The Curse Of Chrysalis

Chapter 22

“There’s something I need to inform you both of.” Chrysalis said as she stood before Cory and Kris. “I’m...pregnant.”

“WHAT?!” Both Kris and Cory exclaimed in shock.

“Excuse me. How?” Kris asked. “I mean, we’re a different species, such a thing shouldn’t really be possible.”

“Well, due to the nature of us changelings, we can be impregnated by males of other species.” Chrysalis stated.

Cory held his head in shock. “This…..I have no words….”

“You’re going to be fathers.” Chrysalis said.

“Both of us?” Kris asked. “At the same time?”

“How? Wouldn’t only one of us be the father?” Cory asked after.

“As queen of the changelings, I am able to have multiple children as well as perform a rather complex internal exercise where the sperm of one male can fertilize some of my eggs and the sperm of another fertilize the others.” Chrysalis stated.

Kris was silent from this information.

Cory facepalmed. “Of course. Despite the magic used to create the changelings, they’re still subject to the laws of evolution. This way can prevent any risk of birth defects by only allowing those males you choose, ensuring a stronger brood.”

“Exactly.” Chrysalis replied.

“So um….how many kids are we talking here?” Kris asked in concern.

“Oh, about...five or six. Six I’m for sure.” Chrysalis replied.

Cory stared with wide eyes at this. He knew she could give birth to many, but six was still a LOT for a human. Kris practically fainted on the spot. “Six….six kids….three from each of us I take it?” Kris asked.

“Of course.” Chrysalis replied.

“I’m not feeling so well.” Kris stated.

Cory took a seat. “I…..I honestly have no words.”

“Is it really that big a deal? I can see that with you humans, females have less children than that but it isn’t by that much is it?” Chrysalis asked.

“Normally, human women have only ONE child at a time. On rare occasions two, which are called twins.” Kris informed.

“Oh….I see.” Chrysalis replied.

“It’s a bit more shocking for me though.” Cory said with a shaky tone.

Chrysalis narrowed her eyes slightly. “Don’t you go telling me father hood scares you. Three of these babies I’m going to have are yours as well. They are going to be the next in line for the throne should the day come.”

“That’s what shocking me. You don’t understand Chrissy. I told you I was once a soldier. What I didn’t tell you was what I lost during my time as one. I lost several things, one of which was the ability to have children. I was told by at least five different doctors that I was steril.”

“What? So then how is it three of Chrysalis’s babies are yours?” Kris asked.

“The summoning spell I used to bring you two here. I wanted to ensure the soldiers I summon were strong and smart. Perhaps that spell also removed any unnatural or strange dysfunctions, thus making it possible for you to impregnate another female.” Chrysalis stated.

Cory rubbed his face. “Well, unless told otherwise, that’s the best theory so far. All the same though, I never thought I would ever have the chance to be a father, so hearing that’s what’s gonna happen is an unexpected surprise to be sure, but a welcomed one.”

“Good, glad to hear you’re okay with it then. Not like you had much of a choice anyway.” Chrysalis added jokingly.

“I’m just not sure I’ll make a good father. I never imagined myself having kids.” Kris stated. “But...I’ll do my best.”

“Glad to hear it.” Chrysalis replied.

Cory sighed. “Oh boy, you all know we’re gonna have to tell Pinkie Pie about this. She’ll want to throw a Baby Shower party.”

“Oh really?” Chrysalis asked.

“Yes really.” Kris replied. “She does love throwing parties after all.”

“Hmm….I suppose so then.” Chrysalis replied.

“Plus, at least this way, we have an excuse to mingle with the pony folk more.” Cory mentioned.

“Good point.” Kris replied.

“Fine, go inform your Pinkie friend about the news and say she can throw me a baby shower.” Chrysalis stated.

Cory nodded with a smile. “You won’t regret it.” He said before standing up and giving her a kiss on the cheek.

Kris did the same before leaving with Cory to Ponyville.

“I get to what?!” Pinkie exclaimed excitedly. “SERIOUSLY! This is GREAT NEWS! I’d LOVE to throw a baby shower for Chrysalis!”

Cory chuckled at this. “Thanks. And feel free to invite your friends and the royal family. Don’t know about Shining, but I know Cadence would be happy to talk babies. You know those two are trying for one.”

“I sure do.” Pinkie replied. “You can count on me! I’ll make this party super duper fun!”

“We’re counting on you Pinkie.” Kris said.

“Oh, and also, make sure you screen anyone else you invite. I know ponies and changelings are on good terms now, but there might still be a few thickheaded idiots wanting to cause trouble.” Cory added.

“No problem. It’ll only be fun loving ponies at the party. No naughty no fun party poopers allowed!” Pinkie stated.

