//------------------------------// // Mother’s Love and daughter’s regret. // Story: Chrysalis trial. // by Kingless knight //------------------------------// Twilight all of her friends just stared. Many emotions were going through the hall, and cocoon licking her lips looked around the court, Myrmecia was drooling as the rage marinated in trust then spiced with betrayal was one of the rarest and tastiest of anger, Archana sweating heavily the disgust that some felt at being betrayed was seen by her easily from them in the eyes of the queens!  “Ok calm down!” Vehemence yelled as Twilight spoke up.  “How can we calm down?! We just found out our friends have been—“ The queen raised a brow and twilight shut up. “I didn’t mean you, I meant my daughters, they're ready to pounce on your mixed emotions that you’re releasing. Honestly, these idiots didn’t even know that they were harvesting your emotions.” She sucked the feelings from the room causing everyone to feel numb. “Anyway, they harvest your ambient emotions not directly as I did.” The main six and the pillars all just stared dead-eyed. “Um, thirty-minute break.” They all left with vehemence taking chrysalis to her room. After removing the gag from Chrysalis, Vehemence stood over chrysalis. Eyes burned into her soul and started sucking all emotions from the love-eating queen. “Disgusting! It tasted like rotten fish. You have obsession, desire, and greed.” The former Changeling queen was shaking as if she was detoxing from a horrible drug. “Nothing left but your weakness my dear daughter.” She gulped and shook, holding on to her mother as the empress of the changelings held her close.  The weakened queen breathed heavily. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I, please, please." She cried into her mother's hair. "I was an idiot." Her mother brushed chrysalis' hair. "Shhh, My little cricket. I know my dear." She said in a warm tone as her child cried and Vehemence smiled as her horn lit up and started combing her hair. “We wash away all the nastiness from you and bring my little cricket out.” Chrysalis just hugged tighter.  “Please I don’t want this anymore!” Chrysalis continued to cry into her mother’s chest. All her siblings for the first time in centuries felt some form of sympathy for their sister. “End this please.” Mandible drank from a flask filled with liquid pride, he then saw twilight walking toward him and he sighed. “Did you know about this?” He teleported his flask away and nodded, wiping away the last drops. “Why didn’t you tell us?” He smirked. “Because, you were annoying me.” Her eyes widened. “Think about it, you’re trying to save the reformed changelings, yet my sister you are happy to let her be punished.”  Twilight stuttered thinking up a rebuttal. “I know she has done a lot of idiotic things, but she is still my little sister and I’m not letting her be punished without fair a trial.” He looked at twilight. “So are you going to drop the trial and have my sisters judge the reformed Changelings and her former hive, now that you know they are feeding off your trust?” Her devotion grew, a burning in her eyes rose. “They didn’t hurt anyone by taking our emotions, unlike chrysalis who actively attacked Equestria.”  Mandible stared twilight down. “They’re called parasites twilight, you better figure out a way before Mother gets bored and calls for the trial to end with the deaths of all of the altered changelings, Sorry I mean reformed.” He mocked as Twilight was filled with rage as for the first time in many years she didn’t have a solution. He closed his eyes speaking through the Royal hive mind communication “I have bad and good news, My sisters have decided that they don’t care about the reformed changelings and they’re going perform Turritopsis dohrnii on chrysalis and all the reformed Changeling will devoured by Archania’s hive.”  Twilight grabbed Mandible and both teleported out of that room. “You said you would help now you’re doing this?!” Mandible sighed as he took a page from the law book, after twilight’s gasps over a possibly damaged book, he explained. “I want you to take on a trial by combat and then you can decided the next action of the court.” Twilight looked at him untrustingly. “If it all works out we will both get what we want.” Twilight sighed and stepped away. “Ok what should we do after one of us wins?” Mandible smirked. “We will get a advisor to the courtroom.” Twilight nodded hesitantly. “Just don’t betray me.”  Twilight was offended by that statement. “What?!” She would never do anything like that! She wasn’t like discord or grogar or chrysalis or or. “You’re feeding off my hate.” Mandible nodded with a smirk. “So you defending chrysalis and making us feel betrayed is also feeding you.”   Mandible sighed. “I and a few of my siblings were specifically made to be hatred eaters. Made for war and conflict, though in the last centuries most of my siblings either died out or became critics.” He chuckles, his grin disappearing. “This entire court and everything, I learned one thing, you aren’t some clean little princess who wants friends and rainbows. You hate chrysalis and those two, You hated that our laws had no loopholes. Hatred is complex, an emotion of not only anger but disgust but motivation. Your hatred of chrysalis motivated you to save what in your view is the only good thing she has produced.” Twilight just stared in shock, rage completely gone and now in complete confusion. She pulled out the book of Changeling laws and then she read the last page. “Call the judge of all if the judges can’t be trusted.”