~Chapter 1 - The Wedding.~
02:21 PM, March 23rd, 2 S.E (The Selenelion Era).
Twilight stared in sheer trepidation, unable to believe what she was witnessing. She wanted to flee, seeing the looming figure that was once Cadance smiling wildly as her translucent insectoid wings buzzed, the creature snaking its front hooves around the cocoon in which Princess Celestia was trapped. Twilight slunk back as far as she could despite the resin keeping her in place. She bumped slightly into Fluttershy who was equally frightened. The lavender mare wasn’t frightened because of the overwhelming amount of changelings that surrounded them. Nor was she frightened because of what she had witnessed.
No. Twilight was afraid of herself. Of what she, herself, was and who the creature was in front of her.
“It’s funny, really. Twilight was suspicious of my behaviour all along. Too bad the rest of you were too caught up in your wedding planning to realize those suspicions were correct!” The Cadance imposter, Queen Chrysalis, laughed. “Although, I wouldn’t expect less from ponies who couldn’t even realize a changeling in their midst for so long.” She burst out into a long spiel of laughter, drowning everypony in it, completely confused.
“She has no bucking clue what she's talkin’ ‘bout.” Twilight heard Applejack hiss, her voice a mere hush.
Despite the distance between Cadance and the others, Chrysalis made her way towards the trapped mare, smirking like Nightmare Moon herself. That raised another question, where was Luna? The creature continued to ramble, waving a holed hoof around as she did so. “ Hmm, I fooled you, didn't I?”
Cadence shifted her hooves, somehow breaking free before she rushed over to Shining Armor.
“Wha– where... huh? Is...is the wedding over?” He mumbled, glancing at Cadence in confusion.
“It's all over!”
“Your spell! Perform your spell!” Twilight screamed, tugging harder on her restraints, feeling them crack a little under the pressure.
The Changeling Queen laughed. “What good would that do? My changelings already roam free.”
“No! My power is useless now. I don't have the strength to repel them.” Her brother lowered his head, a sense of loss hope radiating from him.
“My love will give you strength.” The princess beside him said, a weak smile on her face.
“What a lovely but absolutely ridiculous sentiment.” Chrysalis’s grating laughter snapped Twilight out of her thoughts, the mare jerking her muzzle up to see the changeling Queen just hoof lengths away. “Did you really think you could avoid this?!”
Twilight’s attention was jerked towards Cadance who stood by Shining, a warm pink glow coming from their horns. Twilight’s eyes grew wide, the taste of the magic in the air somehow able to reach her. She knew what they were doing. Jerking her horn forward as she created a bubble around herself, the girls moved towards her, the goo holding them captive melting away as pluses of love magic was real eased in bursts. They ran forward, jumping in beside her as all of them shoved changelings out of the circle. “No, no, No, NO!!”
Then the spell hit. The magical wave of love magic propelled all the changelings out of the room, both Twilight, Rainbow and AJ hitting the back of the bubble. Startled by the fact that AJ and Rainbow were shoved against the barrier with her, Twilight’s eyes darted over to the mares beside her, questioning.
The bubble dissipated around them, fading into sparks as the three landed on the messy ground with a thump beside their friends. Luna burst into the destroyed wedding hall at that very moment, shattered glass flew as she angrily glanced around the room, Tartarus blazing in her eyes. The ebony alicorn looked frazzled, sleep-deprived and was coated in small cuts, bruises and green blood.
Celestia stumbled to get up, her legs seemingly resembling jelly as she rushed over to Twilight and everypony else. Thoughts of what just happened flew out of the metaphorical window as Twilight rushed to check on her mentor and her friends.
She levitated a bundle of tissues over once she noticed that Pinkie’s nose was bleeding heavily. Fluttershy was clinging to Rarity who was twitching where she stood, eyes fluttering open and closed. Twilight, Applejack and RD seemed the least harmed of the group, Cadance’s wounds instantly healing from her magic as love floated through the air.
Fluttershy spat out a little blood that dripped from her mouth, desperately trying to clean it from her tongue. Twilight felt odd, an unusual amount of power radiating from her, causing a single thought to dart across her mind. What had just happened?