Chapter 7: When chaos passes, plans form

Chapter 7: When chaos passes, plans form

Dj Pon3 finally snaps out of her trance as the song comes to an end and turns everything off mumbling, "I bucking hate when that happens." She then looks to all the other ponies and says, "My apologies every pony, that tends to happen once in awhile. I have a certain condition that causes that, and the medication is only experimental." She then notices the room is a mess and says, "Wait, what is going on here?"

Everypony's eyes in the room widen as Celestia's eyes become as wide as dinner plates and says in a stunned voice, "M-Mama? I-Is that really you? Luna and I have been missing you ever since you told us to run to the ponies and live a happy life. Why did you do that to us Mama, why did you take us from Papa?"

Chrysalis (Amore) rolls her eyes at the show of affection and a touching reunion saying, "I am not the sweet and innocent mother you had anymore, your mother Amore is gone for good and my personality is here to stay. So cut out that doe eyed expression you have on your face, the reason she abandoned you like that is because she cared for the future of you two. She wanted you to have happy lives, not be miserable and grow up to be corrupt and evil like your father."

Annoyed by the facade she is putting up, Arthas steps closer and says, "Do I really have to sing that song that you used to sing to me whenever you were depressed?"

She snaps her head to him with fear on her face and yells, "DON'T YOU FUCKING DARE DO THAT OR I WILL KILL CELESTINE!"

He chuckles and says, "Oh please, if you were really going to hurt her, you would have done it already. You also can't because I know Amore is still there deep inside, locked away in a cage of misery. You also know she is still there, or you wouldn't have remembered the name that I gave her and Lunetha." He clears his throat and laughs, saying to the pony by the music board, "Musician, play me a song of longing for a lost love." He then turns to look at Chrysalis and says, "You have forced my hand lover, it looks like I shall have to sing that song from long ago. Maybe then you might return to your senses and give your daughter the touching reunion she deserves." He then begins to hum a tune before breaking into song.

As Arthas's voice rings out through the hall, Twilight is entranced by its beauty and says, "His voice is so smooth and beautiful, it almost makes me want to forget the evil that he has done and hold him tightly." She then looks to the other girls in the room and sees that a few of them are looking at him like she was and chuckles and whispers, "Seems like he is a siren as well as a king of death."

Rarity looks at him and sees a fantasy unfolding before her eyes and says, "Oh he is sooo dreamy...oh so marvelous and majestic."

Chrysalis fights to keep Amore inside of the prison she created, but fails miserably as her body's appearance fades slowly back to what it used to be and her voice changes as she joins Arthas in singing her parts of the song.

Celestia's eyes tear up as she watches her mother gradually returning to her, waiting for the song to end so she can rush up and hug her mama for dear life and talk to her.

As Amore continues to sing her part in the song, her eyes tear up as well. Feeling very guilty for putting her daughters through a tough decision to abandon them so they can have a better life. The song begins to wind down to the ending and she finishes the song out as a tear falls from her eye and lands on the floor saying, "Celestine, my darling daughter, I am so proud of the way you grew up. I wish Lunetha was here to say hello, but everypony have their duties. Maybe one day I shall come back and speak to her if Chrysalis allows it. I am so proud of you and the way you rule your subjects with kindness instead of fear and cruelty." She narrows her eyes and looks towards her ex lover Arthas as she says that and continues, "If only every ruler could learn from you and Luna, I believe that this world could all live together in peace."

Arthas crashes the moment and scoffs saying, "Oh please, I rather enjoy the way I rule my subjects. They enjoy it as well, because they compliment me once in awhile on how I am running things as Lich King or as the previous Lich King said to me before, 'The Jailer of the Damned'.

As the moment is dampened by his rude interruption, Amore squints in irritation and says to him, "That is only because they are forced to obey you! They don't obey by choice or obligation, they are little more than slaves to the king." She turns back to her daughter and says, "Come here sweetie, momma wants to hug her darling daughter once more before she returns to the prison Chrysalis has created."

Celestia frantically runs to her mama crying and saying, "Momma, Momma don't go! Please stay, there is so much that we need to catch up on!" She collides with her mother and wraps her arms around her as tears run down her face, wrecking her makeup.

Ignoring the lovey dovey fest over there, he turns around and ponders on what she said to him and thinks, 'Is what she said true? I may have to experiment and find that out for sure, I would like to know what it feels like to be truly loved as a king.' As he begins to hear the bawl fest going on between Amore and Celestia, he gets fed up with how annoying he finds hearing them crying in happiness over being reunited finally after so many years of being apart. He decides to express his own feelings of irritation and draws Frostmourne, turning it around in his grasp and raises it into the air with both hands as he turns around to face the two crying ponies.

