Chapters Desperate Devising
A familiar dark equine form lurked in the shadows of the Everfree. Dark black slits surrounded by green panned over the area, behind them lie the fear of the many carnivorous creatures that lurk in the forest, the last week here had taught her that. She barely managed to survive the landing on such a brutal ejection from the capitol city of Equestria, Canterlot. Her minion army nowhere to be seen or heard.
One instinct filled the changeling queen's mind, to feed, even though she had attained enough love to last for years off of Shining Armor, she needed to find more to heal properly. even more so because she lost much of that on impact just surviving. her other changelings would be even worse off than that. She needed to start a new, and for that Chrysalis needed love.
She had not the faintest clue where to start, the last siege had taken much planning, with changelings gathering information for lengths of time. Now she was on her own, and had to fend for herself.
After pondering on it for a a while she realized that she only had one thing she could do, enter the town under a disguise and try to find a way to attain the required sustenance. She was old, and she had attained a measurable sum of knowledge on espionage and fitting in. She knew the elements lived here, it was common knowledge and easy to attain. It is easy to fit in with a form that is familiar, with only slight modifications that similarity is present they are more likely to want to acquaint themselves with them, new pony or not.
she knew just who to choose, the pony that supposedly got along with everypony else. The pink mare, she had the image in her mind, now all she had to do was alter it. she decided on a pegasus. she decided for a coat color that is less vibrant and chose a very light cream color, for the hair pink would not match the know lighter body color. so she cycled though lighter colors in her head, yellow, she thought not, blue, no. white, no. orange, no. she ended up picking yellow for all the other options did not quite seem right. For eyes she chose another familiar color, purple, and made it slightly more grey. giving the same cutie mark as the pink one, she flew off into the town to gather the required information.
She had not accounted for the pony she designed her disguise off of to meet her so soon. In fact she had been surprised as she could not tell where she even came from, "Hi you're new here!"
"Yes I just came to town," Chrysalis was formal as her normal self would be with a touch of kindness so the ponies would have better opinions of her. Her voice besides the etiquette was identical to the pink mare.
"My name's Pinkie Pie, what's yours?"
She thought about it, quickly, these ponies have really weird names and anything would do, and this pony appearing had been quite a, "Surprise."
"Well, Surprise, you know what this calls for?"
"No, I do not," she grew worried that her ruse might not have been successful.
"A proper Pinkie Pie Welcome!" At that she began singing a wonderful melody to welcome Chrysalis to town.
"Well thank you," Chrysalis had the same tone as Pinkie, but she had the formality and intonation of her normal self.
"I need to go," said Pinkie before running off at ludicrous speed.
The queen pondered back, trying to locate a memory of the pink mare's actual disposition, and to whether it was as She had just experienced. The results only hinted at it, but she decided not to change her demeanor, and to continue on observing the residents to see who she could replace. There was a cream colored mare, with pink and blue mane, three pieces of candy for a cutiemark, having cake with a teal unicorn. Both are smiling and irradiating love. They clearly love each other, but she needs strong love, much stronger than what they have. It will be very difficult to find something to fit her needs, but the queen is persistent. She knew of a place where many things could be overlooked at a time, the newspaper and magazine publishing houses have many documents of the residents. All she needed was an excuse to see them, and one that fit her needs soon arose.
She would say she was writing a paper about romance, and would like to use a picture from their stocks to add as a cover, she knew most ponies where very kind to the point where they where easy to exploit. She soon came across one. Of course they agreed, and she chuckled internally at the ease of which it was attained.
She was let roam free a large room filled with filing cabinets filled with pictures, and so she set off to finding a couple that could have enough love kindled between them to regenerate, and to signal the remaining changelings. There where many photographs, a small percentage of them having some romantic undertones, some just loving spirits.
One was a grey pegasus mare, she could tell by her face that she loved everything. but what was peculiar was that she was flying while holding a broom between her legs and had a messenger bad with letters falling out, she was wearing a big red bow on her head.
She found one of a large red stallion, and a pink mare, looking into each others eyes with enchanted symptoms
Then her eyes sparkled with anticipation, she found the perfect pair of ponies. She found two mares that where familiar. One very blue, the other purple in a old wizard costume.
