> After All, We're The Same? > by DudyMooner > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Chapter 1 - Defeated > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 1 - Defeated This week is one of the worst of my life. Seriously, I really mean it, one of the worst! I wish everything that happened at that moment was just a miserable, pathetic nightmare so I could laugh in my face later and leave to lead my entire Hive. But the reality is... very different. I wanted to believe that it wasn't real, I begged that it was just another nightmare, but no, they really destroyed me that day, they gave me a blow that I couldn't even do in the "Canterlot Incident", and that blow changed my life even more, my life always changed when something like this happened, and this was no different, all my subjects turned against me, against the one who raised them, the one who took care of them, the one who gave them everything, especially that traitor, Thorax. I should have known that he had always been fearful, but no, I just preferred to let it go. The only thing I did with my life was to take care of my subjects, I tried hard to find at least a small portion of love to give them, and well, sometimes some creatures crossed the border into my kingdom and, of course, I took the opportunity to get all their love, if it was a bigger creature, all the better for me, I'd even have some more to eat the next day. As for Canterlot's wedding, it was one of the best plans I'd ever planned, the disguise was difficult but it worked, I wasn't very lucky that day, the love was stronger than me, and in this last plan, I captured Twilight and her friends and all the other royalty, but I'd only forgotten about four others - Discord, the traitor Thorax, one I'd never seen and especially the one that ruined my life: Starlight Glimmer. I hate her! Really, deep down in my chest, she ruined my life together with Thorax, with the stroke it had, she made my subjects revolt, with such grotesque, sentimental and disgusting words, I can't take it. She said she was also a leader like me (from what I understand), tsk, nothing to do with it! No one will ever be like me. Now what I want for her is for her to die, in some way, to be burned, frozen, tortured, imprisoned somewhere, starved to death, in any way. When I saw that all the changelings were transforming, the glow that was coming was intense, I was just paralyzed, staring straight ahead with my eyes fixed on a part of my throne room, at the end, boom, I was thrown up from my seat, I'll admit it, I thought it would be the end of me right there, the end of my life, so I had closed my eyes, wondering what would come next, what my fate would be. After waiting a few minutes, I didn't hear anything, until I opened my eyes again and I was standing on, what was it, the walls of my throne room, I started to hear what was around me, they were breaking out of their cocoons, everyone I captured was leaving, my plan was once again... ruined. And again I could say that I was defeated. I didn't want to believe it. Another thing I hate is defeat. Being defeated is a really bad feeling, and when you have it, the only desire that comes to mind is the beautiful word that all heroes and villains hear: Revenge. I got up from the rags that were now useless and I did what most changelings would do, hiss. I didn't want to accept this defeat, not ever, but life is cruel to me, everyone looked at me and I looked at them, their faces were all the same, it was anger, another feeling I'm used to, since every time a subject of mine made a mistake, they were punished in some way, and I didn't feel bad, I learned never to have compassion. That was life after all. After looking at the others, I sat down again, looking at the ground that belonged to my kingdom, another feeling was coming over me at that moment: anguish and sadness, and in order not to be weak, I controlled myself, I didn't like being seen sad by others. And in the next scene, I began to look up quietly, and I also began to see the pony that had ruined my life, Starlight Glimmer, who, unlike the other ponies, didn't have a single hint of anger on her face, and I couldn't understand why she wasn't angry with me. The answer came when she lifted her hoof and put it on the ground. I remember to this day the only conversation she and I ever had... "When Twilight and her friends defeated me, I chose to run away and seek revenge" At the time I hadn't thought about it, but then I asked myself recently, was she evil? Like me? No! As I said, no one is like me, I'm different from the others and I'm proud of that, I'm not like the Equestria ponies where they say that friendship is magic, Starlight Glimmer is the same, isn't she? Also, she's the pupil of the Princess of Friendship herself, something must have happened to her in the past, but who am I to care, right? "You don't have to!" I was still looking at her at that moment, her face was either worried or sad, I couldn't tell at that moment, and she has the capacity to tell me what to do! How annoying! I wanted at that moment to throw a strike in her face, who does she think she is! It's a good thing she doesn't know anything about my life, if she did, she'd be in trouble. The desire for revenge is