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Day One Part Two: Of Queens and Cooks1,553 words
Day Two: Epilogue?110 words

Day One Part Two: Of Queens and Cooks

The two royals stared for what seemed like centuries; a millennia or two, perhaps even three. Derpy started to drift off to La-La land.
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"...So how was your trip? I heard your homeland is quite far from here, is it not?" The solar princess tried her best to keep the awkwardness away, but what the changeling queen replied with just started the stampede.

"It was a long and painful journey, I had to travel through the Everfree forest. Animals repeatedly attempted to nest within the holes in my horn. The most grueling part was whenever I had to spend the night just outside the Everfree, a manticore tried to eat my hooves," Chrysalis frowned. "I guess my legs really do look like swiss cheese." She sighed.

"...well...good thing you are here now, then..!" Princess Celestia added. "Well....uh.....anything interesting going on at your hive?"

"No." the queen stated.

Princess Celestia looked at her for a short moment. Surely there was something, but she wasn't letting it out. Think, Celestia, think... "Well over in Canterlot, I think today was a sweet young filly's birthday....!" She continued awkwardly. The ragged-horned queen looked at her with stern confusion. The distort in her voice just made it slightly freaky.

"What is the point of celebrating birth? It just reminds everyone, including you, of the day you left the sweet warmth of life before life, the consciousness that we were all gifted with possibly even years before we were even born. A vast world of imagination, and powers that could rival Discord's at your very grasp. But we are banished from this world forever, for we are gifted a new world, one that princess Luna is quite familiar with- the Dream Scape. We are given this world the moment we are brought to Equestria. But, however this world can be easily corrupted by the forced not one pony enjoys- nightmares. When we are born, we lose and gain. Am I correct?" Chrysalis asked.

Oh gosh.

Celestia stared at the changeling queen, a bit worried. It's the fake marriage forms all over again! She whimpered. What was she supposed to say? That she was right? That she was wrong? That she didn't know? That she would think it over? I guess I'll just have to go with-

"APPETIZER'S READY!"

Derpy rushed through the archway that leads to the kitchen, and she had a rather large platter of something, and she was carelessly moving around and practically threw it onto the table that two royals were chatting awkwardly at. The grey pegasus smiled from ear-to-ear and set down forks and knives, then trotted off to the kitchen. She later returned with two purple and green drinks. Whatever it was it had to have been, it must have fit under 'creative', in Derpy's head. The yellow-maned pony trotted off, and told the two she would start on the actual lunch then. Celestia got a good look at the appetizer. It was an extra large, elephant-sized platter of fries. Sweet potato, regular, salty, every kind.

Chrysalis claimed the seat across from the solar alicorn, where her silverware and drink was. She eyed the drink. "Do you have any idea what this liquid is?" She asked the royalty across from her.

The princess studied it for a good few seconds. "...No...but we should still drink it...Derpy made it herself. But I don't now how she made a liquid two different colors at the same time. But then again, Derpy is quite a peculiar pegasus." Celestia smiled. Chrysalis nodded. There was a short silence, then suddenly the queen's horn glew a bright, saturated, light green. A single fry suddenly glowed the same color and lifted from his buddies, and then was chopped into tiny bits by the changeling's teeth. The lonely fry was never seen again. This process was repeated many times with different kinds of french fries. Apparently Chrysalis was either a fry-fan, or she was so bored the only thing that could entertain her was eating. Either way, she was still eating the fries. A few minutes passed and she paused.

"Isn't this supposed to be a tea party?" Queen Chrysalis raised a brow as she spoke. Princess Celestia suddenly jolted and called, "Derpy? Can we have some tea?"
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"Sure! What flavors..?" Celestia looked back at Chrysalis and whispered.

"What do you want?" The changeling queen replied with a quick "Oh, anything."

"Anything!"
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"Okay!" The royals stared at the archway leading into the kitchen for a few split seconds, then exchanged glances. The royal alicorn princess decided to go ahead and make things interesting.

"...Would you like to play a card game..?" She asked the changeling queen.

"Yes please." The queen responded. Celestia smiled. Following the smile was her horn glowing and magically levitating the small card case over to Queen Chrysalis. She started setting out a small 4x4 group of cards. She set the rest of the cards next to the smaller group of cards. She began explaining the game.

"The game is called Ace's Square," Princess Celestia smiled. " The objective is to only have aces left in this square. To remove cards, you have to match two cards with the same suit and the same column or row. When you remove cards you have to replace them with the next two cards from the draw deck. If you run out of cards to match, you lose. Does it make sense?" The solar princess questioned.

"Yes," said the queen across the table. "It does."

"Great!" The princess replied. Then the game begun. A few minutes passed and finally it looked like Chrysalis somewhat lost. Celestia got up from her seat and trotted over to her. "Looks like you got an unlucky play. It's not because this is your first game, this game focuses not just on skill, but also luck. I myself played this game hundreds times now and I only won about seventeen of them!"

The queen smiled at her. "Thanks for letting me play," she spoke. "Back at the hive, nopony really knew how to play to many games, except a few hatchlings. I usually get bored, having to stick to books and such." The alicorn princess nodded.

"When I was younger, I had to be protected at all times since the alicorn race was endangered. I hardly ever got to go outside, the only times I actually did were when I had to raise the sun. Same with my sister, Luna." Princess Celestia added.

"Very interesting," finished Chrysalis. The princess grinned. Not a second later, Derpy entered. She told them what wonderful patience they had, and that they were going to enjoy their tea. Speaking of tea, she the two drinks down on the table the two royals were obviously sitting at. She suddenly started whimpering. The princess looked worried.

"What's wrong, Derpy?"

Y-You haven't been drinking the special drinks I made for you!" Derpy cried. Celestia looked shocked and ashamed, she forgot to try the drink.

Chrysalis spoke. "I greatly apologize, Miss Derpy, but we weren't able to try the drink, we were to busy eating these incredible fries. Would you like us to try them now?" Derpy smiled a small smile then nodded rapidly. "Okay then!" Queen Chrysalis reached over to her cup of liquid and took a long sip through the straw that was included with the drink. After tasting it for a few seconds, Derpy told her something.

"I made it with poison ivy!"

This caused the changeling queen to freak out so much in less then a few seconds she swallowed the straw. She immediately started choking. Just as fast Celestia jumped out of her seat and into the air, accidentally knocked over her two drinks in the process. She flew rainboom-fast over to the choking changling and thrusted her to the ground. She started to push her hooves down into the other royal's stomach repeatedly. Weird rasping sounds came from the poor queen's throat, and Celestia could see her face turning slightly blue. She started panicking.

"DERPY QUICK CALL 911!" Celestia hollered like a banshee. She could take this much longer, she was running out of breath, her guest was choking, it was only somewhere around twelve O' clock, and her guest arrived there only about 45 minutes ago. BEST DAY EVER OR WHAT!?

Finally after what seemed to be hours an ambulance finally arrived (It was actually 4 minutes, Derpy just overreacted when she was talking to the driver), and the changeling queen was taken to the hospital. She was scheduled to come back to the cottage after a few hours, but the straw wouldn't come out so she had to go to the E.R., which meant no Chryssi for an extra 2 hours.

"Boo, hoo,"
~Discord

Author's Note:

Yay! Chapter Two finished!!
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I feel sorry for Chryssi
Anyway I hoped you liked this chapter! I made it with loving Derpy!
ZO, COAHM BAHCK TO ZSEE ZE MAGHICKS!! (you might need a translator)
Have a nice day everyone!