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// Chapter 3  
// Story: Maybe is all I need 
// by Fat1thatyoulove 
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Chapter 3 (Checkmate)

The burning sun that has been penetrating your eyes for the last few minutes has finally woken you up; you move your head so that you’re not in the direct light from the sun. You’re surprised to not find Twilights head on it’s normal resting place on your chest, you look to your left and notice she is still asleep, you close your eyes and start to mess with her mane. Her warm head feels good on your hand as you continue, you did this for a few moments until you hear her say good morning. You start to reply but your cut off by the sound of your name being called again.

You open your eyes and look to the doorway “Hey Twilight did you hear that?”

You don’t hear her reply so you nudged her with your hand to wake her up if she fell back to sleep “Twilight?”  As you put your head on her you notice her mane no longer feels warm it feels cold and kind of wet, you turn your head to face her and quickly jump out of the bed at what you see.

“Chrysalis!” You shout as you fall out of the bed.

You hear a laugh as you struggle to untangle your body from the sheets, “And a good morning to you Human.”

You finally free yourself from the sheets and jump up to she if your mind was playing tricks on you…it wasn’t, the black pony lays in the bed smiling at you, her hair seems more of a darker shade of blue since the last time you saw her and her eyes look red and no longer green.

Chrysalis stares at you “Surprised are we?”

You stare at her not knowing what to say.

She gets up from the bed and walks towards you “It’s been awhile hasn’t it?”  She stops in front of you waiting for a reply. But you just stare at her not knowing what to say.

Chrysalis serpent like tongue flickers as she talks “Tell me human do you remember when I told you your magic was something....unique.” Chrysalis pushes her face closer to you and embraces you with an unwanted kiss; her tongue licks the inside of your mouth until you push her off of you and back up from her. You feel like you're going to throw up, she tastes like old cheese and smells like fish.

Chrysalis mocks you “Oh I forgot you only like young mares is that right?”

Chrysalis is shrouded in a green mist for a few seconds, and then emerges looking like Twilight. “There human is this better?”

You look at her and think ok now I’m going to throw up…
Chrysalis lets out one of her annoying laughs as she continues to mock you “So human this is what you like?...Well you liked it so much before.”

She gives a devilish smile as she slowly walks towards you again, you quickly back up.

Chrysalis smile quickly fades as she yells “Wait human don’t….”

You listening ability is cut short as you feel your feet lose balance, it didn’t dawn on you until now that you have backed up to the stairs. Your footing is lost and you begin tumbling down the stairs, each hardwood stair shoots pain though your body as you twist and turn as you fall. Your pain doesn’t last long as you reach the last stair with a loud bone crushing thud.

As you hit the ground your eyes shoot open, you pant and jerk body forward, but the pain from your side is still too great to move. You look to your side and notices you're still a bloody mess. You cry out as you realize you have been having hallucinations and that the real nightmare is not over yet. You call out in a burst of adrenaline and fear “HELP! ANYONE!”

You don’t know how long you have been pasted out for, but just the thought of not knowing you were pasted out scares you terribly. The towels that Twilight had brought to you are now morphed to your body and your hand, the hand is too stiff and cold to move and it just trembles as it holds your side.

You again let out a pain filled squeal as you try to push yourself up from the ground, but you come crashing back down to the ground.

You let out another yell as you hit the ground, your breathing is now labored and you are starting to feel tired again. You shake your head and scream to yourself “NOOO I refuse to die in a dream about ponies!”

You slam your head back against the wall and begin to sob, “Twilight! I changed my mind I want you back! I don’t want to stay here! I don’t want to be left here!”

Your head hurts from the headache or the lack of blood or maybe the hulk smash you just did on the wall but either reason is making your already bad head worst. You fight closing your eyes as you feel sleepy trying to crawl back into your life. Your sobs are now just loud gasp for air, your stomach has gone into severe cramps.

You're too exhausted to try yelling again so you just pant words.

The room’s deafening silences is finally broken by a voice.  

“Human why are you sad your gracious Queen has let you live this long you should be happy.”

The voice rings in your head as you stare at the green magic starting to form on your hands....”Chrysalis?”

Her laugh rings through your head and makes it hurt worse, you grind your teeth and try to muscle through the sound that is scrambling your head.

As the laughter stops you look around the room trying to find the location of her voice.

“Poor human you think i’m in the room.”

Her distant tone hits your ears and you try to follow it while looking around the room.

You stop looking around and start to talk “You’re in my head...”

Chrysalis exclaims in a joyful tone “Bravo human you figured that out. Now the real question do you know how or why?”

You're too tired to fight against any more hallucination so you just listen as your mind starts to talk to you.

“I have been feeding off of your emotions for quite some time, rebuilding my self from your magic human…and you know what my plan is almost fully complete.”

You feel weak again but you keep moving yourself to stay awake, “What plan?”

Chrysalis tone sounds proud as she talks “I guess it does seem fit for you to know seeing as how it won’t matter. In a few minutes I will transform your body into my own, destroying you in the process of course, but I will be more powerful than ever! And I will go back to Equestria and take my rightful place as ruler of the land!”

You swallow hard as you try to deny what she has said, “Oh human you don’t believe me…let me just give to you a demonstration.”

You look at the green magic that has been forming on your heads you watch as it starts to creep it’s way up your arm, you breath deep as the magic starts to wrap itself around your arm, you watch as your fingers start to turn black.

You cry out “It’s just like the dream! You…You HAVE been planning this for a long time!”

Chrysalis gives a girlish laugh as the magic stops “Yes, yes I have, did you really think you would stay in a pony filled world when you’re clearly not a pony? Did you really think you could do magic! HA!”

You stare at your blackened hand you can’t move the fingers and it looks like it could fall off at any moment, you cry out “WHY why me?!”

“Because human I selected you, but don’t worry you won’t feel a thing I’ll make sure I give you a nice dream to die in.” Her wicked laugh ricochets off the insides of your head.

You feel yourself getting tired as you start to lose the fight on keeping your eyes open…

End of chapter 3