Generosity vs. Deceit
Rarity, head lowered, began her charge at the changeling queen before her. With simply a flash of green light, Chrysalis found herself behind the infuriated unicorn. "Is that the best you can do? This is going to be even easier than I thought." she mocked the mare in an almost singsong voice.
Rarity halted her charge and stomped the ground with her hind legs, sending the other end of a wooden floorboard straight to the chin of her opponent. Chrysalis was dazed from the sudden impact. "Oh dear, some of these floorboards are rather loose. I've been meaning to fix that, but for you I might make an exception." Shaking her head, the changelings expression became more serious. Maybe I shouldn't have made that last comment... Her horn glowing a faded green, Chrysalis fired a small beam at Rarity. Out of surprise she managed to jump to the side and avoid it, the ground where the shot impacted was covered by a small pile of green gelatin. While Chrysalis fired off several more, Rarity was forced to run around in a mad dash to avoid them.
Chrysalis took aim as the pony ran around. "I've got you this time little foal." The changeling fired a well aimed slime blast at Rarity, who suddenly felt her hoof hit something as she fell flat on the ground. The shot went right over her head and into a vanity mirror that was against the wall. "Wait no-!" Chrysalis's attack came right back at her, hitting her square in the face. A few muffled words came through as the confused changeling began shaking her head around furiously to remove the gelatin.
Rarity, surprised at her luck, stood up brushing down her mane with her hoof slightly. "Well that went far better than expected. Now I just need to get Chase out of here." She quickly ran over to his gelatin encase body. He was awake, but only just. Blood was still dripping from his right ear, his eyes were watered and dazed, and his breathing was barely audible. "C-Chase?" Rarity look at him shocked at his condition. "This is just horrible. What did she do to you?" He was completely unresponsive. Chase merely hung upside down as little more than a corpse now. Trying her best to fight off tears, she grabbed the sides of the cocoon and started pulling it down. After some struggling the base came off with a squelch and landed on the floor, sending the slime across the floor as it popped like a jelly filled balloon on impact. "It's alright Chase, I'm going to get you out of here and to a hospital. Then we ca-" Without warning, Rarity felt herself being flung across the room as a table made hit her square it the side.
"I've had enough of your silly games. I'm going to destroy you and finish off this sad excuse for a human." Chrysalis had managed to remove most of her own slime from her face, though bits could still be seen dripping from her mane. Making her horn glow once again a green bubble appeared around the beaten and sprawled out Rarity. Raising it off the ground, Rarity was sent flying through the door and into the next room with a loud crash as she let out a deafening scream. With a cocky expression, Chrysalis began heading towards her when she heard a painful groan and something touch her hoof. Looking down, she saw Chase barely able to reach out in protest. "You're still awake? No matter, just be still while I turn your friend into dust."
In the living room, Rarity was in a less than fabulous condition. Having crashed into the back of the couch and practically tearing it apart on impact, he body had been beaten up almost beyond use. Blood trickled from her forehead as the cut throbbed painfully. Her adrenaline was causing her heart to beat a mile a minute, but she was utterly confused by everything happening. Rarity did her best to stand up again, only to feel the impact of a hoof knock her down. The changeling queen stood above her with an angry expression. "You've been an awfully energetic little thing, but I'm afraid that's all over now. Any last words?" Rarity knew that she had to think up something now or this would definitely be it. The idea that hit her next struck her as crazy beyond all reason, but it was the best she had. "Well? Aren't you going to ple-" From seemingly nowhere a pillow struck Chrysalis's face, catching her by surprise as it interrupted her. "A pillow? Re-" The desperate unicorn used her magic to throw pillow after pillow at the bemused queen. "Stop tha-. Cut it-. Will yo-. Thi-. That's it!" Chrysalis's horn glowed as beams of light shot out all over the room, vaporizing ever pillow in sight as feather filled the air. "You insolent little foal! I-" She looked and saw that Rarity was no longer in front of her. "Where did she go?" There was a loud chomping sound as the changeling felt pain in her hind leg. She looked to see Rarity had gone and bit her as hard as possible. "You! Get off me! I demand you cease this pointless struggle at once!" Chrysalis started shaking her legs madly as the unicorn held on with all her might. Finally, she bucked as hard as possible and sent Rarity flying up. This is it, I'll only get one shot. Using what magic she could she made the fabric from the fly off and wrap around Chrysalis legs, binding them together as tight as she could. "What the?" Using the upwards momentum, Rarity turned her body upside down and pushed off the ceiling with all her might. With a resounding thud she landed her hooves right on the changelings face, knocking her to the ground.
