//------------------------------// // Chapter 93 - The Motivation Of A Queen. // Story: Terraria: Friendship Is Magic // by Pomp-Neigh //------------------------------// -EQUUS, CRYSTAL EMPIRE, BLUEBLOOD’S CHAMBERS- With the closing of the chamber’s door, Blueblood and Crysella start to make their way towards the bed. “Why don’t you lay yourself down, hot stuff. I hope you don’t mind but I prefer to be on top.” Crysella comments with half lidded eyes. “Not at all,” Blueblood replies as he hurriedly stampedes onto the bed and lays onto his back. “In fact, I personally like this arrangement~” In an absolutely alluring display of seductive movements, Crysella teases the obviously excited unicorn as she slowly approaches the bed. She moved with so much grace and her beauty emanated so much arousal from Blueblood that stallions of today and those of the past would envy the unicorn for his current ‘Luck’. Slowly and keeping up her display of seduction, Crysella places each of her forelimbs onto the bed first before she then flaps her wings and slowly lowers herself onto the stallion. All the while, a certain part of Blueblood truly represented how much he was enjoying this display to which Crysella licks her lips and says: “Looks like the other you is ready to go as well, fantastic.” “If you tease me any longer, I may have to rethink our current position and dominate you, my good mare.” Crysella simply chuckles in response before she says: “Don’t threaten me with a good time~” Upon saying those words, Crysella then started to lower herself slowly as she prepares to kiss the stallion, who in turn had his eyes closed with pursed lips, as she says: “Let me show you why I’m called...” Suddenly, Blueblood cries out in a mixture of pain and discomfort as Crysella slipped onto the unicorn’s horn a certain inhibitor ring that she kept hidden beneath her tongue. “The mother of lies!” Green flames consumed Crysella; followed by a series of laughter. What was once a beautiful pegasus mare, that was in fact based on Celestia’s ancient appearance, was now a black and green entity with holes present on their wings and various appendages. All with a large horn and slitted pupils within their eyes. “Worthless pony,” Chrysalis comments as she bares her fangs and hisses towards the unicorn. “You are nothing but a fool. Tirek and you, both. The Corruption only seeks our world’s destruction and yet you want to become, what was it, a God-King? Imbecile! What is a God-King to a dead planet?! Who would you rule over when everyone else is dead?!” “Y-you… bitch… O-Ocram shall hear of this…” Blueblood says as the stallion was struggling in both pain and discomfort. “Hah! Do you not comprehend the position you’re in?” Chrysalis questions. “You won’t be here long enough to tell that monstrosity anything,” Suddenly, shadows start to form in the corner of the room which causes Chrysalis to smirk and say: “Ah! And here she comes now.” “W-who?” Blueblood inquires as he’s still struggling against the magic inhibitor. “Thy executioner,” A familiar voice comments as the shadows start to take on the form of a dark equine followed shortly by the Princess Of The Night: Luna. “Thou hath conspired with dark forces, Blueblood,” The look that was now present on the dark alicorn’s face was one that made Chrysalis smile devilishly: Murderous intent. “Thou hath doomed us all by working with that foul infection. Every life that was lost in this war is on thy hooves!” Luna exclaims as she was now starting to leak her Canterlot Voice into what she had to say next: “But your greatest sin, to us, was stomping on the love of our dear sister, Celestia!” In one swift motion, Luna rushes towards Blueblood and strikes the stallion across his face with so much force that both he and the bed he was positioned upon were sent hurling into the nearby wall. The traitorous stallion coughs up a trail of blood from the force of the impact and is rendered unconscious as he flops down onto the floor. Incidentally, the shattered remains of the bed falls on top of his unconscious form. Having teleported away in time, Chrysalis reappears near the bedchamber’s entrance and says: “Thanks for the warning…” “We trusted thy perception and foresight,” Luna replies as she turns her head towards the former ruler of the changelings. “We knew thou wouldst teleport to safety unharmed, of this, we harbor little doubt,” Luna then returns her gaze back towards the unconscious stallion and says: “We shall send this traitor to the castle’s dungeon. However, before we announce this... thing’s, execution, let us gather all the information we can out of Blueblood. And yes, we art referring to torture.” Luna then fires up her horn upon which a dark blue magical aura consumes Blueblood’s unconscious form. In mere seconds the white stallion vanishes without a trace as Luna wisps him away. Chrysalis simply chuckles before saying: “Fitting that he has the word ‘Blood’, in his name. If you need help, the torture that I have in mind is perfect for the occasion. Shall we expose him to the others?” “Verily,” Luna replies with a smirk. “We promised a public execution and we intend to keep it. Once we extract the information from that traitor, we shall proceed. Now then, Chrysalis, art thou sure that The Hivemind hath no more allies within The Empire?” “Yes, no other ally to The Corruption is among us. Now that Blueblood is down for the count, we have only Lord Tirek