the greatest desire of every villain who is defeated, I saw it once in a story I read, and it was coming true in me. "You can be the leader your subjects deserve" She finished her words by looking at me, at this moment I was just looking at her with a certain anguish, I was weak and defeated, otherwise I would have attacked her anyway, she was actually insulting me with such sentimental words, how disgusting, as I said earlier, she doesn't know anything about my life and I bet she doesn't know anything about the changelings, and if she does, it's because of that fearful Thorax. I think Starlight was taking too many risks at the time, honestly, she hadn't thought about the consequences. At the time, I had thought about what I could have done, I looked down at the ground again, still with a touch of angst in my eyes, I hated it, I didn't like being sad at all. I hadn't mentioned it, the wind was ruffling my hair at the time, if I hadn't been angry, I would have liked it. A few seconds later, I felt something close to me, a kind of vital force, but no, it was just Starlight's hoof moving towards me, and by then I was surprised and still distressed, surprised because... she was giving me a chance to "change". As if I could change into a better changeling, ha! I went back to looking at Starlight Glimmer, who was now in a different mood, with a confident smile from what I saw, she really thought she could change me right then, it was her chance after all. I was starting to think in different ways, like if I had become a changeling like them or what my life would be like if I accepted that offer. Now I wasn't looking at the ground anymore, but at my hoof, half-soaked in dirt, I was nearly surrendering because of a pony. To this day I don't understand why I was thinking that way, wasn't I evil? I was about to make the most stupid decision of my life. Just at that hour. In the same place. I was going to embrace the magic of friendship. Decisions are hard to take, as I looked at her again I began to slowly lift my hoof closer to my face, and then, I would let my soul be given over to that idiot Starlight. My hoof would slowly move closer to her, time passed slowly for me, then I had some more time to think, think and think, deep down in my chest, deep down, there would be one thing that would stop me from doing this, and I knew it. The time had come to seek revenge, after all, I was defeated. It was very close, very, very close, I wouldn't give in, my eyes were no longer as anguished as before, now they were filled with anger, the strongest feeling inside me was coming out, I controlled my whole body again and, in the end, I raised my hoof again and slapped Starlight's hoof. I admit it was glorious, but it wasn't time to think about it. I saw that she was surprised at that moment, so I didn't care too much. This was the time to say a few words to the pony who beat me, the pony who ruined my life, Twilight is an exception, but for Starlight, it's even worse. My whole life has been for the only family I've ever had, basically. "There is no revenge you could ever conceive of that will come close to what I will exact upon you one day, Starlight Glimmer!" And for the last time I saw the surprised look on Starlight's face, thinking she could change me, I stepped back, and back, instead of the wedding, I would run away, leave what was my kingdom, the blow would be complete. My life would change again. In the end, I jumped, still on my back, the most tense jump of my life. It was the end of my reign, which had been for many, many years. Now came a new era for my former subjects. What a shame. I hadn't looked back since I jumped, I just kept going, looking for some shelter for myself, and then food and water. Soon it would be my time again, the time that all these ponies would suffer in my paws, bowing down to me, I never give up, I take risks and I always go for what I want, all my rage will be destined for them from then on, I always come back, I always attack, I always do, it's not for nothing that my name is Chrysalis, the changeling who made history, the changeling who doesn't have love inside her body. And I will always be a QUEEN. > Chapter 2 - Reflection > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 2 - Reflection It was another evening and the sun was already going down. Luna's night was already beginning to be seen from the sky. A pink unicorn mare was arriving at her great home, the famous Castle of Friendship in Ponyville, her name was Starlight Glimmer. She and Discord, the Lord of Chaos, Thorax, now the leader of the changelings and the first to be changed for the better, and Trixie Lulamoon, her best friend, saved Twilight and her friends and the royals from being killed by the tyrant who had already attacked Equestria at the wedding of Princess Cadance and Captain Shining Armor, Queen Chrysalis. That was one of the biggest defeats that ever happened, and it really has gone down in history. Starlight was on a walk with her friend Trixie, the day was very tiring as they went to different places and had fun together, even after that day, the two are going out almost every day. Anyway, when she arrived at the castle, she pushed open the door with her magic and went inside, found Spike