“Well then, we’ll leave it up to you.” Kris said. “Guess that’s it then.”

“Aw, you’re not leaving already are you? Can’t you stick around a bit more and hang out?” Pinkie pleaded.

Cory was about to decline, but thought about it more. “Now that I think about it, Kris hasn’t had as much time with the ponies as he wanted.” He smiled at Pinkie. “I think we can spare a few hours.”

“WOO HOO! FINALLY!” Kris cheered in his head but was calm on the outside. “We would love to.” He stated.

“Great! I can get everyone together so we can have some fun! There’s a carnival in town we can go to.” Pinkie informed.

“Sounds good to me.” Cory said.

“Sweet, sounds fun.” Kris replied.

“Great! We’ll meet back up near the west edge of town in one hour. See you there!” And with that, Pinkie dashed off in the blink of an eye.

Cory shook his head with a smile before looking at Kris. “So, happy now?”

“Are you implying something with that question?” Kris retorted.

“Come on Kris, I know you. You’ve been bummed about not spending more time with the ponies since our first encounter with them. The most time you spent was during that Medieval Times event and that was more leg work than actually hanging out.”

“Pease, I’ve grown beyond such trivialities.” Kris stated in a fake english accent. “Okay fine, I’m happy. Thanks bro. Don’t get me wrong, I like it at the hive. We’re pretty much celebrities there, we even have our own fan club that’s still growing. But we’ve BARELY gotten to hang out in Ponyville and spend time with our favorite ponies.”

“Yeah, I’ll give ya that. In all honesty, if I wasn’t the commitment type, I might have tried winning Applejack over before asking her out.”

“While I think they’re all great, my pick would have to go to Pinkie. I just love her fun loving care free happy go lucky attitude.” Kris stated. “Say….do you think there’s like a...herd thing in this world? I don’t think we really looked into that. I mean we pretty much have that at the hive, able to have sex with any changeling that’s willing. But can males have more than one wife here?”

Cory paused to think as he rubbed his chin. “Well, it would make sense. I mean, even at the hive, we’ve seen more females than males, even with the guards. Well, we could ask, but I think, just to be safe, we try looking it up. I’m certain Twilight’s Library would have something on the subject.”

“Or we could just outright ask her when we see her at the carnival.” Kris stated.

“And what if there ISN’T herding and we just make an embarrassing moment?”

Kris was silent a moment before responding. “Library it is!”

The two made their way to Twilight’s home. Seeing as they had an hour before having to meet Pinkie for the carnival, they had plenty of time.

A few minutes later, the two arrived at the treebrary home of Twilight Sparkle. Cory knocked on the door. It may have been a library, but it was still someone’s home.

The door opened to reveal Spike in a purple with green stripes hoodie and matching loose fitting pants. “Hey Kris, Cory.” Spike greeted with a smile.

“Spike, my main dragon. Good to see you.” Kris greeted.

“Good to see you Spike. We’re just here to look up some books.” Cory explained.

“Why else would you come to the library?” Spike asked before stepping aside. “Come on in.”

“Thanks bud.” Kris said, walking in with Cory.

The two began looking through the available books before Cory called out. “Ah ha! Found it!” Cory pulled a book that was titled ‘Relationships: The ins and outs and types’.

The book revealed that, due to there being more females than males in such a way, a male could have more than one mare, up to three at least. It was referred to as herding. The stallion is at the head of the herd and the first female he courts and later marries is the head mare. She usually has the last say in decisions regarding the herd. Like if the male wants to bring in another female, the mare has to agree or at least put the new female through a screening process to see if she feels the new mare would be worthy or not. There was also another term, literally called a Harem. While a herd was meant to be small, a Harem was meant to be big. A stallion could have up to ten females, but they would have to get a permit due to in the past, some stallions had used this to lay claim to mares and they ended up just being trophies. Otherwise, Herds and Harems were the same, rules and all.

Then there was a sub section on joint herding. Basically, if two or more stallions who are close friends have mares who like the other stallion, then the two stallions can join their herds together. It’s up to the two stallions though to decide who the head stallion would be in such a joint herding. The same would be said for the lead mare or mares.

“Well, there we go. They do have herding here.” Kris stated.

Cory nodded before putting the book back. “Yeah, that answered a lot of questions.”

“So now, we just gotta ask Chrysalis if it’s okay for us to see about courting other mares to join our family. I got one already in mind to see about joining us, and another I’d LOVE to have join us.” Kris stated.

“Well, you already have Umbra for possible herding.” Cory added.

“That’s one of the mares I’m talking about. You can probably guess who the other is.”

“Of course, we just talked with her not even a few minutes ago.”

“All right, then it’s settled. After our fun with the girls, we’ll head back and ask Chrysalis about this herd thing. Sound good?”

