Meet The Parents (21)
Meet The Parents
"Ready to go Alex?" Serenity asked.
"Do you think the tie is too much? I want to make a good impression, but I don't want to come across as all 'formal', but on the other hand, I don't want to be seen as a slob and...." She put her hoof in my mouth.
"It's fine. Forget the tie. Remember, clothing at all is formal, seeing as how nopony wears them to begin with." She reassured me.
"Heh, right. Well, I guess I'm ready then. Shall we go?"
"Let's." With a smirk and a swish of her tail, we headed out of the castle, into Canterlot proper, me wearing black dress pants and a red pinstripe, long sleeve shirt with collar, and she in had her mane done up. I had told Celestia that I would be spending some time there, possibly overnight, but would still meet her for our Saturday counsel session.
As Serenity lead me through the town to where her parents had moved in to, I received many stares from the ponies we passed. They weren't glares of spite, anger, fear, or jealousy. Just curiosity. They wanted to know who and what I was. A couple whispers, and some snickers, the kind that says 'She's with him? Scandalous!' But not mean, more like...... kind of hard to explain since I'm not a girl, but you know the one. We just ignored them for the most part, other than running into a group of Serenity's friends on the way to her house.
"Ooh, who's the stud?" A slightly underweight unicorn mare asked.
"So tall. And such a snappy dresser. You sure know how to pick em." A definitely underweight earth pony asked. Are all Serenity's friends on crash diets or something?
"This is Alex, surely you've heard the rumors of the 'creature' at the castle? Well, this is him. And yes, I am pretty lucky. He knows how to treat a mare a lot better than most stallions do."
"Is that so?" The raised their eyebrows suggestively. Serenity face-hoofed.
"NOT like that. We've only been going out a couple months. I'm bringing him to meet my parents today."
"Oh, well, we better not keep you then. See you around."
"Alex, you're awfully quiet."
"Just butterflies in my stomach. Except I didn't eat any, so I have no idea how they got there." She giggled at my joke, and she showed me to the house. It was in a poorer section of the capital, so it was a wee bit run down, but still in good shape.
"Well, here we are. It was a bit short notice, so it was hard to find something good within our budget. I hope you don't mind."
"Not at all."
"Oh, just one more thing, my family is a little bit different, and might try scaring you. Don't mind it, they like to 'test' their guests. Don't let them get to you. Just keep an open mind." My marefriend explained.
"It's not a 'haunted' house is it? I'm fine with ghosts, although I'll be a little nervous if I'm meeting a vampire, err, vampony."
"Oh, nothing of the sort. They're master illusionists. They might make it look like that, but, just remember there's nothing to be afraid of and you'll be fine." She smiled as she unlocked the door. "Come on in."
As I entered the house, I felt an unnatural chill, as though something was very VERY wrong with the ground on which I tread. Though, she warned me this would happen, and so, I squashed the feeling in my gut and pressed on into her dark abode. I didn't complain about the lack of light, seeing as how she's a bat winged pegasus, I assumed that has something to do with it.
"Hello? Come out come out wherever you are......." I called into the house with a creepy tone. Two can play this 'fright' game. Serenity just snickered and gently pushed me further inside, before entering herself and closing the door behind us.
"Okay, mom, seriously. Cut him some slack will you?" My escort called into the dark of the home.
"Oh, you just had to go an ruin my fun. Oh well." Called a voice from the dark. Well, it was one voice, but it sounded like several. I watched as a black mare the size of Cadence walked out of the shadows of the house. She had a mane like seaweed, holes in her hooves, tattered insect wings, a crooked horn jutting out of her head, and fangs. But that's not what caught me. No. It was the piercing green eyes.
"Uh.... hi?" I said nervously as I swallowed hard.
"My my, She was right, you certainly are different. Anypony would have run screaming by now."
"Well, I can certainly admit you're different, but then again, so am I. Where I'm from, we're taught to be accepting of others, regardless of what they look like."
And such a wonderful place it must be. But, I believe introductions are in order.
"I'm Alex. Nice to meet you....."
"Queen Chrysalis."
"Queen? I wasn't aware that Equestria had a queen."
