//------------------------------// // Ruling the Monarch Kingdom // Story: Before Corruption // by theflaminggay //------------------------------// Chrysalis’s Origins: Part Two Anyway to recap the last part so you aren’t lost or if you kind of zoned out during certain parts of the story. So basically long ago a Queen Alicorn met this Unicorn and they had a child, who they named Chrysalis. In fear of chaos bringers she sent her child over to a good friend of hers, who was Luna and her sister Celestia. During this time, Chrysalis met Sombra and they practiced dark magic. Her mother, named Poison Heart, died of a heart disease and sad moment takes the feels out of you or not. Also Sombra killed Star Swirl and created a filly Alicorn and the Alicorn amulet. Fights ensue and Chrysalis is sent back to her father where he looks terrible after being grimaced from the death of his wife. Cringe worthy jokes happens. A crystal orchid necklace is found in a box transforming the father into a badass just as a guard gets killed by magic. Dark comedy happens. Father dies, then Chrysalis fights the chaos bringer and beats him. She then gets teleported to magic room like Twilight does and becomes an Alicorn. End of Part One. Now we shall start Part Two, also you basically don’t have to read the first one now lol. (unless you want to see fourth wall jokes). With the death of the Draconequus and her father; she was now all alone with a whole kingdom to protect. She knew all sorts of spells to protect the kingdom learned from Equestria’s book of magic, but first she had to have her kingdom rebuilt from the destruction. She proclaimed to her subjects to start reconstruction immediately, so they could have their homes again. While they reconstructed the city back from disrepair, Chrysalis was curious about any secrets held within the castle her father left for her. She entered the the main hall, noticing that the ceiling was still not fixed, and that the main dining tables were thrown about. She trotted over to the thrones of her mother and father in the back of the room. She reminisced over the death of her parents, but didn’t let it take her over like her father before her. So she morphed the two together and sprouted two large emerald crystal like structures to protrude the back of the new throne. She let out a tear, knowing she was destroying the only thing to remember her parents by. She trotted over to the master bedrooms to see what could be found. She went into her mother’s “main” bedroom and had noticed that it was left as it was when she had died. She felt tears swell up in her eyes as she remembered about the times she spent with her mom. Yes they were short, but just enough to affect a young mare and her future. In remembrance of her mother she searched for pictures of her in her prime and when she was around with her. She placed candles around these pictures and set them onto a book stand, which once held the books her mother had loved. The tears had started to flow down her face as she threw her mother’s bed out the window, in anger that she couldn’t do anything for her mother but be there for her. She then used a magic spell which changed glass windows into stain glass windows. So she changed her mother’s bedroom window into a stain glass window piece representing her mother. She then created a stone version of her and placed it under the stain glass window. She surrounded the statue with all the things her mother liked when she was still alive. She then trotted outside of the room and sealed it with a spell only she could break. She trotted over to her father’s “main” bedroom and saw all the progress they had done just the night before. She could not resist the tears, which were flowing down her face as she changed his room into a memorial of him just like she did with her mother. She trotted out of his room and began her sealing spell, but in the corner of her eye she noticed something shiny coming from where her father’s bed used to be. Chrysalis trotted over to see a large steel door which could only be opened by someone in the family. She opened the hidden door open to see a large staircase leading somewhere down towards the basement. She decided to follow these stairs and down she went deep into the castle in search of something that would have to be sealed away like this. As she went further she noticed paintings across the walls, which she could not see without light. She then saw the torches along the wall and bursted them to life. She used her magical grasp to lift one of the torches over to her and looked at the painting, which was of her mother, father, and herself. She trotted further down to see that most of the paintings were just a family portrait. Except for a few which showed herself as the Alicorn she is now, but how could they know that before she was even a young mare. She trotted all the way down to the bottom of the stairwell and saw a room just filled with books. She read the titles noticing that they were all books about the dark arts and it’s power. Chrysalis thought to herself, Why did my parents have these books? What would they need them for? one of them had the title of How to predict the future. Is that how they knew, no this had to be somepony else’s doings. That door looked as if no one had opened it in years. She looked throughout the small room, but to no avail; she could not see any other way to get into here other than the way she came. In frustration she threw the books all over the place noticing that one book still accompanied the bookshelf. She saw that it had no title so she tried to levitate it over to her, but instead it moved the bookcase over to the side and revealed a long walkway. Of which she did not know where it lead only that she had to follow the torches already lit by frequent use. Curious of what she would find down the long tunnel, she began to trot on down. As the tunnel kept going on and on and on she began to gallop this was to no avail. She eventually heard laughing as she breathed harder and harder. As she galloped through the tunnel the laughter just grew louder, she knew no way to rid of this horrid laughter. Not knowing how or why it even started, she just continued to gallop, this was not fast enough to outrun the laughter though. As her hooves grew weak, she felt as if the tunnel was closing around her. She looked back to see that the tunnel was actually condensing, so she sprang up and started to flap her wings to xget out of there as soon as possible. As she flew down the