An Excessive Dream of Victory

"Nnf...NOO!!!"

Queen Chrysalis gasped as she awoke, her breathing ragged, her body damp with cold sweat. Slowly her mind stopped reeling, and her senses realized that she no longer inside Canterlot Castle. The changeling opened her eyes to find herself lying prone outside on a bed of grass. The light here was dim, the skies fading to purple twilight as the sun set. The queen lifted her head to make out her surroundings, but her gaze was stopped by two hooves standing a few feet from her. Chrysalis looked upwards to behold a tall, blue alicorn with a lustrous mane of twinkling stars, dressed in a pale blue evening gown and staring sternly down at her.

"Princess of the Moon," Chrysalis muttered, remembering Celestia's sister from her brief appearances around the castle.

"Greetings, Queen Chrysalis," Princess Luna replied, her tone as stern as her gaze.

Chrysalis glanced around, realizing that she was lying on a grassy hill overlooking the outskirts of Canterlot. The mountain-straddling city glowed with warm light along its streets and windows as the sunset glowed beside it. The faint sound of music and laughter could be heard on the wind emanating from inside.

Looking down, the changeling suddenly realized that her hands and arms no longer swollen with flab - her body felt as light and agile as she had been before conquering Canterlot. Touching her smooth forearm, the queen looked back at Princess Luna.

"What have you done to me?" Chrysalis asked, trying to hide her puzzlement.

"Our nighttime duties kept us from attending the royal wedding," Luna remarked, "but we sensed your swarm's attack and raced to our subjects' aid, reaching the castle in time to find your changelings being repelled by the Princess of Love."

The moon princess loosed a wry smile. "Having listened to your monologue against our ponies, we decided to abduct you here and...test your motives with a dream-spell of our own creation."

"Dream...?" the changeling queen replied, mind reeling. "No, it was my spell, my triumph, all those weeks of love..."

"We intervened before your magic could be cast. T'was indeed a dream, created by our magic. In truth, only a few hours have passed since your defeat."

Defeat? Chrysalis suddenly welled with rage. "YOU SABOTAGED MY VICTORY!!" she snarled at the blue alicorn.

Luna stiffened, dropping her royal 'we' from her speech. "You had sabotaged your own victory. Princess Cadance and Shining Armor's love had overcome your magic. I merely intervened before you were blasted away from Canterlot."

The changeling glowered at her, brow furrowed in anger. "Why?" she growled at the princess.

"To teach you a lesson," Luna answered. "You told my subjects it was your duty to find food for your swarm. I merely granted you a dream where you could choose between that duty - and your own selfish victory."

"Trickery!" Chrysalis spat.

"T'was no trap," Luna replied sternly. "Had you merely left the Castle grounds in search of your true subjects, the spell would have broken, and you would have awoken here."

The princess placed her hands at her hips and continued her lecture. "My sister and I have encountered several changeling queens during our reign - but none as selfish as you. You would sacrifice your own hive as pawns just to glut yourself upon our subjects' love.

"When separated from your drones, you did not even attempt to find them. You ensconced yourself in our castle, gorged yourself on stolen love, fattened yourself to bursting without saving a single scrap for others. A true swarm-mother would have sought out her changelings and awoken immediately. But your own selfishness and gluttony trapped you in my dream."

Chrysalis burned with embarrassment as she realized that the princess had watched over her entire imagined victory. All that food, all that sex...

"W-what kind of pony princess are you, capturing me just to teach some puerile lesson about duty?!"

Luna smiled. "My independence allows me a bit more...freedom in deciding how best to defend Equestria. I choose not the direct solutions that my sister prefers. You are defeated, and nopony was seriously hurt or killed in your attack, so for now you have my mercy."

The princess turned and pointed south. "Your swarm was blasted several leagues thataway, towards the great badlands. They are bruised and battered, but alive. You are free to go to them, and hopefully you will take my lesson on proper royal duty with you.

"However," Luna turned and stared at the changeling, her voice suddenly cold. "If you ever dare to attack my sister, or our subjects ever again, I will grant you no such compassion."

Chrysalis rose to one knee, then pulled herself upright, but a feeling of stretching fabric followed by a loud *RIIIP* stopped her cold. The changeling looked to her side and realized that the black slip she was still wearing from before the dream had split several inches down the side.

Glancing around, she suddenly noticed that her breasts were larger than she remembered. Her hands moved lower to find her slip stretched taut around a soft, pudgy belly which pooched out against the remaining threads of her dress. The queen grimaced as she felt around her noticeably thicker thighs and budding lovehandles to find her rump also softened with fat, her fleshy cheeks bulging tight against the skimpy garment.

"What...is this..." the changeling queen asked in flushed embarrassment.

Luna smiled. "A curiosity of changeling biology. You absorbed a great deal of love from Prince Shining Armor prior to your defeat. T'was too dangerous to let it empower your magic, but I have allowed you to keep it...just in a form you should now be more familiar with."

"Consider it a reminder of the lesson I have tried to impart on you."

Chrysalis glowered at the princess, her teeth grit in embarrassment as her hands vainly covered her chubby new tummy. Princess Luna suppressed a smirk as she stood to one side and motioned for her to leave.

"So long, changeling queen. I am sure your drones will be very interested to hear why you are looking so...well fed compared to them."