Unexpected Friendship and Love

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"Speaking"

'Thoughts'

Primus opens his eyes to see the sky and galaxy ceiling. He feels something wrapped around his waist and looks down to see Celestia and Chrysalis hugging and snuggling him in their sleep. He smiles and untangles himself from the mess of limbs without waking them up. He looks back at them for one last time and sees them trying to find him in their sleep. He chuckles quietly and heads to the bathroom to start the day off.

Celestia felt an empty space and loss of heat and tries to find it again. She moved her legs around trying to get it but could not find anything. She opens her eyes to find Chrysalis doing the same thing. Now she knows that there is supposed to be a body between her and Chrysalis, blocking her vision, so where is it? She gets up and looks around to see nothing but an empty room. Chrysalis wakes up in an empty bed and looks around to see Celestia looking around too.

"Where is he?" Chrysalis asks.

Celestia looks at her with a thoughtful look. "He's probably in the bathroom, any case how did you sleep?"

Chrysalis stretches and works out the kinks in her exoskeleton. "Very well, much better than the hive." Her voices sounding like two voices were working at once and distorted from the sleep and the joints make a loud pop as she stretched.

Celestia smiles at her. "You should try cloud beds; they're very comfy and plush. Those in Cloudsdale agree and will only sleep in a cloud bed."

Chrysalis brings her holed hoof to her chin in thought. "I will have to take you up on that offer."

"They are also great armor for hoof to hoof fights." They turn their heads to the bathroom door and sees Primus with a towel around his neck and wet. "Because of its plush it can take a lot of damage. But I recommend it for sleep any day."

Celestia nods to prove his point. Chrysalis gets off the bed and walks over to them, her wings buzzing slightly. "So what are we going to do today?"

Primus looks down in thought to find his list of things to do today in his head. Celestia only sighs. "Well I have princess duties so I will call for a carriage to send you two to Ponyville." Primus nods and heads to his bags that he left on the table. He grabs his cloak from it and puts it on. He soon feels a pair of legs wrapping behind him. "See you tonight Primus."

Primus smiles at the gesture. "Sure Celly." Celestia let's go and heads off through the doors and go to wherever she needed to go. Primus turns to Chrysalis with a smirk. "Since she can clean herself with magic and offered a chariot to Ponyville, why don't we take her up on that?"

Chrysalis nods and follows Primus through the doors and into the halls. Two guards who is standing on the sides of the door looks at them briefly before returning to their regular stoic and unmoving routine. Primus leads Chrysalis through the maze of a castle before ending in the courtyard. They find a chariot in the middle with two guards fixing themselves into the harnesses and testing it by pulling. They went over only to be stopped by other guards on the walls.

"Halt!"

Primus sighs at this while Chrysalis cowers behind him. Apparently they didn't get the memo. "Queen Chrysalis you are wanted for the destruction of Canterlot and the attempted takeover of the throne. Because of this you are-"

"-not under arrest!" Everypony looks to a balcony and sees Celestia looking down at them with a very angry face. "She's been given a second chance and allowed citizenship. So she is not to be harmed, if she is I would personally see to it myself. Is that clear?" The guards only nodded fearfully. Celestia looks down to Primus and Chrysalis. "You can go now." She walks back into the castle again, back to princess duties.

Primus and Chrysalis walk over to the chariot, this time with the guards being more fearful of them. They head inside to the roomy carriage despite its small size from the outside and close the door. Chrysalis sits down on the seat only to slide off and smack into Primus, sending them both to the ground in a compromising position and if that wasn't enough the pegasus guards who is driving the carriage went off into the air without knowing that their passengers didn't sit down right.

Chrysalis gains a green blush, probably because of her blood being an insect green, because of being in this position. Primus just sighs and tries to lift her off but can't with the gravity effect of the rising carriage and his big size with hers, so they now have to wait until they go down. Not that Chrysalis minds of course. She looks at Primus who has not a single blush or any sign of embarrassment. He just looks at her as her blush grows more noticeable and bigger, if she gets anymore she'll faint from blood loss. Primus wraps his legs around her since there is nothing else he can do until the descent. Her blush went down steadily as she got use to it and snuggles into the awkward hug.

An hour into the flight and awkward hugging, they soon felt themselves lift off the floor of the carriage which means that they're going down. When Primus feels that they lift off the floor slightly he quickly flips over so he is now on top and gets up fast and sits down. Chrysalis, still in a daze from the hug, blinks from what happened. "What happened?"

