A furious battle was about to take place in Ponyville. Chrysalis, the Changeling Queen with darkness in her heart and has lost all trust in ponies… versus Dragon Heart, a younger Changeling who has a wish for the peace amongst Changelings and ponies. The others around them were standing back prepared to see how this bout was going to turn out.
Dragon Heart wasn’t one to fight one of her own, but in this case… she was about to make an exception.
“I don’t plan to take a life today,” she said to Chrysalis while staring her down, “but I do plan to do only enough to make you see the truth; but just so you know, I not the same Changeling that you banished from the nest. You may think that you’re all powerful, but without true love and compassion you’re the only weak one here.”
“Oh really,” Chrysalis replied, “you think I’m weak?! Try putting your bits where your mouth is!”
She rose up a little in the sky with her horn glowing and fired an emerald power shot at Dragon Heart, but the young Changeling just stood there watching it come at her nonchalantly. Once right in front of her, she just knocked it to the side; all while smiling at Chrysalis.
“Di… d-did you see that?!” said Spike, “She just repelled it to the side like it was nothing!”
#186 just smiled feel proud of his friend’s growth in strength, “She truly has become stronger, hasn’t she?” he told Spike, “And it’s all because of you guys.”
“Do you really think that Dragon Heart can change Chrysalis’ heart through battle?” asked Fluttershy to Twilight.
“I don’t know, Fluttershy,” Twilight replied, “we’ll just have to see what happens and see how this battle turns out.”
“Oh you know she’s going to win,” said Rainbow Dash, “That Chrysalis jerk doesn’t stand a chance!”
Chrysalis was scowling at Dragon Heart realizing that she had gotten stronger, but it didn’t matter to her; she was planning to end the life of her betrayer today.
“So, just because you got all beefed up with power you think that you can win? Don’t be so full of yourself. Stronger power doesn’t always assure you victory!”
“Maybe not,” said Dragon Heart, “but a pure loving heart can beat an arrogant mind any day!”
Chrysalis started to shoot a barrage of power shots at Dragon Heart at furious speeds; but as before, the young Changeling kept repelling each one over and over. It was actually quite easy with the amount of power that she had.
“I cannot believe this; you can’t be this strong!”
“Chrysalis, please,” Dragon Heart suddenly shouted out of desperation, “leave the past behind you and embraced the present; fighting will never be the answer!”
Chrysalis widens her wings as they started to buzz very loud, “Who are you to give me orders. And besides, it’s the only answer for me.”
She swung her wings so hard it caused Dragon Heart to lose her footing and she went crashing into a nearby house with a shattering sound.
“Ha ha, where’s your so-called friendship now?!” Chrysalis yelled out in amusement.
“Dragon Heart, are you okay?!” Spike yelled out at the top of his lungs.
She flew out of the gaping hole and shook off some dust, “Don’t worry, I’m fine; I hardly felt a thing.” She yelled to Chrysalis to make sure that she heard her loud and clear, “Hey Chrysalis, is that all you got!? Pretty weak attack if you ask me!”
“Oh I am far from over you little ingrate!”
Chrysalis widens her wings and this time she uses them to dash forward towards at high speeds. She stretched out fangs in an attempt to cause a bite wound into Dragon Heart; however, the young Changeling easily kept dodging her strikes left and right every time.
“Missed me! Missed me again! You’re too easy.”
At one point, Dragon Heart used one of Chrysalis’ strikes to dive under and bit down hard on one of Chrysalis’ back leg with her own teeth. The Changeling Queen screamed out in pain from the blow, “AHHHHHH!!!” Everyone around them started to laugh out loud.
“Oh my gosh,” yelled Rainbow Dash, “right in the leg; hilarious!”
After shaking some the pain off, Chrysalis was furious with Dragon Heart’s actions.
“Wh… why you little… are you trying to make me look like a fool?!”
“Not exactly,” Dragon Heart responded, “I think you already took care of that.”
“Ooohhh, burned!” Spike yelled out beside Dragon Heart’s two Changeling friends.
“You got her, Dragon Heart,” shouted Apple Bloom, “You can do it!”
“Silence, you ingrates,” shouted Chrysalis, “or I’ll make you all suffer my wrath!”
“Too bad that your fight is with me,” said Dragon Heart.
She launched herself at Chrysalis and locked horns with her. They both pushed against each other with such ferocity as violent sparks emanated around them.
“Had enough, worm?” said Chrysalis while looking deep into Dragon Heart’s fearless eyes.
The young Changeling gave her a smirk, “I’m just getting started! I’m ending this soon.”
Both Changelings suddenly broke away from their clash as they both tried to catch their breath. Suddenly, Dragon Heart had an interesting idea and looked down at her crusader friends and gained their attention.
