"Mom!" said a dual pair of lungs. Dash winced at the sound of her two grown daughters calling out to her. Even at twenty-four they still acted like foals. Oh the joy of twins.
"If you ignore them, they might disappear." muttered Dash. Twilight, who sat across from the cyan Pegasus, giggled and shook her head.
"If it worked that way we would have gotten more sleep when they were filly's. Besides, they have their mothers stubbornness." said the lavender alicorn. Dash stuck her tongue out and went back to writing her story. Rainbow Dash was devestated when the author of Daring Do stopped writing. As a solution, Twilight had Rainbow write her own series. As a result, Mare-Do-Well was known other than just some story from a small town called Ponyville.
"Mom, Prism hid my regilia!" said a alabaster alicorn with a light purple mane. Prism, a dark blue alicorn with her mother's prismatic mane, shook her head.
"No I didn't! You stole my crown, Glimmer!" said Prism, pointing a hoof at the other mare.
"Why would I want your crown? I have my own, thank you very much!" said Glimmer, sticking up her head in superiority.
"Well, you can shove it up yo-"
"Did you check under your beds?" asked Twilight, hurriedly jumped in before it turned out to be the two sisters taking their respective guards and starting a food fight against the other. The twins loved each other dearly but did get in fights often enough.
"No." said Prism, scuffing the ground with a hoof.
"Well then check there instead of talking about where you would love to shove objects." said Dash. The twins blushed. Twilight rolled her eyes at her wife.
"They aren't there, check with Nympha or Bright. They are both like their mothers in the respect of playing pranks." she said, waving a hoof. The twins shivered, remembering the time Nympha decided to scare the twins be turning into a panther during Nightmare Night and scaring them when they were out in the gardens.
"Okay. I guess we can work together to find our stuff." said Glimmer. The twins smiled and hoof bumped before walking out of the room.
"And Trixie and Chrysalis want more foals? Isn't the one they have enough trouble?" asked Twilight, shaking her head.
"I say Chrys is brave. No sex or shape shifting. Unless Trix is going to give birth to it again." said Rainbow, going back to her writing. Twilight shrugged.
"She will be fine...for the first few months. Then all hell will break loose because she is sex deprived." The two shared a laugh.
"I am very functional while sex deprived." The two turned to see Chrysalis walking into the living quarters of their chambers.
"You say that now and we get to laugh while you freak out four months in, thinking Trixie doesn't love you because she hasn't had sex with you since you got pregnant." said Twilight, smirking,
"It's true, I should know." said Dash, looking up from her story. Chrysalis rolled her eyes and sat down. Her face grew serious and the door closed behind her. There was a click as the door locked itself.
"Um, Chrysalis, why did you lock the door?" Asked Twilight. Her horn glowed briefly. "And placed charms around the room?"
"There's just something I need to tell you and no pony can know. Well, mom already knows and she's probably telling mother right now, but-"
"Wait, which one is mom and which one is mother?" asked Rainbow Dash, confused. Chrysalis mentally face hoofed. Of course she wouldn't know which one she was talking about. That's the difficulty when both your parents are mares.
"Mom is Luna and Celestia is Mother. Anyways, it's about that night twenty-four years ago." said Chrysalis. Twilight and Rainbow shuddered. They knew exactly what night the High Queen was talking about.
"Why are you bringing this up? I thought we all agreed not to speak of it again?" asked Twilight. Chrysalis sighed.
"Last night I had a dream, yet it was so real. It was of that night, all those years ago. Then I saw her. But that's not what worries me. She talked to, knew I was there. It was like a memory yet not," said Chrysalis, shaking her head. "In the morning I went and talked to Luna since she pretty much controls dreams. After a quick talk we came a to a very...disturbing, reality."
"What was it?" asked Twilight, concerned. Chrysalis sat there for a moment. Tears started to form in her eyes.
"I wasn't sure until later, but it was a telling of the future in my memory. It told me that..." She paused and took in a deep, shaky breath. "...that she is going to release herself." The room went dead quiet, the other two mares falling into a shocked silence. She just told them that one of the most powerful demons on the face of Equestria that could very well be Satan herself was about to release herself into the world. This was worse than all three AC attacks, Nightmare Moon, and the Doscordian war combined. This was the apocalypse just a sitting at their doorstep and it was more than ready to let itself in.
"How long do we have?" asked Twilight, breaking the silence. Chrysalis sighed and shook her head.
"That's the other thing. It's a ticking time bomb with no clock. I don't know when though it's soon. It draws in every single scrap of negative emotion and stores it away. It could be anytime now." she said, scuffing the floor.
"So we have to hope there isn't a large source of negative energy to kick this all off. Well, this is perfect."
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"Briiiigghht!" Bright Night winced at the high pitched sound of the twins calling out her name. The dark indigo mare with a pink mane buried her face back in her book, hoping the two would go away. She loved her nieces to death, all three of them, bu sometimes the twins could be a tad bit annoying.
"Bright, did you take my regilia?" She heard Glimmer say.
"Yeah, and did you take my crown too?" asked Prism. Bright chuckled lightly at the irony of the situation. She levitated the book down and turned around, lifting up her hooves to show they were bare. It took the twins a moment to come to the same conclusion she had just moments ago.
"Nympha." they said in unison.
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The trio marched through the halls, keen on finding their missing royal attire. Nympha was a stealthy mare and it didn't help that she could turn into anyone, or anything, that she wanted. It was easy to guess how she even stole the items in the first place.
They turned around the corner to find Nympha sitting infront of the throne room doors, her head cocked to the side. Sitting in a pile next to her were four golden shoes, a royal crown, and a golden regilia.
"Nympha! Why did you steal our stuff?" asked Bright, slightly pissed at the hybrid. The pink mare ignored them, deeming the door more interesting.
"Hey? Equestria to Nympha. Ya there?" asked Prism, waving a hoof in the changelings face.
"I want to show you something I found." said the hybrid, standing up and nudging open the door. The throne room, for its part, was empty except for a lone figure.
Floating in the middle of the room was what seemed like a unicorn stallion. Half his body was missing and continued on into a wisp. His white coat was translucent, making it possible to see the throne beyond him. His blonde mane fell around his ivory horn and around his face. He turned to them and smiled wickedly.
"Good evening, girls. My name is Blueblood."
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"Are you sure of this?" asked Trixie, nuzzling into her wife.
"There is no other explanation." said Chrysalis with a sigh. She had just told her wife about her revaluation. She did not take it well. She knew what this creature did to her wife when it was inside her and what nightmares it brought her. She couldn't even fathom what it free would do to the changeling.
"Then we will get through this," said Trixie, looking up at her wife. "One day, we will find a way to get rid of these accursed demons, cleaning ourselves and the children as well. We just need time."
"And that's the one thing we don't have," said Chysalis, lifting the mares head up with a hoof. "We will get through this, but not unscathed. This family, this country, this world, it will never be the same. But we will survive. We have each other, amd we will never separate." She kissed her and leaned their foreheads together.
"I just hope you can keep this promise."