Primus looks out the window to see the town closing in. "Just sit down and try not to fall off." Chrysalis only complies and try to sit down which is again awkward. The carriage lands with a thud on the ground in the middle of Ponyville square. Everypony who is in sight looks over and thinks on who is inside, maybe the princesses or another important pony. Primus opens the door and looks around for a bit to get his bearings on exactly where he is. He steps out and everypony lets the breath they were holding in out only to grab it again as they saw Chrysalis. They soon remember what happened at the party and lets it go for the last time, though some remained fearful.

Primus heads to the Corner to see if everypony is there with Chrysalis right behind him. He goes through the split door and sees that the Corner isn't at all packed to the walls. The only ones who were there is the Cakes, Twilight and her friends, and the Cutie Marks Crusaders who consist of Applebloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo. Applebloom is a small earth pony filly and sister of Applejack. She has a pale light grayish olive coat, brilliant red mane and tail with a big bowtie on her head, with brilliant orange eyes, but no cutie mark. Sweetie Belle is also a unicorn filly and sister of Rarity. She has a light gray coat, with grayish mulberry with pale light grayish rose streaks, and like Applebloom she also doesn't have a cutie mark. Scootaloo, a pegasus filly with smaller than usual wings. She has a light brilliant orange coat, a fuchsia mane and tail, and her eyes a grayish purple, and like her friends she also has no cutie marks. These three make up the Cutie Mark Crusaders who search for their special talent and their cutie marks. In the end most of their attempts end in disaster.

Primus walks over to the group, with Chrysalis following behind which is sitting in the corner of the Corner. Everypony looks up to see Primus in his mysterious cloak, hood down this time, and Chrysalis looking around the Corner in a new light now the party is gone.

"Hey Primus, want to join?" Twilight points to a seat right beside her.

Primuses only reply is sitting down and placing his bags on the table. Chrysalis only stands there getting nervous and looking for another place to sit. She walks off to another chair nearby only to be grabbed from behind and placed on somepony's lap. She looks to her captor to see Primus with a smirk and holding her around her waist. Everypony in the room gets a blush from seeing this. Although common in Ponyville because there is nothing else to do besides getting into relationships it is barely seen because of the embarrassment that may come with it, especially with the low male population and same gender relationships.

Twilight clears her throat for everypony to hear. "Well now that the whole 'finding a seat' problem is solved let's get back to the conversation. Rarity I know that you must have had your first love somewhere."

Rarity rubs her hoofs together from the nervousness. "Well I did go to Canterlot and found a great stallion that wasn't like Prince Blueblood. He was sweet, charming, and kind to everypony. But like all great things it must come to an end. I and my parents had to leave for Ponyville and I had to say goodbye. It was a good time but I try not to think about it." She starts tearing up from the memory of that particular time.

Twilight looks worried for her friend. "I'm sorry to bring up a sad memory for you Rarity."

Rarity waves her hoof dismissively at her. "It's no trouble Twilight. That was actually a happy time for me."

Twilight smiles at her forgiveness and turns to Primus. "I know you have some stories about Celestia back in the day Primus."

Primus chuckles like an evil laugh but kind hearted. "Now I can't say about that without her permission, but what I can tell you that when she was your age, in alicorn time, she acted with so much energy and like yourselves. She fell in love with me forgetting about the fact that she was dating an older stallion." Everypony gasps at that. Primus looks at them with a disbelieving look. "Come on, I told you that I was born in the beginning of time so of course I am old, technically." Twilight nods her head at understanding this with everypony else. "But she wasn't the first." Everypony leans in along with the CMC and the Cakes too. "She was a beautiful earth pony, who had a red coat and black mane and tail. Her cutie mark is a love symbol like the heart, meaning that she can see every emotion on everything that was alive. We met at the Canterlot about five thousand years ago. I was just on a journey thorough, you know just passing through. Until I needed to rest and the inn was full. So she let me stay with her for the night. Now she didn't like one night flings so if I or anypony tried to get her it better be real or it's the kick to the rump and over the walls lining the area. I never meant to try anything but when I mention of going on the road again she insisted on coming along, so I agreed. After we went through so many years missions to keep up with daily life and lots of daily troubles like bandits, she finally reaches her limit. Her life was coming to an end but she still kept going. Eventually I returned her to Canterlot and got her back into her old home. She wanted to keep going but I told her that she can't live as long as me because of my life as an alicorn. She then told me to make her immortal. She would keep her body as it is when we were away on missions but gain immortality and a few extra bonuses. I search the archives and couldn't find anything till I remembered that I can do this on blood wards but it will almost kill her. I told her that it would take the commitment of it being close to marriage. She reveled that during our journeys together she fell in love with me without even knowing it. I did the ritual and…and…" Everypony leans in more but sees him crying. Chrysalis wraps her legs around his neck to comfort him even though it barely bought it.

