//------------------------------// // chapter three reactions and bad news // Story: of changelings and magic, a odd combination // by Kamen rider yokai //------------------------------// The next morning fluttershy led the others into the castle and waited for the fused royals to arrive. Which didn't take long when the fused form of twilight and chrysalis walked in and sat at twilights throne. The reactions were a bit mixed between wide eyes or a smile. "My word!" "Holy!" "What in tarnation!" "Morning twisalis!" As one rarity, rainbow and applejack turned to stare at pinkie pie while the fused royal also stared at the pink earth pony. "What? Got to call them something in this state through this explains the doozy i picked up months ago" said pinkie confused at the looks she was getting. "If i haven't seen your memories twilight i wouldn't have believed she was so good at predictions. How she didn't tell i wasn't cadence when you could still baffles me" said chrysalis. "In this case seeing is believing is very accurate in describing pinkie pie" twilight giggled in agreement. "Not going to lie that's a touch creepy twilight" said applejack. "We got used to it for the past three months we will explain how this happened once celestia arrives as she might know how to reverse this" they both said their unique combined voice in a deadpan tone. "So this is why you asked for fluttershy then? To help with this combined body?" asked rarity. "In twilight's own words she is a expert on unusual biology and by helping us relearn to fly she proved it and showed twilight's faith was not misplaced" admitted chrysalis. "That and we hoped she could help us understand what is different between us to help separate. Spike has sent a letter asking celestia to come here as for the time being we have to stay here to prevent a panic. We had to get here at night for that reason" said twilight. "Also i'm glad you two disciplined your sisters for that love poison incident that stuff started a war before the time of discord its not known but the mare in that hearts and hooves story was really a changeling. The marriage was to try and better relations between changelings and ponies but well that stuffs effect on changelings besides what a pony goes through makes the reason its called a poison true. It affects the changelings by altering their ability to gather love and messes with their mind to the point they truly believe their not a changeling at all with complete memory loss. It also locks a changeling in their current guise." said chrysalis. "It is deadly to changelings for that reason. We have been working on bringing the forgotten history back so it doesn't repeat itself." twilight said. At this point spike walked in with celestia's reply. "They will be here in two hours. Celestia and luna are going to pick up cadence and shining armor before they get here. Rarity care to help me make some tea? I have the feeling everyone is going to need it once the explanation is finished" said spike letting the unicorn mare nod and follow him to the kitchen. Two hours came and the four royals entered the throne room and stumbled on seeing the merged body of twilight and Chrysalis. "Now I can see why you called us" said cadence. "What happened twilight" asked Celestia looking at her former student in concern. "That's a bit of a long story Celestia" said Chrysalis with a wince. "One we hoped you might be able to help resolve" twilight added on seeing the startled looks on her family. "Trust us when we say we don't know what to do about this" both said. Once the past three months were told Celestia looked nervous and forlorn. "I'm sorry to say but I don't know how to help on this. The last time I saw a conjoinment of this scale was when discord was just learning his powers. And that took the elements of harmony to fix. As those have been returned to the tree of harmony we can't use them to separate the two of you. Because it requires the target not to be a bearer of them and your new abilities since tirek was defeated is based on the same principles. The closest I can equate this situation is when Luna became nightmare moon. No offense sister but I still have a hard time thinking you were the same pony what with the drastic change of appearance." Celestia with a wince. "None taken and unfortunately I'm not much help on this either. If anything I can only suggest researching chimeras as their the closest species we know in a similar situation. Other then that I'm in a similar boat to my sister" said Luna giving both a sad look. "I'm good at sheild spells but not much else sorry sis" shining armor said with a wince. "My advice would have been checking your full biology getting able to move was a good start but what about internal organs" said cadence worried. "That's what I'm here for thanks to Red Heart Via fluttershy teaching me a spell for just that" said Weaver waving her hoof. "She's the royal physician of Chrysalis' Hive so her help is needed to get used to both of us moving together in this body. We wanted to be sure we won't have any problems before doing that spell." Said twilight nodding to Weaver who cast the spell and projected the scan onto a wall. "Well good news is it seems you both retained the glands changelings use for the material of our building material and paralyze venom alongside the obvious chitin. Turns out even your not changeling biology has taken on traits so your body is equal in terms of durability. Hmm and according to what your womb is giving out on this scan your about three months pregnant!" Weaver said shocked as that info registered. "WHAT!" Shouted everyone as rarity fainted and didn't have her swooning couch with her so spike caught her. "B-but how! I would have remembered something like that and I never dated before" twilight was freaking out until Chrysalis took over keeping their body calm. "Must have been the fusion. One of my eggs must have been left in your womb as a result of the sudden change. We used to be differing heights so it is possible" said Chrysalis using the breathing exercises cadence taught twilight to help twilight calm down. "So twilight got pregnant and is still a virgin... After seeing this state the two of you are in this is the least oddest thing I have seen today" said rainbow raising a eyebrow. "Don't let my calm expression fool you I was in the same boat as twilight. I never had a lover in the Hive but one of the two of us has to keep a level head" Chrysalis told them. "We were a Hive created by Chrysalis who found