“Gosh dangit!” yelled Applejack. “Those apples can’t just be disappearing on their own. I know it’s not a lot, but it’s cider season, every apple counts.”
“Eyup,” replied Big Mac.
“And we’re still all out of ideas who’s stealing them?” she asked
“Eeyup,” replied Big Mac.
“We’ve tried everything by now: trapping them, luring them and even staying out all night to catch them red handed. Somehow they just avoid the traps, are taking apples from new areas every night, and seem to avoid us noticing. It’s a clever fella, I can tell ya’ that much.” she continued.
Big Mac looked to the ground, he had run out of ideas. They didn’t know who or why anyone would be stealing their apples.. It couldn’t be an animal, since they had tried a variety of traps to stop them. The only clue they had were a few apple cores lying around the few trees that were harvested each night.
Suddenly Applejack jumped out of her seat and grabbed Big Mac’s face excited. “Ah know how we can catch the thieves!” she yelled.
The next day Applejack had gathered her friends except Twilight, Rarity, and Starlight, who were out of town to help Celestia. Apple Bloom went to get her friends as well as some other volunteers with Applejack.
The group spend the whole day harvesting every ripe apple they could find. When the day was over all the ponies went home and the apples were locked away safely in the storage barn. Either the thieves would have to steal the unripe apples or they’d have to be stupid enough to steal them from the barn. Applejack was hoping the thieves would come, she was ready to kick their butts and teach them a lesson. Both Applebloom and Big Mac agreed, they should stay out and be ready to ambush them from inside the barn.
Even though she was soon to become a grown pony, Applejack wouldn’t let Applebloom join. After Applebloom ranted about the unfairness of not being allowed to help for a few minutes, she quickly fell asleep in Big Macs arms when the exhaustion from the day’s work hit her.
Big Mac carried her and tucked her into bed. When he returned to the barn AJ had prepared for their ambush.
“Can you believe her, Big Mac? She really is an apple to the core,” said Applejack.
“Eeyup!” replied Big Mac.
Big Mac closed and barricaded the door just enough to make it hard to open. He then went up to his sister where they were prepared to jump down on anyone entering.
“How about I take the first shift? You’ve been working mighty hard today as well.”
Big Mac nodded and fell asleep besides her almost immediately. A couple of hours went by uneventfully. Applejack looked out a window near her once in a while to keep herself occupied and see if there was anything going on. After fighting her sleepiness for a while she gently shook her sleeping brother.
“Hey, Big Mac!” she whispered. “Can ya’ take over? I can’t take it much longer.”
He didn’t respond, he was sleeping like a rock. She decided to let him be and went on to walk back and forth to keep awake.
About 4 hours into the night Applejack noticed a faint tapping sound on the wooden structure. The sound sent chills down her spine. She had expected a sudden and loud intrusion. She listened closer, the tapping was coming from right beneath the wooden floor.
Frightened she went over and shook Big Mac as hard as she could without making any noise, but he just turned over in his sleep. She swallowed her fear and went over to the edge of the floor, trying to see anything in the darkness. She lied down on her stomach to look under where the tapping was coming from.
It was pitch black, only a very faint moon light from between a few floor boards were visible. She kept staring and listing to the tapping getting closer and closer.
Suddenly she noticed and bunch of small shadows moving around, too quickly and with too little light for her to tell what it was.The tapping got closer and closer, until all the light went away. She could only see a black ball with a dark aura. Before she could move away it bounced over the edge and hit her in the forehead.
“Gosh dang it!” she yelled.
Applejack jumped over to her brother, and gently kicked his side, trying to wake him. She looked up again, and saw many of the spheres now floating in the air around her. As if drawn by the moonlight, they began to float out the window one by one.
“Wait a minute!” she mumbled.
She started kicking Big Mac hader and faster.
“Wake the hay up! Our apples are floating away!”