Twilight watches him and cries out, "Princess Celestia, Amore, watch out!" Her warning gets their attention as they both turn to look at Arthas who has Frostmourne in the air held in a downward position.

Arthas amplifies his voice and bellows, "That is enough of this lovey dovey bullshit! It is time you two just chill out!" He then thrusts his sword downward into the marble floor and sends out a massive blast of frost, trapping every pony and covering every building in Canterlot with ice. Ensuring that they can still breathe air, he rises from the floor and says, "There, now have the two of you calmed down?"

Amore and Celestia both glare and Arthas and shiver, nodding their heads and answering, "Y-Yessss, w-we ha-have. Can you please release us from this ice, we're freezing our tails off."

He chuckles and sheathes Frostmourne saying, "Unfortunately, I have no control over the effects of the spells I use. Therefore you must find your own way out of it. Isn't there supposed to be some kind of a wedding today between Mi Amore Cadenza and Shining Armor? I just thought that I would stop by and say hello to my darling daughter and inform her that I am awake now, but I am bored of this so I shall take my leave of this happiness." He then turns around and walks out of the wedding hall returning to the streets that are full of frozen ponies and creatures.

Celestia powers up her horn and shatters the ice around her and everyone in the room, releasing them from further suffering from the cold. She looks to her mother and says, "I really do wish that you would stay longer, but I shall begin searching for a way that you can free yourself from Chrysalis's prison for good one day. Goodbye mother, I will miss you until you return again."

As she begins to weaken and her body slowly reverts to the previous form, she says, "My darling daughter, be sure to tell your sister that I love the both of you equally. That I am also proud of the both of you, goodbye my daughter." As she sheds one final tear, her eyes close as her body finishes its transformation and reopen to be green eyes with vertical slits in them. She then sighs in frustration and says, "My apologies for taking too long, but it took forever for me to get that annoying pest back under control. Let's get back to business shall we? Canterlot is mine now, so get lost!" She puts Celestia back into a cocoon, annoyed at how that cretin freed her so easily the first time.

Cadence resumes her attempt to free her fionce, Shining Armor from the substance trapping him and touches her horn to his, to give him her magic so he can restore the barrier around Canterlot saying, "Here Shiny, use my magic to restore the barrier around Canterlot. Whatever is mine is yours too, we share everything together Shiny. That means if one of us lacks the magic to do something, the other helps out and offers theirs in return."

Shining Armor smiles at her and says, "I love you Cady." He then rubs his horn against hers affectionately, and feels her magic flowing into him and casts the spell. He sends out a violet barrier that expands and returns to protecting Canterlot once more.

Arthas is halfway down the stairs when he is launched forth off the stairs, landing face first onto the stones below. Rising to his feet, he sees a violet wave of magic make its way outward. Watching curiously as it stops and forms a barrier around Canterlot, looking around him to notice that there aren't anymore frozen changelings in the streets below. Curious, he wanders around ponyville to find the pony who was nice to him thinking to himself, 'I think it would be nice to attend a party and socialize a bit, as well as celebrate seeing one of his long lost daughters again. Perhaps that pony I met might be able to help me out and find some way for me to attend the ceremony tomorrow, I think Fancy Pants was his name. I shall search for him to see if he has any ideas on what can be done to possibly allow me to attend it.' He then begins his search for the pony in question.

Fancy pants is grateful that he managed to reach safety when that blast of frost went through Canterlot, freezing everypony and every building. He looks out the door to the residence and sees a distorted image of a tall, heavily armored figure pass by the house. Wondering who could be outside right now and not affected by the spell already, he opens the door and says, "Good heavens, why are you out right now? Were you affected by that big blast of frost that went through Canterlot earlier?" He then realizes that it is the foreign king known as Arthas and bows quickly and says, "Oh, my apologies Your Highness. I did not realize that it was you out there, I can't make anything out by looking through these frozen windows."

He chuckles and says, "No I was in safety at the time, I just managed to open the door enough to get outside to see what is going on right now. It is quite alright, do you by chance know of a way that might allow me to be able to attend the wedding without them knowing it is me under this armor?" He then sets a hand on the hilt of Frostmourne and waits for his reply.

Fancy Pants smiles as the start of an idea comes to mind and says, "Please come inside so we can discuss things further, Your Highness. I might know of one pony in Canterlot at the moment that just might be able to assist us with making that happen."

