Crystal Chris's Heart

by Trillionaire Doge

New and Old Friends

It was already dusk when I’d finally finished forming my escape tool, a long spear with a hooked point; just long enough to reach out and unhook the keys which were conveniently placed across from my cell. Once I’d finished making the tool and almost collapsed from exhaustion, normally I wouldn’t be this exhausted but since I’d used negative thoughts instead of positive ones I needed to be careful not to let them overwhelm my mind and take control.

This meant I needed to only allow one at a time to travel through my heart as to not corrupt it.

Standing from the wet stone floor I went to the bars and stuck the hook through. I missed the keys on my first three tries but managed to securely hook them on the fourth before yanking them over to me, the hooked staff disappearing as they slid into my cell.

“Dirty, Dirty, magic.” I shuddered while speaking to myself, the voices in my head were returning although this time they spoke mainly about fear of the human that was obviously myself and how I’d appeared from the crystal heart like legend predicted; a legend that for some reason I knew I’d written.

Scooping the keys up from the floor I silently unlocked my cell and slid the door open, poking my head out to make sure no guards were around I began my trip towards the stairs, freedom and revenge; my left eye remained a light red while the other had returned to normal.

Making my way down the damp and dark corridor I noticed one other cell that was occupied, I decided against my better judgement to go over and check it out; curiosity got the better of my eight year old mind.

I came right up to the bars and peeked inside the cell which was completely black except for two green eyes that stared straight back at me, I knew those eyes, I hated those eyes, and I needed to kill those eyes. I got into a fighting stance and started to force magic into my heart because behind those bars was the very creature I’d been brought back to eliminate; at least that’s what I thought as both my eyes turned a deep green; like seaweed.

“Cadence, Darling are you sure we should’ve locked that human up? He seemed to know Celestia” A pale white unicorn spoke as he followed his wife down the large crystalline halls towards the throne room.

“Shining I was certain that the human would’ve caused more trouble than fixed” Cadence replied without giving her husband a second glance, “Plus he made a very rude comment about Auntie Celestia that I cannot take sitting down.”

“What did he say?” Shining Armour asked striding up so he was matching the same haste filled pace that his wife was taking.

“Do I need to entertain you with this?” Cadence asked with a sigh. “Why is Celestia’s flank so red and sore… because she has a sun on her butt.”

Shining had to stifle a laugh at the simple immaturity of having his wife say something so foalish “I’m sure ‘it’ was just joking around, how old was ‘it’.”

“The human was around the size of the last recorded human and looked to be just exiting his adolescent years.”

“Really? Well he definitely was either immature or crazy.” Shining responded with a shrug as they entered the throne room which was completely empty.

“Listen Shining” Cadence started. “I’m sorry for being a bit cold hearted at the moment but it’s just this human appearing right after Sombra was defeated is wracking my nerves, plus I’m exhausted from keeping that shield up.”

Shining trotted over and placed a foreleg around Cadence; pulling her into a tight hug. “It’s perfectly understandable but just promise me you won’t punish him for appearing out of nowhere and making a joke… regardless of whether or not it was foalish.”

“I’ll try to be more understanding in the future” Cadence promised, although she didn’t really mean it after her past encounters with a human; back when she was a filly. Although before she could dwell too much on this the doors were flung open and Celestia stood behind Twilight and her friends.

“Cadence” Celestia spoke, her voice resonating through the entire hall, “We need to talk about this human you found.”

“Step forward you foul monstrosity” I commanded the two green eyes that stared at me with curiosity. “I won’t ask you again” I almost yelled this time, my voice surprising me more so than the creature I was interrogating.

The eyes regarded me for another moment before closing as a deep breathe escaped the figure inside the cell “Very well, I shall come forward” The voice spoke in a feminine tone that was unfamiliar to me. The figure began to move from the back of the cell, taking a little more than a minute as it seemed to be struggling with all its might to move the small distance.

“Are you okay?” I asked as concern took place of my resolve, eyes fading back to their usual emerald green.

“well…” The feminine voice spoke with trouble as it drew closer, “You try being locked in a cell by crystal ponies while unconscious and then having done nothing wrong not being fed for six months.”

