//------------------------------// // Chapter 7: Reunion and Libraries // Story: From Rinshi To Mystic Master // by SoonToBeWriterBrony //------------------------------// * * Wu's Perceptive * * I got to hand it to Twilight, she was right about me being one hell of a crazy bugger. Even as I backtracked towards the Rinshi Base on foot, I need to figure out how to get the schematics for the Butokas and the Wagatakus, get in there without alerting any guards if possible, find the bloody things and then escape. As I continued to scratch my head on it I found the Rinshi base, not in the same spot was though, the tree like mountain was being moved on the back of thousands of Rinshi warriors. Granted, its not the smartest thing to do but I can see if one of your kind breaks off and rebels to your enemies it would make sense to move your main base.... break off... hmmmm that gives me a crazy idea.... * * Back in Ponyvile, Castle of Harmony and Friendship * * Chrysalis was thinking about her old hive while she groomed Fleur's hair and how she was helping the ponies of all creatures. While humming no less. She knows that they are just food, creatures that are sentient enough that they can produce the most important of foods, love. Yet here is she now CARING for a potential food source, something that she had never experienced before but then again she had never had a need to actively feed off a conscience pony or even a non-mind controlled one. That right, until her own imprisonment, she had never needed to activity feed off a pony before. She had heard of this phenomenon from some of her drones years ago where the drone becomes attached to their prey but she had previously always dismissed it as rumors. But now, thanks to the months of activity feeding from a single pony, she had unconsciously made Fleur her safe/home/food. She truly wondered what changed in her but she had her introspection broken off by a sudden slam of the door. Taking up basic defensive positions between the door and Fleur/safe/home/food, she bared her fangs and was ready fight the intruding pony. "Fleur my love!" shouted the blue mane stallion," Are you ok-ep! Changeling!" "Fancy? Dear Fancy?" Oh don't mind Chrysi, she is harmless." said Fleur as she ran to hug the blue mane stallion. Grumbling, Chrysalis walked to the side and was leaning on the wall while Fleur and Fancy were jabbering away in Prance. She was not going tot take her eyes off the intruder, even if Fleur was ok with the stallion. Following the intrusion, was Princess Twilight, the purple maned one and the Princess of Food. "How are you feeling darling," asked the purple maned one as the three walked towards her. All Chrysalis did was hiss back. "Now now," said the Princess of Food, Cadence," If I'm wiling to tolerate you being here and working to rebuild your life, your going to have to play a bit nicer than that." Chrysalis replied with a softer hiss without showing her teeth. "Come on Chrysalis. Lets leave Fancy Pants and Fleur alone for a while to catch us. We need a few things to discuss." said Twilight. "No. Master Wu's orders. Until he.... it returns I'm not to leave Fleur's side." spat Chrysalis. "This is my castle Chrysalis," said Twilight," Even the RinRinshi have ever broken in the Castle of Harmony. They are safe. Safe enough for us to go and have some tea?" Chrysalis grumbled to herself. On one hand, yes Twilight was correct. This was something that was tested recently when a Mantis RinRinshi attempted to gain entrance of the Castle of Harmony before running away as if it was testing its strength. But on the other hand, she was very untrusting anything except herself when it comes to her Fleur/safe/home/food. But the debate came to an end when Fleur asked to talk in private with Fancy Pants for a short while. Even if she wanted to, she knew she couldn't say no to Fleur, especially when she gave her the puppy dog eyes. "Fine but when your done, come and find us. "said Chrysalis a little louder than she liked before storming out of the room. * * Confrontational Beast Mountain * * It definitely took a while, but eventually I found the "path" created by the moving mountain. As the Mountain moved on the backs of thousands of Rinshi, it was actually quite easy to just... cling onto the side of the mountain and slowly climb it to be under the library. Lucky with the current layout of the Confrontational Beast Hall, the library was situated on a branched off part of the overall hall and was sitting on a part of a mountain that jutted out of the mountain face. All I have to do is to climb slowly up the mountain, avoid detection and break the supports holding the library up. Easy right? Well, Easy in theory. * * Castle of Harmony and Friendship, Guest Room with Tea * * Chrysalis eyed the murky brown liquid that was in front of her. MILK? with TEA?? What sort of madness do these ponies think of. Granted the last time she had ventured out of her hive was for conquest but that was smashed due to some meddling ponies. And then her own kidnapping. As she watched Twilight, the purple maned one (who was introduced as Rarity) and Cadance, drink the offending drink with no problem, Chrysalis pretended to drink the tea before setting it down. "So what do you three want," said Chrysalis who wanted nothing more but to leave and return to Fleur's side. "Well darling," said Rarity," We wanted to know how you were doing? Since this is the first time we actually get to sit down and talk without...." "A crusade to annihilation of changeling kind in the way?" finished Cadance. "Yeah that." Chrysalis pondered for a short while before saying," Feeling rather stupid. If I had known that getting Love from you stupid ponies was so easy, I would have done so hundreds of years ago. Maybe even tried to seduce Celestia herself." This caused Twilight to do a spit take while Cadance gave herself a small giggle. "Well, if you hadn't had conquests on the brain for all those years, maybe you would have realized we ponies are a loving bunch," sing