//------------------------------// // The dragon within: Chapter three // Story: Dragon Princess // by King Condius //------------------------------// Aurora awoke that morning to find her wife and mate wasn't there by her side. She looked around the room and found a welcome sight. Her mate was feeding her foals next to the makeshift nest, smileling happily. The large dragoness stretched on the bed, quite like a cat would, and ran her serpentine tonque over her sharp teeth. She leaped off the bed, using her wings to catch her, and walked over to her mare. Luna, still watching the foals suckle, was a little shocked at the sudden contact to her cheek before nuzzleing into the embrace. "Morning love." The great dragoness smiled and sat down next to her. "Do you think i should get some breakfast for us both?" The sudden question from her lover made her tilt her head to the side. "By yourself? Honey, i dont think it's a good idea." Deep down the feral side of her didn't want her mate to go out of her sight, but the grumble from her stomach, said otherwise. "See? You need food as well as i do." She giggled when she saw her big tough love, blush a deep red. "Fine, but don't take too long." Luna smiled then winced as her youngest, serion, bit harder than she should on her teat. "Looks like someone else agrees, too." The moon princess sighed and lied down for a moment before she felt a tugging on her horn, telling her it was time lower the moon. "Aurora, could you take the foals for a minute? I need to lower the moon." Aurora nodded and coaxed the foals to her own teats while her lover went to the balcony. Luna could feel the pull on her horn and sighed when she saw her sister's sun begin to rise in the north. It created a buetiful sunrise with red, yellow, and orange hues in the still dark night sky. It was breathtakeing. But as much as she wanted to enjoy this beutiful sight, she had a duty to her ponies and kingdom. She lit up her horn and slowly, but surely, started to lower the moon. It put up some resistance, but she managed to begin its journey around the world. When that was taken care of, she went back to the room, using her magic to shut the doors to the balcony. She was surprised to see her dragoness playing peek-a-boo with her eldest daughter, swift. She smiled when she saw the display and went over to the door's to get breakfast for the two. Her wife took notice of this and nodded to her princess before she dissapeared with a kiss to her cheek. The moon goddess sighed and opened her eyes to greet the much brighter hallway of the castle. She turned to the right and started to trot down the long hallway before going to nightmare's room to quietly slip in. She smiled when she found her other wife in bed, quietly breathing gently, like a true goddess. Luna giggled at her own joke before trotting over to the bed and carefully got on. "Nightie, nightie wake up." The princess of dreams tried to coax her love out of bed, but to no avail. She then used her wing to tickle her wife in the ribs, before she heard the slight giggles from her nightie. Nightmare tried to remove the offending object, but found too,it difficult to do so. "Mmmm.... go away mom... i don't want to go to school." The mare of nightmares pulled the covers over her head and shooed her 'mother' away from her. Luna sighed before she got an idea. She lifted the covers and gently licked the opening between her lovers legs, and was rewarded with a moan from the mare above her. She quickly withdrew from her and sat up in bed with a smirk to her lips. "Mmm... why'd you stop?" The black alicorn sat up drearily to glare at her moon princess with half lidded eyes. "The reason i stopped is because i was only trying to wake you, love." The dark alicorn sat up slowly in bed, looked out the window, and sighed. "I guess i need to wake up anyway, but you need to do something for me." The younger alicorn smirked and leaned in close to the older mare and kissed tenderly with the dark princess. They stayed like that for several minutes before seperating with a rope of their mixed saliva connecting the two before, it too, broke. "Wa-was that what you *pant* needed?" the darker mare grinned like a school filly and nodded. "Help me get my regalia on honey?" the moon princess nodded and helped her lover out of bed before she too, got off. Nightmare moon was famous for her armor she showed up with a year ago, but quickly grew tired of it. She instead opted for some regalia hoof made by the one and only Mrs. Ironshoe. She crafted it to be light, beautiful, but strong as dragon scale's. Being an earth pony made her even more famous, but she had some hardships along the way. First loosing her husband in a fire, Then her youngest son to timberwolves, but through it all she kept the promise her father told her to keep. "never loose faith in yourself; never stop being good at hat you do best." Nightmare smiled at the set of regalia before her and , with great care, placed them on her body with the help she recieved form Luna. She looked in the mirror and couldn't help but remember how her mother had told her to be the best too. Her father had been persistant about training her until the day he died. He wasent a very powerful unicorn, but nightshade her father was good at one thing; killing. He learned from dragons, griffons, timberwolves, other countries, and even from the queen of equestria herself. He learned how to fight and he became the bst hired assassan in the land. He was caught one night, it was in his old age and he becae sloppy, he was charged with over 2,000 deaths across equestria and even in the badlands. He died with these last words to her as a filly. "You embrace who you are and become the greatest mare you can. You are the daughter of an assasan and a beutiful dragon. Don't forget that. I love you nightie." She shook the unpleasent thought fom her head and brushed a tear from her cheek before taking a deep breath to steady herself. "Ready to go love?" She turned to the love of her life and kissed her on the forhead. "Yeah, lets get some breakfast." She rested a wing on her lover's back and opened the door with her magic and walked out of the room. Luna loved to tease her wives a bit while in the castle and she did so as often as possible. The moon princess took her