Chrysalis noted the looks in the eyes of the lunar princess, she was very happy simply being in the company of the purple mare. While Twilight herself was also enjoying the conversation whatever it may be. She could tell they where rather reserved on love, and therefore had much to give. With the strength the two of them possess, if she where to feed off of both of them, there will be no stopping her. The looks in their eyes, had chrysalis growing hungry, even in this photograph the love was almost coming of the picture, and cameras don't even capture that.
She had her targets now she just needed a plan to put through to feed off of both of them. She took the photo graph and left. Though before she could gather her thoughts and lay out a plan she needed a place to stay and plan this out. Somewhere where she could stay and not have to work to pay it off. Or the work would be simple and easy. she thought it over, her possibilities where rather small in number for where she could stay to collect her thoughts.
Though gathering thoughts was about to be more difficult as a flamboyant pink mare appears next to her. "Hiya! follow me!" the pink mare trotted off in a hurry.
Chrysalis stood in wonder as to what had just occurred. Then Pinkie Pie trotted backwards, her legs moving in ways that looked wrong, as if no pony should be physically able to do that. "I said follow me!" upon which she wrapped a hoof around Chrysalis. Her only thoughts where that she had been discovered and any attempts to escape would end up worse off than simply going along with it. She did however try to struggle, but to no avail, Pinkie had plans, and chrysalis had no way of stopping her without alerting the entire. Upon being led across town she noticed the angles of the shadow. She figured she must have been looking through photographs for hours.UP ahead of her, she noticed a bakery, to which the pink mare was leading her. She had terrible images in her mind of being strapped down in a dark basement and painfully interrogated with a plethora of sharp instruments, and probably never leaving with her soul intact. She instead was once again surprised by what she had met, a party, a large banner with her name on it, a gaggle of ponies jumping out and yelling "Surprise" giggling, and some outright laughing, after saying it.
"Surprise," was a delayed shout, "Ponyfeathers, missed it again," muttered the pink mare.
Chrysalis had definitely not expected this, and once having her empty heart achieved normal rates and her breathing calmed down, she looked around. This was not a trial, nor an interrogation. It was a happy get together, apparently to welcome her to Ponyville, if she was to believe the banner hanging on the far wall. She smiled when she saw a particular lavender mare near the punch bowl, talking to another element, that she could care less about, she was suddenly feeling thirsty.
As she walked over to the punch bowl, Pinkie Pie followed, intending to introduce her to two of her best friends, she preferred to introduce new ponies to her closest friends because they where easiest to introduce. Chrysalis nonchalantly greeted them. One of them squeaked and backed away a few steps. Chrysalis took a cup of punch, and took a small sip. She opened her mouth to speak, but was quickly interrupted. "Hi Twilight, hi Fluttershy, this is my new friend Surprise. And look, her cutie mark is like mine, which means she's a party pony like me!" Pinkie wrapped a hoof around Chrysalis' neck, "I just know we're going to throw some great parties!"
"Yes, we must have one soon, it will be a lovely time," by accident she put emphasis on 'love' sending a worry down her spine, it soon settled as apparently nopony had noticed.
"yeah, but you still have to have lots of fun at this one, here let me introduce you to the rest of the ponies, then we can dance."
Chrysalis couldn't dance, but she was excellent at evading such problems, "I am actually not that fond of being the center of attention, I do not much like parties to tell the truth. However, I am good at planning parties," Raiding parties, she specified mentally. Now all she had to do was to last through the party, which only lasted a few hours, she was there till only Pinkie, and the rest of the elements where there. This made her nervous for they could easily defeat her given the opportunity. Though she had an idea, "Um Pinkie Pie, I do not have anywhere to stay, is there some place I would be able to stay the night, or where you could direct me to? I am also very short on funds so I cannot really afford anything." She was going to be exploiting the caring ponies again, it always worked.
The purple mare perked up at this, "Ooh you could stay at my house, I just bought a new book on sleepovers, and I'm dying to try it out."
She went over her options in her head, no others where making themselves apparent. She would be staying at the place of her intended target, giving much time and opportunity to gain information on Twilight. Though sleepovers tended to involve anything but sleep. It was a quick decision.
"Yes, thank you very much Miss Sparkle, I will take you up on your generous offer," she cooed in a flattering to twilight, to see how easy it was to bring out a reaction. It had little effect, she knew that with someone reserved as this, the love would be built up, ripe and ready for harvesting.
