An Enemy Revealed
Luna's sky was a dark purple sea, speckled with thousands of fireflies, twinkling away as the called to each other in some language known only to themselves. A few clouds drifted lazily through the air, bringing with them a sense of tranquility; the hustle and bustle of the world below was inconsequential to a cloud. Unfortunately, that tranquility was shattered as a pair of chitinous wings sliced through the cloud, dispersing it into a pale blue mist.
The air was filled with a foreboding buzz as the changeling flew toward his goal off in the distance. The pearly white city clung to the edge of a mountain - the object of a failed invasion - the city that crushed an empire. This time, though, his goal was different. It was not the city, but two of its inhabitants.
Sparkle was definitely a useful tool. The first thing she did was tell me exactly what I needed to know! He mused as he flew along, doing a few rolls to either side here or there. As he approached the castle, he faced a decision. The Sisters would undoubtedly have Scootaloo and the former queen in either the Solar or Lunar wings. Now, which to choose...
Eventually he decided that his best choice was to check the Solar wing first, since its princess would more than likely be sleeping. He clung to the gold dome atop the eastern tower before swinging down to the facade. He began to methodically check windows. His ears swung like radar dishes, listening for any sound that might give away their location.
"I swear," he heard a guard say, "she kissed me! Celestia kissed me."
"I don't buy it," another said. The changeling moved on to the next window.
"I'm telling you, Grandma, the look on that guard's face when he thought Celestia had kissed him was priceless!" Scootaloo's voice rang out with jubilance. That was his cue.
Inside the room, Chrysalis looked at her granddaughter with slightly apparent but quite abundant pride. She opened her mouth to say something when one of her ears twitched toward the window. She had barely enough time to react. She dodged out of the way in a blur as a green bolt of magic whizzed through where she had just been standing. "Scootaloo," she shouted, "hide, NOW!"
She charged a pulse to her horn and readied herself to end somepony's life, when a small chitinous form buzzed in, clinging to the wall opposite her. His wings buzzed angrily.
"You've had it!" He chittered.
She stared at him unflinchingly and chittered right back, "I think you overestimate your position."
"Funny, I was about to say the same thing," he dropped to the ground and began to strut over to her. He was a good head shorter than a fully grown changeling should be. "Do you remember me, your highness?" he spat out, voice dripping with hate.
"Can't say I do." She lifted him and pushed him against the wall with as much force as she could muster. He stood quickly, brushing it off.
"My name is Mirror. You killed my father. Prepare to die." He lunged forward with his horn, and Chrysalis pushed him aside with a hoof."
"Excuse me?"
"My name is Mirror. You killed my father. Prepare to die." He lunged again, and Chrysalis repeated her earlier action.
"I could swear I've heard that before. Was it in a play?" She deflected another blow. "At any rate, who was your father? I've killed many changelings over the years, to be honest."
"A general in your armies. Cluster."
"Oh." Another deflection. "Him. Well what did you expect?" She performed a riposte, stabbing with her jagged horn. Mirror leaped into the air with a buzz of his wings and landed behind her. She whipped around. "He did try to kill my daughter and granddaughter."
"You had him captured, defenseless!" Another stab, this time nicking the queen's lower right foreleg, eliciting a slight hiss of surprise and pain from the queen. "You didn't have to kill him!"
"Would you have done differently if your child were being threatened?"
"I would have stayed true to the changeling ways and not gotten involved to begin with!"
Chrysalis stopped, glaring at the small, rage-consumed changeling colt. "I've made a few mistakes, sure. I'm not above admitting that." In a flash, her horn reignited and pinned him to a wall. She held her horn to his throat. "What do you hope to accomplish, though?"
"I want them to know the pain I've endured!" He all but sobbed. "I want them to feel the loss I feel."
"Well, allow me to end your suffering." She angled her horn and prepared to strike.
"Grandma, no!" Scootaloo's voice called out from under the bed where she had been hiding. She galloped out to stand in front of Chrysalis. "Killing more changelings isn't the answer."
"Child, you don't know what you're ta-"
"Look at what it's done to him. If you could just --"
There was an explosion of force from the young changeling, sending both the queen and her granddaughter flying. He floated over on his wings, charging another spell to his horn. "Now, Chrysalis, you're going to know what it's like to lose someone you care about."