wavy mane and flicked her partner on the rump, elicting a yelp fro the princess of nightmares. She looked forward with an inocent smile and giggled inwardly. Nightmare smiled and giggled sweetly. Princess celestia. This can't be happening, it just can't. The monarch of the sun was pacing in front of her fireplace her mane disshelved, eye twitching slightly, and her step daughter, dusk, was calmly reading a 'Daring do' book in front of her. "*sigh* mom, calm down; i'm sure it's not that bad." i don't get why she is freaking out. I read the letter myself, and can't see what all the fuss is about. Maybe she just read it too, quickly and missunderstood it's meaning? That's it. "Mom, just read the letter one more time; i am sure you just missed something." Celestia stopped in her pacing and grabbed the letter once again and read it aloud. "My dearest daughter, I will be visiting shortly to the castle. I will be there in two days time. Make sure your sister behaves herself and i hope to catch up on things with you two. It's been almost 20 years since i have come home, and i think it would be a good time to do so. Your mother, Lauren Faust." The princess started to breathe deeply to calm herself down. "This is bad, this is really, really bad. My mother doesen't know about the wedding's, the treaty with the changling's, or the fact that she has grandkids, or that i'm married to the queen of the changeling's, a mare who corrupted my sister, a mare i loved for a thousand plus years who was almost killed by my second wife, and i have children." She sat down on her haunches and looked to her oldest daughter like she held the answers. The brownish gold alicorn got off the bed and trotted over to one of her 4 mother's and hugged her with her hoove's and wings. Celestia leaned into the embrace of her duaghter and began to cry. Dusk was a little surprised her mom had started to cry but she closed her eyes and began singto her mom. "Go to sleep you little filly, go to sleep you little filly. your mama gone away and your daddy gonna stay. and leave nobody but the filly." She gently rubbed her mother's back as she sang. "Go to sleep you little filly, go to sleep you little filly. everybody gone in the cotton and the corn, don't need nobody but the filly." She began to sooth her mother into a calm state. Nothing could be heard but the sound of her daughter singing and the ocassional sniff form the alibaster alicorn. "Go to sleep you little filly, go to sleep you little filly. honey and the rock and the sugar don't stop. Don't you you weep pretty filly, Don't you you weep pretty filly, She's long gone with the red shoes on, and don't need another lovin' filly. Go to sleep you little filly, go to sleep you little filly. you me and mama don't need no other loving fillyyyy. Go to sleep you little filly, go to sleep you little filly. Go to sleep you little...fillyyy." As her daughter finished singing to her. she felt happier, more content with herself. Dusk gentely rubbed her mother's back and rested her head on her shoulder. "It's going to be ok mom; i am certain if you relax you will find out how to handle this." The reasuring words of her daughter adn the constant rubbing between her wing's and enjoyed the peace. Princess aurora. Where could she be? it's been almost 20 minutes. The large dragoness had the patience of a predater, but for her mate, it was wearing thin with each passing minute. Her foal's were asleep in her arms and she had become bored quite quickly. Without her love there by her side, she didnt have much to do, so she opted for the only thing possible at the time; singing softly. "Come little ponies, i'll take thee away, into a land of enchantment. come little ponies, the times come to play, her in my garden of shaaaadoooows." She made sure her fillies were asleep before she set them in the makeshift nest before slipping out of the room. "Fallow sweet ponies, i'll show thee the way, through all the pain and the sorrows. weep not poor ponies, for life is this way, murdering beutiy and passions." As she sang through the hallway, she attracted the attention of the gaurds at the end of the hallway. They couldn't, or wouldn't, move as they listened to the beutiful voice of the dragoness. "Hush now dear ponies, it must be this way, to weary of life and deception. Rest now my ponies, for soon we'll away, into the calm and the quiet." The gaurds asleep, the great dragoness could walk freely around the corner to the dinning hall and was oblivios to the audience she had optained. "Come little ponies, i'll take thee away, into a land of enchantment. come little ponies, the times come to play, her in my garden of shaaaadoooows." As she finished her song, she entered the dining hall and saw her mate... with another pony. The princess of the weather lost all control at the sight and let her instincts kick in. Her eyes glazed over and she let loose a mighty roar that made both ponies freeze with fear. Luna looked to the entrance of the dining hall and quickly tried to calm down her wife-gone-feral. "Aurora wai-." She felt a great rush of air pass her as the dragoness lungded at the frightened pony next to her mate. Nightmare felt every inch of her body slam through the walls of the hall and land, bounced more like it, in the open field behing the castle, creating a massive crater. She lifted herself just in time to see a black blur fly towards her. oh, crap. She waited to br ripped apart, to be torn into millions of peices, to feel every part of her become covered in teeth, claw, and burn marks. It never came. She opened her eyes and saw a blue aura around the dragon in front of her. Trying desperately to hurt her in some way, anyway, possible. She smiled but soon frowned when she saw her wife struggleing to keep the mightly beast in her grasp. "Nightmare..hnnggg...GO!" She listened to her beoved and flew back to the castle as fast as her bruised body would let her. When the dragoness could no longer fight against the force and relaxed. She was gently lowered to the ground and set on her side. "*pant* next time, let me explain to you who i am with before you try to kill YOUR other mate's." The dragoness was shocked to hear this. I have more mate's? but how? The great dragon lied down on the ground and thought only one thing;what have i done.