//------------------------------//
// Chapter 1: Lost and Meeting 
// Story: The Moon's Change 
// by MoonStar GalaxyChaser 
//------------------------------//

MoonStar takes a deep breath and slowly walks into the depths of Everfree Forest. At first, the forest itself didn't felt that bad; the trees were calm, the grass isn't overgrown, flowers grew everywhere that looks and smells beautiful, and the forest creatures living in the peace of solitude. She still feels a bit uneasy about going further down into the forest, and continue to listen to the sound the little filly made. 

She said, "Okay...this isn't so bad. I used to read up that this old small road leading to the depths of the forest is quite dangerous, but this isn't too awful. Still, I mustn't be too quick to let my guard down too quickly. I have a bad feeling that if I drop down for a single second, something evil will scoop me up and cut my lights out forever."

Moving onward, she puts on her brave face and moves at her own slow pace. As the forest slowly begins to lose its guiding light, the darkness begins to swallow her whole, only to never see the sunshine again...

Meanwhile, Chrysalis still follows her voice inside Everfree Forest, and continue to make the small filly voice to distract her from her sight of vision. Although she is currently taking the form of a small filly, she must ensure this newly hatched plan cannot fail nor falter at all. Moving along from shadow to shadow, Chrysalis believes, as of this moment, she isn't going to make this plan a success, after what kind of mistakes she made in the past. The mistakes she made that she failed to capture Canterlot during Shining Armor and Princess Cadence's Wedding, and losing her kingdom to Starlight and Thorax.

Speaking in her small filly, but somewhat odd, voice, "Now...were is 'hat voice coming fwom?! I 'now that somepony is in 'hese fowest, and if I cannot find 'hat voice, I won't get my wevenge against Starlight! I mustn't 'ive up, I will find 'hoever is 'ere."

She spent her time searching for the mare that is lost in Everfree forest and found nothing. All of a sudden, she heard a voice in the distance, and it is the lost mare, MoonStar, approaching in her current direction. Chrysalis hides back in the shadows, and continue to play her innocence when the moment strikes.

MoonStar looks around, and the forest is slowly beginning to diminish its light, leaving behind a curtain of darkness, and consumes her. As the forest went dark, MoonStar lights herself up with her magic and inspects the new surrounding areas. She made a big gulp in her mouth and swallow whatever saliva her mouth made, and she thinks her fear and anxiety is slowly consuming her mindset right now. 

She said, "Oh boy...what a foolish mistake this turns out to be...I can hardly see anything in this pitch-black darkness. Hello! Are you out here, little filly? If you can hear me, please answer me! I want to help you get home to your family!!"

The forest is filled with so many dark elements that make it feels more like a jungle than a natural forest at all. She notices the trees are slowly decaying in her surroundings, the grass is overgrowing with thick weeds, the forest critters becoming much more savage and rabid that if any will bite you, you'll receive a horrible disease, but these are just thoughts that MoonStar automatically came up in her mind to scare her, but did it work? It did. The little filly voice slowly speaks up once again, but makes it harder for MoonStar to listen to it. 

As of now, the forest was consumed by darkness, and all MoonStar sees is complete darkness. Her eyesight was pitch-black and she cannot see an inch or two ahead of her. She could still see with the light source from her horn, but now, her magic is the only light source keeping her move forward in the dark forest. She listens again to hear the filly's voice, but heard absolutely nothing. She felt something roll into her surroundings; something wet, but dry at the same time. It made her cough and wheeze as well. She just searches and searches and searches some for a couple of seconds, and then...she collapses. 

As her filly self, Chrysalis notice that the fog is rolling in, and can feel herself coughing as well from it, but she knows what kind of fog it is. 

Chrysalis, as the small filly, said, "Oh No, it's 'he Collapse Fog. Legend 'as it t'at if you aww caught within 'hat fog fow a few seconds in, you'll lose consciousness. At le'st it isn't stwong enough to kill you anyway. Anywho, 'here did t'at voice gone to? It has gone cuiet for a couple of minutes."