tunnel; she took out the torches as the darkness slowly engulfed her. She felt as if now that the shadows around her were dragging her down into the depths of Tartarus. She eventually saw a light at the end of tunnel and pushed on through the darkness pulling down on her wings, the laughter bursting her eardrums, and trying to outrun the tunnel closing around her. Her whole body felt as if it was about to give up and implode on itself as her lungs try to take oxygen in. Chrysalis then finally gets to the end of the tunnel crashing into the wall and taking out all of the torches. When she gets up she uses her magic to light the darkness surrounding her, she then sees a large stone door. On the door is a blue crystal heart decal sealed by King Rubinus long ago to keep his daughter safe from the evils of Equestria. Chrysalis decides to try and open the door, to her surprise she successfully opens the door revealing an expansive room filled with darkness. She lights the torches inside to show off the walls lined with books and scrolls. Chrysalis trots over to a peculiar shape in the dim light, as she gets closer to the object she sees that it’s a large unbreakable crystal containing two ponies. A mare holding her young pegasus, who had a pink, purple, blonde mane snuggling close to her presumed mother. Chrysalis then notices a wooden table with a scroll tied with a bow and a tag that says To: Chrysalis. She walked over to the and levitated it towards her face it read, Dear Chrysalis, I’m guessing you’re all grown up now, and well it’s finally time to tell you the truth. Before I met your father I uhm well I had a colt with the now/then ruler of the Crystal Empire. King Rubinus had sealed him away inside of an unbreakable crystal in spite of me. I didn’t want to tell you about this until I had died knowing how angry you would be with me. During your time with Luna I learned that my son/your brother was going to be the apprentice of Star Swirl the bearded. If you have not guessed by now who this stallion is, then I will tell you. Your brother is Sombra, hopefully when you read this you on good terms with him. Love, Mother. “What Sombra is my brother… how could that be? I… I don’t understand…” Chrysalis confusingly said, as she saw out of the corner of her eye a stairwell leading up. Chrysalis walked over to the large corridor with a stairwell going up to a stone ceiling. She teleported up to the top and tried to open the large stone ceiling which she felt could be opened. But to no avail she could not open the stone ceiling not even with her magic. With no way to continue further she decided to go back the way she came, just when light shone through the stone ceiling. Chrysalis looked up to see Sombra, and not wanting to face him after the realization just discovered she ran out back towards the tunnel. Sombra heard her and immediately teleported to the bottom of the stairwell.He then galloped around the corner to see Chrysalis and grew a large Arant crystal in her path. She turned around to see Sombra staring with no life in his eyes towards her. “Where do you think you’re going?” Sombra hysterically said to her as laughter tried to escape his snout. Sombra fired a strong magical attack towards Chrysalis; she retaliated with the, an emerald aura to her, same power level firing back towards him. There beams crossed and blasted against each other until Chrysalis blasted it towards the tunnel wall. It then began to crumble down as it collapsed, she knew this as her opportunity to fly away. She heard a large explosion come from behind her as Sombra chased her down the long tunnel. Chrysalis then pivoted back around and sent a magical attack towards Sombra surprising him and crashing him down into the left tunnel wall. She then bursted herself away as she felt the tunnel starting to collapse around her from their battle. She saw the door in which the dark magic was held and flew through it and then made an emerald cocoon around it to try and stop Sombra from pursuing her. She then flew to the top of the stairwell back into her father’s room. She sealed the steel door with her magic and then levitated her father’s memorial out of the room into the hall as Sombra blasted at the steel door. She then saw his crazed eye peek out of the bottom of the steel door, so she flew into the hall and encased that part of the castle into her emerald cocoon spell. Chrysalis then blasted the cocoon back to the Crystal Empire just as it was starting to crack from Sombra’s magic. She flew to the outside of her castle to seal up the giant hole which was once her father’s bedroom. She saw a large emerald crystal explosion come from far in the distance and heard hysterical laughter also coming from the same direction. With the fear of the tunnel collapsing and Sombra chasing her she did not notice that she grabbed the dark magic books from the room at the bottom of the stairwell until she went back into the hallway. She remembered about her father’s memorial and set the stuff into her mother’s room. She then went into the main hall and sat at her throne with the books at her side. She went through them and looked through them seeing that they were all defense and offense books to use in times of mortal danger. With these new training tactics at her disposal she decided to have her subjects know how to protect themselves. She went out into time square and notified her guards to gather everypony, so she could tell them about her new discovery. “Now that everypony is here, I need to tell you all about these books I found deep in the caves of our kingdom. For many moons our kingdom has been one of pacifism, but now we must learn how to protect ourselves. Since I fear that we will be attacked by an impending force coming from the north. With these books I think we can finally learn the basics, and soon the advanced arts of fighting. Now I need one pony from each race, the fastest Pegasus, the most powerful Unicorn, and the strongest Earth Pony. Three ponies from their respective race rose up to the challenge and trotted out of the crowd. “So you are the fastest Pegasus, the most powerful Unicorn, and the strongest Earth Pony?” “Yes M'lady we are those.” They all said in unison. “I’m Blaze Burn, one of the fastest Pegasi in our kingdom.” The fiery burgundy red coated, flame blue maned, pegasus said. “And I Rosen Bear, the most powerful Unicorn in our kingdom.” The dark as the night coated, midnight blue with royal purple maned, unicorn said. “Finally I Airola, the strongest