After our visit to the castle, things actually mellowed out for a while. Me and Screwy flew back to Ponyville at a nice slow pace. When we arrived, Rarity asked me if I wanted to have my measurements taken. At first, I was against it, stating that my clothes weren't even real clothes, just parts of my body. How else could you explain where they came from and where they went when I transform? Although, after some asking, and the mention of a certain phrase that I can't resist, I agreed.

She had me standing on that platform for almost an hour. I think she just wanted to check me out. She must have measured my entire body a dozen times over. After that, she said she might have some clothes that are my size, so I spent another few hours trying those on. I tried on regular clothes, suits, a tuxedo, a bunch of traveling clothes and even a freaking wedding suit which I almost ripped before I phased out of it. I liked the tuxedo but almost all of the other clothes didn't fit right, especially the pants and shoes, my legs being a different shape than what a stallions is. I finished when Bella came by and asked what I had been up to. I answered and then I asked if she had been measured yet. She looked at me for a second before realising she had no other clothes than the ones she made for her human form. She immediately ran into the boutique. I didn't see her for two days after that.

Those two days were quite tame though. I took Screwy on a date, a nice salad bar on the outside of town, that was amazing. The day after, Discord came around and asked what was up with his daughter. I didn't see her for an hour after that, which I spent fiddling with my Hakai energy, seeing how small I can make it and refining my control. I did accidentally put a small hole through a bookshelf when Screwy returned, which she fixed. I asked her what happened, she said she told Discord about all that had happened. Discord left after that, saying he was going to go visit Fluttershy. The day after…

"You want to what?" I ask Chrysalis, befuddled.

"I want to have sparring match with you." She repeats. "My magic has been completely different since I… transformed. I want to learn more about it."

"Okay. If you are absolutely sure…I'll take you on." I reply.

"Thank you." She says. We then move to my unofficial training place, the Everfree castle. We land a minute later, Screwy waiting for us.

"How did you know to be here?" Chrysalis asks. Screwy points at me. Chrysalis just looks confused.

"We're connected. She always knows where I am and what I'm feeling. Same goes for me." I tell the changeling. She raises an eyebrow before assuming a stance.

"Alright, shall we start?" She asks, her hands wafting heat.

"Sure. Now, to keep things mostly safe, I'll only use my magic against you. Your job is to try and work around it and try and hit me. Got it?"

"Got it." She says, she then coats her arms in powerful flames and attacks with a very fluid punch, not incredibly powerful but very graceful.

"Water shot." I speak, sending small bullets of water at her. Strangely, the shots seem to sink slightly into her before evaporating. Her flames burn just as hot as before.

"It worked." Chrysalis says, smiling.

"What worked?" I ask.

"I was able to make my flames damage absorbent. Your attack didn't put out my flames, they kept them burning." She replies, now smirking.
If that's true, then why did my magic evaporate? Could she not be able to properly absorb it? Let's see…

"Rock shot." I speak, making stones form in the air and launch at Chrysalis. She blocks with her arms again. The rocks sink into her flames, just like the water, but they still strike her.
I was right. Her flames don't absorb the damage completely, they only mitigate it. She can still take damage, but from the looks of it, her flames are still absorbing some of my attacks. I think, noticing that her flames are burning brighter than before. She goes in for another graceful attack, a flaming axe kick this time, having moved her flames to her thighs.

"Hiyah!" She shouts as she falls through the air.

"Vacuum wall." I speak. A barrier of pale green energy appears between her leg and me. The flames surrounding her leg are extinguished as she hits, surprising her. She backs off as my spell fades away. "Ah ha. You can only absorb attacks. Not defences. That or your flames just don't work in a vacuum." I say.
She goes in for another punch with her still burning arm. "Fire spear." I speak. Before my attack has any chance to form, she effortlessly ducks between my legs. As my attack impacts the ground, she goes for a flame kick to the back. I try to dodge, but she intercepts me by kicking my feet out from under me with a leg sweep. "Woah." I say as I fly away from her, landing on the other side of the room.

