let off a little thought, confusion as to why she was listening to Pine, but it was quickly squashed into a corner and trapped
“You’re okay.” Pine whispered, he hesitated then gently kissed her 
“Wow, wow, WOW! Oh my Celestia she tastes delicious!” Pine thought wrapping his hooves around Lemon and letting his tail fall away from her completely.

Pine took Lemon’s hoof and began leading her towards a large oak tree, when they were under the oak’s shadow Pine gathered his coils up into a massive pile and climbed on top pulling Lemon up with him. He pushed her down into a lying position and lay down beside her, his tail coiling over them both forcing them together. His cold blooded tail enjoying the warmth of the pony beside him
“Sweet dreams Lemon.” Pine whispered kissing her again.
> Developing friendship
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Lemon slept deeply after Pine’s kiss. In her sleep, her trance made her dream of Pine’s eyes and his coils as her brain tried to process everything she’d seen. The trance faded the longer she slept, but she still saw the images and memories that floated through her mind. The yellow mare’s eyes eventually fluttered open, completely free of the telltale colours that marked a trance. She awoke to see Pine’s face pressed against hers, his gentle breathing warm on her snout. She tried getting up, but instantly realised she was almost immobile. The Lamia’s tail was only loosely wrapped around the pair, but its sheer weight made struggling pointless. Lemon, however, didn’t mind. The coils were softer than the softest bed, and, subconsciously, Pine’s hypnosis made her mentally associate them with comfort.

As Lemon woke up more fully, she tried hard to remember what had happened. She remembered meeting Pine and him leading her to a secluded valley, and then he began to... hypnotise her? She remembered looking his eyes... and then it was all just a mixture of sound and feelings. What she could remember, though, was that it was one of the most amazing things she had ever felt
“Pine...” Lemon said softly.

Pine had been deeply asleep when Lemon first awoke; his nightmares had started out with the oldie of the first mare he’d fallen for and the reminder of the pain as she left him. Then light… he felt warmer as if being pulled out of a cold room or a fire being lit
“Pine…” somepony spoke Pine’s name so smoothly like the Hearths warming eve bells he liked listening too from the edge of the Everfree, it made Pine feel happy, a rare feeling to have in such a place… the stranger said his name again and was shaken awake.

Pine opened his eyes instantly alert and notice Lemon staring at him, doing her best to sit up under the weight of his coils. She was wide awake her eyes vacant of the hypnotic spirals so he could see her bright purple eyes again. Pine instantly checked her face, looking for signs of fear, yet she didn’t seem to be afraid. Lemon appeared to be extremely comfortable, if a bit trapped, within his coils and at peace with the situation
“Lemon… aren’t you scared?” Pine asked softly, his tail flexed nervously but had the effect of a massage on Lemon.

Lemon stared at Pine with a hint of concern in her eyes
“It’s… funny. Logically, I should be scared, but for some reason I’m not” she said then smiled and cooed warmly when she felt Pine’s tail gently press into her as he flexed it
“In fact,” Lemon said softly “Your company is kind of nice…” she focused her attention suddenly
“Though, do you mind explaining that stunt you pulled earlier?” she asked.

She wasn’t scared… She wasn’t scared! Pine couldn’t help but smile, then what she’d said at the end processed through Pine’s mind
“Oh, you mean the hypnosis; well it’s a relaxant using certain magically altered colours that pulse across my eyes. I’m not entirely sure how it works I just know it… it lets me… control… ponies,” Pine said guiltily managing a sheepish smile “So I tried it on you because… well…” Pine stroked his tail nervously letting the mare sit up whilst Pine attempted to speak. He turned away from Lemon and whispered
“I wanted to eat you at first.” He didn’t look back at Lemon expecting her to shout or demand he let her go; he would if she asked he couldn’t bring himself to hurt her anymore.

Lemon sheepishly sat up as the heavy coils slid off of her
“Eat me?” Lemon knew in her heart that she should run, get away from somepony so dangerous, but she was oddly calm. Something that scared even her
“Can you even do that?” she asked while looking at Pine’s normal stallion jaw and neck, it didn’t seem like something that could fit down
“Wait… at first? Why did you change your mind?” she asked before craning her head back and sniffing her fur “…Do I taste bad?” she asked genuinely worried.

Pine laughed
“You taste delicious,” Pine blushed realising what he’d said “S-sorry that sounds… um anyway yes I can eat you,” Pine leaned in close “Very easily,” he hissed softly then chuckled “Sorry just messing with you… as to why I didn’t, I don’t know.” Pine said 
“I am not blushing, I am not blushing!” Pine thought trying to ignore the heat in his cheeks.

Lemon couldn’t help but chuckled, Pine was so silly! Though, his hisses were strangely soothing. It was a little strange seeing a forked tongue come out of a pony’s mouth, and Lemon did her best not to stare
“So I taste good, huh? Well, thanks, but that still doesn’t answer my question,” she said half playfully, half seriously “What made you hold yourself?” she asked.

Pine tapped his hooves together nervously 
“You got yourself into this mess, get yourself out!” Pine thought taking a deep breath he said the next sentence as fast as his mouth would allow
“I think I have a crush on you!” immediately Pine cupped his hoofs thinking 
“Oh Celestia I’ve so screwed this up, so much!” Pine had turned deep red and stroked his tail nervously trying not to look directly at Lemon 
“And now we shall reopen that old wound.” Part of Pine’s mind said with false cheerfulness. Pine bowed his head and waited for Lemon’s response.

Lemons face flushed red
“Oh my… that’s… well…” she struggled to find words, on one hoof, she was flattered, on the other hoof, Pine was a giant half-snake monster. Yet... Lemon couldn’t say Pine was repulsive, quite the contrary, he was a little handsome, well, his pony half at least. She didn’t know if he had hypnotised her to be more accepting, or if this came from the heart, still, the way he made her feel while she was in a trance was almost… addicting. To be completely helpless in another pony’s power. Lemon gingerly trotted over and, with her hoof, took the very end of Pine’s tail and dragged it over her shoulders, gently stroking it as it hung like a necklace
“Well, you are defiantly something…” she said smiling “I’m willing to give this a shot, but, only if you promise not to eat me.”

Pine thought his heart was popping out of his chest, he had, somehow, managed not too completely screw this up. He blinked trying to process what Lemon said while she gently stroked the coil she’d put around her neck. Pine couldn’t help himself; he jumped forward wrapping his hooves around Lemon’s back and kissed her. She made a cute squeaking sound when he surprised her and darted his tongue into her open mouth wrapping up her own tongue with his. Pine’s face had probably changed from brown to red when he kissed her but he didn’t care. She was an amazing mare, like he’d eat her that’d be a waste at this point. He hoped that he was making that clear… Pine blinked finally getting his mind and body back in control and pulled away
“I-I’m so sorry I… um no I won’t eat you.” Pine smiled softly, whoops got carried away there.

Lemon was both flattered and a little off put when Pine suddenly threw himself at her, with how he was slobbering on her (Not literally), she half thought he was trying to eat her then and there
“Whoa, whoa, lovercolt,” Lemon said when Pine broke the embrace, a faint burning in her cheeks mimicking Pine’s “I said I’d give this a shot, not that I was suddenly ready to let you attack me.” Lemon tried her best to wipe the smile of her face; that forked tongue was far better than any regular stallion’s kiss “Just... let’s do this one step at a time,” Lemon said while unsuccessfully stifling a chuckle. Pine’s vigour was... refreshing
“I don’t even know why I’m saying this though, I mean, if you really wanted me, couldn’t you just hypnotise me into being madly in love with you?” she asked “I mean, with those coils, I’d probably have no chance of fighting back.” That final sentence made Lemon realise what a precarious position she was in, but yet, it was a little exciting.

Pine chuckled softly pulling his tail around, by extension pulling Lemon over and rested his forehead against hers
“Now where would the fun be in hypnotising you into liking me?” he asked... then frowned and sat down letting Lemon sit beside him
“You aren’t the first mare I’ve fallen for Lemon... and the hypnosis tactic was what I did too her... she eventually recovered and she ran feeling betrayed... broke my heart and I started eating ponies after that...” Pine looked at Lemon and managed a weak smile from somepony seeking forgiveness for things he couldn’t fix “Well until you turned up, and I’d be an idiot to trot down the same path,” Pine paused “Trot down the same path, I can’t even trot why’d I say that?” Pine pulled a funny confused face trying to figure out why he’d spoken that way
“Doesn’t matter... anyway what’s... the first step as you called it?” Pine asked, subconsciously flexing the coil still around Lemon’s neck. She was so cute making those relaxed little sighs, so much so Pine was making her make the sounds without noticing.

Lemon’s eyes instinctively locked with Pine’s when he pulled her in, even without hypnosis, they were very captivating, and their slitted nature gave them an air of an exotic nature
“Oh that’s so sad, but I suppose it would be natural, being forced to love somepony...” Lemon was disgusted, but somewhere deep down she found the idea thrilling. When Lemon felt Pine curl his tail around her neck too make a full loop, she felt a little scared, but then cooed and smiled when she felt it only pressing gently against her windpipe. The little stretches, the little movements, it made for a tantalizing massage, Lemon half though that was the lingering hypnosis speaking, but a part of her didn’t care. She continued stroking her scaly collar as she spoke
“Well, perhaps we can get to know each other better through a time honoured tradition...” Lemon suddenly leaped towards a length of Pine’s serpentine body that was upside down
“BELLY RUBS!” she squeaked as she dug her hooves into the Lamia’s smooth belly scales.

Pine felt static go through his spine for a second, he twitched and rolled over trying to avoid Lemon tickling him, but it didn’t move the part she was tickling. His whole tail twitched and he began pulling it towards himself, holding his belly inwards in a giant scaly shell. When Lemon approached attempting to tickle him more Pine pounced on her, a coil wrapped around her back hooves pinning them down and he held her front hooves with his own. Pine’s tail began tickling Lemon in her scaly shackles and she twitched around, the end of Pine’s tail tickled her belly and various coils rubbing against other ticklish body parts. Pine leaned down and licked under her right hoof slowly causing her to twitch
“You’re worse than me at this” Pine whispered, unintentionally letting off a few spirals in his eyes, from his enjoyment of the situation.

“Curses!” Lemon thought
“Well, duh, you’re a huge half-snake thingy,” Lemon said before giggling from Pine’s assault. She couldn’t stop grinning as Pine’s smooth tail traced figures on her belly, and the texture of the scales just made it even more tantalising
“Whoa,” Lemon yelped when Pine licked the base of her hoof, it was a very sensitive spot; she had never let anypony touch her there before. It was absolutely electrifying, and made her will to resist crumble. When Lemon began to see that Pine’s eyes were beginning to spiral, she instinctively looked deep into them, but it was a simple accident, it seemed. Still, that minor blast started to make her mind and body relax, and she let herself go limp under Pine’s physical torment, perfectly content to let him have his prize after she so foolishly challenged him.

Pine felt Lemon relax even though most ponies... or anything really, would tense whilst being tickled, he glanced at lemon
“Oh, I’m sorry,” he whispered her eyes were gone replaced by two lazily pulsing colours, Pine lightly tapped on Lemon until the spirals faded “I didn’t mean to do that sorry Lemon.” Pine said lowering them both to the floor but switching Pine’s hooves with another coil from his tail, holding Lemon up in front of him, Pine asked
“So what should we do now... Oh and this is in case you try tickling me again.” Pine said smiling mischievously; looping a few more coils around Lemon. The actual reason was that she was so warm, which always appeals to Lamia’s, being cold blooded.

Lemon’s mind reeled as Pine bonked the hypnosis out of her, she shook her head to fully wake herself up
“Huh...wha? Oh...no, no, it’s fine. It’s actually kinda pleasant, to be hypnotised like that...” Lemon said before she was hoisted up and had a few more meaty loops wrapped around her
“H-hey,” Lemon said, unable to stifle a blush “Can you... can you lick the underside of my hoof again? P-please?” she asked.

“That’s a strange request but... sure okay.” Pine raised himself up and slowly ran his forked tongue from Lemon’s right knee too her hoof. She tasted so sweet with a hint of lemon, like a cool drink with one on the side, her scent beat the flowers here hooves down. Pine flexed his tail enjoying the feeling of a pony within his coils. Pine kept licking the underside of Lemon’s hoofs sighing softly at her delicious taste, he was slightly surprised when he kissed it but smirked at Lemon as if he’d meant too, and switched hooves. The end of his tail tracing circles on Lemon’s other hoof that he’d just left.

Lemon moaned audibly, half from the sensation of Pine worshiping her hooves, and half from the constricting pressure of his coils forcing air out of her lungs. She was held tightly, but not uncomfortably so, Pine’s forked tongue was exotic and tantalising, far more dextrous than anything she had ever felt before. All the while, her body was kneaded by the powerful loops that bound her, letting the stress and worry of her life melt away into nothingness. The mare was putty in the Lamia’s hooves... err... coils
“Pine?” Lemon managed to whisper in between her coos “I know I said not to eat me, but can you swallow my hoof? Or, just one of my legs. Don’t go all the way, I just want to see what it looks like, because I’m... having... a hard time visualising it... yeah. Just as long as you can spit the limb out, when you’re done.” Lemon’s face was burning. What compelled her to be so forward with Pine?

Pine hardly hesitated, licking Lemon’s hooves had made his brain a little foggy, being in such close proximity to her and tasting her at the same time, he could hardly resist and she was giving him an open invitation. Granted it was only one leg and if he swallowed her leg it’d be pretty much imposable to swallow her properly but still, good substitute. Not to mention she’d see how it works, eating things whole.

Pine switched back to Lemon’s right hoof and moved his tail out of the way, holding it in both of his hooves. He kissed it and opened his mouth over the limb slowly, he didn’t really have to unhinge his jaw for this since it wasn’t her head, that and it might freak Lemon out to see that. Pine slowly worked his jaw up Lemon’s hoof to her knee, Pine stopped just short of her torso, where her leg rejoined, since he was unable to go further. Lemon’s hoof was partly down his throat now and the taste was intoxicating, he was breathing heavily through his nose, licking the top half of Lemon’s leg wrapping around it staring up at her, hungrily
“Don’t screw up!” his mind mumbled but he couldn’t deny she tasted... so good.

Lemon saw Pine slowly engulfing her into the warm, wet cavern of his throat, a noticeable bulge forming along his throat as he consumed more and more of her. It was warm, wet and felt like sheer heaven on her foreleg. She moved it around a little inside, but the tightness of Pine’s oesophagus restricted her movement. The yellow mare expected it to feel like rubber, but instead it just felt like tough, crushing muscle
“Alright,” Lemon said, her curiosity sated, as tempting as it was, there would be no turning back if Pine decided to swallow her whole “You can stop, thanks.” She said.

Pine pulled out Lemon’s hoof and shook breathing heavily, he looked at her and whispered
“Please... don’t ever make me do that again... you wouldn’t believe the temptation too...” Pine paused blinking and turned towards the way the pair had come in, another pony? No the scent was faint as if slightly masked or wasn’t letting much off and no pony would mask their scent since they didn’t know anything hunted by scent, so it had to be a creature of the Everfree. But the only creature that let off faint pony smell like that were other Lamia’s
“Oh no... Lemon we have to move now!” Where? The valley had one exit, Pine set Lemon down
“Follow me!” he said softly pulling her along by one hoof.

Pine’s head was beading with sweat, the temptation to turn and just eat Lemon was hurting, the taste of her was still in his mouth but it was slightly unsatisfied having not gone all the way down. Pine continued on until the pair reached the opposite side of the valley, a large clump of rocks forming a small cave, Pine pushed Lemon in despite her hesitation, then followed her within. Pine turned to the right of the entrance and pushed a boulder into place in the entrance. It would only move from the inside, but hopefully it’d hide their scent... but now Pine had locked himself in, effectively, a small room with a strong scented mare with no way for the scent to escape
“This isn’t good.” Pine whispered spreading his tail around like a mattress or carpet along the floor of the cave on one side. Whilst normally Pine could have recovered in open air, or if he hadn’t swallowed Lemon’s leg there’d be no problem but he had, and the temptation to eat Lemon was painful to ignore... Hopefully Lemon would stay on the other side while Pine thought of a way out of this mess.
> Forgive me
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Lemon was beginning to notice the strange look in Pine’s eyes causing her to become concerned. Their playtime had suddenly ended and now Pine was acting as if he’d seen a ghost
“Pine, what’s wrong? What’s going on?” she asked softly, unable to mask the worry and fear in her voice, something that could scare a predator of the Everfree had to be deadly.

“I-I think there’s another Lamia coming into the valley, following you scent...” Pine took a deep breath which was entirely made of Lemon’s scent now, he smiled eyes dropping and almost began to drool before he snapped back to normal “...whoever it is was following your scent, so I’ve tried hiding us in here, air can’t get in or out so it’s a good place to hide scents,” Pine noticed Lemon’s worried face “Don’t worry about running out of air, got them,” Pine nodded to a large clump of glowing purple trees reaching about knee high with Lemon, like a mini forest model that glowed. Pine’s breathing began to slow down and become much longer
“But now... after tasting your hoof, I’m so tempted to eat and... We’re stuck in the same room... so close and I don’t know if... I can resist...” Pine managed and lay down on his tail and looked up at Lemon “Why do you have to smell so good?” he grumbled, cursing the mare’s attractive scent.

