Chapters A Black Knight For Chrysalis (the 2nd righting)
Pandemonium raged. The land quacked. The world was being torn asunder.
The first Angels of the light to merge with the Demons of the dark 1000 years ago, had gone to ruin. Now the elemental worlds had followed suit.
"Neox. Old comrade, the living burial was never meant to be, use to be us on a non-reviver types. Are you sure you want to go through this?" A rotten unicorn winnied.
While standing outside a mess of hastily scribbled runes, five colored pots filled with glowing crystals, raw untouched crystals. The power for all thing dead or alive, flesh or mecha. It had taken months of hording to collect and ever so much self control. Now they had enough mana for one cast and only one cast.
"Nagg I know you're scared. Doom world! I'm scared, but with our world going to the grave, if we don't, who will?" Neox the young spell fiend asked. "Now when your ready Nagg . . . Cast!"
Nothing happened. No glow,no flash, no spark of magic. Neox started to move around the runes, when all of a sudden the sealed circle burst to life. Five stains of color swirled in to a murky brown,before a blinding white engulfed Neox vision. A deafening silence, his body was being ripped and despun apart, and the pain, it felt like lightning boosted flame grinder while slowly succumbing severe frostbite, plus ten spider-folk venom cocktails pumped strait to the heart, and the worse
The world lasted in that state: Seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries, eons? Spell time was never Neox forte. All he knew was no matter what a spell, 'without an infinite mana, a spell cannot be indefinite.' That was a rule, a rule for crying out loud!
After what could have been an eternity, Neox had long lost caring. Neox felt gravity, he was falling.Negative trinity i'm falling! Must survive!, must survive! Why oh why did I skip the aerial dive classes?! Well if i'm going to go down . . . "Dark Meteor!"
The barren ground was incinerated to glass, the last thing Neox could cast with the last of his power, before passing into the grips of unconsciousness . . . . was a darkness blood powered beacon.
A Black Knight For Chrysalis (the 2nd righting)
Four years after the Canterlot invasion fiasco.
Chrysalis yawned and stretched, she was no longer the Queen of the Changelings, that gamble at canterlot had cost her the crown. Now she was the lowest class of scout, a position that fed poorly, as most of the love they collected was sent to feed the hive as a whole. They were rationed just enough to keep them working, well she had to be early to get a good territory, first come, first serve after all.
"Indentured scout, A-69 step forward to get your sector. Collect your quota before noon, and you can lessen your sentence by a year or double you rations your choice."Chrysalis did as she was bid. Oh great S9, E4 I'll never get there much less meet my quota by noon! was I such a chiten grinder? Oh how the mighty have fallen, well I best be off.
8:30 AM. inroute to sector S9, E4
Something was definitely in the air, Chrysalis didn't know what it was, but it drew her like a bumblebee a apple tree in bloom. After 15 minutes, a familiar feeling, warm and filling, the others were feeling it too. The feeling of pure undefiled love, but there was something off too. Love normally runs into someone form of the lover. This love seemed to be reaching, not searching for a heart to take it in.
10:15 AM sector S9, E4
The sands of the ten square mile tract was a molten mess, the glass made footing treacherous, but the prize was now overwhelming. They used their prop caravan tent as a rope at the suggestion of a very clever indentured scout (hint, hint).
Then 45 minutes of effort finally yielded . . . . . . . A tailless monkey in armor? No the proportions are drastically of the mark, and the 'helm' isn't horned, that is it's head! Chrysalis mused. Coming to the conclusion, the more she knew the better her plans, she did a basic mind probe and got . . . zip. noda. nothing, that is if you don't count the massive headache. The damn beast had absorbed Chrysalis's magic BEFORE IT MADE IT INTO SPELL FORM!! A moan like an reverse deathrattle, the love stopped a few moments later. The beast raised it self to siting position, then spoke in the thickest accent the former Queen had ever heard.
"Oy! oo et oose t'a neo bahamut on mee?"
A Black Knight For Chrysalis (the 2nd righting)
Equestrian badlands
Neox's pov
I was ringed by what looked like nature kin, or I would've thought that if they weren't on all fours. Oh, and colored like skittles, the mare closest to me was golden brown coat with jade green main. Thank you nagg for the pony terms, on her flank was the picture of a red cross ballroom mask. Darkness only knows what it meant, cause I sure didn't. "Ank ou or t'a mana, o no, ah on't ink ah s'ill eed o'bit ore, ow ear t'a rub, t'a mana eeds, to be mine by t'a spill. Do t'at an' I promass ou our eart'z dezire." Oh trolls I haven't been this smashed since Dionysus had an wine and sake drinking contest.