Twilight looks at him worried. "You don't have to continue."

Primus only shakes his head. "No I want to finish this. She did survive and we went out again, just like old times. Only then did we reach an old temple for a little treasure hunting. We reached the end and grab the treasure but something went wrong during the escape. The roof collapse and we were separated. She told me to keep going and she'll find another way out. I got out alright, but she didn't. I waited for a whole month or her to come out and find me till…I gave up. I search the temple but couldn't find any trace of her. I left and went off back to Canterlot. I told the current ruler about this and he gave a grand funeral for her. Apparently she was a daughter of a noble stallion and always loved adventuring. Her statue now rest in the gardens as the 'Immortal Love' pony. This means that no matter what her love will never die and never be forgotten. I can't tell you how many times I went there to see it. Even after all this time I still love her like she did me."

Everypony at the table tears up even Rainbow who doesn't cry. Rarity went for tissue and Pinkie started brawling like a garden hose. Chrysalis only tightens her grip on him. Twilight is the first to speak up. "Didn't you find anything after all this time?"

Primus looks at his bag like it was the most interesting thing in the world. "I became stronger over the years and I took that whole temple apart, brick by brick. I couldn't find anything that resembles her, only mummies."

Twilight looks up in thought. "Then that means that she must be alive and out there somewhere."

Primus shakes his head more somberly. "If that is true then she would have found me after all this time and the news reporting me. Or something went unpaid." He added the last part to himself.

Twilight sighs at the fact that the one thing that might have kept his spirits up is gone. She shakes her head looks at him with a smile this time. "You know, it isn't good to think with floating around your head so let's head down to the spa and get yourself something nice. We were planning to go there after this." She gets up and heads for the door, with everypony else following through in reality it is because of Primus needs some time. Chrysalis stayed behind to comfort him until he is ready.

On the road to the spa

"You think he will be alright, Twilight?" Fluttershy asks.

Twilight shakes her head at notion. "I don't know, stuff like this barely happens and when it does it takes a while till he goes back to normal."

She sighs heavily and bucks herself for bringing up the topic to him. Maybe it wasn't the best idea to get him to say anything about his life. Primus has always been secluded and silent for a reason and now she knows and so does everypony else. Maybe this will stave off some stranglers to get his life story out of him. She finishes his thought as her group approaches the spa. Rarity went in first with the others following. She orders her usual, which is almost everything on the list of treatments. The others just chose the basic package of steam room, massaging, mud baths, hot tubing, cucumber and face masks, and hooficures, or any combination they want.

By then Rarity is having a hooficure with Twilight, Applejack got some massaging, and Fluttershy is in the mud bath, Pinke is having a cucumber and face mask, while Rainbow isn't one for frilly-frilly frou-frou nonsense so she just went for a soak in the hot tub, and Spike going into the steam room.

"Ahhh, this is better, I feel like a new mare." Rarity commented.

Twilight tried to keep her head still from the filing of her horn. "You said it."

Pinke giggled and snorted before taking one of the cucumbers in her mouth with her long tongue. "This face mask tickles but is very tasty."

Lotus groans and smacks a hoof to her head at another who eats their face masks and cucumber. By then the bell above the main entrance jingles for another customer. Her twin sister, Aloe, goes to deal with it. They both look the same it is only that the color is different. Lotus has a light cerulean coat, a pale rose mane and tail, and a pink lotus flower. Her sister Aloe has the opposite of the placement of colors her sister has and a blue lotus flower, although both have azure eye color. After a few minutes she hears steps coming her way and turns to see Primus and…an insect creature? She looks closer and squints until she realizes that the insect is the former queen Chrysalis. She smiles at Primus and Chrysalis, because as they say 'service with a smile.'

"Welcome to our spa again Primus, the usual?" Primus nods at Lotus. Lotus leads him to a massaging table and prepares for her toughest customer on massaging. Chrysalis just sits in one of the seats near the huge hot tub and waited. Primus took his cloak off, reviling his numerous scars and blood wards on his body, and sets it down with his bag on the ground nearby and lay down on the table only to receive a pair of hooves on his spine massaging away. He sighs in contempt at the treatment he's receiving.