walking with a book, which was actually a comic book, he was going into the kitchen and Starlight started talking to him. "Good evening, Spike!" "Oh, good evening to you too, Starlight!" Spike said, a little distracted "Dinner is almost ready" "Good, I was getting hungry" Starlight said looking at her belly and Spike just laughed a little. "Well, that's great, because dinner is going to be very good tonight" Spike said happily and Starlight got excited. "Oh nice! I'll wait for the call then, see you!" Starlight said and Spike just nodded. Then, Starlight went to her room to wait for dinner, it wasn't long to gallop there, so she went into her room and started reading some book she'd picked up from the castle library, to pass the time when she was bored or to wait for something, like lunch or dinner for example. Minutes later, a noise was heard from the Starlight, it was time for dinner. "Hmmm," Twilight enjoyed the food "I have to admit, Spike, the food is amazing" "And I have to agree, you nailed it" Starlight admitted. Dinner was nothing less than pasta with various sauces including apple, tomato, orange and others. It was very good. "Oh, come on!" Spike was embarrassed by their compliments "It was no big deal" "No big deal?" Twilight said and glanced at Spike "Spike, if Rarity were here, she would say the same thing" "Perhaps that's true..." Spike said as he thought. "I agree with Twilight, it was very tasty food, Spike" Starlight simply agrees with her mentor. The three of them began to talk about how their day had gone after dinner - it was normal and typical for them to do this. Three hours after dinner, it was almost midnight, and the three of them decided that the time they all loved had come. Bedtime. They were looking forward to sleeping after a long, exhausting day. "Uaaaaah!" Spike yawned "Well, it's time for bed, I guess" "Yes, Spike" Twilight began to yawn too "I'm very tired" "Absolutely" Starlight said, not yawning but still tired as well. "Well..." Twilight continues "Shall we sleep?" "Yeah" They both say at the same time. "Then good night!" Twilight said and all the others headed for their rooms. And so it was, Spike, Starlight and Twilight went to their rooms, after a exhausting day, Starlight was only thinking of resting right now, because tomorrow would be a new day in Ponyville, as it always was and always would be. After Starlight closed the door, she went to her bedroom window to look out at the stars that were glowing that night - as usual, they were fantastic and magnificent - and only then did she lie down and start to sleep. Suddenly, Starlight's eyes began to open, instantly, and she wasn't looking at her room, it was another place, not known to her, that meant one thing. It was a dream. "Wait..." Starlight starts to look around and says "Am I dreaming?" One thing Starlight didn't do very often was dream about anything, every time she went to sleep, she didn't dream about anything, and she's used to that, but it seemed that today would be different. "Oh great... What's going to happen now?" Starlight was wondering what to do now that she was in a dream, and every time she had a dream there was something haunted or dark, turning it into a nightmare. Looking around her, there was an empty plateau, there was no one around, but the scenery was beautiful by the way, after looking around, Starlight decided to gallop to see if she had any clues as to what this dream was about. Little did she know what to expect. After looking in many places in the dream, she found nothing, no clues, no noise, except for the relaxing winds that were passing by, so she decided to go to a small lake near where she was and sat down, looking at its reflective face. "Now I'm wondering what time it is. From how much I've looked, I guess it must be already morning..." Starlight spoke to herself, there was no one around her really, it wasn't like anyone was around now, was it? *CLACK* Starlight finally heard a noise, now it would be the beginning of the dream, she started to hear this noise several times coming from a direction that led to a mountain, she would have to climb the whole mountain to know what she was waiting for. It wouldn't be long now. The weather was starting to get a little wetter than usual each time she climbed, which was strange, because it was actually supposed to be colder, not wetter, for example. After a few minutes galloping up the humid mountain, she was almost at the top, where her destination would be, then she saw a yellowish light that was in her way, maybe it would be the second clue to find the creature she was going to meet, the sound of *clack* stopped the higher she went, a little more galloping now she finds a green glow and a blue glow, Starlight wondered what it could be but decided to continue on her way, and when she reached the top, the light and the glows came together to form a heart, and in the heart were the three colors, yellow, green and blue, with a touch of red in the middle of it, getting more and more doubtful, she decided to ignore these symbols and then finally reached the top. When Starlight reached the top, the first thing she did was close her eyes for a second and then take a breath, she was tired after galloping too far, it seemed so real