Arthas steps inside and sees a few ponies huddle together in a corner out of seeing the terrifying appearance of him, having to bend at the waist and knees to get inside and says, "Please don't all start screaming at once, that violet wave of magic pushed me down the stairs and caused my nose to bleed when my face spared my body the pain of landing on the stone first. I am just glad that no serious damage was done to my body in this armor, can't say the same thing about this headache that magic gave me though."

Sindragosa panics and furiously attacks the barrier, trying to get through it and tries calling to her master through the link and says, "My king, are you alright! Can you hear me at all, MASTER!"

He grunts as her words reach him, making him wince and replying back to her through the link, "Yes Sindragosa, I can hear you now. What is the problem?"

She calms down a little and continues to attack the barrier and says, "I was pushed out of the city by a violet shield of some kind! I am trying to break through it but it is not budging at all! What shall I do now, should I go back and fetch the army to come save you?"

He chuckles and answers her, "No, leave the army there for the time being. I have a wedding to attend to, my family is getting a little bit bigger today. So my new orders to you are go on home for now Sindragosa, I shall call for you if I need your aid. As for that game we were playing, unfortunately you beat me yet again. Have a good flight Sindy."

She is shocked at him giving her a nickname, calling her Sindy instead of her name. She smiles and then says, "Very well my king, I shall return home and wait for you to call upon me. I told you before, that you would have difficulty in beating me in combat competition." Her attacks then cease and she turns around and heads back towards Icecrown Citadel.

Arthas returns to pay attention to his newest ally and apologizes saying, "My apologies, I was distracted by a minor headache. What was it you were saying sir?"

Fancy Pants smiles and nods saying, "It is quite alright Your Highness, I was just mentioning to you that there is a pony here that has a lot of talent and skill with fashion." He then looks to a pony in the crowd currently huddling in the corner furthest away from the scary looking foreign ruler and says, "Suri, can you please come forth. There is someone important I wish for you to meet that might help your business improve by helping them with an issue they are having."

The frightened pony steps forth, intrigued at hearing how this scary being can help her struggling business improve and says, "Very well Fancy, if you trust this being, then I shall too. So please tell me what I can do to help them?"

He looks at Suri with a smile and turns back to Arthas and says, "Please allow me to introduce you to Suri Polomare, she is visiting Canterlot to attend the wedding as well as us Celebrities. You shall accompany us to the wedding hall, and I shall vouch for you personally. The plan I have in mind right now is that first we remove the armor and weapons you wield because that stands out too much, then we have Suri here look you over to see what she can do to help you blend in a bit better. The last part of the plan will be to convince the curious guards that your invitation was forgotten but you are a friend that was invited over tea a few weeks ago." He then looks to the rest of the group and says, "Everypony, please allow me to introduce you to our esteemed guest of honor. Arthas, King of the Frozen Throne of Icecrown Citadel in the Frozen North."

Meanwhile, at the wedding hall...

Shining Armor sighs in relief as the migraine finally ends and says, "Looks like whatever was attacking the shield has gone away, whatever it was was pretty strong."

Cadence smiles and says, "Well I am just glad that you aren't suffering from maintaining the shield anymore, if you ever need me to, I am more than willing to share the burden with you. Now then, will somepony please explain what the rude interruption by that strange being claiming to be some kind of Lich King is all about and why he called my aunt Celestia his daughter?"

Princess Celestia then sighs and says, "This will take a little bit, please sit down Princess Cadence. The rest of you may as well gather around, you should hear this as well. I have some questions for you Twilight Sparkle, but those will wait when this explanation is over. First, I need to remove the ice trapping my ponies." She then casts a spell and sends a wave of magic throughout the city, targeting the ice trapping her citizens.

An hour and a half passes by as Celestia finishes telling the entire story to Cadence of who the intruder was and how she and Luna were related to him and says, "That is the entire story as I remember it. I don't know much about where he came from except that he ruled a land called Northrend and came from a war torn world known as Azeroth."

Cadence looks down, finally understanding so much more now that she heard the whole story. More questions pop into her head as she looks up to Celestia and asks, "Do you know if I am related to him at all? Because my name comes from the first princess of the Crystal Empire. I sure hope that I am not related to that monster."

She looks at her and sighs saying, "I am sorry Cadence, but I do not know. What I do know is that Princess Amore didn't have any other children than Luna and I, but we don't know if she had any more after she returned to him. Only he or Amore would have those answers."