“Six months!” I exclaimed out loud and quickly patted myself down in hopes I somehow had picked up any form of food, “Sorry I don’t have any food for you” I apologized while hanging my head.

The figure finally pulled itself into the light and showed off that it wasn’t the pony I had been looking for, she wasn’t even the right gender as it was a mare instead of the stallion I’d been summoned to fight.

The figure instead was a dark grey coated alicorn with a dark cerulean mane; she looked very weak and malnourished, her wings and body seemed to be filled with holes. She lay on the ground and wasn’t able to lift herself causing me to lean down so I was face to face with her.

“You look Delicious” The female spoke as her tongue flicked out and touched my cheek, I recoiled back as she got some life into her eyes “Full of life and love as well” she gave a large smirk.

“Thank… you…” I questioned myself while staring back at the alicorn who was now trying to stand up instead of lying sprawled on the floor, failing and instead deciding to sit up.

“May I feed on you for a while?” she asked with the biggest puppy dog eyes I’d ever seen, although I couldn’t remember if I’d seen any due to my amnesia.

“What do you mean by that?”

“I want to eat some of your love, it won’t hurt you in anyway but it will help me recover my lost power.”

I stared at the mare and began to think this over, “You are probably in here for a good reason, why should I help you escape.”

“You are in here for something as well, so why don’t we help each other. You feed me and I help you escape, treat others how you want to be treated right? Well then I’ll treat you nice if you treat me nice.”

“This is a good conversation, you are very nice, unlike the one I had with my guards earlier” I noted out loud, “I guess I could help you.”

“Excellent” The mare hissed out like a snake, “Queen Chrysalis is the name” Chrysalis spoke while sticking her hoof out through the bar for a shake.

“Chris is my name” I replied and stuck my own hand out taking hold of her hoof.

The moment the two connected I felt her grab onto me, yanking me into the bars where she then leant close and stared deeply into my eyes. I was wondering what she was doing before a soft blue light gathered from my chest and began to flow from my chest towards the alicorn in a single line, entering her mouth as she literally ate my love like a meal.

“Would you like hay fries with that?” I spoke while unable to pull my eyes off hers.

After a few seconds she took on an amazed expression and let go of me, collapsing back onto the ground and beginning to cough “Are… you okay” I wondered while breathless as to what I had just experienced, it felt strange and wrong but at the same time also filled me with a sense of satisfaction I had never known.

“Yes…” Chrysalis stopped herself before erupting into another coughing fit, “Just so potent compared to the previous love I’d consumed which I had thought was the best” she choked out between coughs.

“Oh yeah I probably should’ve mentioned that I have a shard of the Crystal Heart inside me” I laughed while rubbing the back of my head.

“You idiot” Chrysalis laughed while slapping my leg gently from the other side of the bars, “I have to say though, your love tasted amazing.”

I looked around in slight shock, “Thanks… I guess” I spoke while beginning to stand and took the keys that had since fallen from my hand and lay a metre or so away, unlocking the door for my newfound friend or customer.

Chrysalis rose to her feet and trotted out from the cell “You didn’t need to open the doors since I could’ve blasted my way out” she spoke with resentment, almost as if she really wanted to destroy something.

“Time for that later” I turned towards the hall and set my eyes on the stairs “Now we escape,” I began to walk but felt my legs give out from underneath me, the ground rushing towards me.

I would’ve hit the floor if it wasn’t for Chrysalis who to my gratitude had grabbed me with her magic, lifting me up and onto her back when I lay against her fur, it reminded me of something in my past I couldn’t put my finger on.

“What’s happening to me?” I asked in a slurred voice.

“Just after dinner sleepiness, it should pass in a minute or so” Chrysalis stated in a matter of fact tone.

“Well can we sleep for a bit, I’m actually really tired from breaking ou-“ I didn’t stop as my eyes shut and I began to sleep on top of the Alicorn.

Chrysalis looked from me to the stairwell and let a short sigh out, “Alright then human, we can rest for now” she trotted back into her cell and sat down, keeping me close to her so I wouldn’t become cold. “But after this we are even.”

“Okay then” I groaned from my sleep.

Chrysalis lay there pondering one thought in particular, "Just how did you survive the feeding?"

