“Are you sure she is ready?” Celestia's sweet and caring voice hits my ears. She is clearly worried about Chryssi, but I don’t blame her.

“Well, I’m not entirely sure. We should check on her.” Not that I don’t think Chryssi is ready for today, but all this is making me anxious. She looks brave and fearless, but she also looks frail and emotionally unstable. But eh, it might just be my imagination, right?

Well, so much for that. When I open the door to her room, she is in a fetal position in a corner of the room, repeating “It will be fine” and “They won’t hate me” over and over. This will be difficult.

“Uh, Chryssi are you alright?” I ask the poor changeling queen.

“Fine? Yeah, I’m fine, I’m great, nothing to worry about” She is panicking,

“Why shouldn’t I be fine? I will make a public apology for millions of ponies who I tried to enslave multiple times in history, nothing to worry about, besides maybe them hating me even after I try my best, they might want to see me in a dungeon, or worse, THEY MIGHT WANT TO DECAPITATE ME, WHAT SHOULD I DO ANON?” Now she is truly panicking, but she has a point, what if those ponies don’t believe in her?

“Look, I can’t assure you of anything, but I can be sure of one thing, I will be there, no matter what everyone says, I will be there at your side if they end up wanting your head at a pike, they will have to get mine first” I put every ounce of sympathy and strength I have on these words, while looking directly into Chrysalis eyes.

“Indeed, my dear friend Anon, while I haven’t spent much time recently with you Queen Chrysalis, I know that you have changed a lot in these past few months, and the fact that you are so worried about this proves me that fact” Celestia always beaming with that motherly aura she has.

I see Chrysalis taking a deep breath to steady herself, and after a couple of them, she stands up.

“Thank you, both of you, I think I'm ready now” Her voice is still a bit shaky and weak, but her eyes now burn with determination.

“Alright, I will go see Twilight to make the preparations, Anon, can you help Queen Chrysalis to get ready?”

“Sure, thing Princess, we will be ready for the right time” She nods and goes her own way, I dare to look at Chryssi, and she is a mess, her mane and tail are messy, her eyes swollen from crying, and she still is shaking a little from anxiety.

“Alright bug butt, you need to get ready, come here” I grab a brush from her dressing table and sit on the ground, I pat right in front of me.

“I’m not a nymph anymore, you can’t treat me like that” Again with the tough act.

“Alright, I’m in no mood for this, come here” I get up and scoop her up by the barrel and get here to sit in front of me, the only protests I hear are some grumblings.

“You will pay for that hyoo-, I mean, human,” She said my species name correctly this time, well, after fumbling a bit.

“Sure Chryssi, now, stay still, I need to brush both your mane and tail,” I said in a more relaxed tone.

“Since when do you know how to style a mane?”

“Well, one of my dreams when I was younger was to be a hairdresser”

“What is that hair thing you are saying”

“Well, it’s what I have right here on my hea-” When I touch my head I remember, I’m bald as a fucking egg, shiny as a recently waxed floor.

“Fuck” It’s all manage to say “Well, I used to have it, it’s like a mane, but usually shorter and way harder to deal with,” I say trying to explain the best I could

“Hm, didn’t know your species could have any type of fur,” she says with true disbelief.

“Hey, we can have lots of fur, but in humans, they are called hairs, one thing that I can still grow is a beard, if you want, I could stop shaving to show you” That seems to have piqued her interest.

“You would look funny, bald in the top of the head, but with fur in the bottom of it” She snickers with her little joke.

“Alright, I will keep shaving then”

“Hey, I didn’t say that, I want to see how you look with a beard,” She says while pouting, this thing can be cute when she wants to be.

“Alright bug butt, you win, I will let my beard grow, but it will take a couple of months for this, now, hold still” She lets out a... was that a fucking chirp? Changelings chirp? This is just weird.

After a couple of hours of brushing and trying to get Chryssi on her clothes, it was time.

“You sure that you are ready? We can always delay it if you need it” I say with concern to her.

“No, that wouldn’t be right, I need to do this,” She says with true determination on her face.

“Alright then, just remember, me, Twilight, Celestia, and Luna will all be there by your side if you need us” I shot a warm smile at her, and she did the same to me.

“Thank you Anon, I’m glad that you are my friend, this was a quite hectic month, but here we are,” She says reminiscing the past few weeks we had together, while it was fun, it was also hell, this bug lady can be so much problem when she wants to, but she can also be sweet and caring, well, as caring as Chrysalis can be.

“Alright, it’s time to do this,” She says while stepping forward to the balcony, this will decide the fate of a whole race.

I hope everything goes alright.

Author's Note

So, this didn't take long AT ALL
Hello again my fellow bronies, it's been a while hasn't it? Sorry for the long wait, I had some issues with writing, lost my interest and motivation, but hey, it's back now sort of?
I'm also writing the next chapter of "My Little Lunar Guard" So if you haven't checked it out yet, do so, soon (I hope so) it will have a seccond chapter
Also, even with the fic being quite dead for 4 months, y'all still managed to make it almost hit 3k total views!!! Not to mention the 32 likes as well, thank you so much for all this support.
Your fellow brony signing out, peace