Beyond the Vail

by Kalushar

The more, the merrier

“Hallo, Frau Summer.”

Her hand held the phone steadily as she spoke softly, “Ms. Summer, It’s me.”

“Ah, hello Mary how goes your progress?” She sat at a table examining a few documents, the phone propped between her shoulder and head. “Still don’t have any of the stones yet?”

She felt her fist clench subconsciously as she breathed, “you are quite aware of our progress ma’am. Is Herr Steiner there? I’ve been unable to reach him.”

“He is indisposed of right now. Chasing down a lead in Minsk on a potential sighting.”

“What color?”

“A possible brown sighting.”

“The Chaos Crystal? What’s it doing in Minsk?”

“Supposedly going to a private buyer in a black market auction,” she brushed her hair out of her face and continued, “after the Wall went down it disappeared, only to reappear two weeks ago in Belarus. There’s also supposedly a pink sighting by one of our operatives in South Africa.”

“Pink? In Africa?”

“So it would seem. Of the known ones it is the most unknown, its presence is usually considered a sign of good fortune. What of your stone? How goes the progress?”

Mary stroked the jade-colored necklace she wore, a perfect replica of the crystal which was safely locked away, “the crystal shows no sign of activity, our testing has been inconclusive.”

“And the house?”

“Nein, the boy won’t sell.”

“I have heard talk that perhaps he’s found the crystal.”

“I have considered the possibility, but it seems unlikely. Even if he had found I doubt he would even know what it is, let alone how to use it.”

Frau Summer pinched her forehead stressfully, “frauline you are aware that the rest of the council has ordered a meeting, no?”

“What?”

“You were not made aware? An online meeting at four tomorrow. Be there or be toten, President Rook made it truly clear that she wanted you to attend, she wants a status report.”

“Must you keep speaking Deutsch, Herr Summer?”

She smiled, “indeed, I will see you then goodbye.” She placed the phone on the receiver and sighed annoyed. Always the same with her, she couldn’t just do her job, excuses only. Herr Summer looked up at the woman standing across the room observing the call. She always held herself so regally, so unlike a humble president.

I yawned as I felt myself be shaken awake, “highness, you may be royalty, but on God if you don’t let me sleep, I will hit you.”

“Thou speak powerful words for a conniving thing,” she said as if I was the most disgusting slug she’d ever stepped on. “We can feel the magic on thou, what is thee keeping from us?”

I sat up and looked at her, her slitted eyes just stared into mine. I looked back at her unflinching before sighing and rolling my eyes, “listen Nightmare—”

“Silence!”

My throat constricted on itself as her magic wrapped around it and lifted me off my feet, I saw her dark blue magical aura moving around her horn as I choked and gasped airlessly, all I could do was watch and listen as she gnashed her teeth and yelled in my face with a voice like thunder, “WE HAVE TOLERATED THOU LONG ENOUGH! THY SARCASM AND DISGUSTING LIES ARE ENOUGH! TELL US! HAS THEE FOUND ANOTHER CRYSTAL!?”

I felt my face flush as my heart slowed and my lungs screamed for air, my hands slapped at my throat and my legs kicked out wildly as I gasped for breath and tried to speak. I thrust my hand outward, gesturing at the dresser frantically. She used her magic to open it and pull up the small bundle, untying it and holding it up… right into the early morning sunlight. I tried to warn her against it, but my efforts were in vain as the crystal began to produce flames which seemed to radiate from it. Nightmare dropped me and the crystal, before I fell on my side gasping as the flames spread across the room before forming into a vaguely familiar shape.

The being that stepped out of the fire could be called just that: a creature. Unlike Nightmare Moon, this was a different type of pony altogether. It had a snow-white coat with an image of a yellow star emblazoned on her flanks, her mane and tail however were the thing that drew the eye. Where Nightmares had been wavy and like a star-filled sky flowing in an incorporeal wind, this new pony’s mane, and tail were literal fire. They burned upwards flicking like a fire would but producing no smoke. A violent heat filled the room and Nightmare had fled out the door as soon as the fire began to spread, leaving only me and the new… thing alone.

