//------------------------------// // Chapter seven: tireks lament // Story: Power Display // by Futters2468 //------------------------------// Finding cozys parents was an easy task, she just had to tell one pony how she was going to be a royal guard soon and wanted to seek advice from two veterans, of course disguised as a pegasus wearing the royal guard uniform. Very much to chrysalises shock the two verterans were revealed to be two unicorns the only Thing assuring chrysalis that she was at the right house was the mane and fur color of the two, which looked almost identical to cozys. "Good morning!" The mare sounded happy, eventough she was aware that her only daughter was in tartarus. "Good morning my name is sunflowertree i'm going to be a royal guard soon and was looking for advice. You used to work at canterlot right?" Chrysalis was a little put of by how happy the pony, that introduced herself as magenta glow, was. The same could be said for her husband barry glow that almost skipped around the house. "You came to the right unicorns. Come in we'll Show you our house, while we talk" Chrysalis followed them into the house, finding the inside looking more colorful, lively and disgustingly than outside. Everything was full of rainbows, flowers and cutesy animals bleugh, thankfully Chrysalis was very talented in disguising her true feelings. During her Tour the two ponies kept rambling on and on about the honorful role of a royal guard. She could feel the love they had for eachother radiating of them, it was tempting, but something distracted her from the delicious scent. Over the house were pictures of cozy, who seemed a lot younger in most. "Here is our bedroom and then there's...." magentas voice started to shake, as her eyes noticed another door on which cozy glow was written in pink. "You know what how about i make us some tea? I'll be right back make yourself at home." Now was chrysalises chance she slowly followed magenta to the kitchen and when she wasn't looking chrysalis drained her love leaving her completely helpless. After that chrysalis did the same with barry and cacooned them both. Just as she was sbout to return on her way home with her prey, she felt a sudden curiosity overcoming her. There was nopony there, so she could use this opportunity to look at cozys old room, a fast look wouldn't hurt. Slowly chrysalis opened the big brown door, finding the room completely destroyed. The bed was turned over and all the pictures, that were clearly painted by a filly, were ripped into pieces. "What hapened here!" Chrysalis was so shocked she didn't realized she said that out loud, not like anypony could hear her anyway. She was just about to leave, when she found one still intact picture. It was a self made portrait from cozy. Chrysalis noted how terrible it looked, the filly was so clearly bad at drawing even for her age, still for some reason she took it with her. Meanwhile Tirek stared down at the book in front of him, originally he wanted to study it for a spell to activate the bell, but he found his mind drifting of to the weird behaviour chrysalis had at breakfeast. Her mannerisms reminded him of his brother scorpian, whenever he would think up an excuse to see that weak magician starswirl the bearded. Tirek shook his head, there was no way that changeling would betray him. Was she known for lying, yes. Was she emotionally unstable, yes. Is she powerful.... maybe. However he knew that she needed their assistance to succed, betrayal is simply no option for her, but what if? "Cozy?" The filly dissapeared in her room After breakfeast and hadn't come out since. Tirek thougt about all the things she said, the way she described her parents, reminded him of his father King vorak. "Cozy! Say something if you're not dead!" No response. "Cozy don't ignore me!" Again no answer "Oh for the love of- wait a second i'm coming" He walked over to cozys room. Tirek debated for a second if he should knock before barching in anyway. "Golly Tirek i thougt somecreature as old as you would know how to knock" the filly was sitting on her bed reading a book called gusty the great Band four. "And i was under the impression Ponys are supposed to hear pretty well" He snarled. "Oops! sorry i must have been to invested reading" "Lucky you i wasn't able to read a single word!" A moment of silence erupted. "Is it about chrysalises weird behaviour?" "So you noticed it too" "I mean it was pretty obvious.... d-do you think she is planning to betray us?" "Well i wouldn't be surprised if she was planning some sort of betrayal, we should keep an eye out for her" the silence returned "Tirek?" "What" "What is your plan after all of this is over?" "What do you mean after all this?" "Well after we succeded in our plan and twilight is powerless, what happens then?" The question made Tirek pause for a moment, he was always thinking how to win but never what would happen after that. "I guess we would