The Curse Of Chrysalis

Chapter 1

The invasion failed. Queen Chrysalis had attempted an invasion of Canterlot during a wedding only for it to fail. It had been over a few months now as Chrysalis was stewing in her failure as she tried to come up with a new plan to get back at the ponies that beat her. Without love energy though, she was weak along with her army. “BLAST THOSE PONIES!” Chrysalis shouted as she sat in her throne. A pair of changeling guards standing at her side flinched at her cry. Chrysalis was wearing a sea green slightly tattered dress.

The throne she sat in was black and roughly in the shape of a throne. The room itself was made of stone walls with torches that had blue flames burning to provide light along with a few glowing stones in the walls and ceiling.

The guards were wearing cobalt black armor and holding roughly sharpened spears. Both were males. One guard looked to the queen. “Please your majesty, try to calm down.”

Chrysalis snarled at the guard. “Don’t tell me to calm down! I’LL BE AS UPSET AS I WANT!” She shouted in anger.

The second guard chimed in. “It’s been months now since the invasion failed, you shouldn’t think too much on it.”

Chrysalis turned to the second guard with clenched teeth and leaned in. “If I want your opinion...I’LL ASK FOR IT!” She shouted causing the guard to fall back. She leaned back in her throne. “My victory was assured. How did I fail? What went wrong?”

“If I may, I’m pretty sure it was that Twilight who freed Cadence and helped her get to Shining and freed her from your control and…” The first guard trailed off as Chrysalis was growling at him.

“I know what happened. What I want to know is why. What could have been different?” Chrysalis stated.

“Well...your majesty.” The second guard started. “I suppose one of the issues is we need love for power. But we are unable to get an abundance of it.”

Chrysalis raised a hand about to smack the guard making him flinch and brace for the hit. But she stopped as an idea popped into her head. “That’s true. Love is what we feed on to gain more power. But what if we had a soldier or two that didn’t require love.”

“M...My queen?” The first changeling guard asked.

“GO! Gather the best spell casters of our hive immediately and bring them here!” Chrysalis barked.

“Yes your majesty!” Both guards replied and took off.

Chrysalis grinned as her plan started to take form. “This time we will be victorious.”

Soon, the brightest minds of the hive were gathered and Chrysalis explained what she had in mind. “I want you all to work on a spell of some kind that will bring forth powerful warriors for our side to finally help us take over Equestria so we will have those ponies to give us the love we need.” Chrysalis said.

The changelings gathered all were wearing black robes with light blue trim with hoods. There were about seven of them. “You seek to summon warriors? Such a feat would be difficult. Especially with how much magic would be required.”

“You will be given access to our love energy reserves for what you will need.” Chrysalis said. “It will be worth it if it means victory.”

“As you wish your majesty.” One said as they bowed.

It took some time, but everything was soon ready. A large circle was made in the center of the throne room. Chrysalis wanted to ensure her position was made clear to whoever, or whatever, was summoned. In the circle was four more circles along with two squares overlapping one another, both places in a way that made them look like a star, and seven more circles along the rim, with the seventh having a five point star. One of the changelings in charge of the ritual looked at Chrysalis. “Your highness, you will need to state the criteria, otherwise this ritual will be random.”

Chrysalis raised a brow at this. “What do mean ‘random’?”

“We can use the ritual as it is, but without the specific conditions, we could end up summoning something as weak as a newborn rabbit, or something as deadly and wild as a rabid dragon.”

Chrysalis shuddered at that. As weak as her hive and herself were, anything that powerful would destroy them. Then again, so would anything useless, but for an entirely different reason. “Very well, the criteria will be thus. One: the one or ones summoned must be strong, fit, and healthy. I refuse to have our hopeful warriors come here sickly. Two: they must not have heard of us or even if they did, hold no ill will toward us. Three: they must be able to survive without aid from us. Should a time come where they are lost and separated from us, they have to be able to survive until we find them. Four: they must be skilled fighters in their own right. None of that prodigy nonsense, verteran warriors are what are needed. Five: no matter how many are summoned, at least ONE must be skilled in the mind for warfare, a strategist and tactician. Six: they have to be willing to fight. This will have all been for nothing if the powerful warriors we summon are pacifists. And finally seven: they must have love to give. I do not want emotionless drones. If they can provide us with love on top of being warriors, then our might will reach heights never thought possible.”

