Shining ArmorxChangelings
Dear Princess Celestia,
In keeping with your orders, the following is my report on the current journey into changeling territory.
As you know we set off only a few days ago in order to find the entrance to the kingdom. Our group consisted, as per your request, of Royal Ambassador Prince Blueblood, Changeling Ambassador Tityus, and two guards of my choosing; the pegasus Dove Feather and the unicorn Paige.
Thus far our journey has been primarily uneventful. The greatest hazards we have met with have been primarily natural, and have done little more than cause delay. However Dove Feather was injured in an encounter with a group of timber-wolves; which is why I have chosen to send him back to you along with this letter. I know you doubt that we will encounter conflict with the changelings, but I hope you understand my caution.
I must admit that, at first I did not trust the changeling. However, over the course of the past few weeks I have grown to trust TItyus’s claims that he desires peace, and I have even gained a degree of respect for him. I only hope that both my judgment of him and yours prove true. I saw for myself how skilled an actor he is during a discussion with some highwaymares.
Today marks the day that we have at last reached our destination. The changeling homeland is buried in the side of a mountain, so I’m afraid I cannot at the moment report thoroughly on their lifestyle. You will have to wait until we return.
I hope to return home to Canterlot soon with news of our success. Should we fail, you already know my thoughts on the matter.
Please give Cadence my love.
Your Loyal Subject,
Shining Armor
*****
Shining and his party waved farewell to Dove Feather as he flew away with their messages. The only one who stood by was, to nopony’s surprise, Tityus, who at the moment wore a guise similar to that of the prince. He allowed himself no more than a courteous nod as their companion left.
The guard captain had to admit that this struck him as strange. Tityus had seemed as close to the pegasus as the rest of the group. “Is something wrong ambassador>” he asked prompting both bluebloods to turn to him. “Ambassador Tityus,” he clarified.
Soon enough all attention was on the secondary of the princes. “Well I must admit I wasn’t hoping to bring it up,” the ambassador said with a sigh as he looked downward.
“I’d appreciate it if you did,” Shining replied commandingly.
The changeling shook his head. “I’m sorry.” Tityus glanced briefly to Paige before returning his gaze to the guard captain. “Let me try and explain.” The ambassador paused for a moment in thought. “You see there’s something of an old changeling tradition; from back in the olden days when we made a truce with the unicorn kingdom.”
“We’re to be given as gifts, correct?” Paige interrupted. The changeling paused for a moment before nodding. Shining and Blueblood in the meantime were staring bewildered at the black mare that had just spoken. “I read about it in an old history book,” she said in reply to their stares. “The pegasi used to offer up peasants as food for the changeling peasantry.”
“So me and my men were just brought along as food?” Shining turned an accusing glare towards the ambassador. “Did the Princess know about this?”
Again Tityus nodded. Suddenly he turned his gaze back upwards and was briefly shocked by the glare directed at him. “It’s far less barbaric than you’re imagining though I assure you,” he said in a nervous attempt to douse Shining Armor’s anger,” I’m sure you remember that we feed primarily on emotion, not flesh correct?”
“I do,” Shining responded, still angry.
“Then you understand that the feeding process will leave you primarily unharmed,” the changeling continued, “Assuming the peasants didn’t overfeed, you would be left with little more than a headache in the morning.”
“I still don’t like the fact that this was kept from me and my men,” Shining retorted.
“A necessary evil I assure you,” the changeling sighed again and turned his gaze away from the guard captain. “The plan was to have the three assigned to feed off of each of you come to you at night. You would think of it as nothing more than a dream, and, assuming the peasants acted properly, the changelings would leave with a bounty of love freely given to them. Like that you gave to our former queen.”
“That depends on what you mean by ‘willingly’,” Shining responded derisively.
“So why are you telling us now?” Paige asked, cutting off her captain.
Here a nervous smile formed on the ambassador’s face. “Well…you see I promised the Queen that the ambassador from Equestria would be coming with three gifts, and by now the lottery has already doubtlessly finished.”
“So we have a question of where the split is,” Blueblood chimed in, much to the surprise of the other two ponies present. “What?” he said, “Did you think I wasn’t listening?”
“That’s exactly correct ambassador,” Tityus said, he had now turned to face the two guards once again. The smile had left his face in place of a more somber expression. “One of you will no doubt leave the experience quite drained as a result of taking on more than four changelings a night for so long.”
“I assume that refusing three of them would cause an incident,” Blueblood asked. Tityus replied with a nod. The prince replied with his own nod and faced the guards himself. “Very well. Which one of you is willing to take one for the team?”
“You can’t seriously be agreeing to this whole thing?” Shining complained.