“Hey fellow crusaders,” shouted Dragon Heart to the CMC, “check this out!”
She concentrated on her power as her horn began to illuminate very brightly. Then in a flash, dozens of multiple green energy orbs suddenly surrounded her. Chrysalis couldn't believe what she was seeing.
“What, how can she do that?!”
With one swift motion, Dragon Heart summoned all the orbs to go forward in a spiral motion toward Chrysalis. She tried to avoid impact, but was easily overwhelmed by the energy orb’s strikes!
“Whoa,” shouted the CMC, “Go Dragon Heart!”
Many others around them were cheering on the young Changeling; watching in awe by her beautiful spectacle! Twilight looked over at her friends who also cheering and gave them a sure-fired look, “Well, it won’t be long now, girls; she’ll have to surrender soon.”
The impact of the attack caused Chrysalis to have to land on the ground to catch her breath. She was losing her strength… fast; and she wasn’t happy.
“Well Chrysalis,” Dragon Heart shouted down to Chrysalis, “are you ready to surrender now?! Will you allow the treaty to go forth?!”
In another attempt, Chrysalis shot another beam at her; but Dragon Heart took it head on because it didn't even hurt her.
“That must have felt embarrassing,” snickered #186 to #760 and Spike.
“Come on Chrysalis,” shouted Dragon Heart in a slight mocking tone, “that was just sad. Are you really getting weak so soon?!”
Chrysalis was starting to become desperate; she wasn’t planning to lose to Dragon Heart. She stood up and gave the young changeling a dark stern glare, “Don’t… mock me; I will never lose to you. It doesn't matter how stronger thou may have gotten, but I… am still Queen of the Changelings; and no one shall ever overcome me!”
She got in a low crouching position while certain spots on her body began to glow, then she released a barrage of needle-like projectiles at Dragon Heart.
“Whoa!” she said as she kept the needles left and right. They were all around her, but at one point one of the needles hit its mark… on Dragon Heart’s leg.
“Ahhh!” After feeling the hit she quickly took it out and threw it to the side.
“Uh oh, that can’t be good,” said Applejack.
Everyone was on edge wondering what kind of affect the needle had on her.
Dragon Heart looked up at Chrysalis while twitching her leg, “That might’ve stung a little, but it still won’t help you to… ugh!”
Suddenly her entire body started to freeze up; her legs, her face and even her wings.
“What the… what’s going on… I can’t move…”
Everyone started to worry that Chrysalis had finally gained the upper hand.
“Dragon Heart, no!” the crusaders yelled out.
Chrysalis chuckled a bit at Dragon Heart’s little downfall moment, “Have you already forgotten about something of your own kind? Fully mature Changelings, such as myself, can freely release poison spikes to paralyze their prey. It won’t kill you, but it will leave yourself open for me… to do this!”
She dashed forward and slammed into the defenseless Changeling sending her tumbling across the ground; she couldn’t do anything to defend herself.
“Nooo, Dragon Heart!!!” Spike yelled out; he tried to go after her but was stopped by #186.
“Don’t; stay back!”
“Dragon Heart is getting seriously hurt!” Spike shouted, “I need to do something!”
After Dragon Heart finished tumbling she landed smack dab right on her face. All the other Changelings closed their eyes cringed at the sight, “Ooooohhh!”
“Get up Dragon Heart,” yelled Sweetie Belle, “You have to fight the poison!”
“I’m afraid that there is no fighting it dear child,” said Chrysalis with an elusive smirk, “That paralyzing poison won’t wear off for hours; your little hero is complete done for! It’s time to serve out some real punishment!”
She decided to have a little with the wounded Changeling as she walked over to her. She picked her up by her mouth and flanged her up in the air and started to land many different blows on Dragon Heart.
“Come on, Twilight, we have to do something,” Rainbow Dash shouted, “She’s our friend!”
“I want to help her too Rainbow,” Twilight replied, “but I’m not sure what we can do right now; whether we like it or not we can’t interfere!”
Once Chrysalis was done having her fun, she threw Dragon Heart back down on the ground... hard! She just laid there groaning trying to get herself together but she still couldn’t move thanks to the poison.
“Have you finally regretted ever challenging me?” asked Chrysalis in a snooty tone, “Your chances of winning were not in your favor; nor was it ever. No matter how much of a fight you would put up, I knew that in the end I would get the last laugh.”
She started to walk around Dragon Heart in slow steady pace, “The only tough decision now is whether to end you quickly or make you suffer.”
“You do know… killing me… won’t solve anything, right?” said Dragon Heart while glaring up at the prowling Chrysalis.