Earth Pony in our kingdom.” The sun-bright yellow coated, lime green maned, earth pony said. “I want you three to come inside we need to discuss our strategy.” The three ponies trotted over to the main hall following Chrysalis to her throne. “Okay I need to create a formidable army to protect this kingdom, knowing that I won’t be enough to defend this place. With these books I think we can create what I’m seeking. This book will help you and whoever you think is powerful enough to wield the destructive power of the dark arts.” Chrysalis tosses one book over to Rosen Bear. “The Arts of Defending Oneself with the Help of Demon Possession, questionable title for what looks like to be volume what one of a ten. I wonder what the other nine are about.” Chrysalis shuffles through the pile of books and find the next nine books in the series. “Ooh look here I actually found the next nine, hmm… The Arts of Resurrecting the Dead… Crushing One’s Spirit… Forcing Somepony to… Yea okay these are f*%ked up, but they just might be useful.” Chrysalis tosses the nine books over to Rosen Bear, “Ooh wait there is a disclaimer on the back of this one it reads, Disclaimer: may cause corruption of the heart, soul, and mind. With purchase of this series you are not allowed to sue us if any of your family or yourself: kills others, kills self, resurrects the dead, summons demon, becomes crazy, thinks that they’re humans, or destroys Earth. Hmm that seems very specific… Anyway I think we should be fine.” tosses book towards Rosen Bear, but the second it touches her face a mini explosion happens. Chrysalis cringes at the now burned mane of Rosen Bear. “I don’t think your mom was always a pacifist I mean look at the author.” Chrysalis looked at her with question, “I’m not lying here look for yourself.” Rosen Bear tosses them over to Chrysalis. “Oh my you.. I mean what are you talking about this isn’t my mom.” Chrysalis blacks out her mother’s name and writes a new one then tosses it back to Rosen Bear. “I think you looked at it wrong.” Rosen Bear looks down at the new author name. “Who is this Flaming Gay? Never heard of him.” “I don’t know who the hell he is I just made it up for all I know he might not even exist.” Chrysalis just shrugs at Rosen Bear clearly not knowing who she wrote on the book. “Uhm anyway I think these books will be helpful to you Blaze Burn.” Before she tosses them to Blaze Burn she checks the author’s name in case it was her mom’s again. Nope just somepony called B. T. Cynical, who are these ponies anyway. “Thank you Queen Chrysalis.” Chrysalis rolls her eyes at Blaze Burn, “This will be helpful to train the pegasi of our land how to fight with the use of the weather.” “Blaze you don’t have to be so formal you can be casual with you Queen, firstly just call me Chrysalis.” Blaze slightly blushes, but immediately stands back in attention. “Sorry Que.. I mean Chrysalis and I will try to calm down.” Again Chrysalis just rolls her eyes at him. “And finally Airola I want you to train all of the guard ponies, and the strongest mares and stallions of the kingdom to wield weapons and wear armour.” She tosses over the books of weapon wielding, “These should help you in your endeavor.” Airola looks at one of the titles of the books, “Sisterly Love clopfic by: Chrysalis, uhm… what’s a clopfic? and why did you write one?” Chrysalis immediately levitates the book out of Airola’s hooves and throws it behind her throne. “Oh… uh… nothing… it’s nothing I swear…” Chrysalis breaths in a large breath and then releases it, “Anyway I want you three to train these ponies as soon as possible, I fear that my brother will soon attack us.” “Ooh so that’s who it’s about.” Chrysalis just glares at Airola filling with hatred for her. “Uhm anyway before I was rudely interrupted by somepony *cough Airola cough*, I want you to use the lessons inside these books to keep our kingdom safe.” “What will we do if the dark magic consumes the unicorn using it.” Rosen Bear said with concern for her friends easily susceptible to evil ways. “We will deal with that when the problem arises. For now we must do what we must to protect ourselves from outside threats. Blaze Burn I need you to send a letter to Celestia so that we can have a sustainable source of income. Now go off and do your part for our kingdom.” “Yes, Queen Chrysalis.” they all said in unison then trotted out to do their duties. So now we’re going to follow the actions of Blaze Burn, Rosen Bear, and Airola as they tell the news to their respective races and exactly what is needed of them. Blaze Burn walked over with Rosen Bear and Airola to their crowds of ponies to explain what their plan of action is for an impending attack. “Pegasi we have received our news from Queen Chrysalis who has told us to learn about what’s inside of these books. So I need every pegasus with high endurance and stamina to meet me at my house. Suddenly the majority of the pegasi flew up above with Blaze Burn to his house sitting right next to the watch out tower on the castle. “Okay we will start the weather controlling class today. We will learn how to manipulate the weather so that it can be used against our enemies” With the tests that strifed out the weak pegasi that could not handle killing another pony. And the ones that could not keep up during the exercise a strong aerial army was beginning to be formed. They learned how to control the scariest of the weather like natural disaster such as: tornados, hurricanes, (darude) sandstorms, and lighting. these newfound powers gave the pegasi a sense of safety and nobility over the other pony races. Chrysalis saw that this sense of power was getting to their heads, so she had to put them in their place knocking down Blaze Burn into the Commander instead of the General. Blaze Burn had a sense of honor so he accepted his demotion even though he did not like the thought of it. Their sense of nobility soon died down when each race was treated equally, and when snootiness was coming from one race they got less food for that month. Their government worked as a slight monarchy and socialist party but without the negative repercussions. With the force of the aerial armed forces ponies knew not to mess with this new up and coming force, but with the past they had with the Monarch Kingdom they didn’t mess with them anyway. Trade prospered throughout their land as the pegasi delivered the flower crystals that surrounded the kingdom in trade for food, money, and clothing. With the Crystal Empire still under oppression