Taskmaster bombadier's pov
We were already well into the quota, but the amount of love filled hearts this creature can provide alone, could get me promoted. But I would have to release all these scouts even A-69, but there is no way she can make back her debt and dredge up enough to make a bid for the new queenship, but if she does, her legacy as queen will be cemented and acting queen. Pupa won't like that., no not one little bit. Oh just goop it!! the good far outweigh the bad, IF IT CAN DELIVER.
"okay, but i want some proof you can do what you clam . . . ummm. who are you again?"
"oh ah gurs ah eed oo nt'rduze mas'lf. ah 'm neox t'a spell feind. 'ow o an' watt ar' ya?"
"i'm dusty devil. we are a nomadic tribe of desert unicorns. dose that make you happy?"
"Nuut 'ealy, yah lied, yah lied on yah n'me an' yah 'ace. 'Ow ay want t'a t'uth! t'en ya'll be Danny."
It guessed, and I told a perfect lie and yet it guessed. This 'Neox' was TROUBLE, he had to be stopped. If Neox sold his, yes the "it" was most definitely male. Powers to Celestia and then she gives to the solar and lunar guard corps who will make them available to the masses, meaning a genocidal shortage of love. Thing were bad enough as is, ending in the extinction of the Changeling race.
No. no! no, no, no! I, Bombardier a taskmaster, must nip this awful fate in the bud. All available lings fire enhanced and empowered magic missile spell. Post haste! love consumption is authorized.
Eleven wisps of green magic royaled from the disguised changelings horns. "Oh you poor foolish deceivers, i'm a spell fiend as i told you, I consume the basis all magic, Mystic Ether! Your spells are useless, nigh worthless. that is if I let them be."
Chrysalis's pov
The power and skill of this 'Neox' creature are quite . . . . something. The way that fool taskmaster bomb-flank, the whole mission would be for nought! this was a simple grab and run. When this become a hive guard mission? and why are we attacking a potential goose that lays the golden egg? This is folly! to save the love if nothing else. I made a gamble that made the one in canterlot look like a sure bet, BUT if it did go through, and that was a A BIG IF
Chrysalis focused on her true form, a tall black insectoid unicorn, with the wings of a giant fly, legs riddled with holes and a green main fin showing her demotion from queen to a queen-in-waiting. Her eye no longer were slit but one piece. Around her neck was her scouting chain, a far cry from the from the golden unicorn facade. "I'm Chrysalis, a queen-in-waiting changeling. I apologize for the deceit, but as parasitic love eating shapeshifters, who can drain a reluctant pony into a mindless comatose husk if not careful. You can see secrecy must be maintained."
"Well if you would give me room and mana, I will love you till the day you die."
"Well this a very good thing to hear, because I don't plan on dying just now."
A Black Knight For Chrysalis (the 2nd righting)
Neox, Chrysalis and the eleven other Changelings were setting up the caravan tent, at noon they broke out the supplies and had what seemed to Neox a pointless and futile act in normalcy. If no one ate food, then why cook? but then he saw, or rather smelled a particular wine. A wine with such a high aphrodisiacal properties that it was near toxic. The name had always escaped him, but when offered a waterdown goblet. "I rather not the wine, not to be rude, but i'll stick to my 'mage's sake'. No offense, it's just I don't trust your wine's effects, besides I will willing give you all the love you can handle. All you must do is ask."
"Would you fill my chain then? It is ever so heavy, and the only love can release me from it's bonds" Chrysalis asked batting her eyes.
"And just what did you do to gain such a powerful enchantment? and remember if'n you lie you WILL die."
"I made a terrible choice. I made a gamble that put me to ruin, I proclaimed a war I could not win, I came close, but my greed lost me my crown and my freedom, thus my chain. "
"Do not be ashamed since your greed for power is your folly. I will protect the next queen and there are no other I would rather serve then a fellow fallen. much like myself."
"Whatwasthat?" The former queen asked, not catching the last words Neox spoke.
Attention! this is taskmaster honeybee! i'm requesting a guard party, senior rank and love drop.
Hive to honeybee. What is the nature of your distress?
My party of scouts is protecting a large cache of prop supplies and other needs when we crossed paths with the Geosphinx Terradin.
We're so sorry your mission is not a priority to defend,you are on your own. Hope you make it back with the cache, have a nice day.