The pink alicorn sighs in disappointment and says, "Yeah, who knows whenever I will have the chance to get that important answer. One of them is imprisoned inside of an insane changeling, and the other lives in a horrible citadel full of dead things in the lands north of the Crystal Empire and is on his way there right now. I am never going to get my answers now."

Twilight speaks up and tries to comfort her and says, "Don't worry Cadence, I am positive you will get your answers one day. He is after all, just over a thousand years old. You are an alicorn too, so time is on your side. You only need to have lots of patience and wait for the opportunity presents itself."

Celestia looks to Twilight pointedly and narrows her eyes and says, "Speaking of answers and opportunities, Twilight Sparkle. Did you go somewhere that you weren't supposed to a few weeks ago? My sister told me about a stubborn pony that refused to listen to her warnings, and then left in the middle of the night to go deal with them."

She looks down at the ground guiltily and sighs saying, "I'm sorry for ignoring your sister, Princess Celestia. You know how it drives me bananas not having answers to every single question I have, I just could not stand waiting one more year waiting to get more answers. Please don't send me back to Magic Kindergarten for ignoring Princess Luna's warnings."

She raises her eyebrow mischievously and takes the opportunity to punish her student a bit and says, "Only on one condition, Twilight." She then looks at her and waits for her answer.

Twilight eagerly says, "Whatever it is Princess Celestia, name it and I will do whatever you wish."

Celestia happily smiles and says, "Okay then, please tell me everything you seen and experienced during your journey there."

She facepalms herself and then sighs and begins her story by saying, "It all began just after our trip to the Dragon Lands to make sure that he would be okay during his journey."

Meanwhile in a private residence somewhere in Canterlot

Arthas is grateful with Fancy Pants deciding to get the group to change locations to his house, allowing him the freedom to fully stand up and have room to spare to remove his armor and set it down so Suri Polomare can begin to take his measurements. He first takes off his boots, chuckling at how the ponies' nose wrinkle and their faces cringe at the hideously foul smell coming from them. He watches as they eagerly watch as he goes to remove his helm, facing away and leaning forward to surprise them and takes the helm off completely. He then sets it beside his boots and rises up suddenly and throws his head back, causing his hair to whip into the air and land against the back of his armor. Earning a couple gasps of surprise, he turns around to face them to let them see his face finally.

The ponies look at him curiously as he looks nothing like a pony, having a relatively flat face, no muzzle or ears on top of his head. Having pale skin, long blonde hair that go past his shoulders and green eyes, his looks cause a couple mares to bite their lips at his handsome features.

The smell only getting worse when he removes the rest of his armor. He chuckles as one of them actually has to leave the room, holding a hand over their mouth needing to throw up as the stench becomes too overwhelming to handle and says, "Do I really smell that bad to ponies?" He stands there in a soft white wool shirt and a pair of wool pants that serve as clothing as well as added padding against the heavy armor.

Fancy Pants holds his nose closed and tries to breathe through his mouth and struggles to say, "Unfortunately for you, yes it is Your Highness. Please feel free to use my shower or the bathtub to cleanse yourself of that foul smell, I shall go fetch somebody to privately clean this armor of yours so you can be ready to depart after the wedding party."

He then softly smiles and smells himself, wincing at the strong smell and says, "That is very kind of you to not allow me to attend the wedding, smelling like a rotten corpse. I shall think of a way to pay you back for doing so much to help me be able to attend the wedding. When whoever cleans the armor, I have two words of warning for them regarding a couple pieces. The first warning is for the helm that I wear, Under no circumstance is any magic permitted to be used when cleaning it. If magic is used, it will send out a magic pulse in retaliation that will kill every living pony within a one mile radius. As for the second warning, it is for my sword Frostmourne. Be extremely careful and respectful when handling it, it has a mind of its own and will retaliate as well if it ever feels the need to. Oh and one more thing to add, do not try to put the helm on. It is extremely choosy at who is permitted to wear it, that helm is the crown that shows others who wears it is the king of Icecrown Citadel, the Jailer of the damned. That pulse will be sent out if it finds whoever tries it on unworthy to wear it, killing every being that is within one mile of it including the wearer."

Fancy Pants writes down the warnings and remembers to ensure the strict rules regarding the two pieces. He then looks up to his guest and says, "That is not necessary at all, Your Highness. It is enough that you even agreed to use the facilities of a strange pony that you do no really know, or even came to me to ask for help. I shall see you once again after you have finished with your bath or shower Your Highness, I shall have a few clean towels set inside for you to dry yourself off with. Now, if you would please follow me. I will show you where the bath and shower are located." He then proceeds to show Arthas the way to the washroom, getting some servants to grab some fresh towels and placing them there for when he finishes bathing.

