The Queen's New World

by Moon_Skritch

Chapter 1: A New Realm

Chrysalis

Their eyes lighting up to a bright white, horns crossed, and a flaming pink heart floating above Cadence and Shining Armor; was the last thing Chrysalis saw before she was shoved into the air along with her subjects, leaving Canterlot for good.

She looks at her subjects, some of them are out like lights, or at least she thinks so. She looks down at the ground below her, which is getting smaller by the second. Some of her subjects are laying there, more than likely dead from the impact. She can't help but cry... What have I done to my subjects, I just wanted to get them their food, but... I have failed them...

Just then a light shines around her. She closes her eyes so she doesn't go blind from the bright light. When she opens them again she notices that the ground is coming toward her at an accelerated pace. Chrysalis' eyes widen, quickly she thinks of what to do so she doesn't die from the impact, an idea strikes her and her horn illuminates, a green field appears around her. Her momentum starts to slow but its too late, she lands on the ground and tumbles across the grass almost hitting a tree.

As she is tumbling she hits her head and everything goes black for her...

What seems like ages later, she finally awakens, she opens her eyes to see the sun shine through the trees. It looked to be early morning. She groans and rubs her head with her hoof. “Where am I...” She says, she gets up slowly and looks around, she is in the middle of a forest.

“Well I'm not gonna know where I am at by just standing here.” she says and starts to walk to, what looks like, a way out of the forest. As she gets closer to the opening she hears these strange roaring sounds, nothing like a bear or river, but a different type of roar.

She reaches the exit and is taken aback by what she sees, a neighborhood, but there is something different about this neighborhood... no ponies... just these strange metal carriages roaring across a black road. “So those things must have been what caused that roaring sound.” she says to herself.

Just then one of the doors open across the street and this two legged figure steps out, carrying a pack on its back. As it sighs, it starts to walk down the sidewalk. What is that creature?! Chrysalis continued to look at the two legged creature. It hung its head low and every now and then it looks around itself as if it is looking for something. It then looks right at the queens direction, she immediately ducks behind a tree. She peeks around the side to see the figure shake its head and continue walking. I must follow to learn more.

Claude

Claude sighs as he gets up from his bed, it is finally the last day of being a senior at Bridgeville High School. Claude is the shyest person at the school, has no friends, because he won't talk to anyone, he just keeps to himself and does his own thing.

Claude stretches and his back pops, he sighs in relief. He opens his dresser to pick out clothes for the day, and takes them to the bathroom. He takes off his pajamas and such and hops in the shower, turns it on, and washes the grime from yesterday.

After a few minutes he turns off the water and towels off, he puts on his clean clothes, throwing the old ones in the hamper. As he walks down the hall toward the living room, he sees his parents room, he opens his door to see their bed made up like it normally is and always will be. He sighs and closes the door and walks into the living room, empty also.

Claude looks over at the fireplace mantle and sees the family picture. He walks up to the fireplace and looks at the framed photo. I miss you guys... He sighs and grabs his backpack from next to the couch, he slips on his shoes and walks over to the front door. “Just one more day...” he mumbles under his breath. He grabs the door handle and opens the door letting that early spring morning air into the quiet house.

Stepping out into the new day, Claude takes in a deep breath and sighs. Time for another unsociable day. He closes the door, locks it and starts walking down the driveway and down the sidewalk. As he is walking he feels this odd feeling, he looks around him frantically. Is there someone watching me? He looks over to the woods across the street and sees a black figure duck behind a tree. What was that? He waits a moment to see if there is any more movement, but nothing happens. He shakes his head and walks down the street toward the school, the whole way feeling like he is being watched and followed at the same time.

He finally gets to the school and the bell rings right when he steps through the front door threshold. People have tried in the past to talk to Claude, but all that gets them is silence from him. He has been that way since...well forever, but more so now since his parents died in that car accident.

“Hey look its the quiet boy, got nothing to say to us today do ya?” one of the jocks call out to him, and as normal, Claude tunes them out. Claude walks into his first class, sits down at the desk, and just waits for the class to end, today is pretty much a free day since it is the last day.

He listens to some of the conversations going on around him... “Did you hear about the party at Tim's house tonight?” he hears from one of the girls a couple of desks in front of him.

“Yeah it's going to be awesome, his parents aren't even going to be there so it's going to be hardcore!” the other one says.

A party... woohoo... whats so great about that... Claude sits there idly waiting for the bell to ring, when he feels that same odd feeling again... like he is being watched... he turns quickly to look behind him at the window and sees nothing, the people behind him look at him and then at the window, Claude just silently looks at them and scratches his chin on his shoulder nonchalantly and turns back around. This feeling is really beginning to bug him...

Chrysalis

She has followed the creature all the way to this large structure, the sign in the front of the place said “Bridgeville High School” and under it said “Have a great Summer!”, she has been following the creature invisibly. She didn't want to risk herself being seen. She notices the lots of other creatures that are like the one she has been following, but each of them look different.

Chrysalis walks to the side of the building, looking in each of the windows to find the specific creature she has been following the whole morning. She almost gives until she reaches the window for the room it is in. She looks inside to the specific creature sitting in a desk, looking bored.

The creatures around the one she is following seem to be conversing with one another, she can fainty hear them, but understand what they say. And what is really odd is that they speak her language, Equish, she puts her ear up against the window to listen, "Dude, that party after school is going to be awesome!" one of the creature exclaims, practically bouncing in its seat. Dude, usually means that the creature is male... doesn't it?

"I know right? I heard almost everyone is invited!" The other creature says. Just then the, she would assume, male, due to the fact it has the same body structure like the other creatures that were calling one another 'dude'. The creature she had been following turned around quickly gazing out the window right at her. She immediately tensed, then realized he cannot see her, invisibility works wonders doesn't it? The other male creatures look at the one she's been following then at the window then back at him. He then scratches his chin on his shoulder and turns around. Apparently he is aware of a presence following him but he doesn't know who it is... thank goodness...