“Another Lamia? There are more of you?” Lemon asked inquisitively, it seemed like this day was filled with constant surprises. Just one bad decision after another, but she mustered herself as a big mare; she got herself into this mess, she’d get herself out
“Also, what’s stopping you from, I don’t know, looking into a mirror and hypnotising yourself too not wanting to eat me?” she asked “You know, self hypnosis? Some ponies I know do it.” she said hoping that Pine could do so and then wait out the other Lamia pony.

Pine managed a scoff that sounded slightly painful
“Lamia’s are generally immune to hypnosis, fake Lamia’s can hypnotise each other because they’re closer to being ponies but a pure born Lamia, like me, can’t be hypnotised, plus your kind of hypnosis isn’t as good, you have to willing go under... Where’s the fun in that?” Pine asked still breathing in thick amounts of Lemon’s scent, he tried to focus on the questions to distract himself from the growing hunger in his stomach
“Y-yes more Lamia’s... not many live out here... badlands is... our native home but we’ve found ways too... s-sneak into Equestria...” it was getting hard to talk, Pine kept staring at Lemon and he gulped 
“Really did this have to happen?” Pine thought sadly.

“Pine, I don’t like how you’re looking at me...” Lemon said nervously starting to back away. The handsome Lamia was starting to look more and more predatory and less and less his silly self with each passing second. The yellow mare saw his tongue flick in and out frantically, she once heard that’s how serpents smell 
“...My smell? Could it be my lemon shampoo making him crazy?” Lemon thought as she frantically searched around the cave. Her eyes finally came to notice a small pool of water in one corner, which produced mud around the edges 
“Maybe I could kill the smell... or at least make it more easy for him to bare with it.” Lemon thought. However, it was on the other side of Pine’s serpentine body, the cave was narrow; there was little chance of going around. Lemon had to think up a bluff to distract him momentarily. Without warning, Lemon pointed to the wall behind the Lamia
“Pine, what’s that!?” she shouted faking fear, hoping to distract him for the crucial instant that she would need to leap over Pine’s long scaly tail.

Pine didn’t even glance over
“The wall.” He mumbled in a monotone voice and closed his eyes breathing deeply one last time before standing up
“I’m sorry,” Pine whispered sounding genuinely sorry “I’ve tried... I really have, Lemon... But I can’t stand it anymore.” Pine opened his eyes which were vacant of the twinkle of mischief and playfulness, they were cold and hard like a predators, which didn’t suit them “I’m hungry... And this is how nature works Lemon... forgive me.” He whispered approaching the mare.

“If you want I can hypnotise you, make this more enjoyable,” Pine’s voice had changed slightly, somepony alert could notice the dark tone in which he spoke but otherwise it was hidden. What wasn’t hidden were the tears running down his cheeks
“I’m sorry.” Pine whispered again preparing to strike.

“P-Pine...” Lemon began, her voice wavering “Remember... Remember when that mare left you? Remember how hurt you were when she betrayed you? I now know what you felt. I really hoped this would have worked, I still think it can... I can return later when you’ve cooled down, just... five seconds of control... that’s all you need. I’ll leave, you can hunt and I promise to return,” Lemon whispered. Though Lemon knew that if other Lamia’s were out there she’d be going out the frying pan and into the fire, but she wagered she had better chances out there than in here, at the moment
“Please Pine, please do it for me.” Lemon said, unable to stop thinking about her friends and family, to think her thrill seeking may mean they will never get to see her again, it was too much and Lemon began to cry.

Pine turned his head downward sadly then he breathed in Lemon’s scent again and Pine was gone, replaced once again by his inner beast and he tackled Lemon to the ground. Pine wrapped up her back hooves and pinned her front hooves against her body, more of Pine’s tail wrapped around Lemon’s body. She felt so soft and smelled delicious, Pine hugged Lemon burying his face into her mane and breathed in her scent directly, this was going to be delicious.

Pine stood them both up and spun Lemon around; she made such a cute little whimpering sound as she looked up at him. Pine kissed the back of her head then unhinged his jaw. Pine worked his mouth over the top of Lemon’s mane, working from where he’d kissed her. He covered her eyes so she couldn’t see anything. Pine lifted Lemon up as he swallowed her whole head; it felt so nice to have something going down his starving throat to his stomach. Gravity aided Pine in letting Lemon slip further down; he wrapped his tongue around Lemon’s chest tickling her belly. She wriggled a little which Pine enjoyed, he’d have smiled if he didn’t have half a mare sticking out his mouth.

Pine swallowed Lemon up to her hooves and licked the bottom of them, just like she’d enjoyed before. Pine didn’t even return to normal slightly, the taste of Lemon was dulling his mind, he let Lemon slide the rest of the way and closed his mouth sighing as Lemon entered his stomach the way in closing behind her, likely. Pine piled his coils up and rested the lump that was Lemon on them then lay next to it
“So how is it in there?” Pine asked his mind slowly clearing of the fog that had formed whilst he’d been feeding.

Pine’s agility was terrifying, in mere seconds, he’d wrapped her up and swallowed her whole. Lemon struggled as hard as she could at first, before realising it was pointless to fight such a powerful creature. She couldn’t believe it, her thrill seeking had spelled her doom, it was sobering, but it was too late. The incredible muscles of Pine’s oesophagus pressed in all around Lemon, forcing her deeper and deeper into the Lamia’s interior. She eventually came to rest in a somewhat less restricted chamber, Lemon began to weep; she couldn’t believe that this would be her final resting place. In her wailing, she prayed that the lack of air would do her in before the stomach acids melted her alive. Then Pine asked his question from outside
“What do you think!?” she yelled in response the anger apparent in her voice, she half wondered why she even humoured her murderer.

Pine frowned and flexed his tail, which worked as a massage on the interior as well
“Geez Lemon you’re acting as if I’ve sentence you to death or something, no need to be so mean you’ll be fine.” Pine stroked his own tail burping quietly and grinning at the lemony taste before his mind finished clearing and the normal Pine was back
“Huh, what happened?” Pine noticed the lump in his tail “Oh no, oh no, no, no!” Pine winced then spoke after a few seconds “Lemon...?” he asked.

The powerful muscles kneaded Lemon, massaging her in her hour of woe
“Fine? Last time I checked things died when they were eaten,” she yelled through Pine’s stomach, feeling the entire thing squeeze her and then contract. It was almost as if it was kissing her whole body. Then Lemon heard Pine talk to himself and freak out... then speak to her
“Pine... How could you?” Lemon asked “How could you give in and eat me, I-I don’t want to die!” Lemon said sobbing.

Pine winced, he’d eaten her. He’d caved in and EATEN HER!
“Lemon... I-I’m so sorry I didn’t mean too... you just smelled so good and I...” Pine took a deep breath before speaking as calmly and reassuringly as he could “I promise no harm will come to you Lemon, okay? I swear!” Pine tapped his hooves against his tail nervously “Let me give you a biology lesson on Lamia’s” Pine said hugging the lump crying softly, she was going to hate him. This was actually WORSE than the first mare right now!

Pine spoke softly and soothingly and hoped she believed him, it was truth what he said but she might not believe or want to hope she could get out
“Lemon, Lamia’s, as you know, have hypnosis the ability to relax any regular pony who looks within their eyes and control them. This isn’t the only trick we have, we have our tails as a physical weapon should we ever need it or we can use it to comfort a... friend,” Pine hesitated with the last word unsure whether Lemon would ever again even consider him that “But when we have a relationship Lamia’s sometimes eat a mate, since we’re so few in number if we digested them all, we’d die out so... we evolved I suppose you could say. We developed another stomach, like a storage tank you could say. It can’t break anything down, though if exposed to a bare pony it makes you feel tingly like pins and needles, it was evolved also to regurgitate mates without it tasting bad... so ironically it would taste as good going up as it went down... What I’m saying is you’re in my first stomach. If you feel around with your back legs you might feel a second closed passage that leads to the second then you know I’m speaking the truth.” Pine prayed for Lemon to still retain her reasoning.

“Hmph, eating mates, a likely story,” Lemon thought, but she felt around with her back hooves and touched against a soft passageway that was set into a small trench of sorts, like a tunnel that was blocked. The muscly ring actually felt quite nice on her hoof but she pulled away not wanting to accidently force her way into the second stomach and be burned. Though now she realised that, at the very least, she wouldn’t melt alive, she had to admit the stomach was actually not that bad. The walls pressed against her like a full body massage and the tingling sensation felt strangely... Lemon blushed refusing to go down that path and decided it was more a bubbly sensation like a warm Jacuzzi.

“I’m going to be sick.” Pine said to Lemon putting on a thickly false voice of illness. True enough though, the inside of his stomach began to contract and pushed forward against Lemon’s hooves until she was forced against the entrance ring to Pine’s first stomach. The ring leading up Pine’s oesophagus opened and Lemon was slowly forced back up. Pine placed his hooves on the ground, whilst it tasted like Lemon had on the way down, like he knew it would, it was still severely uncomfortable to spit out a pony as well as exhausting.

Pine unhinged his jaw in anticipation for Lemon, who, seconds later, popped up from his throat. Her head was forced out and Pine tilted his head down helping Lemon be spat out. She fell out landing on a pile of Pine’s coils, she rolled over taking deep breathes, having had too hold her breath since going up made breathing difficult for both participants
“I’m... Sorry Lemon... I tried not...” Pine sighed finally giving into exhaustion. Pine fell next to Lemon breathing heavily, having eaten and then quickly regurgitated Lemon back up had taken almost all his energy, he’d need a couple hours to recover... though within the cave the cold was seeping into his scales and he began to shiver in his sleep.

Lemon lay on the bed of coils, panting, tired and covered with saliva and stomach goo. She stared vacantly into space reflecting on how her choices had led up to this point, Lemon sighed
“I really need to get better taste in coltfriends,” she said under her breath before turning to the collapsed Pine. Lemon was beginning to have mixed feelings about him and yet... she gazed upon his sleeping face warmly. Even when snoring, he was cute, Lemon stroked his tail with her hoof then glanced towards the pool of water in the corner. She decided to wash off all the mess on her since it probably wouldn’t look good. A quick bath later and Lemon snuggled up in Pine’s coils. They were soft and cool and Lemon wagered that she could use a little nap too now.

As she snuggled in, she began to ponder, looking back on it, being swallowed wasn’t so bad, once she realised she wasn’t going to die horribly. The thought of having another go at it was both repulsive and exciting. Before she closed her eyes, she gave the nearest segment of Pine’s snake body a quick kiss, taking in its faint bitter taste. She mulled on it as she drifted into dreamland.
> Past mistakes
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Pine’s eyes fluttered open and he yawned, which for anypony who might look probably wasn’t a very handsome look since his jaw always unhinges whenever Pine yawns. He was still in the cave, good... oh wait he’d passed out that meant Lemon was still in here... probably cowering in the corner. Pine hugged the thick coil he was resting against, he was covered in her sweet scent but it no longer had the appeal as a meal, at least for the moment
“She smelt so nice.” Pine blinked when he felt hairs tickle his nose.

Lemon lay beside Pine and he was hugging her like a large teddy bear, she looked at peace and was even smiling in her sleep
“...Oh this is too good to pass up.” Pine leaned close and gently kissed the sleeping Lemon, she returned the kiss and Pine let his tongue enter Lemon’s mouth as it hung open smiling in her sleep
“Sweet dreams.” Lemon thought wrapping his tongue around Lemon’s. Lemon wrapped her front hooves around Pine and he mimicked her, she was such a cute shade of red in her sleep. It hurt Pine’s heart to know she’d leave him once she woke up 
“One last taste of your lips... one last feel of your warmth against my cold body and I’ll let you go without resistance.” Pine thought sadly, closing his eyes and tried to enjoy the kiss he was still locked into as much as he could.

Lemon’s eyes fluttered open slowly, awakening to the feeling of Pine’s slender tongue exploring her mouth. She was going to push him off, but she herself couldn’t deny that her new friend was an amazing kisser. The way his tongue wrapped around hers, the way it would flick and tickle the inside of her cheek, it was all simply divine. Slowly she began to get involved in the kiss herself, slowly slipping her tongue into Pine’s own mouth. Lemon revelled in his taste, the whole cave silent except for the soft sucking sounds of the kiss. Once she had her fill, she slowly broke the kiss, ending with a quick lick on Pine’s lips; she stared deeply into his eyes, sucking up his remorse
“You certainly are something, Piney.” She whispered with a slight smile.

‘Piney’ what a cute nickname, Pine felt his ears burning red and he chuckled softly
“I hope that’s a good thing,” he said then glanced around the cave before standing up pulling Lemon with him
“Come on, that other Lamia should have gotten bored by now.” Pine said sliding over to the boulder and pushing it out of the way again, Pine breathed in the fresh air
“I think I developed claustrophobia last night.” Pine mumbled. He glanced back
“What’s up Lemon?” he asked looking at what she was staring at, the purple glowing plants that had provided both air and dim lighting for them in their hideout
“What Lemon they’re just plants.” Pine said sliding besides her again; she looked like she’d seen a ghost.

“Are these the plants you were after?” Pine asked Lemon didn’t respond and Pine shrugged “Doesn’t matter come on Lemon I think you need to clear your head a bit,” Pine whispered taking her hoof with his own and pulled her away “I wonder if you’ve got post hypnotic effects or something,” Pine mumbled “Your acting all dazed.” Pine let Lemon sit down and held her face in his hooves tilting her head inspecting her eyes
“Do you want me to hypnotise you again or something you’re... looking at me funny... Lemon... Lemon, hello are you listening?” Pine waved his hoof in front of the dazed mares face as it began to fall downwards in thought.

The realisation came crashing down on Lemon, she’d come all this way and she hadn’t even noticed what she’d come for when it was next to her
“Eh heheh, of course, those have to be the Ether violets I was looking for.” She pre-emptively glanced at Pine who was chuckling “Shut up, the book didn’t have any pictures!” She said blushing. She slowly trotted back to the massive plants, or tiny trees. Never in her wildest dreams did she imagine them to be this big, she had expected some sort of tiny rose like plant. Gingerly, Lemon plucked some of the broad leaves off with her mouth, the yellow mare then turned back to her host
“Wow, what luck!” she said, her voice muffled through the leaves in her mouth. The mare leaped for Pine and gave the stallion a big hug giggling.

“Really a book with no reference pictures?” Pine asked mockingly then immediately shut up as Lemon collided with him in a hug
“I take it I’m forgiven for the cave incident then?” he asked returning the hug and spinning around so he’d have a coiled around her, Lemon squeaked he’d wrapped the coil across her flank and Lemon had turned bright red. On Reflex Pine’s pony half backed off
“I’m sorry that was an accident.” He said blushing 
“She has a soft...”
“NOPE! NOT THINKING THAT SHUT UP BRAIN!” Pine thought to himself face hoofing to knock the thought out of his head, unaware that the coil was still around Lemon who was staring at his reaction.

“Well, I suppose... to be honest being eaten wasn’t THAT bad once I realised I was safe. It was certainly an adrenaline rush, though.” Lemon said. The leaves fell from her mouth when she felt Pine’s coil pinch her butt. She gasped at first, then felt her face burn. The smooth scales felt strangely heavenly against her soft flank, and after seeing Pine’s embarrassed expression, Lemon leaned into the coil smiling seductively
“T-though,” she stammered still a little embarrassed about pressing her flank against Pine’s tail “It did make me realise how powerless I am around you. Earth ponies have huge strength, but you beat me out easily with those massive coils. It’ll take a while to get used to it.” She said. Lemon tilted her head down, and her confident voice faded into a murmur
“U-unless you hypnotised me to feel comfortable around you...” she whispered blushing taking a few nervous steps forward, locking eyes with Pine.

“I don’t know if you’re inviting me to hypnotise you but...” Pine smirked “I’m not going to change anything in that pretty little head,” Pine said tapping Lemon’s forehead gently, he grinned mischievously when he lowered his hoof “But I’m still taking that invitation whether it exists or not.” Pine whispered his eyes about to light up. Pine was unaware of a second mare behind him braced upon the oak tree the pair had previously sheltered under. The mare appeared to be completely caked in mud. She made a silent shushing gesture with her left hoof before raising a jet black spear aiming at Pine
“Just relax Lemon.” Pine whispered letting the colours start lazily so Lemon could look away if she didn’t want to be hypnotised again after all.

Lemon immediately felt the calming hypnotic waves begin to dull her mind, welcoming them. Or at least, she would have if she didn’t notice this mysterious assailant creep up on the duo
“P-Pine! Watch out behind you” Lemon said forcefully tearing herself from the hypnotic spell. She shook her head, causing what spirals had appeared to fade and once more being on a metal high-alert. Lemon looked to the assailant who had lowered her spear slightly in surprise to Lemon warning Pine. But she raised it again as Pine began to turn around.

Pine turned around and had about a second to raise his tail as a shield. The spear bounced harmlessly of his thick scales and the mare jumped down from the oak landing on all hooves braced to charge
“Monster be gone from this world!” the mare cried, Pine’s eyes widened upon hearing the voice then contracted in anger
“YOU!” Pine bellowed retreating to a more primitive, predatory state “IT’S NOT ENOUGH I LET YOU GO! NOW YOU’RE HERE TO MURDER ME!?” Pine leaped forward, the mare stepped sideways and Pine felt a searing pain in the centre of his chest as he landed next to the mare, stopping abruptly.

