Earlier In The Land Of Equestria.
The sky was a deep orange hue, the sun setting slowly behind the clouds over Canterlot mockingly as the moon would soon rise. Chrysalis dashed down the empty halls of the Royal Castle, her right hoof lifted up in pain moving her body at half speed after a painful defeat moments ago.
Her plan to sap away emotion from those horrid ponies had failed, she wanted to make them hollow within and care about nothing. A walking husk that would soon wish to taste death than to continue on, but of course a crash course in cursed love ended that plan.
Removing happiness from such a place as warm and cheerful as Equestria was quite the endeavor, one she was starting to think would be simply impossible and as soon as she would give up. They would come for her, reforming her ways and engulfing her into the fold. Her own wicked outlook on life changed to a bright positive lifestyle, the changeling could only shiver in disgust at the mere thought and quickly pounced behind a nearby corner.
Wincing in pain from a current blast of magic to her wings, she slowly extended them outward only to see bruises and blood greeting her. Flying out of this mess was out of the question, she gave a quick pant while her mind raced for a solution.
“Freeze vile creature or be slain!” A lone guard spat aloud in confidence, his golden armor glowing in the dim light of the halls.
“Promises, promises.” Chrysalis gave an eye roll to the lone stallion, he would leap forward with a spear in hoof the queen easily dodging his first swipe.
The earth stallion charged forward with his shoulder, knocking the air out of the hurt changeling as she gave a loud gasp. His spear doing a quick three-sixty the backside striking her hind legs as she crashed to the floor, her eyes glowing a darker green as his spear dug deep into her shoulder blade.
Pinned in place she watched as lime green blood oozed from her wound, the stallion smirking triumphantly in place as his back would turn to the queen. Her chance was neigh, the crooked horn atop her head flashing to life, dark green fire of magic lifting the spear out of her shoulder in one quick motion.
She would hiss in hatred and slam the spear into the backside of the stallion, his screams echoing loudly down the empty halls. She licked her lips watching him lift high up impaled on the long spear helplessly, turning him to face her as she gave a wicked giggle.
“Mmmm. Pony on a stick!” She gave a sly grin, her mouth opening as she started to feed on the helpless creature absorbing his essence with ease.
Her wounds slowly healing as she greedily fed from the pony, enjoying his suffering so much as he soon went limp. Chrysalis quickly tossing an ashen husk of a pony to the side, his whole frame exploding into dust on impact while leaving only armor behind.
“Thank you for the bite dear, fufufu!” She gave a howl of eerie laughter, only for a sharp beam of white light to strike her chest in a loud pop.
Rolling down the hall of the castle she skid across the floor, crashing into a large wooden door while her whole frame was smoldering. Chrysalis weakly standing to her hooves while fighting back the urge to vomit, her body on fire with pain and quivering with agony.
“One day Chrysalis, I’ll put you out of my misery…” Celestia spoke in annoyance, her horn still lit up from the beam of magic shot.
“Funny, I was going to say the same…” Chrysalis smirked as drool ran down her chin uncontrollably, body shivering in place weakly.
“Give yourself up! We will spare you!” The princess spoke aloud in a sneering tone, a group of at least six guards rushing up behind her.
“Odd, I don’t feel like you mean that…”
“Fine.” Celestia shot another beam of light, the magic smashing into the queen like a tsunami wave sending her crashing through the wooden door.
Rolling across the floor again, Chrysalis could feel her grasp on life slipping away. Vision fading in and out of focus around her, her slender beaten frame dragging across the stone floor. Books of all kinds surrounding her in the ‘Royal Archives’, a few open scrolls placed on pedestals behind her.
“Guard the exit, I shall end this.” Celestia slowly walked into the dimly lit room, her bright violet eyes scanning the mess around her.
Spotting the weakened queen pulling herself up a few stairs to the right, using a nearby pedestal to lift her broken body off the ground. Blood flowing from her wounds as the world grew cold, eyes darting over the scroll quickly below her hooves, each breath weaker than the last.
“Stay off these spells, they aren’t meant for the wicked.” Celestia slowly edged closer to her foe, Chrysalis simply bursting out into a fit of sickly laughter.
“Hahahaha’cough’aaaa..” Green blood trickling down the chin of the changeling, her hooves softly tracing the scroll before her.
“Chrysalis…”
“The Spell Of Essence? To transfer one’s being into another or dare I say across dimensions?” Chrysalis gave a fang filled smile to the princess, her body aching for release of this world.
“That magic is…”
“SILENCE! I may not be able to destroy your paradise, but I shall find another that won’t put up a fight.” She spoke in a soft whisper, her horn flashing to life and splashing dark magic upon the scroll.
“Grrr!”
“Send me back to earlier this day, to when I was alone and...show me the world between worlds!” She gave a loud hiss in victory, Celestia rushing after her swiftly only to be met by a blast of magic.
Flying back the alicorn hit the stone wall behind her hard, crashing to the floor below as the changeling was now gone from this world. Her dark heart able to reach out to another world, to spread her hate to one unfortunate soul.
Present Day.
“Why did I do that!?” I gave a loud scream into the garage, my bike a broken mess as I backed up and slammed the large door down.