Arthas remembers what it was like having service like this back when he was much younger and sighs happily and says, "I do apologize for the extremely foul smell that I have right now, I have been too busy with ruling the citizens to even have time to bathe properly."

He continues to lead the way and says to him, "Even rulers need their personal days to tend to their personal needs. You should take whatever chance you can to take a break from your duties to them Your Highness, or it will surely destroy you from the inside out." He then stops at a door and says to him, "Well Your Highness, this is where we shall part ways for now while I go fetch somepony to tend to your armor and keep quiet about it." He then bows and says, "Until we meet again later, Your Highness."

Smiling, he nods and says thank you before walking into the room and looks around at all the advancements that were apparently made over the years and closes the door, deciding to get busy trying to figure out how everything works these days and says, "Wow, times sure have changed since back in the old days. This may take a bit of time, I better get started on learning how things function now."

A curious unicorn mare with a light grey coat, pale violet eyes and a magentaish gray watches the tall and attractive being enter the shower, only not liking the intensely foul odor coming from his body and his armor and softly says, "I really feel bad for Fancy Pants, he is going to have to get his plumbing redone after this strange King Arthas fully cleans himself. He really does have a certain handsome appeal after all, if you can force yourself to look past the smell." Her legs get a little itchy and she rubs them together at how his looks manage to make even more curious.

A half hour passes by as he finally figures out how each thing works in the room saying to himself, "Now to decide which one to use." After a little internal debating, he decides on using the shower to get himself clean first. He removes the thin shirt and the pants and lay them on a flat countertop so he can put them back on when he is finished bathing himself. He reaches in and adjusts the water to his liking and steps into the shower and closes the door behind him and begins to wash his face and hair first using what soap he could find, discovering that it smells of spearmint and winter's first frost.

She continues to rub her legs together as she is now biting a nail waiting for the horrid smell to go away completely before checking out Arthas as he showers. She finds the burning desire rising from below too much to bear and is unable to wait anymore. She makes her way towards the door to the shower and slowly cracks it open to watch him as he showers and is shocked to see him standing at full mast inside of the shower, easily beating Fancy Pants in size and any other stallion she has been with.

Arthas hears the door crack open and discreetly looks over to see who it is, seeing a pale violet eye looking through the crack, a light magentaish mane and a light gray coat. Finding out that it is just one of the mares in the group, he continues to wash the rest of his body with the bar of soap. Eager to get rid of the rest of the grime and dirt that have built up on his skin over the years, he scrubs his chest and goes down to his legs. After finishing with his feet, he sighs and remembers he has to clean his back and looks to the cracked open door and says, "Please step inside, I would like you to please do me a favor and scrub my back for me? Humans have short arms and can't do it themselves."

The curious mare walks into the room and sighs saying, "Many apologies for intruding on you Your Highness, I just couldn't help myself from finding your appearance too...attractive. Could you ever find it in your ability to forgive me one day for my curiosity?"

He mischievously puts a finger and thumb on his chin, pretending to think on it when he already knows the answer. He finally stops stalling and says, "I can forgive you on one condition. I will forgive you if you can come in here and scrub my back clean for me."

She closes the door behind her and smiles saying, "I can sure do that for you, Your Highness. Thank you for choosing to forgive me, my name is Fleur De Lis. I am a supermodel for a magazine called Cosmare, have you heard of it or read it?"

Arthas cocks his head and says, "Unfortunately, I have not had much time to read anything at all really. Been too busy with dealing with the never ending problems of the citizens or dealing with other kingdoms wanting to pick a fight with me or take some of my land. This king needs a short time to relax and just enjoy...life, you know?"

Fleur De Lis takes the opportunity to strip down to nothing while he is complaining and strides forward towards the shower door, her hooves lightly clicking against the tile floor. Her ample chest size lightly bouncing with each step, she softly laughs and says, "I can help you to relax and enjoy life for a bit, Your Highness." She then opens the shower door and steps inside and closes it behind her, quickly getting to work on getting his back scrubbed clean.

Not sure why she said it like that, he forgets about it and just lets her work on cleaning his back for him and says, "It really stinks, you know? Not being able to reach your own back to scrub it clean, it is rather embarrassing really."

She blushes at thinking he could smell her arousal for a moment but then relaxes and continues to clean his back, looking forward to what she was going to do to help King Arthas relax and enjoy life and says, "I can sure understand that, Your Highness. I think that somepony should invent something that would allow any being to scrub their backs themselves."