Just as he was ready to strike, the door to their chamber burst open, flooding the room with blinding white light. The heat coming from the door was nearly unbearable. The small changeling shielded his eyes before flying out of the window in fear, and the light began to die down. As it subsided, Celestia stood in the doorway. Her eyes, normally gentle and soft, were alight with the fires of anger. She looked at the two changelings left in the room. She levitated a scroll behind her.
"Are you all right?"
"Yes," Chrysalis said with a bit of a strain in her voice, "fine. Thank you."
"I think we have a problem." The solar princess said plainly.
Stats
Page generated in 0.075 seconds
Total duration
1,021 users online
2,301,122 hits today, 2,561,572 yesterday
FIMFiction
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Fanfiction
Designed and coded by knighty & Xaquseg - © 2011-2024
Follow & Support Us
Support us
SubStar
Chat!
Discord
Follow us
Twitter
MLP: Friendship is Magic® - © 2024 Hasbro Inc.®
Fimfiction is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Hasbro Inc.®
Fucking cliffhangers...
BUG HUNT TIME!!!!! I'll gladly do it, anypony want to join me?
Good to see a new chapter.
I don't read till complete anymore and am glad this isn't dead.
The cliff hangers are strong in this one x3. Loving it so far
It's good to see one of my Favorite Changeling stories back up and running.
4258931 Now where'd I put that Flame Thrower... Ah-hah!
4259100
Need a light?
img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080711044105/starcraft/images/c/c6/Firebat_SC-G_Cine1.jpg
Glad too see this story isn't dead!
4258931
Hmm why not i could go for some extermination. so which to choose the flamethrower or the XM214 Mini-gun?
mysite.verizon.net/nchojnowski/munition/minigun.jpg
eternal-silence.net/4images/data/media/9/NGM_FlameThrower.jpg
4259101
*Snarls* *spits some gunk* The hive needs some husks anyway
woah... chapter update.. did not expect that. I'll read it sometime later.
4258931
Just say the word and...
stream1.gifsoup.com/view8/4622791/napalm-o.gif
4259413
God I love you so much, just for that single clip!
I thought you died ._.
Glad to see you didn't .-.
The funny thing is I just watched The Princess Bride last night with my mom. I would haves liked to see the Chatty Duelists' banter between Mirror and Chrysalis.
4259100 Flamethrowers are overrated. Let's see... 28 cans of anti-bug spray, 22 cans of changeling-defense spray, 5 kilo C4, one primer, mix it all together... Aaaannndd done. One two-and-a-half-mile radius Changeling-Exterminator-And-Bug-Slayer, or CEABS for short... Now where to prime it...
Thank you for comeing back to me <3
Stabby stab stab
It had to be done...
That's it! Get me my Raid!
Seriously, though. I had to go back and reread the last couple chapters just to refresh myself on what was happening. Oh well, it was worth it
4262286 Drop it on Ponyville, that's where the safe money for "Strange stuff's boiling over" situations lies. Also, considering how light and fragile all of their buildings seem to be I'd wager they need to bug-bomb out those termites at some point anyway, it's just convenient.
imageshack.com/a/img33/5764/likethischapter.jpg
4258931 ever free forest 1.5 clicks north of zecoras hut currently cut in half by lazerbeaks laser.
The changelings aren't supposed to know who their parents were, right?
I guess that's why Mirror flipped when his daddy died.
This is going to be good.
Man, seems like every single chapter, you keep being so down on yourself for not posting chapters faster... Relax! It's not a job, nobody's paying you or going to fire you for missing deadlines. :) You're (presumably) writing something you enjoy writing, so just write for yourself, we can survive until you're satisfied with it and ready to share.
If you're stressing about some perceived restless audience's impatience, that just makes it harder (I've been there).
Of course, I might just be reading too much into those notes, and if that's the case, just pay me no mind.
I am curious where you're taking the story, so I'll be following until it's done (if not longer). But like I said, don't take that as pressure... I know all about the curveballs life can hit one's writing with. I certainly don't mind waiting for a good story. :)
OH FUCK NO!!! YOU DID NOT DO THAT!!!
FUCK YES! DAT REFERENCE!!!!
well three chapters ago i seen the 777 likes, did not wanna break it but now i do so have another
keep up good work
So, Rebound is pretty funny.
So... Is this going to continue?
Cap.
[See previous comment on Solar Wing].
______________
Delete " mark.
_________________
That Princess Bride reference
. At least Twilight stopped being an idiot long enough to actually send a scroll back to Celestia.