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// Declaration of Peace?! 
// Story: The Moon Worshiper Part 3: Twisted 
// by CreatureofTheNight 
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As Chrysalis walked into the room, the uncomfortable silence filled the entire area. She smirked as she saw Cadence's eyes glaring right at her. "Still bitter?" she asked.  Cadence's glare doubled in size as Shining Armor matched her glare in spades.  Chrysalis smirked at that, getting amused as she walked around the room.  

Twilight, having the hate filled stare that was shared around the room towards Chrysalis, said the obvious question that was filling every pony's mind at that very moment. "What are you doing here, Chrysalis?"

"Ah, Twilight Sparkle." Chrysalis sneered.  "How are you liking the new title by the way? I wasn't invited to your, coronation; it seems my invitation was lost in the mail."

"You weren't wanted," Celestia replied with venomously. Her horn was already glowing. "If you try anything against my little ponies again, I'll teleport you strait to the surface of the sun and watch you burn!"

"My, my, so the Sun Goddess has a dark side,"  Chrysalis laughed, still having the same confident smirk she had as she walked into the room. "You can relax your little spells Celestia, I am a bit under fed at the moment. Not as much love around the other countries of the world as Equestria, and I'm afraid after the feast I had last time." She looked at Cadence and Shining Armor. "Any other love I take to survive comes off as mere garbage."

"That's funny, I've never heard of garbage eating garbage before," Shining taunted.

Chrysalis looked back at Shining Armor and just simply stared at him, causing the proud Captain of all the Guards to squirm uncomfortably in his seat. Cadence glared back and Chrysalis.  "What do you want, Chrysalis?" she demanded from her. "If you attempt anything you won't survive long."

Chrysalis rolled her slitted eyes.  "I wouldn't even dream of it." She looked at them, meeting each ponies eyes for a second or two.  "You see, after my recent defeat I know now that none can even compare to the mighty ponies of Equestria," she said sarcastically. "No, except for my changelings and dumb luck." Cadence glared harshly at her. "We lost because of dumb luck. My changelings and I had you!"

"You lost because you underestimated us,"  Twilight said pompously.

Chrysalis groaned.  "My point is,  as I said before,  I've been forced to feed my people by any means necessary, having to go to lower kingdoms around the land, just to survive.  My people need love to live, and while my pride wouldn't allow it, the method of how we are obtaining it, isn't working.  So I propose, an alliance."

"Give me one good reason why I should?" Celestia asked, glaring her down. "And it better be a very good reason!"

"You do remember that I beat you, right?" Chrysalis reminded Celestia, annoyed at the white alicorn's commanding. "You'd be a fool to turn down this offer. There will always be bigger and badder threats to Equestria, The Queen of Dreams is just the most recent example, but think about how easy it would be to have someone on stand by just to make sure if things go south, Equestria, or my Kingdom, will not die." She met Celestia's eyes. "I like you just about as much as you like me, but if we don't do this, neither of kingdoms may survive the next onslaught."

"You have a point, though I am curious how you would know about the Queen of Dreams, Chrysalis," Celestia wondered out loud.  "How long have been exactly planning this little 'alliance'?"

Luna looked at Chrysalis. "I too, am curious about that. "

"Well, if you want me to be totally honest, it started as a revenge plan," she explained truthfully.  "I had one of my changelings come in and disguise himself as one of your guards to try and attack the night shift when it's vulnerable." Luna narrowed her eyes at that. "In fact, um, Fang, you can stop with the disguise now." All eyes focused on Wind and Dark, Dark looked around nervously but then his eyes looked at Wind who started glowing. He slowly turned into a changeling like Chrysalis.

Fang, now revealed, said, "Of course my lady!" and walked to Chrysalis.  "No hard feelings, if it makes you feel any better, I do somewhat like you," he apologized to Dark.

Dark glowered.  "None taken," he replied with gritted teeth, clearly trying to look tough. Fang sighed as Chrysalis moved on to her next point.