sang Cadance which annoyed Chrysalis," But seriously, how are you. I don't think being held captive for a year would do anything good to one's psyche, at least you have the decency to put most ponies in a deep sleep in pods. Except me and my husband of course." "Hey, there wasn't enough time to make those pods cause if there was you would have been put into one. And besides, those pods stick out like a sore thumb!" spat Chrysalis. "Hey easy there love bug," said Cadance defensively," Its just a bit of teasing, you did almost ruin my wedding after all." Chrysalis huffs as she grabbed a chocolate chip cookie from the tray and started munching loudly. Twilight and Rarity shared a worried look while Cadance just waggled her eyebrows. She clearly is enjoying ribbing Chrysalis. "Well... changing the subject.... would you become an Ally to Equestria? I mean after all things are said and done." asked Rarity gingerly. What came from that question was uncomfortable silence as Chrysalis continued to munch on the cookie. "Well," Chrysalis shallowed, "I don't really have much of a choice now do I? I've...... become attached to Fleur. I've heard rumors about this from my drones that sometimes a changeling would become attached to a pony and subconsciously be protective of the pony until the pony passed. I never though it would happen to me in that sense." "Oh, how does it usually go? Like a forbiddance romance between pony and changeling that ends up in a secret marriage?" Rarity fantasized while Twilight look at her friend with a worried smile. The next thing that was said completely shattered everyone's minds. "What's romance?" asked Chrysalis. "WHATTTTTTTTTTT????!!!!!" shouted rarity and Cadance. * * In another room * * "Dear Fleur. You must be joking me," said Fancy as he held her hand while the two sat on the bed," That.... Wu wants you to fight? You haven't fought anything except your parents about being a model! Does this creature except you to lift weights?!" "Darling Fancy," said Fleur stroking his hand to get him to calm down," I don't believe I have much of a choice. While I do want to help and shake this... uneasiness I constantly have whenever I'm outside, I don't think Wu has anyone else he could try to teach his art." Fancy sighed as he looked at Fleur," But.... you'll be in danger again. I.... cannot lose you again." "Oh Fancy," said Fleur," You can and you will." "What?! But Fleur.." "Shush darling," said Fleur now stroking Fancy Pants' head," I know there is another in your heart. After all, until I was kidnapped, we never really had much interest in each other except for being seen in public." "But.... No your right," said Fancy with his ears flattening," Whenever previously we had tried to take the next step.... I always had a slight... hesitation with that." "So, but are we still good? Still Friends?" asked Fleur. "Oh the best of friends dear Fleur," replied Fancy," But that would not stop me from worrying about you and this situation." "Oh course darling Fancy," said Fleur," Now who is this oth-" Before she could say another word two very loud noises broke the silence of the room. * * Confrontational Beast Hall, Under a Library * * Wu was slowly and carefully breaking every one of the supports of the Library. For the time being no one was the wiser about what We is about to do. Once the last of the supports were broken. the only thing left to do was to remove it. "Ringi Shōrai Jū (Bringing Beast) RinScorpion," Wu summoned which created a large sized scorpion with a mixed of Green and Gold Exoskeleton. However, once done and the scorpion pulled the Library off was when the Alarm resounded throughout the Confrontational Beast Mountain. "ALARM! ALARM! WE HAVE A ROUGE RINSHI INTRUDER! RINGI ENERGY DETECTED!" "Oh shit, time to go." The RinScorpion pulled the Library close to itself to allow Wu to jump into the building and started pulling books and scrolls into a large rucksack. As spears, arrows and shouts rained onto the Machine Beast as it ran from the scene towards the boarder of Equestria. Part of the plan was to make it seem that the base is somewhere not in Equestria but somewhere in no mans land. After a few hours, it seemed like the plans was working as Wu managed to remove all the books and scrolls into multiple rucksacks and sent the Rinshi on a wide goose chase. As he absconded with his ill gotten gains," Wu could not help but hum to himself. "I love it when a plan comes together!" Little did he know, he just jinxed it. * * Ponyvile Outskirts * * "Are you sure this is a good idea Tabu?" said a RinRinshi in it's powered down form. This RinRinshi had a Corcodile totem on his head. "Of course this is a good idea Niwa," said Tabu also in his powered down form," If we pretend in this powered down from to be traitors to the Contractional Beast Hall, we would have easy access to this place. We can use it as an experiment to see if we can do the same trick at other places as well. We just have to keep.... wait. Where is Gyuuya?" Both Tabu and Niwa looked around for their friend Gyuuya and spotted him a few moments later. In their utmost horror, they saw Gyuuya in his powered down form approached the gates into Ponyvile. "Halt! Who goes there?!" "I AM THE GREAT GYUUYA AND THIS GATE IS NO MATCH FOR MY HORNS! Ringi! Jūjin Jashin Hen (Beast-Man Wicked Body Change" shouted the RinRinshi as he transformed from tis powered down form into his monstrous Beast-man form which resembled a buffalo. The Buffalo-fist user then charged the gates into Ponyvile and shattered it, creating a loud boom that echoed throughout the town. "Quick lets get out of here Niwa! We can try again with this plan later!" said Tabu as he started to inch away from the new broken gate as the two guards ponies slumped on each side of the gate. "Yeah... lets, cause Gyuuya has gone mad... again... well at least he is not going to wreak the Hall again." said Niwa following Tabu away from the scene. Extra Notes If you need to see what Gyuuya looks like you can find it here: