> Collaborative Creations > by SeanofTheDead > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Teacher: Twysalis(Romance, SoL) > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Teacher Written by: SeanofTheDead For the Twysalis Prompt Tag Collab Luna couldn’t for the life of her understand why she had been sent to monitor Chrysalis, who had recently been inducted into the royalty of Equestria via a treaty. The changeling queen had far surpassed the expectations of anypony, and was behaving very well. She hadn’t so much as attempted to hurt anypony. While this would normally be cause for Luna to return home to Canterlot, Celestia had said that there was a lesson to be learned from the situation, and that Luna was to remain there until it had been resolved. Luna had been at the Palace of Friendship for three weeks now, and she had yet to see any such opportunity to teach any sort of lesson. Though she had been able to see a budding friendship be created from Chrysalis and Twilight’s teamwork to defeat the usual threats the Ponyville usually saw. From an angry Minotaur lord whom was seeking Chrysalis’ hoof in marriage in order to further his political ambitions, to an Ursa Minor attack, though that was same old same old for the little town. Through these and other trials she had borne witness to a strong friendship that grew each day. And though it was a beautiful thing to behold, it wasn’t what Celestia wanted her there to see. She had also learned that Chrysalis was quite adept at dealing with suitors she had no interest in. The Minotaur Lord might not have gone on a rampage had Chrysalis not chosen to say “Moo!!” at him quite as often as she did. She had used the same tactic on Blueblood as well, though he ran away screaming about eating more salad. Blueblood suspected changeling magic was used and had asked Luna to act as a witness to the event. However Luna had very clearly stated she had been watching a very comical show at the time. No other ponies was there at the time so no charges could be leveled against Chrysalis. More recently Twilight had given in to her urge to learn and had learned the changeling language both written and spoken from Chryssy as she was now known to her friends, and had done so in only two weeks. Yet despite these and other lessons having been learned, and Luna’s assurances that Chrysalis was indeed no threat to anypony Celestia still refused Luna’s requests to return home. The only other thing she had noticed that was even remotely out of the ordinary, was that Twilight Sparkle had become somewhat more like her yellow pegasus friend whenever Chrysalis was around. This change was so minute however that nopony save for Luna seemed to notice. Luna had come to the conclusion that Celestia wanted her to see that no matter what you are, or dark secrets you may hide love was possible for you provided you went about it with hope. The problem with this lesson was that Chrysalis had told her and Twilight over breakfast one day, the she would never love someone who only entered the relationship to gain something. All of her suitors however, both the stallions and the mares all wanted to gain something from the relationship. Some (like Blueblood) had even brought contracts. The others who attempted to mask their intentions were found out quickly once Chrysalis used a bit of changeling magic to discern their true feelings, after all being an emotivore has benefits. Insults of the highest caliber always followed. And so here Luna was after raising the moon, laying on a couch in a common room with Chysalis, feeling homesick and with none of her subjects having any nightmares yet to distract her and waiting for Twilight to show up from her super secret week long trip. Just before Twilight entered the room though Chrysalis said the most peculiar thing. “Well, somepony is VERY nervous, but also very...hmmm, determined? ” Chrysalis said as the door opened revealing Twilight who was carrying a box in her magic. “That’d be me,” Twilight said with a small, almost nervous sounding giggle as she set the box down in front of Chrysalis. Luna raised her head to better view the unfolding event before her. It wasn’t everyday that Twilight Sparkle was nervous, unless of course she was tardy. “What’s this?” Chrysalis asked, clearly confused by the rather large package. “It’s a gift silly, and yes it is from another suitor,” Twilight said as a small twinkle in her eye belied her true intent to Luna who covered her muzzle with a hoof as she made sense of what was happening. “When will they learn?” Chrysalis asked in exasperation, as she moved to open the package “who was it from this time? Some other stuck up noble from Canterlot perhaps?” “Noble yes, from Canterlot no and yes, stuck up... well maybe a bit,.” Twilight answered as Chysalis opened the box...and dropped the lid. The inside was full of letters, and on each letter was an individual name from each of the members of Chrysalis’ hive. “ Twilight...who sent this box…” “..............I did, this is why I was gone last week, and why I was so eager to learn your language,” Twilight explained while blushing furiously. “ When you signed the treaty between our countries you said that you were doing this because it would benefit your hive, that even though it would hurt to leave them, you would do it because you loved every last one of them dearly. And that was when I started to fall in love with you.” “...” Chrysalis’ horn began to glow softly as she looked into the still very nervous eyes of Twilight Sparkle Luna watched the scene unfolding before her in complete awe. Twilight had gone to a nearly superpony effort just to say that she loved Chrysalis, even for an alicorn this was immense. As the light from Chrysalis’ horn died down she whispered with tears of joy in her eyes,which were widened in surprise “You-you really mean it… you love me… despite everything I’ve done, every bit of hell I’ve put you and your friends through...you have grown to love me...” Twilight smiled and said, “ Yes I have, and I always will.” It wasn’t until now that the lesson Celestia had wanted to teach became clear to Luna as the new couple embraced before her. It didn’t matter who you were, or what you have done in the past as long as you have love in your heart, love will find you. And never let you go.” Luna smiled as she rose to give them some privacy and thought to herself So, there is hope for me after all... > Hand: Twysalis(Romance, Comedy, SoL, Anthro) > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hand Written by SeanofTheDead For The Twysalis Prompt Tag Collab Chrysalis was rather scared, actually she was terrified. Twilight had been complaining that she hadn’t been able to study often enough to her liking, and had been beginning to go a bit stir crazy. ‘It’s my own fault,’ Chrysalis thought as her fetlocks shook with apprehension towards the forthcoming ‘experiment’ and Twilight began, ‘I suggested that we do this together for the sake of the added time together and even offered to be the test subject so we could spend even more time together...oh the things I do for love.’ “Okay Chryssi Its almost ready now…” “T-twilight your s-sure this is safe?” “Of course it is...now get ready love, this won’t hurt a bit.” “Th-then why am strapped down?” “Just in case you start thrashing uncontrollably, they will protect you from hurting yourself.” ‘Sweet Celestial Sisters I am going to die aren’t I?’ “O-okay. B-b-but what is this spell s-supposed to do again?” “Well when I told Lyra Heartstring about the world of humans I had visited, she thought I was just being mean to her,” Twilight explained as her horn’s ethereal glow doubled in intensity, casting highly disconcerting shadows against the walls of her laboratory. “So I made a spell to turn somepony into one of those Humans. Okay here goes.” A beam of bright purple light shot from Twilight’s horn and struck Chrysalis’ barrel with a muffled boom and a cloud of smoke, sending an odd tingling throughout her body, causing her to give a small cry of alarm. It felt odd to say the least. Chrysalis felt as though her body were made of bread dough, being kneaded, folded, and twisted into different shapes as her entire physiology was warped with that omnipresent, ludicrously powerful, vibrating tingle which was sweeping through her form, covering her like a blanket...until it reached her *ahem* filly bits… “WOAH! TWILIGHT STOP IT! THAT FEELS REALLY WEIRD! GAH!!” Twilight immediately killed the spell afraid that the discomfort her lover was feeling was a sign that something had gone horribly wrong. Causing the straps to undo themselves Twilight galloped forward preparing herself for the worst. Chrysalis was only about halfway through the spell’s metamorphosis when Twilight had stopped it causing an altogether unexpected reaction. Chryssi still had her rear hooves, wings, tail, and horn. Her carapace was softer looking and had two distinct bulges where her barrel used to be. Her eye’s were slightly smaller, as was her muzzle. She now had the same kind of claws that the humans did and she only stood on her rear hooves. Twilight, remebering how the humans had been when she had traveled to their world wiped the drool from her chin and tried to speak to tell Chrysalis that it would wear off in a few hours. But all her mind could think was, ‘wow’ Chrysalis stood there waiting for herself to fall over due to a lack of balance from being on rear hooves. When she didn’t, she began to look herself over with little “hmms” and “well that looks odd…” She looked at her newly acquired hands in awe. feeling an itch on her forearm she scratched at it with her newly dubbed “claw-ish thingies” and instantly felt a sensation unlike any other. It was so easy to get rid of the itching feeling now. She looked over at Twilight and thought to herself as she grinned like a mad-mare, ‘I’ll bet I can do even more with these than just that...’ She shut the door with her magic and slowly began to approach Twilight slowly, and as seductively as possible. Upon reaching the aforementioned slightly drooling mare Chrysalis crouched down. “Umm, Chryssi? What are you doing?” asked the somewhat nervous Twilight “Shhhh just lay down on your back and enjoy…” “But I- ohhhhhhh…" Several hours later… “So...did you enjoy that?” Chrysalis asked her smiling lover as she panted loudly into the air around them, slowly decreasing in volume as she winded down from the feeling of euphoria she had been immersed in only minutes before. “I knew you liked it when I do that, and theses claw-ish thingies make it soooo much easier,”Chrysalis giggled. “And feels much better,” the somewhat recovered Twilight said as she slowly turned to face her lover. “But next time I get to rub your tummy, and scratch behind your ears.” “Deal.” Chrysalis said shivering in anticipation. Little did she know Twilight would do far more lewd things than had been promised... > Trollestia: Twysalis(Romance, Comedy, SoL, Random) > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trollestia Written by: SeanofTheDead For: The Twysalis Prompt Tag Collab It was chaos in the Royal Palace as Twilight Sparkle ran through the halls. Guards were sticking out of the walls, black burn marks decorating the walls, floor, and ceiling. Shouts from the recently arrived cleaning staff consisting mainly of "are you bucking kidding me?!" and that of the greetings from the improperly positioned guards permeated the air in a cacophony of noise as Twilight sprinted towards her goal, the chambers of Princess Celestia. New cries of noise" how could you?!" and "promised to never tell!" as well as "I didn't tell anypony!" only served to spur Twilight onward, knowing what they meant. Earlier that day Twilight was confused. Not your average kind of confused either, no this was the kind of confused she only became when something truly odd happened. Like last Tuesday when she saw Fluttershy's pet bunny Angel surrounded by his bunny brethren, riding a clearly hypnotized Spike while holding a banner that read 'FOR SPARTA!' who was charging into a line of squirrels outfitted in full battle gear. Yes she was very confused at that time. Though it was nothing compared to now as she walked to daily meeting with Queen Chrysalis, having just received a very interesting letter from the princess about the emotional state of the changeling she was about to meet with, as well as the reason behind her wanting to spend so much time with Twilight. As she approached Chrysalis spoke " Hello Twilight! You seem rather confused...may I ask why? Twilight (being unused to such matters put it very bluntly) "Celestia sent me a letter today. It's about you and why you are here so often." Chrysalis turned white and froze. For a few tense moments Twilight feared she may have broken her before the letter was ripped from her grasp and placed in front of Chrysalis' muzzle. Slowly she began to regain her color, though not her usual color. She first became pink then slowly darkened to red. As soon as she finished reading the letter she slowly floated it to Twilight whom now had a very serious look on her face. "Well?" Twilight asked. Chrysalis responded with a sad smile which immediately turned into a fierce scowl. "You two-faced troll of a whorse! You said you'd let me tell her!" Chrysalis screamed as she took off headed in the direction of Canterlot. And now Twilight was galloping down the halls of the palace in absolute terror of somepony being hurt because of her. Thankfully she was nearing her destination if the shouts were anything to go by. She burst through the door with her magic inadvertently ripping it off the hinges and sending it flying through the wall out into the streets below. "STOP!!!!" Twilight screamed as she ran through the now ruined doorway to see Chrysalis locked in hoof to hoof combat with Celestia. She lifted both mares in her magic and kept them suspended in the air. "Okay now Chrysalis if I thought dating you like the letter said was a bad idea wouldn't I have said so?" Twilight asked calmly. "And Celestia regardless of whether or not it was you that sent that letter, in the future please stay out of my love life unless I go to you for advice. Now why don't we talk to each other rationally about all of this? Luna slowly backed away from the gaping hole that used to Celestia's bedroom door. Perhaps going to her hadn't been the best idea. But now at least I don't need to listen to their complaining about one another. I need ti thank Trollestia as soon as possible...and ban her from this universe forever. > Charity: Twysalis(Romance, Comedy, SoL, Random) > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Charity A (very short) Rom-Com written by SeanofTheDead For The Twysalis Prompt Tag Collab “Chrysalis!” Twilight yelled as she stomped into the room she shared with her marefriend, furious over the catastrophe