The changeling nodded and they all began putting in symbols and other such markings. They put in the more important conditions between the two circles closest to the center with the others in between the two outer circles.

The ritual was soon underway. The changelings began chanting and their horns glowing. The circle began to glow as well signifying it was beginning to work.

Chrysalis grinned as she pictured her soon loyal soldiers coming to help her take over.

Earth, mid winter. It was about 45 degrees outside and the trees were bare. We see the outside of a two story brick house with an angular roof and a chimney in the back. Inside we find two humans relaxing on a beige colored couch in the living room. The floor was a white carpet and there was a glass coffee table in front of the couch. A large 62 inch flat screen tv sat in the middle of an entertainment system complete with speakers for sound, a few console gaming systems, and a dvd player along with a library of movies and games. One of the two humans was about five foot nine and close to 200 pounds with short black hair, brown eyes, clean shaven, and was wearing a black shirt with the Punisher sign on it which was basically a skull and long blue jeans. He was around 34 years old. He didn’t appear all that buff, but he still looked physically fit as he had some muscle on him.

The other was the same height as the first and about 190 pounds. He had black hair that was closely cut to his scalp with a clean shaven face and pale blue eyes. He wore a plain black t-shirt and a special brand of jeans that Chuck Norris himself made and endorsed. He also wore a pair of black slip on shoes and black socks. Around his neck and resting on his chest were dog tags that shined in the light from the tv. The rank seen was Corporal, which was pretty impressive given he was 20 when he achieved said rank in the marines before being discharged at 25, now banking on 30 just a few weeks ago. As one would expect from a veteran, he was well built and looked like he should be a bouncer or a security guard.

The two men met not long after the second had been discharged from the military. They ended up meeting at a convention that was for video games and found they had a lot in common as likes, dislikes, and sense of humor goes. From there, they became fast friends and practically brothers. The first was Kris. The second was Cory. Now while Kris wasn’t in the military, he did come from a military family. He had a picture of his grandfather in the living room of him next to a plane that was black and white. His grandfather served in the air force. His father served the military as well. Kris himself though pursued self defense classes and learned many forms of martial arts.

Another thing the two had in common was a love for a show most would say was meant for little girls yet garnered a huge following. A little show called My Little Pony, Friendship Is Magic. This was just one of the many things the two liked. Currently now, they were playing another shared interest. A game called Monster Hunter World. They were on the hunt for a Deviljho. If you don’t know what that is, picture a giant mutant pickle with sharp teeth everywhere but inside the mouth….scratch that, the tongue has teeth too.

Anyway, they were hunting a monstrous monster. Kris’s hunter was using a large lance and shield with what looked like teeth on it as well as it was made from parts of the deviljho. “CHARGE!” Kris called as soon as he saw the monster and charged in.

As they needed two different consoles, and TVs, to hunt together, Cory was playing on the other with his own console and such. His hunter was using a light bowgun made from a recent beast he had finally gotten down and over with, allowing him to rapid fire his more powerful ammo. “Try not to get eaten this time.” Cory joked as he fired several explosive shots at the Deviljho.

“If I do, I’ll be sure to give him one HELL of a stomach ache.” Kris stated before reaching the Deviljho and began jabbing at it.

The hunt was intense with close calls, near knockouts, and other monsters butting in only to be a chew toy for the massive green beast. One of the more annoying ones was basically a B 52 bomber with an annoying screech. Eventually, they managed to kill it after cutting it’s tail and breaking every breakable part. “BOOYA! Who’s top of the food chain now BI ATCH!” Kris cheered.

Cory chuckled at this. “So, did you finally get that part you needed?” Normally they would never go after such a beast, mainly because this was a Savage Deviljho, but Kris was the type to not stop until he had whatever weapon caught his eye fully upgraded as he could get it. The problem was more often than not, he would get every part BUT what he needed.

This time was no different. “DAMN IT!” Kris exclaimed after looking over the rewards. “Everything BUT what I needed. UGH! I wish I could just meld the damn thing.” He whined as he threw his head back.

Cory tapped his chin. “You said you needed the Deviljho Crook, right?”

“Yes.” Kris replied tiredly, closing his eyes.

Cory was having a hard time keeping a straight face. “You do know you CAN meld that right?”

Kris’s eyes opened. “What?” He asked flatly.

As soon as their hunters were back in the town, Cory showed on his screen the very item Kris needed right there in the melding selection. As seeing as they were about the same in terms of progression through the game, Kris would know he too could get it.