from their King Sombra, the Monarch Kingdom was the only source of crystal jewelry which was valuable in Canterlot. As the power of the pegasi only grew, soon enough some became curious of what this impending danger Blaze Burn was talking about. They ventured out of their kingdom in search of “dangers” that they were being trained for. In their search they flew all across Equestria, which only included of: Canterlot, Monarch Kingdom, Cloudsdale, Yakistan, Griffonstone, and The Crystal Empire. They knew that Canterlot and Cloudsdale were harmless, since they were the two lands that they traded with. So these pegasi flew to Griffonstone in search of a danger that would be building inside of their walls. They were only greeted with Griffons of many kinds just inviting them in to spend their bits. They soon left with only replicas of the idol of Boreas and a loss of bits. They traveled to Canterlot to sell of their idols for some bits to continue their search. They then head towards Yakistan, where they met loud perfectionist Yaks who were proud of tradition and their homeland. With only one place left to visit on their map of Equestria being the Crystal Empire, they knew exactly where to go next. They headed towards the Crystal Empire in search of the danger spoken to them by their commander. They flew over to the Empire and saw that it was surrounded by large blizzards which would freeze their wings making them unable to fly. They wrapped themselves in the yak fur attire bought at Yakistan to keep them warm and ventured into the blizzard. They eventually saw a huge dark purple crystal welcoming gate leading towards the town made of crystal homes engulfed in a dark purple crystal hue. They saw crystal ponies with their manes flattened and their hooves chained to each other as they harvested giant black crystal like structures. One of the pegasi named Night Dancer, a midnight blue coated, black and blue maned, pegasus, went up to the crystal pony. She had asked him, “What is happening here.” The crystal looked away from the large black crystal and looked over to the three pegasi, his eyes suddenly widened. “You have to get out of here now or you will be doing exactly what I’m doing. You should if never came here.” The crystal pony shudders and then cowers in fear when he sees a bat pony fly above them. The bat pony looks down to see the new comers and immediately rushes towards the castle. “You better chase that pony or get the hell out of here.” Night Dancer and the other two ponies fly up into the sky and chase after the blue bat pony. The bat pony pulls out a dagger and pivots around stabbing one of the pegasi, “Lotus Snow nooo.” Night Dancer turned towards the bat pony and fires a lightning bolt towards the pony electrocuting him to death. Night Dancer looks over to Paisley Hazel signaling her for them to leave. But when she turns to her a bubbly black purple magic hits her blasting her towards the ground. “Oh what a shame that your “friends” are dead now. Hi, I’m Sombra the one who’s going to kill you now.” Night Dancer looked over to Sombra which pure fear in her eyes, as Sombra maniacally laughed at her. Night Dancer then swiftly managed to dodge some of Sombra’s attacks and retaliated with lightning, but Sombra knew how exactly to deal with this and made his beam larger and vaporized Night Dancer. Well, that is what happens to the pegasi when they get too curious. So let’s learn about the Earth ponies and how they react to Chrysalis’s demands. Airola Murkimus (yes that’s her full name) walked over with Rosen Bear and Blaze Burn to their crowds of ponies to explain what their plan of action is for an impending attack. “Earth ponies, Queen Chrysalis has appointed me in training all of us earth ponies to learn how to be skilled with weapon use. I want you guys to meet me at the armory everyday at 4pm to train and master your choice of weapon. Now follow me as we will train for our first day.” Airola and half of the earth ponies followed her towards the armory to begin their training. “Okay so today will just be the basics on how to wield, use, and practice with your weapon. As earth ponies we really only have the choice of using swords and spears with our limited use of our hooves. Now everypony choose their sword or spear of choice and will get started with our class.” Throughout the weeks of training the earth ponies went through they learned how to use the enemy's weight against themselves. Their understanding of many fighting styles put them leagues above the other ponies as they learned only things that complimented their race. The earth ponies learned how wield their weapons with ease without the use of magic of uplifting forces of wind. They soon mastered the arts of the sword and spear within a year. All stances and techniques were learned by the earth ponies as they became the hoof soldiers, the frontliners, the backbone of the army. With their higher understanding of weapons and armour most had a secondary hobby of being a metalsmith which created extra income for the earth ponies. The earth ponies who could not fight or were not cut out of being in the army were put to work as farmers creating food for their families and to sell. This was good pay and an easy way to keep everyone happy as food was distributed equally throughout their kingdom. Most earth ponies never really cared about educating themselves about this impending danger that Queen Chrysalis always talked about, since they were always taken care of. The few conspirators believed that Chrysalis was lying about this so called “danger” since no one messed with the Monarch Kingdom in the past and haven’t messed with them now. These conspirators wanted answers so they searched throughout the whole kingdom, reading every book available to them. This helped them with nothing, and not being able to access the books that the unicorns had acquired, since it needed magic to be opened, they didn’t have much to base the danger off. They took guard positions so that they could get an inside look on what is happening inside the castle. This of course only really lead to the complaints of the ponies around the kingdom and whatever gossip Chrysalis heard from Luna or Celestia. No substantial information was ever talked about in front of Chrysalis’s royal guards, so the conspirators were left with nothing. The only way to find out the truth would require them to explore the lands surrounding them, which was a troublesome task at first. Until they found replacements for them