I just stared, gasping and out of breath before the alicorn with the burning mane and tail opened her eyes and stared into mine. They were slits, terrifying and burning into my soul. I opened my mouth to speak, but nothing seemed to come out, so I shut it and tried it again to the same effect. She looked at me, portraying no emotion, just staring at me before she took a step towards me. I scrambled backwards until my back was to the wall, the heat she radiated got hotter as she got closer until her muzzle was inches from mine, her eyes never wavering. She spoke with a voce that was like fire, wild and untamable, “you have freed me?”

I swallowed and finally strung together a mostly coherent sentence, “y-yes, I was the one who found you…” of course I didn’t want to tell her that her release was an accident and not my doing.

“You have done me a great service by releasing me, tell me what are you?”

“I am a human…”

“Do not be afraid to speak. What is your name?”

“Jacob… a-and yours?”

“I am her royal highness and most powerful princess of the sun, I am Daybreaker.”

“I-I see… and are you related to Nightmare Moon?”

“What?” Her eyes widened as she watched me. “She is here as well? You freed her?”

“Y-yes?”

She smiled showing off sharper teeth than any pony should have, “you are correct, she is my sister, and I am grateful that you have freed us both.” Her smile turned into a smirk as she leaned over my shoulder, her mane barely far enough away to not touch me, as she whispered in my ear, “incredibly grateful~”

My face heated up noticeably and I could tell it was not from her mane, “w-what?”

She chuckled in my ear, it sounded as if it were intermingled with a growl, “oh yes… you are quite deserving of a reward~”

“No that’s quite alright! I don’t need any wealth, Nightmare already offered. I’m helping you for no charges.”

“Is that right? She already offered you a reward and you refused it?”

“Yes, I don’t need anything. I just want to help.”

She looked into my eyes with her smirk as she raised a hoof and softly rubbed it across my face, “my, my… what a selfless creature you are. You most certainly require a reward~ Tell me what you desire most, and I can give it to you… anything~”

I shivered despite the heat and stared wide-eyed and unblinking at her before squeaking out a response, “n-nothing… I’m fine…”

Daybreaker’s eyes were quick and flashed trying to find some hidden meaning in my face, they were extremely beautiful… no! She was a pony, this wasn’t going to go there, despite her obvious want for it. She opened her razor-lined maw slightly and gave my cheek a wet lick, I froze, and my face got redder than her mane as let out a “eep”. Then she did it again and spoke, her whole voice dripping honey, “you truly are selfless. Even at the prospect of me and my body, you still hold back and deny it. Hmm… perhaps then I will just owe you this one~”

I shakily nodded, “sounds good… I’m sure if you want y-you can reward me in some way…”

“Then I await the time when you will allow me to study your human anatomy more… in depth~” She nipped at my ear with her sharp teeth drawing blood and forcing me to let out a quiet groan, “specifically my depths~”

My eye and something else twitched as I gritted my teeth and replied, “I’m afraid I cant do that… that’d be a bit weird…after all you are a pony… and—”

“—and? And what? You not ready to ride this mare yet~? Perhaps you’ve never done this before~?”

“I-I uh well…”

“Really? Oho! This is good! You really haven’t,” she lay down next to me and nuzzled my shoulder. “Good… neither have I~ It’ll be a learning experience for us both~”

Before I could give some poor attempt at a response, Nightmare bust back into the room, “Jacob I will get rid of the fire!” She then tossed a bucket of water directly at me which bounced off a golden forcefield which appeared in front of me and Daybreaker, “not funny sister.”

“Daybreaker?”

“Yes sister, it’s me.”

Nightmare ran across the room and wrapped her hooves around Daybreaker, “sister! We were so worried for thou!”