to believe that she had managed to climb a mountain so quickly, when she slowly opened her eyes, she suddenly began to be extremely surprised by what she had just seen. She seemed to be a changeling, she had a light green body with light blue hair with yellow sparkles. And she was crying. The only thing Starlight could do was to see what was happening to the changeling after all. "H-hi!" said the unicorn nervously. "Oh..." the changeling started to look at Starlight and said "Hello" "Why are you crying?" Starlight asked. "About that, I don't know..." the changeling said while looking down again "All I know is that I'm nothing in this world" "Oh, if you want, we can talk," Starlight said and sat next to the stranger "My name is Starlight, and yours?" "Oh, sorry," the changeling turns around "I have not spoken to anyone in a while, my name is Chryssalide" "An?" Starlight gets confused and asks "Could you say your name again?" "I'm sorry again!" again the changeling apologizes and corrects "I forgot you don't speak that language, my name is Chrysalis" Starlight, after hearing her name, starts to get nervous, but she tries to control herself again and then asks. "Can you repeat it again?" "It is Chrysalis!" the changeling shouted loudly and then said "Oh, I'm sorry if it was too loud" "Oh, don't worry!" Starlight said nervously. "Eh... Are you alright?" Chrysalis asks. "Of course I'm alright!" Starlight said with a twisted face. "Okay, then..." said Chrysalis, who then looked down at her reflection again. At a moment, Starlight tried to calm down, she was talking to one of the most dangerous creatures in Equestria, but it didn't look dangerous in her eyes for some reason, and she looked different than when she first saw it. She remembered it was a dream later. Starlight decided to talk to her again. "So," she starts "Why do you think you're nothing in this world?" "Oh, it's a long story," Chrysalis said, bored "But can I ask you something?" "Y-yeah," Starlight said a little unsteadily. "What do you think about me?" Chrysalis asks. "Wait, what?" Starlight said distractedly. "Just tell me what do you think about me, pony," Chrysalis said again, looking into the unicorn's eyes. "Well..." Starlight let out a sigh before answering "You're very beautiful and nice, in my view" "Really!?" Chrysalis gets a little emotional when she hears this. "Yes, Chrysalis," Starlight said a little more confident than before. "Gee, no one has ever said that to me before..." Chrysalis said, a little sadly. "Really? Why?" Starlight asked Chrysalis. "They think I'm a monster, a freak, and I'm already used to it," said Chrysalis, sighing later. "But you're not! Who says that to you?" Starlight asks with concern. "The ponies themselves... Didn't you know?" Chrysalis asks the unicorn calmly. "No! I swear!" Starlight exclaims. "You have come here to call me a monster too, haven't you?" Chrysalis starts to cry. "No! Why would you think that!?" Starlight was becoming more worried. "Because I AM A MONSTER!" Chrysalis starts to transform into the form Starlight had seen at least one time before. The transformation wasn't the same as Cadence's wedding, but it was more dark, terrifying, creepy, seeing a good creature turn evil is very bad for Starlight's eyes, after Chrysalis transforms, she says. "And now, pony?" she continues, glaring at the unicorn "What do you think about me!?" "Chrysalis?" Starlight tried to speak, but got too upset. "Remember, pony," before leaving, Chrysalis touches Starlight's shoulder and says "Life is not always fair for everyone" After that, Chrysalis begins to flutter her wings and flies away to some place in Starlight's own dream, the unicorn just looks at her and becomes more sad than she already was, and concerned. "Chrysalis!" She started to chase the changeling, jumping all over the mountain to try to reach her, the terrain was too difficult to run, luckily in the dream you can do unimaginable things, like Discord for example. Starlight galloped faster and tried to caught Chrysalis. "Chrysalis, please come back!" It was no help, the changeling just flew further and further away, at such a speed that it was impossible for Starlight to reach it, she tried to use teleportation but it didn't work. She failed again in Chrysalis. Starlight started crying again in an open place in the forest, failing was terrible for her, then suddenly, the dream was shaking, everything was shaking, and finally, the last thing Starlight said was: "CHRYSALIS!!!" The dream is over. "CHRYSALIS!!!" In the same room as before, Starlight woke up extremely surprised, worried and terrified, a perfect dream that had turned into a terrible nightmare, not that it was usual, but it was with her "enemy". Fortunately, the scream didn't wake Twilight Sparkle and Spike, Starlight took another breath before quickly getting up and heading to her bedroom window. Opening it, she looked out at the great sun of Celestia shining all over Ponyville, it seemed to be about ten o'clock in the morning, which meant that the dream had lasted much longer than imagined. Starlight reflected on everything, the dream seemed to be an alternative reality in which Chrysalis had become much better, that she led at the side of Thorax, that she had the affection and love of her subjects, that she would be like this because of him. The unicorn thought of one thing: what if it was her past? It was a very clever option, but it would have to be confirmed in some way. How? Looks like the unicorn had a great idea. "Don't worry, Chrysalis. I'll help you. I promise." > Chapter 3 - Exploration > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 3 - Exploration Today I'm asking myself: what day is it? Recently, I keep asking myself what time it is, what day it is, what year it is. It's getting very strange, I've never felt this way before as far as I can remember, could it be the effects of defeat? One day I'll find out. These days I'm just exploring all the place I have left after the "Big Blow", and I admit I'm feeling strange things coming from this forest, once I had seen a spirit that was laughing at my face, even if I tried to haunt it too, it was no use, it was too resistant, the other day I saw a tree being killed by a pony that was giant, I wonder if it was my imagination, and I'm thinking that's what it is. Why is this happening to me? Defeat isn't enough, now I'm seeing hauntings coming from an abandoned forest. I was in a cave which, luckily, didn't have any creatures in it, it was near a misty mountain, I say that because it was always so foggy that you couldn't see the top of the mountain, that's not common, on the other side there was a valley, which by the way had red, green and yellow flowers, the forest has three lakes, two of which are near the misty mountain, the third was in the right part of the valley, and led to a beautiful river. During the day, it's not very complicated to live, not least because no creature is seen by me, I think I must be the only one in this forest, I don't even know which direction I went after I left my Hive. Normally the sun shone a lot, it just didn't shine on that mountain and in some parts where it leads close to a plateau, that's nature. At night is when the nightmares begin, spirits appearing from some unknown place, some whispers coming from trees, lakes making sounds that seem to be strong waves, false landslides, and on special occasions, blizzards that can be sand or others. The place may be beautiful, but it's bizarre. I've had another problem since I left the Hive: hunger. Usually, when I wake up, I start to feel my stomach rumbling and I always hiss when this happens, it's like waking up from a nightmare. I hate it when that happens, feeling hungry is the worst thing a changeling could have, and for me it was no different, when I was still leading the Hive, I would eat a portion of love at least every four days, and now since there are no creatures or ponies in the forest, I wouldn't eat any love, why did I get myself into this place... Combined with the effects of defeat, the ghoulish forest and hunger, it's my worst phase in many, many years of my life, and I swear that one day I'll get out of this place to have my precious revenge on everyone who betrayed me, and especially Starlight Glimmer, that pony... Today I would wake up in the same way as the rest of the days, scared, distressed and with my stomach rumbling with hunger, as I said, waking up like a nightmare. After opening my eyes, I got up and looked at the day, it was nothing much, just Celestia's sun shining on the entire forest, even though I hated it every morning, I had to put up anyway. I started walking through the forest to see if there was anything new, first by the two mountains, and there was nothing but a dry wind and the eternal fog, then I went to see the three lakes, and all of them, incredible as it may seem, were completely clean, I found it strange since at least one of them was dirty with something, and yesterday I heard the sounds of waves coming from one of the lakes, but continuing on, I passed the plateau that led to an immense darkness, and there was nothing wrong there, and finally, I went to see the valley, and I found something that could be useful, it seemed to be the blood of a creature that had passed through here. It would be time to look into it. I smelled the blood and the creature seemed to be a manticore, which was interesting, it could be my first prey, I started to follow the trails that went down the valley, it wasn't long before I found the manticore, I was surprised to see that it was already dead, I started to get a little frightened, but I put it aside and went to drain its love, it wasn't much either since it was dead, I was kind of satisfied and eventually, I started to hear voices. These voices were recognizable, but I had to make sure they were. The voice began to speak. "Chrysalis!!!" That was the exact moment I realized what this voice was, I started to get very angry and reluctant, it was the pony I hated the most in my entire life, Starlight Glimmer. "REVEAL YOURSELF!" "Oh, darling..." The voice said with a slight laugh. "You don't have to be so angry!" Is it serious that a voice was taunting me in the broad daylight? "I'm not joking, so where are you!?" I asked, still annoyed. "How can you not know!? Try to find your little friend, hehe," the pony's voice said. "You are NOT my "little friend"!" I said, lifting my hooves at the last word. "So that's how it's going to be, huh...Chrysalis." The