When Chrysalis walks around the fog and covers her mouth and nose to not lost her own consciousness, she looks around the trees and grass but found nothing. All of a sudden, when searching for the voice of that mare, she trips on something big in her way and slams down face-first into the ground. She slowly gets up, and rubs her muzzle because it hurts her, and groans in pain. She got a bit mad, and heavily pants, but when she looks down, she notices a mare sleeping below her. She gasp in shock and couldn't believe her eyes; it was the mare she was looking for. Since she is unconscious, she quickly changes back to her normal changeling self and helps MoonStar leave the fog because even she knows she will become an asset to her plan.

Later on, MoonStar slowly begins to regain her conscious back, and slowly wakes up but feels very light-headed as well. She looks around her surroundings again but notices that she's back at the entrance of Everfree Forest. Standing next to her was Chrysalis, but back in her little filly form, and needs to ensure this will all come into play soon enough.

MoonStar said, "Oh, my head...where am I?"

Chrysalis, "Oh! 'Hank goodness you're awake! I 'as so scared that I finally 'ound somepony to welp me find my wummy and daddy? W'o are you anyway?"

MoonStar said, "Me? Why I'm MoonStar GalaxyChaser. Hey! You're that little voice I heard in the forest; I was unsure if I was being crazy to hear a filly's voice out there in that scary dark forest. Say, who are you anyway? If I got the chance to introduce myself, you should try to do the same."

Chrysalis said, "Me? I'm called...um...um...Poppy! Poppy...um...Seed! Yeah, that's it!!! I'm Poppy Seed." 

Chrysalis is becoming very nervous because she didn't manage to get this far in her plan, and needed a fake name to get her to believe; she made quite a very large and huge, but silly, grin on her face to feels she was gonna get away her elaborate disguise.

MoonStar said, "Poppy Seed, huh? Well, Poppy Seed, why did you come here to the forest in the first place? Don't you know it's dangerous for a filly your age to just walk casually into this forest alone? Well, I'm glad I found somepony to talk to and not feel alone, even if you are half my size. In fact, I'll be happy to help you find your parents! If we can know where they are located."

Poppy Seed said, "You 'ill?! Oh, 'hank you, WoonStar! I want to see my wummy and daddy again real soon, so 'lease, take poin' for me!"

MoonStar said, "Now, do stay behind me at all cost, and stay close by as well! I'm gonna make sure you are back home in no ti...OOF!!!"

When MoonStar nods in agreement and happily takes lead in front of Poppy Seed; behind her back, Poppy Seed smirks in an evil delight, and rubs her hooves together that a sucker like MoonStar fell to her sorry excuse of a story. Poppy Seed grabs a nearby wooden branch, inspects the thickness of the size and radius, and immediately whacks her in the back of the head. MoonStar being unconscious again, Poppy Seed changes back into Chrysalis, and grabs MoonStar by her scarf. She smiles to her delight that finally, she can used this pony to plot her revenge against Starlight.

Chrysalis said, "MWUAHAHAHA!!!! You naïve, insufficient, and pathetic pony fool. You play right into my little trap, and I shall use you for my advantage against that ignorant, and despicable, fool, Starlight Glimmer; once I've finally built my new army, she and that traitor, Thorax, alongside his goons of imbecilic traitors as well, I'll make sure what I lost will finally be regained, and soon, I WILL ONCE AGAIN RAISE MY ARMY FROM THE ASHES LIKE A PHOENIX, ENSLAVE ALL THE PRINCESSES OF EQUESTRIA, DESTROY STARLIGHT GLIMMER AND HER RAT PACK, AND RULE ALL OF EQUESTRIA ONCE AGAIN!!!!! MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!"

After her little monologue speech, Chrysalis drags MoonStar in the dirt by the edge of her scarf, and take her back to her campsite, to be sealed into one of her green cocoons. The last thing to be seen of them was a mysterious green fog that engulfs them both to nothingness...