“Perhaps it won’t solve your silly little problem solution about peace, but… it will solve my problems… of you!”
Chryalis took some steps back far enough to do a proper attack to finish off her ex-soldier.
“Let’s see how your new friends feel when I wipe you from existence!”
The whole area was silent and everyone there was panicking from the inside. Was Dragon Heart going to lose; and were they going to lose their newest friend?!
Suddenly, a voice from a certain rainbow mane Pegasus shouted out, “Get up, Dragon Heart! I know you can hear me; I said get up!”
The pink party pony soon joined in, “Don’t let that mean ol’ crazy queen beat you!”
Even the shy yellow Pegasus said something, “Please, we don’t want to lose you; y-y-you have to fight back!”
“GO, DRAGON HEART!!!” shouted the crusaders.
Pretty soon, a lot more ponies were cheering for the young changeling to not lose; even some of the other changelings joined in.
“Silence, all of you,” shouted Chrysalis while she was trying to concentrate on her energy, “Can’t you see that she’s about to die?!”
“No… we won’t!” said Spike out loud, “She’s our friend, and she’s trying everything she can to end this whole Changeling conflict; you’re just too hard-headed! We’ll keep cheering for her for as long as it takes!”
Chrysalis glared over at Spike and bared her fang out of annoyance, “What kind of goal do you fools hope to accomplish?!”
“We’re encouraging Dragon Heart to beat you! We’re not going to give up on her because she didn’t give up on us; that’s a show of true friendship!”
Suddenly, as if they were responding to the friendly cheers of everyone, the necklaces around Twilight and her friends started to emit a huge glow!
“What in tarnation…” wondered Applejack as she looked down at her necklace.
“*Gasp!* The Elements of Harmony!” shouted Twilight, “What’s going on?!”
Chrysalis suddenly noticed them too, “N-no assistance, there shall be no assistance!”
“I-it’s not… us,” whimpered Fluttershy.
“It’s the Elements,” stated Rarity while looking astonished, “they’re reacting on their own!”
“No way, too cool!” said Rainbow Dash.
“Oooh, they’re becoming all shiny,” shouted Pinkie.
The Elements floated off their necks and up into the air above them; their glow was suddenly becoming brighter and brighter. Then Chrysalis noticed that they were pointing right at Dragon Heart; she knew exactly what was going to happen.
“No… NO! I will not allow it!”
She concentrated the energy she gathered and emitted them into her horn for one big blast. Suddenly, right on cue, the Elements fired some kind of energy beam at Dragon Heart; and at the same time, so did Chrysalis while yelling out, “Die!”
Both beams came down to the location of Dragon Heart and a huge explosion formed upon impact! What could’ve happened; was she okay? Was she gone? Everyone one was awfully scared upon seeing the huge billow of smoke rising in the air.
Spike fell on his knees and tears formed in his eyes as he lowered his head while sobbing to himself, “Dragon Heart… why.”
Everyone was completely devastated upon seeing what happened… except Chrysalis who was quite pleased to have a horrible nuisance out of the way.
Suddenly, #186 looked up, then tapped Spike on the back to get his attention, “Hey Spike, look,” he said while pointing over at the smoke. The young dragon eyes suddenly grew immensely wide as he saw a figure move around amongst the smoke; everyone started to notice too.
Once the smoke cleared, Dragon Heart was still alive and standing on her own four legs.
“Dragon Heart,” shouted Pinkie in happiness, “she’s alive!” Everyone started to cheer again seeing their Changeling friend still standing.”
“What, that’s not possible,” yelled Chrysalis, “You shouldn’t have survived that!”
Dragon Heart looked up at her then at herself; she too was wondering what just happened.
“What happened,” said Apple Bloom, “she seems to be all right again!”
“Not for long,” growled Chrysalis as she made her body glow again, “I paralyzed you once, and I can paralyze you again!
She shot another round of poison needles at Dragon Heart, and some had hit right on target! Everybody gasped out of shock.
“Oh no,” shouted Sweetie Belle, “not that again!”
After the needles landed, Dragon Heart looked at them and slowly pulled them out. She then started to walk toward Chrysalis with a smirk on her face. Chrysalis began shaking a little out of fear.
“What the… you’re not paralyzed; n-no, what’s happening!?”
Feeling a powerful sensation in her horn, Dragon Heart looked up at Chrysalis with smirk of confidence.
“Looks like the Elements of Harmony have changed our fate, Chrysalis! It’s like I said before; the power of friendship is more powerful than your ignorant anger will ever be.”
Chrysalis refused to believe anything that Dragon Heart was saying or what seemed to be happening.
“I… will not lose to you! Do you hear me; I refuse to lose!”