Claude

Okay this feeling that I am being watched is really beginning to freak me out. I swore I saw something outside the window but I am not sure... Claude looks at the clock and stands up just as the bell rings to end the class. He tries to shrug off that feeling of being watched and walks to his next class. As he walks down the hall, his head hung low, he can hear the jocks calling out to him “Look it's the quiet boy, got anything to say to us?” they say. Claude just continues on his way to his next class.

Two more classes go by in no time at all. Claude sits in his last class going over what happened over the year in his head. One memory sticks out... the day it happened, in fact it was only a few months ago, though he remembers it as if it was just yesterday...

It was just another school day, it was raining outside, it was chilly, it seemed like any other normal winter day...until that moment when a police officer knocked on the classroom door, the teacher opened the door and the police officer called a name out, “Claude Maynard.” Claude looked up at him without saying a word, everyone having that look on their face that says 'Oh crap, what did he do?'.

Claude stands up and walks out the door, the whole class is silent, the officer apologizes for disrupting the class and takes Claude to the front office. The principal stands at the door and they ask Claude to sit down.

“Um...did I do something wrong?” Claude said shyly, obviously scared out of his wits.

The officer and principal shake their head, “No... it's just...” the officer sighs, “Your parents were involved in a car accident earlier this morning...and well...they didn't make it...”

Immediately Claude stood up, “Wh-What? Are you sure it was them, it couldn't have been...” he said, his eyes starting to water.

“Yes Claude we have proo-”

“I want to see them!” Claude yells through tears causing the officer and the principal to jump.

“Okay, then follow me.” the officer says with a sigh

Claude follows the policemen to his cruiser and hops in the passenger seat, He looks over to the school and can see other teenagers peeking through the windows at him, he turns his head down to look at his feet and the cruiser takes off to the morgue. News seemed to spread like wildfire around the school because when he came back everyone was being nice to him, except the jocks, they could care less.

Claude still can't shake that feeling of seeing his parents laying there on the table, they looked like they were asleep, but they weren't breathing. He feels his eyes start to water again and a tear drop falls on the desk. He shakes his head hastily, making his dark brown hair whip around. Okay no more of that... I am picked on enough...

He doesn't even notice the eerie feeling anymore, he knows it's still there, but he is ignoring it. Claude lays his head down on the desk and closes his eyes, trying to push away the memory, until he feels a tap on his shoulder. He ignores it thinking someone threw something, then he feels it again. He sighs and leans up to see some dude hand him a paper. Claude looks at the paper in the guy's hand and at the guy as if to say 'What do you want me to do with that?'.

“It's an invitation Claude, you never seem to talk to anyone and I just thought maybe you wanted to come to my party, you know, get to know some people.” The guy says. Other people start to look at them, Claude looks around him to see everyone else in the room staring at him. He turns back to the guy holding out the invitation and slowly raises his hand up and takes the paper. “Names Tim by the way.” The guy says.

Claude nods slowly, “Thanks...” he says it so quietly almost no one hears him. Though Tim apparently did.

“No problem dude! Address is on the invitation, hope you can make it.” Tim says and smiles at him. Claude starts to smile a bit and nods.

Chrysalis

The Queen continues to watch the male creature, trying to figure out more about him. A couple of questions still go through her mind: Why is she here in this strange realm, and how?

She is broken out of her thoughts as she sees the creature lay his head down on his desk. She watches as another male poke him in the back and hand him a parchment. She notices that the other creatures have gotten silent, Chrysalis listens closely as the standing creature says something. “It's an invitation Claude, you never seem to talk to anyone and I just thought maybe you wanted to come to my party, you know, get to know some people.” Claude takes the paper from the other creature. “Name's Tim by the way!”

Claude…That must be the name of the creature I’ve been following… She watches as Claude say something very quietly, so quiet Chrysalis can’t even hear. “No problem dude! Hope to see you at my party!”

Wait…A party? I need to attend this party, maybe I could get closer to ‘Claude’, I don’t know what I find in him so interesting, it's just I am so curious about who and what he is. Just then a bell rings loudly, and Chrysalis can hear cheering and whooping, she watches as Claude stands up and walks out the door of the classroom, leaving only the teacher.

Chrysalis turns to run toward the front of the school and is immediately halted by a running female creature, this is going to be difficult to do... then she remembers... her wings. She flaps her wings a bit and she hovers above the ground, she flies over to the front of the school and notices Claude right away, he is looking at the invitation Tim gave him. She follows him all the way back to his home.

At one point he turns around looking right dead at her, thankfully he cannot see her...

Claude

The bell rings finally, Heh, why not. Might as well go to this party. I doubt I will talk to anyone there, I never do most of the time anyway, but it might be good for me to get out of the house every now and then and not think about the past.

Claude walks out the front door of the school and opens and reads the invitation, 'Tim's Senior After-School Party, 6:00PM, 461 Rockham Dr., anyone is invited!.' Claude smiles a bit at the parchment, its the first time anyone has invited him to anything. It's a good thing Tim doesn't live far from his house, he can just walk there easily.

As he walks back to his house he gets that eerie feeling of being followed again, this is really beginning to bug him majorly, he turns around quickly, nothing is there. Claude grumbles under his breath and continues walking. He knows for sure something is following, what... he doesn't know...

He reaches his house and quickly goes inside slamming the door shut behind him. He takes a deep breath and lets it out, and walks into the living room and throws his backpack onto the couch as he passes it walking into his room, Guess I should get ready for this party then...

[End Of Chapter 1]