Chapter 26
Entering the dream realm, I sighed and slowly allowed myself to sink down onto the not-ground.
In all honestly, dinner had not been that bad and there had been fish. But it had been a very long day and I felt exhausted.
I stayed like that for a moment, just keeping my eyes closed as I enjoyed the coolness of the dream realm.
Tomorrow negotiations would start. Or rather, I would present what I was here for. There were procedures of these things. I would have preferred to show up, tell him what we wanted and then leave.
But noooo…
Oh well, at least we were getting to the point tomorrow.
Sitting back up, I looked around before I sighed. Luna would be bright awake by now so no Luna time.
I started to flick through dream portals after giving them a quick sorting to get the ones with bad dreams.
No Nightmares in which was good.
I didn’t really feel like hunting any down right now.
Anyone around that I could hang out with? Sunshine were deep asleep, but having a way too nice dream for me to want to interrupt. Celestias portal were almost shining pink.
It was rare to see one in that particular shade and almost everytime I seen one before was from Cadence.
Eyeing the portal for a second I then flicked my ears and sent it on it’s way. I had to admit, I was kind of curious, but looking would be wrong.
Mentally flicking through the portals, I found some ponies. Sunset were asleep and without dreams at the moment.
Swift and Cloud were still awake so they were out.
Twilight were awake which were not very strange, she usually stayed up late reading.
Silver were awake too which was stranger. Maybe she were out with her friends.
Finally, I came up to a portal. Flat dark silvery green.
Changeling. More specifically, Chrysalis.
I had only gone into a changeling dream once with Skitter before she became a Princess. It was a strange experience I didn’t really feel like repeating.
But I also felt like I really should check in on Chrysalis again so see that the stupid bug wasn’t doing something idiotic again.
Glancing around for an excuse, I then sighed and folded my wings and entered through the portal.
Everything went all twisty for a second and then seemed stretch out forever just at the edge of my vision.
The effect of stretching out into infinity stayed around the edge of what I could see, but the rest formed into a dark cave with a ceiling just above my head, the walls kind of creeping in around me.
It was cool, dry and gave of a feeling of comfortable safe home.
Told you changelings were strange as fuck.
Chrysalis were laying on the floor of the cave, looking down at a pile of hoof sized white and fat squirming grubs on the floor between her forelegs.
She looked down at them for a long moment before she turned her head in my direction, “Welcome, little predator.”
What in the fuck!? I hadn’t solidified the dream! How did she know I was here!?
Tapping my hoof, I solidified it around us anyway before I spoke up, “Chrysalis. How…”
“Did I know you were here?” she asked and buzzed her wings before turning back to the pile of grubs, “I could taste you.”
Ah.
That did make sense. Was still strange, but made sense.
“Why are you here?” she finally asked and got up, turning to face me, “Checking in on me?”
“In a way,” I agreed, “Just making sure you’re not being stupid again.”
Chrysalid looked at me and took a step closer, “And here I were starting to think you were starting to understand changelings.”
“I do,” I said and shook my head, looking up at her, “You thought you were a hinderance to the hive’s greater good and as such needed to go away. They still need you, and that was the stupid part.”
“The hive is Everything.”
I nodded, “Almost everything.”
Chrysalis snorted and shook her head, “No. Everything. The Hive must survive and thrive, no matter what. I’d burn the rest of the world if it meant the Hive would make it.”
“But that’s not the kind of thing that would make it happen,” I told her, “It’s not about force, not anymore.”
She paused, and her wings lowered against her back, “…No. It’s not. That’s the old way. My way.”
“The Hive need to adapt if it’s to survive. Change to its environment.”
“Yes.”
I moved closer to look up at her, “So are you telling me that the Queen of the Changelings is incapable of change? Incapable of adapting?”
She growled at me, her wings buzzing hard as she took a step forward, sharp fangs bared with a snarl.
I raised my eyebrows at her, “Well?”
Chrysalis hissed at me, “Let me wake up.”