caused by her earlier. To her credit Chrysalis had been rather charitable....though NOT in an expected manner. “Yes Twilight my love?” Twilight’s mouth dropped open and began to leak a small amount of drool at the heavenly sight before her. Chrysalis was wearing brand new Carousel Boutique lingerie, the fabric of the panties clinging to her …wait no I’m mad….aren’t I? To be completely honest Twilight was no longer sure of her motivations for coming into her bedroom. What she did know however was that Chryssy looked REALLY hot. And that was making her feel REALLY hot. “ I see you have found something you like…” Twilight could only nod her head dumbly in response at this point. “Good, because after today’s earlier mishap, I bought all new lingerie for the both of us to last us a few years.” A lewd smile spread across Twilight’s muzzle at her marefriend’s words. Twilight had remembered why she was angry...however she no longer cared. Screw Manehatten, they’ll figure it out. Manehatten did in fact find a solution to the problem plagueing their city. The homeless population had never looked better...thanks to a mysterious donation of hundreds of sets of very well made lingerie from a completely anonymous source in Ponyville... > Overripe Banana: Twysalis (Romance, Comedy, Random, SoL) > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Overripe Banana Written by SeanofTheDead Written for the Twysalis Prompt Tag Collab To any casual visitor to The Treeastleace of Friendship(I don’t care what it’s canon name is I call it by what it looks like. A tree, a castle, and a palace) the overall atmosphere wouldn’t be far from normal compared to any other building in Ponyville besides it’s size and the materials used to build it. The only true difference they would notice would be the mildly fruity smell permeating the structure’s interior. Of course the casual visitor wouldn’t be allowed near the denizens bedrooms, unlike Fluttershy, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash, who were in fact able to traverse deeper into the Treeastleace than any visitor. Being denizens of the aforementioned abode, had it’s privileges after all. It also had drawbacks, considering the fruity aroma only became more and more cloying the further into the building you went. And their rooms were close to the source of the now horridly, powerful odor. The source being Twilight’s room. Or as they had been calling it for the last year and a half now, much to the dismay of the rooms occupants, Twi and Chryssy’s’ Love Palace. Though what the odor had to do with the occupants, the room, or even the building was anypony’s guess. But Twilight hadn’t been seen much lately and so here her friends were braving the ungodly smell to find their friend and ask what was going on “I’b delling you guys, we shoulb jusd burn the hall and dell them to run for id,” Rainbow said as she held her nose shut while walking on the other three. *sniff* *hack* *gag* “Foul blasphemous banana smell, apples are better fer ya and everypony knows it too,” said Applejack as she tried to keep her apple themed lunch down. “Maybe we should ask them why the smell is so stong here, if that’s okay with you I mean…” said the official spokespony of the “I’m a doormat and proud of it club.” “Screwb it, I’b goin in!” Rainbow shouted as she threw her body against the door just as it was opening, revealing a very shocked Twilight Sparkle and massive pile of old banana peels, and another slightly larger pile of whole bananas. “Well that explains the smell, but Twi...how could you betray me like this?” Applejack asked tears in her eyes at the monumental betrayal of her best friend. “I thought we had somethin’ special...you said you loved my apples...but ya was just lyin’ I guess.” “Applejack I didn’t betray you, or your delicious apples. Chryssy is just um….well she’s…” Twilight stumbled to find her words as most socially awkward ponies do when confronted with an awkward or embarrassing situation. Thankfully she had friends like Rainbow, whom when confronted with something awkward or embarrassing, blurt it out as soon as they figure out what it is. “CHRYSALIS IS PREGNANT!!!” Thank you Rainbow, for being ‘that’ friend. A quick look towards the bed confirmed the blurting from Rainbow to be true. Chrysalis was VERY pregnant. “Yes,” Twilight sighed, “Chrysalis is about eight months pregnant, and she has been craving bananas.” “But, if you don’t mind my asking that is, how in the name of Celestia’s hot flank, did you get pregnant?” asked a very confused Fluttershy. “I mean you are both mares, so just...how?” Twilight and Chrysalis exchanged a mortified look of complete embarrassment and blushed. “Well you see…” But that is a story for a different prompt. > Blood: MoonLight(Dark, Tragedy, Sad, Romance) > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Blood Written by: SeanofTheDead For: The MoonLight Prompt Tag Collab The blood, there had been so much blood. It was what dominated Nightmare's memories of that day. The day everything had gone wrong. She sat beside Twilight's bed feeling forlorn and useless, waiting for her love to awaken. She had done this since the 'incident' as it was being dubbed by Celestia and Luna. It had been three weeks since something dark and powerful had entered her, in an attempt to take possession of her mind. It had, and she had been forced to watch as this darkness went on a rampage through Canterlot destroying the city and terrorizing the inhabitants. Until Twilight had caught up to her that is. Nightmare had watched as the dark THING had struck her down. She had felt Twilight's warm blood coat her hooves, and was forced to watch and feel every blow as though she was the one in control as Twilight, her love, was beaten until she had coughed up blood, her ribs sticking through her flesh in places, the fluids forming puddles beneath her. She hadn't raised a hoof to Nightmare, and the whole time she had been begging her to fight it, to take back control of her body. Then she had begged for her to stop. that had been the breaking point for Nightmare, Twilight had thought she was in control. that she had been the entire time. That the love they shared had been a meaningless lie. That had been the point that Celestia showed up; just in time to watch as Nightmare wrested control from the darkness within her and drove it out. The instant that Celestia saw the dark shape fly from Nightmare's body, she put two and two together. Celestia’s rage towards the being that would cause such a thing to happen to both her new friend and her faithful student nearly drove her mad. That day was being heralded as The Day of Two Suns. While Celestia had been busy dealing with the evil being, Nightmare had taken Twilights broken form to the hospital where she now lay; where Nightmare had been since she had brought Twilight here, and where she would stay until Twilight recovered. She had the blood of her true love on her hooves, , and for the moment, she could only wait, hoping and praying that it could be washed clean. > Hearts: Twirilee(Romance, SoL) > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hearts Written by: SeanofTheDead For: The Twirilee Prompt tag collab Cheerilie sat down on her couch and sighed. Today had been a long day. First Snips and Snails had lured manticore to the school to see if somepony could defeat that. Those two would be the death of her. And maybe the rest of the town too she thought bitterly. Then there had been the usual arguments between the CMC and Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon. And if that wasn't enough Twilight had come by right after school with a thirty page report about hearts and how they react when somepony is close to the object of her affection. While Cheerilee was always happy to see that particular mare, she had absolutely NO idea why she had given her the report. And Cheerilee had offered to read it prompting an adorable blush from Twilight. For some reason Twilight had been making her heart race quite a bit for quite awhile now. She supposed it was just a simple crush and that it would pass in time. Right because every crush lasts two years. After all Twilight was from a noble family, it wouldn't do for her to be seen prefering the same gender. No, even if Twilight did like her in 'that' way she would probably just deny it up. Though the increase in time they spent together had not been helping. And so here she sat reading through another 'thrilling' paper written by her unrequited love. All the while hoping that she would somehow be able to achieve the impossible and have Twilight share her feelings. As she reached the end of the paper, she noticed that Twilight had suddenly changed the way she had written it. It had changed into a letter explaining how she had been using her magic to see if increased time with her object of affection had any sort of effect on the heart. She also explained that she knew about Cheerilee's crush on her and apologized for using her like that. but the stangest part was when I noticed that my heart would race whenever yours did..........Cheerilee? What happens when two hearts race? What does it mean? Twilight was sitting at her desk musing over her recent finding in her research, when she heard a knock at her door. She walked over and opened it...and had her lips pressed Cheerilee's. Her heart started racing as they broke their kiss. And she didn't need magic to know that Cheerilee's was as well. Cheerilee was the first to speak. "The answer to your question about hearts Twilight is that when two hearts race, both win. It's kinda cheesy, but I think it's the best answer." "So do I," Twilight said as she smiled. > Discovered (Twysalis: Romance, Sad) > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Discovered Written by: SeanofTheDead Chrysalis wasn’t happy. She had been captured by Shining Armor, dragged in front of the Princesses, had a joke of a trial, and been forced into signing a treaty. Even though she knew it right to do so. And that in the long run it would help her hive, she had said as much when she signed it. She had only been saved by Twilight Sparkle’s timely appearance. Now she had been forced into reformation and was under the watch of Sparkle herself. And the stupid minotaur that had wanted her to marry him she had gotten rid of him easily enough. (they hate it when you moo at them) Things could not be worse. Twilight wasn’t happy, she had risked everything in defense of Chrysalis, and was currently being treated like dirt for it. Chrysalis took every opportunity to berate her on her conduct from the way she walked, to the way she acted when she was with her friends. She called her mean names, insulted her appearance, and was all in all being the worst pony Twilight had ever met. Things could not be worse, though Chrysalis was rather pretty… This day had gone like the others, don’t let Chrysalis out of her sight, spend time with friends, be incessantly insulted by Chrysalis. She had been planning this trip to the Everfree with fluttershy for months, hoping that she would get Fluttershy to help her study some of the natural fauna here. Chrysalis had ruined it, she was constantly scaring her and Fluttershy (as well as the animals they were trying to study) and insulting both of them every step of the way. “And furthermore you are by far the most repulsive-” “THAT’S IT!!” A wave of magic slammed into Chrysalis, sending her flying through the air to land heavily on her stomach on the grass. “Ooof!” “Twilight what are you doing to her?!” “Stay out of this Fluttershy!” “Meep!” Twilight approached her swiftly anger burning in her eyes Fluttershy could only look on as she watched her friend who looked as though she was about to kill Chrysalis. “I am sick of your near constant insults! I saved your life, and feel as though you need to berate me constantly, pushing me down into the dirt, so that I am beneath you because you think you are superior to me!” Twilight shouted at her, relieving herself of the accumulated stress of the past two weeks, venting to the former queen, and despite the queen being constantly abusive towards her...Chrysalis found herself feeling sorry. This was most unbecoming. And the feeling only became worse, as she laid there while Twilight bared her soul. “I admired you for doing what was necessary for your hive, even though it branded you an outlaw, so I stood up for you. I stood up to Celestia, my teacher, my idol, my friend because I hoped that you might be grateful, that you might be capable of showing gatitude kindness or something! I put with two weeks of heart crushing verbal torment at your hooves, because I thought that if somepony showed you some kindness, you might reciprocate and change. It’s in the name of your bucking race for Luna’s sake! Yet all you do is torment anypony who tries to help you! I was driven to help you based on the hope that you might be able to show you could care for somepony other than yourself. And the worst part is that I was kinda starting to have a crush on you because you are pretty and you are SO dedicated to your subjects, but it turns out you are only capable of caring for yourself.… well? What do you have to say for yourself?” Chrysalis was absolutely stunned. Twilight had put far more on the line that she had thought… Celestia was her idol, her teacher, her friend...”I am sorr-” “CHRYSALIS!!! You will pay for disgracing me!” It was that minotaur Grangor (or something like that) from earlier in the week, he had in his hands a massive mace that made a pony seem small. Twilight jumped in front of him causing his mace to hit her instead, sending her into a tree trunk, and breaking her wings and two of her legs the bones jutting out of the skin at odd angles. While Chrysalis was still in a state of shock, and kicked Fluttershy in the side of the head felling her before swinging the mace like a golf club throwing Fluttershy into the same tree, then turned to Chrysalis. And promptly wished he hadn’t come back. Chrysalis’ eyes were glowing with rage, she picked up the minotaur and slammed him into the ground repeatedly, then she picked up his mace... When she has released the majority of her anger, she threw the now rather misshapen minotaur as hard as she could, sending him over the horizon. Discord appeared momentarily, and disappeared as the minotaur flew over the horizon. The minotaur screamed a blood curdling scream, the cause apparent to anypony who had a brain. He reappeared shortly after, with more...red than usual. Twilight wasn’t moving, Chrysalis hurried over to her as princess Luna descended from the sky. “What in the name of me happened here!?” Luna said her voice full of anger. Chrysalis pointed a stunned hoof at Discord, and Luna’s jaw simply dropped. “None of this matters right now!” Discord snapped, “MY Fluttershy is hurt and you two are staring at a VILLIAN that