I laid down on my side and lay on the ground before I gave a groan of a lot of different emotions at once, most of them confusing and related to thoughts I probably shouldn’t be having of the pony above me, she looked down at me and with a wink that said, “don’t forget,” she moved her tail in a swish to the side revealing some very interesting sights. I was never a fainter, but I really wanted to as I looked up at her. These ponies were going to be the insane death of me, now I had angry princess and horny princess. I was so quite literally—and probably going to be—screwed.

The two of them began to talk and I carefully removed myself before I ended up seeing or hearing too much. I went to the table and sat down before flopping my head down on the table and letting out a groan. This just couldn’t get weirder… and yet… my mind came back to the same word… fountain. I rose and walked out into the garden courtyard where the massive fountain dominated. I poked around it and looked in the flowing water to no effect for a while before stepping back. If I were going to hide a magical crystal… where would I? I looked over the exterior of the fountain closely and noticed something. The very top of the fountain made up a small statue of a strange creature, it was similar to the one in which I had found Nightmare’s gem, but this one was of a black pony with a horn and insectoid wings, weirdly the statue was covered in holes on the lower parts and in the statue was embedded a solid black crystal almost like obsidian.

I had to get it. I crawled up the fountain, getting wetter and wetter as I ascended. Odd that this crystal was out here in the open, the others activated when exposed to the sun and moon, but this one had to have seen both and not reacted at all. So how did this one work? I grabbed it with my wet hands and attempted to pry out the crystal. I managed to pull it halfway when I noticed a note stuck inside as well. I pulled out the note and crystal. Pocketing the crystal I read the note, “you should not be playing with these things, if you are reading this, please return this crystal to the statuette, it must never touch a tree or the effects on the world…” I skimmed the rest and immediately stuffed the note in my jeans, I wasn’t particularly good at following directions anyway, the two insane mare that were walking out now were a testament to that.

Author's Note:

Hey hey! A newbie! Yes, all you guys who wanted more finally get to see another one of your favorite villains who’s sort of… not a villain? Either way, I find that Daybreaker is an extremely amorous character and super fun to write because of that XD. I didn’t plan her out that way but when I wrote her it just felt right. I hope you guys enjoy this chapter enormously! A special thanks to Feynna for being just a cool and supportive person, you can check out her story called Twin Suns. It’s an amazing read and I promise you will not be disappointed; I believe her skill is unparalleled. Comment plenty and leave some likes, go ahead, and add it to a few groups too if you want, it doesn’t matter how, but make sure to show some love!

Comments

[Bronycommander]

An interesting twist you got there, nice!

[Feynna]

“ Hallo, Frau Summer .”

Hmmm... suspiciouuuusssss...

Herr Summer pinched her forehead stressfully, “ frauline you are aware that the rest of the council has ordered a meeting, no?”

You do know you could have asked me for help if you wanted to add in a bit of German, right?
'Herr' means 'Mister' in English, so referring to them as a she right afterward is definitely wrong there. :P
'Frauline' doesn't exist, it is written 'Fräulein'. A minor mistake, I suppose. :3

“I am her royal highness and most powerful princess of the sun, I am Daybreaker.”

Knew it, I knew it, know it I did~! *giggles excitedly*

“—and? And what? You not ready to ride this mare yet~? Perhaps you’ve never done this before~?”

Getting dangerously close to rated mature, aren't you? ;)

[...]but this one was of a black pony with a horn and insectoid wings, weirdly the statue was covered in holes on the lower parts and in the statue was embedded a solid black crystal almost like obsidian.

Yay, Chrysalis, too! :3
To be honest, not that surprising, but definitely a welcome thing to read.

A special thanks to Feynna for being just a cool and supportive person, you can check out her story called Twin Suns.

You know, normally I'm not the one to do a shameless plug of my own story (if I do, those actually aren't meant as a shameless plug)... Is it a shameless plug if other people do it for you? *rubs her chin thoughtfully*

[GlitchyFox]

hopeing we get to see daybreak, nigtmare and jacob bond

[Frazikar]

This kid has never heard the expression - 'Quit while you're behind.'

Of course, I blame his aunt for not leaving the bedroom letter in the inner vault with instructions to read it first!