“Sweet dreams, your highness,” I told her with a smile, letting the dream fade away around us, letting go of my grasp around her and she disappeared from the dream world.
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In an alternate turn of events, Page gives into temptation and goes into Celestia’s dream.
He’s sees her chambers, a well worn contrast to Luna’s own.
He’s sees the blankets moving around, as well as some giggling mixed with content sighing.
He knew he might find this, but he kinda expected a bit more. Still he decided to turn back and let Celly and Clear Skies have There fun, even if it was a dream.
He turns to leave.
“Oh, Page.” Celestia says.
Figuring he had been caught he decides to own up “Yes?”
But she doesn’t respond, to him at least, instead she she smiles as she and a chestnut brown stallion are revealed in her bed. He is larger than she and is also is sporting wings and a horn...and has a blank scroll cutie mark...
“Okayyy time to go!” Page says as he opens a portal and leaves faster than ever.
Alternate alternate.
“Oh Bean!”
Hm. I wonder what Tia was dreaming about. Prolly something Romantic. Shit's the bees knees.
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or infinite cake
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no the Celastia Twilight's would be a endless library
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For her, infinite cake could be pretty romantic.
Chrysalis is scared vary scared, but of what?
I don't normally do this, but the grammar (or lack thereof) was especially bad in this chapter for some reason. Especially the use of "were" when "was" was needed.
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I don't bother anymore. He doesn't seem to care.
He should have either kissed that cranky old Queen on the nose, or at least booped it.
I would have.
To steal a kiss from royalty, top of the bucket list right there.
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*Boop*
*Queen Chrysalis explodes from rage*
Are was and were really that interchangable? Errors of this kind have been getting worse and worse, and I don't know why you're not taking people up on their offers to help with that. A single person using GDocs would clean up about 95% of this stuff with one read, and it wouldn't take them five minutes to do it. And with the amount of people around here you could have an army of decent prereaders for each chapter of you wanted to.
I just don't understand. Hate to see good stories suffer needlessly like that.
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I used to ask for beta readers over at spacebattles forum. But none of the normal beta readers are interested in mlp so I just post it unbetaed there a couple of hours before I post it here so somebody can point out the mistakes. Sometimes I get a correction that I can implement.
I am trying to get better, trust me, you don't want to read my earlier stuff when it was unbetaed.
Usually when it show up here with lot's of errors it's because I was in a hurry and couldn't wait for any suggested corrections.
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Well, impatience on your part is certainly a problem, but if you rally up a couple people here (take up a few people on their offer to help out regularly, or just do a blogpost with a GDoc link when you're done writing a new chapter) they should get a decent job done in time anyways. Would be nice if you could give us a 24 hour window though ;) There are entire groups on here dedicated to pre-reading/editing btw, but you probably know about that.
And yes, I'm offering to pre-read once more.
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The entire rest of the story has been written for over a month now. I tend to ask for betaing for each part in turn. As for gdoc, it's actually something I have been thinking of migrating to in october. Just move my entire collection of written works to google drive and drop office and keep dropbox as a secondary cloud storage location.
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kind of counter productive to have chrissy explode after all that work.
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I need more beans and dragon ponies
Such an odd quirk you have, using "were" when it should be "was"
Was! Was is a word that this chapter should have! Yeah I know I'm late for the party on that one; it still comes up way to often.
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Hmmmm. Indeed.
i've seen similar lines in other fics, but it's still amusing.
and one where Chysialis tried to play a role-playing game, and lost badly!
All of these should be "was"
Rhawkas pointed out several other instances where you should have put "was" instead of "were"
Dude, you really need to start fixing the grammatical errors in these chapters. They’re getting a little annoying...
I notice grammar errors like this all over the place. Where "was" should be, you put "were," and where "were" should go, you put "was."
Chrysalis: "The Hive will have your Grubs one day little Predator ~♡"
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Personally I would love to see that ^^
Bugwaifu is a difficult individual to get used to.
I wonder if the Larve are getting raised the ponies way-ish... A experiment of sorts.
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Little Blank Page larve? The adorableness might cause mass heart attacks...