//------------------------------// // The Battle of Mother.....and Daughter // Story: The B-Side // by KnuxChangeling //------------------------------// Queen Chrysalis stood before her daughter, staring at the defiance that shown on her daughter's face. It broke Chrysalis' heart even more. "Please", Chrysalis said, her voice breaking, "Come home. I worried when you didn't come home. Please, come back with me." "No", Aqua said quietly. "What", Chrysalis asked. "I said no", Aqua said. Aqua shocked herself by openly defying her mother. She's never done that before. The thing that surprised her the most was that she actually didn't want to go back home, back to the hive. It was all too familiar to her, the same stone walls, the same twists and turns, the same drones most of the time. It was all too boring, too....crushing. It didn't allow her to breathe. Now that she has an actual taste of freedom, her mother wants to take that away from her. She couldn't let that happen. She was shaken from her thoughts as she heard her mother shout. "YOU ARE COMING HOME WITH ME CHILD", the Queen bellowed, "AND YOU ARE COMING NOW!" "NO I AM NOT" Aqua shouted back, "I CANNOT GO BACK TO BEING CRUSHED IN THAT HIVE AGAIN! TO NOT EXPLORE OR BE MYSELF!" Queen Chrysalis was taken aback by Aqua's out burst. She shook her head then grabbed Aqua with her magic. "You don't have a choice my dear", Chrysalis simply said. Aqua lit her own horn and blasted her mother in the face. It was more for her to let go then to hurt. Aqua got her wish as she fell to the ground. She did quickly get back up charging her magic again as her mother slowly turned to her. There was surprise but also something else, something that Aqua never thought would be directed to her unleashed, pure fury. Chrysalis' horn lit up and before Aqua could raise a shield up to protect herself, the sickly green bolt of energy slammed her into the wall. Aqua coughed as the wind was knocked out of her and she tried to regain her breath. Chyrsalis' anger didn't waver, however, as she stood over her daughter almost fuming at the mouth. "How DARE you strike me", her mother spat, "How DARE you go against me like this. You would trade your own species for these ponies?!" Aqua couldn't even form the words she needed. She was still trying to regain her breath after being thrown into a wall. Queen Chrysalis grabbed Aqua in her aura again bringing her face to face with her. "Either you come with me now", Chrysalis said, "Or I force you back." Aqua kicked Chrysalis in the muzzle breaking the Queen's nose. Chrysalis staggered back holding her nose with a hoof. The Changeling princess could only raise a shield when her mother lunged at her. Chrysalis' rage was only heightened at what her daughter had done. Her own DAUGHTER! She lunged at Aqua slamming into the shield and bucking at it. Aqua held firm and flew into the sky to avoid her mother's brutal onslaught. Chrysalis only watched and licked the blood coming from her nose. She smirked and flew up after Aqua, fangs bared and ready to tear into chiten armor. Aqua shot a cerulean bolt of magic at Chrysalis who dodged it and rammed into her. Aqua flipped so her mother was above catching her mother by surprise. Aqua sunk her fangs into the injured side of the Queen then kicked her to the nearest balcony. She did follow up attacks firing spells at Chrysalis to keep her down. It seemed to work for a short while but Chrysalis got back up. Aqua sighed and tackled her mother to the ground. Chrysalis was almost knocked out just from the drop alone. She kicked Aqua off cracking the Princess' armor around her chest. Aqua stumbled back. Chrysalis came charging at her and Aqua sidestepped barely, feeling the wind brush by her. Chrysalis stopped remarkably well and bucked Aqua in the face sending her back into the wall. Aqua felt as if every bone in her back shattered. Black started to creep up on her at the edges of her vision. She fought it off and grabbed a good sized branch and sharpened the end. "I will have to take you", Chrysalis said, "BY FORCE!" Chrysalis charged at the downed Princess a sadistic smile on her face. Aqua weakly lifted the branch but couldn't lift it high enough yet. Her mother was closing in, fast. Aqua started to panic, she was probably going to die with this next attack. Adrenaline started going through Aqua and her eyes focused. Chrysalis wasn't even able to scream as the branch Aqua held went straight through her eye and out the back of her head. Aqua didn't even flinch when the blood sprayed on her covering her face. Chrysalis' body spasmed then collapsed in a heap next to Aqua. Aqua slowly got up, avoiding the pool of blood now forming under the Queen's body. She saw Princess Celestia and Princess Luna rush over to her. "Aqua", Celestia shouted. Aqua could only manage a weak smile and an equally weak chuckle before darkness claimed her and she collapsed.