“Yep. Here’s hoping she says yes.” Cory said.

After that, they hung around a while till it was time to meet with the others at the carnival. Twilight, Rarity, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, and Spike were all there. “Ready to have fun everyone?” Pinkie asked.

“This would be a good way to relax after all the work I’ve been putting in at my shop.” Rarity stated.

“Ah could use a bit o’ a break from ma farm.” Applejack stated.

“You bet I’m ready! Carnivals are awesome!” Rainbow cheered.

“YES! Finally a break from the library.” Spike cheered.

Cory chuckled at this. “Come on Spike, it can’t be THAT bad.”

Spike gave a deadpan look. “Twilight just recently had us re-organize and re RE organize the books by title, size, color, AND author.”

“So?” Cory said with a straight face.

“Five times.” Spike added.

“I’ll admit, that does sound tedious, but would you rather do that here, OR at the library at Canterlot?”

“Fine, point taken.” Spike replied in defeat. “It’s still alot of work that was about to put me to sleep. I NEED this.”

“Fine, let’s get to the fun then.” Twilight said.

“How bout we hit up the roller coaster first?” Kris suggested.

“Um...I think I’d rather go on something….not so scary.” Fluttershy said. “If you don’t mind.”

“I suppose we could split up then and do our own thing.” Rainbow said.

“But we came to have fun together!” Pinkie nearly whined.

“How about this then? For the first…..let’s say four attractions, we all find ones we’ll all do together, and then we break off into two groups to find ones more to our liking. One group for the high speed fun, one group for the more calm and relaxing fun.” Cory offered.

“That sounds like a great idea!” Pinkie cheered.

The others sounded off in agreement.

“All right, let’s get this fun on the road!” Kris cheered.

For the next few hours, the group went on many rides, and played games while snacking on cotton candy, funnel cakes, and other treats. One of the more fun moments for Kris was when he, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Pinkie went to a haunted house and Rainbow got scared but tried to play it off. Kris had a few scares himself but had fun.

Eventually, it was time to go so they bid farewell and Kris and Cory headed back to the hive. It was time to ask Chrysalis the big question.

Cory took a few breaths. “Oh boy. I don’t think I’ve been this nervous for a good while.”

“I know. I’m a little nervous myself. Let’s just not beat around the bush and get right to it. Sound good?” Kris stated.

“Right, but we’ll work our way to it, not just blurt it out.” Cory said.

“All right.” They went to the throne room to see Chrysalis. “Hey there Chrysalis.” Kris greeted.

“You two are back later than I thought.” Chrysalis commented.

“We ended up hanging out with Twilight and the girls at a carnival.” Kris stated.

“Definitely somewhere we’re taking you to someday.” Cory added.

“Oh really? Well I can’t say I’ve ever been to one. The thought never entertained me in the past.” Chrysalis stated.

“Anyway, there was something we wanted to ask you about. Something had come to mind for us so here we are wanting to ask you something.” Kris said.

“And that something is?” Chrysalis asked, raising a brow.

Cory took a breath before letting it out. “What would you say to us wanting to have a Herd?”

“A herd?” Chrysalis asked. She was silent a moment before letting out a short sigh with closed eyes. “I figured this might come up at some point.” She looked to the two. “Very well. If there are other mares out there you wish to court and bring into our family, I will allow it. I trust your judgment.”

Cory smiled at this. “Thank you. We promise to not make stupid choices for this.”

“Thank you Chrysalis.” Kris said.

“I know you two will be smart about it. I’m guessing you already have someone in mind you wish to join us?” Chrysalis said, looking to Kris.

“I do. Umbra.” Kris stated.

“Of course, that’s IF she agrees.” Chrysalis added.

“I know, and I’m hoping she does.” Kris replied. “Which is why now that we have your blessing, I wish to go see her and ask her about this once we’re done talking here.”

“Understood.” Chrysalis replied. “If there’s nothing else…”

“Just that the Baby shower party is being taken care of and Pinkie will more than likely invite the royal family.” Cory added.

“The royal family? I should have guessed. Fine. It would be a chance to strengthen our new bonds of friendship.” Chrysalis stated.

Cory nodded. “Then by your leave.”

“Not so fast.” Chrysalis said before standing and walked up to the two. She smiled gazing into Cory’s eyes and gave him a loving kiss on the lips, then did the same for Kris. “I can’t imagine how different my life would be now had it not been for you two.”

Kris smiled. “I’m glad we ended up here. You are definitely the best thing to happen to me.”

“Same for me. No matter what happens, you will always be the center of my heart.” Cory said with a smile.

Chrysalis hugged them both and gave them another kiss on the cheek. “Now go do whatever you want for the rest of the day.” With that, they were dismissed.