"It doesn't. At least..... not yet." She replied with spite. Then those piercing green eyes flared, almost looking to have a flame within them, and I blacked out.
"Good morning sleepy head." My eyes opened, and I looked around to see dozens of black, hole hoofed, bug winged, blue eyed ponies. I tried to move, but my arms, legs, and torso were bound by a thick, green, sticky goop that several of the bug ponies were expanding by vomiting a similar substance onto it. The slime almost seemed alive, because instead of staying where they put it, it began slithering up to the top, slowly covering me. Needless to say, but I'll say it anyway, I screamed.
I screamed for about five minutes straight till I was out of breath. Hyperventilating, I finally regained my senses.
"Alright, seriously. You've had your fun. Quit the illusion already. Yes, you've scared me, you win!"
"Silly Alex, this is real. Everything else is the illusion. I have to admit, I'm surprised you woke up this early. Usually, the sleep spell lasts a whole day, but you were only out of it for two hours." I heard my marefriend's voice call out.
"Serenity! Where are you? Get me out of here! Serenity.... I'm scared...." Then, I saw something horrifying. Serenity, the bat winged mare, walked in front of me, and with a flash of green fire swirling around her, she became like the rest of the hundred chittering bugs that swarmed around me. Not exactly though. Her hooves were sharp points, she had four wings, antennae, and a stinger. She also had a translucent green mid section which had a faint glow. Then, she spoke in the same, multi-tone voice as her 'mother'.
There's no reason to be afraid. I told you, there's no danger. You'll be fine.
"W-w-what is this? Where am I? What are you? Tell me what's going on!"
"This, is the beginning of a stasis pod. We're in the basement, and I, my sisters, and mother, the queen, are changelings. And what's about to happen, is we're going to take over Equestria, starting with Canterlot."
"But, why? And, take over Equestria? That crazy!"
"As for crazy, that doesn't matter. As for why, it's simple. Love."
"Love?"
"We changelings feed on love. It's our nourishment. Equestria is a land of love, truly a buffet. We disguise as a pony, replace them, and drink up the love those who care about them give off. Well, until now that is."
"Why?"
"You saw those two mares from before. Didn't you see how scrawny they were? We're starving. The only reason I'm alright is you've been feeding me."
"The chill?"
"You can sense that?" She seemed genuinely surprised. I take it not many can, else they'd found out pretty easily.
"Yeah."
"In this world, magic is synonymous with emotion. We feed on magic, and so, the most powerful of emotions, love, is nurturing to us. That 'chill' was me draining you of your magic. Feeding."
"So then.... this entire time.... I was nothing but... but a.... meal to you?"
"Afraid so."
"Then, all the fun we had together, eating dinner under the moon light, singing, dancing, it was all meaningless?"
"Of course not. You did each of those things with such care for me, I have been full for quite some time now, and have been giving the spare love you gave me to the hive." The bug Serenity explained.
"You know what I mean."
"No, I do not."
"I mean, DO YOU LOVE ME? Was it all just an act, was I just a meal to you, or do you ACTUALLY care about me?" She laughed. The one who I trusted, who I gave my heart to, laughed at me. Not with me, at me. It was enough to make me cry.
"Ha ha, no. Changelings can't love. I've been leading you on this entire time."
"Then, why now? Why are you doing this? Couldn't you have just kept feeding on me? Left me blissfully ignorant, and let me at least THINK you cared?"
"Because, soon, we won't need to hide anymore. We will take Canterlot, and the rest of Equestria will follow. We will feed to our heart's content. I no longer need a pitiful little creature like you. You actually believed I loved you, that a pony could ever love an animal like you?" I began crying my eyes out now. Why would she do this? It doesn't make any sense.
"Serenity I....."
"Fool, I am matron 47. Serenity was an identity I took fourteen years ago, a personality I made up in order to spy on the Equestrian royalty. You fell in love with an illusion!" She cackled. "All those times we played hide and seek in the castle, you never once found me, because I changed what I looked like! Oh, and your food, disgusting I can't believe you can eat that garbage."
"I....I....I...." I was blind from the tears coming from my eyes. I felt like my heart had been torn out and stomped on. I also felt the green slime working it's way up. It had covered my torso now, leaving the top of my chest, my neck, and my head, all that remained.