only thing I could do now was run away from this bizarre forest, it could be my turn to be killed, I started flying fast down the valley and heading to the plains, but the voice was chasing me. "Chrysalis!" I tried to see if there was a voice, but there was no one, as if it were a ghost or an invisible spirit haunting me, I was getting close to the plain and the forest was becoming darker in the face of the bright sun. There's something wrong. "Chrysalis!" The voice was still repeating my name as I went down, I reached the plain and headed in a straight direction, I just wanted to get out of this forest and go somewhere safer, even though it's beautiful to stay there, it's dangerous too. "Chrysalis! Come back!" Flying for minutes, I reached a sandy plateau, it wasn't the same as the other one, but it seemed to be a division, I stopped to see a little more, there was a small river passing by and another forest ahead, being a little clearer than the one I was in, and it seemed to be a little familiar too. It was my chance to get out of this forest for ever. "CHRYSALIS!" And in the end, I jumped, flew down and then passed very close to the river, until I started flying up again and landed in the new forest, no more nightmares in the other forest, fortunately. Time to see what we have here. When I entered the forest, I saw that there were some lighter and darker parts, just like the other, but I started to explore a little more and realized that there were some places that had creatures, at least this one wasn't abandoned, I found some common ones and some dangerous ones like the Ursa Major, there were also the Cockatrices, which just draining their love wouldn't be a problem for me. Until when I entered one of the open parts of the forest, I came across an isolated structure located after a small bridge, and I recognized what it was. "The Castle of the Two Sisters" Having said that, I went inside the castle, there were several things that were still standing, such as parts of the roof, the princesses' rooms, dark and empty hiding places and finally, the library, I smiled at that moment because I would find something useful for my sweet and great revenge. I'd come back later to see more. Most importantly, I already knew where I was, and my revenge would begin from now on, I will dominate all of Equestria, I will take revenge for everything they did to me! And I'll be queen again, whatever it takes. Now I was going to stay in the Everfree Forest. > Chapter 4 - Enchantment > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 4 - Enchantment The day was finishing again in the lovely town of Ponyville, the sun was radiant today, and it was getting dark a little later than before, the ponies were galloping happily and enjoying the last rays of sunshine. Who couldn't be out at that time, right? Yeah, there were people who weren't, one of them was Starlight Glimmer, who was spending the entire day, beautiful as it is, inside the Castle of Friendship, it's been two days since the terrible nightmare with the tyrant Chrysalis, she hasn't forgotten everything that happened, she still remembers the form she was in, would that be the form she would be transformed into if she accepted her hoof? Many questions come to Starlight's mind, and these questions leave her feeling exhausted, thoughtful and a little out of her mind. Even worse, her friends didn't know about her nightmare, and Starlight wanted to keep it as secret as possible, but the problem was: keeping it a secret could cause problems. Now, Starlight was lying on her bed, looking up as the sun's light sparkled on her mane, the room had its shadows spread across the floor, all the things were in their correct place, Starlight was just thinking about what she could do to help Chrysalis become a better changeling, her thoughts were empty, without any ideas. How could she help Chrysalis if she had no ideas? What if she had more nightmares about it? These thoughts were what annoyed Starlight the most at that moment, but they also made her upset, so she decided to get up and look at some photos with Twilight. Her friendship with her was one of the best things that had happened, not least because she would have destroyed all of Equestria if it hadn't been for that. Oh, never mind. Starlight sighed again and then went to lie down on the bed again, now with her face in the pillow, but a sound could be heard near her room, and then began to open the door, it was only Spike, the dragon, when he looked at Starlight, he started to speak. "Starlight?" Spike continued "I thought you were out there!" "Oh, hey Spike!" Starlight said and Spike saw her face, there were dark circles under her eyes which confused him. "What are you doing that makes your face look so... sleepy?" So, Starlight begins to look in the mirror, and indeed, there were dark circles under both eyes, making her a little uncomfortable, she turns to the little dragon and says: "Oh, no need to worry, it's no big deal!" "Are you sure?" Spike asked, frowning a little. "Of course, Spike." Starlight said, kind of fast. "You know if anything's bothering you, you can talk to me, okay?" Spike said in a motherly way, staying with Twilight might have led to this. "Yes, I know that, Spike." Starlight