He kept sleeping. Thinking quickly she grabbed a basket and held it in front of the window. The apples started to collect in the basket. The basket was getting heavier as all the apples were trying to float out the window. Holding on tight to the handles, she soon realized her mistake. She lost her grip of the ground and floated out the window with the apples in the basket. Applejack flew through the moonlight with about a barrel’s worth of apples. Even in the moonlight the dark aura around the apples made them hard to recognize.
Whatever was behind all of this, Applejack didn’t want any part of it, at least not without help. She wanted to let go, but the apples were floating higher than any tree on the highest hill on the farm, all she could do was cling on for her life.
She floated for several minutes, eventually leaving the farm. She was going straight into the Everfree Forest. Not far in, she started to descend again, going straight towards a campfire. As she got closer she saw some tents and some dark figures. She kept going towards them, still too high to let go. As she got closer she noticed they were all heavily armored knights in black plate armor, they were all seemingly winged, but the wings were covered in armor, so she wasn’t sure that was the case. They were standing in a circle around the campfire looking directly at Applejack.
As she landed four knights carrying a bed with handles walked out, in the bed lay a knight in a different armor with both wings and horn built in. They put the bed down in front of Applejack who was now sitting on the ground, too frightened to move. Most of the knights around her were pointing their spears at her. The sleeping knight, who seemed to be their leader, woke up and with that all the apples fell to the ground.
“It’s as you showed me,” said one of the knights and looked at the leader. “The apples didn’t come alone this time.”
“What shall we do with her?” asked another knight.
“How ‘bout ya’ll give me my dang apples back and we can pretend like this never happened?” replied Applejack.
The leader stepped forward, leaned down and poked Applejack on her forehead. She lost consciousness.
“Wake up!” whispered Big Mac strongly.
“H-huh?” replied Applejack. “W-what’s going on?”
A loud banging was heard bellow them as the door was broken down.
“They’re here,” whispered Big Mac. “You fell asleep.”
They went over to the edge of the floor, ready to jump down on the intruders. They could see them as black silhouettes in the dark barn. As the intruders reached for a barrel of apples, Big Mac and Applejack nodded at each other and jumped. They successfully landed on top of them pinning the intruders down.
“That’ll teach ya’! Ain’t nobody stealin’ from the Apple family and getting away with it,” gloated Applejack.
“Eyup!” Big Mac agreed.
The intruders were wearing all black. Applejack went to pull off the mask of the one she was sitting on, but to her surprise, they weren’t wearing a mask, nor could she feel any clothes. Then it dawned on her.
“What the hay are changelings stealin’ our apples for?” exclaimed Applejack.
She looked over at her brother, but to her surprise, he was gone, instead there sat another changeling. A changeling snuck in from behind and grabbed her arms.
“Hey now! Let me go!” Applejack got up and started to resist.
Looking into the barn she saw movement. More changelings were creeping towards her from the storage. She broke free of their grasp, but when she turned around she saw the whole barn was surrounded. Not going down without a fight, she started punching and kicking, but they quickly overpowered her as she tried to flee the barn. The changelings were groping her and ripping her clothes to shreds. A female changeling took the opportunity to sit on Applejack’s face, while one of the males stroked his cock between her breasts. Two other changelings played with her nipples as she was getting tit-fucked, two others were holding her arms and two more held her legs out in a presenting fashion.
“Oh my” said a voice. “Such a big juicy ripe apple just for me? You shouldn’t have.”
Applejack recognized the voice of the changeling queen. She felt something between her legs. Chrysalis had grown herself an enormous cock.
“No one makes apples with as much love as they do at the apple farm, or so I’m told,” Chrysalis said as she grinded her cock between Applejack’s lips.
Applejack struggled with all her might, but none of the changelings budged. The changeling queen prepared to insert her cock into Applejack.
“Enough!” yelled a voice.
All the changelings and Chrysalis dissolved into thin air. The moon shone as bright as the sun, blinding Applejack. Out of the light a figure lowered. It was the knight from earlier. Applejack came to her senses and stood up ready to fight.