"Now, would I do something like that if I was just lying to your faces?" Chrysalis pleaded. "I'm serious about this plan, and to prove it I will sit here, with Fang and take a blast from you all if you think I am lying."  Fang and Chrysalis did exactly that.

Celestia's horn glowed and then she paused hearing something that stunned her silent.  "Wait." That word was spoken by Twilight of all ponies. "Princess Celestia, maybe we should hear her out."

"Have your lost your mind!?" Rainbow Dash exclaimed.  "Let's see, she kidnapped your sister in law, nearly killed Celestia, nearly killed all of us, and almost destroyed Equestria. Why aren't we blasting her to Kingdom come and back again!?"

Applejack nodded.  "Yeah, Twi, ya don't honestly believe her lies, right?"

"I don't," Twilight responded, which caused her friends to sigh with relief. "But lie or not we should take this risk." That caused the look of confusion to fill the room. "Princess Celestia, the damage that the Queen of Dreams did, it was unbelievable. Then there was Tirek and you felt his wrath too..." she sighed. "We can't keep just relying on our own power to protect Equestria forever; Chrysalis sadly has a point at that.  Make no mistake, I hate her guts the more and more I see her, but we sadly might need her someday." She looked at Princess Celestia.  "You told me that I became a Princess for a reason, Princess Celestia. Please, trust that I'm doing the right thing."

Luna was about to say something in protest, but Celestia interrupted with a sigh. "No, Twilight is right. While none of us are crazy about Chrysalis, our country has been in peril more times than I care to count in just the past few years alone." She finally acknowledged Chrysalis.  "Very well, we will...take you up on your offer."

Chrysalis stood up.  "Well, you aren't as much of a fool as I thought, I look forward to a..." She paused as Celestia interrupted her.

"Under one condition.  You let each of the Princesses in this room send one ambassador to your Kingdom to see if you would hold true for an alliance." Chrysalis paused at that. "For one month, they will live there in your Kingdom, and test to see if your true to your word. Any sign that you are filling falsehood, they will report to me. Then I can tell you exactly where you can shove your offer."

Chrysalis sighed after a moment of silence. "Fine, who do you want to send as an ambassador?"

Celestia eyed General and said "General, he's the captain of my guard and will not lie to you. Can you handle it?"

"Yes, ma'am!"  General responded.

Celestia smiled.  "That settles that."

"I would go myself, but I have duties in the Crystal Empire," Shining murmured.  He looked at Cadence. "As does she." He then eyed Starnight. "All though, if guards are an option..."

"Wait me?" Starnight exclaimed. Shining Armor nodded. "Umm...thanks I guess," Starnight replied, less than thrilled

"You'll be fine!" Cadence encouraged.

Every single one of Twilight's friends all eyed Fluttershy, who backed up timidly. Fluttershy faking ignorance, asked, "Wh...what?"

"You're joking, right?" Rainbow blurted out.

Rarity said "You turned Discord good, Discord! There is literally no pony else I can think that is less than perfect for the job"

"That and your super duper tough!" Pinkie Pie said excitedly. "I mean you once gave an angry bear a chiropractic massage!"  

"Because I can handle bears and Discord," Fluttershy said nervously. "She, on the other hand, scares me." Chrysalis smirked, taking that as a compliment. "A lot"

"I'm with every pony else Fluttershy." Twilight replied.  "There really is no one else I can think to have do this. We all believe you can."

Fluttershy timidly nodded, and said quietly to herself, "Okay..."

Finally it was Luna's turn, and the blue alicorn was silent for a moment or two. She then finally said "I nominate my LT of my guards, Dark Sidewinder,

for this task."

Dark paused as he said out loud, "Wait what?!"

Chrysalis didn't even give Dark a chance to talk to Luna about it.   "Now that that's settled, I'll have Fang stick around and pick you all up at the end of the week. I need to go home and prepare their beds." she said, aggravated she had to do these terms, which caused Celestia to smirk a little. "See you four at the end of the week." Her wings buzzed like mad and she took off.