said. "I'll keep cleaning the castle, see you at dinner Starlight!" Spike finished talking and started to leave the unicorn's room. "See you..." Starlight also finished talking. She lay back on the bed the way she was, thinking some more, and decided on one thing, she would leave when it was still dark, it was now 5pm, she had some more time left, she started to look at the window, still lying down, and just thought. "I'm gonna have to stop thinking so much..." It wasn't long ago that I arrived in this forest, I'm living better than that other dark and sinister forest, it can be scary here, but nothing is scarier than me, Chrysalis, the true queen, at times I had to react to some monsters, a manticore almost bit me, but luckily I was agile and struck the creature in the face. I should have done that when I was near Starlight. Oops, I'm remembering the past again. I made this little promise to not remember the past, when I was defeated, but I can't forget it, and I can't, it's too annoying for me, how can I make it go away? Easy, make my revenge! I entered the library of that abandoned castle and found some spells that could really help me take my precious revenge, I've known how to make spells since I started being a queen, when you're royalty you need to know how to defend yourself, don't you? Well, I looked at an interesting book in which there were stories about the ponies of Equestria, I started reading and looked, all the species had some kind of weakness, this could be very useful, for example, if unicorns didn't have magic, pegasi and earth ponies could suffer because of it, there's a lot in this book but I won't talk about it too much. The whole book can be read in about a month. I won't waste my time. About the spells, I was finding many that could help, there were nature spells, kitchen spells, control spells, all by magic, I read that there was a way to make two spells turn into one, I've never tested this combination of spells, it's going to be my first time. I hope there are no mistakes, otherwise I'll be so mad! I found two spells that I would later test by combining the two. The first was a spell whose name was in the Old Ponish language, so I couldn't pronounce it properly, but I saw that it made the ponies have a kind of poison that I could control myself, and the second one had a name I could pronounce, it was called "Relevati", which gave me the power to control all the magic of the unicorns, pegasi and earth ponies with a control I had in the book itself, and that's what I had to memorize. With the two of them, this could become easier, now it was time to do it. I've just done the two spells, it's shown me two new objects, and with these, I'll only be able to make one, I don't know what it will make, but I just want my revenge at once. I was currently inside the castle itself, in the library, and there was an old table that I was using to hold the two objects, thankfully no one was there to see this, I shook my head and continued to concentrate. I looked carefully at the two spells, I prepared myself, I concentrated, and then I used my magic on the spells, to do it I had to have a lot of strength and I was trying too hard, the magic was working, the spells were coming together, there was just a little bit left and that was it. The spells joined together to form a single object: a gold necklace with a circle of green and pink. It was perfect. Then, with my success, I began to laugh victoriously, a victory is very great for anyone, I could finally take revenge on that nosy Starlight Glimmer and her friends, even the princesses will pay, they will all regret having done this to me, or my name wouldn't be Chrysalis. Ah, rather, Queen Chrysalis! After that, I left the castle, and when I went to look, the day had already disappeared and in its place came Luna's night, it passed a little quickly for me today, it must be because of my experiments with the spells, that's a lot of work, I saw the sky once again and decided to go into my cave, observe this necklace a little more, and think. I went through the same path as always, an almost collapsed bridge, the main part, more half-cut trees, the bog and finally, a small view of Ponyville, and behind it was my cave, it was right next to the town, I could watch the ponies galloping freely and happily, without any problems or complications, without some villain to get into the way, what they didn't know was that I was still in the game. I'll admit, the view of Ponyville is kind of nice to look at, if I'm not angry, of course, I could see all the light from the crystallized castle where Twilight Sparkle lives, that geek, she had prevented me from being able to complete my first plan in that marriage between Cadance and Shining Armor, how pathetic, I hate to think about it, but I had to keep calm, I closed my eyes and began to see the sky again, there was a constellation that could be seen, I couldn't remember the name, I just knew it was very beautiful, well, never mind. I found some logs around me and started gathering them together to make a fire, since I wanted to get a closer look at that necklace. I gathered them together and then went to my cave and lit them with my magic, it was good, I let the bonfire burn while I saw the