Trixie passed a brush through her mane, pulling the sand out. She had been in the desert for over two years now. The desert was hot, sandy and all around miserable, and their wasn't much business here, but at least she could do business here. Back in Equestria, her life had been ruined, and it had been because of Twilight Sparkle.
Trixie spat as she thought of the other unicorn. Twilight Sparkle had ruined everything. The stupid purple one had humiliated her in front of all of Ponyville, destroying her home, reputation, and most importantly livelihood. She was once the most splendid magician in all of Equestria, the Great and Powerful Trixie, slayer of the Ursa Major. She had fans all across Equestria, and she could pick up a colt whenever she felt like it.
Not that picking up a colt had ever meant much to her. They gave her a bit of physical pleasure, but nothing more. They were just empty toys to her, all of them exactly the same. She had tried going out with fillies a few times as well, and while she enjoyed them a bit more, they was still something missing. There was no love.
And now Trixie wondered if she would ever find love. She was once loved by all, and now she was loved by none. Now she was just Trixie the Phony, coward who fled from Equestria. She had lost all she had in Ponyville, and now she had to start anew in the desert. She had to perform lower tricks that she could do without any to any passing pony, hoping for a few bits to be tossed into a ragged hat she found, bringing her just enough subsistence to survive. It had taken her a month just to save enough to buy that brush.
Trixie dropped the brush and gritted her teeth. Twilight. If only she could get her hooves on that mare, she would tear her face off! However, she had to wait for now. Anyway, she was finished brushing now and it was time to head off. Trixe picked the brush back up using her magic, and slid it into her bag which contained all of her worldly possessions. She then slid the bag onto her back and headed off into the horizon, not caring were she was going, but only that she going somewhere, somewhere far away.
***
Meanwhile, someone else was in the desert. Licking her sand stained wounds was a majestic figure. She was laying with her legs tucked underneath her, her wings pressed against her sides. Her wings were torn, the holes in her legs and horn were clogged, and she has lost her former glow in her abdomen, but she still had an air of mystic beauty. She had been in the desert for nearly a year now, abandoned by her hive after she failed. Chrysalis was once a queen, now she nothing. Nothing at all.
She raised her head and turned towards the sun. In that direction lay the hive, and in the hive, Cocoon. A single tear came to her cheeks as she thought of the changeling stallion and what she lost. She was so close to having him. All she needed to do was show him that she had conquered Equestria. She had even done it. She had defeated Celestia and her subjects had taken the city. Her fillyhood dreams were all about to come true. All she needed was for Cocoon to come and see what she had done. Then in a second she lost it all, and now she was exiled by her former subjects because Celestia declared war after the incident, and she feared she would never know love again.
And it was all because of Twilight. As she thought about Shining Armour's sister her emotions changed from sorrow to rage, bringing her to her hooves. If she hadn't freed Cadence the frilly princess would never had been able to restore Shining Armour and defeat her. If it wasn't for her, she would still have Canterlot in her control, she would still be queen of the changelings, and most of all, she would have Cocoon. Why, if she could just get her hands on Celestia's pet-
The changling let out a sigh, and tried to suppress her anger. Revenge wasn't going to get her Cocoon. There was no going back now. She took once last glance toward her former home, then headed off in the opposite direction.
Little did she know that she was traveling into the path of her destiny.
***
Trixie had been trudging through the desert with her bag across her shoulders for hours upon hours now, and with the sun sapping at her life and sand stinging in her face she was growing tired. When it felt like her legs were about to break she at last saw a wall of palms in the horizon: the signs of an oasis. There she would find a town, with ponies to perform for.
With the last of her vitality she managed to heave herself into the settlement. After she quenched her thirst with the town's water she got to work, setting up her makeshift stage. It was just a collection of sticks and marks in the ground to layout the bounds, but it would have to do. As she used a stick to etch the grooves into the sand a small crowd started to form. She laid her hat out on the ground and braced herself. Soon it would be time for her to truly begin.
Soon she was casting spells left and right, mesmerizing the crowd which steadily grew larger and larger while the sky was let up. As she played trick after trick and out did pony after pony the hat began to fill up with bits. For the first time in days, no weeks, maybe even months or years she felt truly alive. The art of the show was what she lived for. The sounds of gasps of astonishment, sights of eyes full of wonder, smells of embarrassment from those who challenged her, that is what she breathed.
Then she noticed something, and the show of lights that she was putting on seemed to slow to halt. Standing in the crowd was a pony of the likes of she had never seen.
***
Chrysalis had been in the oasis settlement for most of the day. While in there she took upon the guise of a regular earth pony, one the color of the desert sands with a simple stone as a cutie mark. The people in the town let her drink from their wells as it was to cruel to deny anyone water in the desert. She spent most of the day just lying in the shade, watching the other ponies.
