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// Thunderstorm by Liquidfirest0rm 
// Story: Tainted Love: A Twysalis Prompt Tag Collab 
// by Foals Errand 
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by Liquidfirest0rm

It was a quiet night at the Crystal Oaks castle, the newest edition to Ponyville. The entire building was dead quiet, save the raucous snoring of one small dragon. Outside of the castle, there was a massive storm brewing. The three occupants slept on peacefully, unaware of the threat that loomed just outside the windows.

KRACK-BOOM!!

The first peal of thunder was so loud, it shook the entire building. Twilight awoke suddenly. It wasn't the loud noise that had awoken the recently dubbed 'Princess of Friendship', it was the feeling of suddenly being squeezed to death.

Lighting up her horn, she turned to find her attacker, finding instead the reflected light from her horn on her marefriend's chitin.

"Chryssy... do... you... mind?" she said, struggling to breathe. She was released a moment later, greedily gasping for air.

"Sorry," Chrysalis said, looking flustered for some reason.

"What was that about?" Twilight asked once she had recovered.

"Nothing." Chrysalis replied, idly playing with the sheets between her hooves. Twilight cocked an eyebrow, a look of disbelief on her face.

"Honestly, it was-"

A flash of lightning, followed by another massive clap of thunder, found Twilight once again the victim of a bone crushing squeeze, compliments of her marefriend. Chrysalis heard a snort of laughter come from the pony in her grasp. She glared down at her in warning.

"Don't you dare." she said threateningly.

"Whatever could you be talking about, my love?" Twilight replied, failing very badly to contain her mirth.

"It's not funny." Chrysalis pouted.

Twilight finally lost it, her torrent of laughter earning her a harsh glare.

"The mighty queen of the Changelings, defeated by a mere thunderstorm!" Twilight manages to get out before falling into another laughing fit.

Her laughter was suddenly interrupted by a pillow hitting her in the face. Feeling the bed move, she moved the pillow to see Chrysalis walking out of the room.

“Chryssy,” she whined. “come back.”

She got up and followed her marefriend out of the room. She found her out in the hallway, sitting down, looking over the railing at the main hall. sitting down next to her, she draped a wing over her much larger form.

“Chryssy, I’m sorry.” she said, squeezing her with her wing. “I shouldn’t have laughed at you.”

“It’s alright.” Chrysalis replied, pulling her into a hug. They sat there like that for a few moments before Twilight spoke again.

“If you’d like, I can cast a sound dampening spell over our room so you won’t have to hear it.” she offered.

“I’d like that.”

She let Twilight go and they both got up and made their way back to their bed. Twilight lit her horn up, the entire room shimmered for a moment with the same lavender glow as Twilight’s magic, before returning to normal.

“There, now you won’t have to be afraid of the big, bad thunderstorm anymore.” Twilight said, getting one more jab in.

Chrysalis promptly returned the pillow to her face, before turning on her side, facing the edge of the bed. Twilight snuggled up behind her, nuzzling the back of her head.

“I love you, Chryssy.” Chrysalis turned back around, embracing her properly.

“I love you too, Twilight.” she replied. They both soon fell asleep again, the only sign of the storm raging outside was the occasional flash that came through the window.