Ballet of a Pregnant Princess

The arena erupted in a fit of cheers, claws stomping and wings flapping in a thunderous chorus of applause. The many sequential rings descending in neat rows around the central pit were filled with dragons of all shapes and sizes, boasting colors from...

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Caugt in the Trap

The forest air was still as a frozen lake as the gleaming pillars of sunset were cast between the towering pine trees. Naught but the odd green needle or pine cone disrupted the tranquility as they drifted downward in twirling spires or clattered upon...

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Master's Court: Chapter 5

_The Queen's lay?_ The three words were the only thing to linger in Umbra's mind as she was awkwardly fitted into a somewhat presentable appearance by the master's Curseling servants. _I never thought I'd be here to see it!_ That was the second...

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Master's Court: Chaper 4

The dark halls of the palace had never been so silent, as if the stone itself restlessly awaited the countless tapping claws of the small hatchlings soon to come. Every dragoness in the court bar a select few was merely a month from laying her clutch,...

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Master's Court: Chapter 3

"This is just insulting!" Anubia growled as she struggled against her harness, tight straps, bonds, and chains tugging at her sleek scales. "I am an Ebon Dragoness, not some poultry slave to be bound and shackled!" "You know, if you put as much...

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Blowing off Steam

The wasteland sky was dark, thick cloud cover bloated with rain, yet underset by a slice of light from the setting sun. Late evening, when the sickly-green afternoon faded into the dull hue of twilight was the only time anypony could hope to see...

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Royal Meeting

Queen Narcissa perched proudly upon her throne at the head of the long, dark wood table, delegated dragonesses from each of the Ebon Clans seated around her, necks scarred, and bellies bloated in various stages of pregnancy. Most seemed fairly content...

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Cosmic Maternity

The field of grass was alight with a silver hue as the moon's glow beamed down from the starry night sky in a beautiful shaft of elegant, pale blue. The dry stalks danced and shimmered, like smooth waves upon a dark ocean, as darkness pooled in rivers...

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Pleasing the Wing Leader

The wing of armored dragons stood in stoic line formation upon the dusty training field. Each was still as a statue as they waited in perfect silence for the dragoness marching up and down their ranks. Her ruby eyes scanning each with cold, calculated...

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Mothers of the Savanna

The savanna was calm as the orange radiance of evening slowly set into the dull purple of twilight. The long strands of dry grass swayed in the light breeze, like rippling waves of silver over the ocean of parched vegetation. Above, the stars began to...

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Xirra's First Time

Xeno lazily lifted his head from the cave floor, all four emerald eyes scanning the gloom around him as his mate slept peacefully under his wing. Yet as the drake opened his maw wide to yawn, a light blue blur jumped out at him from the shadows,...

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The Sanguine Prince: Chapter Two

If there was one thing Xeno hated it was feeling like the whole world was bearing down on him to do something, yet he was really bad at doing it. As small as that world may be under the supervision of those above him, he still felt as if failure was...

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