Out of upset not knowing sooner, he began cursing up a storm worse than a sailor then sighed heavily. It wasn’t the first time he was the last to learn something about Monster Hunter. In fact it took him ONE YEAR of playing the game to realize it had a section you could look up a monster’s information, weak points, weaknesses, and rewards and such.

Cory couldn’t help but laugh at Kris’ reaction. He honestly didn’t mean anything negative by it and he knew Kris knew, he just took what enjoyment he could get after his life with the Marines. He then patted Kris’ should before looking at Kris’ screen and already was having trouble laughing. “Oh, looks like you might have to wait still.” He pointed and sure enough, the selection of melding ingredients showed he had zero celestial wyverian prints, the very thing needed to get the Deviljho Crook.

Kris dropped his controller in his lap. “That’s it. I’m done. No more monster hunter for me tonight.” He said plainly but was visibly upset a little at the predicament. “How bout we order a pizza?”

Cory waved it off. “Nah, I just got groceries today and I managed to get what I needed to make us some enchiladas. With how long it took to get that damn recipe from my old buddy, I’m finally gonna make it.”

This cheered Kris right up as he smiled and rubbed his hands together. “Ooh, enchiladas! I love mexican food. My mouth is watering already.” Just after he said that, his television began to go all fuzzy. “Huh, what’s going on with my television?” It started to glow white and grew brighter. “Uh...what’s going on here?” He asked in fear and concern.

Cory, after seeing the things he’s seen during his time in the military, was already alert seeing this. He had a hand on Kris’ shoulder, ready to carry him away at the drop of a hat. He wasn’t about to lose one of his last friends just cause he wasn’t ready.

A wind picked up and became visible like a cone forming from the television. It became so strong it began to suck the two humans and pulled them in. “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!” Kris yelled as he was sucked in.

As Cory still had a strong grip on Kris and wasn’t expecting the force that was pulling them, he flew with Kris as well. “FFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!” It seemed appropriate for this.

They began tumbling through a tunnel of light. “Cory! If this is the end, whatever the hell is going on, I want you to know, well, you probably already know this, but you’ve been like the brother I never had and I always thought of you as my brother!”

“Same here! But just hold on! I don’t think we’re gonna die! I’ve read enough isekai manga to know that we’re being summoned by something!”

“SUMMONED!? WHAT FOR!? We’re just a couple of guys!” Kris exclaimed. The end of the tunnel seemed to be drawing closer. “I HAVE A CRUSH ON YOUR SISTER!” Kris then suddenly exclaimed still thinking this was the end.

“YOU WHAT?!?!” Cory looked ready to kill. Mainly for the fact it was his sister, but also for the fact that she had just turned 18.

They were both engulfed in a bright light one moment, then hit something hard the next with such force, Kris was ready to pass out as he groaned and tried to look around. The last thing he saw was what looked like a pair of black hooves with holes. “What sort of creatures are these? These are supposed to be the warriors?” Kris then passed out after hearing that, with Cory not far behind him.

“Ugh...my head.” Kris groaned as he slowly came too. “What hit me? Anyone catch the number of that train?” He groaned pushing himself up and rubbed his head.

“No, but YOU have a lot of explaining to do.” Cory’s voice called out to him. Cory had woken up not too long ago and was giving Kris a steely gaze.

The two were in a fairly nice room with two beds that the both of them had been put in and a wooden door leading out but it was locked.There were no windows either to see outside. Kris looked around a moment, then to Cory. “Um...well uh...okay...I...may have said something you didn’t approve of and...I admit it was wrong of me to...have such feelings to the sister of my friend. That being said, despite what I said, I want you to know that I would never EVER act on such things without your okay and never have. Nor should I though given the age difference.” Kris stated.

Cory kept his eyes locked onto Kris before sighing. “Well, doesn’t really matter now. So, IF we get back home, I give you my blessing to try. For now though, you might want to brace yourself.”

“Brace myself? For what?” Kris asked with a raised brow as he sat up on the bed.

“I woke up not long before you did, about maybe ten minutes ago, and I got to meet our hosts. I was right before, we were being summoned. I didn’t get any details on WHY were summoned, but I know WHO summoned us.”

“You do? So who?” Kris then asked taking another look around the room.

Cory took a breath before sighing. “Queen Chrysalis.”