I took something from him, something he held dear and close to his heart. Leeching away the very soul from inside, devouring his hope and feeding on the love within. I could feel my stomach knot up while dashing up the porch stairs, kicking open the front door swiftly and stumbling inside.
“I’m a monster.”
“But it felt good? It took all the pain away?” I could feel the faint thoughts of darkness fill my mind, I shook my head in place trying to free myself from the haze.
“No! I killed someone…”
“What had to be done, you need to feed in order to become stronger!” The thoughts pushed their way into my mind, I quickly clenched my fist and smashed it hard into the wall cracking it.
“Leave me alone!” I screamed out in horror, the thoughts drifting away into the distance.
Groaning in defeat I lowered the hood to my shoulders, dark and tangled locks of green hair cascading down my shoulders messily. My eyes widen in confusion while clutching the disgusting locks of hair in my hand, yanking as hard as I could feeling the pressure on my scalp.
I gave a loud scream in pain, dashing across the floor of the room in a blur. Jumping over a broken box full of clothes, I pounced into the bathroom before gazing deeply into the mirror. My hair had grown so much in such a short time, flowing down near my lower back side now in a wild mess of tangles.
I lifted a quivering hand, running it through my hair eyes watching on in dread. Slowly pushing the hair away from my face it hit me like a train, this shit wasn’t going to stop anytime soon. It would continue to fuse with me and take over, until I no longer existed but only the monster.
“Celestia! You appeared before, appear now!” I yelled out into the small claustrophobic space, the light in the room flickering above wickedly.
“Please I need help! I don’t want to hurt people, I’m not a bad person!” Thoughts of the dead man on the road filling my mind, tears forming in my eyes as I backed up until hitting the wall.
“What’s going to become of me?” I could feel the tears roll down my cheeks, sliding down the wall slowly I allowed the cool touch of the room to calm me.
The hunger had hit me suddenly, it had taken me over with such ease. But it wasn’t that I had lost control to another, I was in full control the whole time while riding a wave of power and lust. My heart sinking deep in my chest, as I lifted up my head to the ceiling the scratch of budding fangs scraping the side of my tongue.
She has an influence deep inside of me, but in the end the choices are mine. Her morals and philosophy are digging into my mind, clawing a path of a darker way of thinking into my life. I could just scoff softly in place, maybe I was a monster after all.
All my life I’ve thought of just myself and not of others around me, but now that I’m alone all I wish for is a warm embrace from Kara. A friend who will never come to light, stuck in my personal hell I’ve created of Me, Myself and I.
“I can fix this myself, I’ve done it so many times before.” I could hear a loud knock coming from the front door, a soft growl escaping my lips as I wished people would just leave me be.
Wiping the tears off my cheeks I swung back up to my feet, feeling an odd sensation in my belly as if my stomach was full of sludge. A sense of being beyond full and almost uncomfortably stuffed, shaking off the bloated feeling I rushed to the door calmly.
“What now?” I spoke up in disgust.
“Howdy Chris?” Jack Mercer of the deputies office spoke up cheerfully, though his dark green eyes watched me in utter confusion.
“Fuck my hair!” I gave a loud yelp, both hands clutching the sides of my head roughly.
“You can say that again, you look like some anime darlin’ from Toonami.” He gave a smirk to me, his blonde hair short and neatly brushed back while wearing a clean policemen uniform.
“I would think it was more like Chrysalis from MLP…” I rolled my eyes defeated,slumping against the front door as he chuckled.
“Oh yeah! That pony show...you some kind of a super fan now?”
“No! But you seem to be…”
“When you live in a house with four nieces and three sisters, you get used to ladies shows boy! Though I will admit the show is cute, so whatever call me a fan!” Jack gave a hearty laugh aloud, standing a few inches taller than me as I felt like a total wimp.
“So Kara lets that damn show play at her place, but busted my chops when I watched it here?” I spoke under my breath in anger.
“Sorry Chris about my sister dumping you, but just know I’m still a fan of ya’.” Jack turned the subject away from the show, eyes locking onto my own.
“Don’t bet on a sinking ship.”
“Come now boy! You might be a bit rough around the edges, perhaps even a little eccentric.” His large hand flopped my long hair over my shoulder.
“...”
“But you still have some good left in you, just need to find a path worth taking. When you do, I bet Kara comes running back.”
“You hear from her today?” I slowly swallowed a large lump in my throat, letting his words sink in slowly.
Sure he was Kara’s brother, but still had an open mind on things. Someone who was a bit more cooler than I had given him credit for, a ping of regret slowly tracing through my frame.
“Not important ‘Ponyboy’ did you pass by an accident uptown? Sabrina said she saw you acting odd today in the market.” Jack spoke in a far more serious tone, sending a slight chill of fear down my spine.
“Well not odd, I just forgot my wallet...I was angry.” I gave a slightly nervous reply, his lips pursing a bit.
“Didn’t happen to pass a car pulled over? See some odd scorch marks on the road?” his brows raised in interest to me, I quickly allowing long soft bangs to fall in front of my eyes.
“What happened Jack?” I asked naturally trying to sound confused.