Pine looked down at the handle of the sword, attached to the mud covered mare’s hoof, sticking through his body
“For kidnapping and imprisoning two mares, one of which has escaped and brought justice, I.E. me, and eating any other ponies between the point I escaped and returned, I sentence you to death!” the mare said clearly as if reading from an old fashion death sentence for the gallows, she let go of the sword and Pine fell down slightly continuing to stare at the sword in disbelief
“I let you go... and Lemon has had every opportunity to leave,” Pine whispered “You know as well as I the tunnel is just one way.” Pine said falling sideways holding onto the handle and made strange choking noises attempting to breath. The mud covered mare approached Lemon
“Follow me, before any more of his kind are attracted here by his blood!” she said.

Tears welled in Lemon’s eyes and her mouth hung agape in shock. The sheer disbelief suddenly gave way to a furious uncontrollable rage
“How could you!” Lemon yelled venom in her eyes. Without warning, Lemon quickly turned and bucked the mysterious assailant’s face as hard as she could, hoping she’d knock her out
“Nopony deserves death! HOW COULD YOU!?” Lemon repeated, still in shock. She had known Pine for only a short time, but had already started to feel a connection to him. Besides the mare’s act wasn’t justice, it was cold revenge. Utterly despicable, and Lemon used that rage to fuel her bucking.

The mare backed up rubbing her face with a front hoof
“So, he’s put some post hypnotic effect on you huh... sorry but since you won’t see reason you’re no better than he is at the moment. A walking slave of Pine’s.” The mare hissed and threw a curved blade towards Lemon whose eyes widened in fear. It never reached its mark.

Instead a large light bark brown tail made the blade bounce away like the spear, Pine stood between Lemon and the mud covered mare who starred in shock, the sword still in Pine’s chest, but he didn’t seem to be giving it any attention
“H-How are you alive!?” she cried Pine chuckled
“You think one little pony heart is enough to run my body?” Pine tapped his tail “Got a backup” he coughed “Plus... you missed.” Pine said trapping his heart to the left of his chest and up, not far from the sword, but far enough it didn’t kill him
“N-no I didn’t that always works!” the mare said backing up drawing another throwing knife.

Pine closed his tail in front of him and Lemon tensing his snake body
“You watch too many movies Lilly Petals,” Pine grumbled before leaping over his tail shield at the pony, Lilly threw the knife wildly in fear not even sending it high enough to hit Pine and he slammed into Lilly. Lilly screamed as the two rolled over, Lilly was coiled up to her neck within seconds. Pine climbed on top of Lilly, the handle of the sword dripping blood onto his tail, baring down on her, she whimpered then coughed. Pine was slowly squeezing his tail around her but not the way he’d ever done before. He kept the pressure on and continued to increase it, making it hard for Lilly to breath and more painful to hold air in.

Lilly struggled weakly gasping for air
“M-monster...” Lilly managed
“You still have the cheek to call me a monster? All I did was for love; you just had to guide me a bit, but NNNOOOOOO!” Pine tightened his tail more feeling Lilly’s bones bending “So you left me! Well fine! Not like I have feelings... but that wasn’t enough was it,” Pine hissed, literally, baring his forked tongue and snake like fangs “You had to come back just as another mare was helping me pick up the broken pieces and smack them back on the ground. AND THAT STILL WASN’T ENOGHT!” Pine cried Lilly was shivering barely able to get any air now whilst Pine worked himself up into a rage “YOU TRIED TO KILL HER, YOU TRIED TO KILL LEMON! WHY? BECASUE I CAN’T BE HAPPY, BECAUSE I HAVE A SNAKE TAIL INSTEAD OF REAR HOOVES!? Well sorry for being born this way Lilly!” Pine breathed heavily holding the handle of the sword
“I’ll see you in tartarus!” Pine grumbled.

Pine watched Lilly still weakly struggling for air. She’d faint in a minute then die, good riddance! She’d tried to kill Lemon, Pine gasped and glanced over at the mare, he’d forgotten she was there despite it all, she’d seen him like this, his predatory way when he got too mad.

Pine’s might was indeed truly terrifying, it was clear that this ‘Lilly’ started with a sneak attack because that’s the only thing that could have worked. Even though she was armed, a single mare stood no chance against the Lamia’s fury. Lemon gulped at seeing Pine constrict Lilly, she had felt him squeeze her, but only gently, nothing like this terrifying display. It was tough to watch; on one hoof nopony deserved death, but on the other this mare tried to kill not only Pine, but herself as well. If she was let go, she’d just try again. Lilly was covered in mud and heavily armed; her attack was not self-defence, but a pre-meditated thing that she had given a lot of thought to. Lemon doubted that she would be deterred with a simple apology; the pair would always be in danger if she lived. Lemon gulped and locked eyes with Pine when he turned towards her; as if in response to the question his action posed, Lemon gave a sad gentle nod.

Pine looked down at Lilly, she knew what he and Lemon had silently agreed on and she was clearly terrified. She’d likely be begging for mercy if she still had air to speak. The word ‘monster’ as she’d called Pine bounced around in his head, if he killed her she’d have been right and he’d have to live with not only that but his first loves blood on his hooves
“And you’ll aid Lemon into becoming a killer, self defence or not.” Pine thought. Actions, at the time, can later hurt more than one pony
“You can’t kill me with your little pointed sticks and knives, don’t even try! Leave and be thankful I’m not what you claim me to be.” Pine grumbled letting his tail relax so Lilly fell onto the floor gasping for air. Lilly, too scared to think, turned and galloped away as fast as she could.
> Save him please!
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Pine waited one minute, letting Lilly’s scent fade to be sure she was gone, and then collapsed holding the now red sword handle
“Nice act huh...” Pine looked up at Lemon pleading silently with his eyes “...I’m not a monster... am I?” he asked softly, his vision beginning to darken and blur as if he was going to pass out.

Lemon rushed over to Pine, staring at the sword in his chest turning his body red
“You-you’re not a monster, Pine” Lemon managed to choke out between sobs “You’re a g-good stallion. P-probably less of a monster than even me... I’m not sure I would have let her go, and that scares me deeply. Thank you... for making the right choice... I hope...” Lemon nuzzled Pine’s head sadly, her heart aching with concern
“What should I do? Should I get medical herbs? Do you think I can drag you to a stream to wash your wound? I... I don’t want to leave you alone...” Lemon said her eyes welling up with tears.

“...You don’t know how to help me medically... And pulling the sword out will likely cause more damage,” Pine said sadly “I hate to admit it... but I think we’ll have to go to Ponyville and see if somepony is willing to help,” Pine managed “You’ll have to carry me but I’ll try not to be too much of a dead weight... alright?” Pine asked looking at Lemon’s tear ridden face “Hay, Shh it’ll be okay... You’ll see.” He whispered managing a gentle smile.

Lemon sniffed, mentally collecting herself
“Alright, just pile as much as you can on me, I’m an earth pony, we don’t have much magic, but even an artist like me is as strong as ten unicorns when it comes to the nitty gritty,” Lemon glanced at Pine’s tail “Though, I’ll have to drag some of you. I mean, let’s face it, Pine, you’re gigantic,” Lemon said dipping herself down so Pine could better brace himself against her
“Do you think we should, I dunno, wait for the cover of night to go there? I love the town but the residents tend to flip out at the first sign of danger.” She said a little concerned. The wound was pretty bad though; she half wondered if Pine would last until the evening. Still, he knew his body a lot better than her. Whatever he told her was best.

“Could easily last until the night but I’d likely go into hibernation in a attempt to recover,” Pine took a shaky breath wrapping his front left hoof over Lemon’s shoulders and a few coils around her torso “If that happened you’d have to bring help here, which is less appealing since I’d have to be assisted on the dirty ground... as for the residences of the town,” Pine chuckled “I reckon they’d have found out about me anyway, even during the night.” Pine said closing his eyes then snapping them open as Lemon began to move forward
“Do you have a hospital, we should head there since it’s a wound to my pony half... we’ll see if we can convince a doctor... or something” Pine’s eyes closed slightly and he slumped against Lemon, his body barely moving to assist Lemon.

“Pine?” Lemon asked concerned. She needed to move fast, and she knew it, but Pine’s serpentine form was tremendously heavy, it was only due to her earth pony muscles she could bear his weight at all. Any other kind of pony and Pine would’ve been in deep trouble. The massive coils looped around Lemon restricted her movement somewhat, but she wasn’t going to be galloping, so she shrugged and paid it little mind, as long as it allowed Pine to hold onto her. Lemon moved as fast as she could, under the weight of the semi-conscious Lamia, through the cave and back out the other side. Despite it being a bunch of twists and turns on the journey there, somehow she knew where to go to get back onto the original path back towards civilization. Still, the path was long, and Lemon hoped she wouldn’t be too late.

Ponyville had very loosely defined boundaries, with houses scattered few and far between in the outskirts. Thankfully, the community clinic wasn’t too far into the town, but Lemon passed more than a few ponies who either stared in awe, mouths agape, or bolted back to their homes.  Either way, Lemon would be the talk of the town in the near future, for better or worse, but right now she didn’t care one bit about her reputation. Lemon reached the hospital as the sun was beginning to set and wasted no time in barging through the main lobby doors
“Is...Is...” Lemon gasped. Carrying a titanic Lamia all that distance made her exhausted and she was gasping for breath “Is there somepony who has experience with magical creatures here?” she asked even in her head the idea was ludicrous.

Doctor Stitches, a clean bandage white coated stallion with a short blond mane, was, to say the least, caught off guard when an exhausted bright yellow mare charged in carrying a slumped over, pale, light brown... thing! It looked slightly pony on top but where its hind legs and tail should be a long serpentine tail had grown out. The doctor might have told the pair to get out, that the hospital was no place for jokes... but the sword and blood running down from the duel holes wasn’t fake... you couldn’t fake the smell or how it hardened on a ponies fur
“Doctor should we...?” Nurse Redheart, the pony currently on reception, asked approaching him. Stitches looked back at the tired mare, from what he could see the stallion was likely holding on by a thread and the mare had brought him here with no backup plan should this fail... since he wouldn’t reach the end of the road if the plan did fail there was likely no point thinking one up.

“He won’t reach anywhere else to get aid... I joined this career to help those suffering... whether they’re entirely pony or not even slightly pony! Bring him into the back with me, and tell me how he came to obtain that wound” the doctor said turning and began walking down the hallway towards an operating theatre, calling several of his strongest willed doctors and nurses, they’d need anypony who wouldn’t be afraid to treat this stallion. As they walked down the hall the doctor asked various questions, both their names to start, where she’d met him, had he been a pony and turned into this thing, how long since the wound and how he ended up with a sword stuck in him. The last one he had to repeat since Lemon had entered some sort of flash back daze.

Everything was happening just so fast. Thank Celestia there was at least one doctor willing to step up and help. Still, everything felt so unreal; she could barely hear the doctor’s voice sometimes
“My name is Lemon Glaze, his name is Pine Wood, and I met him in the forest yesterday. For all I know, he’s been like this his whole life. We were... attacked... by some mare, she seemed to personally hate him. Her name was Lilly Petals, I think. She stabbed Pine in the chest with the sword still in him and she... ran off after the fight... and Pine told me to bring him here because his second heart couldn’t support him enough.” Lemon suddenly felt Pine become weightless against her as a team of unicorns magically lifted Pine off her, skilfully unravelling his coils from around her and carrying him into some sort of sterile room. It felt good that she could once again move freely, but she was still deeply concerned about her new friend
“Do you think you can help him, doctor?” Lemon asked with pleading eyes.

Stitches sighed sadly
“Well ma’am I have to be brutally honest...” The doctor sighed again looking at Lemon’s expression “Ma’am this is the first ever snake-pony that has likely ever been treated in pony history by another pony. We have little to off but hope that the area we’re treating is pony like, otherwise we’ll be going in blind, Pine isn’t exactly in fate’s favour,” The doctor said sadly
“I think you should go wash up, I’ll let you know how it goes at the end.” The doctor said entering the room.

“S-sure... thank you, doctor” Lemon muttered. She desperately wanted to stay in the operating room, but she knew she would just hurt more than help. Lemon couldn’t let her feelings get in the way; they were, after all, what got her into this mess. With tears in her eyes, she slowly trotted back to the main lobby, ducking into a bathroom to wash Pine’s blood off her coat. She then took a seat in the lobby and did nothing but stare at the ground, still in total shock over what was going on.

About an hour passed before doctor Stitches returned to the lobby
“Miss Glaze,” Lemon looked up at him puffy eyed and bloodshot like she’d been crying “You best follow me.” The doctor said waiting for her to walk over and follow beside him. They walked past the operating theatre and down various hallways; the hospital was like a maze. Stitches led Lemon to a single, regular looking, door for the private patents ward and he pushed it open gently. Lying on the bed, heavily bandaged across his torso, was the sleeping form of Pine. His tail had been spread around the floor with pillows and cushions laid down on the floor along with hot water bottles between various spots to keep the cold blooded Lamia warm
“He appears to be stable, though we’re not entirely sure, we can’t hook him up to a heart rate machine since he has two and we’re not sure how fast a healthy snake-ponies heart beats. If anything changes call a doctor or nurse, I’ll leave you two alone for a few minutes so you can... absorb this.” The doctor said walking away closing the door behind him.

“T-thank you” Lemon choked as the doctor left. With a sniffle, Lemon approached the wounded form of Pine, gingerly stepping over the lengths of his serpent tail that criss-crossed around his bed. To see such a mighty predator reduced to a state like this was shocking, and not in a good way. He looked almost dead, if not for his raising and falling chest; he could have been getting buried, probably in a very large coffin. Lemon reached the bedside and gently rested her head against Pine’s, before giving his cheek a gentle kiss
“Pine... I don’t know if you can hear me, but please... please pull through... please... for me...” she whispered into his ear.

Pine smiled softly in his sleep, as if Lemon’s voice reassured him in his dreams, he rolled over towards the sound of her voice and mumbled in his sleep
“Lemon.” And blushed his hooves contracting as if hugging something only he could see, parts of his tail flexed as if trying to message Lemon or coax her into sitting down on them.

Lemon saw Pine’s gestures, then, very gently, she laid her foreleg across Pine’s chest and brought herself in for a light hug. It was a little awkward because Lemon had to avoid touching the bandages, but it was a hug all the same. Breaking the embrace with the same softness that she initiated it with, she walked over to a particularly thick segment of Pine’s snake like tail and began to lightly pet it. Anything to sooth him now, she decided.

Pine’s eyes fluttered open at the soft, warm touch on his scales. He half thought he was dead because it seemed too warm and comfy to be his life, but Pine was in too much pain to be dead. He managed to look towards Lemon who was petting his tail gently, he smiled slightly at seeing her beside him
“Told you I’d be fine,” he managed pulling his tail towards him, pushing Lemon next to the bed again “Guess we’ll have to get around to that hypnosis invitation later, huh.” Pine whispered. Pine wrapped his tail around the back of Lemon’s head and brought her down and gently kissed her
“Thank you, for saving me, Lemon Glaze.” He whispered wrapping the coil around Lemon’s neck like a scarf.

Lemon was beaming! She had thought she might never see Pine open his eyes ever again. She returned his kiss and began to stroke her scaly collar with her hoof, it was comforting to feel his conscious grip again
“You had me worried there, ya know,” she said “you were bleeding a lot, when doctor Stitches returns, you’re going to thank him.” Lemon said unable to stop herself from nuzzling his cheek immediately after
“You still have a lot of healing to do though, and here’s hoping you don’t get some sort of infection.” Lemon said half-jokingly. The worst may have past, but Lemon was still a little worried, she wouldn’t believe he was fine until he was up and slithering about again without a thousand bandages holding him together.

It was at that exact moment the feeling of happiness was shattered by a swarm of ponies along with the voice of doctor Stitches trailing behind them
“He needs rest; he’s just had a sword removed from him! Don’t you dare go in there.” Pine looked towards the door
“What’s-AGH!”A bright flash caused Pine to flinch and cover his eyes with his hooves making his chest hurt too “Ow-ow, what’s happening?” he mumbled as various ponies began shouting questions at him. Lemon was also swarmed and asked various questions from innocent one like her name to some awkward questions if the two had an affair. Pine might have threatened them all to back off but, as it was, he could barely move from the bed
“Leave me alone!” he said only receiving several more questions. In the background Stitches was also being questioned, but was still attempting to get them out of the room.

Then one of the ponies pulled Lemon away, she struggled to get free and Pine jumped out the bed, almost falling down before shoving the pony clear across the room
“Back off!” Pine hissed before wincing and holding his bandage, another wave of photo’s being taken
“Pine you’ll re-open your wounds doing stunts like that!” Stitches said finally reaching the Lamia and mare, Stitches turned to the reporters
“You are breaking and entering a recovering patients room, leave before I call the authorities!” with a lot of grumbling and booing the ponies left, Pine remained at Lemon’s side waiting for them all too leave.

As the last reporters left, Lemon rolled her eyes
“Ugh, reporters,” she groaned rubbing her temples “I was afraid something like this would happen. Hardly anything happens in this hick-town, so when anything actually interesting happens all the newspapers go ballistic,” Lemon sighed “But it was better than leaving you in that cave…” Lemon pushed the unpleasant thought out of her head
“Either way, once you’re feeling better you can stay at my place… Or, if the reporting fervour hasn’t subsided by then, we can go back to your valley,” Lemon turned to doctor Stitches “How long do you think it will take him to recover?” she asked.