killed something, as though it is a big surprise! Luna, go tell Celestia these two were hurt and Chrysalis saved them. And I made sure he will never set hoof into Equestria again. Chrysalis, pick up Twilight.” Luna immediately departed in flash of light as her teleportation spell activated. The instant Chrysalis had Twilight in her magic Discord snapped his fingers and they were instantly at Ponyville’s hospital. They rushed through the doors and the receptionist gasped as she saw the two villains with beaten, broken forms of two of Ponyvilles most beloved citizens. The doctors rushed into the waiting area as she screamed. “SHUT UP AND HELP THEM!!” Discord screamed. The doctors moved quickly, yelling at them to follow. Chrysalis was pacing the hall outside the operating room, when the first of Twilight and Fluttershy’s friends had shown up. Rarity and Rainbow Dash were furious. Rainbow launched herself at Chrysalis and Discord, surprisingly so did Rarity. They would have pummeled them if Discord and Chrysalis hadn’t caught them in their magic. “What did you do to our friends!?” Rarity spat, speaking for the two of them, Rainbow was far too enraged to say anything. Slowly and calmly the situation was explained, Twilight had jumped in front of an angry and VERY stupid armed minotaur, who also hurt Fluttershy. They had dealt with the situation and he will NEVER harm anypony ever again. After the rest of their friends had shown up, the process of explaining had been repeated several times. Then Celestia and Luna had shown up. Celestia was beyond anything the rest of Twilights had been as far as anger goes. She had teleported the two villians herself and Luna outside… and had proceeded to attack Discord and Chrysalis. The battle (Discord had to completely restrain her while Chrysalis was diverting her attention) had been short. But once the situation had been resolved, Celestia had only a few words for them. “If this happens again, I get to kill them.” And now most of them were asleep. They had been waiting for six hours for any word as to the condition of their friends. After six hours of waiting the sun had set and the moon had arisen. Luna had to leave to patrol for nightmares, and Celestia was asleep. So why is it that I can’t sleep? Chrysalis wondered to herself as she lay on the floor of the hospitals waiting room. Every friend of theirs is asleep and I am not...do I like Twilight? “Still awake huh?” Chrysalis started when she heard the somber voice, and turned towards the source to find Discord. She was about to give a scathing retort, when she saw the way he looked. He had been crying, his eyes were bloodshot and he held a cup of coffee in his eagle talons. He looked as though he may never be happy again, nothing about him showed the joyful prankster the denizens of Ponyville had come to know. As he moved to sit beside her Chrysalis moved to make room. “I’ll bet you haven’t figured it out yet.” Discord stated calmly, a small sad smile playing across his features. “Haven’t figured out what Discord?” Chrysalis snapped. “Why she tried to save you, why you attacked after she was hurt, or why I killed their attacker,” he stated simply. He chuckled, “or why I was there in the first place.” Chrysalis was stunned yet again by the draconequus, first by his actions now by his words. “Why were you there?” she asked suddenly curious, while trying not to let her curiosity show through too much. “To make sure you didn’t hurt my Fluttershy. I knew Twilight wouldn’t let you leave her sight, and that she had been making plans to study some of the Everfree’s fauna with Fluttershy. And that you might take advantage of the lowered visibility the shadows provide and attack them.” “WHAT?!” “Hey you asked, I just answered,” Discord replied calmly, “and lets be honest, you did think about it.” “Fine,” Chrysalis seethed, “Why did you kill him?” “I realized that he might have killed her...he might have taken what is the most important pony in the world to me. My first and only friend, the mare I grew to love…and that if she survived and he did as well, he might try again and be successful,” as he spoke his expression became more and more sullen, his eyes filling once again with tears, as he recalled his failure to protect the only pony he held dear. “I didn’t know you were able to, um…” “Feel? Of course I can feel, I am made of flesh and blood...though I doubt you knew that either,” he said with another chuckle. “So why did she jump in the way even though I was the intended target?” Chrysalis asked, even though she was now dreading this answer. “Because she cares. She wants to be your friend, make peace between our races and she might have been well on her way to loving you when all of this took place back at that treaty signing, what with your speech and all.” “Okay bu-” “And before you ask, you fought for her, you were positively enraged AFTER she was hurt. Whether or not you are ready to admit it-” “I like her. She