left to aid The Corruption. Fortunately, thanks to his current size, Ocram has ordered him to stay in The Corruption. Our army is likely going to be contending with that centaur, assuming of course they aren’t already doing that as we speak.” “Then we art prepared and soon our ruse shall be forfeit,” Luna then smirks before she continues: “We art surprised, Chrysalis. Thou hath been a valuable ally in this battle ever since you’ve joined our fold. We would like to inquire thy intent for joining us?” Chrysalis raises a brow to this question as she in turn says: “What are you insinuating?” “In essence, thou hath no obligation to help us fight this war and yet here thy former ruler of the changelings stand. Why help us? We hath always been curious to know thy reasoning.” Chrysalis simply stares at the dark alicorn momentarily before the former ruler of the changelings makes her way towards the nearby window of the bedchamber. She takes a breath and finally replies: “To ensure that my children’s future is secured,” The changeling then turns around and continues: “Let me say this: I actually don’t care about any of you. I do not regret my past actions against you, your sister, or even Cadence. Everything that I do, everything that I did, Is all for my children. I want nothing more than to see them flourish in this world; without having to suffer from starvation due to a lack of love for them to feed on. The attack on Canterlot, Cadence’s wedding, even when we captured most of you before Starlight Glimmer and her friends intervened, it was all for the sake of my children. You can call me a monster all you want but I could care less so long as the changelings continue to flourish. I am nothing like the changeling Queens of the past and if you think what I did was tyrannical, those Queens would’ve slaughtered you ponies after they drained you. Tell me, Luna, have you ever seen me kill anypony after I’ve drained them? And those pods that I place you all in? It actually preserves a prisoner's life, not kill them.” The dark alicorn couldn’t answer the former changeling ruler’s question as she was still shocked and taking in everything that Chrysalis had just revealed to her. Luna then closes her eyes as she says: “Nay, in the time we hath fought against ye, thou hath never claimed a life. As far as we can tell and know of, that is. However, couldn’t thy changeling ruler hath just approached us ponies and work out a compromise? Thorax is living proof that-” “Do you honestly think I didn’t consider doing that?” Chrysalis inquires. “I did go down that route long ago and do you want to know what your kind told me and my kin?” “Reveal thy truth to us.” Luna asks. “‘We could care less about you and your kind, abominations.’ That is what you ponies told us all those years ago and some of you still have that mindset even today. But, it wasn’t just ponies. Before we came to Equestria, we were also rejected by the other races for the exact same reason: You all saw us as monsters. Our need to feed on love is seen as an immediate danger to you all. We changelings aren't the only races who needs to feed off of certain emotions in order to live, by the way. Therefore, as the Queen of the changelings, I decided to take matters into my own hooves and if no one would help us then I would take what I need for my children’s survival by force. That decision is what allowed my hive to survive to this day or at least before this whole madness with The Corruption showed up.” Luna was now contemplating everything that was spoken. In truth, the dark alicorn was absolutely surprised and even somewhat ashamed by Chrysalis’s story. She could tell without a shadow of a doubt that the former changeling ruler’s words were absolute truth. No ounce of forgery was present in this tale and with sympathy currently growing in her heart, Luna says: “We know that the past can not be erased, nor can we make it up to thy kind for these past transgressions. All we can do, Chrysalis, is to say… we art sorry. We’re sorry for what hath transpired between both of our races in history. All we can say is that thanks to The Coalition, we hath the opportunity to right those wrongs. We art all fighting side by side against the foul infection from another world. In a sense, we art kind of glad for the arrival of this infection for one good thing hath come of it: We art now united as one. If there is one thing that we’ve learned in our past it’s that when the world or even our loved ones and kin are threatened, a unification is always the result,” Luna then walks forward and stands before Chrysalis. “We know now that thou hath done all of your past actions for a purpose, one that we hath come to respect. Despite everything thou hath done to us, we can forgive ye for those actions. We only saw thou as a monster who wished to enslave ponykind but now, thanks to thy revelation, we’d like to extend a hoof of true friendship-” “I’ll have to stop you right there, Luna,” Chrysalis interjects. “While I appreciate your words and the gesture, I will not give into… friendship,” Chrysalis momentarily gags herself before she continues: “However, you can call us an ally. Whether or not you take this offer is up to you.” Luna simply sighs in response as she had admittedly expected that reaction. She then chuckles momentarily before saying: “We suppose that shall be enough for now. Come, Chrysalis, we hath a prisoner that needs our attention.”