“We don’t want an incident on our hands, boy,” the prince replied,” Now I need an answer; you or your subordinate?”
Shining shook his head. “If you insist on this, ambassadors,” he said derisively, “Then please leave it to me. I will feed the peasants alone.”
Strangely enough the only one among the group to react to this statement with shock was Tityus. Blueblood and Paige responded merely with a sort of dull surprise. “You are aware that’s completely insane, sir?” the black unicorn asked, as if she already knew the answer.
“I’m not going to have my men harmed if I can avoid it,” Shining said as he shot his underling a confident smile. Shortly after, he put a grim expression back on glanced back to the ambassador. “If that’s all, ambassador, I’d suggest we continue onward.” With that, the captain of the guard marched onward straight past the still bewildered changeling. Blueblood and Paige followed shortly behind.
“You’re not going to try harder to stop him?” he asked the black unicorn as she passed.
“It wouldn’t work if I did,” was her only response.
*****
Shining sighed and put his pen and ink aside. He glanced at the nearby hourglass. Only about another hour until the feeding began and he had just finished the letter to Cadence.
In the time between the meeting with the Queen and the preparation of the room, he and Tityus had gone over what the feeding entailed. He had to admit it made sense, even if it was more than a touch bizarre.
As he rolled up the letter and pondered what his beloved would think, the unicorn took a moment to examine his lodging for the first time since he’d arrived. It wasn’t unpleasant, truth be told, but everything about it made him ever so slightly more uncomfortable. The walls were a sort of green colored velvet, and the whole room was decorated with a carpet of an only slightly darker color, the lighting was dim at best, thanks to fact that it was lit primarily by candlelight, and to top it off there was a nice skylight placed just above an almost absurdly large bed.
If the colors had focused a tad more on red, and had the room been given a few actual windows, Shining might have confused this room for his honeymoon suite. Once again Shining could feel a slight sense of dread creep into his mind. Thankfully it was quickly pushed away when he noticed the pale beetle standing at the door.
“Is there something else you need to tell me ambassador?” he asked.
The beetle nodded. “A bit of bad news about the lottery. There’s still time to reconsider this you know.”
Shining shook his head. “I told you before. I won’t force Paige to go through this.”
“I remember, but I talked to her and-“
“As I said before,” Shining interrupted with a stamp of his hoof, “No matter what you say, I am doing this, ambassador.”
The changeling simply stared at him for a moment before nodding. “Very well, sir,” he said. For the first time since Shining had known the ambassador, he could have sworn he heard something akin to derision in his voice. “They’ll be here in about an hour then.” With that Tityus gave a weak bow and headed out of the room, leaving Shining alone with his thoughts.
Shining decided to spend that time rereading his letter to Cadence.
*****
The changelings that Shining was to feed arrived soon after he spoke with the ambassador. Upon seeing the nine of them arrive all at once, the necessity of the large bed he was currently seated on became abundantly clear. In fact he would wager it wasn’t big enough.
The vast majority of those gathered were clearly eager to begin. Though it seemed there was some degree of argument about who would be going first. Nothing vocal of course, but none of them had moved much further than the doorway as of yet.
Shining took this chance to examine the front most of the group, and it appeared they were doing the same to him. Perhaps they were trying to gauge how to approach.
It didn’t take long before one of them finally did approach though. It was front-most one, as Shining expected, that moved first, and he was followed almost immediately by three other of the group. All four of them were the same black beetle that Shining had seen in Canterlot. The only difference between them, as far as Shining could tell, was their size. The one currently smiling next to his face was the largest of the quartet, so the unicorn assumed he must have had some sort of superiority.
While the large changeling stopped short just in front of his face, the three others continued to circle around behind him. Shining glared at the beetle in front of him for only a moment before he was suddenly blinded by a flash of green light.
Once the dots cleared from his vision Shining armor found himself face to face with…himself. He probably would’ve taken more time to stare in confusion at the mirror image, but the very moment after he noticed the sly smile on its face the doppelganger threw its arms around him and kissed him.
The kiss didn’t last particularly long however, as Shining broke it quickly after feeling a sudden warmth spreading through his rear.
The sensation was vaguely familiar, albeit focused on a different area than before. Shining glanced upward and saw that, in line with his suspicions, the other him’s horn was again glowing. He closed his eyes and smiled to himself. If he was going to have to do this, he was pleased to know he’d enjoy it.
Without reopening his eyes, Shining turned away from the duplicate. It was only upon lowering his head slightly and feeling a rather familiar heat that he remembered the rest of the group. He reopened his eyes to see three eager beetles sporting three shafts of various, but all rather noteworthy, sizes.