Twilight, now finished with her horn filing looks at him and gasps at the numerous marks on his body. "Primus what happened? You have marks all over you." This brought the attention of everypony besides Chrysalis and the other spa ponies; Chrysalis has known he had all those along with the spa ponies doing treatments on him.

Primus has his eyes closes as he relaxes at the massaging and lays his head on his crossed front legs. "This is my collection of scars from numerous battles and fights, along with my blood wards which is hard to do on skin." Everypony in the room for a moment to compute this, he literally carved the blood wards on his own body. The scars they can understand, but not the blood wards.

Rainbow shot up from the hot tub, water spraying everywhere. "Wait, you carved the blood wards into your skin?"

Primus nods as best he can. "Makes things easier than just spilling blood and wasting minutes to make one ward. I can swipe some of my blood on my wards and be done with it." He flips over to allow Lotus to massage his front while Rainbow goes back into the hot tub. "Besides, I made the blood wards so I can do anything. How do you think I know that the blood wards in the book are wrong? Owww, watch it!" Lotus gave a small sorry before continuing somewhere else that isn't there or down low.

Twilight thought on the fact that when she tried the original from the book it didn't work but when she worked with the modified one it worked so well that she barely had to use a lot of magic. "I just thought of something." Primus looks at her upside down because of his position. "I thought that you wouldn't go for this kind of stuff." She said with a wave of her hoof to the whole room.

Primus chuckles lightly. "These old bones and muscles can't take care of themselves anymore. So I come by once in a while to have them fixed up with a massage and some hot tub soaking."

"Now that I can relate." Everypony except Primus turns their head to the entrance to see Celestia there but without all her royal jewels. "I must say that this is the best spa I have seen and been too and I have been everywhere." The spa ponies gave a smile at the compliment.

Lotus finished with her massaging and gave him a towel. "Thanks Lotus." Lotus gave a nod and went over to Celestia to treat her along with Aloe. Primus went over to the tub and soaks in slowly and gave a sigh as the water worked on his old joints and muscles. He then looks over to Celestia. "I thought that you were busy."

Celestia looks at Primus as the spa twins' works on her wings and horn. "I finished early."

Twilight looks at her for a few before turning to Primus as he lets his wings loose in the water. "I just remembered that Primus told us that back in day he was an alicorn…well…what happened to his horn?" Everypony looks at him and tries to find anything that resembled a horn.

Celestia laughs lightly. "His horn is missing because he asked me to." Everypony looks at her shock, except for Primus who fell asleep and is now snoring lightly. "To make sure that he couldn't be recognized and protect me. He still has magic based on the fact that he can do blood wards, but I can give it back at anytime."

Rainbow looks closely at them. "So why not give it back now since he's done?"

"Because for this particular spell you need the other's permission and you can't get it forcefully." They look back at Primus who still has his eyes close, even though that they heard him talk. "Who do you think made that spell?"

They look between the two of them until Twilight said, "You?"

Primus and Celestia laughs at the young student. Celestia calm down first. "No my dear student. He didn't make it, I did. Ahhh, that's the ticket." The message must really be working.

Primus looks at her briefly before closing his eyes again. "Don't get into too much pleasure. That's my job."

Celestia looks at him mischievously. "Then maybe you should take their jobs and massage me, thereby making me save time and money."

Primus looks at her with a glint in his eye that said 'is that a challenge'. "Then you would be wiped out the next morning."

"I'll ask Luna to take the morning shift."

"And if she doesn't?"

Celestia recoils in thought. "I'll speed up the healing."

Primus gave a smart smirk. "We both know that you wouldn't do that."

Celestia opens her mouth to say another argument. "Stop, we don't want to listen to your sex life!" That came from a disgruntled Twilight.

They both look at her briefly. "Sorry." They both said, embarrassed.

A distorted laughter came into the room and reminded Twilight of when she was locked underneath the castle. "HAHAHAHAHAHA. Oh gosh, that was so funny. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA." Chrysalis laughed away. Soon Celestia and Primus join in then everypony else. Life went well at that point.

Near a small town

But in another land things are not going to be well. As the Deadpony and his new minion went to the nearby town which was a day away and now they stop at the high hill on the road leading to one of the entrances. The Deadpony looks over to his minion only to see it cowering. He kicks it harshly. "Toughen up. Now I want you to go into that town and cause as much chaos as you can." He pointed a hoof to the town. "If you don't…well…" He summoned his rings telling it what would happen. The beast can only nod and bow and then went off toward the town. The Deadpony followed slowly to watch the show as best he can and what better way than to see his work up close.

