//------------------------------// // VI-I Love You // Story: Chrysalis's Wedlock // by Diamond Sparkle //------------------------------// Twilight thought for a while. Would it really be so bad being loved and kissed and cuddled by the Changeling Queen? Someone who could take the shape of any stallion or mare within lovemaking that I wanted, within reason? This could be the chance to make my secret fantasies about Princess Celestia come to life. And who would not want to be loved? "I have thought about it a bit and agreed but in exchange I want you to do three things for me. First, call off this invasion. I don't want Canterlot to perhaps be wrecked and all my friends to end up in cocoons to have their love milked out of them. I don't want Celestia and Luna's benevolent rule overthrown, leaving no one to control the sun and the moon and bring night and day. I hate war, that brings nothing but expense and misery and pain and death." She paused. "Second, I want to see my friends and family occasionally. I don't want to be shut up in a harem. I do understand that I might need bodyguards to prevent that rival Queen from having me murdered, but I want to have a normal life where possible. Lastly, I want you to love me as much as I love you." Queen Chrysalis nodded and signalled to an aide to bring the love potion to them, and very carefully added a drop to each of two glasses of water. "To peace within Equestria-down the hatch. Afterwards I will call the invasion off." Rather reluctantly, and hoping she had made the right choice, Twilight picked up the glass and drank it at the same time as Chrysalis drank hers. Chrysalis is so pretty...from that look in her dark eyes to her shiny black chitin body. And she loves me for my own sake. Twilight and Chrysalis leaned in and kissed each other lightly on the lips and then the Queen sent a message through the rarely-used hive mind system. "Soldiers of the Hive, all of you stand down, repeat stand down. There will be no kidnapping of Princess Cadence and no invasion of Canterlot, for Twilight Sparkle and I now love each other." There was cheering throughout the Hive when that message was given out as noling wanted to risk dying if it could be avoided. "Come with me, let me show you around the Hive." Chrysalis unlocked the anti-magic device from her new girlfriend's horn, and the first place she took her was to the Hive's love well, which was now once more at a proper level. "This is the most important place in the Hive, the love well, where we get most of our food from. It has to be guarded in shifts around the clock, as if it was to be poisoned or fouled that would be bad news for the entire swarm. From it one can get the most tasty love soup." After showing Twilight all the other interesting parts of the Hive she said "I guess we have to do something hard; we have to tell everyone who matters in your life that we are now a coupledom. And then we need to move all your possessions-all your books and charts and other stuff-into the Hive and set up a love nest for us and a couple of rooms dedicated to your things. I will get an escort and some sky chariots ready to haul all your stuff back here, as you'll be spending quite a lot of time in the Hive from now on. Not all of it, don't worry. I would never imprison you." Soon enough fifty or so Changelings, some of them hitched to sky-chariots, were ready to go, and Twilight took her place in the royal sky-chariot beside Queen Chrysalis. Taking good care to stay out of the territory of Queen Chelicerae, it was sunset by the time they reached Ponyville and crossed the border. Pegasui that saw them scattered and informed the small detachments of Royal Guards that served as police ponies of what was happening, but it would take some time to get enough of them together to challenge the Changelings. However, Rainbow Dash came flying up to them. "Let Twilight go, you overgrown insect!" she snapped at Chrysalis. "Don't worry, I'm not her prisoner. I agreed to become her girlfriend to avoid an invasion of Canterlot and the ruining of Princess Cadence's wedding," Twilight explained. Meanwhile Spike had quickly sent a message to Princess Celestia in the form of a telegram. Changelings openly in Ponyville Stop With Twilight Stop Come Quickly Stop It was not that long before Princess Celestia teleported to the scene and she and Queen Chrysalis glared at each other. "What have you done to my personal student?," Princess Celestia demanded to know. "If that really is Twilight Sparkle and not some disguised Changeling, give her to me, and put all that stuff back that you took from the library." "A pony named Sweet Heart, my girlfriend, was murdered by rival Changelings, so I brought Twilight Sparkle to my Hive and persuaded her to take a drop of love potion. Don't worry, I took one too, and she'll be treated like a princess. It was that or kidnap your aunt and launch a giant love raid on Canterlot. Which do you think would be worse? Without a girlfriend, my swarm can only gain love by raids and large scale replacements" Chrysalis replied.