Standing on the unconscious and now tied up body of her opponent, Rarity wiped her hooves on her and hopped off. "Well that was quite the workout. I think I may need a day at the spa after this." Her adrenaline now wearing off, she felt her body begin to collapse. "Or maybe...a few at the hospital." She shook her head and stood proudly. "No! I have to make sure Chase it fine." Rarity walked back into the room to see Chase writhing around on the ground in pain. She started to rush over to him. "It's alright dear, it's over now." No sooner did she say that did he suddenly feel herself being tackled from her side. Her body pinned down by one of the smaller changelings who managed to free themselves.
"You should really pay attention to everything in a fight miss Rarity." Chrysalis walked back in the room alongside the two other changelings she brought with her. "Oh I'm sorry, did you think that it was over back there? You must thing yourself something special if you thought a silly trick like that would keep me down." The queen approached Rarity as she struggled to get free of her henchman's grasp. Despite her best effort, she was simply too tired after all she'd been through. "I'll admit you made it more interesting than I expected, but your luck seems to have run dry." Chrysalis stared at the confined mare with a malicious look in her eyes. "You should have simply accepted defeat when this all began. Now you're going to pay for your insolence." The horn on her head began to glow as it had before, but much brighter this time. Rarity closed her eyes, knowing what would come next. I'm sorry Chase. I...I couldn't help you. I gave it my all, but it still wasn't enough in the end.
In the room was a loud bang and Rarity flinched slightly. Some crashing and a squelching sound suddenly caught her attention as she felt herself being let go of. She opened her eyes as her body shuddered in fear. The smaller changelings had been torn to pieces, their green blood practically painting the walls around her. On the other side of the room was Chrysalis, on the ground shaking in fear, and something else standing over. Easily taller than the changeling queen a massive pony with a smokey grey coat, dark leathery wings and two twisted horns stared down at the changeling beneath him. "Y-you...you wouldn't kill me. I-I can help you! Together we could beat the other elements, together w-" The creature took its heavy hoof and drove it straight through the chest of the changeling, tearing out its heart as green blood and bile began spurting from the wound.
With the heart in its hoof, it turned to Rarity. She was clearly petrified by the gory scene before her as her eyes were locked on the stranger. Casually, it tossed the heart towards the unicorn. "Get it?" It's voice was cold, yet calm. Sending chills up her spine with every word spoken. "She's a changeling, so I took that out. Ironic, right?"
Rarity looked at the heart beating on the ground in front of her and back at the creature. "I..." Without another word, the mare passed out.
"I don't think she got it Chase." You just threw a heart at her after she tried to save me. The hell did you think would happen? Wait, why did you finally decide to come out? "I was getting bored just sitting in your head and watching. All this violence and I, the element of Wrath, had to sit in the mind of an idiot and do nothing? Not a chance." Well...thanks. "Oh shut up, it wasn't for you. I just really hate deceits big mouth. Speaking of which..." Wrath turned around and saw the body of his victim slowly falling apart like grains of sands that floated off into nothingness. What's going on? The body looks like it's disappearing. "That's what happens when an element dies. They get taken away." Taken away? Where to? "Don't know, don't care. That's just how it is."
A loud crash came from the other side of the house. "Rarity! Are you alright?! Where are you?"
Oh no... "This could get interesting..."