Sorry for the delay on Midnight Rising — have a teaser · 3:41pm Sep 21st, 2023
And sorry to be a broken record about it, but I’ve had a very stressful few weeks both at work and at home I won’t go into further here. Maybe later. The story chapter is part of the stress, given it keeps growing as large as Queen Molyneux as she rises to challenge the Dragon Lord.
How big? It’s now 19,000 words and heading for 20,000 at this point. Whether I break it again remains to be seen, given it’s a climactic chapter—figuratively and literally—and I generally make exceptions for excessive chapter length when it’s a story climax. Regardless, I’m close to done and there’s a chance it’ll be draft complete today, after I get home from work, exercise and eat.
There will be plenty of non-sex worldbuilding interest as well, thanks in large part to the peanut gallery comments of the Humane 6 as they read and react to Sunset telling the story that they still only very vaguely remember happening. For a teaser, here’s the unaltered (and non-adult) opening showing two sets of those comments chains. In truth, they really aren’t all that different from the ones that erupt among prereaders on my Google docs:
I have to say, I’ve seen and done a lot in my nineteen years of life on both sides of the portal, from a sun-controlling Alicorn trying to teach me lessons I wasn’t ready for, to nearly incinerating myself once trying to gain enough power to overthrow her.
Fertile Fields: Say WHAT now? You nearly burned yourself to a crisp?
Fluttershine: Oh, my. That sounds awful.
Hyperdash: Okay, for as much as I want to see this big battle you’ve been promising us, I definitely wanna hear more about that!
Sugar High: Seconded! And THIRDED! Do tell! Do tell!
Daydream: Pass. It’s just not a pleasant memory, girls. All I’ll say about it is that I had to be saved from it by someone else, and the failure was so painful both physically and mentally—no joke, I nearly died—that it was a big part of what spurred me to leave Equestria and start over on Earth. Only reason I bring it up now is to say I thought I’d seen it all even before coming here, only to keep learning over and over that I had no real clue.
Fertile Fields: Well, reckon that’s life in a nutshell, Sugarcube. And reckon we had no clue before we met you or the Princess! Sorry you had to go through all that, but I’m sure glad it led you here!
Daydream: Thanks, AJ. I’d hug you if you were here with me right now. And if I wasn’t rock hard from writing this.
Fertile Fields: No problem. Just save it for when we hook up tomorrow morning!
Hyperdash: ‘Hook up’?
Crystal Queen: APPLEJACK!
Fertile Fields: What? No! I didn’t mean it like that! Honest!
Sugar High: Aw… why not? Then we could ALL join in!
Crystal Queen: PINKIE!
Daydream: *clears throat* Yeah. I think it’s best to just end this thread and move on…
And yet, for as powerful as the alicorn Celly was, it was Queen Molyneux of the Gryphon Kingdom—and before you say anything again about me spelling it that way, Rarity, I’m using the traditional spelling to honor her—that I think I feared and respected a lot more back then. Because unlike Princess Celestia, she had me pegged immediately as a selfish and unworthy student, giving me exactly the treatment that my arrogant and power-hungry thirteen-year-old self deserved.
And thus, the sight of her suddenly growing to adult dragon size and now looming over me was more than a little disconcerting, if not outright terrifying. I couldn’t help but clutch onto Fluttershy for protection, suddenly praying that Moly wouldn’t look through the now eye-level portal and see me. Why, Fluttershy? Because—no joke—I was sure that if she did, she’d reach through the portal to grab me and…
Well, let’s just say that I was as much terrified and tantalized by the thoughts running through my head at what she might do under the influence of Midnight’s mating aura, especially given that Midnight didn’t like me. Fortunately, she couldn’t see me and it was Vesuvius who held all her attention just then.
“And now, arrogant and unworthy Dragon Lord, for the loyalty of my cubs and control of my throne, let us determine who will rule and who will serve!”
Sugar High: YAY! It’s a real-life Kaiju fight! GO MOLY GO!
Fertile Fields: Whoa nellie! I definitely don’t remember this! It’s the Attack of the Fifty-Foot Moly!
Sugar High: Oh! I loved that old B-movie! And you guys should see the equally old X-rated version of it I found! It’s a TOTAL classic!
Fertile Fields: Hard pass, Pinkie. With emphasis on hard right now as I’m starting to recollect just a bit of this. I know you’re a mite afraid of her, Sunny, but I gotta say Queen Moly is my kind of gal. And reckon this story is a better show than any old movie!
Crystal Queen: On that, we agree, Applejack! My word… so Queen Molyneux had her mages cast an enlargement spell on herself so she could challenge the Dragon Lord and duel him for control of her Kingdom directly? Such courage! Such wonderful strength of will! Even if part of me hopes the dragons triumph, I must admit that she is a lady I can respect! I must say that I rather like the griffon sense of décor, too… Might we go to Equestria to meet her someday, Sunset?