"Ha! This is precious! You know the truth, she never existed, and yet you still love her! You are wonderfully pathetic, loving somepony who isn't real. Which will make this so much sweeter." She approached, bearing her fangs.
"What are you..... going to do?"
"Feed. Once I'm done draining you of every last delicious drop of your love, you're going to be sealed in this stasis pod. It'll keep you alive so you can slowly have all your other emotions drained out. Once you're dry, you'll become one of us. A lowly drone, spending the rest of your worthless life gathering love from the newly enslaved ponies and feeding it to the hive." And then she jumped, dug into the slime around my trunk with her spiked hooves, and buried her fangs into my neck. I could see the clear section of her body slowly filling with a glowing blue fluid as she sealed her lips around the wound and drank it. I felt so cold. Never had I been in so much pain. Even when I realized I would never see my family again, that didn't compare to this. After about a minute, she pulled away, neon blue dripping from her lips. And she laughed.
"Well, it seems I'm full. Mother, would you like a taste? He's absolutely delicious." And then the queen bit me as well. Spots danced in my vision as the green goo finally closed over my head just as she pulled away, and I fell into sleep once again.
The next thing I knew, I was laying on the floor of my summoning room, Celestia looking at me with intense worry. I still had some of the goo on me.
"Alex? Gods, ALEX! What happened to you?!" She rushed to my side. Mustering what little strength I had, I passed her my communication stone, and with as much of a voice as I could bring forth, which amounted to a whisper, I spoke.
"Serenity, spy. Canterlot, danger. So cold........." And I slept once more.
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Fans: About time you updated!
Yeah, I know I know. I've been busy helping coordinate the Chess Game of the Gods Gala mega crossover, midterms, and family events over the summer.
lawl,FIRST!
..... Wow. Didnt see that coming.... I figured her freinds just had eating disorders........ What? An impossible scenario you might say? I think not. Ponies are human in everything but appearence.... and magic.... flight.... strength........ technological levels..... ok i'll shut up now.
Also, how big is this massive crossover gonna be? Like, how many stories are we talking?
Edit: Not gonna lie, you had me creeped out a bit at first.
more awesome fans: YEAH, HE UPDATED!
AWESOME!
me: Brohoof anyone? /)
799189 Great chapter I love when this is updated.
Also as much as I don't want to be known as the guy who used one story to talk about another, Will you be placing Growl in a position at the Gala that would make it impossible for my character to talk to him at some point?
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(\ brohoof!
799264 No, he'll be there, chillin. Until the ball drops and he has to deal with other stuff. But he'll be available for quite some time.
so nice to see this one update! I wasn't certain if it'd be this or the Gala next. Glad to see this one.
....and through all this, what I'm more interested in is what would have happened had the conversion process been allowed to run its way.
Great writing, in any case
Well, didn't expect that. Poor dude.
799189 how do you manage to have spare time you glorious bastard?
799258 I gotcha. (\
Ha, never tell your plans to a man with a get out of jail free card.
So she is a changeling, and she is evil.
Well, tits.
What was you ORIGINAL plan for Serenity anyway?
As you did create her before Changelings were introduced
Dammit. I liked Serenity, too...
799393 didn't think that far ahead.
Just when I read Queen Chrysalis for the first time I was: SHIT JUST GOT REAL
Well, i didn't saw this coming
But, do you all know what this means?
This means CelestiaXAlex could be possible
Oh, and war againts the Changelings
Ha, Serenity's plan came and bite her in the ass. The wedding seems will go differently than in canon.
Will Read Soon!
Dang it, BlackWing! You made me feel.
Poor Alex, betrayed by the woman he loves.
Seriously, good job for making a character that we could connect with and grow to like, only to reveal her to be a total b-dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/yay_red.png -h. Way to inflict upon us a VERY small amount of the torment that Alex is going through right now.
Dang, I liked Serenity. She was a cool character.
So let me get this straight: If Alex had remained in the stasis pod, he would have become a dragon-human changeling? Interesting. Also, does this mean that the changelings were planning on converting Princess Celestia herself when they sealed her into the chrysalis in the episode?