She spied a mare and a stallion kissing amongst the trees. She longed that she could just have that, be content with living simply, with her mate a her side. But she could not have that. She was a changeling, royalty, and she lost everything. Now she had nothing to do, nowhere to go. Soon enough she would have to leave the village when they start to grow suspicious, then she would be drifting through the sands again.
Soon the sun began to set, and she got up. She was walking over to the well when she noticed the something nearby was lighting up the sky. She went in the direction the light was coming from, and was shocked to see that a crowd was gathered. She looked around the crowd to try to see why they were here. Then she saw her.
The blue unicorn referred to her self as the Great and Powerful Trixie, and she was the most beautiful pony Chrysalis had ever seen. The moonlight reflected silver in her azure hair, and and the former queen could help but stare into those violet eyes. The changeling studied her every graceful moon like an artist painting a ballerina in motion, and to her Trixie's voice was the sound of music. She wanted her so bad.
At last Chrysalis found Trixie returning her gaze. She couldn't hold it in any longer. At last she yelled "Trixie, I LOVE YOU!".
***
Trixie was staring at a yellowish brown mare. Her body was unspectacular, but that's not what caught Trixie's gaze. It was her eyes. They were like nothing she had seen seen before. They were mostly green, even to the sclera. They drew her in, mesmerized her. She was feeling something she had never felt before when she looked into those eyes.
Just then the pony spoke to her, screaming "TRIXIE, I LOVE YOU!". The force of the statement through her off, and she stepped backwards. She really did not know how to respond. All she could say was "Love,....what is love? The Great and Powerful Trixie cannot love....The Great and Powerful Trixie...doesn't know love." With the last line she lost the usual air of power in her voice.
The fireworks stopped as Trixie bowed her head, deep in thought. Love, love, what is love. Was love the feeling she felt? After a moment of pondering she realized something. She might just have found love in that mare.
She looked up to see if she could find that pony, but the crowd had dispersed. Her hat was now filled to the brim with bits, but she didn't care. She needed to find that pony.
***
Chrysalis ran into the trees, tears streaming from her face as her disguise dissolved. She would never find love again, she had lost it all.
Soon she came to the village's spring. She looked into the water, studying her reflection. She could make herself look like anything she wanted, but to her, she would always be ugly. Unless...
She took upon the form of the Great and Powerful Trixie. Now Trixie was staring back at her, albeit with different eyes. She could stare at this reflection all day long. She then started bawling. She would never have Trixie. This beauty was nothing except another illusion.
***
Trixie was walking through the palm forest just to see what she could find in this settlement. She thought nothing of the pony, she was gone now, and besides, Trixie simply didn't have time for love. She had to get her revenge on Twilight Sparkle.
She then found herself in a clearing of the forest with a spring. Looking into the pool was the most beautiful pony Trixie had ever seen. She had a full coat the color of the sky, her mane was like cloud and shimmered softly, and she had the most wondrous sleek figure.
Trixie approached the mare, who turned around at the sound of her foot steps. Trixie could now see her eyes. They were just as marvelous and unworldly as the eyes of the pony she had met earlier. Maybe Trixie did have time for love.
The pony looked deep into Trixie's soul with great sadness in her eyes. At last she spoke with little more than a whisper. "Do you love me now?"
Trixie begin to have so many intense feelings that she began to feel nauseous. This was more than anything she ever wanted happening right now, even more than getting revenge on Twilight Sparkle. At last she couldn't take it anymore and let it all out. "YES I LOVE YOU! LET'S MAKE OUT!"
With she pounced upon the other pony and covered her with increasingly passionate kisses.
***
The fated pair had been making out for hours, but even the couple of destiny had to rest eventually. As they cooled down they lie down on their backs beside each other and began to converse. Trixie told Chrysalis all about how she had slain the Ursa Major and had become a hero, but was then betrayed by the wicked blasphemer Twilight Sparkle who had her exiled to the wastelands.
"How dare she! You weren't the only pony she ruined. You see, I am Chrysalis, former Queen of the Changelings."
By now they had both rolled over and were now on their bellies. Chrysalis then explained to her soul mate her past, what it was like to be the Queen of the Changelings, her relationship with Cocoon, and how Twilight ruined everything.
"And now I will never see Cocoon again."
She stopped, dwelling in the sorrow of what she lost. They she looked at Trixie.
"But none of that matters now, because I have you."
She then nuzzled her divine doppelganger. However, Trixie pulled out, her face distorted as it reflected her inner turmoil.
"But our love can never be. Celestia has made it illegal for a mare to love a changeling."
Chrysalis laughed.
"The law does not matter here. Celestia can't stop us now. Right now all the matters in this world is me and you."
