Love is certainly a funny, wonderful thing. Cadance never expected it to grow into something so painful for her.

Try as she might, she can't hide it forever, not from herself, and certainly she can't hide it from her husband...

All things have a beginning.

Even for one such as Chrysalis, Queen of the Changelings.

She lost her bid for Equestria. The changeling was found lying in a crater miles from where she had been flung. It was a miracle she had survived. Her army was shattered. So far as the Equestrians knew, Chrysalis was the only survivor.

But her hive survives and has gone to hiding as another queen seeks to find it.

If Equestria thought Chrysalis was a monster, wait until they meet Queen Taalia...

In the meantime, Atalanta has given Queen Chrysalis a renewed sense of purpose. Hatched in captivity, she is the whole world to her doting mother.

She writes the story of her life for her daughter, who could very well be the last of the changelings once Chrysalis is gone...and who this Queen Taalia is.

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This story is a sequel to Love the One You're With

It's uncomfortable having such deep feelings for your husband's sister. It's even more uncomfortable that he knows, and is encouraging them.

Cadance is trying to push those feelings down deep, where they don't hurt her, but they surface at night, when her will is at its weakest...

Would you believe Queen Chrysalis has a child of her own? No, she is not a warrior or military tactical genius, nor is she planning to rise against her mother and bring liberty to her people, and she is sure not planning on infiltrating Ponyville to seek acceptance from the ponies anytime soon. Heck, if asked, she probably could not even point out Equestira on the map.

The truth is, Princess Pupa Roachanov, the only child of Queen Chrysalis spends most of her time in the royal gardens, waited on by her nannies and treated with as much delicacy and care as the rarest rose. It's a quiet, meager life, but it's the only one she's ever known and she is content with it.

The only thing she ever really wishes more of is the affection of her beloved mama...

The queen has fallen. Her kingdom has splintered. The failure at Canterlot, however, did not begin her downfall.

It was the son she bore. Called by changelings a Halfling, his blood mixed with the blood of ponies has him marked as an abominition in the eyes of the most conservative of changelings. Fearing change and what a mixed breed foal might mean, the Royal caste collaborated with members of the Religious caste to declare the queen and her child outcast from changeling society, effectively stripping her of her title and the authority with it. With her kingdom in a state of civil war, the fleeing former queen does the unexpected and sets her sights upon the Crystal Empire for refuge.

With a small group of loyal followers, she made her way to the north, into the Everwinter Storm where the Crystal Empire awaited. There, a changeling priestess offers refuge and Sanctuary on holy ground. There, the queen might be able to secure a refuge for her son. Perhaps his father would be keen to take him in while she set about the business of righting the wrongs against her.

Vengeance, but only after her son is seen to a safe and secure environment.

But why let him be raised by prey?

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Much of Equestria's past is shrouded in mystery. Even the truths known in general are surrounded by a certain mystique. None know of a past war, forgotten by even the co-rulers of Equestria, the Princesses Celestia and Luna. One such monster from the past rises, proving that even the most powerful Alicorns can have their seeming aura of invincibility shattered. In the wake of this battle, a certain changeling queen is given a dubious gift.

Motherhood.

His name is Silent Wing. This is his story.

Prince of the Changelings Trilogy
Book 1 "Rise of the Dragonking" (complete)
Book 2 "The Chimera" (complete)
Book 3 "Nightmares of Oblivion" (started)

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Queen Chrysalis has only one grub that has survived into fillyhood; her daughter, the physically lame and mentally impaired Crown Princess Pupa. Chrysalis has never been what many would call the 'maternal type', even towards Pupa, whose adoration of her mother has no bounds. Preferring to swamp herself in the dire affairs of state, Chrysalis lets her crippled daughter be raised by her affectionate nanny.

But one day, as the Changeling Kingdom's problems reach boiling point, the Queen's already short temper erupts and she must deal with the heartbreaking consequences...

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The sequel to Rise of the Dragonking of the "Prince of the Changelings" trilogy.

War has come. Silent Wing must gather those his father commanded him to bring halfway around the world where the scars of the past are forever written upon the very sands. As he, Luna, and members of the Mane Six travel in hopes of saving Twilight Sparkle, Star Journey and Atalanta, Celestia and Chrysalis are left to lead their small forces against an overwhelming foe.

Discord remains missing, his reasons for not showing for the past fifteen years a secret.

Flamespyre sets his eye upon Twilight Sparkle and Princess Luna for reasons that can only be for his own twisted pleasure. He begins to slowly reveal his plan for the world. His target is the very magic through all the land, air, and sea. If he can but wrest control of it for himself and deny it to others, then he would indeed be unstoppable. But how can he do this?

He has a name for it: Oblivion.

Another had the very name once, five thousand years ago. One thousand years ago, it stirred a certain Nightmare against her own sister.

The chaos of war shatters a thousand years of peace as the madness of a monster spreads his evil. No place is safe. Not even the mind of Princess Celestia. All hopes rest upon the small form of the adopted son of Queen Chrysalis, Silent Wing. It could very well destroy him.

War. Ponies may not be interested in it, but it is most certainly interested in them.

Equestria has fallen. Princess Cadance, the Alicorn of Love is the only princess still standing. The perpetual blizzard beyond the borders of her kingdom has been a natural barrier to the war. The Crystal City is the last beacon of hope for the refugees seeking safety within its dome.

Meanwhile, Celestia awaits her fate at the headstallion's block. Queen Chrysalis languishes in darkness, isolated for the rest of her days from her children and her nation. Flamespyre and his children move to extinguish what hope there is. Discord remains aloof, content it seems to watch.

Princess Twilight Sparkle is awakening in her prison, but in the worst possible way.

A changeling stands against an army to save civilians he barely knows, the loyalty and devotion to his prince his driving force.

A sister plots.

A prince and a princess gather an unpredictable army to bring to heel the Twin Queens.

Nightmares roam the lands as Oblivion unleashes the chaos of magic against the king who would see it all taken for himself.

Queen Chrysalis is in a bad spot. Twilight Sparkle had made a fool out of here so many times, she's now the laughingstock of her own kingdom. Her royal coffers are empty, and her subjects are defecting to new lands daily. To top it off, her daughter Pupa is whiny, wimpy, and generally an embarrassment to her name.

But that might all change when she pays a visit to the Goddess of the Changelings, who "blesses" her with a new power, to turn anything she touches into gold. Now she can defeat Twilight Sparkle and increase her riches... or she could fail and lose her greatest treasure in the process.

Commissioned by Magic Man. The OC Pupa is his invention, seen in Pupa-chan and Maternal Instinct. However, this is a different take on her, and is not in the same universe, so you don't need to read those to understand this.

Cover from IDW Comics.