This chapter (I'll let you guess which part) reminded me of that song "All You Need is Love".
Now I guess that it is time to sit around and wait for the next chapter.dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/emoticons/misc_Bonbon_gaze.png
799497 Yeah, I know. I've been working on it.
799499 Yes, Dragon-Human-Changeling, and they were trying to make Celestia a changeling. She has a massive amount of magic, so it might take several millenia to drain her right gone, but it would happen eventually. Also, the wedding is gonna be cannon. In fact, Next chapter takes place AFTER the wedding is over.
799512 Princess Celestia: The giant, living, magi-battery.
what a twist
Well, that was rather rude of Serenity.
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799613 one have some lawls
and two my real comment so glad that I can't actually fall in love with my current personality
Dang it, and I thought Serenity was perfect. Oh well, at least MY Serenity won't betray anyone.
For Alex's sake, I hope they have descent psychotherapists in Equestria.
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Actually...
AlexXALL THE MARES
THE PLOT TWIST!
IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL!
Damn.
This plot twist almost broke my neck. That was "truck crashing into your second story bedroom window at 3am" unexpected.
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listened to this while reading
Chapter 1-20 (Which I read all today): Aw, Serenity is such a good match, despite the species difference.
(someone mentions she might be a changeling) I hope she's just been kidnapped and some changeling drone has taken her place...
Chapter 21: Oh great, her mother is Chrysalis... shit just got real :C.
End of Chapter 21: GOD DAMMIT! I WAS BEGINNING TO ENJOY SERENITY'S CHARACTER! (insert language that is unbecoming of a respectful commentator) you, Black Wing! You could've just had Serenity kidnapped, and have a doppelganger taker her place, but noooooo! You just made a metaphorical ice dagger stab me in the heart. Now we don't have an interesting partner for Alex, besides Celestia!
In other words: You have devastated me, and I will now follow this story with even more apprehension-- how much more s--- is Alex gonna go through? This makes this is 5th (or is it 7th?) girlfriend, and this one was the worst! I was right to call Serenity a communist! She wants to overthrow the government! HDJSKSDFJKEGWBJKRBSJEBREJBREJWBJWB
*blue screen*
Black Wing has caused a critical failure in brain.exe...
...Deleting System32...
errrrrr
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*yawn* It is.... 1:05 A.M and I just spent 2-3 hours reading this... Your good, very good. Although I admit I was disappointed about Alex not being able to do ANY magic. No dragon shouts? (I've been playing WAY too much Skyrim..) No hand spells? (Oh Skyrim...) Not even some half-baked wand thing? Other than that, pretty good...
Frikkin' Changlings. Annoying.
I have a feeling that now Alex and Celestia are going to be a "thing" now.
799359 Actually, I still think that. Changelings lie about who they are, who's to say they wouldn't lie about the existence of another if it suited them? Serenity disappeared for two days, anyway, she could have been replaced then.
799991 Are you implying that Blackadder is a gorilla, or could you just not find the right image?
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ALL the brohoofs! (\ (\ (\ (\ (\
799454
Not quite...
All Celestia knows now is that A: Serenity was a spy and B: there is danger to Canterlot. The first is inconsequential as Serenity won't likely be returning, and the second is canon.
I actually saw this coming. I didn't catch it the first time you mentioned the 'cold feeling' but I did the second time. It was then I realized that she was a changling or at least part changling. When she mentioned her family was not entirely pony, i thought that maybe her family was some hybrid family, but apparantly thats a resounding NO. boo. That or I was hoping for a good changling colony or something, but I knew this was a possibility... poor Alex...
She was a spy afterall!
Still, absolutely wonderful story, I can't wait for the next update!
-Raven
800761 T'is a mix of both, Black Adder is amazing and so are Gorilla's
800908 Yeah, that's true.
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If he didn't need one after being ripped from his world, made unable to return, and... oh yeah... DYING, I think he will be okay with some TLC...
Though he may now develop some trust issues... 
He's now found that not everything in equestria is sunshine, daisys... and buttermellow... Theres a few stupid fat rats in there too.. These ones can even turn yellow! (terible joke... but I had to..)