The beast galloped as fast it could to finish the job so it won't get the purple rings cutting into itself. It jumps over the walls lining the small town and landed on the nearest unaware pony. Landing with a loud thud as everypony else looks over it pulls it leg back with the blades in it and swipes it across the pony's chest. Doing it again and again, hissing and growling, as everypony else screamed and fled while the pony below it died from massive shock and blood loss. The beast turns its head and sees a mare holding a filly in corner. Both were shaking in terror as the beast approached them menacingly. The beast lunges onto the both of them and starts swiping away, not caring who it was and spreading blood everywhere. The beast went off again, not caring who it found, because all it wanted to do was to live and not go back into the cocoon.

The Deadpony walk through the streets as calmly as ever as he looks upon the damage left behind in his beast's wake. Everything that wasn't nail down is now overturn and cuts in the building and bodies on the streets. He laughs just as evilly as he doesn't care. All he cared about was finishing the job. He soon reaches the middle of the town. Everypony that was lucky got away and out into the forest and off to other towns. The only ones who were left behind were the Deadpony and his beast. The beast got off its last kill and looks around to see if it missed anything. It then spots it's so called master near an upturn cart containing an assortment of food. The Deadpony picks up a apple and gives a big sniff, despite it being covered in the cart owner's blood which was laying near it and hanging on the side like it a was a escape. He then tosses it over to the beast and it lands near its hoofs.

The beast looks at it and gives a few questionable sniffs to make sure that there is nothing bad to poison itself. Once finding nothing it chomps a piece and eats away the rest without any disregard for table manners, not that it need any. The beast looks at its master again for more but all he did was take a few more and stuff it into his bag. He then walks off to one of the exits to the town with the beast following behind. Leaving behind a blooded town and decaying carcasses.

In the castle in Celestia's office

Celestia is in the castle at her desk reading many reports of what's going on with each town. She felt regenerated from the spa treatment, nothing could ruin her day. (How wrong she was.) She soon reaches one marked 'urgent.' She opens it to find that the population of the three hundred ponies there were only one hundred that survived. She reads over the damage report and finds that the survivors were in shock and only mumbled something about a 'bladed monster pony.' Now this didn't make much since to her. She reads on to find that the unlucky victims were sliced with a sharp enough object that match a sword, but wounds indicate that the victims were held down and sliced in a diagonal side to side motion. The report contains pictures of the town and pulls them out only to nearly gag. The streets ran red with the blood and bodies were everywhere, even little fillies.

She puts everything into a file and slams it shut. How could so much killing and destruction come from a single monster? Her whole life she has never seen anything like this. She soon decided to show this to Primus and puts the file away, but needs guards to confirm this. She pulls a rope hanging near her desk. A guard comes in that was near the door.

Her face grew gravely at what she was about to say. "Grab a couple guards and go to this town." She hoofs him the file. "Collect the dead and give the whole area a proper search. Keep this under wraps. Nopony must know about this."

The guards nods and goes off to fulfill the princesses' orders. Celestia leans back into the chair and sighs heavily. It's just one thing after another. First the accident, then Primus leaving for a long time, coming back with Chrysalis, and now dealing with Shawdowlings and changeling assassins. What else can go wrong?

KNOCK

KNOCK

KNOCK

She had to ask. "It's open." A servant came in with a huge box. The servant sets the box on the desk and leaves her to her own problems. She looks at the box with a confusing glance. She didn't order anything and it isn't her birthday so what could this be? She opens the box only to recoil in disgust. Inside is a young filly's head, with no body and eyes, blood everywhere, and the mouth open with the tongue rolling out. She goes to a nearby window and opens it to empty her stomach while pulling the guard rope again, this time more shakily.

A guard came in when the smell of the decaying head reached his nostrils. He holds a hoof to his nose to block the smell but to no avail. Celestia finishes her puking her guts out the window and turns to the guard. "Please take it away." Her voice full of sickness of the idea of sending a filly's head like this.

The guards nods and cover the box, blocking the smell again, and taking it to be check for who done this. Celestia, now feeling less queasy, goes back to her desk. But she couldn't get the image of the filly's head out of her head. Every time she looks down at the desk she sees the box again and the filly's head in it. She teleports back to her room where Primus and Chrysalis is sleeping soundly on her bed. She joins the huge bundle and goes off to sleep with troubled dreams. She decides to tell him tomorrow.

Again short but maybe good. You tell me. Read and review, flames allowed.