stands her ground, has near infinite patience, is highly intelligent, and I enjoy time with her...she has grown on me, and I might love her now and I may lose her,” and with that, Chrysalis began to cry. Discord smiled his sad smile. “I am sure that she will be fine, get some sleep.” Chrysalis was so deep in her sorrow that she didn’t notice the magical compulsion behind the draconequus’ words, and was soon asleep. Her last words before she fell asleep touched his heart with the sincerity in them. “If she makes it, I am going to be kind to her, I am going to be her best friend until she has discovered her love for me, like I did for her, and then… I will cry some happy tears.” “Now,” Discord said as he wiped his eyes of the excess liquid pride in them, “ I have two mares to heal... And Celestia… you might want to make Luna stay for awhile longer in Ponyville… just sayin.” And with those words, he vanished. “Fluttershy’s kindness, friendship, and love really did change him,” said a very much awake Celestia with a smile, “I think I’ll let his plan play out this time.” > Dampened Pt. 2 (sad Dark) > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chrysalis stumbled through the Palace of Friendship, lost in her own despair. Twilights friends had abandoned her weeks ago in favor of sitting beside their friend each day as she lay in the hospital feeding tubes and a breathing apparatus making her look more like an alien and less like the mare that had warmed her heart. The same questions continued to pour through her mind, and this time she spoke them aloud to the deadened echoing halls of the home that seemed as empty as her heart. "Why? Why Twilight and not me? Or somepony else? What did I do to deserve this kind of pain? What could she have done?!" Chrysalis was now screaming louder than she thought she could, but she didn't stop. "WHAT IN THE NAME OF TARTARUS AM I SUPPOSED TO DO NOW?!! HOW CAN I KEEP GOING LIKE THIS?! HOW CAN SHE?! WHAT THE BUCK IS STRONG ENOUGH TO KEEP HER CLINGING TO SUCH A FRAGILE STATE!!!? WHY DO WE HAVE TO SUFFER SOO MUCH WHIST EVERYPONY ELSE JUST FEELS BAD ABOUT IT?!" Unbeknownst to her, Celestia was standing in the entrance to the hall she was in tears streaming down her face as she wept at Chrysalis' pain. Someone so new to love going through the kind of pain she herself had recently experienced with her own other half. Her student suffered and her student's wife was basically incapacitated as well. She was brought from her reverie by near strangled scream of Chrysalis' next words, "AND WHY AM I TOO AFRAID TO END IT!!?" And with that Chrysalis broke down simply slumping to the floor as she wept. Celestia's covered her mouth at these revealing words from her friend. Had she tried to...? Yes, she could see the marks on her chitin left from the tight rope that had been around her neck, possibly only minutes before she had come here. Celestia knew she needed to act, NOW. Given enough time, whatever was holding Chrysalis back from her dark deed would disappear. And yet another life would be lost to this tragedy that had befallen those she loved. "It's not about fear. Not all of it anyway, it is about hope. You are still hoping that with the love you and Twilight share, you will escape the cruel fate that has been given to you. And as far as the fear part goes, you are afraid that WHEN Twilight comes out of whatever has happened to her, if you aren't here she might make the same mistake. And you don't want her to die, by your hooves or another's." "Alright, *sniff* let's say you are correct. *sniff* How much hope is there Celestia?! How well has the interrogation been going hmm?! Exactly what have the doctors found out about her condition?!" Chrysalis asked "You are likely right about the fear part of it, but show me where the hope is in this." Chrysalis stared down Celestia with the kind of rage one might expect from a griffon looking at the creature that destroyed their chicks. And eventually Celestia hung her head... before speaking again. "I can't do this in front of anypony else they all look up to me, they need me to be strong and hopeful... but maybe in front of you... I will be safe. T-Twilight..." Celestia's voice began to warble and shake as she continued, "Twilight is the cl-closest thing t-to a daughter that I have... I miss h-her s-s-soo much..." And with those words, she collapsed to the floor, and began to weep just as hard as Chrysalis before her. Chrysalis looked on in awe as the single most powerful alicorn broke down and sobbed like a foal in front of her. Chrysalis' eyes began to water as she picked up the weeping immortal in her magic and carried her to what was once her and Twilight's bed. And as she laid her down on Twilights pillow she seemed to stop crying as she smelled the last remants of her student's- no. Her surrogate daughter's scent. But that hardly mattered, the pillow would need to be washed soon anyway. It was now dampened by two sets of tears.