“And to your left you’ll see some more lovely houses crafted by our very own crystal ponies, and over there you can see our library, filled with all the knowledge for a mare like you, and over there you can see…”
Chrysalis groaned as the stallion continued to show her around the city. She didn’t have time for this at all, nor the patience. She looked over her shoulder and saw that the colt was still there, chewing her piece of hair that he tore out on the train, she was hoping he would choke on it.
“And to your other left, you can see-” Chrysalis grabbed him before he could say another word.
“Look, this is all very amusing, but instead of looking at all this scenery, how about you...”
The stallion shook her away and looked ahead. “But there’s so much stuff for you to see! You can see-”
Chrysalis lost it. She took hold of his face and locked him with her eyes. “Just take me to where those two idiotic ruler's are!”
The guard stared deeply into her bright green eyes, he was beginning to realized that this mare needed his help. So, with his eyes also glowing green, he faced forward and said, “Yes, they’re this way.” He said in monotone.
Chrysie smiled and continued walking next to him, now she could finally clear her head of this annoying guard and think about-
*RIP*
Her eye twitched again, knowing all too well where that sound came from. She held in her screams and took a deep breath. “It’s okay, it’s fine, you’re almost there anyway.”
“Here we are!” The guard looked up, Chrysalis did the same and gasped at the sight. The tower was as tall as the one she tried to take, and the whole thing being made out of crystals only astounded her more.
“T-that tall?” Chrysalis skimmed down the rest of the tower until her eyes fell upon the door.
“Yes. Very powerful...Very nice…” Chrysalis looked back at him and saw the effects of mind control were starting to fry his brain.
She groaned and smacked him upside the head. “Thank you so much.” She said in a caring tone as the guard started regaining consciousness.
“Wha...who….Oh...Oh yeah!...No problemo miss...um...miss…” He motioned his hoof to tell him what her name was.
“A name that you shouldn’t worry your pretty little head about.” She patted his head and walked away from him.
The guard hung his mouth open as the hottest mare he had ever met walked away from him, with the colt on her back waving at him with two pieces of hair in his mouth.
“What a mare…”
Chrysalis sighed and looked up at the front doors, contemplating if she should either go through or just leave the child on the front step, but she knew others would see her doing this, and the last thing she wanted was to draw attention to herself.
She sighed and took the child off her back and set it on the ground. It smiled up at her and continued chewing on the pieces of hair. Chrysalis groaned and pulled the dead strands of her hair out of his mouth. The child made a grab for them but Chrysalis quickly filled the gap between her face and his. “What is with you and your sick obsession with my hair, child?” she growled.
The colt responded with his tiny hoof touching his nose. Chrysalis rolled her eyes. “You are worse than the hatchlings.”
She picked the child up again and made her way to the doors. “Just walk in and give them the child, then you can go home and forget about all of this…” Chrysalis rested her hoof on the door and looked down, knowing that if she went home, she would only be reminded that she was still a ruler with no food to give for her children.
She closed her eyes and shook her head. “Enough. you’ll find a way to help them Chrysie, you always…always...yes...you…” She slid her hoof down the door and sat down, the colt tumbled out of her grip and landed next to her. He looked around until his eyes met her’s. He then tilted his head, wondering why water was coming out of them.
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“No Cadance.”
“Why not?”
“Because something like this is just...too much for me to-”
“But you don’t even have to do anything. You can just lay there and-”
“I’m talking about what happens after, Cadance!”
Cadance crossed her hooves. “But it’ll be fun.”
Shining shook his head. “I don’t think it will, too much responsibility, and besides, I’d rather have Twilight do it.”
Cadance tilted her head. “Why would you-”
“Because I want to be an uncle instead, so I know I have a child, yet it’s not mine.”
Cadance giggled. “Then who would you want to be your brother-in-law? Last I remember, you don’t like it when others mess with your sister.”
Shining groaned. “It was just one punch, and the private didn’t even see it coming, he should’ve thought twice before he bumped into her, and I could see he wasn’t right for her.”
Cadance came up behind him and grabbed his shoulders. “You’re too overprotective Shining, you gotta let her decide who she wants.”
“Yeah, but I don’t want her messing with a soldier who doesn’t even know how to throw a spear, or can’t even jump a hurdle, nor can he run like the rest of the perfectly good stallions who do better,” He shrugged her off. “not only that, but I don’t want her around someone who I know can't support a child.”
“So someone like you?”
Shining opened his mouth, but only knew she had a point. “I just want her to be happy.”
“Then let her chose, she didn’t choose for you when you met me.”
“Yeah, but she knew you, so that only makes it fair if I knew the guy.”
“But you did.”
“Yeah...well...he wasn’t-”
“And she might like him back.”
“But he-”
“And he could use more training.”
Shining was starting to understand that the more his wife talked, the more she was right. “But...he...I…”
Cadance wrapped her arms around his neck. “Maybe if you get to know him, then you’ll like him.”
Shining sighed. “Alright, I might as well, since it’s either that or having one of my own.”
“Are you sure you don’t wanna have one?” Cadance frowned, but Shining wasn’t buying it.
“I’m positive. It’s bad enough having one pony to look after.” He smiled.
Cadance giggled. “Same here.”
“So now I’m the one who needs caring?”
The both smiled and leaned in for a kiss, which was then interrupted by a knock at the door. They got out of their embrace and looked at the door. “Didn’t you ask for the day off?” Cadance asked.
“Yes, so either that’s food or something important, and we already had lunch.” Shining walked away from Cadance.
He closed his eyes and flared up his horn, within seconds the door opened, making Cadance gasp. Shining looked at her. “What’s wrong?” He turned back to the door. “Who’s at the do...or…” Shining backed up and stood in front of Cadance, wondering why in Equestria this of all things was right in front of their door.
“I believe ‘this’ belongs to you?”