Shining felt the feeling currently focused on his anus spread to his mouth, but, unbeknownst to the three changelings above him, he didn’t need much urging. He started by clasping his lips around the beetle in the center, and giving him a few playful bobs.
It was at that point that the other Shining Armor made his move. Shining raised his head quickly off of the changeling in front of him in order to gasp for air as the tip of the other stallion pierced him. He wasn’t given much time to breathe though. The moment he lowered his head to push back against his doppelganger, he found that one of the other changelings had moved to slide a shaft in front of his now open mouth.
Shining savored the member with his tongue as it moved across his lips. He then savored the next shaft that replaced it once it had pulled back across his tongue, and once the pair had aligned themselves in front of him, the stallion did his best to pay equal attention to the both of them. All the while the duplicate Shining Armor moved steadily in and out of him; always keeping the pace just in time with the real Shining’s own motion.
Shining had altogether forgotten about the third changeling until he began to feel something dripping onto his head. Surprised by this feeling, the unicorn turned his head momentarily away from the pair in front of him and glanced upward. The image above him, he had to admit, was surprisingly arousing.
It seemed his doppelganger had just managed to finish his own liaison with the missing changeling, and was making remarkably little effort to keep his partner’s burst from leaving his mouth; despite the fact that the beetle’s shaft had yet to be removed.
The unicorn gawked at the sight for only a moment before returning to his own work. However, he did his best to catch a glimpse of the duplicate on every upward lick. The other Shining smiled down at him as he returned to his work with the beetle pair, a bit of semen still dripping around his mouth. It was at that moment that he suddenly increased his pace.
Shining found that he was actually pushed forward into the pair in front of him as the changeling above him hit him with a powerful thrust. He was able to regain his footing quickly enough, but the damage had been done. The stumble forward across the pair in front of him pushed them over the edge, and Shining soon found his chest soaked with the beetles' ejaculate.
He briefly felt a longing for the semen he had missed out on before the familiar feeling at last left his mouth. Once that had passed, he found he was too overwhelmed by the feeling of pleasure as his doppelganger pounded him to care. The thrusts were becoming more powerful, but less frequent. Shining knew this wouldn’t last much longer.
The duplicate pulled out just before the finish, once again leaving the unicorn wanting. Instead of coating Shining’s insides, the oncoming spray of white liquid simply slathered his back. He wasn’t sure whether or not he was grateful for this once the wanting spell had faded. Strangely enough, he was actually genuinely curious about what it felt like.
The doppelganger departed almost immediately after that, along with the other three black beetles that had joined it. Shining admittedly felt a little spent from the experience, but he was far from exhausted. Additionally, he had yet to achieve satisfaction himself, close as he may have come. He still had some energy left.
After catching his breath, the unicorn pulled himself back to a full stand and turned to face the next challenge. He was briefly thrown off once more by the rather strange and arousing image he saw once he had. In front of him a pink alicorn had laid down in front of a purple unicorn and, although he couldn’t get a good view of the action past his lover’s hair, it was abundantly clear what was going on. For some reason he recognized the alicorn as his husband, Bolero, while the unicorn reminded him of a younger brother named Dusk.
Various thoughts about what was wrong with this scene immediately filled Shining’s mind, but they were almost immediately suppressed by a powerful feeling of arousal when the bizarre Cadence look-alike glanced at him and beckoned for him to join. Deciding that it would be best not to think on this any further, Shining laid down on his side facing the pink stallion and watched joyously as he licked the shaft of the unicorn in front of them.
He joined his love eagerly in the activity. Their tongues crossed in an almost-kiss across Dusk’s thick shaft. Meanwhile Bolero gave Shining’s ass a not-exactly-subtle push with one of his hind legs. Shining got the message loud and clear and inched his rear as far up as he could while simultaneously raising a leg.
The position was hardly what Shining would call comfortable, but the payoff was well worth it. The way the facsimile of his lover gently probed him was perfectly highlighted by the purple stallion squirming between them. Thankfully the mild discomfort didn’t last long either. It soon became clear that Dusk wouldn’t last much longer, and it also became clear that the false Cadence wanted Shining to get the full front of the purple stallion's burst.
With a surprisingly fluid movement, the entwined pair rolled to allow the white unicorn full access to the shaft in front of them. Just in time for the purple unicorn to let loose, Shining managed to wrap his lips around the head of Dusk’s shaft. The feeling as the warm liquid filled Shining’s mouth while below him the facsimile of his beloved steadily penetrated him was absolutely intoxicating.
The unicorn could feel himself closing in on his peak as Bolero began to slow his pace. The warm liquid that filled him soon after almost pushed him over, but he found himself just barely unable to finish before the changeling pair pulled out and left him, semen-soaked, in the middle of the floor.