“Who the hay do ya’ll think you are?” yelled Applejack.
The knight lowered down to the ground and walked towards Applejack and took off her helmet.
“P-Princess Luna?” said Applejack as she lowered her hands. “Why’ve ya’ll been going around stealing apples?” Applejack looked down and quickly covered herself with her hands as she was reminded that she was still naked, and now standing in front of the princess.
“Fret not Applejack, everyone has dreams about being naked, I’ve seen it all,” replied Luna.
“‘Scuse me Princess, but that doesn’t exactly make me more comfortable being all naked ‘round royalty,” said Applejack as she continued to cover herself. “Wait, are you saying this is all a dream?”
Luna nodded. “As you came to our camp, I made you fall asleep. I was able to navigate your dream through your short term memory, starting it in your barn. I had to test you. Equestria as we know it is at the brink of collapse, and the changelings are at the center of it. Even now, I cannot be sure you are not a changeling, hiding your affinity.”
“Have ya’ll lost your marbles? If I were a changeling, I’d be sucking out the love of everyone I know. Go check for yourself if ya’ don’t believe me,” said Applejack angrily.
“I want to believe you, Applejack, but things have changed. The changelings are no longer able to just transform, they’re able to steal our bodies, making us unable to detect them. Even their hunger for love is gone when they possess our bodies. However, Applejack, you passed my test so far, when you decided to resist the changelings rather than welcoming them,” Luna explained.
Luna told Applejack everything that had happened at Canterllot through the dream. She showed her the meeting she had with Celestia, Cadance and Twilight. Shortly after Twilight went home, Luna’s headache ended and the dream she had the night before became clear to her again. She could remember how Chrysalis was inhabiting Cadance’s body and she was able to defeat Luna in their dream. As soon as she remembered, she got up and asked the guards to seize her. Celestia was confused, but trusted her sister. As the guards brought her down, Luna began explaining to Celestia what had happened. It was then that Cadance attacked them, all the guards in the room turned on the princesses. As they struggled, Cadance was quick to put a horn ring on Celestia as the guards overpowered her. As she saw her sister fall Luna felt a horn ring come floating down on her as well. At the last second she rejected it and flew up. Never had the princesses been caught this off guard, and never had they been betrayed by their own like that. Cadance, using her magic, tried to pull Luna down again. Not taking her chances, she escaped Cadance’s pull and fled.
In the next few days, Luna hid in Canterlot, every guard was looking for her, as Cadance had replaced Celestia with a changeling, they fabricated a story about how Luna had tried to overthrow the throne again. She hatched a plan: the next night, she would enter all her guards’ dreams and figure out who she could trust. She went and gave all her guards similar tests to the one Applejack went through. In the end she had decided on eighteen guards she trusted, most of them were already her most loyal guards and would follow her no matter what her alignment, and a few of them just didn’t believe that Luna was trying to overthrow the throne again. They geared up, and took to hiding as they planned their next move. They decided to hide in the Everfree Forest since no one would look for them there, and near the Apple farm to gather provisions.
With her power over dreams and the moon, she was able to go through the Apple family’s minds every night to find out where the ripe apples were and harvest some of them. Tonight however she could feel the extra weight on the apples and asked one of her guards to prepare the others for company.
“I see,” said Applejack more calmly. “If I had known you needed my apples that bad, I would’a given them to ya’.
“I know, Applejack,” replied Luna. “But we can’t risk anymore chances. I’ve been gathering intel through the dreams of all the guards in Canterlot. They’ve been instructed not to reveal anything, but only the strongest of wills can hide their intentions in their dreams. I know the guards are being replaced one by one, even royalty and other authority figures are being switched out. I don’t know what happens to them after the switch, the magical connection I use to go into their dreams are severed, but the sudden change in their minds will often reveal the switch to me. I haven’t been able to contact my sister either.”