“Okay, well, that takes care of where he will be staying. Thank you for that Miss Lemon Glaze, but even if the reporters are being a problem I would advise against retreating into the Everfree, for more than the obvious reason of it being dangerous. You barely made it the first time carrying him; should he become worse out there or get an illness from something… you may not be able to pull the same miracle twice.” The doctor said forcing Pine back to the bed
“As for recovering I cannot say, he’s had a sword go clean through his body and out the other side. Not something a bit of bed rest and a week off can generally fix… no, he will likely need months to recover, at best. Pine will likely be able to leave in a week or so once we’re sure he’s stable, but he won’t be climbing trees for a while,” the doctor looked at Lemon’s worried face
“If you would like, because the other doctors have noticed Pine’s snake half is cold blooded, you could stay to make sure he stays warm. Last thing he needs is a cold and I’m afraid we don’t have the time to constantly change the water bottles for him, also the other doctors may be busy with other patients, since winter seems to be the time everypony jumps out their windows, so you staying close will mean he has somepony to check he’s okay at all times. If you wouldn’t mind of course.” the doctor said.

Pine made a mental note to find a way to thank the doctor for letting Lemon stay, he knew almost for a fact she would, and he’d be able to finally use up that invitation… and coil her up, which he always enjoyed
“Just change his hot water bottles over there,” the doctor nodded to a set of taps “And make sure he doesn’t move his body too much or too fast, think you can do that for him?” Stitches asked.

Lemon nodded
“Keep him warm, got it.” Lemon repeated in acknowledgement, that shouldn’t be too difficult, though she thought that perhaps it would be tough to get him to rest; Pine was a mischievous Lamia
“If anything happens, I’ll call somepony. Alright, I think we’ll be okay for now. Once again, thank you, doctor, for saving him.” Lemon said nodding politely.

“Thank a pony for doing his job it’ll just go to his head,” the doctor said softly then looked at Pine “You stay in bed or I’ll have you tied to it”.” He threatened Pine, who put on an innocent face and the doctor looked at Lemon
“You have your work cut out with this one.” He said walking away. Pine waited a solid minute before grabbing Lemon with his tail and pulling her onto the bed
“The doctor said to keep me warm and you don’t need refilling constantly like a bottle.” Pine said grinning, he, unfortunately, couldn’t hug her since it would hurt so he made do with lying slightly in front of her within reaching distance. Pine settled for coiling Lemon up until only her head was visible and Pine grinned at Lemon, Pine’s tail piled a little over the yellow mare’s coily prison, making it so if she moved every ripple would feel amazing
“Struggle, I dare you.” Pine whispered.

“Whoa!” Lemon said playfully as Pine’s tail hoisted her into the air and onto the (Surprisingly sturdy) hospital bed. She was impressed, even in his injured state, the Lamia’s tremendous strength and dexterity let him left her up like it was nothing. Lemon was dropped onto a particularly thick segment of Pine’s tail, the squishy muscle cushioning her impact. Before Lemon even had time to react, the segment curled up around Lemon’s chest, pinning her forelegs to her body and span her around, with each full rotation adding another powerful coil. It briefly reminded Lemon about how a spider cocoons its prey.

Pine finished his work with a final loop around Lemon’s neck, thick enough that it served as a cool, smooth cushion for her head. He wasn’t squeezing, but the sheer weight of his coils put a little pressure on Lemon’s body, not to mention the segments he laid on top of the cocoon
“Oh is that a challenge?” Lemon replied in her best seductive voice. The mare began to squirm around in her scaly prison in a false effort to escape. Lemon thought it would be tough, but she was surprised that she couldn’t move an inch, even though the coils weren’t tight, they expertly pinched and curved to perfectly match the movements of her body. Lemon didn’t want to stress Pine’s weak body too much to fight as hard as she could, but Lemon still wiggled her body to fight the imprisonment. She was totally helpless in this state, but it was also exciting. Even though she had only know Pine for a short time, it just felt so right to be in his grip, letting the warmth of her body bleed into his cold blooded scales.

Pine smiled at Lemon’s weak struggling, even if she wasn’t trying fully, it was still nice to have her fur pressed against his scales as she battled the cold across his body with her own warmth. But he suddenly made Lemon cease her struggling by squeezing her. Lemon froze taking a deep breath, it hadn’t been painful, on the contrary it had probably been very relaxing, with every part of her body being simultaneously massaged by his tail. Pine brushed Lemon’s mane out of her eyes
“So... about that hypnosis invitation, mind if I take you up on it?” Pine asked softly, smirking.

Pine’s constriction was absolutely divine. Lemon’s face flushed red as the air was forcefully exhaled form her lungs. It was firm, but gentle, like a caring lover. The sensation of Pine’s scales, smoothly gliding across her fur as the coils clinched, as well as the magnificent moulding of the firm muscles all around her was one of the best feelings Lemon had felt in her entire life
“Hmm, maybe,” Lemon said with a light hearted chuckle “You can try.” She said in a sing-song voice. Her body had already given up to Pine’s coils, but Lemon wanted to play hard to get in giving up her mind. She shut her eyes gently, stealing the occasional peek with a single eye and giggling.

Pine chuckled, Lemon was so cute with that tinge of red on her face, and her challenge made it all the better, especially since she was clearly opening her eyes to see the spirals once they started. Pine closed his eyes and when they reopened, swirling, pulsing colours of different shades began moving across his eyes, Lemon’s single open eye locked with the colours and her eye widened to see as much of the colours as possible. Pine chuckled before whispering
“Both eyes, Lemon.” She opened the other one without resistance which was, momentarily, its normal purple before it began to copy its counterpart in staring into the sea of enchanting colours in front of Lemon and beginning to pulse with various colours as well
“Doesn’t it feel so nice? To let all of your worries just wash away... To enter a secluded place in your mind where everything is pure bliss, which only I can take you too? It’s lovely, isn’t it?” Pine cooed softly to Lemon grinning.

Lemon was a little surprised. Even her brief glances were not enough to allow her to resist, she remembered it taking a little while to get hooked into a trance, but this time it was almost instantaneous before she couldn’t tear herself away. Did Pine hypnotise her to be more susceptible? Or was it just a natural thing. Lemon let her closed eye peek open on Pine’s command. She couldn’t help but listen to him. The enchanting colours were muddying her mind; she began to latch onto Pine’s words as if they were her own thoughts, it just felt so… right… to obey…

“Worries… wash away… only you…” Lemon began to repeat softly under her breath like an oath. As tempting as it was to give in now, Lemon still intended to play hard to get. It was more fun that way, and what was left of her wanted to see just how long she could last against the mental assault
“Heh… not yet Pine…” she whispered, forcing her mind to fight the muddling commands of Pine, playfully.

Pine raised his eyebrows in surprise; Lemon was certainly fighting much harder than last time… More fun really. Pine let his eyes speed up and began to massage Lemon all across her body and when she moaned, opening her mouth to exhale from the light constriction, Pine darted forward, ignoring the tinge of pain, and kissed Lemon. With her mouth gaping open in wonder from the colours it was easy for Pine to cheat and wrap up her tongue and massage it as well. He imagined she might have her eyes rolled up into her head in pleasure if the spirals, which were now point blank to her own eyes, were not holding her gaze 
“Any more surprises, Lemon?” Pine though mentally sending the challenge.

Pine’s loving coils kneaded Lemon’s body, as if wringing out the few ounces of willpower left in her. The hypnosis was dulling her senses, and it felt like the massive bands of scales were melting into her body. She began to go limp, the thick ring of muscles around her neck now supporting her entire skull as her body entered a hypnotically-induced super-relaxed state. It was pleasure that Lemon had never felt before. When Pine closed the gap between the pair, Lemon could feel the hypnotic spell intensify to unprecedented heights. With each coil of the Lamia’s tongue around Lemon’s, more and more of her mental defences were utterly obliterated, with Pine’s magic free to take her mind and do with it as it wished. She could feel her mind being sapped away, the calming darkness of the trance ever encroaching, and yet, she wasn’t afraid. The mystical colours, combined with Pine’s handsome face, made her eager for it, in fact
“…I’m… yours…” was all Lemon managed to get out before she gave into the Lamia’s spell. She was gone now, her independent thoughts temporarily replace with an existence that knew only happiness, be if from Pine soft coils, his charming voice, or his beautiful eyes.

Lemon had given up and a small smile spread across her face, Pine kept his eyes swirling mystically with the colours knowing that she’d recover no matter how deep he sent her
“Hmmm what should I have you do…?” Pine smirked slightly before lying on his stomach folding his hooves in front of him on his pillow before resting his head, still keeping eye contact with Lemon. Pine uncoiled Lemon, stroking her neck with his tail, which made her shiver from his touch
“Mind massaging my tail, Lemon?” Pine asked softly, of course she would she was in his power and Pine always liked to have something or somepony spread warmth throughout his tail. Pine closed his eyes spreading his tail around the bed so Lemon would have to climb over it; of course he left several loops around body like vines, enjoying the mare’s warm body.

The mindless Lemon let Pine’s words sink into her very soul. They had to, for she was unable to form thoughts of her own. Not like she minded at the moment; the hypnotic spell had her in pure ecstasy right now, and she was sent deeper by the minute by the Lamia’s still spiralling eyes
“Of… Course.” Lemon whispered softly, as if on autopilot. Lemon was mentally aware of everything happening, but she couldn’t feel herself making any conscious decisions. It was as if she was in a dream… a very pleasant, colourful dream.

Lemon lay down as much as her loose scaly bonds would allow, nuzzling up to the nearest segment of snake tail that Pine had lazily dropped around the bed. She gently rubbed and prodded it with her hooves, feeling the soft muscle react and deform under her touch. As Lemon’s hooves massaged along the direction of Pine’s scales, Lemon lowered her snout so that she was able to softly touch the serpentine body and move against the scales this time. The happy, blank mare let herself slowly glide across Pine’s scaly lower half, hopping from place to place if two segments were right next to each other, just giving her all to make Pine feel good.

Pine smiled lazily, letting his eyes droop slightly, his tail began climbing over Lemon’s body as she switched from coil to coil getting closer to Pine himself. She eventually couldn’t move from the sheer weight of his coils so he dragged her over to him, letting her snuggle up to him, his tail massaging her. Pine lit his eyes up into a sea of spirals again and the pair lay there enjoying themselves, Lemon more so likely. Eventually Pine’s eyes began to droop and he lay his head down closing his eyes. Lemon, left with no orders, was giving the default order to fall asleep, her eyes half closed the spirals working to make her sleep. A small message leaked from Pine’s dream and Lemon leaned forward, locking herself into a kiss with him before passing out. Pine, in his sleep, wrapped his tongue around Lemon and hugged her enjoying a dream of her massaging his coils as he hypnotised her.

Lemon was in pure bliss. It was just too much; Pine had brought her into a wonderful place, a deep trance that blended the entire world into a drunken slur of happiness. The last thing she felt before the comfort of hypnosis sleep took her was Pine’s tongue wrapped snugly around her own. Lemon closed her eyes, and dreamed about Pine and his enchanting eyes in her deep sleep.
> Playtime
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Lemon was awoken the next day by the light of Celestia’s magnificent sun creeping through the window at daybreak. Her eyes fluttered opened, still a little woozy from last night, but now out of the trance. Looking around and seeing Pine’s smooth scales enveloping her, she began to remember the previous night, especially her trance. It was still very vague, like flashes from a dream you can’t remember entirely. Lemon tried moving her head, only to find that, even in his sleep, Pine had his tongue wrapped firmly around her own. She took a moment to savour his taste and the exotic texture of his forked tongue, before pulling herself away. It was a challenge; even Pine’s tongue was able to grip very strongly. She broke the kiss with a smack, before letting her lips gently brush Pine’s snout.

“I told you too keep him warm and not to move too much, this isn’t exactly what I had in mind.” Doctor Stitches said entering the room to check up on Pine, who snapped awake at the doctors comment
“We didn’t do that!” Pine said blushing the doctor raised an eyebrow
“Good, because I doubt the nurses would appreciate cleaning up.” Pine’s face flushed even redder before having a newspaper tossed at him
“You two best have a look, it’s about you. Seems that the reporters wasted no time printing that story.” The doctor said turning to leave
“Oh Mr. Pine, mind if I have a look at your wound whilst your marefriend reads the paper?” the doctor asked, Pine blushed and mumbled something before nodding.

Pine sat on a pile of his coils whilst the doctor removed the bandages to check the stitches, Lemon checking the headline which they had both made
“Amazing, you’ve healed exceptionally fast… I think we can have the bandages changed and you cleared today to return with Miss Lemon,” the doctor said mildly surprised
“Have you ever had injuries before, scratches, cuts or similar?” Pine nodded “How long did they take to heal?”
“Er… worst was a deep cut, took about a week.” The doctor blinked in surprise
“Amazing healing abilities… hmm well let’s change the bandages we’ll send you on your way after. Just remember to take it easy.” Stitches said walking over to a cabinet and retrieving a fresh set of bandages.

Lemon’s brow furrowed as she looked at today’s headline of Ponyville Times
“LOCAL MARE BRIGNS WOUNDED UNKNOWN CREATURE TO HOSPITAL: BLIND PANIC RECOMMENDED, EXPERTS SAY!”
Lemon groaned
“They could have at least used a more flattering picture of me,” Lemon mumbled as her eyes gravitated to a picture unusually focused on her posterior. Regardless, this would make things a little problematic, she and Pine were safe from prying eyes in the valley, but now everypony and their mother would know about them. She was just thankful that the rest of her family was on the other side of Equestria
“Hey Pine,” Lemon said absentmindedly as she began to flip through the other headlines “Can you read? Does you kind have a written language?” Lemon realised how insensitive that sounds and winced.

“Oh wow, can I read?” Pine asked sliding over beside Lemon, fresh bandages on “Course I can… ‘Blind Panic’ really? That’s expert’s opinion… oh…” Pine noticed the picture of him. It was a picture taken of him mid hiss shoving one of the reporter’s away, a hoof against Lemon’s chest holding her away from the reporter that had been harassing her… Pine had never thought about it but he looked terrifying. Fangs bared his tongue out and his tail tensed
“Least they should have got you in a better l-l-light!” Pine had looked at Lemon’s own personal image and blushed… it was much better than his “Wow… I mean erm… er…” Pine mumbled turning a deeper shade of red before reading the detailed article out loud.

“Late last evening the residences of Ponyville witness a terrifying spectacle as a local mare, Lemon Glaze, carried, what appeared to be, a half snake half pony monster, with a sword jutting from its chest, towards Ponyville hospital. Reporters were quickly on scene to conform this was true with various pictures, though Doctor Stitches has aided in harbouring such a dangerous creature, as clearly shown from the picture of it attacking a reporter, when it should be taken to Canterlot so that it may not cause harm to citizens.” Pine frowned glancing at Lemon
“Whilst reporters were unable to receive comments from either Doctor Stitches or Miss Glaze, it is believed that the monster was attacked by a royal guard patrol and the sword was all the guards managed to cause him in return for any murders he may have done.” Pine choked on thin air
“’Murder’ who wrote this!? And last I checked the royal guards never patrol through the Everfree!” Pine dropped the paper “Just great… not even her a day and already I’m deemed a monster” Pine said holding his head in his hooves.

Doctor Stitches looked at Lemon
“I think it might be best you two return to Miss Glaze’s home, but you can’t go through the main doors, the reporters are all still waiting out there to see if they can get in… As unprofessional as it is, you may have to use the window” Stitches said
“No…” Pine grumbled “We’re going out the front door.” Pine looked at Lemon
“Will you come with me?” he whispered unable to mask the fear in his face.

Lemon was a little wary, but she resolved to stay at Pine’s side. If there was anypony who could convince the others he had a pure heart, it was her. Besides, the reporters in this town were crazy! This town had a group of heroes in it, but their world saving escapades rarely got more than blurb in the Local Events column… Though Canterlot and neighbouring towns flipped out over them
“Listen, Pine, just leave it to me. All you need to do to get rid of these journalists is just shut your mouth and don’t give them any ammo. Eventually they’ll just get bored and go off to cover some bake sale or something,” Lemon said wearing a confident smile “Trust me, you’re not the only… unusual… visitor this has seen.”
“Though never has one been able to talk back…” Lemon thought to herself, but she wouldn’t tell Pine. Lemon trotted over to the Lamia and hooked her foreleg with his
“I’m more worried about Lilly than the reporters, she’s still out there, and if she lives in this town then she’ll know exactly what’s happening. Did you even find out where she was from when you… well… you know…?”Lemon said unable to say it herself.

Pine shook his head
“We shouldn’t worry about her, I’m considered a monster, yes, but I reckon out right murdering me on the street would be a little more drastic than what she has planned, if anything.” Pine tightened his hold on Lemon’s hoof and the doctor nodded grimly to them both separately
“Very well, if this is what you want then so be it.” He said and led them to the entrance.

Pine stared at the main doors leading to Ponyville, then pinched Lemon’s hoof. She smiled reassuringly at him
“Shut your mouth… not a word.” He reminded himself softly. Lemon led the way, the doors opening automatically. Several ponies cried out and then the reporter’s pounced on the pair. Lemon led the way confidently refusing to slow down and Pine followed close behind her, whilst they said nothing, the reporters seemed to have found ammo simply in the pair’s body language or, more precisely, the pair holding hooves
“We shouldn’t have held hooves.” Pine whispered to Lemon before having a microphone smacked against his muzzle
“Ow…” Pine grumbled rubbing his nose
“Hybrid, are you and Miss Lemon Glaze here in a relationship?” Is she with your foal?” Pine felt his ears turn red
“W-What sort of question is that!?” Pine asked having another picture taken 
“Oh great I’ll look like a tomato in that one.” Pine thought.