Chrysalia balked at what she heard, then it came. At lest three dozen lings begging the hive for help, a feeling bubbled up, anger, no righteous noble fury! the hive. THE HIVE was throwing them to the timberwolves! and then has the nerve to say "have a nice day".
Chrysalis a white hot anger surge through her veins, but the chain round her neck absorbed the emotion, then unexpectedly broke as though her quota had been reached.
Chrysalis could hear a dry wheezy chuckle, it was coming from Neox.
"You should have seen you face your majesty, all I used to grant your wish was a minor amp spell.
"So those feelings were not my own? Ah who gives a rut, i'm free! i'm free! ha-ha ah! i'm free!" Chrysalis sang, dancing like a drunkard.
"Now you truly felt the whole of it. Now that you can act on it my dear queen in waiting, what are you gonna do?"
"I feel like putting a certain Geo Sphynx through a lot of pain, before making him my main course in a hive wide BBQ."
Hang on honeybee! help IS coming. ETA 5 MIN. HAVE ALL LINGS READY FOR EVAC ALPHA.
A Black Knight For Chrysalis (the 2nd righting)
As the three dozen changelings huddle saying there last goodbyes, a small noise could be heard. Yes it sounded like screaming, it stared out low then it stared to grow.
"Pu-pu-put me-ee-ee do-ow-own!" The shriek of the green princess riding a plum steed. Chrysalis was being held to the back of the odd beast by some purple rentals.
The spectacle was enough to make the 40', ten ton Geo-Sphinx grand and mighty Terro face paw.
"HO! so the hive sends a onvoy and something that will be little more then a speck on my teeth, what is to stop me from eating that puny morsel then eating the messenger?? hmmm?"
"Nothing."
"WHAT?!!" On both sides of the party
"I call a 'dual regis' my champion agset your-oh how very awkward, that it can't be a dual without a defender! though your so strong you should be your own champion."
"Well yes, I am. but this hardly seems fair. . ."
"Oh I agree wholeheartedly, that's why if the champion falls, the king shall forfeit to the other's wim."
The plum warrior conjured a spear most had only seen though campfire tellings; 'Hunter's Pride'.
"Now you overgrown Subterra manion, let's take this grudge match back to the forest."
Chrysalis hurryed to taskmaster honeybee" Share some of your love and I can get you to the hive."
"My lady Chrysalis you honor us, but the wounded need love to get back on their hooves. . ."
"Bring the injured forward, I have something I want to try."The changelings were spread like a circle , she open a small wooden box that Neox had handed her, inside was a deep royal blue egg made of porcelain, there was a note on the box's lid
wishing stone
Directions on use
1)Make wish.
2)Crush stone to a fine powder.
3) Dump to the wind and do a jig.
"I wish my little lings safe and happy, free from ills"
Chrysalis crushed the 'wishing stone' to talc powder fineness.
And did to receate a ram's traditional jig. In a gust of wind and the blink of an eye, they sat Chrysalis queen to be alone holding a simply designed copper mirror.
A Black Knight For Chrysalis (the 2nd righting)
Honeybee's pov
Terro had caused major, no extensive damage, and doing more by the minute. She had been offered help, and by the first queen she would be a foal not to take full advantage of it!
"Evac pattern alpha! . . . yes you heard me grunt alpha, A-L-P-H-A. . . .No, I didn't call a suicide pact.Oh this battalion better get here soon our warriors are completely out of love.
En-route to honeybee
Chrysalis's pov
At about the same time
'Ah-chooo!!' Chrysalis sneezed. Neox chuckled, his raspy chuckle. "It would seem you have a Pidgey on your nose, either that or your catching a cold."
"Can't you get us there any faster? We want to save as many as we can." The queen in waiting grossed
"All right but we're going to battle, not a day at the market."
"I'm am perfectly aware what i'm getting my self into, thank you very much, but my role in the hive is to fill the void of a leader and the hive has given me such an opportunity.Tartarus be damned if i'll let it slip through my hooves."
Neox just nodded, then took out a white rapped candy parcel, untapped it and popped it into his nonexistent mouth.
*CRUNCH*
Suddenly Neox glow crimson over his plum and gold armor. Neox put Chrysalis on his back and ran full-out on all fours.
It seems Neox could do more than make limitless love, but he had access to pocket space, and what a skill!! He seemed to her, not her charade,her
The queen in waiting could reveal in the emotions, they were there, and if she ever wanted to be queen once more, she had to do.