during their daily training, so they packed and left on an adventure in search of the so called “danger”. They brought food, warm clothing, and their weapons and armour also tons of bits to buy things on their travels. They traveled all across Equestria seeing every uncharted bit of it from ocean to ocean. They knew of really only three kingdoms, the one they lived in and the two they traded with. Knowing that it couldn’t be the ones they traded with, which meant that there was another that Chrysalis was talking about. They went to the northeast in search of another land that Chrysalis would be referring to, the only thing found was the kingdom called Griffonstone. Even with the persuasive vendors around Griffonstone, they managed to escape with no bits used and useful information about a kingdom, no an Empire just southwest from Griffonstone. With their new info they headed straight for this empire knowing that this had to be the place that Chrysalis was talking about. As they grew closer to the kingdom, blizzards started to form around them so they wrapped themselves within wool clothing keeping them warm. Until they saw a purplish black hue glow from a large crystal castle surrounded by homes of the same color. The earth ponies trotted over to these crystal homes and saw ponies the same hue as their kingdom. They were all earth ponies with chains around their necks and hooves. Lightning Walnut walked over to the crystal pony and said, “What has happened here? Why are you chained up to each other?” The crystal pony looked over to Lightning Walnut and said with pure fear in her eyes, “We are slaves, and soon he will make you his slave or death will come to you.” “What do you even mean b--” Suddenly lightning bolts hit the ground destroying a large black crystal. Lightning Walnut looks up to see Night dancer firing lightning bolts towards an Alicorn with a magical aura of a bubbly purple black. He then hears a ear shattering scream as Night Dancer is vaporized into nothingness. We see the Alicorn turn towards us, he then stares into Lightning Walnut’s soul with his glaring eyes. The Alicorn lands in front of the three earth ponies just as they are in full armour with swords and shields wielded. The Alicorn maniacally laughs, “Do you really believe that a flimsy piece of metal is going to stop me? Ooh aren’t you too cute.” He then fires a magical attack towards the pony on Lightning Walnut’s left side, but that pony deflects the attack with their magic resistance shields.Anger begins to fill in the Alicorn as purple smoke begins to flow out of his eyes. The Alicron then creates a large black crystal within the shield breaking it within itself, it then shatters to a thousand pieces all over the ground. The pony to Lightning Walnut’s right and Lightning Walnut shift out of their stance and charge the Alicorn just as he vaporizes the other pony. Lightning Walnut’s sword clashes with the Alicorn’s horn while the other pony’s spears hits the Alicorn’s armor and immediately shatters. The Alicorn then force pushes them away and then bum rushes the other pony stabbing her with his horn and then blasting her face with his magic. He then turns to Lightning Walnut with a crazed look in his eyes as his face twitches a large crooked smile grows upon his face. Fear fills within Lightning Walnut as the Alicron rushes toward him having his shield block the full magical attack nearly shattering it. The Alicron then madly slashes at his shield, which then shatters into a thousand pieces and cuts off Lightning Walnut’s arm piece off. He then defects the Alicorn’s horn with his sword as each of them clash with each other. Lightning Walnut gets pushed back by the Alicorn’s horn. “Now before I kill you, I want you to know the name of your killer. I’m Sombra are you ready to die.” Sombra then begins to charge a large magical attack and then rushes for Lightning Walnut. Lightning Walnut readys himself with his death, Sombra’s horn clashes with Lightning Walnut’s sword and it starts to weaken from the constant magic coming from Sombra’s horn. He feels the sword weaken and decided to trip up Sombra knocking him down to the ground. With this the attack gets blasted towards a crystal house destroying it. He then forces the sword into Sombra, but nearly misses and hits is diamond hard armor which shatters the sword into a thousand pieces, “Hahah now you’re dead.” Sombra quickly pivots back onto his hooves and bucks Lightning Walnut into a crystal house. He then flies over to Lightning Walnut and punches him square in the face, then pins him down with his back hooves while he wraps his front hooves around Lightning Walnut’s neck. Sombra then pushes his back hooves from his body and tears off Lightning Walnut’s head from his body as his spinal cord is snapped up from his throat down. Blood drips down from his severed head, Sombra then creates a Arant crystal pike and sticks his head onto it. He throws the body into the starving crystal ponies arms as they start to eat his decomposing body. He then places his piked head right where the crystal heart used to be, which is now hidden deep inside the castle. The crystal ponies that had eaten Lightning Walnut cheered towards his severed head as they were just fed by Sombra finally. Uhm… anyway hopefully the story of the unicorns finding Sombra won’t be so gruesome. Well the pegasi were vaporized, while the earth ponies were brutally murdered then what is next. Rosen Bear walked over with Airola and Blaze Burn to their crowds of ponies to explain what their plan of action is for an impending attack. “My fellow unicorns I have been told from Queen Chrysalis that we must learn new spells to defend ourselves from an impending danger building on our horizons. She has appointed us unicorns to master the arts of magic and dark magic to use against our enemies. Now the unicorns who think they're ready follow me to my home where we shall meet from now on.” All of the unicorns followed Rosen Bear to her cottage near the crystal flower gardens. “We will start with the basics today, so who doesn’t know how to levitate objects/ponies?” About half of the unicorns raise their hoof, “Well today’s going to be a long day.” The unicorns practiced their magic nearly every day and night trying to better themselves, to become a powerful unicorn able to protect their Queen. Some unicorns were not able to learn how to levitate ponies so they were sent to be with the earth ponies that tended the lands and generated food for everypony. After the