> Clean Sheen Of The Mean Queens Dream > by Paper_Pen > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Prelude > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chrysalis trotted down the stairs of her two story townhouse, following the scent of her husband's cooking. "Mornin' Chryssie! Sleep well?" asked a cream colored stallion, his white mane slung to the side. "Brilliantly, whatcha making?" "Pancakes, your favorite, should be ready in a few. What tea in the meantime?" "Sure!" Chrysalis held her mug with two hooves, taking a sip every odd few moments before setting it down in a ray of the warm early sun. She was truly blessed, a house like this in a town like Ponyville, a husband like Cheese Cake, everything was right in here perfect little world. "Here ya are." Said Cheese Cake, setting a plate of doughy disks soaked in syrup before her with an everlasting smile. Just as she made the first cut into the small sea of soaked softness, she heard a knock at her door, only she had not commanded this knock, she had not wanted nor even expected this knock. A knock like this could only mean one thing, Luna. > Chapter One > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "What exactly do you want?" Asked the angered queen, In a tone that spoke like a cobra prepared to attack. "We figured it would be easiest to understand thy enemy by seeing them in a light we understand" She stated matter of factly. "Why must you always speak like that? Ever since you were little it was always 'We', what in all of equestria is wrong with you?!" Luna huffed, but managed to shrug off the offense. "We must say, this dream is a bit-" She paused, looking around the rather nicely decorated house, "-Odd" "What were you expecting? A flaming wasteland? A hive full of my children?", She was nearly shouting, anger sprinkled on offense. "We expected a feast, much like your attack on canterlot" "You expect me to waste a peaceful night plotting? What kind of animal do you see me as?!" "We do not see you as an animal, we see you as an active threat" Chrysalis rolled her eyes in an exaggerated manner before chuckling a bit. "Nice to know that someone out in the real world cares, acknowledgement as an enemy is a kind of care at least", She took a breath, by now her and luna were sitting in the living room. "So, shocked to see me as a mare and not an evil enigma of an enemy?" "Admittedly, yes, so why do you dream like 'this'?" "A hunter dreams of the feast his prey provides, not of its eyes as he kills it", She was a dam holding back somber tears, "The look of curiosity that shoots to terrorized confusion and then, just, pained sadness" They looked at the floor, avoiding each other's awkward or attacking gaze. > Chapter Two > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "We suppose the only thing too odd about this is just how innocent it is, not even Celestia is this quaint in her dreams" "Well, I don't suppose you would fully accept the kind of pony your beloved sister is" "You dare insult the very being that gives you life?!" "Well, when that being happens to be a horrid warlord", She smirked, "I do dare to insult her" Luna extended her wings, feigning mass and strength, going so far as to slam her hooves on the floor in anger and an unaccepted nor fully known denial. "In what sense is our sister anything but a saint?" "Ponyville was once the sole home of the blue hooved bison, that was until she saw a hefty deposit of jewels in the area, poor things worshipped that mountain like a god" "We know for a fact that there is no such thing a a 'Blue hooved bison'!" "You sure about that? You were on the moon for an awfully long time, long enough for a place like Canterlot to grow a whole lot" "Don't tell us that our own home, is…" "The site of a complete massacre, notice how few zebras ya see nowadays?" "So if all of this is true, by the moon…" "What's by the moon?" "Oh, nothing it's just an expression" "You have a lot of odd expressions…" Luna sat up and paced around the room, halfways between anger and confusion, confusion as who to hate, could her sister really be this evil? Why was she even listening to a disgusting changeling like chrysalis? > Afterwards > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Luna stared down at her sister, hate, vitriol, and love all swelled inside of her. "Sister, we need to talk" "Whats wrong, sister?" "In the time that we were away, did you happen to have any, well, 'Unforgivable' relations with other cultures?" "Excuse me?!" She yelled, full of offense. "We meant war!" Clarified Luna, the word stuck to her mind as as a shoe to a hoof. "Well", Celestia paused, thinking of how to make her actions seem less heinous, "you can't expect everything to be sunshine and rainbows in this world!" "But you are the goddess of the sun… and your hair is a rainbow" Chrysalis sat in her hive, tending to army of deceiving gnats. She recounted what she had said to Luna, the idea of her confronting her own sister with allegations of war crimes made her break down with laughter. She was truly the 'Active Threat' that they saw her as. (This is only my second fan fiction, so please leave ways I can improve or go fuck myself in the comments! Sorry if there are any spelling mistakes, I finished this thing off around midnight to the tune of early morning Adult Swim)