“That’s right,” he thought briefly coming back to reality, and becoming aware of a faint pounding in his head, “There’s still two more to go. They can’t let me finish yet.” Oddly enough, Shining smiled as he happened upon this revelation, and brought himself, tiredly, to a stand. He was curious to see what they’d show him next.
His vision was blurred for a moment after standing; a side-effect of the feeding he chose not to dwell on. Instead he decided to take a look at the last fantasy the changelings had whipped up for him.
To his surprise, the fantasy in question was merely a pair of guards. He immediately recognized the white one as none other than his companion Dove Feather, but the other black stallion was harder to recognize. For a moment he thought the changelings had simply taken on the visages of his traveling companions; clearly out of ideas after using his beloved’s face to its best effect. That was before he noticed the scar on the unicorn’s cheek.
Shining Armor reflexively fell into a bow at the sight of his former mentor; an action that would doubtlessly lead to an inevitable rutting. Of course Shining was hardly oblivious to this fact. However, the only actual stallion he’d ever wanted was standing in front of him right now. He wasn’t sure how his hosts had known, but he was very excited.
His gesture was rewarded almost immediately when he saw the pair of black hooves land on the ground in front of him, and felt the captain’s hard stallionhood force its way inside his ring. “S-sir,” he found himself gasping as the changeling pounded him. The captain’s head curled around him as he brought himself back to a full stand. “Are you ready for the final test?” he asked in the same gruff voice that Shining remembered.
“Yes sir,” Shining said, trying to keep an orderly tone despite the fact that he could barely breathe the words out. Gently the stallion lowered himself once more and prepared for the changeling’s oncoming orgasm.
He was surprised to see that no such burst came, however. Instead, the stallion above him pulled out of him mere moments after Shining’s response, leaving the unicorn to wonder what he had meant by the final test. It was at that time that he remembered there was a second changeling still waiting.
He let out a shout as a quartet of hooves landed on his shoulders. However, the shout was caused not by the sudden weight, but the sudden penetration. From behind him the changelings were simultaneously stretching his ring, and, although they moved slowly, the feeling of the pain overwhelmed by the pleasure was almost unbearable.
Shining was finally allowed to let loose almost immediately after the act. That didn’t mean that it came to a stop though, and with each push from the pair behind him Shining let out another yell of pleasure. Thankfully though, this didn’t last too much longer before the pair finally let loose themselves. Shining wasn’t sure which one went first as the changeling’s liquid filled him, but the feeling didn’t help to weaken the overwhelming feeling inside of him.
The second stallion came as well soon after, but the pair didn’t finally remove themselves until every last squirt had finished; after which they finally pulled out, allowing Shining armor to collapse into a heap.
Suddenly, the unicorn felt tired. He watched through blurred vision as the pair of changelings nonchalantly left through the door. For a moment he thought he saw them bow in thanks, but his mind was in a daze so he couldn’t be sure.
To his surprise, they were almost instantly replaced by a single white speckled changeling. He wasn’t sure why. Maybe he’d miscounted. Apparently there was still one more guest left.
Shining thought about standing for the changeling, but that thought was quickly crushed by a concern about his narrowing vision. That thought was then forgotten once he had passed out.
*****
Shining awoke some time later back on his bed. Sitting beside him was a familiar white beetle. “Tityus,” he said. He would have continued into a question were he not suddenly struck with an intense pain in his forehead, which caused him to crumple forward.
“Don’t exert yourself by talking,” the ambassador said,” You’ve been through quite a night.”
Shining paused as the events of the previous night finally struck him. They were vague at best. Almost…dreamlike. The unicorn had to admit, he admired the changelings’ work. The part that struck him most was the bit at the end. “You didn’t mention that I’d pass out,” he said.
“That wasn’t part of the plan,” Tityus responded nonchalantly as he marked a page in his book, “I told you that you took on too much. If I hadn’t been there, who knows what would’ve happened.”
“I would’ve been fine,” the unicorn retorted, before crumpling forward once more as another onset of pain set in.
“I’m sure that’s true.” Tityus sighed as he lifted himself to a stand and moved to the door. “I just stopped by to check up on you. Dove Feather has returned in the meantime. Your men will handle the next night.”
Shining raised a hoof in protest, but it was too late. The changeling had already left. He considered following him, but realized that standing would most likely be ill-advised.
“Perhaps some rest would be best anyway,” he thought aloud. With that he laid his head back and thought of the wife awaiting him at home. He wasn’t sure why she had suddenly filled his thoughts. He simply felt like he might be in need of a little love.