“Hybrid, are you the result of some magical spell gone wrong and have had to hide from civilization by a decree from Celestia?” Pine bristled
“I was born like this, as you were born like that, I’m not some messed up abandoned science experiment… and for the record I have a name, it’s not hybrid it’s Pine wood!” Pine said
“Is it true you ate ponies in the Everfree?” If Lemon hadn’t been walking forward Pine might have frozen up. He knew that voice and he almost spoke out loud. Instead he glanced at the falsely dressed up gardener who was pretending to be a reporter. She was bright pink with a blond mane in a ponytail with a white lilly as her cutie mark, which would stand out if she were a journalist but in the crowd nopony paid her any attention… The half snake pony was far more interesting.

Lemon failed to notice Lilly in the crowd, but she felt a chill go up her spine, for some reason. She just needed to get Pine home before this headache erupted into something bigger
“We won’t be answering questions now, we’ve had a long night and need rest. Please let us leave.” Lemon said authoritatively. Though she might have been a little submissive inside, she knew how to project an air of dominance and authority when she needed to. She wouldn’t be talking to anypony unless they were important. Speaking of which, Lemon was a little curious why there had been no royal guards waiting for her in the lobby. Surely they would have heard by now, and this town was so peaceful they usually jumped at the slightest bit of action just to starve off boredom. Even though they stationed as Ponyville’s police force and capitol liaison they numbered less than a dozen, and only a third were on duty at any given time. Still, Lemon expected a visit from them soon, if only to see what all the fuss was about.

“Quick!” Lemon suddenly yelled as she unhooked her hoof from Pine’s to point out a tree “That little filly scrapped her knee! Boy, what a scoop!” Lemon said lying through her teeth. The reporters bought it hook, line and sinker, suddenly rushing towards one side of the road and fighting each other over who would be the first to see. All, that is, except for one lone reporter. But… Lemon still failed to notice and quickly hooked her hoof around Pine’s foreleg again
“Quick! Now’s our chance!” she said, tugging him towards Ponyville itself.

Pine glanced one last time at Lilly who mouthed the words 
“A fate worse than death.” Before trotting away. Pine looked forward and followed Lemon, who ducked into a back alley onto another street, down a second alley and then she paused for breath. Pine was perfectly okay, despite his injury, with the exercise. But he was more focused on Lilly’s words, no good
“So… Should we head to your house now while the reporters are busy… And really, they were distracted by THAT? Is this town really that boring or do they just like reporting other pony’s misery?” Pine asked smiling slightly at the reporter’s stupidity.

“Well…” Lemon said, panting from their escape “…Equestria is a peaceful land. The Everfree’s right next door, yes, but for some reason monsters never venture out. Plus, this town isn’t very big; you’d probably see more action in a bigger city.” Lemon tossed her head back, flinging her mane back so that it no longer looked frazzled from the run
“Ponies live idyllic lives here, to be honest that’s why I moved her in the first place. I’m actually from Baltimare; it’s a city on the eastern border, just north of the Hayseed swamps. But, I digress; I doubt you’ve ever left that forest, have you? Oh it’ll be fun teaching you geography!” Lemon said, doing a cute little dance with glee. Lemon hooked Pine’s hoof and began to lead him through the twisting alleys. She knew the route home from here, and there shouldn’t be too many ponies out this early. If there’s anything Lemon appreciated about this town, it’s that the residents knew the value of a good snooze

“But as I was saying, life here is very quiet, peaceful. Me, I couldn’t stand all the hustle and bustle of city life. It was just too oppressive, I moved out here to get away from all that, where ponies live simply and humbly, and life is nice and easy.” The pair turned a corner into a wide alley
“I can imagine how it might be tough for a journalist to make a living in this kind of place, so I don’t blame them for jumping on something exciting,” Lemon continued grinning “You are something exciting, Pine” Lemon purred.

When Lemon flicked her mane Pine felt his heart pause again, as if it was a tape getting caught, he didn’t panic like last time, finally figuring out what caused it… and why. Lemon’s blue mane flowed out behind her and even when it had been frazzled slightly it still held its beauty. Then she did her cute little dance and finally
“You are something exiting, Pine” her tone of voice made Pine’s face change colour and he smiled sheepishly
“Thanks, glad you can see that in me.” He said softly, the pair continued until they reached Lemon’s house
“Well are you going to show me in?” Pine asked grinning at Lemon “Or am I out in the dog house?” he asked chuckling and making a seductive woof that sounded ridiculous even to Pine.

Lemon giggled before opening the front door, ushering Pine inside
“No, no, sadly,” she said sarcastically, watching the massive river of scales flowing behind Pine as he slithered inside “Besides, I don’t even have a dog.” Lemon mumbled. Once Pine’s massive serpentine body had fully crossed the threshold, she joined him inside, latching the door
“I don’t have any pets at all, in fact,” she said to her snake-like guest, who gathered himself on one of her large, soft rugs “But, that’s okay… Maybe that just means I should be the pet instead.” Lemon said winking.

Pine grinned
“Well, ironically, we pet pets so…” Pine gathered his tail around the mare lifting her over to where he’d sat down and placed her in a small pit of coils letting her lie back. Pine covered Lemon completely in coils and began to massage her all over, Lemon near enough melted into Pine’s coils, she made cute moaning sounds as she sunk into the scaly prison. Pine leaned over her looking into her eyes from above
“So, whatcha wanna do now?” Pine asked continuing to assault her body with his rippling coils so she cut her words in half, moaning and sighing, her body like putty. It was so nice to feel a pony’s body in his coils.

“Well… aaah… I was… oooh…” Lemon struggled to form words. Pine’s coils knew just where to slide and squeeze “I was going to make some food… I bet you’re… aaah… hungry.” Lemon managed. Lemon closed her eyes and let the tickling sensation of Pine’s scales sliding over her fur consume her. Lemon became motionless, just basking in the wonderful feeling, for a full minute before opening her eyes
“But I think you have something else in mind,” Lemon said with a chuckle “So, if I’m the pet, does that make you my master?” Lemon asked.

Pine paused
“I suppose it does,” he said “I did have something else in mind but I would like something to eat and a good master feeds his pet first.” Pine chuckled pulling Lemon up
“Come on.” He said pulling Lemon by her hoof towards, presumably, the kitchen
“Right…” Pine’s smile crumbled “I don’t know how to cook.” He said sadly look at Lemon “Are you okay to…?” he asked softly blushing.

“Absolutely, your massages are wonderful, but it’s not like they put me under like your handsome eyes do.” Lemon said as she trotted into her kitchen. She looked around and nodded; it was just how she left it
“So, that leads to another thing… how vital is… meat… in your diet? Regular ponies are vegetarian… mostly.” Lemon said gulping a little. It was a bizarre thing, to imagine Pine might actually eat meat. Eggs and milk is one thing, but actual meat, from a living creature? It was a little bizarre to think about
“Or, I can make some pancakes. I have some fresh hay flour that a friend of mine grounded up for me personally,” Lemon said with a shrug “Or, do you see anything that catches your fancy?” she asked.

“You catch my fancy.” Pine said jokingly and chuckled
“No it’s fine Lemon, I’m still half pony so it makes me an omnivore. I can eat meat if I so wish but I’m not limited to it… what are pancakes by the way? Sounds like you’ve taken a metal pan and turned it into a cake, is that how ponies get iron?” Pine asked in a voice too serious and curious to be joking about.

Lemon giggled
“No, silly, it’s a kind of flat cake that you cook in a pan, usually as the first meal of the day. They’re delicious and give you the energy you need to get yourself going. I’ll just make some, you can watch if you like.” Lemon said as she trotted up to her pantry, opening it with her nose and gripping a burlap sack in her mouth. Placing it on the counter, she zipped around the room retrieving the tools of the trade: a bowl, a wooden spoon, and a few measuring cups, not to mention the actual ingredients
“it’s time like this I wish I was a unicorn...” Lemon mumbled to herself, before she began to measure and mix the ingredients together. Lemon loved pancakes especially made from her friend Straw’s flour, ahh, Straw Stover... Lemon wondered how she’d react to seeing Lemon’s new ‘friend’.

Still daydreaming, Lemon poured the mixed batter into a buttered pan and set it on her trust cast-iron stove. Opening the door and lighting the magically-treated burnwood inside with a convenient flint, Lemon began to do the actual cooking then. Soon, Lemon had a whole stack of pancakes stacked n two plates, gripping one plate in her mouth and deftly balancing the other on her head, she carried them over into the dining room and set them on the table. A second trip to the kitchen yielded bottled molasses and a shaker full of cinnamon
“Alright!” Lemon called out “It’s done, come and get it!” Lemon said.

The scent of pancakes was amazing, though it didn’t compete with Lemon’s scent. Pine began to drool slightly before he closed his mouth and blushed, watching from a distance, so he wouldn’t be in the way. Lemon moved confidentially around the room and clearly knew where everything was placed, as she should since it was her home. Pine didn’t realise he was staring less and less at the food and more at Lemon, the way her flank swayed slightly as she walked around
“Okay, what the heck is happening?” Pine thought, his face burning red he tried to avoid staring again... and he failed.

When Lemon set the food down on the table Pine let Lemon sit down on his tail like a bean bag. He didn’t even need to pick her up she climbed on top of his coils and stared at him until he moved his tail into a position comfortable for her, and he had no complaints to Lemon warming his tail. Lemon flicked on the TV, which also amazed Pine at the shows Lemon was flicking past. The pair finished and Pine wrapped his hooves around Lemon’s neck and gently messaged her with his tail, causing Lemon to lean against him. She was so happy Pine managed to ignore the twinge of pain in his chest and began tracing slowly down Lemon’s spine with his tail without noticing.

Lemon giggled softly and nuzzled the nape of Pine’s neck, her belly full of warm, gooey pancake mush
“So, how were they? Was that the first cooked meal you’ve ever head?” Lemon asked. Lemon didn’t seem to notice she was sinking a little deeper into the mass of serpent tail that she was sat on, that or she didn’t mind. Lemon closed her eyes as Pine’s tail began to trace the curve of her spine letting a sigh of contentment escape her mouth.

Pine chuckled
“Yeah first cooked meal I’ve ever had... it was great by the way,” Pine whispered “Generally I ate other animals in the Everfree, or whatever fruit I could find.” Pine grinned licking Lemon’s cheek up to her ear
“You know I’m still hungry... and you’d taste better than pancakes any day.” Pine smirked as his tail reached the end of Lemon’s spine and curved under and began working up between her rear legs and up her stomach, Pine was, somehow, totally oblivious to what his tail was doing.

Lemon blushed intensely from Pine’s lick, and more so from the Lamia’s tail creeping underneath her own to come out the front. She quickly turned to Pine and gave him a lick on his cheek as well
“I’m not the only one who’s tasty here.” Lemon said playfully.

Pine blinked his face burning then he realised what his tail was doing, sliding between Lemon’s legs
“What am I...?” Pine stopped talking and grinned leaning down and kissing Lemon forcing his tongue within her mouth, she gasped softly and shuddered as Pine began to run his tail slowly back up the front of her body, the coil between Lemon’s legs becoming thicker, the scales pressing against Lemon’s vagina made her squeak in pleasure
“You’re making some really cute sounds.” Pine whispered pulling back to look at Lemon’s face, which was as bright red as his own. Pine wrapped the end of his tail around Lemon’s neck massaging her with it, making her purr like a cat. Pine’s tail also made Lemon moan a little from rubbing against her.

Lemon gasped when Pine took her mouth, leaning into the kiss and letting his tongue wrap around and stroke her own. She could still taste the sweetness of the syrup in his mouth. Her kissing only intensified as she felt Pine’s tail sneaking up her belly and chest, the segment between her legs growing thicker with each inch it slid. Lemon only broke the kiss when she felt Pine’s tail surreptitiously curl around her neck and make a full loop. She leaned back into the massage, letting it knead away all her stresses and cares. The tip of the tail even began stroking her jaw line, further driving her into a relaxed state, 
“You know, all my life I had trouble staring relationships,” Lemon began to whisper “No matter what I did, nopony would want me, Sure, I had coltfriends, but every time I felt like things were so forced and I ended up breaking up with them after a week or so.” Lemon laid a hoof on her scaly necklace
“This thing... it’s like a collar... but, in a good way. It’s like, I feel like I belong, like something to be desired, kept, held tightly and never let go. Something that, I’ve never felt before... Not until I met you.” Lemon closed her eyes and nuzzled Pine’s tail around her neck
“...Master... take me...” she whispered.

‘Master’ Pine felt the spark of an idea. He gently rubbed the thick coil segment between Lemon’s legs, she gasped and looked up at Pine only to meet colourful pulsing spirals
“Let’s have some fun shall we, Lemon.” Pine said continuing to rub her gently across her back, stomach, neck and between her legs. Lemon twitched in pleasure as the spirals began to reflect in her eyes. She looked confused for a second then began to enjoy herself, leaning against Pine’s tail, Lemon’s eyes half closed trying her best to still look seductive to Pine despite the rings in her eyes, which were quickly picking up speed.

Pine grinned at her expression before moving his head to the right, Lemon followed, her smile falling away in open awe as Pine moved his head around, she was compelled to follow the spirals now and Pine enjoyed the cute moaning sounds she made from all the stimulations of pleasure, assaulting her body and mind. Pine’s tail fell down over Lemon’s body, temporarily blocking sight of the spirals so she recovered a bit, like large hula-hoops. Pine flexed his tail, pushing them into Lemon’s body, as her eyes immediately returned to watching his own
“So… How do you think this relationship is going?” Pine asked softly before leaning in to whisper “Because I’m happy with you.” Pine gently kissed Lemon’s muzzle and slowed the spirals down so she could speak, but not look away.

As Lemon’s trance faded down, she found enough willpower to form words. Just barely, though, the FULL body massage alone would make her almost incomprehensible
“It… it’s good,” Lemon stammered “I’m happy… to be yours… f…for…” The electricity of Pine’s tongue flicking across her snout almost rendered her speechless. Her mind was barely there already; all of Pine’s pleasuring was weakening her already meagre concentration
“…Forever…” Lemon managed.

Pine smiled letting his eyes speed up, Lemon’s mind crumbled under the onslaught of colours, massaging and the foreign pleasure of Pine’s scales against her vagina. Lemon smiled widely and Pine squeezed her gently before pushing her down so she lay on her back. Pine’s tail wrapped around the thighs of Lemon’s rear legs and Pine lay down on her stomach, eyes still lit up with spirals so she tried to look at him, grinning
“And I’m happy you’ll be mine, Lemon.” Pine said before moving back and kissing Lemon’s lower lips closing his eyes.

No longer able to see Pine’s eyes, Lemon had free reign over her head, which flopped back onto a pillow of coils and she gasped, mouth open, drooling slightly in pleasure. Lemon moaned then cried out, her whole body twitching with electricity. Pine had just forced his forked tongue into her vagina and it felt heavenly to her. The soft wet muscle twisting around inside, Pine marvelled at how sweet she tasted. Lemon sank into the coils, which were now rippling further pleasuring her, Lemon began to mumble something but Pine wasn’t listening, forcing his tongue deeper, he covered her mouth with his tail. She tried screaming but it came out as a slightly loud moan, Pine was splashed in the face by Lemon’s orgasm and he backed up looking at the mare. Pine licked his face grinning at Lemon, who had tears in her eyes, which were now clear of spirals, and was smiling mouth hanging open drooling in pleasure
“Okay, what would you like me to do now?” Pine asked moving his tail tip from around Lemon’s neck and moved it down and began to trace circles around her vagina to keep her exited.

Lemon was still reeling from her intense treatment. Her mind was awash in pleasure, both natural and hypnotically induced. Lemon gazed at Pine longingly, letting his handsome face fill her vision
“Let… Let me treat you…” she said. Lemon would have moved on her own, but she was still tightly wrapped up, enjoying the slight contraction and… other things that the tail was doing to make her feel good.

Pine blinked confused
“Er sure okay, let me just uncoil you…” Pine pulled his tail away, ending with a final rub to Lemon’s vagina making her shiver in delight, Pine chuckled
“You look so cute with a red tinge on your face,” Pine said “So… How are you going to treat me?” he asked.

Lemon immediately latched onto the nearest segment of Pine’s body with her limbs and, very slowly, began to drag her tongue across his belly scales. Lemon sensuously licked all around, before climbing a little and doing the same thing. Lemon’s lower legs were wrapped around Pine’s tail like a climbing rope and she was pressing against Pine’s tail, the smooth scales felt heavenly against her damp vagina. Lemon moaned often as she made her way up Pine’s tail.

Pine gasped, in a way it was similar to how Lemon had tickled his belly, not long ago, but this was different. Lemon had been trying to tickle him now she was doing something that felt incredibly strange and foreign to Pine
“So… hot…” Pine gasped staring at Lemon as she worked slowly towards his pony half “I’m c-confused… why are you doing-ah!” Pine gasped as Lemon began stroking his tail slowly pressing her body in as she crawled along, Pine’s mouth hung open in pleasure
“Wow… I didn’t realise this was what you meant by pony hypnosis.” Pine whispered sinking down into a sitting position.

Lemon continued her journey, admiring the bitter taste and smooth texture of Pine’s belly scales as if they were fine wine. Pine got so thick that Lemon had a bit of trouble hanging on, but her earth pony strength allowed her to grasp the soft muscles. Lemon was amazed at how it could feel as hard as rock while squeezing her, but still pleasurable, and yet so squishy when limp. Lemon was now beginning to approach Pine’s pony half, and she shuddered with anticipation.