unicorns mastered levitating objects/ponies they moved onto minor teleportation, being able to teleport when an attack is coming your way. As there training continued, more and more unicorns dropped out or were kicked out since they were not able to complete the task needed of them. After teleportation was mastered they went to the next step conjuring an attack to injure leading to killing your enemy. At this point, only 30% of the unicorns they originally started with were still learning these new ways to defend and the retaliate with your own damaging spell. When the use of dark magic was applied to enhance their magical prowess, problems soon arose and help of the Queen was necessary. Queen Chrysalis then set a spell onto the books so that only unicorns could open these dark magic books so that the pegasi and the earth ponies could not see the secrets held within. Even with tight restriction though the unicorns who dropped out still managed to create copies of the dark arts books. This led to unicorns coats slowly changing into a darker shade of their original coat. Each time dark magic was used their body, mind, and soul grew darker. Especially the mind as the dark magic corrupted the user’s mindset twisted them into darker beings who cared none for other’s lives. The spells deep inside the dark arts books showed ways to drain somepony’s life force, but only if they had a deep love for the user. The unicorns who were actually being trained to use these spells only used the moderate level form of the spell which had to be conjured up through the horn. Most citizen unicorns used the basic form of the spell which was conjured up through the horn but it only provided life force. As for the dropouts who seeked revenge for being kicked out started with the moderate form, eventually mastering this form and moving to the advanced. They would show that they were capable of protecting their Queen, even if that meant sacrificing somepony else. The advanced form of the spell didn’t need to be conjured up it just naturally drained the magical and life force of another pony. It still did have limitations like that the other pony must have some kind of connection with the user. These users slowly went mad and grew corrupt from the constant use of this spell, which killed the ponies that loved them without them even knowing. Mysteriously ponies started to end up missing or dead in an ally, when investigations were taken they found out that there was no plausible way for them to be dead. They questioned ponies close to the dead ponies and soon learned of the crazed corrupted unicorns draining all of the power out of ponies who felt anything towards them. Chrysalis needed a solution to deal with these murders of her ponies, so she decided to keep the corrupt unicorn inside of her emerald cocoons to drain the magical force held within them. This cleared them of the mental insaneness, but started to corrupt Chrysalis since she was the pony that all this power went to. But even with this imprisonment, Chrysalis still could not keep the murders in check. When the task of draining the magical force of somepony that was crazed became to straining they were exiled out of the Monarch kingdom to live on their own. Of course some of these unicorns still remained hidden as their dark magic knowledge only grew with time. When the majority of their training was completed, the unicorns were now challenged with free time to ponder and be curious about the lands around them. They wanted to know of what dangers were told to them, since no other kingdom wanted to destroy or rule their little kingdom. They searched throughout their magical books in search of questions left unanswered, but to no avail they were left empty hoofed. They studied every book in the library, this still being useless since only Chrysalis knew about this impending danger on our horizons. They then elected themselves to be personal guards of Chrysalis, but this was still not helpful. Because the guards were never around when important knowledge was spoken between Chrysalis and the other Alicorn princesses. They even asked the other races of ponies inside their kingdom, but this was useless since they knew just as much as the unicorns. With no knowledge around the kingdom, they eventually ventured off their land to the other lands surrounding them. Even though they traded goods with Canterlot, they still questioned if they would be a threat. They learned that this land was of no threat after a week of investigation, so they tried Griffonstone which was just a bunch of Griffons wanting bits. These three unicorns learned about a kingdom northwest of Griffonstone so they ventured off in that direction. As they got closer to this kingdom the griffons told them about blizzards started to engulf them. To keep themselves warm they decided to just quickly teleport to get closer to the kingdom. When they got to the kingdom they saw that these earth ponies were cowering in fear as some of their homes collapsed. One of the unicorns named Moonlight Almond walked over to the fearful pony and had asked, “What’s happening here, why are you so afraid.” The crystal pony stood their speechless and just pointed upwards to a dark Alicorn vaporizing a pegasus pony. She then saw the Alicorn fly down a block to the right of her. She then sees the Alicorn force an earth pony with the her guard’s armor on and notices that it’s Lightning Walnut. She gasps at the horror of him being torn into two pieces and then being fed to the starving crystal ponies. She and the other two unicorns gallop near the center of the town being blocked by crystal ponies. Moonlight Almond then fires a powerful magical attack towards the Alicorn hitting him in the side blasting him down to the ground. The Alicorn gets back up with pure hatred and rage flowing from his eyes throughout his body. He licks his lips and then fires a magical attack towards them, they teleport out of the way and dodge his attack. They then fire three magical attacks towards him creating a smoke around him as he is hit by the attacks. He then flies out of the smoke towards the pony on Moonlight Almond’s right. This pony fires at the Alicorn while the Alicorn fires back at him too. Moonlight and the other unicorn destroy a home and blast it into the Alicorn as the unicorn was about to be hit by his attack. They stand next to injured unicorn and glare at the Alicorn crushing the house into a thousand pieces. The Alicorn then fires a powerful magical attack towards the three