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// Broken wings 
// Story: Running away 
// by AlphaRidley 
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"Wake up."

"Mmm..." Chrysalis groaned, and nuzzled Twilight's neck, not liking being woken up. She was very comfortable right now, and she really didn't give a damn if Twilight didn't want to cuddle anymore. 

A sigh escaped the mare she was spooning. "The storm has passed."

Chrysalis bolted into a standing position, instantly wide awake, and not noticing the slightly depressed expression on Twilight's face, literally jumped for joy. "Took the stupid thing long enough!"

 Looking over at Twilight she finally took note of how sad the Unicorn was acting, almost as if she didn't want to go back to Ponyville. "What's the matter?" Chrysalis asked as she stopped jumping and calmed down. "I thought you'd be glad to be able to go back and see your friends?" Chrysalis' eyes narrowed in thought as Twilight grimaced momentarily. "Oh... Don't tell me you'll actually miss me?"

Chrysalis grinned and giggled as Twilight jerked her head up, her eyes wide and her mouth hanging open in shock. "I'm just kidding of course, no need to take it so personally." She continued, mistaking Twilight's shock for outrage.

Twilight looked at Chrysalis with an ounce of longing as the Changeling queen turned around and skipped down the tunnel towards the entrance,  head held high and her wings twitching in anticipation. 'But I will miss you...'Twilight thought as she grudgingly got to her hooves and followed Chrysalis.

Twilight had grown somewhat attached to Chrysalis over the past few days they had spent trapped together in the tunnel, she liked this new, at least to her, caring side of Chrysalis who liked to cuddle all day long. She couldn't fathom why the mere thought of leaving the Changeling made her sick to her stomach, but it did. She would have to ask somepony about it once she returned to Ponyville.

Twilight climbed out of the tunnel with Chrysalis' help, she was much weaker than normal, having been the only food source for the starving Changeling Queen for at least three days, and not being able to eat much except some edible wild mushrooms that grew within the tunnel. She was hoping Chrysalis would at least have the decency to take her back to Ponyville.

"Hop on." 

Twilight looked taken aback by the suggestion. Did Chrysalis really just say that?

Chrysalis rolled her eyes and let out a groan of annoyance. "I'll take you back to Ponyville, you'll never reach it without in your condition. I want to get there quickly, so it's best for you to just jump on so I can fly us there."

Nodding her head in agreement Twilight pulled her body up onto Chrysalis' back. She had to fight the urge to sigh in relief. Even though the storm had passed, it was still chilly outside, especially when you were flying through the air at around seven in the morning. Twilight was glad for the heat that Chrysalis' body gave off. Twilight's ear perked up as a low rumbling sound filled the air. As far as she knew the storm had passed, so why did she hear thunder?

"You have gotta be kidding me." Twilight opened her eyes as Chrysalis talked, and fought the urge to shout her disbelief. The storm had passed yesterday, this wasn't fair at all! 

A scream ripped out of Chrysalis as she was struck by a bolt of lightening, her wings shattered, splattering her greenish blood all over Twilight as Gravity took hold and brought them back down into the forest. 

To Twilight's surprise, the lightening didn't affect her, she would have to find out why later, she had an injured Changeling screaming bloody murder to help. Picking herself up off Chrysalis and fighting the urge to throw up, Twilight levitated Chrysalis out of the small crater they had made when landing and scanned the Changeling to see how badly the lightening had injured her.

Luckily for the Changeling queen, the lightning hadn't fried the nerves in her back that connected to her exploded wings, so they would probably grow back over the next few weeks. Twilight still thought this was weird, but Chrysalis had informed her when they were in the tunnel that she had lost her wings before, so she would just have to accept it. After putting Chrysalis to sleep with a spell she had learned a few days before she had wandered into the Everfree to study the bats that had been feeding the Changeling queen, Twilight ripped a bunch of leaves off a nearby tree and pressed them against the base of her wings to stop the bleeding. If Chrysalis survived this then she would owe Twilight, what exactly she would owe Twilight would think of later.

Once the bleeding had stopped and Twilight was satisfied that the storm had calmed down enough for them to get a move on, she levitated the unconscious Changeling into the air and picked what looked like the direction they had been flying in, which was hopefully the way to Ponyville.

"Are you bucking serious?" Twilight snarled as it began raining again. She didn't know what they had done to deserve this kind of treatment from the weather, but it was really starting to piss her off. At this rate Chrysalis was going to die of hypothermia unless Twilight could find a safe place for them to hunker down until Chrysalis could wake up. Deciding that she wasn't going to get lucky and find another underground tunnel like last time, Twilight walked over to a tree and after laying Chrysalis down against the trunk, settled down next to her and began fashioning a blanket out of grass. She could only hope that Chrysalis would last a full twenty-four hours, when Twilight would be able think clearly and try to find a way out of here.