Pine shivered when Lemon reached his penis, which had come out when his scales had slid down like an automatic door, in a v shape around where it would be if he were fully pony, from Lemon’s pleasuring. Lemon gently licked it staring at Pine her eyes half open grinning
“H-have you ever done this b-before… Because your goooooooohhhhhd” Pine sighed as Lemon gently kissed his penis, Pine gasped wondering if this was how Lemon had felt, a prisoner to mental and physical pleasure, unable to resist
“If you’re a miracle, it wouldn’t surprise me.” Pine managed.

Lemon felt encouraged by Pine’s moans and coos. Truth be told, she had never gotten so far with a stallion as to go down on them, but she had practised on bananas on lonely nights. Of course, this was very different from a fruit, but Lemon thought that she would do what came naturally, and stick to that decision with enthusiasm. Lemon licked Pine’s gargantuan Lamia penis from the base to the tip, rubbing it with her right hoof as she did so. The licking was interrupted occasionally with little loving kisses peppered randomly along Pine’s shaft. Once it was dripping with her warm saliva, Lemon took the tip into her mouth fully, allowing it to slide deep inside her oral cavity.

Pine gasped biting his bottom lip his head falling back onto a random coil and he twitched in pleasure. It was like Lemon was physically torturing him but a good kind of torture 
“Are you just going to lay there while she draws out every single last pitiful sound you can make and more?” Part of Pine’s mind said in defiance
“But… I don’t want her to stop!” Pine thought moaning loudly as Lemon began moving her mouth up and down his shaft, Lemon had her eyes closed and was rubbing her hoof along his shaft as well, whenever her mouth moved up, if Lemon kept going like this…

“No, Lemon…” Pine managed and Lemon looked up refusing to stop managing a, sort of, grin around Pine’s penis thinking he wanted her to stop “I don’t mean for you to stop,” Pine said causing Lemon to blink in confusion then she gasped around her fleshy gag as Pine forced his tail tip in between Lemon’s lower lips. Pine forced his tail as far deep as it would go, before turning it around on itself. Lemon moaned as Pine began to pump his tail inside her
“Who’s making the cute sounds now?” Pine asked managing a grin.

Lemon was once more in absolute ecstasy. The sensation of giving pleasure and being pleasured was almost too much. The feeling of Pine in both her mouth and vagina made her feel thrilled; she felt full as Pine’s penis reached deeper into her throat and his tail reached deeper into her womb. This satisfaction of having another pony inside you, could this be what Pine felt, when he consumed her the day before? Lemon continued to moan as she tended to Pine’s shaft, the guttural humming stimulating it even further. She didn’t know how much more she could take of this; already she was rapidly approaching a second orgasm.

Lemon began to speed up as if reaching a certain point
“Are you trying to last longer?” Pine asked trying to grin between his tears of pleasure, he had no idea when he’d started crying but he didn’t mind. Pine wasn’t going to lose to Lemon and her expert hoofing and licking… Okay maybe he was. But she’d follow immediately after. Pine began forcing his tail to trash around within Lemon causing her to twitch and speed up herself. Pine moaned
“L-Lemon I think I’m…” Pine moaned one last time before he surrendered to Lemon’s relentless pleasure onslaught “You win.” Pine managed as he let himself orgasm, his seed shooting into Lemon’s mouth. Pine relaxed and his tail went berserk within Lemon
“Enjoy yourself too.” Pine whispered drooling in pleasure.

Lemon greedily gulped down all of Pine’s sweet seed, the sensation of the warm goo travelling down her throat making her briefly wonder if it was possible for her to get pregnant from it. Until she was sure, she’d have to be careful; she wasn’t quite ready for foals, much less little Lamia’s. Regardless, her thoughts ceased as Pine’s thrashing tail drove her to a climax. The incredible pleasure flowed forth violently throughout her body, making her involuntarily buck and yell. Pine’s rapidly deflated member came out with a pop as she arched her back and moaned to the heavens. As the ecstasy passed she collapsed on Pine’s serpent body, unable to even move, her mind wracked with the aftermath of her pleasure.

Pine breathed heavily, feeling his member retreat behind its scaly walls again, he’d never done anything like this with a mare and high heaven wouldn’t compete. Pine attempted to recover feeling his tail soaking from Lemon’s own climax, he slowly pulled it out of her and she sighed softly
“I-I think we need to have a bath...” Pine grinned drunk on pleasure “Together?” he asked managing to sit up and look at Lemon, who had his seed all over her mouth and had an empty minded smile on her face as she stared at Pine.
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Pine’s words shattered the light pleasure based trance Lemon had been in
“S-sure...” Lemon panted, totally exhausted “But, there’s... no way you can fit in my tub.” She managed. Regardless, with wobbly hooves, Lemon led Pine up the stairs to her bathroom (With a bit of difficulty since Pine didn’t seem to work well with stairs). It was spacious, but not too large, and the yellow mare turned on the tap to fill her clamshell-shaped bathtub
“Tell me Pine, have you ever felt heated water before? I don’t know how many hot springs exist in the Everfree” Lemon said.

“Not a single one, as far as I know, and it’s dangerous to get near them for just drinking, so I generally have to make do standing in the rain sometimes,” Pine said watching the tub fill with water
“I don’t think you’ll need to fill it much since water rises when things get in...” Pine grinned “And I’ll be getting as much of my tail in as I can alongside you.” He said trying, and failing, for a seductive voice.

Lemon turned off the tap
“Yeah you’re right. Let me just slip inside first then” Lemon said crawling into the tub. Lemon lay on her back, the warm water barely covering her belly
“Slither in, big boy.” Lemon said smirking.

Pine grinned; climbing in behind Lemon he pushed her forward so that he could lay down behind her. Pine pulled Lemon back onto his chest, folding his hooves over her protectively; Pine let his tail climb in next. The coils piled along the base of the bath and over Lemon like a blanket, the coils then began to overlap with each other, making the water rise high until Pine’s tail no longer had any room to get in the bath, and Lemon was completely coiled from her rear hooves up to her high chest
“Alright you can start washing if you want now.” Pine said grinning; Lemon could only move her head at this point and Pine knew it too. Pine dipped his head under the water, savouring his first hot water bath. Still, if he had to take ice baths at least he’d have Lemon waiting to warm him up with her own body heat. Lemon had put up a fruitless, playful struggle and Pine chuckled, his hair sticking to his head in chops that were longer and shorter at some points, giving him a sort of vine growing on trees look
“Here, let me help you,” Pine said tipping Lemon back slowly, so she could hold her breath, as Pine dunked her underwater. Pine sat Lemon back up and began running his hooves through her mane
“Wow... It’s like silk, so soft.” Pine whispered, letting Lemon have her forelegs back.

“Thanks,” Lemon said, regaining her breath after having been submerged “I wash it every day. My mother said the key to good health is a clean mane.” Lemon tried turning, only to realise that her belly and hind legs were still held tightly in Pine’s grip. Suddenly, a slick idea crossed her mind. With a powerful sweep of her foreleg, Lemon playfully splashed Pine’s face, giggling.

Pine blinked the water out of his eyes
“You really want to down that path Lemon? There’ll be no water left in the bath after.” He said, playfully splashing her back with the end of his tail and hoof at the same time. Pine grabbed a bottle of shampoo and tipped it upside down over his hoof, unaware it was still closed
“Is it empty?” Pine shook it with his hooves “I think it ran out, Lemon.” He grumbled

Lemon gingerly grabbed the shampoo bottle with her mouth, flicking the end open with her hoof and squeezing some onto Pine’s ratty mane. Setting the bottle down on the lip of the tub, Lemon began to gently knead his mane with her forelegs
“Have you ever had a bath before? I don’t know if soapy things exist out in the wild.” Lemon said.

“No, I’ve taken a few showers in the rain but that’s it. In the Everfree you had to be ready to move and could almost never relax because you’d get your head bitten off. So I-ow- I don’t have very good hygiene, sorry. Though apparently Lamia’s are supposed to produce some sort of aroma that smells pleasant, I dunno I can’t tell… Anyway taking a bath in the Everfree was always dangerous so it wasn’t worth the risk. I just had to put up with the itchy hair, well until-ow- now.” Pine grunted in pain as Lemon forced out the knots in Pine’s hair that had formed from poor haircuts and other factors, such as traveling through the treetops.

Lemon giggled softly
“Well, you do smell nice,” Lemon took a moment to gently press her snout into the nape of Pine’s neck for a moment. Lemon continued to prod the lamia’s handsome, wild mane, trying to be as gentle as she could with it until she worked all the knots out. This snakepony would be presentable, even if it killed her!

Pine froze in shock when Lemon buried her muzzle in the back of his neck, blushing
“Thanks.” Pine whispered happily then made a sort of hiss-bark sound as a bucket of water was dumped on his head. Pine blinked and turned to look at Lemon
“Really?” he asked “Really?” Pine repeated.

“Yes, really. You wanted a bath, and I’m going to clean you until you’re spotless!” Lemon said as she gave one last look over at Pine’s now-clean mane. Lemon then turned her attention to his lower half, rubbing his smooth scales to clean out the dirt on and underneath then. She liked being squeezed, but she didn’t like how they always messed up her own fur.

Pine allowed his tail to move slowly over Lemon’s lap as she rubbed out the dirt between his scales. He always had trouble doing that because it was painful when he did it and resulted in lost scales, but Lemon seemed to know something Pine didn’t since she had a very gentle touch but could still get the dirt out. Pine lay back against the side of the tub and closed his eyes, enjoying the gentle massage Lemon was providing
“good thing the bandages are waterproof.” Pine mumbled to himself smiling blissfully as Lemon pampered him.

Lemon smiled as Pine’s tail curled over and around her, and gently went about her work cleaning Pine. It seemed to take ages, but she was able to give a full scrub down of Pine’s scales. Lemon hoped this would make him feel better, she wanted to clean his pony half’s fur, but decided against it. She didn’t want to mess up his bandages
“There all done. Now, you do me.” She said, shoving the bottle of fur shampoo in Pine’s face.

Pine caught the bottle with one hoof, opening his eyes her stared at it leaning back with the other
“Alright.” He said sliding back over to Lemon. Pine held up his tail beside him and began spreading little blobs of the shampoo over his tail, he smirked at Lemon as her worked his tail around her. Pine’s tail wrapped slowly around Lemon, brushing against her firmly, but not painfully. Foam began to form and fall into the water like sea waves, Pine rubbed the shampoo into Lemon’s hair staring at her as she sighed, Pine’s tail working expertly into her body to relax as well as clean her
“You enjoying yourself?” Pine asked smiling and marvelling at the mare’s soft coat. Unfortunately it seemed his mind was still hard-wired to the Everfree style of living and he was forced to think of a pain from before, a certain pony
“Lemon… Lilly was in the crowd of reporters earlier.” Pine whispered hoping the mare could comfort him. Pine wouldn’t admit it, but Lilly scared him more than hydra ever could. If only from her threat and knowledge that she would go through with it… After all he had the scar to prove she would.

Lemon couldn’t help but moan as Pine’s tail corkscrewed expertly around her, squeezing her soft belly and caressing her fur. It was like his scales had the perfect texture to scrub and massage the old day away
“yeah, I figured that was her,” Lemon said “Hopefully now that we’re in civilization she won’t try anything. The guards that police this town are few, but they’re very good at their job. If she tries to attack us, then the others will come to our aid. I’m more worried about if she takes the smart approach and tries to bring her case to them. I mean, there’s no proof of your claim, but a battle in court would be draining.” Lemon turned to face Pine, the soapy suds lubricating her scaly prison enough for her to turn in it “it isn’t the forest, where might makes right. Equestria is governed by laws, foremost of which is that pony shall never kill.” Lemon said softly, hoping to reassure her friend.

Pine touched his bandages, slightly doubting Lemon’s words
“I hope you’re right Lemon.” He whispered then grinned dumping a bucket of water on her head before bursting into laughter
“Your turn for that!” Pine managed grinning. With the bath complete Pine lifted Lemon out and pulled the plug, letting his pony half and a little bit of his tail stand beside Lemon
“So er, ways to dry? Because I doubt we can just sunbathe it off in winter.” Pine mumbled wiping water of his fringe.

Lemon trotted over to the nearby closet
“I have towels… But maybe not enough for your gargantuan length.” Lemon said as she opened it. Grabbed each towel with her teeth she flung them out and onto Pine and his tail “Just rub these on you until you dry off. Towels are one of ponykind’s greatest inventions!” Lemon said with a grin.

“I thought that tel-e-vis-ion was pretty cool.” Pine said the word slowly around his tongue, having never used the word before and had failed drastically before (Much to Lemon’s amusement). Pine began rubbing down his mane and fur, when he began drying of his tail Lemon managed to help him finish when he was only a small length down
“Alright so we’ve… Er, had some fun activities, bathed now what should…” a strange set of chiming sounds went off across the building and Pine blinked
“What was that?” Pine asked “Was it some sort of alarm, I’ve used pine cones for a similar use…” Pine tensed for a fight.

“Uuh, that’s the doorbell,” Lemon said as she quickly finished drying herself off “I’ll be right back!” Lemon galloped out of the bathroom and through the house, almost slamming into the door. Opening it carefully, she was greeted by the concerned face of her friend, Straw Stover
“Hayvens to Betsy Lemon, you’re alright!” Straw said, throwing her hooves around Lemon in an embrace, her tannish-brown fur complimented Lemon’s bright yellow well “I read that you were attacked by some monster in today’s newspaper! Are you alright!?” she asked, squeezing Lemon a little too hard
“Ack… Yeah… I’m fine,” Lemon wheezed out before Straw let up on her death grip “I wasn’t attacked either, it was actually he who was attacked. Also, Pine’s not a monster, that’s his name.” Lemon explained.

Pine blinked in surprise as Lemon simply vanished so fast a dust bunny form of herself was left staring at the surprised brown stallion. Pine looked at the stairs, hearing faint voices below, Pine gripped the railing working his way slowly down the stairs… Which ended about as well as you’d imagine a giant, half snakepony going down stairs would. Pine slipped forward and did a very impressive combat roll, sadly, since he had a massive snake tail, it just resulted in a large coil across his face. Pine smacked into the opposite wall, his tail trailing down with him, some still lying along and up the stairs. Pine groaned in pain, facing the ceiling
“Sorry Lemon.” Pine grumbled rubbing his forehead, he jumped at the sudden scream at his entrance.

“There it is!” Straw cried as she let go of Lemon and stood between her and the jumbled Pine, taking a defensive stance “Monster! Leave this pony alone!” Lemon was shocked at her friends display
“Straw stop it! I already said Pine’s not a monster, clam down!” Lemon said, giving her friend a little bonk on the head with her hoof
“ow… I just… I just worry sometimes.” Straw said rubbing her skull
“You worry TOO much, Straw. I’m a big mare, I can take care of myself.” Lemon said, rolling her eyes. Straw was a nice pony, but she was a little too narrow minded sometimes. Lemon trotted over to the messy tangled Pine, shoving the coil off his dazed face
“Pine, this is Straw Stover. Straw, this is Pine wood.” She said flatly “Please, introduce yourselves and let’s put this little misunderstanding behind us.” She said glancing between the two.

Pine managed to stand up again, rubbing his muzzle, he politely nodded
“Hello Straw,” he said managing to smile, he then looked at Lemon
“I’m a big mare? Really, that sounds so foalish.” Pine chuckled at Lemon’s red face, before turning to make sure the rest of his tail didn’t tumble down the rest of the stairs
“And, Miss Straw, I think you have every right to call me a monster… Because it is what I really am. Lemon just denies it.” Pine said softly “But I wouldn’t ever harm her, nor let anypony else do so.” Pine said and chuckled nervously “Well… I’d do better outside and not fighting atop stairs, obviously.” He said smiling sheepishly piling his tail around the floor.

Straw stood a little transfixed at the monstrous creature before her. Snakes always creeped her out, and the sight of this ‘Pine’ fellow sliding the rest of himself down the stairs made Straw’s legs shake a little bit in fear. Still, she had to be strong for her friend
“Uhh… Hi… Mr. Pine,” Straw said, cautiously extending her hoof “I’m Straw Stover. It’s a… pleasure… to meet… you…” Straw’s voice had a slight quiver to it.

Pine grunted shaking her hoof, looking at Lemon
“Why does everypony call me Mr. Pine? Do I look old?” Pine smiled anyway, then blinked at Straw
“Straw, you don’t have to be afraid of me,” Pine smiled slightly “I’m very tame.” He said, tapping his hooves nervously together. It was like Lemon again, except Lemon had worked out, this seemed more like fragile glass and hypnosis wouldn’t necessarily work as glue… Though it could.

“Hmm…” Straw muttered as she just looked at Pine with concern “So, what’s the deal here?” she asked, not prying her eyes off the creature that was before her
“Well Straw, I was in the Everfree looking for a rare plant. Pine came along and helped me find it.” Lemon decided it would be a good idea to leave out some of the ‘details’ about that day “We did, but he was attacked my some unknown assailant. I ended up dragging him to the town’s hospital, and now I guess I’m taking care of him until his wounds heal, at the very least.” Lemon explained.

