Silver stepped to the door of the room and knocked once before his magic turned the knob and he stepped inside. Bottom was closest to the door and sprung to her hooves. "I'm glad to see you, sir. Is she really Celestia?" Though her words were likely the least formal and polite, the expressions on the other servants showed their shared sentiment.
Celestia sighed from where she sat on her new rump on the bed. "Tell them. To their credit, they didn't start screaming."
Fiddah lifted an ear. "That would be very impolite. I did not say I don't believe you. Very few would wear her necklace, and your hooves are adorned with her shoes."
Silver nodded to each mare in turn, thoughts getting distracted. "When we get back, I should work with my wives to pick a male servant for us. Having all mares is not right, just balance wise. I need a stallion's view sometimes." All the mares in the room, including the woman that was Celestia, peered at him oddly. "Sorry, a thought for another day. That is Celestia, even more imposing and overwhelming than normal."
He walked across the room to her. "You are partly a human. This is what the Anubians call their 'war' form, brought out by contacting their 'war' spirit, which, so far I can tell, is some kind of human spirit."
Celestia gestured over herself. "I am a pony, whose spirit are they borrowing to make this work? You were a human, that much is clear to see."
Silver frowned a little. "I saw what you faced when she forced you to confront that 'spirit'. Long before... Are you sure you want to know about this? Ultimately, it changes nothing. You faced something from the past, before your past even, before you were Celestia."
Celestia slowly leaned back until she was sprawled across the bed. "Silver, tell me. I'm not a foal you hide scary stories from."
He nodded as he moved up onto the bed with quiet hoof steps and settled beside her. She was a very pretty woman, he decided quickly as he looked her over. If he were still a man, he would have no hope to gain her attention, and even being close to her then was frightening, despite the fact they were bonded. She smiled at him, like the dawning of her sun. "You're very bad at hiding your reactions. Am I that pretty to you?"
She was. Her hips were wide and her rump as generous. Her large round breasts were distracting. She was like some kind of fertility goddess, with the clad hooves that made it all the more legitimate. The exotic traces of her equine nature just made her all the more a goddess. He nodded slowly. "I have learned to see the enchantment of a mare, but I haven't forgotten a human woman. You're a little of both, and all of those parts are good parts. But that's getting distracted again. You wanted to know, so I'll say."
Silver sat up and began to retell the tale. "You were alone, tired, hunted, and hurt. The Text came to you when you were lost and asked what you wanted. You wanted to be loved and wanted, and it granted that wish. It granted that wish, and for your unborn twin to see life as well, but you never asked for her to be loved at the time. It all came true."
Her expression was that of doubt, and irritation, but she controlled herself and waited for him to continue. Her questions, many though he was sure she had, she kept at bay for the time.
"You were human then, those thousands of years ago, but with that wish, you were made into a foal, a little alicorn foal. Your twin was reborn in time, now your younger sister, and now also a pony. You two never knew or remembered your human past, but if I got it right, there's not much for Luna to remember." He pointed a hoof at Celestia. "The Text twisted your wish, like he usually did and does. For you to be forever wanted and loved, he casually arranged a path where you would be the only alicorn, the one all would know, love, and want. Luna was gone, and basically forgotten. You defied him without realizing it when you arranged for her return, and have worked so hard to make her loved again. I imagine you were supposed to be jealous, but you never were. You were a good sister."
Celestia twisted a little smile, but it lacked depth. "If you speak truly, then it was my action that gave Luna life where once she was taken from it, but also what caused her to be banished for a time, only to be recovered. That is all interesting, but, as you said, meaningless. The part about me being human? That does change things. That changes important things. We may have been wrong, entirely wrong. This entire time? We thought it was being an alicorn... but it may be humanity instead that sets us apart. The... The only mystery is how you succeeded with Night Watch, when all others have failed. I can even forgive the child you bore of Twilight's. Your ascension created an extremely unusual circumstance."
Bottom flipped her ears back. "W-wait, what? He made me to... I can't?"
Her words confused Shei and Fiddah, but Silver knew. "You are a treasured mare, Bottom. Whether or not we ever have a foal together, that doesn't change."
Fiddah nodded in agreement. "You are a servant. Do as you are told, and know that we have a loving master. He loves far beyond what his station demands, and--"
Bottom grunted and clopped the floor. "That was my choice! I wanted to be his broodmare. How can I do that if..."