night again. What was catching my eye was the castle again, maybe it was the crystals that were catching my eye, how did they shine so brightly in Ponyville? I didn't have that in my reign, probably so as not to attract attention of a certain kind. Suddenly, an impulse came over me. I was going to sing. Infernal (Hellfire) - Letra/Lyrics [Chrysalis] My dear changelings You known I was a righteous queen Of my virtue I am justly proud My dear changelings You know I was much powerful than The common, vulgar, weak, licentious kind Then tell me, my changelings Why did you join Thorax Why Starlight's words still scorch my soul! I feel her, I see her The love making them more relax And now I am getting out of control! Chrysalis stares into the fire and soon sees the figure of four acquaintances: Thorax at the top, Discord on the side, Trixie on the other side and Starlight Glimmer in the center, extending her hoof, and then moves back. Like fire! Hellfire! This fire in my skin This burning desire Is turning me to sin! The changeling lowers herself and soon appears in a completely purple place, with a crystal shining on her, and soon several changelings appear on either side of her in a green hue, Chrysalis continues to sing It's not my fault (mea culpa) I'm not to blame (mea culpa) It was Starlight and her friends, the ones who sent this flame! (mea maxima culpa) It's not my fault (mea culpa) It was her plan (mea culpa) To make pony kind so much stronger than a lame! (mea maxima culpa) Chrysalis leaves the purple place and returns to her cave, with a more pained and distressed face, looking at the fire again. I will get my revenge! I won't let that unicorn cast her spell I won't let her fire sear my flesh and bone Destroy Starlight Glimmer! And let her taste the fires of Tartarus Or else let Equestria be mine and mine alone! Chrysalis saw some figures of Equestria made by fire, whitish, but as soon as she turned around, a voice caught her attention. "Chrysalis!" She turned around and saw that it was none other than her son, Thorax, with a worried look on his face. Chrysalis just stood there and looked at him too: "Chrysalis, why didn't you join us?" "What?" Chrysalis was confused. "Don't go with your plan..." Thorax says still worried and continues "You'll die!" "This can't be..." Chrysalis looks down and then quickly gets up and says to Thorax "Nevermind." "Get out, you traitor!" Thorax gets scared but slightly comes out of the cave where Chrysalis was, and she continues "I'll get revenge, I'll get revenge even if I have to burn down all of Equestria!!!" Chrysalis looks down again and takes a deep breath to continue her song, looking into the fire once more. Hellfire Dark fire Now Equestria, it's your turn! Choose me or your pyre Be mine or you will burn! The fire faded when Chrysalis said the last word of the stanza, she stood up and saw a familiar figure and was very surprised, until she sat down and looked up and continued. Please, have mercy on them Please, have mercy on me But Equestria will be mine Or they Will Burn!~ And so Chrysalis ends her song by sliding her face to the ground, very tired and then fainting. Meanwhile, Starlight Glimmer was galloping around the city that evening, it had got completely dark and she had to get home, she had gone for a coffee at the Sugarcube Corner and was only coming back now because of the delay she had had due to a small accident with Trixie, there weren't many ponies walking around now, it could be because of the cold that would come now. However, a noise could be heard in a bush near the castle, Starlight was confused but decided to go and see who was around, and when she saw who was there, it was Thorax, but... Was he crying? Starlight asked: "Thorax!?" the unicorn continues "What are you doing here? And why are you crying?" The changeling leader starts to look up and sees the unicorn mare, he is terrified at that moment and decides to say something. "Starlight! I have to tell you some news! But I need everyone to tell it..." "Oh, okay," Starlight and Thorax left for the castle after that. After some time, Twilight, Starlight, Spike and Thorax were in the map room, sitting down, Twilight was calm, Spike was just looking at Thorax, Starlight was confused and Thorax was terrified and distressed. The princess began to speak: "Okay, Thorax, can you tell us now what happened?" "Yes, I will... I wanted to pay you all a visit but..." "But..." Spike said and Thorax continues. "I ended up in the Everfree Forest," Thorax said, trying to be calm. The others were surprised, and Twilight tried to guess what it was. "Has something hit you? Did a manticore attack you? Did a creature almost kill you? Did-" Twilight got cut by Spike. "It's better to let him tell us, okay?" Twilight just nodded and let Spike speak. "Go ahead, Thorax." "Right, well, when I entered the forest, I ended up seeing a strong glow coming out of a cave. And I smelled something familiar." "And what was it?" Starlight asked. "It seemed to be some kind of enchantment that was common in my kingdom, but I didn't know what it could be. So I looked inside and..." "And?" Twilight asked. Thorax sighed a little more and said it again, but it was news that no one had expected. "Chrysalis... She's back..."