Twilight waited till the captain of the cruise ship left them alone within his office but only after insisting that they were served tea, only then did Twilight turn to face the two mares before her.

"So, you're a princess?" asked Emerald cutting to the chase immediately, she eyes the purple unicorn and shook her head "you don't look like a princess."

"I am Princess Twilight Sparkle, Princess of friendship." Twilight introduced herself smiling "and these are my friends the elements of harmony, who might you be?"

"I am Emerald Forest, Daughter of Syrreth and this is Lizz, she's like my sister." Emerald followed suit motioning to Lizz

"A pleasure to meet you Princess Twilight," bowed Lizz, Emerald raised a eyebrow at the gesture but thought nothing of it

"If you're a princess you should be able to help me save my dad, right?" asked Emerald

"You said your dad was Syrreth right?" asked Twilight, Emerald nodded "How can that be, you are not a dragonpony."

"Twilight, dragonponies have not been seen fer decades," the orange mare with a yellow mane said

"You're right AppleJack but it doesnt make sense, she's the daughter of Syrreth the dragon," began Twilight "the same dragon that unified the races against him."

Emerald looked at her confused just as the dragon on the outside of the ship began to chuckle, everypony turned to face him.

"What's so funny?" asked the animated pink pony "I wanna laugh too."

"Twilight, dragon ponies haven't been seen for a long time yes, but id you look her over you'll see she isn't a dragon pony." Spike laughed "Emerald was it, how is Syrreth your father?"

"He found me and made me his daughter," replied Emerald "how else would he be my dad."

"That, was really kind of Syrreth." Fluttershy whispered, the gem around Emerald;s neck pulsed with pride

Twilight sighed "Alright I get your point." she stated "but there are questions I want answers for young unicorn."

At that moment there was a knock on the office door the white unicorn opened it and was greeted by two waiter ponies pushing trays of food and tea. After their quick bows they departed. Emerald made her way to the trays and prepared a plate for Lizz.

"Tell me why were you looking for the princess?" asked Twilight

Emerald stepped to Twilight, close enough so she could see the gem glistening on her neck "All the dragons except my uncle and some hatchlings are locked inside here." she said bluntly "we were attacked by these things called changelings."

"Changelings?" shouted Twilight "are you sure?"

"Well, that's what uncle Balor said." shrugged Emerald, from the corner of her eye she noticed Spike's green eye widen in surprise "you know him?"

"Well..." Spike's voice trailed

"Spikey here is the father of Balor and Syrreth." Rarity said matter of factly

"RARITY." shouted Spike he gripped the boat rocking it violently as the white unicorn laughed as he peered down at her with one eye "we'll talk later about this."

"I cannot wait," smirked Rarity

"Oh go get a room." Rainbow dash shouted

"Excuse my friends, they don't know when to be serious." Twilight sighed "but Rarity is right, Spike is the father of Syrreth and Balor."

"Dad?" asked Emerald out loud "is that dragon my grandfather?"

'Yes' the reply was brief

"Why didn't you tell me this before, I blasted my grand father with a fire ball." Emerald began to pace as everypony stood watching her talk to herself "didn't it seem important at the time?"

'Not really, I enjoyed watching him get blasted' Syrreth chuckled 'serves him right'

"Emerald?" asked Rarity "are you alright dear?"

Emerald took a deep breath "I'm fine." she said "princess Twilight, can you save them?"

Emerald stepped to Twilight and took off the necklace she wore, and held it to the alicorn princess. Twilight took the gem in her hooves and looked at it closely.

"I think the princess will want to see this first," Twilight said "if the changelings are the ones who did this, no telling what kind of magic they could have used breaking it could set of a trap."

"To the princesses." Pinkie shouted happily "and then we can throw Emerald a welcome party."

"I hope the princesses could help, changeling magic is tough isn't it?" Fluttershy whispered

"We'll be able to help," Twilight said "in the meantime, AppleJack you and Rainbow go to the Crystal Empire, warn Shining Armor and Cadance, the changelings will be drawn to their love"

"You got it Twi." AppleJack said before grabbing the blue pegasus and dragging her out the office "see you all in three shakes of a parasprite.'

"What's a parasprite?" asked Emerald

"You don't wanna know." Rarity said shuddering

"The rest of us will head to Canterlot," said Twilight "get this to the princesses as soon as possible."

Twilight pointed to the necklace that was once again around Emerald's neck. The gem pulsed lightly as it's warmth caressed Emeralds coat.

"Hey granddad," Emerald said turning to Spike "you have year to make up for, got it."

"Sure." said Spike excitedly "Rarity and I will LOVE to show you around."

"Of course we will darling" Rarity chuckled "Won't that make Twilight your great grandmother?" she asked

Emerald tilted her head confused as Lizz stepped towards her and placed a wing on her back "So, are we going Canterlot now?"

"Looks that way." Emerald said "finally dad can come out of this thing."

'Do not get your hopes up Emerald, they might not be powerful enough to free us.' said Syrreth

"Come on dad have a little faith, you said the princesses were powerful right," began Emerald

"Emerald?" asked Twilight "why do you keep talking to yourself?"

"I'm not talking to myself," Emerald retorted "I can hear dad from inside this thing."

She pointed to the gem on her chest that glowed

"Can anyone else hear him?" asked Twilight

"I don't know never tired," Emerald shrugged "never even thought of that."

May I?" asked Twilight, Emerald levitated the necklace over her head and placed it onto Twilight she waited a few seconds

'Can you hear me Princess?' asked Syrrreth

"I hear nothing." Twilight said disappointed "maybe it's some connection you share."

"Maybe." Emerald shrugged

***

Queen Chrysalis stood on top the tallest mountain with in the wasteland, around her neck she wore the gem that contained Norgan. Chrysalis eyes were closed as she focused, around her green spheres appeared, they rotated at a very fast pace. The sky, turned green as the land began to wither away.

Opening her eyes Chrysalis laughed "This power" she laughed "the power to decay everything."

'This is but a fraction of our power.' Norgan said from within her "with you fully releasing me from my prison and our combined strength, all will fall."

"Ooo, I like the sound of that." laughed Chrysalis, she released her magic allowing the wasteland to keep some form of structure before turning "my people should be nearing their destination soon, then it shall all be over."

Queen Chrysalis took flight leaving the once barren wasteland a poisoned ruin.

Author's Note

Hello everyone of my few readers, how is it doing?
It's been a very long time since we talked or since I updated. It's been hard, let's start back on our story. Well.... I do have the rest of the story laid out. So shall we continue?