unicorns as they retaliate with their most powerful attacks and crossing the streams against his. The Alicorn is far most powerful though and his beam starts to overpower the unicorns, but just as they're about to be hit Moonlight teleports away which dooms her friends. The Alicorn flies over to where Moonlight teleported to, “You ponies are all the same thinking you can take me, Sombra down with your puny magic.” Sombra then crazily laughs at moonlight as he fires an attack towards Moonlight. Moonlight swiftly teleports away and dodges the attack. “Is that the best you got” Moonlight taunts she then feels a hoof wrap around her neck. “Oh you wish that was just it.” Sombra flies high into the sky with Moonlight wrapped in his hooves, then once he is higher than the castle drops her. Before she could hit the ground Sombra flies down and spears her in the stomach as she lets out a scream. Sombra then flings her body off her into a crystal home, temporarily immobilizing her. He then flies into her stomach pushing out her internal guts, just as she fires a magical attack straight into his face. “Oh you think you can defeat me now, we have just begun.” He pushes his hoof against her throat, “Now it’s time for the real pain. Don’t worry this will hurt A LOT.” He materializes a rusty hacksaw and starts to cut off her bottom hoof, she screams from the writhing agony she feels pulsing from her leg. Sombra then hacksaws her other back hoof and then flings her into a crowd of crystal ponies who start to eat at her open wounds. Sombra then blasts the crystal ponies away from Moonlight and chains her down to the ground. He sees her tears flow down her face, he then bends down and licks them off of her face. He then fetches for an ax and begins to slowly chop off her front hooves. She tries to scream, but the pain is unbearable and she can not let out a word. Sombra then levitates a hammer and starts to smash her horn, he sees the blood coming from where her hooves used to be. Her horn is then smashed into a thousand pieces as she lets out one last ear shattering scream. Sombra then bends over close to her ears, “Now I have shown you exactly what I could do, so let’s finish this.” Sombra flies high into the sky and then lands on Moonlight’s head crushing it under his hooves splattering her brains across the floor which is already covered in blood, guts, and hooves. Well, that was horrible anyway hopefully I don’t get flagged for that. Well now we're going to cut back to the Monarch kingdom when Blaze Burn, Airola, and Rosen Bear learn about the gruesome deaths their friends just went through. Spies that still resigned in the Crystal Empire had seen the carnage that took place when the three races of ponies fought Sombra. These three ponies saw the emblem that crested the bags, that the foreigners had carried with them resembled the crest of the Monarch Kingdom. With this they decided to return to their kingdom, in fear that Sombra would find them and have them executed. They left when Sombra was distracted with torturing some poor pony of whom they could not see. With this they ventured away from the Crystal Empire and traveled back to the Monarch Kingdom; where they knew it to be safe. When they returned, they noticed how changed the kingdom looked since it actually look suitable to live in. It seemed that the kingdom thrived since their departure, but they did not know of the new ruler. The three spies trotted over to castle’s front steps, but were immediately stopped by two royal guards. “Where do you three think you’re going?” The guards glared down at the three ponies. “We’re here to speak with King Volcarious and tell him the news brought to you from the Crystal Empire.” “He is no longer in reign, only his daughter Queen Chrysalis.” The guards stood unmoving. “Well then, we would like to see Queen Chrysalis.” the pony that looked as if the leader of the spies. “State your name and we will retrieve the Queen to see if she knows you.” The guards said in a stern voice. “I’m Misty Muffin one of the royal spies appointed by King Volcarious sent to check on the Crystal Empire.” She shyly said. The pegasus guard whispered to the unicorn guard and then motioned his head towards the castle. The unicorn guard then trotted over inside the castle and returned with the Queen as she levitated a large scroll. “Ahh Misty Muffin it says here that you and your team was let go last year.” Chrysalis said while furrowing her brow. “Uhm yes, but we noticed that something monumental happened over in the Crystal Empire. Since we saw nine ponies of the three races bein-” “Queen Chrysalis, Queen Chrysalis.” Blaze Burn, Airola, and Rosen Bear all said in unison as they galloped over to the steps of the castle. “One moment.” Chrysalis walks over to the clearly frightened ponies. “What is it, what has happened.” “Three pegasi have been missing in my advanced flight class for three weeks.” “Three unicorns have been missing in my dark arts class for three weeks.” “Three earth ponies have been missing in my weapons class for three weeks.” Each of the leaders of the pony races said. “How peculiar, that three of each race has gone missing.” Chrysalis began to ponder what could've happened to them. “Queen Chrysalis that’s exactly what we were about to say. Nine ponies from your kingdom were seen in the Crystal Empire, fighting Sombra. They all died in the process of trying to defeat him, but he quickly disposed of them.” Misty Muffin finally said before being interrupted. “Why would they ever think that they could even take down Sombra? He is going to find their bags, which has the crest of the kingdom. Sombra is going to know that we basically started a war with him.” Chrysalis galloped into the castle as she left the three leaders on the steps. “Was that the impending danger she was talking about when we started this whole operation.” Rosen bear says trying to lighten the mood. She then sees Chrysalis gallop out of the castle nearly crashing into her as she levitated a book titled How to create a shield around your kingdom: For Dummies. “Sorry Rosen Bear, but I need you gather every unicorn in the center of town.” Chrysalis then pushed through Rosen Bear into the center of town. Rosen Bear then teleported to every unicorn’s home and demanded them to gather in town square, Queen Chrysalis’s orders. Once they all gathered around the center of town Chrysalis had proclaimed, “I need you to spread this around so that everypony knows the spell they have to use.” the royal guard passes