[Teraunce]

Ok...so Day breaker is super Molestia

[Pete100]

“He is indisposed of right now. Chasing down a lead in Minsk on a potential sighting.”

“What color?”

“A possible brown sighting.”

“The Chaos Crystal? What’s it doing in Minsk?”

Discord?

“Supposedly going to a private buyer in a black market auction,” she brushed her hair out of her face and continued, “after the Wall went down it disappeared, only to reappear two weeks ago in Belarus. There’s also supposedly a pink sighting by one of our operatives in South Africa.”

“Pink? In Africa?”

“So it would seem. Of the known ones it is the most unknown, its presence is usually considered a sign of good fortune. What of your stone? How goes the progress?”

Cadence?

Mary stroked the jade-colored necklace she wore, a perfect replica of the crystal which was safely locked away, “the crystal shows no sign of activity, our testing has been inconclusive.”

Starlight?

“You were not made aware? An online meeting at four tomorrow. Be there or be toten , President Rook made it truly clear that she wanted you to attend, she wants a status report.”

Toten? What’s that?

She smiled, “indeed, I will see you then goodbye.” She placed the phone on the receiver and sighed annoyed. Always the same with her, she couldn’t just do her job, excuses only. Herr Summer looked up at the woman standing across the room observing the call. She always held herself so regally, so unlike a humble president.

Receiver? I thought she was using her cell phone.

“Thou speak powerful words for a conniving thing,” he said as if I was the most disgusting slug she’d ever stepped on.

Don’t you mean “she”?

“Thou speak powerful words for a conniving thing,” he said as if I was the most disgusting slug she’d ever stepped on. “We can feel the magic on thou, what is thee keeping from us?”

I sat up and looked at her, her slitted eyes just stared into mine. I looked back at her unflinching before sighing and rolling my eyes, “listen Nightmare—”

“Silence!”

How are you gonna ask him a question and then tell him to stop talking?

I felt my face flush as my heart slowed and my lungs screamed for air, my hands slapped at my throat and my legs kicked out wildly as I gasped for breath and tried to speak. I thrust my hand outward, gesturing at the dresser frantically. She used her magic to open it and pull up the small bundle, untying it and holding it up… right into the early morning sunlight. I tried to warn her against it, but my efforts were in vain as the crystal began to produce flames which seemed to radiate from it. Nightmare dropped me and the crystal, before I fell on my side gasping as the flames spread across the room before forming into a vaguely familiar shape.

I wouldn’t have told her, honestly.

The being that stepped out of the fire could be called just that: a creature. Unlike Nightmare Moon, this was a different type of pony altogether. It had a snow-white coat with an image of a yellow star emblazoned on her flanks, her mane and tail however were the thing that drew the eye. Where Nightmares had been wavy and like a star-filled sky flowing in an incorporeal wind, this new pony’s mane, and tail were literal fire. They burned upwards flicking like a fire would but producing no smoke. A violent heat filled the room and Nightmare had fled out the door as soon as the fire began to spread, leaving only me and the new… thing alone.

Wow, she just left him?

I had to get it. I crawled up the fountain, getting wetter and wetter as I ascended. Odd that this crystal was out here in the open, the others activated when exposed to the sun and moon, but this one had to have seen both and not reacted at all. So how did this one work? I grabbed it with my wet hands and attempted to pry out the crystal. I managed to pull it halfway when I noticed a note stuck inside as well. I pulled out the note and crystal. Pocketing the crystal I read the note, “you should not be playing with these things, if you are reading this, please return this crystal to the statuette, it must never touch a tree or the effects on the world…” I skimmed the rest and immediately stuffed the note in my jeans, I wasn’t particularly good at following directions anyway, the two insane mare that were walking out now were a testament to that.

At this point, whatever happens to him, he deserves.

[joeyjumper94]

10624380
some versions of daybreaker are celestia with insane amounts of passion.
so yeah, sex is one, but there are other forms that passion can manifest

[Bison]

Dead story?

[John bostock]

More please.