outcasted changelings and gave us a place to fit in. Unlike normal hives we weren't born into it like most. While changeling queens are our rulers in a Hive each type are represented by a council. I was kicked out for wanting to be a medic when normally injured changelings are left to die. So take it at my word when I am saying this is a first for Chrysalis as well. I had my work cut out after your wedding never before have I been glad Chrysalis let me follow the path I wanted. It's why I'm the royal physician" said Weaver. "So we can't separate the two of you as we don't know how it will affect the infant. And that gives us a timeframe to find a way to separate you both. We will send over anything we can find on magic like what caused this" said Celestia as by the look on the fused royals face they were going to keep the baby. "That's appreciated Celestia and before you ask twilight is willing to actually marry me once the baby is born. With access to each other's memories we can skip the dating process we know each other probably better then twins do" said Chrysalis having felt twilight's feelings get sorted out and the direction they led. "Well now we know why separating our magic didn't split us up our body is holding itself together to keep the baby safe" Twilight muttered as she came out of the shock she had been given. "Guess I should give twilight the news now. After all with this news she will have to know now. Looks like there will be cousins in the immediate future of this family" said cadence smiling to twilight. "The royal family is getting two new additions?! Well technically three when Chrysalis marries twilight whoo Nelly talk about news for the ages." Said Applejack with a whistle. "Technically your part of that Applejack you made twilight a honorary apple remember? I looked through old apple traditions and clan laws when pinkie pie was thought to be part of your family. According to clan law you adopted twilight as your cousin in bond. I had Granny Smith confirm it when I asked her" said rainbow dash giving the farmer a look. "Wait how did you both find out about apple pie? That mare was the royal Baker twenty years before Luna's timeout on the moon. Her son's had an infamous row about what to do with their father's farm. Quartz was trying to set up a rock quarry to provide repairs to it but jhon Appleseed misunderstood it as replacing the farm itself. Their family feud lasted nearly two centuries before it stopped and by then the apple and pie clans had been well underway founded by the brothers. By then both clans forgot their respective founder was related to the other. The head of the apple clan was actually in charge of agriculture and this was granted a title of Baron who is charged with keeping the nation fed. The pies though were the architects and were titled Baron as well in charge of building homes for the nation. If it wasn't for the fact your the owner of the farm here Applejack instead of big Mac he would have been the current Baron or in your case baroness once Granny Smith retired. You both can say your clan sisters and from what I'm seeing of the thrones here you are already fulfilling that role your clan has done and same with pinkie" said Celestia making them drop their jaws. "We were looking up my family tree but that wasn't the ancestor we mistook for the relation turned out it was a coffee stain that covered a name and we didn't find the connection. Guess we missed the obvious with the name of apple pie. So sister clans. Huh who'd have thought" said Applejack wide eyes. Rarity who had woken by now giggled. "Well at least you won't have to change the way you speak as head of agriculture for a noble dear its expected that those nobles have a down to earth tone as it shows they are reliable. And usually do a very good job at what they do." she said. "Well that's something at least i can speak manehatten like but it is hard to keep that kind of voice up. And pinkie looks like our family is connected we just were not looking at the right place" said applejack. "That brings up something i noticed a bit here seeing as it now seems that four out of the six of you seem versed in politics now but twilight doesn't have her own form of royal guard. Well in the usual sense. In fact this castle is the least defended besides the now restored castle in the everfree forest. Rainbow dash has shown a tendency for defense at least in the past and does act as a drill Sargent when needed so why not make her captain of twilight's guard after giving her some royal guard training if im remembering twilight's memories correctly the wonderbolts are considered a extension of the royal guard as the pegasus division and luna's shadowbolts were the nocturnal equivalent. And they need to have some military training as a requirement right?" said chrysalis. "Oh yeah that's right. And who better to be a captain of the guard then the element of loyalty. And fluttershy is by now well known to be able to tame the creatures of the everfree seeing as she tamed a cockatrice before" said pinkie. "And a manticore before that. So she is in a way suited as a baroness of the forest in this case the five of you act as twilight's court and help her run her kingdom" said luna remembering that. "And seeing as me and Twilight are going to get married once we separate and the baby is born i'll see if some changelings can fill out the role of royal guards. And i have by now seen the size of this place. It will be needed just to prevent someone getting lost. Twilight needs to be able to find her way here as well" said chrysalis. "We also need to figure out what side effects such a huge merger will have on twilight long term. Empathy is a given since your still able to sense emotions" said celestia. "Looks like we just have to get used to this for a while. Oh and celestia look up some old laws from platinum's time. Starlight glimmer reinvented a spell to remove cutie marks and there was a reason that spell became forbidden. Long term under the spell creates depression of a scale that drives a pony to suicide. By taking away the pony's special talent they take away that pony's will to live and can cause mental scars. Im surprised fluttershy wasn't affected at all when the spell was casted on her. The use of that spell is punishable with a life sentence of having their magic bound." said chrysalis. The solar princess nodded in understanding and with that the meeting ended with Fluttershy surprised at suddenly being a noble and of the one place that is truly wild.