//------------------------------// // An Old Acquaintance // Story: Story Of An Alicorn // by Applepip //------------------------------// Well, There you have it! Back to square one, Alone, Unloved and probley hated by everyone i didn't attack, But as usual the story never ends!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I shiver again, Without my horn the bundle of wet twigs remains unburned, I try again, But my horn just fizzles out and nothing, I feel so pathetic, I long for the embrace of Twilight but i shake my head, She's dead, Long gone, Because i killed her, I cry, And my child, My sounds of sorrow echo off the cave walls, My wings barly keeping the cold at bay, "Why do you cry? Prince of Canterlot," The voice brings me out of my thoughts, "Someone of your station shouldn't be out here, Crying," I detect a small hint of sarcasum, "But it's luck that you come here to my doorstep," I try to stand but my legs are so weak, "Who are you?" I finally reply, "Names are trivial, My brood just call me 'My Queen', But if names are so important to you then somepony's know me as Chrysalis," When the last word was spoken a figure steps out from the shadows, Barely lit by the moon light, "I ask again prince, Why do you cry?" I try to stand this time and manage to get myself onto my hooves, "Why should i tell you?" A small hint of malice in my tone, "I don't know you," "True, True, But i know you," She points with what you would call a hoof, Apart that it was full of holes, I take one step forward, "What do you mean you know me?" Chrysalis walks around me nodding, "Yes, I still see it, The nobel flank, The arched back, The perfect body," I notice the last few words she said with a grin, "Stop delaying, How do you know me?" I grit my teeth, Though at this stage i am defenseless, My body too weak from flying in the cold weather, "I don't know this form," She gestures at me with her hoof again, "But i know the other you, The dark one," I start to seem interested, And i feel my anger subside, "You know Darkside?" She turns after walking to the cave entrance, "Yes, I do, Well not personally, but more of an acquaintance, I would scratch his back he would scratch mine, And he would scratch good," I take a few steps more toward her, "So you worked for him?" This statement seemed to anger her, I also seem to hear a small clicking sound coming from the back of the cave, "I did not work for him, I worked with him, My brood and i are changlings, He saw the potential in our abilities and offered us a place in his ranks, Untill he betrayed us!" I hear more clicking coming from behind, "All these centuries i had thought he perished in the final battle between the princessess and discords army, But it seems i was mistaken, And here i have the opportunity to take my revenge," I stiffen as several more changlings appear from behind me, But i was willing to fight even if it meant i died, At this point i didn't care, "Then why don't you bitch? Or are you going to get your lackeys to do it for you?" Chrysalis yells out causing the cave walls to vibrate, But before she can charge seven figures land in the cave from outside, I recognise Shining Armour But when did he grow wings, I started to get confused, "Prince Armour, Am i glad to see you," "Don't get your hopes up," One of the guards behind him seems to hiss rather than say, And in a wash of green, Prince Armour and the six guards behind him turn into the same creatures as the one's now surrounding me, My relaxed face turns to stone, "Ha ha ha, You thought you were going to be rescued, How quaint, Now for all the things you did to me and my brood in the past, You will die for them!" The changlings dive for me, I manged to kick some of them knocking them out, But in my weakened state i was no match for all of them, A large changling almost the size of me barrels into me full force, I cry out in pain as i hit the cave and knew instantly my wing was broken, "Now prince ....You will die, Ha ha ha ha," Just as the changlings closed for the kill, A blast of blue energy flew past me killing the large changling, "What!!" Chrysalis shouts out, She turns to the cave entrance and spots royal guards entering, "How can this be, I should have detected them," More guards enter the cave firing their magic at the few changlings still stupid enough to be standing there, "Retreat my brood," Chrysalis looks at me as she runs past, "I will get you! Mark my words prince, I will get you," The sound of beating wings fading into the cave, I slump to the floor, Only to look up at five guards standing before me, I don't move as my body seems to be in too much pain, The guards look behind and part ways, I lift my head slightly to see a pony in purple armour walk between them, "I thought i would find you here, The only cave system for miles," I try to reply but i know it would be a wasted effort, Shining Armour looks down at me and removes his helmet giving it to a nearby guard, "You are wanted very badly, You know that right?" I move my head, "Then just do it already," I blurt out seeing Prince Armour step back i say it again, "Just do it!" Tears form as i hold back the memory of Twilight laying on the floor, "I don't deserve to live after what i did, I killed them!!" I shout, "killed who?" Prince Armour raises an eyebrow, "Twilight and Luna, I killed them," My voice turning into a wisper with the last three words, "They are not dead!" My eye's open, "What!!" I now look at him, "Tell me this isn't just a joke before i die?" "No, It isn't, Both are fine i havn't seen them yet but the doctors told me their condition, And the foal is fine too," I close my eye's with tears of joy, Twilight had survived my anger and the child too, Atleast now i die happy, I manage to push myself up though in great pain, My damaged wing hanging usless at my side, "Then i guess there's only one thing to do," I kneel before him, "I embrace my fate," Prince Armour looks at me, "What are you doing?" I look up again, The same confused look on his face, "I attacked the princessess, It's treason under punishment of death," Prince Armour looks at me then just laughs, I grate my teeth, Here i am going to die, And he just laughs, "Are you going to do it or not? Stop taunting me!!" He stops laughing, "Prince Valder, Why are you willing to die?" I meet his eye's gaze for gaze, "You know why!" "No, I don't," "I attacked the princessess, I deserve my fate," "There's more to it than that," I sit down exhausted with the pain and effort and just emotionally succombe, "I don't want to hurt her again!!" "Hurt who?" "Twilight, My love, My everything, I have hurt her so much since i arrived, I can't do it no more, Seeing her in pain and the feeling of anguish that i thought i had lost her, Is too much, Even for me, I can't take it!!" I lie back down to the cave floor and just break down, "You really love my sister don't you?" "More than anything and i am willing to die so that i can't hurt her again," Shining Armour leans down to me and says softly, "Thats all i needed to know," After lifting up his head, His horn glows, I think, 'This is it!', Goodbye Twilight, I'll miss you!! With a dark blue flash of light, I close my eye's and pass out.