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So nice, so warm. Celestia sighed softly and buried herself in the warmth. It was the best feeling in the world to just drift in this blissful oblivion. A perk of being forcefully relieved of duty was that she could now keep sleeping after the sun rose, which she also had no authority to raise. She shifted and cuddled up to the darkness. The darkness nuzzled back with a light giggle.
Something is not right with this picture. Or at least the logical side of her brain told her. The rest of them was telling it to shut up and go back to bed. Alas it was not to be.
With a groan she sat up and pulled her meager cover off as she let out a sleepy yawn. Grabby hooves enclosed around her barrel and yanked her back down onto the bed and for a moment she was okay with this. The cuddly warmth was putting up a very persuasive argument for going back to bed. Until she realized she was supposed to be the only one with hooves in this room.
She leapt out of bed violently tearing away from those foreign hooves and rather rudely flipped the bed on her unannounced guest. This awarded Celestia with a rather low and dangerous growl. A green aura slowly grasped the bed and set it back in the correct position to reveal an annoyed Chrysalis on the other side of it, "Now was that really necessary?" Her double timbre voice was laced with her anger and general malice she held for the alicorn.
"Every bit of I'm afraid. I don't take kindly to strangers helping themselves to my bed." Celestia had her wings flared out in an imposing stance and her horn glowed softly. She was ready for a fight but the alicorn knew she was at a disadvantage with her low magical reserves. However Chrysalis seemed more intent to annoy her than actually fight.
The changeling queen gave the princess a smirk and climbed back onto the bed she settled back down on with a shrug, "Well perhaps you shouldn't make it so inviting. Besides, you certainly weren't complaining when I jumped in and were actually quite the cuddler." The smirk broke out to a full blown grin, "Whispering sweet nothings in my ear and holding onto me tightly as if you were afraid I would disappear into the night. Don't worry, I am not Luna. I won't go about destroying the place in a fit of jealousy."
Celestia went from frowning to scowling but ultimately did not take the obvious bait, "How did you get here?"
"Oh did I ruin your little vacation?" She laughed softly with a sickly sweet smile.
Celestia took in a deep breath and let it out when she was sure she wasn't going to shove that crooked horn deep into its owners eye. The scowl left her face and soon all she had left for an expression was an arched brow, "No, you have vastly improved it with your gleeful presence."
Chrysalis gave her a mocking bow of her head, "I am so glad to be of service Princess."
It took a moment for Celestia to unlock her jaw and getting it moving again, "You still haven't answered my question, Chrysalis. How did you get here?"
"Well, after a certain alicorn played hooky from work a few ponies began to panic. Oh poor Luna had to call martial law, kill a few ponies and a griffin as well but splitting hairs really when she executes them all by the hun-"
As Chrysalis droned on about this obvious lie she was trying to feed Celestia and the mare massaged a temple, "Would you kindly tell me what really happened or will I be forced to introduce your horn to your innards?" Her voice was calm for the most part just a hint of annoyance in it but she had a smile that would make a full grown dragon nervous.
But Chrysalis wasn't a dragon, "My you have certainly grown violent in the few months you have been absent. Kind of sexy actually." The changeling gave her pony counterpart a flirty wink.
Celestia rolled her eyes before she could stop herself, "You exaggerate too much. It has been weeks, not months. "
"And here I thought the one who set the length of day had a firm grasp of passing time." The smugness rolling off Chrysalis was near suffocating.
"Enough!" Her wings flared in an imperious flap as her horn glowed brightly, "Before you had the love of one of my subjects to sustain you and my ponies as a shield. Now you have neither so don't think for a moment I will hold back. You won last time because I let you." She stomped hard enough on the wooden desktop to leave indents of her hoof on it as she approached the source of her ire. "I have no such restraints this time Chrysalis. The only thing that keeps me from utterly destroying you is that it would be a hassle to clean up the mess of your corpse afterward. After all, I am but a temporary guest of this house and I don't wish to inconvenience my host anymore than I already have." Their horns were practically locked together as they butted heads, trying to force each other back down.
"Well I suppose that answers one question." Chrysalis gave her a feral grin as they both pushed hard against one another in a primal display of dominance.
"Oh it does?" She spat out, "Would you be so kind to share it then?"
"You didn't-
Heavy stomping was heard as the door suddenly opened for the giant known as Lenny to lumber into the room with a groan, "Ugh fuck my life." Still dressed in her barista uniform she collapsed onto her bed with a sigh.
The two just stared at the human for a moment before Celestia tried to get her horn out from the impromptu lock the changeling's own had become, "Uh- Lenny what happened to work?"
~~~<L>~~~
Lenny yawned out an answer, "Boss... Sorry my boss was kind enough to let me have the day off. He just neglected to give me a head's up. She shifted so she could get a clear view of her desk and saw Celestia trying to do.... Something with that eerily familiar toy. Wait was that...?
She sat up and moved so quickly to the desk that Celestia instinctively backpedaled and brought down that black colored horse thing down with her. But why were their horns stuck together like that? "Here let me help." With a few deft movements of her hands she had the two apart and now held Chrysalis in her hands.
It took her a moment to process this. Then she squeed.
"Oh hell yes! Celestia who dropped this off? I always wanted a Chrysalis! So life like too!" She held it close and rubbed her face against it affectionately, "And warm. Was it sitting out in the sun?"
A soft sound emanated from the the very real Chrysalis in her hands who had its, no, her hooves over her snout, "Oh I am so sorry. Just so much love at once can get me to burp on occasion when I am in my true form."
Now the floor was rushing up to meet Lenny in a not so loving embrace.