Kris was silent a moment. “Queen Chrysalis? As in the changeling queen Chrysalis from MLP? You’re joking right?”

“Do you really think I would be joking about this? Name one being that has a building made in the same way as these walls.” He gestured to the carved stone walls around them.

“Dude, we just got sucked into some freaky magic portal that appeared in my television. There’s no telling what kind of world we ended up with a building that has black walls. It could be any number of some freaky...weird…” Kris started but slowly trailed off as he started to remember the last thing he saw and heard and his face fell. “No...no way. It...it can’t be.”

Cory nodded. “I see you remembered. I saw and heard the same thing before blacking out. And to tell the truth, they are slightly different. Chrysalis and her changelings are all anthro.”

Kris looked to the side and placed a hand on his chin in thought. “I did only see two legs before passing out. If she were feral, I would have seen four. Plus I think I saw a dress too, or at least the bottom of one.” His eyes widened. “If...if it was Chrysalis who summoned us, then...then that means...we...we’re...we’re…” Kris trailed off growing a bit more excited.

Cory smiled. “We’re in the world of MLP FIM.”

Kris slowly began to smile big, then showed his teeth as he did. “WE’RE IN EQUESTRIA! WOOO! NO WAY NO WAY NO WAY! Oh this is so COOL! Well it may be an anthrofied version but STILL! OH my GOD!” He cheered jumping up and down.

Cory laughed. “Calm down. Yes, it’s awesome, I had my fanboy moment too after the changelings left.” Then Cory looked serious. “But we need to be careful. Chrysalis summoned us for a reason. I doubt she wanted us specifically, but she did the summoning for a reason and if the changelings still being filled with holes is any hint, I doubt it’s so she could make peace.”

“Well, that’s just great.” Kris said. “If it’s not to make peace, don’t tell me she wants us to help her take over. No way we’re gonna do that. She has to be out of her mind!” Kris exclaimed throwing his arms out to the sides. As soon as he did, a blast of magic shot from his right hand and blasted the wall, making a large scorch mark. Kris ducked his head down. “What just happened?”

Cory stared in shock seeing what Kris had done. He then looked at his own hands in thought. He never gave much stock to magic, seeing as humans weren’t supposed to be able to use it, but he had seen enough manga, anime, shows, and movies about magic to have an idea. He clenched his hands into fists and closed his eyes as he focused inward, searching for something. He was taught how to meditate from a friend in the marines who practiced Tai Chi and Kung Fu, so it was easy to do so. Soon enough, he discovered something, a light, or a darkness, he couldn’t tell what it was as it was so dim, but after what he saw from Kirs, he believed that was just because he was unused to sensing this. He focused solely on it and it grew brighter until he could make out what looked to be a flame of black and white. Focusing on this, he gently tried to will the flames toward where his fists were and while it took some effort, he was able to, barely, get it where he wanted it. Once it reached his hands, he opened his eyes and saw his hands ignited in the very same flames, while his arms were covered in a ghost blue aura.

Just as Cory started to meditate, Kris calmed down and thought about what happened and used his training in martial arts to meditate as well and found the same black and white flame within himself. He sat, cross legged on the floor with his hands held out and his forefingers touching his thumbs. As he closed his eyes and focused on the flame, he began to levitate, his whole body enveloped by a ghostly blue aura. He opened one eye to look a moment, then closed it and floated back down. He stood up trying to remain calm but was holding back his excitement. “We have magic.” He stated almost in a gasp.

Cory was still staring at the flames covering his hands. He felt no pain, no numbness from his nerves dying from the heat and fire. He just felt….warmth. A kind of warmth he only knew from being embraced by his mother. He honestly thought that part of his heart had died long ago after his mother and step-father passed away, his sister having to stay with his aunt. He stood up and held his right hand out. The flames began to take shape and form and soon he had a black and white snake slithering up his arm and coiled around his neck. “This…..I…...how are we able to do this?”

“Hey Cory, guess who I am?” Kris asked. He was floating again with one leg slightly bent and the other held up and folded like he was sitting cross legged, his hands held out like before and orbs of white and black flames surrounded him. “Peace be upon you.” He said with a calm serene tone as he was doing his impression of Zenyatta from Overwatch.