“I believe you, Princess,” said Applejack. “All we gotta do is get the girls and teach the queen a lesson in friendship and harmony!” She did some kicking motions in the air before remembering she was still nude. “Umm, could you by chance use some of your dream magic to conjure me some new clothes?”
Luna snapped her fingers and a dark dress appeared in Applejack’s arms.
“Not exactly my style,” said Applejack. “But it’s better than-”
Luna snapped her fingers again. The world disappeared and they woke up again.
“Your highness!” said one of the knights as he noticed Luna waking up. “We did as you asked.”
“I know,” replied Luna. “Where is she?”
The knight led her out of her tent and towards a pole planted in the ground. Several chains were fastened to it. Applejack was chained up to the pole, with the chains just long enough to allow her to move freely within a meter of the pole. As Applejack woke up, she noticed her restraints.
“Uhm, Princess?” she asked, confused.
“I had asked my knights to chain you up while I figured out if I could trust you or not,” replied Luna.
She sighed, relieved, and raised her hands to let them free her. “Well, what’re ya’ll waitin’ for? Let’s go save Equestria.”
“I’m sorry, Applejack,” replied Luna.
“What’s that supposed to mean?” asked Applejack slightly agitated. “I passed your test, didn’t I?”
“And what will you do when I free you?” asked Luna.
“Well, we’ll go kick their butts. I’ll go to the farm and make sure everyone’s safe, and then I’ll go get the girls, so we can go to Canterlot and take back the throne,” she replied confidently.
“Which is why I can’t let you go,” Luna said.
“You can’t-”
Luna interrupted her. “I’m sorry, Applejack. I can’t let you go. I can’t risk you revealing our camp. No matter how confident you are, if a changeling spy were to capture you, they’ll be doing everything in their power to break you, and before then you’ll be sure to have given up our location. When the time is right, I’ll let you go.”
Applejack was angry, she knew Luna was right. Undoubtingly, Applejack would go to Ponyville to get help, but even one mistake would cost them everything.
Some knights were setting up a small tent for Applejack, close enough to the pole that she could go inside and sleep. Before going to sleep Luna agreed to let Applejack write a letter to her family to let them know she was safe. She wrote that she had gone to Canterlot to visit Twilight and the others as she needed Twilight’s help with some clues about the missing apples. After Luna and multiple knights had read it to ensure there were no hidden messages, one of the knights went and delivered the letter.
The next day the chains on Applejack were replaced with a single long chain on her ankle, allowing her to move around freely in most of the camp, the key was kept on Luna’s person at all times. Applejack told Luna everything she knew about how Twilight, Rarity, and Starlight had left to Canterlot. Luna confirmed that she had seen the three in a few of the Canterlot guards’ dreams, as well as Celestia.
The group kept strategizing for a couple of days, the knights taught Applejack fighting skills to keep her and themselves occupied when not gathering food, strategizing and otherwise tending to the camp.
Their plans were futile though, there was no strategy they could work out that gave them a full success guarantee.
Applejack was getting restless, it seemed like all these strategies were leading nowhere.
One night when the camp was quiet only Luna and Applejack was remaining at the strategizing table. Luna was getting visibly frustrated. Over the past few days, Applejack had learned a lot about fighting, strategies, and especially Luna. Luna often tried to hide her emotions, she tried to keep morale high by maintaining her authority. It was a trait she noticed now more than before the Changelings came back.
“Luna?” asked Applejack.
She took a deep breath to relieve herself of her frustration. “Yes, Applejack,” she replied calmly.
“I can’t help but feel ya’ll are upset about something. Ah know Equestria’s at stake ‘n all, but you need to relax. The Luna I knew before wasn’t too proud to joke or have fun, what’s happened?” continued Applejack.
“Please,” said Luna slightly annoyed. “We don’t have time to mingle, every moment spent here is another moment Chrysalis takes over Canterlot.”