“So you say that he appeared the moment that Sombra was defeated?” Princess Celestia was now seated on a cushion and had a glass filled with tea in front of her, Cadence sat opposite to her and was seated in a similar manner; the seven other ponies were gathered around the table.

“Yes, he dropped out of nowhere and caused a massive commotion” Cadence replied while drinking from her own cup of tea. To the side of Cadence stood Twilight who was avoiding eye contact as Cadence spoke, since she had watched the boy appear and knew that he hadn’t caused as big a commotion as Cadence said.

“How exactly did he cause a commotion?” Celestia asked, picking up on Twilight’s uneasiness and deciding she would capitalize on it later.

“When he appeared he summoned a weapon and was half naked, not to mention he scared all the ponies who had just been freed from Sombra’s hold” Cadence responded in a friendly tone.

“What about you Twilight?” Celestia turned her attention to her student, “You were the one who told me about this human, how would you describe him in your own opinion?”

Twilight gasped silently and looked between her sister in-law and her mentor, unable to decide which one she should answer to. “Well…” She started before stopping.

“Come ah’n Darlin, Yah know yah can tell us” AppleJack spoke from beside Celestia, she had removed her hat in respect for royalty and held it to her chest.

“Yeah come on Twi” Rainbow Dash added before giving Twilight a small push.

“Well I guess he didn’t do anything other than lay on the ground” She began while looking around the table, “Then he tried to stand but was unable to.” Twilight looked up at her mentor “So he summoned some magic, which was supposed to be impossible for humans.” She noted that her mentor held a look of happiness and enjoyment, “So he summoned an ethereal staff and tried to lift himself but just as he was about to stand… Cadence subdued him” Twilight flinched away from the table, afraid of Cadence and Celestia blowing up at her.

“That is most interesting, very different from Cadence’s story” Celestia noted, “Although Cadence was probably too exhausted to be thinking like a proper princess at the time.”

“Yes that would probably be why I acted the way I did” Cadence spoke in the same friendly tone, deep down though she was fuming about how her own sister in-law would sell her out, especially when she knew that this human was connected to Sombra. “But… he did make a crude joke about you Celestia.”

“Oh really?” Celestia raised a brow, “What joke was this?”

“A really immature one that insults you” Cadence replied.

“Why is Celestia’s flank so red and sore… because she has a sun on her butt” Twilight added with a small laugh.

The table went deathly quiet, that was until Twilight, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash and AppleJack burst out laughing, unable to hold in the laughter that was an immature joke.

Celestia however was holding a stunned expression “Take me to this human.”

Cadence seemed to be more pleased now “Of course, glad you realize just why I disliked this-”

“Take me NOW!” Celestia almost commanded, a small fire burning in her eyes.

“Of course” Cadence replied, more docile now than before as she got up and began to lead Celestia towards the dungeon.

I sat up with a small content groan and stretched my limbs out “What a great sleep” I remarked with a smile, behind me Chrysalis had one eye open and let a loud yawn out.

“Can I have a rest now?” she asked, still half asleep.

“Nope, time to escape together” I laughed while standing and helping her up from the ground.

“Okay then Chris.”

“Time to run” I laughed before jumping out of the cell and beginning to dash towards the stairs, “Race yah.”

I looked behind me and found that Chrysalis hadn’t budged from the cell and instead was staring at something in front of me in pure horror, I had no idea what it was until it hit me or rather I hit it… literally.

I fell to the floor with a thud and shook my head to clear my thoughts “What did I hit?” I wondered out loud and looking up I took notice of the large Alicorn princess standing at the bottom of the stairs.

“This is the human I take it” she spoke in a very familiar voice; I leant around while trying to get a look at her flank to determine if she was who I remembered and then my eyes set on it, the sun that stood on her flank symbolising her as Celestia.

“Hey it’s Burnt Butt” I joked while standing up and staring up at the sun goddess.

Celestia stood there holding a poker face which lasted until I stared at her long enough for the joke to set in and she began laughing out loud, snorting like a pig. “Chris, it’s been way to long” she laughed before lifting me up and close to her so I could wrap my arms around her in either a chokehold or a hug… I chose the hug, mostly due to how I hadn’t seen her in an unknown period of time.