Cory smiled. “Zenyatta.” He then thought about it and made the snake move back down his right arm, but instead of going back to his hand, it spiraled around his arm and seemed to sink into his flesh. Like before, he felt neither pain or numb, but a pleasant cold as the flames seeped into his skin. When they were all gone, the snake was now a tattoo, the same patterns along the snake at the time being seen.

“Going for the Hanzo Look?” Kris asked making the orbs gather into one. “Oh man, this is awesome. We have magic now. This must have been because of that summoning Chrysalis did. It gave us magic.” He made three again and started to juggle them about.

“That would be our best bet. And no, I’m actually placing insurance.” Instead of explaining fully, Cory turned away from Kris and pulled his right fist back and made a solid punch with it, the snake tattoo becoming a flame snake once more as his arm was in the motion of the punch and extended out past his fist in a flaming bite. As Cory brought the fist back, the snake returned to being a tattoo on his arm.

“Whoa, cool idea.” Kris commented. “Hmm…” He was floating with legs crossed and was tossing one flaming orb up and down looking in thought. “I wonder.” He made the orb turn all white and tossed it towards Cory, the orb hovered over him and produced a continuous stream connecting to him. Cory would feel a healing warmth envelop him. “Feel anything?”

Cory took a breath. “Honestly? Whatever you’re doing is working. I feel that old kink in my back just disappear.”

“HAH! Sweet! I thought to try and copy Zenyatta’s healing orb and it worked. So clearly we can hurt as well as heal with our magic. We just gotta figure out what we want to do and it’ll do it.” Kris stated. He got back on his feet and leaned against the wall he accidentally blasted before. “This is so cool! We’re in Equestria, we have magic! I have a feeling we’re in for one heck of an adventure.” As soon as he said that, the wall gave way and kris fell backwards sliding down a tunnel. “WAAAAAAAAAH!” The slide didn’t last long as a thud sounded at the end.

Cory rushed over and peered down the tunnel. “Kris! You alright?!” He said before making a ball of white flame.

“FINLAND!” Was the response he got.

Cory shook his head and sent the ball down, lighting the way before following, being very careful he didn’t slip.

“London bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down~” Kris was singing dizzily as he was sitting up right against a large rock. The small tunnel had led to a large cavern that looked like it hadn’t seen use in ages. There were signs it was once used as there were various objects and tables and chairs about, but it was all covered in dust and cobwebs.

Cory looked about in awe before looking at Kris and walked over to him. “Hey, buddy. Snap out of it.” He gave a light slap on Kris’ cheek.

Kris vigorously shook his head coming to his senses. “Who what where when why how...who? Oh...ugh...dang. What happened?” Kris asked rubbing the back of his head.

Cory smiled. “Just your usual brand of luck getting you into trouble. You fell through the wall you blasted and fell down here.”

“Ugh, I swear, Lady luck just does not like me.” Kris groaned before looking around. “Dang, what is this place? Looks like no one’s been here for years.” He got up and looked around. As it happened, there was a ray of light shining in the room that provided some extra light along with Cory’s flame orb. The ray of light was landing on a large wall that had pictures. “What is...that?”

Cory looked at the wall. “I….think it’s a mural. Of what, I have no idea.”

Kris summoned his own white flame for light and walked up to the mural. He wiped off the cobwebs and dust and looked it over. There were a series of pictures with words that seemed to tell a story. However the words were so faded it was near impossible to tell what they said. It showed an alicorn of great beauty being admired by many ponies. The next showed the alicorn mare standing before what looked like an old unicorn offering something, what is was was too faded. The next showed the alicorn turning the unicorn away. In the next, it showed the item firing a beam of magic at the alicorn. The beam went from the alicorn to the ponies that followed her. In the next, it showed….Chrysalis.

Cory stared at it with wide eyes before rubbing his face with a hand. “Of course. Chrysalis had to have a LITERAL Beauty and the Beast backstory.”

Kris stared in shock a moment as well. “If that’s the case...then...how can it be broken?”

Cory smiled at this, knowing Kris would say that. “Only one way to find out. Get back to our room and wait for Chrysalis to come for us.”

Author's Note

Yes everyone, I'm back. No I didn't die. I just lost my drive for writing fiction. I'm trying to get it back and this is something I had help writing with a friend of mine. I hope you all enjoy it. I am also working on continuing MLP Friendship Is Out Of This World for those who were looking to see the rest of that. The next chapter will be up soon. Can't say how soon though but soon. Sorry for having kept those of you who enjoy my work waiting. And thank you for your past support.