“Ya’ll know as well as I that those strategizings don’t work until something drastic changes. You might as well take your time off when there’s nothin’ else to do,” she replied.
“Maybe you’re right Applejack. But every time I try to calm down, I can’t help but thinking of my nightmare, and what that monster is doing to my sister.”
“Alright, how about this. I’ll do the small talking and you just reply to me?” Applejack suggested.
Luna gave her a weird look.
“So, about that dream you gave me. Why’d ya’ wait until the end to give me some clothes?” asked Applejack.
Luna blushed and spoke loudly. “I told you already, everyone has naked dreams. Nothing special about that!” she quieted down. “Besides, I just wanted to see if you could compare in strength to my knights.”
“Oh, ho, ho,” laughed Applejack and pulled up her sleeve and flexed. “So you were ‘miring a farm girl in her sleep?”
Luna raised her voice again. “You’re twisting my words! I just wanted to see if you would be strong enough to fight with us.”
Applejack continued to joke. “Oh, you just wanted to check out if I’m pretty enough to be in your group? Well, if ya’ ever need to double check just ask,” she did a teasing motion with her chest.
Luna bowed her head between her arms on the table and sighed. “I give up.”
Applejack put her arm on Luna’s back and rubbed it a bit. “Aww, don’t take it so hard. Ah was just messin’ with ya’.”
Just as Applejack finished her sentence, Luna rose her head quickly, hugging Applejack and kissing her on the lips. Applejack was rather surprised as she was only trying break the ice with some jokes.
“You’re right,” said Luna. “I can’t keep hiding my feelings. Your naked body, your sweet smell, everything about you made me crave you. Applejack, you’re the fairest maiden of the likes I’ve not seen for many moons, but we could never be,” Luna grabbed Applejacks hands and led them to her chest. “But maybe just tonight you’d make me yours?”
Luna stood up, grabbed Applejack’s hand and pulled her towards her tent while trying to loosen her armor with her other hand. Applejack was speechless, awkwardly following as Luna dragged her along the way. She’d never met a mare this desperate to get in her pants, except Rainbow Dash when she’s been drinking. Her heart began to pound as they got closer to her tent. She’d never thought of Luna that way, but denying her now would probably make her even more isolated than before.
As they entered the tent, Luna threw Applejack on her mattress. Luna sat down on her knees with one leg on each side of Applejack. Luna was throwing parts of her armor everywhere as she took it off. Confused, and unsure how she should react to the whole situation, Applejack raised her arms instinctively in front of her to block Luna from her vision.
Luna noticed Applejack raising her arms and grabbed her wrists. “I may be a princess, but I’m not frail,” she said as she brought Applejack’s hands to her breasts. She had taken off her breastplate, but was still wearing her undershirt. “Show me how a strong farm girl like you can handle these apples.”
Applejack began to nervously grope her breasts while Luna continued to take off her armor. Applejack had never been with a mare with breasts this big before, she was almost scared she’d suffocate if Luna fell on her.
“Enjoying yourself?” Luna asked. “How about I join the fun?” She began unbuttoning Applejack’s shirt.
Still nervous, Applejack kept groping the princess in a determined fashion. Applejack never considered Luna to be anything but her friend, she didn’t even think Luna would be into mares. Maybe when you live for millennia you learn to be attracted to many things. For a princess, a farm girl like herself would be a rather exotic option.
For a princess like Luna, most ponies would still be scared of her, especially in a high end place like Canterlot. They trust her as long as Celestia tells them to, but very few would consider being intimate with her. Applejack was thinking about all these things while Luna was undressing both of them. Luna had opened Applejack’s shirt and lifted her undershirt revealing her breasts, after that she took off her own undershirt allowing Applejack to grope her directly.
After thinking things through, Applejack was determined. She had decided, even if she couldn’t see Luna as more than a friend, she would help her out any way possible. If she was being honest with herself, Luna was probably the sexiest mare she had ever had the chance to be with.