“Uh… huh…” Straw said, preferring not to ask questions and get any deeper into this mess “So how long is that going to be?” she asked
“Don’t know,” Lemon said “But, I don’t mind,” she said leaning closer to Pine “He is pretty nice.” Straw was a little shocked
“Lemon don’t tell me you’re starting to date monsters now. If you were desperate, you know my brother thinks you’re pretty.”
“Harvest is a nice stallion but…” Lemon began to trail off
“Alright, alright, I get it.” Straw groaned audibly. Lemon was never the mare to make smart decisions. Still, the way she followed her heart was a little admirable, Straw just wished that her friend thought things over before jumping at them. Suddenly, Straw’s nose began to twitch. She took a little whiff, admiring the exotic scent that seemed to pervade the air. Was it this creature? “You get a new wax candle, Lemon?” she asked out of curiosity.

Pine didn’t know whether to be embarrassed or jealous of this Harvest pony. Though Pine was thankful for Lemon cutting out the major details of their meeting
“Oh the Ether… We left it back in the valley,” Pine mumbled “Forgot.” He apologised then Straw asked about the scent
“Oh sorry that’s me, it’s just an aroma we naturally produce I’m not entirely sure why but ponies seem to like it.” Pine muttered to himself “Like scented hypnosis.” Pine mulled that over, it could possibly work like that, the mares did look a bit… absent minded… Maybe a small suggestion
“Hay Straw, you? Do you want to sit down, you look like you’re going to fall over.” Pine said.

“Huh… Yeah.” Straw mumbled, sitting on her rump right there. She didn’t like how Pine used the term ‘hypnosis’ she thought that kind of stuff was hogwash, something stage magicians tricked audiences with. Still, she was feeling a little woozy. Lemon, however, was a little used to the smell, but breathed it in readily. It was aromatic, and she knew she could trust Pine
“So, he doesn’t eat ponies, right?” Straw asked, still letting the aroma enter her nostrils.

Pine looked nervously at Lemon
“I, er- I try to not make a habit of it.” Pine said half-jokingly, half-nervously “Hay Lemon, you think I should show Straw some of my, ah, special talents, with my eyes?” Pine asked with slight playful smile.

“Go right ahead,” Lemon said chuckling~
“Huh… I don’t like the sound of this… What are you two planning?” Straw asked, a little nervous, but the aroma seemed to make her feel a little excited about whatever was coming.

Pine leaned towards the nervous mare, slowly, the colours began to overlap his original eye colours. They softly glowed demanding attention of anypony who glanced at them
“It’s alright Straw, just watch and enjoy.” Pine whispered soothingly. Pine kept his tail away from the mare taking it slowly, too much and she might reject the hypnosis and fight, too little and it’d have no effect on her, but it clearly was affecting her, the hypnosis, Straw was accepting the comforting colours into her mind, clearly, since her eyes had begun to slowly pulse themselves.

Straw moaned, a little surprised at the display, but Lemon was here, she wouldn’t let anything bad happen
“…Okay… Sure…” Straw mumbled, simply gazing into Pine’s strange eyes. Lemon looked at the display; it was weird to see another pony get hypnotised, still, she knew Straw would enjoy it, in the end. It truly was a unique experience.

“I’m going to start coiling you up now, that okay?” Pine nodded his head slightly, causing Straw to copy him. Pine smirked, his tail wrapped slowly around the brown mare’s rear hooves, working slowly up to her body. Pine worked his coils into Straw’s muscles, she was clearly a worked. Even under relaxing stimulation she was tense
“You should try relaxing more often.” Pine whispered getting closer to the mare causing her mouth to hang open in awe as her mind self-consciously battled for control. A battle it would lose. Pine moved his head in slow clockwise motions making Straw follow groggily, his tail worked further up her body, rippling all along releasing the tension from Straw’s body. Pine’s hypnosis wrapped around Straw’s mind more and more and she grew less and less tense as he continued, the spirals in both their eyes increasing steadily in speed and number, Pine’s to further relax Straw faster, Straw’s as she lost more control. Pine reached into Straw’s foggy, sluggish mind and read a wisp of a thought
“So, do you believe in hypnosis now?” Pine asked the mare as his tail reached the base of her neck, snaking around it slowly, his tail tightening all along her body, getting a firm grip.

Straw gulped as Pine’s tail gave her entire body a massive squeeze. She felt helpless, defenceless, completely surrounded in both body and mind by Pine
“No…” was all the uttered before Straw gave in, plummeting deep into a happy mindless trance
“Wow Pine, impressive!” Lemon said, averting her gaze so that she wouldn’t fall victim as well “Five minutes, that was expertly done.” Lemon said.

“That’s actually quite a while, some Lamia’s could hypnotise a pony in under a minute but Straw,” Pine flexed his tail and the mindless mare cooed happily, Pine’s eyes winding down “She has a phobia I think, so I went slow…” Pine grinned glancing at Lemon “She still thinks hypnosis isn’t real… How should we prove it to her? I can literally make her do anything; bark like a dog, make her think she’s a princess in a war room,” Pine smirked at Lemon “I could even make her kiss you.” He said chuckling at Lemon’s face “So, suggestions Lemon?” Pine asked.

Lemon giggled
“I don’t know, Straw has been calling in a lot of favour lately, I suppose she owes me one.” The yellow mare trotted up to her friend as she stared blankly into space, her eyes racing still
“I suppose the first thing to do would be to hypnotise her to not be afraid of you anymore. You can make it so your suggestion lasts even out of trance, right?” Lemon asked as she pinched Straw’s cheeks, forcing her to make a silly face.

“Yeah I can, but see, there’s a catch to it. You have to give specific orders and the pony cannot feel any physical pain after the hypnosis, otherwise its effects brake. And I doubt that will happen,” Pine chuckled as Lemon messed with her hypnotised best friends face “I think it’ll just do her good to have this much physical and mental happiness, in the coils of a snake, for her phobia.” Pine blushed “Plus Lilly… I’m kinda scared of post-hypnotic suggestion cause of her.” Pine cleared his throat
“So, what you want her to do?” Pine asked again, gently flexing his tail, causing Straw to gasp in pleasure, her mouth hung open in pure blissful happiness.

“Well maybe not kissing me… But we can make her have a crush on you too!” Lemon said, blushing intently “I mean, it’s not uncommon for stallions to herd fillyfriends, and besides, I like you enough to want you to be happy.” Lemon’s face red, she leaned up against Pine “Come on, don’t you want to be called master by TWO attractive mares?” she asked seductively.

Pine blushed, his ears turning red
“W-well okay,” she did have a point with the ‘two mars calling him master’ comment
“We can always change her mind if you get annoyed but..” Pine leaned towards Straw “She’ll probably just get addicted to my pleasuring.” Pine whispered a command
“When I next kiss you, your body will explode with irresistible pleasure.” Pink blinked, sometimes commands had to be simple “Basically, cum when I kiss you, first time only though.” Pine summed up. Pine cut the hypnosis off from Straw and she looked confused for a second. Pine darted forward and forced his tongue into her still gaping mouth, wrapping around her own tongue. This was going to be a cute reaction.

“W-wha…?” was all that Straw managed to get out before Pine planted his lips on hers and a surge of pleasure exploded in her veins. Straw’s eyes shot wide open at the surprise, before closing as she moaned into Pine’s mouth, it was like she could taste directly the intoxicating aroma from before, and each constriction of her own tongue made her almost squeal. She thrashed around in her scaly prison, not from resistance, but from pure, indescribably pleasure. The high lasted until Pine broke the kiss, Straw gazed emptily into space, panting, letting her drool drip from the corner of her mouth
“Whoa… Nice… Trick…” Straw panted “Now… I know why… Lemon took so fondly to you…” she managed.

Pine grinned, licking his lips, Lemon definitely tasted better, but Straw was still delicious
“You sure it’s not just my lovely personality?” Pine asked sarcastically. Pine looked over at Lemon and grinned. Pine coiled a large loop around Lemon quickly and, before she could fully realise what was happening, lifted her up, loosened the coils around Straw and dropped her next to her friend. Pine pushed the pair onto the floor and lay on top, grinning
“So girls, what do you want to do?” Pine asked, his eyes flashing with beautiful colours briefly, turning the pair on. His tail also flexing and kneading the pair. This was going to be fun.

Lemon giggled as she was dropped into Pine’s coils and pressed up to her friend
“It seems that Master has taken a liking to you.” Lemon giggled Straw’s brow furrowed a little. Though she was still drunk from pleasure, she was a little worried
“M-master? I don’t know…” she mumbled, before she once more saw a brief taste of Pine’s hypnotic ability “Master? Sure!” she said with earnest now. It just seemed so right to throw caution to the wind here. Perhaps this kind of abandon that fuelled Lemon
“We’ll do anything you want, Master Pine.” Lemon said, as Pine’s powerful, crushing coils pressed her comfortably against Straw.

Pine smiled and sat down, uncoiling the pair
“Lemon, how’s about you pleasure Straw, Straw you pleasure me,” Pine smirked “Don’t worry you’ll figure it out, and I’ll pleasure Lemon.” Pine lowered his tail leading up to his pony body under both mare’s, pushing Lemon further back. Rubbing against the pair’s vagina’s, both mares moaned and Pine mentally sent instructions o Straw on what to do, using the lingering hypnosis like a messaging road. Well it was more a repeat of what Lemon had done earlier, but what wasn’t broken you don’t fix. Straw crawled forward, lying down on Pine’s tail, Pine himself smiling, his eyes began to openly pulse, drawing both mares into his way of thinking
“Lemon, how’s about you abuse Straw form behind.” Pine said, coiling the end of his tail around and pushing the tip into Lemon’s plot, forcing her forward against Straw’s flank
“Let’s see what happens to two turned on, hypnotised mares.” Pine mumbled devilishly.

Spirals began to fill both mares’ eyes, compelling them to crawl forward towards the source of their mesmerizing power. Lemon stared crawling first, a bit more used to the hypnosis and ‘encouraged’ by Pine’s tail. Straw was less used to it, still dazed from her trance from before, but started crawling along too, once she felt Lemon’s snout pressed into her vagina. Lemon’s friend, without breaking eye contact, lowered her head and began to lick along Pine’s belly as she crawled along.

Pine smiled, letting of a soft hiss in pleasure, his eyes sped up from the faint stimulation of Straw’s licking. Thankfully neither of the mares were putting up much resistance since, normally, hypnotising two ponies at once could be a headache, but they were very… Submissive to it. Pine’s scales slid down around the area they joined his pony half and his member popped out and he blushed, but shivered slightly in anticipation as Straw got closer.

The two mares crawled along as if they were a train on Pine’s scaly tracks, their hooves gripping hard into the soft squishy muscle. Straw hesitated when her nose pressed up against the lamia’s long penis, but Lemon’s encouragement drove her to drag her tongue slowly from the base to the tip, before enveloping it with her mouth. All the while, both mares continued to stare into Pine’s hypnotic gaze, the spirals in their eyes quickening as his did, plunging them ever deeper into the spell.

Pine groaned as Straw worked his penis into her mouth, licking against it. Pine shivered letting his eyes speed up to a maddening pace. Both mares submitted to the hypnosis, washing them in a wave of irresistible pure ecstasy. Pine enjoyed forcing his tail into Lemon’s plot and rubbing her vagina with his tail, several coils wrapping around her and squeezing the helpless mare, further relaxing her in her already docile state. Straw, however, was left with close range spirals in her eyes, which were reflecting all the pleasure Pine was receiving and giving, driving her mad with pleasure.

Lemon moaned as Pine’s tail contorted around her, forcing the air from her lungs. She didn’t mind though; she was too deep in trance to notice any discomfort, only the simple pleasure of being hugged by her master. The yellow mare’s hot breath on Straw’s marehood made her shiver, but Pine’s hypnotic spirals calmed her body and mind. Straw was so drunk with pleasure that she could barely move her head, just letting Pine’s penis rest as deep as it could go without her choking as she let her mind mix with his through the mesmerizing spell. She couldn’t think, she didn’t want to think, all she knew was that her master’s eyes were the source of this irresistible joy.

Pine grunted, Straw wasn’t moving up and down like Lemon had earlier, but she was licking his penis like a lolly pop and it was driving him insane. With a final lick to his tip, Pine scaled over the edge and let his semen go fourth. The pleasure of release spread to both mares and Pine’s tail thrashed against Lemon’s plot and vagina. Pine flopped back smiling open mouth in ecstasy as he let his seed shoot in Straw’s mouth. When he stopped he looked at both mares, who were moaning in pleasure string at Pine, eyes still spiralling in their hypnotic trances. Pine pushed Straw gently off his still erect member and looked ta Lemon, who was lying with her hooves wrapped around Pine’s tail, the tip lying beside her, limp and covered in her own love
“Lemon… Come here.” Pine whispered pulling Straw to his side for the moment so Lemon could climb up and sit in front of her master.

Straw was so deep in her hypnotic trance that her orgasm didn’t even faze her, her exhausted body resting mindlessly where it was shoved onto a pile of Pine’s coils. She lay there, her mouth dripping with Pine’s essence, as Lemon heeded the lamia’s command. She was reeling too, but the effects of the trance compelled her to obey. It was like Pine’s words were the only coherent thoughts in the cacophony of her mind right now. Lemon crawled up closed to her master’s pony half, still mostly resting on his soft, smooth belly scales.

Pine wrapped his hooves around Lemon and pulled her close, Pine wrapped a single coil around Lemon’s waist to help hold her up but Pine didn’t pin her down
“Wake up Lemon, we’re about have some serious fun.” Pine purred into Lemon’s ear, gently brushing his lips against it. Pine leaned back and watched the spirals slowly recede in Lemon’s eyes as the trance faded. Though Straw remained docile on her pile of coils.

Pine’s words made Lemon’s trance melt all around her, and, as if waking up from a dream, her muddled senses slowly grew sharper until she could once more make sense of the world. She opened her eyes slowly, now completely free of spirals, proof that she was once again fully conscious. The yellow mare pecked Pine on the lips
“See?” she asked “Wasn’t that fun?” though, based on what she had heard in her trance, it seemed like had something else in mind.

Pine pressed his forehead against Lemon’s, grinning
“Oh, we haven’t even started yet Lemon.” Pine whispered, forcing his member into her vagina with a soft squelch. Pine groaned closing his eyes and smiling at the soft and damp interior of Lemon. The coil around Lemon constricted slightly as did Pine’s hooves around her
“So… Ready to go for real?” Pine asked the surprised mare.

“Y-yes!” Lemon managed to squeak out. The sudden intrusion was still warm from her previous orgasm, and feeling Pine actually inside her was exhilarating
“Heh… Yesterday I was inside you…” Now you’re inside me…” Lemon groaned out, her powerful flank muscles now beginning to buck up and down. The pressure created by Pine’s coil made her feel his stallionhood even better; she mused that it must be like an iron cast for him, given the tightness.

Pine moaned audibly
“You make it… Sound extra dirty.” Pine panted bouncing Lemon slightly on his penis. The pleasure leaked out from Pine’s mind to Straw’s, she had no order per-say, but the pleasure caused her to lower her hoof to her vagina and begin rubbing in time with Pine’s thrusting. Pine gasped as Lemon landed against the base of his shaft and kissed her to stop himself making any more loud noises. Didn’t need to wake the street. Pine wrapped his tongue around Lemon’s, passionately rubbing it up and down and squeezing her tongue. Pine began to thrust faster, Straw rubbing herself faster as a result. Pine couldn’t breathe fast enough and managed to pull back
“Lemon Glaze you-aaahhhhh- You are an a-amazing mare,” Pine gently kissed Lemon “And I love you.” He managed his eyes rolling up in his head as he tried to resist the unstoppable waves of pleasure.

“I love… You too…” Lemon gasped feeling a rush. She had given pine a chance, and he had not disappointed. Still, it felt good to acknowledge that she felt genuine attraction to him. Lemon’s forelegs gripped him tightly, almost as tightly as his coil gripping her, thanks to Lemon’s earth pony strength. She felt Pine’s member burning within, and Lemon squeeze her abdominal muscles to further message Pine as he impaled her. Off to the side, Straw felt Pine’s thoughts as well
“I love… You too…” she muttered as her hoof continued to go a mile a minute.

Pine smiled, letting Lemon into his life had been one of the greatest things to ever happen to him, she was an amazing mare. Though pine was a little embarrassed about Straw’s comment he still smiled, letting his tail tip slide over to the second mare and insert itself into Straw. Pine looked back at Lemon
“To a happy future.” Pine managed to say between his moans before he let the tide of pleasure wash over him. Pine almost screamed at the amazing pleasure of releasing, and Straw was given the exact same feelings, plus her own pleasure from her hoof and Pine’s tail, causing her to scream. The neighbours MIGHT be having a few ideas what they were up to later.

Both Lemon and Straw squealed with orgasms of their own, both feeling only love for this wonderful lamia. Lemon felt Pine’s warm seed within her, and she felt a comforting pleasure that almost matched that of a trance. Straw, however, was having her mind annihilated by Pine’s tail squirming within her. She kicked and flopped, no longer acting on any conscious though, but only pure primal reflex. Lemon too the moment to kiss Pine deeply as she rode back down form her high, mercilessly attacking the interior of Pine’s mouth with her tongue for a change. As she once more began to come to her senses, she broke the kiss and looked lovingly at Pine
“To a happy future,” she whispered, before glancing down to see pine’s seed leaking out of her “…Do you think ponies and lamias can breed together?” Lemon asked inquisitively.

“Summer time.” Pine mumbled holding onto Lemon like a large teddy bear, his tail coiling over Straw and massaging her, her pleasure on a loop since Pine had cut the connection after he orgasmed. Pine pulled away from Lemon gently, his member retreating back behind its scaly wall
“Maybe again later.” He mumbled to himself smirking ta Lemon, as more of his tail moved over ready to coil up Lemon.