Daydream: She doesn’t actually live in Equestria, Rarity. The land the Kingdom occupies is called Aresia, which is basically what Europe is called over there. Their capital city of Arnau is roughly located on what would be west-facing slopes of the southern Alps, not far from where the Italian border with France is. But instead of the Alps, they call it the Falcine mountain range.
Crystal Queen: I see. Geography has never been an interest of mine, but as I have always wanted to see the sights and styles of Europe, that only makes me wish to visit all the more!
Sugar High: Oh! Me too! I’d LOVE to see their blacksmiths and visit the old military museums there! FIELD TRIP!
Daydream: I don’t know, gang. The griffons are surrounded by several potential enemies and generally don’t allow folks to just waltz in—especially alien apes. We’d have to make arrangements through the Equestrian embassy, and even if we could finagle an invitation, Princess Twilight isn’t that big on the idea of humans coming to Tellus right now. She fears further destabilization of the damaged interdimensional boundaries after the Friendship Games and all the time travel she did fighting the mare named Starlight Glimmer. She says we have to give things some time to heal, and for that reason, she’s not coming here either for a bit.
Fluttershine: Oh, my. Poor Flash. He’ll miss her so much.
Daydream: Yeah, but it’s only temporary. Twilight says that the boundaries should be back to normal by mid-summer or so, around the time we’re heading for Camp Everfree. And as for Flash, the Princess gave him a book like mine so they can communicate. I think he’s on it even more than his phone now!
Crystal Queen: How romantic! He truly is quite the smitten kitten!
Daydream: That he is. But hey, don’t be disappointed, Rarity—how about we meet the Moly here? May interest you all to know that she was a big part of the reason I enrolled at CHS instead of Kingdom Academy. Because I knew that if Headmistress Moly was anything like her griffon Queen counterpart, she’d see right through me and peg me as a troublemaker immediately. And that there was no way in hell she’d let me get away with all the stuff I wanted to.
Crystal Queen: Hmmm… I rather like that idea. Perhaps our Principals would care to introduce us? Then again, I fear not being able to restrain our… excitement among them if we remember what they did with students and staff alike! To say nothing of the fact that they ended up even better endowed than we.
Fertile Fields: You jealous, filly?
Crystal Queen: Hardly, darling! The drakes of Ember’s clan worshiped me as a goddess for my female attributes alone, so what do I care about my male ones being inferior to those of our Principals? Especially since mine still put most to shame and just like the dragons, I have two instead of one!
Sugar High: So do I! And I can’t WAIT to use them on Ember again!
Hyperdash: On Ember? I really don’t get what you see in that dragon girl, Pinkie. Yeah, she’s a cutie, but she’s also a total Tsundere!
Fertile Fields: Uh, correct me if I’m wrong, but you ain’t exactly one to talk when it comes to Gilda, girlfriend.
Sugar High: Exactly! And as for Ember, she not only reminds me of my sister Limestone, but that’s what makes breaking her down so much FUN!
Fluttershine: Oh, um. I liked her. She didn’t seem mean, just a little afraid of getting too close to others and disappointing her father. And I can remember that she seemed to really like my scent, too.
Crystal Queen: Just your ‘scent’, darling? Don’t think I didn’t notice how you two ended up after we all got our futahoods and Sunset ascended!
Fertile Fields: Spoilers, Rares! Given what—and who—I was doing, I sure didn’t notice that!
Spoilers indeed, though again, who’s reading this except us? I’m resuming writing this the next day before class as my friends are gathered around me in the library. For the record, I noticed the two of you too, Flutters—then again, I noticed pretty much everything when I finally ascended! It was an amazing display, but this is one instance where I don’t think it’s my place to tell it. So, if you want that tale told, I think you should do it yourself, filly!
But while we’re mulling that over—and you should see Fluttershy blush! Let’s get back to the story.
That’s the intro to the chapter, even before getting into anything M-rated. Hopefully it adds extra interest even for those who aren’t into a particular set of fetishes. The chapter will be off to prereaders no later than this weekend and will likely launch middle of next week. After that, I promised a chapter of Feathered Hearts - Continuation and Chronicles, but I also need to allow time to do at least one chapter of Nightmare Night next month in the runup to Halloween, even around my upcoming weeklong vacation to Iceland.
I'm looking forward to reading it. Another chapter of Nightmare Night is something I would also greatly welcome.
Poor Spike, all we got to see is him talk. Wouldve been nice at least to say that the intelligence came from a commesurate prolonged life as ewll, at least human, but a speaking animal? thats African Grey Parrot with 120-150 year lifespan?
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Thanks. I’ll do my best to deliver before Halloween.
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Spike will appear in the story again and play a major role in returning Sci-Twi to sanity. Does his lifespan extend if he’s the equivalent of a dragon and has now been bathed in Equestrian magic? Stay tuned. As well as to answer the question of what happens to other dragons who cross over to Earth via the portal.