part Equestria into three kingdoms we take what we want and rule our kingdoms on our own" "Do you mean we're going to part ways" "Yes that's the plan" the centaur realised to late how hurt cozy sounded. "Y-you're not planning to betray me right?" "Betray you? What gave you that idea?" "Well you two are powerful beings able to drain the energy of everycreature you want to. When i'm no longer of use to you, what's stopping you from draining my energy and leaving me to rot somewhere" Actually cozy made a good point Tirek was not only stronger, but also more experienced in manipulating creatures, so was chrysalis. Now that He thougt about it, there was really no reason to keep her around, he could easily take her magic, yet the Image of a complete weakened cozy made him feel.... weird. And when He thougt about chrysalis sucking up her love, it made him angry. What in tartarus was wrong with him? "How about i read to you my favorite part of the gusty the great books, maybe that will help me concentrate?" For some reason that was the first Thing that came to mind. "Ok" Cozy knew he was deflecting her eyes said it all. They almost looked like his brother scorpans eyes, whenever they were talking about their plan to take over. From the big book staple he took the largest book. Book six the last book ever written. Tirek sat on the ground cozy flying on his lap. Normally anypony who dared to get so close to him, would be drained within seconds, but cozy was an exception. Eventough he knew that personal space was just an imaginary construct for that filly, it was still surprising that she sat on his lap after they're last conversation. Maybe she was trying to surpress what happened? "Where was it again? There, behold cozy the most rememberale fight in equesterian history" he started reading the chapter. Every Word brought back fond memories of his childhood. How his mother used to tuck him into bed, how his gram-gram sounded reading the chapter over and over again, how he would replay the whole fight with scorpan, which he often used as an excuse to Show off his magic strength. Sometimes when Tirek glanced towards cozy and saw how excited she got hearing grogar explain his Plan, while casually beating up gusty and her Team, he couldn't help but notice how similar she was to him. However then when tensions were at an all time high the remaining sites were ripped out leaving the Story at an Cliffhanger. "Wait weren't there supposed to be sites here?" "Cozy what did you do to the sites?" Tirek sounded like a parent reprimanding their child. "Why Do you immediatly assume i did something?" She fluttered from his lap onto the floor "I just- you know what, i think i'm finally concentrated enough to learn that spell" he got up moving towards the door "Don't disturb me" "Yeah, Yeah i won't, maybe i could ask chrysalis about her behaviour" "You do that just be quiet, oh and cozy" "Yes?" "I don't steal the magic of Pegasus fillies" with that he left the room. Obviously he did steal magic from any Pegasus he could find there ages didn't matter to him, but if he stayed silent cozy could think he was planning a betrayal. That would destroy the tiny inclines of trust they both build up. Tirek took the stolen book and read it again. Yet his mind still managed to drift of with thougts about his two allies. A simple question blocked his mind what did he truly think about them? They were just temporary allies, but the thougt of something happening to them or one of them betraying him was more than unpleasant for Tirek. Chrysalis was a former queen, that is not quite right up there, yet her ability to shapeshift was impressive and very useful. If she wanted to she could easily suck up the love of grogar, cozy and Tirek and take the mane six on alone, she just had to find one weak point to use against them. However the more he thougt about it the more unlikely it became she would betray them, i mean she could be really cut throat, no doubt would she have wanted to betray them she would've done so already, still she was so possesed by the idea of revenge, if betraying them meant reaching her goal would she do it? Cozy was more of a planner, than a fighter she was manipulative, ruthless and... weak. The only Thing that protected her from getting hurt were her adorable face and her two teammates. Would there ever be a circumstance of her needing to fight of creatures like timberwolves, would she survive? Tirek immediatly stopped his mind before he could invision that scenario, just the pure image of cozy surrounded by timberwolves was too much for him to bear, because it would mean they could need to think of a brand new plan, of course. Something like that was never going to happen. Cozy is way to scared to ever dare go out into the everfree forest alone, there was simply no way in tartarus anycreature could hurt her, she was simply to smart to let that happen.... why did he feel like he just jinxed it?