the spell book around the large crowd of unicorns preparing them to use it. “Okay now that everypony knows the spell I want you all to fire it at my horn when I say so.” Chrysalis let a deep breath in and then out and said, “Okay I’m ready use the shield creating spell.” All of the unicorns then fired all of their magic towards Chrysalis as collided with her horn she felt a great magic fill inside of her. She then started to levitate off the ground and her eyes turn to complete whiteness as she fired an Emerald aura magic towards the sky creating a self sustaining shield. The spell created a large Emerald crystal cocoon around the entire kingdom, protecting them from magical and physical attacks. When it was completed Chrysalis then landed back onto the ground and the magic of the unicorns was sent back to their respective owners. “We should have improved resistance to any attack made by enemies of the Monarch Kingdom. I will now leave for a cordial visit with Princess Celestia and Luna, I will leave these three ponies in charge, you all know them as your military leaders and they will assume control while I’m gone.” Chrysalis then trotted over to her castle and ordered a guard to ready a carriage for her departure. She made sure that her subjects went back to their normal duties and entered the carriage. She then had two pegasi fly her over to Canterlot, when she reached the shield she opened a hole with her magic allowing them to leave. They flew over to Canterlot, but first noticed a little town just below Canterlot where a Draconequus was causing havoc. She did not have time thought to try and stop this Draconequus knowing that Sombra could be a bigger a threat then the chaos bringer. She landed at the footsteps of the castle and entered noticing that the guards were boarding carriages leaving Canterlot like if they were going to war. Chrysalis ran into the main hall of the castle and screamed to the top of her lungs, “Celestia! Luna! Are you here?” She looked up to the throne noticing that they were not sitting there, she ran upstairs towards where their rooms were and saw that they weren’t there. She looked throughout the castle with no signs of either of them until suddenly the whole castle flipped upside down and started to warp. She saw a royal guard burst from one of the walls and hitting the ceiling knocking out the pony. She looked at the hole in the wall to see Celestia and Luna fighting the Draconequus, but their Alicorn status was stolen them by the Draconequus. How could that be? What kind of power did this Draconequus have to just steal their power. Chrysalis thought to herself, she then saw a bright flash of the colors of the rainbow come from Celestia and Luna as it hit the Draconequus. Suddenly everything went back to normal as the castle flipped back to standing upright, and Chrysalis then plummeted towards the ground. She immediately flew up to where the hole that the guard had crashed from to see Celestia and Luna looking over at the Draconequus. She noticed that they were crying and regretting defeating this specific Draconequus. Chrysalis was confused by their affection for the Draconequus, a being that had murdered many ponies of the past. Chrysalis then remembered of a being of who could do the same, so she galloped over to Celestia and Luna. “Celestia! Luna! I have important news to tell you.” They both looked back at her, wiping their tears off and getting out of a sitting position. “What is it Chrysalis?” Luna said as she walked over to the Alicorn mare she once raised. “It’s about the Crystal Empire, Sombra is creating an army.” Chrysalis said with urgency trembling in her voice. “How do you know this?” Celestia’s booming voice asked. “Well, before my father was murdered he had let go of spies that were sent to the Crystal Empire, and they saw Sombra murdering ponies from my kingdom and bat ponies or something.” Chrysalis tried to remember what exactly they said to her. “We will deal with that as soon as possible, but for now why don’t you go find that Alicorn what is mare now.” Celestia advised while they would prepare themselves to defeat Sombra and his “army”. “Oh yes, her I will do that immediately then goodbye for now Celestia and Luna.” Chrysalis trotted over to the carriage she had arrived in and ordered them to fly to Maretonia. Chrysalis still wondered why that particular Draconequus had gave them such feelings of sadness. On their way to Maretonia, Chrysalis had noticed something emanating from the Crystal Empire. She then ordered her guards to check out what exactly that was. As she grew closer to the Crystal Empire, she had noticed that the blizzards had almost disappeared. She then saw a black purple bubbly aura surrounding the entire kingdom as magic gathered at the summit of the castle. She realized that this was not a normal light as suddenly Sombra flew to the top of the castle and then hovered there for a second. “Chrysalis, it’s finally time that you learned your lesson about sending spies and attack ponies to try and defeat me.” Sombra then levitates five ponies in the air and the crush them making their bones protrude out of their bodies. He then tosses the ponies down into a crystal house demolishing it in the process. “I’m going to teach you the lesson now.” As the words exited his mouth the castle fired its charged magic into Sombra filling him with the magic of the crystal ponies. He then fires the giant magical attack towards Chrysalis, but she creates a large Emerald wall in front of the attack momentarily deflecting it away from her. She releases the two guards as they fly towards the ground, she then flies at top speed towards her kingdom reaching it just as her Emerald wall shatters. She lands into time square and stares at the gigantic magical attack coming straight for herself and her kingdom. All of the ponies of the kingdom join her in the center of town while the attack grows closer and closer to the kingdom. The attack finally hits the shield, which was barely created three days ago, the earth shakes as the attack goes throughout the whole shield. At first, the shield is not phased until a crack shows itself and then shatters it into a thousand pieces. “Rosen Bear, Blaze Burn, and Airola I need you to gather your forces we have company to take care of.” Chrysalis notices far in the distance that Sombra, is charging straight for her kingdom with an army of bat ponies, cannibalistic crystal ponies, and Arant crystal ponies just as the sun begins to rise. End of Part two.