Once upon a time, in a deep underground cave system, a changeling hive resided, thousands of little drones at their work, expanding the hive and collecting love energy from other species, but in an isolated room, a little nymph sits alone, giggling and playing by herself.

She had two little wooden pony dolls, dolls that she found on the ground of the hive a drone might have dropped without knowing, she loved to play with those dolls for days on end, the problem is that her moth-

“Chrysalis, where are you? You are late for your first love collecting mission” A shout came from one of the hallways, that’s the problem, her mother, she hated everything that the ponies made, actually, she just hated the ponies.

Now the little princess nymph is panicking, hard, if her mother finds the dolls she will lose them forever, and it’s already lonely as it is, she can’t lose their only toys, her only friends she-

The sound of the door bursting open echoes through the room, the nymph now is just frozen in place, it’s too late, nothing can be done now.

“Chrysalis, why are you still here inside the castle and not out there doing your dut-” Her mother stops, while she was a little annoyed by the nymph's tardiness, it wasn’t a big deal, but now, her mother is wearing a big scowl and bearing her fangs.

“What’s the meaning of this?” She simply asks in a cold tone.

“Mom, it’s just some toys I fou-”

“PONY TOYS” Her mom interjects now shouting.

“PONY TOYS CHRYSALIS, YOU KNOW THAT WE CAN’T LOWER TO THEIR LEVEL, THEY ARE PREY AND WE ARE THE PREDATORS” The little nymph now looks smaller than she already is, she looks like she would start crying at any time now.

“We are the mighty changeling race, not only that but you and I both are royalty” At least she stopped shouting.

“This is unacceptable,” Her mom says while taking the dolls in her magic away from the little nymph.

“NO, give them back” The little Chrysalis yells, now bawling her eyes out, her mom simply slaps her on the face.

“NEVER use that tone on me again” Chrysalis recoils more in fear of her mother than the pain itself.

With the dolls now in hoof, the queen chucked them into the ground and started stomping on them, Chrysalis only being able to watch the gruesome fate her dolls had met.

After she feels it’s enough, the queen stops and burns the remains of the dolls with her magic, now they are nothing more than ash.

“Now, little miss, you will go out there and collect love energy from those pitiful ponies as the drones command you, and they will be watching” The tone her mother took was less cold but strict.

“Yes, ma'am,” The changeling princess says sadly, what else can she do other than obey?

A couple of hours later, the princess is in a small town of ponies, she took the form of a white unicorn filly, intended to make any older pony try and help her.

The sadness of earlier still hasn't gone, the ponies are looking at her with saddened eyes but nopony dares to talk to her.

She then found herself in a small playground, occupied by three or four colts and fillies, she didn’t care for them though, she wanted to be alone, she then walked up to the swing, the only toy that was not being used right now, she just sited there, looking at the ground, she doesn’t know how much time has passed until she heard.

“Hey, are you ok?” Looking up she sees a lavender blue unicorn filly asking her, with genuine concern in her eyes.

“Leave me alone” It’s the only thing she mutters, the filly doesn’t move though.

“You know, my mom always tells me that the best thing to do when you are feeling bad is to talk to a friend,” The filly says with a small smile on her face.

“I don’t have any friends” Chrysalis retorts, it’s the truth, doesn’t mean it hurts any less.

“Oh no, that’s bad, but you know what? I can be your friend!” The filly says with excitement “Only if you want to of course” A wide grin on her face.

“I’m not allowed to make friends” If her mom finds out she is friends with a pony, who knows what might happen.

“Why?” The filly asks with her head a little tilted to the side, confusion clearly spread through her face.

“My mom doesn’t let me” A heavy sigh left Chrysalis.

“Well, then we will be secret friends!” The filly says “Then you don’t have to worry about your mom finding out” Chrysalis couldn’t help but smile a little, this filly is the only one who tried to befriend her, and even after she was rude to her.

“So, what do you say?” Chrysalis simply sighed.

“It’s just...” She stops, how can she say anything without telling this filly about the changeling race?

“It’s just that my mom always expects me to be something I don’t want to,” Chrysalis says sadly.

“I can’t have friends, I can’t have toys, I can’t do anything fun” Her vision started to get blurry.

“I can’t have fun,” She says lastly, now she is silently crying.

“Oh, that’s really sad” The unicorn filly is clearly thinking of what to say now, she wasn’t expecting to get into such a complicated situation.

“You know, you can always grow up to be a better pony” Chrysalis stops and looks at her.

“What do you mean?” She simply asks.

“Well, your mother clearly wants you to grow up to be a grumpy mare, but you can always be better” Those words, those simple words, how did Chrysalis never think of that?

“You know what, you are right, thank you, eh...”

“Oh, sorry, I forgot to introduce myself, my name is Sparkler," She says with a bright smile on her face, also holding her hoof in the air.

“Chrysalis” Then I go and shake her hoof.

“Pleasure to meet you!” She then pauses and jumps a little “Ah shoot, I should go home now, it’s getting late, see you later Chrysalis!” She starts trotting away, waving at Chrysalis with a smile on her face.

“Yeah, see you soon,” Chrysalis says with a sad smile on her face, waving at the unicorn filly, she also feels something, she gathered enough love energy that her mission could be considered a success.

If only those words she said that day would be true...

“Hey Chryssi, is everything alright?” Anon asks.

“Yes, everything is well, why do you ask?” Chrysalis says with a bit of annoyance in her voice.

“Well, you have been staring at those dolls for the past five minutes or so, I got worried”

“Ah, that, just memories from a past now forgotten” She responds with a little bit of sadness “Anyway, weren't we supposed to go see that tailor for the dress that the princess of the sun bought for the event next week?” Anon clearly has forgotten.

“Ah shit, we will be late, let’s pick up the pace” The changeling queen now in a tall slender unicorn form giggles to herself.

Well, it’s never too late to make that promise true.

Author's Note

Well, sorry for the long wait, this chapter was supposed to be the public apology from Chryssi, but I wasn't able to come up with anything interesting, and right after I had a rough week.
But after reading "Past Sins" (if you haven't read it yet, go and read it right now) I got inspired to write again, so I came up with this chapter, a little backstory for our lovely queen Chrysalis.
Also before you ask anything, yes this "Sparkler" is a reference to the G1 pony, but it isn't the same character, I have some plans about her, but oh well, that's a story for another day.
PS: Thanks for the 1.2K total views and 19 likes, the support for this story has been way more than I thought it would be, you don't know how happy this makes me