Trixie then reentered the star struck changeling's embrace.
"You know, I get power from love. Now I feel more powerful than I ever have, even more than when I seduced Shining Armour. I feel like now I can not only overthrow Celestia, but together we may also get revenge on Twilight Sparkle. "
Trixie smiled at this, all to eager to fulfill her calling in life.
"As long as we are together there is nothing that can stop us. Let's do this."
***
Chrysalis returned to her true form and Trixie mounted her. Trixie was heavy, but with the idea of love in Chrysalis's heart the unicorn was as light as a feather. She spread her fairy wings and took off, flying straight into the sun where they would fight Celestia and free Equestria from the reign of the evil tyrant.
The flight was more arduous than anything Chrysalis had done before, but she had to do it so that ponies would be free to love changelings. At last she made it to the sun. Underneath the ball of fire was Celestia. She was riding a golden chariot, laughing maniacally as she whipped the pegasi driving it. Chrysalis decided it was now time to make her stand, so she yelled at the celestial dictator. "HEY CELESTIA! I HAVE RETURNED TO PUT AN END TO YOUR TYRANNICAL RULE!"
The wicked monarch stopped laughing and whipping her slaves and turned to face her challenger. The divine matriarch snarled as she saw the unicorn riding her.
"You. I thought I had you killed back when you tried to usurp me earlier. And now you have the guts to come back, and with a pony too. Love is not for changelings, only for the chosen race, the ponies. Soon every little last one of you bugs will in bondage. And now, little unicorn, a member of the second highest race, matched only by us alicorns, why are you with this scum?"
Trixie cleared her throat, and then let out her speech of destiny on the meaning of love.
"Before the Great and Powerful Trixie met Chrysalis she knew not what love is. This changeling proved to Trixie that love can take many forms. The Great and Powerful Trixie believes love should be free for all creatures, both pony and changeling, and if such a love must be fought for then such love is worth fighting for! The Changelings have been oppressed for too long, so now is the day they will be freed!"
Celestia let out a disgusted roar and charged her horn.
"And for loving a changeling you must now surely die!"
She fired a laser through Chrysalis's wings, searing another set of holes into them. With Celestia's rage the sun grew hotter, and Chrysalis felt her wings failing. With the added weight of Trixie she was falling. Trixie realized what was happening, and she realized what she had to do in the name of love.
"Chrysalis, Trixie just weighing you down. I can't do this to you. She is going to sacrifice herself now so that you may make Equestria a better place. The Great and Powerful Trixie will let you go now, and you must fly up, defeat Celestia, and free your people. You never needed her, you can return to Cocoon once she is gone."
With that Trixie leaped off of her back and entered a free fall. Chrysalis turned and dived after her, falling even faster than their tears. At last she grabbed onto Trixie and pulled her into a final embrace.
"If you are going to day let me die with you."
They made one final kiss, the kiss of true love, as they struck the ground. The force of the impact mixed with the power of the love and let out a shockwave throughout the land. It hit Celestia, knocking her out of her chariot and into the sun, destroying the despot once and for all. It hit Twilight's horn, shattering it. It hit the bounds of the changelings, freeing them. At last the shockwave ended, and the dust settled.
***
Trixie slowly opened her eyes. She found herself lying in the center of a crater, and slowly she began to remember what happened. She was bleeding profusely from her head, but she didn't care. She needed to find Chrysalis. At last she found the Changeling Queen, but she was gravely injured. Trixie let out a scream. "Chrysalis!"
The Queen groaned, and with great effort she managed to speak. "Trixie...I...I'm...dying..."
Trixie shrieked back. "No, this..this can't be happening. Chrysalis, I need you! Before I met you, I-I was nothing. You taught me how to love! Please don't leave me!"
While sobbing she bent down and kissed Chrysalis. While their lips touched Chrysalis took upon Trixie's form, then let out one last phrase before her breathing stopped. "Good bye...Trixie."
Trixie felt the body stop moving and start to grow cold, and with that she let out a scream of unimaginable agony. It sapped her of the last of her strength and she collapsed onto her lover's body, tears mixing with blood.
***
Chrysalis awoke. Lying on top of her was an unconscious Trixie. The Queen felt different somehow. Was she a ghost? Then she realized what happened. She was now a real pony. She could no longer transform, but that didn't matter. She still had Trixie. She bent up and whispered into her ear. "I live."
***
The pair went out to live a simple life together, continuing to perform road shows like Trixie always did. Luna became the new ruler of Equestria, and she was simply to cute to be evil. She started dating Cocoon and the war ended. Everyone lived happily ever after, except Twilight, who was forced to become a French Maid. Or something like that.
THE END
INB4 Still a better love story than Twilight.