With her newfound determination, Applejack held around Luna and pulled her down on top of her. Luna’s breasts completely engulfed Applejack’s. As Applejack hugged Luna she leaned up to kiss her. As their kiss ended Luna sucked on Applejack’s tongue, only releasing it as she moved her head away.
Applejack was overcome with the feeling of Luna’s lips and her millenia of experience with stallions and mares alike, both real and from dreams. Along with that she also felt how deprived Luna was from physical contact, after a millennia on the moon and the continued fear after her return, she was more lonely than she cared to admit.
Luna kissed her again, while rubbing their breasts together. Luna sat up again and pulled down Applejack’s shirt and took her undershirt over her head too. Applejack’s arms were stuck in her shirt as Luna hadn’t undone the sleeves yet, leaving her arms tangled in her shirt and undershirt.Luna turned around, and sat on Applejack’s face. Luna was still wearing leggings, but Applejack could feel every little curvature being pressed against her muzzle.
Luna took hold of Applejack’s pants, letting them slide down off her legs and onto the chain still attached to her. Applejack had been brought into a haze with her muzzle buried in the princess’s crotch, she was finally getting into the situation as well. She opened her mouth and licked Luna’s crotch through her leggings. As soon as she started Luna put more weight onto Applejack’s face as she sat on her.
Luna wiggled her hips as she also pulled down Applejack’s panties. She fingered Applejack for a few seconds to find out how wet she had gotten. Her fingers were almost dripping as she pulled them out of the farm pony. Luna sat up and rubbed her fingers on her crotch, forcing Applejack to lick her own fluids as she wiped her fingers clean on the crotch of her leggings. Applejack happily continued.
Luna leaned over again and pulled in more of the chain tied to Applejack. She lifted Applejack’s legs and coiled the chain around her legs, leaving both her hands and feet loosely tied.
It was very rare for Applejack to be submissive when with other ponies, Princess Luna however had too much authority. She acted much more confidently than even Applejack, it made it impossible for her to even think about attempting being on top. Applejack was enjoying letting Luna have her way with her.
As Luna sat on Applejack’s face calmly she moaned. “Thy tongue seems quite experienced with mares.”
Applejack didn’t react as she was euphoric from having Luna sit on her.
Suddenly she felt Luna’s leggings stretching. As they kept stretching they started to rip. Luna was pulling them apart with her magic. Applejack didn’t stop and as the leggings rippled she didn’t hesitate to stick her tongue further in the princess.
Luna grabbed Applejack’s breasts and massaged them and stimulated her crotch with her magic. Applejack instinctively started struggling as she felt intense pleasure. Applejack was moaning as she was getting used to the feeling of magic as it tickled and massaged her vagina.
They were both going more intensely as they felt each other. Luna’s fondling of Applejack’s breasts turned into a hard grabbing as she felt the pleasure build up. Applejack kept struggling involuntarily, as Luna was toying with her, but she was kept in place by the chain and her shirt.
As Luna reached her climax, she made sure she stimulated Applejack accordingly. Luna had a hard time remaining still on Applejack’s face, Applejack stopped licking as she was hit by the climax simultaneously.
As they caught their breath Luna went down to lay next to Applejack on her bed. As she lay there, Luna kissed Applejack on her forehead and almost immediately fell asleep.
Applejack was tired too, but with her arms and legs kept in place, she began to move free. She sat up and released her arms to put on her shirt again and then she removed the chains to put on her panties and pants.
Applejack tucked the naked princess in. As she did, she noticed the keys hanging from Luna’s belt. She double checked that Luna was sleeping as she went over to release herself. She put the chain in her own tent and put some stuff under her blanket to make it seem like she was still there, sleeping. Applejack then wrote a note she put on her pillow and ran off towards Ponyville.
Afterword:
A bit different than the usual chapters, a bit more vanilla.
Hope you’ve liked it.
Next chapter will be a short one, should be out in a couple of weeks or so.