“It wasn’t polite.” Jack frowned in place before tilting his head to the side, eyes darting to the closed garage door off to the corner.
“Always loved that bike of yours, mind if I see it?” Jack began to turn around, my hand reaching out to hold him back firmly.
“I just locked her up for the night, besides pretty busy tonight.” I gave a slight chuckle to the deputy, his eyes narrowing a bit.
“That’s a shame, well this incident happened close by. Keep an eye out for trouble…” He gave a loud chuckle and punched my shoulder playfully.
“Hehehe, I will but wasn’t it an accident?” I spoke up while Jack quickly shuffled down the stairs, heading off to his car parked near the side of the house.
“Can never be too sure, you stay safe now!” He replied in a stern tone, my body feeling that bloated sensation again.
“Visit anytime.”
“Might just hold you to that.” Jack laughed and slid into his car, my soul shattering as I knew he’d be back later to stir up the pot.
“Fuck!” I spoke under my breath, watching the car speed away into the distance vanishing behind the woods near my place.
I walked back into my darkening home, the lights in the house dim as the whole place looked more like a squat house than a real home. I winced a bit in pain and lifted up my upper lip, fangs had sprouted outward from my gums gleaming sharply in the shadows.
“First my hair and now my teeth?” I clutched a handful of mane in my hands, pulling upon it roughly as I let out a loud scream.
I needed to find a way of fixing this, but doing it alone would be rough. Yet if I wanted to keep people safe from whatever was growing inside me, I would have to do this quick and by myself.
Though maybe…
I felt a odd pressure in my lower back as a loud groan escaped my lips, something had stabbed me in my ass or hips to say the least. I could feel my skin crawl as something was moving inside me, I quickly fell to my knees the pressure building as I crawled across the messy floor.
“What is it now!” I winced and rolled over, feeling another pain in my stomach. That bloated feeling causing me to gasp for air, my belly felt full of slime again as I watched in terror.
My stomach was stretching slowly in place, pound after pound adding to my body as I watched my belly slowly start to round out. Hands cupping the lower edge of my inflated body firmly, a round bump had grown inside me. My body gurgling loudly as I felt so cold at the moment, so heavy and full such a sickly feeling like no other.
I weakly lifted to my legs once more, the weight added to my body throwing me off balance. My shirt lifted up a small bit showing off my tight belly, not flabby as if fat but more of a pregnant look. That thought in my mind causing me to jump back in horror, a loud rip coming from my pants as a bright swishy green tail popped into the world.
“A fucking tail too! Someone hates me out there!” I groaned and held to my belly in a sense of defeat, yet the soft movement within caused a slight smile to flash if only for a moment.
“If I don’t get at least a little help soon, I will be doomed.” I gave a soft shiver in place as my tail lifted up highly behind me.
“That will take some getting used to.” I shook my head rushing to my phone on the coffee table, tail doing cute little swishes every step of the way.
Flipping through name after name in my address book, eyes soon fell to one name in particular. That of Felix Taylor a old acquaintance of mine who lived in town, I had met him online on a MLP site what felt like forever ago. He was an oddball to say the least, but also had mentioned once that he followed a site searching for magic in the world.
I smashed the call button firmly as I waited for him to answer, holding the phone to my ear and waiting with fear gripping my heart.
“You wanted magic, time to blow your mind!” I growled to myself not knowing what was to come or become of me.
“I thought his mind would be gone by now.” Celestia stood atop a large hill off in the distance, the sky turning a darker hue above as she scoffed aloud.
“Well the spell might not cause that.” A violet alicorn walked out of a large glowing portal tearing into this world, her muzzle scrunched up cutely.
“Wasn’t that spell a body swap?” The princess gave a reply, her eyes rolling a bit.
“Umm no, it was a spell of essence. She gave up her body to infuse her soul with another, depending on how the host accepts this…” The mare slowly trailed off, eyes looking to the small home in the distance.
“Twilight?”
“Oh! The fusion might side with one soul over the other, no matter what happens she will never be her whole old self again. This man will have traces of her forever or worst case…” Twilight gave a sheepish laugh.
“She will have traces of him. So much for the future...” Celestia gave a loud sigh, her student folding back ears gently.
“The spell worked though.”
“Half a chance at a new life is not a success. But at least that tyrant is gone.” Celestia gave a loud huff, a large portal opening again before her.
“But.”
“No regrets dear, let us go this world is far too depressing.” The princess gave a soft shudder, walking into the portal and vanishing into the light.
Twilight could only frown, the princess had asked her to do so much. She worked her hoof to the bone at a possible solution, yet now it was being tossed away like a failure. Worse still a soul had been cursed by darkness, his whole life at stake to be fused with a monster.
The alicorn watched the portal flicker in front of her like a dying flame in the night, she had to try and aid this world in any way possible. The project might be dead in the water, but perhaps she could still make things right.
“Twilight?” Celestia spoke aloud through the portal, the small pony lighting her horn brightly and casting a evade spell upon the doorway. The magic slamming the doorway between worlds shut, if only for a little while at least.
“Forgive me princess, but all rules must end.” The mare gazing down across the open world around her, the end of all things coming near.