“Man, why do I feel like I’m in the middle of an action anime?” said Scootaloo to her friends.
Chrysalis tried to summoned more power from within her horn to use on Dragon Heart.
“You… shall… fa-…AHHH!”
But it was proven to be useless as Dragon Heart went super fast to head butt her right in the gut; canceling her attack.
“Oh my,” said Fluttershy out of shock, “What just happened!?”
While Chrysalis was trying to regain conciseness, Dragon Heart gathered a huge amount of power in horn and flew over Chrysalis; Chrysalis didn’t have time to react.
“This… is for our peace!”
With one mighty dive, she drove her powerful horn right into Chrysalis; sending her hurtling to the ground with a loud crash! Everyone was watching carefully to see if that was truly the end.
“Did she win?” asked Apple Bloom while looking at the settling dust.
“I-I think so,” said Sweetie Belle.
Chrysalis was indeed down; low on strength and low on power. She had nothing left to unleashed. She just laid there sprawled out on the ground while she scowled upon Dragon Heart who was hovering over her with a serious face, “Whose stronger now?”
“Oh man,” thought Spike, “What is she going to do now?”
Chrysalis hated to admit it, but she knew that she was defeated; she awaited the final blow from her opponent, “Well… what are you waiting for? I’m pretty sure that you dreamed of this; having the swarm rid of me. So go on… deliver your blow!”
Dragon Heart looked down on her as the glow in her horn shined bright again. Twilight, Spike, the crusaders, and everyone else around them were all relieved that Dragon Heart was okay, but worried about if Dragon Heart was really going to take out Chrysalis. Chrysalis just admittedly closed her eyes as Dragon Heart rose up her horn, and then swung it back down; releasing her finishing blow.
When Chrysalis opened her eyes back up, she realized a huge crater that was formed near beside her by Dragon Heart’s blow; it seemed they her life was spared.
“What, why did you not finish me off?!” shouted Chrysalis, “Are you trying to show me sympathy; I don’t need it!”
“No,” Dragon Heart retorted, “I didn’t because I refuse to see someone die today; especially by me! I’ve heard about and seen plenty of that already.”
Tears started to flow down her eyes after landing on the ground, “I just wanted it… to stop. Ponies may have wanted to get rid of us long ago, but the only reason that they still think that is because we continue to assault them! Times have changed, Chrysalis; and if you give them a chance, they can learn to love us again!”
Chrysalis rolled her eyes and scoffed at Dragon Heart’s comment, “Heh, I hardly doubt that.”
Spike was looking at what was going on and was wondering what Dragon Heart was doing, “I don’t get it, what is she trying to do?”
“Maybe she’s trying to make some kind of miracle,” stated #760.
“Don’t think that I don’t understand the type of pain that you’re going through, Chrysalis,” continued Dragon Heart, “Because I do. You do know that lost my parents because of ponies, right? But even though that happened to me, all I hated was the constant violence! All this decisiveness, all this war, everything that we have done up to now, I just wanted it all to end!”
Their whole surroundings were completely silent as everyone was just listening to what Dragon Heart was saying to Chrysalis.
“Look, we may not see eye-to-eye,” she said distraughtly, “but if it means anything to you… I’m sorry; sorry for my sudden outburst back at the nest. ”
Chrysalis suddenly became slightly shock upon hearing this from Dragon Heart, after everything she went through.
“After all you did learn to love once, but ponies took your only sense of true love away from you… your parents. I understand if you don’t trust ponies, but I believe that they receive a second chance in our trust.”
She turned Chrysalis’ attention to all the ponies in Ponyville who was witnessing all this, “All these ponies here, they’re very nice and friendly… well, most of them anyway,” she said while thinking about Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon, “And look, they know I’m a Changeling now yet they still accepted me as their friend; especially that little dragon over there. And who knows, if you give them a chance despite what happened about three weeks ago, they’ll learn to accept you too.”
Chrysalis was not sure what to make of this; something deep down inside was trying to understand something, but it didn’t seem to comply.
“Why should I even believe or trust you?” she said in a pompous voice.
Dragon Heart was thinking of a good answer, then suddenly it looked like she said something to herself, “What, really? Well okay, if you say so.”
Some of her friends looked at her weirdly wondering who she was talking to.
“Well, what is your answer?!” Chrysalis shouted out.
“I’m not sure,” Dragon Heart replied, “but… if I share some of my energy with you, perhaps I could find one.”
She started to walk towards Chrysalis with her horn still shining ever so brightly.
“No, stay away from me,” shouted Chrysalis, “I said stay away!”
When her horn connected with Chrysalis’ forehead, a bright light suddenly burst forth as it over shrouds the entire area around the two Changelings; everything suddenly became blank.