Celestia let out a slow sigh. "Bottom, seat yourself." Bottom crashed to her haunches as if pushed down by her words and command. "Enough. Silver, how certain are you of your vision?"
Silver nodded quickly. "You were looking into your past, just as I had, though it was much further back than mine. How old are you?"
Celestia laughed gently as she sat up. "That is not a question you ask of a mare. How do I become normal again?"
Silver wasn't sure. "I was exhausted and tired, but ultimately just focused on not being angry or anxious and it left me. Anger, especially, sets it off I think."
Celestia raised a brow. "I'm not that angry right now, more curious. That jackal struck after claiming to give up, that was a cheap blow, but we both know she lost the battle. If she expects me to break from the revelation she forced on me, she has another thing coming." She reached out her long fingers and cradled Silver's chin, rubbing through the soft fur of his snout. "No, I'm more curious. Have you missed the company of a woman, Silver?"
Silver went rigid with fright, even if her fingers did feel nice. "I... I never had the company of a woman..."
Celestia waved to the door with her other hand. "Go on, we're fine. I need time with Silver now." The servants looked nervous, but they moved to depart, and soon Silver and Celestia were alone.
Silver swallowed heavily and smiled at Celestia. "You were enchanting just as you were already, Celestia, as a mare. You don't need to be a woman for me."
Celestia trailed her fingers down over his throat and in a straight line across his chest. "And if I want to? Were you lying when you said I was attractive?"
Silver trembled and shook his head. "You're... yes, you look amazing. You can tell. You can smell me and see me. I'm very scared and turned on at once. Are you in control of yourself right now? I don't want to be with you while you're in some kind of fit, to regret it afterwards."
Celestia raised a leg against him. A hoof rubbed slowly up and down his swollen sheath as she looked into his eyes. "This is my choice. Make love to me as a woman tonight, and prove, to her, and to me, that this form doesn't have to be a 'war' form. I will it make a love form. You have shown me the timidity and desire to love in a human, and all she prattles on about is their desire to fight. Prove her wrong."
Silver slid up on top of her with a wag of his tail. "Alright, you know? That actually makes a kind of sense to me. Humanity isn't all about fighting. Should... I try to turn back? I've never done it outside of being locked in a battle."
Celestia wrapped her legs around his barrel and rubbed her front against his bottom. "You're fine the way you are, either way. We are what we are, no matter what someone says about our insides and our lust for battle. We rise above base urges." She rubbed her damp human nethers against the firming length of Silver's shaft. "Tonight, you can surrender to a different one."
He reared his hips back and lined up to press the flattened head of his horse cock to her human vulva. Slowly he explored her with the tip of the tool, rubbing back and forth in slow thrusts. "For tonight then, you'll be my woman, just as you are my mare, and I am your stallion, eagerly and gladly." He snorted suddenly as one of her hands crept down and found his balls. She teased and played over him and his hips began to twitch with pleasure. She was disturbingly good at having fingers, and his desire to tease her became quite short.
He wanted to do as she wished, and as he wished. She was everything he never had before. He would have that lovely woman, and nothing would stop him. He separated her pouting vulva and slid his broad head into the depths of her trembling passage. She pulled at his sides as her fingers ran wildly through his fur. "This... is the first time I truly knew what it meant to be with a pony." She raised her hips against him as he pressed to her. Stallion to woman, they crashed together with a loud slap. His position was superior, but she had complete control of the act, and she guided them towards greater pleasure.
Her smooth skin glistened with sweat as they moved together. She made human sounds of satisfaction and desire, drawing him ever higher. He nuzzled into her chest. She was much larger than him, at least longer, taller. It all thrilled him, to have that woman, whether or not she was also Celestia. His lips found her nipples and he suckled eagerly from her, drawing out new notes of passion from her heaving chest. He wanted her, and she wanted him. There was no guilt or shame between them, even if he was a pony rutting a human. Somehow, it felt natural and wonderful, and nothing could stop either of them from that moment of satisfaction.
When it came for them, their cries rang out together, She exploded in growth, becoming wider and larger in many ways as she rapidly regained her maredom and left behind her humanity, but something remained. They collapsed together, panting and grasping at one another with their hooves.