//------------------------------// // All Wrapped Up // Story: Land of Equines // by Daddy Joe //------------------------------// All Wrapped Up May 5th, 2013 At the moment of my consciousness beginning to come back, I was still unable to move and open my eyes. The only senses I really had from that point was my hearing and scent. The sound of quiet buzzing filled my ears while an unpleasant smell went into my nose. But after a short while longer, I was finally able to every so slowly open my eyelids to see where I was. My head was still stuck in a drooping position, but I was able to move my neck a little bit. As I wearily looked, a hard, green, gluey substance encased over my abdomen, wrists and ankles against a pillar inside the alter room about ten feet up. I was pretty much still immobile aside from the paralysis. Many more minutes passed before I was able to lift my head up more, but when I did, I was met by a changeling in armor that was face-to-face with me. Still dizzy from waking up, my vision was a bit blurred and I slightly rolled my neck. But that's when I found out that the feeling in my face was back when the changeling slapped its hoof against my left cheek. "Wake up, human." the changeling snarled in high-pitched nasally voice. Another changeling buzzed up in front of me. "Why did you bring the human here?" "Because the queen demanded it," the armored changeling replied before looking at me again. "You've been a bad human, and now our queen is not happy with you." the changeling said. "Oh, no. I just loaded my pants." I said, mockingly. "Maybe not yet, but you will. Now, tell me, how much love is inside you?" the changeling asked. "Errr, I don't know. I don't regularly check." I replied. I knew I had lots of love inside me. The love for my new friends in Equestria and the love for my old friends and family back on Earth were all stored inside me. "That's not a good enough answer. I want the truth. Speak!" the changeling snapped. "Okay, okay, I'll tell the truth. Your queen likes it up the flank. What exactly do you want me to tell you, huh?" I replied. A few changelings in the corner of the room began snickering to what I said, which was not good at all, for my sake. "Who laughed at that?" Chrysalis questioned out loud as she finished wrapping Celestia in a cocoon, scanning the room. "Daw crap." I thought to myself. She then stared at the guilty pair of changelings in the corner of the room and flew over towards them, landing a few feet away. "Do you find that insult funny?" Chrysalis asked the three changelings. "We're sorry, my queen." one apologized. "Good. Don't ever laugh at a comment that is meant to slander my name ever again." Chrysalis said, swiftly turning her head away and flying upwards. "Ye-- yes, my queen." the changeling said, looking down in shame. I looked at Chrysalis nervously as she hovered in front of me, giving me the evil eye. Without warning, she delivered a painful slap to my left cheek, followed by another straight onto my nose, causing a profuse nose bleed. "Owww, auughh!" I shouted from the pain. Chrysalis then crawled up the pillar and placed her head next mine as I drooped my head downwards. "Such a humorous insult you came up with," the queen hissed into my ear. "Do you think you're so funny and smart?" "No! I'm cocooned to a pillar with no means to defend myself while some bug beats me, so no, I'm not smart and funny." I said in submission. "That's what I wanted to hear." Chrysalis said, now grinning wickedly. "Just leave him alone, Chrysalis!" Cadance shouted. Chrysalis then leaped off the pillar and landed right in front of Cadance, getting all up in her face. "I would advise that you keep your big mouth shut before I personally shut it myself." Spike, who had his feet glued to the floor, looked at Cadance and audibly gulped. Shining Armor stood beside them like a zombie, his eyes still green from the mind control. Things were not looking good at the moment. And also at that moment, I began to think about my actions. Not just on what happened to Larynx, but my insult to Chrysalis. "Just stop being such an asshole. She's kept you alive for this long even after you basically killed a family member." I thought to myself before sighing. "Look. Queen Chrysalis." I said. Chrysalis slowly turned her head while slowly opening up her eyes to cast a glare towards me. Spike frantically gave me hand signals that screamed "Stop what you're doing!" "What do you want?" Chrysalis asked. "I...." I began before staring at her, afraid I would receive further punishment just from speaking to her. She then buzzed up and hovered in front of me. "Spit it out." "I know this isn't to gain anything out of me, but I really want to let you know how sorry I am for Larynx." I said. "Aaaaannnnd?" Chrysalis droned on with her multi-tonal voice going up. "And.. and I'm also sorry for the insult to your name. Look, I don't mean to do what I do. I was acting on self-defense out there. I realize that the changelings are your family, and I never intended to take that away from you." I said. "Oh, how sweet of you to say that. I would let you down, but I promised a meal for my subjects. And I'd prefer that you'd be immobile." Chrysalis said with sinister grin. A large group of changelings began to congregate at the base of the pillar and were hungrily flicking their tongues. "Now, they're going to feed off your love until there is nothing but emptiness left inside! Well, either that or you'll slip into unconsciousness." Chrysalis said, filling me with fear. "C'mon, Chrysalis, have mercy!" I begged. Chrysalis didn't respond and signaled the changelings to begin their feast. All of them began to slowly climb their way up the pillar, hissing and drooling at the same time. "You won't get away with this! Twilight and her friends will put a stop to you once they get the elements!" Cadance said. Jus then, Twilight and the others burst through the door, but it appeared that they didn't get the elements at all, they were captured by a battalion of changelings. "Oh really?" Chrysalis said, cocking her head before allowing the changelings to leave the room and feed. The group of changelings had reached me by then and one began to feed on me. The unpleasant feeling of manifested love seeping out of my chest felt terrible. It wasn't painful, but a very, very uncomfortable feeling. However, the changeling paused the feeding and I coughed violently. "How does he taste?" one of the changelings asked. "He's delicious! I've never tasted love this good before." the changeling replied. That was enough for the remaining nine changelings to begin feeding on me, as well. This is when being fed on started to hurt. I grunted as my heart started pounding against my chest. Not literal, but it was pumping. My vision was darkened once the changelings piled over me as they all fed like I was their last meal. "Just hold on, Caleb!" I heard Twilight yell, but very muffled. Not from not being dog-piled, but because I was starting to feel light-headed. Black spots started popping up in my vision and I just felt like I wanted to pass out, which is what I must've did because that's all I remember from that point. And that was the last thing I remember from the Canterlot Invasion, and the very last time I saw Queen Chrysalis and the Changelings, the very last time.