"Closer…" She rushes me with a flaming chop directed at my hip. "Press." I speak, trying to weigh her down. She swerves her body to the side, rolling out from under my spell and punches me in the knee! As I am slightly imbalanced, she goes for an elbow to my chin. "Repel!" I speak, blasting her back. As she gets pushed, she plants her hands on the ground and does a flip, stopping on the spot and tries to hit me with a punch to the chest! I catch her fist and say. "Wow! Have you been training? You are very light on your feet!"

"Actually, I've been taking dancing lessons with a mare I met in town. I don't know why but, whenever I dance… it's like I feel completely free… like there is nothing out of my reach. I guess I started using my practice to fight. Sorry." She says.

"No no no. Don't apologize. That was amazing. In fact, I think you should keep doing what you're doing." I encourage her. She seems surprised at what I said but she nods. From her arms, curved blades then appear.

"If I'm going with the flow, I might as well do this." She says, focusing her magic into her blades.

"Have you always had those?" I ask.

"Yes." She says, swiping her blade in my direction. A whip of flames trail from her blade, heading right for my chest.

"Ice shard." I speak, making a large piece of ice appear in front of me. Her whip touches the ice, making it melt and part of her whip extinguish itself.
A possible weakness to ice? Let's see…
"Icicle buckshot." I speak, making a large cluster of icicles appear. She counters by quickly and gracefully swinging her flame trails through the air, sublimating the ice. Her magic seems no worse for wear, if anything, it looks like it is burning even hotter now.
Drat. Those moves are really good. Combine them with those whips and she has an almost impregnable defence. Almost.
"Let's turn things up a notch. Word Soul magic: ђคภ๔ร ๏Ŧ ﻮгєє๔." I speak, my Grimoire out and glowing. From the ground, a trio of black hand demons appear, lunging for Chrysalis. She tries to attack with her magic but her flames have no effect on my spell, forcing her to dodge. Unfortunately, due to her new agility, flexibility and dexterity, she is able to work around my attack with little effort.

"What are those?" She asks.

"My Hands Of Greed. A… I guess you can say, pandemonial spell. Magic has no effect on it." She looks at me incredulously.

"Well that's just not fair." She says.

"Hence why a) I'm holding back and b) I'm only using three Hands and not turning this room into a recreation of tartarus. Anyway, shall we continue?" I ask her. She thinks for a second before saying.

"Yes." She then tries to go for a high attack with both her whips, bringing them down on my head. I block with one of my Hands. All of a sudden, she teleports in front of me and goes for an X-scissor attack.
I forgot she can teleport!
I dodge her blades and try to attack with a different Hand but she jumps out of the way and attacks with both her flame whips again.

"Extinguish!" I speak, just in time to snuff out her flames. Unfortunately, that doesn't stop her from drop kicking me.

"Ha! Hit you!" She shouts. I sucker punch her with one of my Hands.

"So did I. Now, I think we should stop there, how about you?" I ask her.

"Yeah, that is probably a good idea." She says as she sits down on a piece of rubble. "That was amaz-wait. If you could extinguish my flames, why didn't you do that from the start?"

"I told you. I'm holding back. I could have done that, but this was meant to be a practice for your magic, not mine. Extinguishing your flames off the bat would've defeated the purpose of that." I explain.

"Ah. I see." She says.

"So, what did you learn?" Screwy asks.

"That my magic synchronises really well with my bladed fighting style, especially if I keep light on my hooves. But I still think I can improve a bit. I'll have to keep practicing." She says.

"That is very good." I say.

"By the way, how are things with the other Chrysalis?" Screwy asks.

"With Chryssi? Absolutely fine! She was able to convince her hive to start sharing love, like she has. It was really beautiful to see." Chrysalis says, smiling widely.

"She reformed her whole hive? Nice!" I shout. "Well, this has been one fun day." I say… before an explosion goes off in the distance, straight in the direction of Ponyville. "…And it just keeps going. Let's go see what happened." I say, flying out of the castle, back to town. As the three of us get there, we see a mushroom cloud… directly outside the library.

"Oh no. What did Twilight do this time?" Screwy and I say at the same time.

Author's Note

Thank you HeartfireFirebrand for helping me with the fight, that conversation was very fun.

Also, thank you dracochangewing for checking again.