“How long’s it been since I joked about your butt?” I spoke as tears began to flood my eyes, “I missed you the second most.” I cried out into her mane behind her I could hear a chorus of ponies, each voicing their own thoughts of the scene playing out before them.
“A millennia” Celestia choked out as she had begun to cry as well, “How I wish your mother was still here to see you.”

I stopped crying in happiness and began to cry in sadness at the mention of how I would never see my mother again, “NOoooooo Momm…” I began to cry into her coat, soaking the fur and causing it to stick to her.

“It’s okay Chris” Celestia tried to sooth my crying form “She died at an old age, happy and proud of you.”

Everything Celestia said was lost to me as I grieved over the fact I’d never see any of my friends or relatives again, regardless of the fact I was raised by ponies instead of humans. I was about to lose myself to the sadness and allow the voices inside my head to take over, but luckily for my own sanity and everyone’s wellbeing a figure stepped out from the shadows behind me.

“Chris” she called in a voice that caused my tears to stop immediately and leap from Celestia’s grasp to locate the sound of the voice. Landing on the ground I felt the shock of such a solid landing wrack my body but I paid no mind as my mother stepped out of one of the cells. Her ruby coat was gleaming in the candlelight, her mane fiery red and sending fractals around the room.
“Mom?” I called out while starting to walk.

“Yes Sweetie, come and give your mother a hug” she called as I broke into a sprint and leapt into her arms, fresh tears sprouting forth.

Once we had hugged for a good several minutes and my tears had settled down I began to wonder where my Love eating friend had disappeared off to.

“Hey mom did you see Chrysalis anywhere?” I wondered once I had a solid grip on my mother.

“She left just before I came down” My mother replied.

“No Chris that mare is…” Celestia stopped short when she noticed how happy I was to be held in my mother’s forelegs, regardless of whether they were really hers or not. I turned around to look at Celestia “She is your favourite mother.”

“Come on Sweetie I think it’s time we got out of this dark and gloomy dungeon, plus you are rather heavy.”

“Okay then mom and sorry, I guess I grew a lot since the last time we met” I laughed while removing myself from the arms of my mother and dashing towards the stairs. “Come on mom I want to go see the house” I ran past the rest of the ponies and up the stairs, my chest was glowing a brilliant purple colour.

The moment I was gone Celestia stomped towards the illusion of my mother “How’d you get the image of his mother?” she demanded. “Also why are you here!”

Chrysalis shifted back into her normal Alicorn form and just grinned at Celestia, “He fed me his love after I was locked in here by the crystal ponies.”

Everyone gasped in the dungeon “You mean he let you feed from him?” Cadence asked “And he’s still alive.”

Chrysalis just grinned more “Amazing isn’t it, Sombra used changeling’s to kill all the humans off because they couldn’t live through being fed on, yet he easily takes it and only needs to sleep afterwards.” Chrysalis looked to the ceiling with an ecstatic look “Plus he tasted simply exquisite.”

Chrysalis started to walk past Celestia but was stopped by a hoof “You stay in his mother’s form whenever he is around and acclimatize him to Equestria, at least until he comes to terms that you aren’t actually his mother.”

“I guess I could do that”

“NO NOT I GUESS, YOU WILL DO IT” Celestia boomed. “Did you see how he was acting when he realized his mother had died, he was about to lose it and go insane because of the voices.”

“Voices?” Everypony questioned at the same time.

“The crystal shard inside him focuses the thoughts of all the ponies in the crystal empire through his head, most of the time they don’t cause him any strife.” Celestia glanced away from all the ponies in the room “But sometimes if he is experiencing a giant influx of negative emotions it can destroy his sanity.”

“You say this like you’ve seen it before?” Cadence questioned.

“I have.”

“When?” Chrysalis interrupted, having now turned back into Chris’s mother, “Also what’s this mare’s name?”

“Her name was Clara… Just Clara” Celestia swallowed hard before looking behind herself at the ponies.

“So when did this last happen?”

Celestia took a deep breath and gave everypony one last look before speaking.

“When his human family left him on the side of the road to die because of his crystal heart.”