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// An Ordinary Day 
// Story: To Be a Queen 
// by Nightshade89 
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     A heartbeat. The feeling of being surrounded by light. Suddenly there is the sound of laughter. Chrysalis opens her eyes. Her sister, Cadence, is lying on the bed with her. She looks up and sees her mother grinning, pinpointing her as the source of the laughter. Her sister snuggles closer, unwilling to wake just yet.
She stretches her small hoof towards her mother as if to touch the love she can feel radiating from her. Cadence wakes and Chrysalis can feel even more love pouring into her. Suddenly Cadence pounces upon Chrysalis. Giggling she pretends to fight back.
Her mother picks her up with her magic. She brings Chrysalis close enough to nuzzle her. Chrysalis knows two things about life. They are the only two things she is always sure of. She loves her mother and her sister. They love her. Even if nopony else does.
Lately though her family has looked as though they are wearing thin. Chrysalis hoped with all her heart that they weren't sick. If they were then they wouldn't be able to smile or share there love with her.
Now it is time for breakfast which Chrysalis hates. She doesn't like the food. It doesn't fill her like it does her family. It doesn't even taste good. Though she eats if only to make her family happy and to keep up the pretense of normalacy. The only thing that does that is love.
Her mind turns to a subject she hates. Her differences. Only the beginnings of which are physical. Her hooves and mane are peppered with holes. She has fangs like a bat pony. Her skin is hard like some kind of armor and something similar to a large blue-green shell covers her back.
Far greater though are her other differences. One of these is her need for love. This is something she has noticed in her short, for an immortal, one hundred years of life. When ever she is away from her family for a long period of time she begins to feel a gnawing deep in her stomach. She had finally discovered that it stemmed from a biological need for love which felt wrong to her.
Her mother always insisted that it was nonsense. None the less she feared what would happen if her family were not there for her. Chrysalis tried not to think about it to often though. She trusted her mother. So if her mother said that it was nonsense, then it was.
Even worse though she felt hate. She knew she shouldn't but she did. Her family didn't feel hate. They were the spreaders of love. She hated even feeling hate, but that didn't help her situation. She hated all the ponies who judged her for looking different. What right did they have? Above all others though she felt loathing for her great aunt, Celestia.
Chrysalis hated her with a passion. Celestia hated Chrysalis merely for existing. Chrysalis knew this because she had heard part of a conversation between her aunt and her mother. Her "dear" aunt claimed that she should never have exsisted. She warned of an "evil" she felt in Chrysalis.
Chrysalis knew that she shouldn't hate, but that didn't make her evil... did it? She didn't even have her cutie mark. How could she be evil when she didn't even know her own destiny. Her mother tried to comfort her saying that alicorns often took more time to find their talents. Chrysalis didn't believe her though. After all her little sister had just gotten hers. Chrysalis couldn't even imagine what it might be. She genuinely felt as though she had no talent.
Her families talents were all similar. They specialized in love magic. Her sister repaired it, her mother spread it, and her father magnified it. She assumed her talent would also be similar to their's. She hoped so. Even if only to prove that she wasn't evil.