Lemon, not understanding the summer time comment, shrugged, if she did get pregnant with a foal, she’d cross that bridge when she came to it. She looked at her friend, still stuck in her trance. Lemon was a little worried, but happy. She knew that Straw was having the time of her life. Perhaps if Pine kept this up this kind of treatment, he could brainwash her into loving him even out of a trance. Being a part of a big herd was a flattering thing in Ponyville; Lemon needed to show her new coltfriend to all of her friends. But, not now. Much later. Lemon instead was content to gaze at Pine’s dextrous snake half, the massive river of coils contorting hungrily, desiring a warm body to hold. A warm body that she would happily provide.

Pine smiled
“Sorry I guess my ‘summer time’ comment wasn’t very specific. Lamias have a…” Pine blinked blushing “Well a mating season, we get a sudden urge to… Well, mate, we can’t really have foals at any other time so we’re good for now.” Pine said looking down at Lemon who was eyeing his coils
“Would you like to take a seat?” Pine asked letting go of Lemon and pulling the single coil around her over her head like a hoop. Lemon fell down, landing sat down on a bean bag pile of coils before Pine tightened his hold on the yellow mare. Pine grinned at Lemon, coiled from hooves to neck. He slid behind Lemon then glanced over at Straw’s audible moan, she was still rubbing her hoof against herself
“oops, forgot about Straw.” Pine said coiling his tail around Straw and lifted her over to sit beside Lemon’s left. Straw was frowning, unable to clop she couldn’t fill out her last order. Pine leaned down and whispered softly into Straw’s left ear, hidden from Lemon
“I’m going to let you go from the hypnotic trance, after you are fully back in control of your body and mind I want you to randomly orgasm, pleasure flooding your mind for a solid minute, okay?” Pine whispered. Pine leaned back moving between the pair
“Straw, wake up.” Pine said and the spirals began to recede in Straw’s eyes.

Straw began to wake up from her trance, exhausted
“I… Wha…” she managed as she came out, before she suddenly squealed from pleasure of yet another orgasm. This one was all mental; it as pure pleasure coursing through her veins. Her blood boiled as her legs buckled and she fell down into the pile of coils, her hooves kicking wildly over the course of the full minute. When the pleasure subsided, Straw weakly turned her head towards Pine
“Cr…Cr…M…Mon…Mon…Master…” was all that she could vocalize. Straw had literally never felt anything so good in her whole life.

Pine chuckled at Straw’s mental battle to not call him master, before he began to let his tail knead at both ponies, Pine using his hooves as well for Lemon
“Well, I think that was a lot of fun girls, I think I quite like living with you Lemon.” Pine said constricting his whole tail against Lemon, her bones clicking into place. Pine expertly worked his tail into all the parts of the mares’ bodies that would be physically exhausted and sore from walking and labour, rubbing out their weariness like a cloth being ringed out for water.

Lemon closed her eyes and moaned. It was like Pine knew exactly how to mould her body. To be kneaded while in his thick, crushing coils… It was a humbling experience. Lemon didn’t doubt for a second that a fully-grown pony would fit inside several times. Good thing Pine wasn’t THAT much of a monster. As Lemon dozed off into a relaxing daydream, Straw struggled feebly against Pine’s tail
“So this is your plan. Hypnotise mares, tenderize them, and eat them?” she asked half-defiantly “Pretty good plan, monster, but it won’t work on me.” Straw tried to unravel Pine’s powerful tail, but it was no use. She just relaxed and gave in to the wondrous massage, even smiling a little when the tip of Pine’s tail crept around her neck, forming a collar
“Oooh… Don’t forget about my hind legs Master” Straw moaned the word like a lover might.

Pine burst out laughing at Straw’s last comment, going from accusation to… Well that, it was simply funny to Pine
“You’re going to eat us? Don’t forget about my hind legs!” Pine said between laughs, he took a deep breath laughing a little every so often. Pine began to squeeze his tail in a gently rhythm up and down both mares bodies, if they thought about it closely it was much like how his eyes began, slowly and gently picking up speed and power as the hypnosis moved along ,wrapping around their minds like his tail was their bodies. Pine continued to brush Lemon’s fur with his hooves, treating her like a Queen, but still treating Straw similarly as well
“Straw, I have no plans to eat any mares…” Pine paused looking down at Lemon “Unless they want me too.” Pine smirked “As for hypnotising mares, I just wanted to calm you down around me, Lemon suggested the extra fun time.” Pine said chuckling at Lemon’s blushing face
“And tell me Straw… If I was really as bad a monster as you say and think I am… Why would I be so nice to you both, as too massage you?” Pine asked, pressing his tail in, drawing air out of Straw’s lungs gently making her gasped, the traces of hypnosis spiking a little pleasure through her mind, as if to remind her of what it felt like.

Straw froze for a moment as Pine squeezed, her eyes shooting open as she once more began to feel the flash of Pine’s hypnotic power
“I love you…” the lamia’s voice whispered in the back of her mind. Even though Straw knew that was meant for Lemon, it was still a little comforting, just as this little bout of constriction was scarily pleasant
“…I guess not” Straw exasperated. When Pine squeeze her, she noticed her defiance fade away. It was like the tighter he squeeze, the more she felt under his power
“See Straw, Pine’s so nice…” Lemon said, her eyes still closed as she enjoyed her ‘master’s’ attention.

Pine smiled at Lemon’s comment, leaning around he gently kissed her. Pine sighed, it seemed life had finally given him a break. No more looking over his back to see if something was going to take his head off, no curling up in the cold. He had a very good close friend, maybe more, in Lemon and a slightly blooming friendship with Straw. Pine worked his tail into both mares happily, massaging them into soft putty. Though Lemon was much easier to do that to, Straw’s resistance was certainly enjoyable, if only to break her down and let her enjoy
“Hay Lemon… Does Straw have any secret fetishes of something she enjoyed, like you did with me kissing your hoof?” Pine asked smirking as Straw looked over, slightly, fearfully.

“Hmm, I don’t know…” Lemon mumbled absentmindedly thinking
“h-hey!” Straw said weakly in protest. Her cheek were on fire. She tried struggling, but was too relaxed to even move, let alone fight against Pine’s massive muscle. Silence pervaded the room, Lemon thinking, Pine waiting patiently for her answer and Straw blushing furiously as her mind tried to make her speak what she wanted. Finally Straw gave in
“…Squeeze… Squeeze me tightly… Really tightly…” Straw whispered, defeated. If she was trapped then she might as well enjoy it. It’s like she resist her… Master… Straw shook her head. She didn’t truly believe that… Right?

Pine smiled, a constriction fetish, how cute
“Sure, deep breath Straw.” Pine whispered as his tail began to slowly tighten. It started with the gently squeeze he used for massaging (Which he was still doing to Lemon.) then progressed past that. Straw breathed out and Pine tightened ever so slightly more, making it difficult for Straw to breathe in again. When she exhaled a second time Pine tightened a little more, this process continued until Pine reached a point he decided bordered on safe for Straw, she couldn’t get full air but she wouldn’t be in much pain. If she decided she’d had enough she could easily speak and opt out, this whole time Pine’s tail had sped up massaging Lemon from its pleasure of squeezing Straw. Holding and massaging a pony was good, but feeling their little hear flutter against his tail was an amazing feeling, one he rarely got to have since it often scared ponies. Then again he could get away with al to using hypnosis on Lemon. Pine’s tail had sped up so much, squeezing and relaxing Lemon, it was almost like a constant wave, his coils went; squeeze, loosen, squeeze, loosen all up Lemon’s body switching over rapidly it was probably nearly as effective as a light trance on Lemon
“So how do you feel?” Pine purred softly as Straw took rapid breathes and Lemon moaned almost constantly.

“Amazing.” Both mares said in unison, though Straw was little short of breath. She could barely even talk, but the pressure around her felt incredible. For the first time in her life, she felt totally weak and helpless, and it was intoxicating
“C-could you… E-enclose me?” she managed to weakly ask, blushing. Lemon on the other hand, was putty in Pine’s coils. The intense sensations made her drift on the border of sleep and the waking world. She could barely think, only feel
“Master… Please… Whisper commands into my ear…” The yellow mare whispered quietly.

Pine started with Lemon, uncoiling her forelegs
“Stroke your master’s coils, since he is so kind as to massage you, return the favour.” Pine whispered before turning to the, short of breath, Straw. Pine slid over to her and sat in front of her
“You want to be enclosed in a cocoon of coils, huh?” Pine asked and smiled widely “Who am I to deny what you want Straw.” Pine whispered. Pine lifted Straw up, she was straightened out, her hind legs facing down, her forelegs at her side, the tightness restricting her breathing, relaxing slightly to allow this. Pine added a set of coils around Straw’s hind legs, the first wrapping up the last part that was sticking out, the others forming a sort of cone blocking out air and pressing against her hooves. Pine brought down a ring of coils, one at a time, over Straw’s head, covering her slowly. Pine’s first coil covered over her mouth but left a gap between her nose to breathe, the second left her with a sliver of light poking through the top of her eyes. Pine moved up looking through the small gap
“Just struggle if you want out.” Pine said softly, Straw managed a small, eager nod and Pine covered her eyes and two final coils covered her head. If anypony walked in they’d seen a single mare massaging a giant snakeponies coils and a giant lump of coils in a cocoon. They be unaware that mare was hidden underneath, being worshipped by the coils all over, squeezing her, constricting tightly, restricting her breathing. How the cocooned mare liked it.

Straw was in absolute heaven. All around her she felt Pine’s cool, smooth scales press into her, massaging her, caressing her, bringing her to new heights of joy. She was completely immobile, though she didn’t mind. She wanted to struggle a little, just to feel even more helpless, but decided against it to prevent Pine from unravelling too early. Straw especially enjoy the lamia tightening around her skull; when she opened her eyes, all she could see was the faintly illuminated scales. She never noticed how beautiful they looked, so well organized into overlapping rows. The more she thought about it, the more she began to reason that letting Pine be her master wasn’t such a bad idea after all. Outside the mass, Lemon wasted no time in rubbing the coil in front of her
“Yes master, I obey…” she said flirtatiously.

Pine smiled letting his tail enjoy the warmth of Straw, which was confined within the cocoon so none of it would escape. Meanwhile Pine positioned himself above Lemon and tapped her head gently so she looked up at him
“I’m going to start hypnotising you,” Pine whispered, to which Lemon shivered in anticipation smiling “Hold on, I want you to resist as much as possible. Not like last time with your eyes half closed, I want you to put as much effort in to resisting as you can… But don’t look away. Trust me it’s MUCH more pleasurable to fight it than submit… Though under I could make it better, but that’d be beside the point. So Lemon, resist. Ready?” Pine asked smirking.

Lemon braced herself, this would be a fun challenge
“You’re on!” she said enthusiastically. She’d give it her all.

Pine placed Lemon gently on the ground uncoiling her
“You’ll have to let me coil around you, if you do we’ll know you’re losing.” Pine said with a slight grin. Pine closed his eyes and when they re-opened rapidly swirling colours began to pulse slowly over Pine’s eyes, Lemon’s eyes instinctively locked with them even if she tried to look away. Pine smirked, he had her attention, Lemon was likely putting up mental walls now, so he’d have to break them. Pine moved his head in slow clockwise motions and Lemon was forced to follow his eyes, her head copying his movements sluggishly. Pine began to bob his pony half around, cause his snake half to dance. He even began to sing a soft lullaby
“Please go to sleep, please go to sleep. Sleep dear Lemon where it’s so peace.” Pine whispered the song softly dragging out the last word and the s’ sound in the word to sooth Lemon
“Let me know when you want me to start coiling you up.” Pine whispered

Lemon gazed deeply into Pine’s eyes, wanting the soothing joy of a trance, but she’d made a promise. Lemon fought back, resisting with all her willpower as she tried to think of things to divide her attention. Cakes? Puppies? The feel of good ceramic underneath her hooves, anything… It seemed to be working, she was dwindling, but only very slowly. She still remained lucid in her thoughts, even though Pine’s dance and his singing tempted her dangerously
“I…Is that all you’ve…G-got?” she said, repelling the marvellous colours from the deeper recess of her mind.

Pine grinned, his eyes speeding up to an alarming pace. Pine jerked around, Lemon followed throwing her slightly off balance causing her to sway. Pine began to dance form side to side making Lemon sway, like a hypnotists watch
“Oh, I have many tricks I could use, you just have to let me use my tail. Don’t you want to feel utter pleasure Lemon? All you have to do is ask.” Pine whispered, moving closer so the spirals were almost all she could see, Pine still bobbing about making it hard for Lemon to focus, her body demanding the attention needed to move with Pine.

Back and forth, back and forth… Lemon couldn’t help but follow Pine’s tantalizing display. All she could see, all she could think, was the magical colours that bombarded her mind. Her head was getting dizzy form all the movement, and each motion of her body felt like she was made of lead
“…No…P-Please…” Lemon moaned. She would fight to the bitter end. The light-trappings of trance were beneficial; since she was starting to be in a dreamlike state, her mind could imagine itself in a scenario where it was battling in the deep jungle for survival. It helped Lemon to focus a bit, even though she felt a twinge of fear, thinking that she would be the prey in her imagination.

Fight all she might, the hypnosis would win. Even if Pine had to play dirty, he’d said no using his tail without permission but he had another plan, Lemon was still very open too… Suggestion. Pine spun around Lemon, who copied turning in two circles following Pine, refusing to break eye contact. Lemon was left dizzy and swaying on the spot having difficulty standing
“Careful Lemon, you don’t want to fall. How’s about you let me hold you up. It’s so difficult to stand up by yourself isn’t it? You have to constantly be on your hooves, walking so much that they ache all the time, don’t you want to be able to rest them? Let lift you off the ground, support your weight. Just say the word and I’ll help you relax.” Pine whispered, his tail tightening around Straw, reminding him why he was doing this; to have a second pony in his coils. Lemon would break soon, she’d been spun, jerked around and then the effects of the actual hypnosis would sink in. Pine was also dragging out memories of Pine’s tail flexing and massaging her like phantom feelings that were only half as good as the real thing
“Go on Lemon, let me coil you up.” Pine hissed softly again.

Lemon moaned. Her mind was unable to resist Pine’s commands and suggestions. She WAS tired, and dizzy. She was going to fall, and she didn’t want that. The inner recesses of her mind screamed to resist, to break free, anything other than submit to the lamia and lose. In this moment, she began to see the true, overwhelming power of Pine’s hypnotic ability. Even fighting with all her might, she couldn’t resist, and Lemon half thought that nopony could, either. She felt little before him; he was almost godlike in her entranced mind
“…Yes…Please… Coil me…” Lemon begged.

Pine smiled his tail approaching Lemon
“Good decision.” Pine whispered as Lemon’s eyes began to spiral slowly. Pine wrapped the first coil around the base of Lemon’s hind legs, the tip leading the way, coiling slowly around the mare working further up her body and around her flank, before beginning over her torso. Pine continued to bob his head before taking Lemon’s forelegs and pushing her up onto her hind legs, her forelegs handing limp at her sides as her mouth dropped open. Pine cupped Lemon’s cheeks holding her head up, forcing the mare to focus on Pine’s eyes
“Doesn’t it feel so nice,” Pine said, another loop working around Lemon’s body, the coils around her hind legs getting thicker every second “Just to let go, for me to support you gently, with my tail? All you have to do is lean inti it and feel my coils ripple and rub against your fur, helping you relax and feel so good.” Pine lifted Lemon off her hooves, able to support her h weight now without worrying about dropping her “You can’t resist Lemon, you tried and did amazing and I think we can both agree you’ve earned this reward. SO just let go, sink into my coils, let me hypnosis take you mind and let your worried just wash away. Let me become your world again, just relax.” Pine dragged out the very last word as his tail reached Lemon’s upper chest.

“Relax…” Lemon mumbled as Pine’s tail crept higher and higher. Even though she had resisted, in the end she could not disobey the wielder of those mesmerizing eyes. Slowly, her consciousness fluttered out of her mind. The more Pine’s tail crept up, the more mindless Lemon became. There was no stopping it at this point. Lemon stared blankly into space as Pine finished wrapping her up to her neck, letting the coils support her totally
“Relax…” she repeated again as her master’s command reverberated through her whole body. She could resist Master Pine; he was everything that mattered. It was only natural to submit.

Pine stopped the mental clock in his head
“Thirty one minutes and twelve seconds, well done Lemon.” Pine leaned down and gently kissed Lemon, who opened her mouth with a simple command and explored Pine’s mouth, licking his tongue for a change. Pine let his eyes remain spiralling as he let his tail ripple along Lemon’s body. She slowly drifted to sleep and Pine carried the still cocooned Straw over, lying her beside him. Pine piled his tail behind him so he was leaning up slightly, he pulled Lemon close so she was resting under his neck like a pillow and then rolled Straw out slowly. The tan mare was still awake, but so dazed and relaxed she was like a rag doll. Pine pulled her so she rested on the opposite side of Lemon and she snuggled up to Pine
“You two having fun?” Straw asked
“Just spent half an hour hypnotising Lemon, she’s a little tired now. As am I.” Pine whispered
“Well I’m sure the two of us can keep you warm, master… And maybe I can have a turn next time.” Pine smiled and pulled his tail over the trio like a large blanket, adding a collar around Straw tightening causing her to purr like a cat
“Sure… Maybe later. Goodnight Straw, Lemon.”
“Goodnight master” the pair chimed, Lemon sluggishly from her dreams.