Sneaky Surveying
A book was being studied by violet eyes, the item itself immersed in a lavender glow. A pair of ponies sat on mats on the ground, one of them a grey pegasus, or at least had that ruse effectively enacted, the other a studious unicorn looking over her new guidebook. Engraved upon the cover of the book was an outline of a bed, three small fillies lay in it, soundly asleep.
However one should not judge a book by it's cover, considering this was one on staying up all night. "Oh I know, how about smores?"
Chrysalis thought it over, and came to no conclusion as to what 'Smores' were, as the concept was utterly new to her, so she couldn't deny something she knew nothing about, or decline an opportunity to learn about another part of pony life. "Yes that sounds wonderful."
"I'll be right back," said the anxious mare, starting off with something familiar in the book would give her some reference compared to the previous. With the opening of a door encased in violet aura Twilight disappeared to the kitchen.
Chrysalis took this time to check once more her escape routes if this were to go sour. She went over all conceivable options to try and find the fastest, easiest way out of the library. She didn't enjoy the concept of going through a window, but yet again that was presented as the quickest way out.
The lavender mare came trotting back, in an ethereal purple glow was encased a bag of marshmallows a box of graham crackers and chocolate. Twilight had a happy expression on her face, she enjoyed them, and she finally was able to use these. She had purchased these exact items specifically for such an occasion.
Chrysalis recognized the articles, she disliked actual eating. It was an unnecessary action, and it was altogether uncomfortable, especially after it . . . she redirected her thoughts to how she was going to trick both the lunar princess as well as this bookworm.
She faced many challenges, and many risks. She made it work before, so she would have to again. If she did it properly she would leave it and all would continue on it's own accord, and if she were to be found out she would be long gone by then. She realized that She was being spoken to and left her reverie.
". . . Aren't you going to make smores? It says you have to in the book." She floated the book towards her so that she may read, it.
Chrysalis quickly read over it in hopes to find to exactly what she is supposed to do, "So it does," she states after reading the instructions. She grabs the stick that was set at her hooves while she was lost in mental worlds. She hesitated only slightly, almost trying to use her horn, but a pegasus disguise does not permit magic. She carefully planned on how exactly she was supposed to get the marshmallow onto the stick.
After some careful maneuvering of her hooves she finally managed to mount the treat upon the stick, and held it intently over the fire as she drifted off into devising again. She thought about observing the unicorn, but decided that this would not provide much information and the concept was quickly put down.
First thing she had to conceive, was how to get them both to acknowledge their suppressed feelings. This was simple, years upon years of practice showed which methods work best. usually letters, heavily laced with implied feelings, some ponies need very heavily laced letters, for some are very blunt.
She also figured that they would both be rather blunt, twilight it would seem is not the romantic type, and Luna from what she has gathered is still socially inept due to her thousand year banishment. She could not have hoped for better ponies, her excitement put her on full autopilot, and she had completed the smores without even realizing, but now she was transitioning activities, and she needed to focus on the transition.
"Alright, now let's," She glanced in her book again, "Truth or dare,"
This night is going to be magnificent, the type of night of which she dreamed since she was little. "Yes, that sounds wonderful," She had so many options to do with this. She was going to let twilight go first, to help her get an impression of the mare before swinging the conversation to her advantage. "You can ask or dare me anything."
"Oh uhm, truth or dare?" She asked.
"Well we just met, so maybe truth would help you get to know me."
"Oh well," she pondered and began looking around the room as if to spot anything that could help her, she spotted a book on a table nearby, "So, have you had a coltfriend?" she said the last part slightly quieter, meaning she was uncomfortable but curious.
The perfect state to be in for being malleable in Chrysalis' hooves. She had the perfect answer, "No, but I have had a few, marefriends," this was too easy, she didn't even have to swing the conversation.
Twilight had not expected that answer, and she was quick to turn red. She opened her mouth to speak, but she could not formulate words coherent to the situation. "I'm not making you uncomfortable am I?"
"No, it's just," Twilight pondered for a brief moment, "Just a little unexpected that's all."
"Alright then, shall we continue the game?"
"okay, it's your turn."
"Truth or dare?" She asked monotonously.
The rest of the night was just the standard sleepover, but chrysalis used the opportunity to examine the purple mare.
Chrysalis took the time to get a good impression of the purple mare. She occasionally put romantic hints in her speech, Twilight picked up on none of them. Each time she put increased the blatancy ever so slightly, but Twilight did not catch on to it. Chrysalis was wondering how blatant romantic hints would be for her to catch on. maybe outright saying it, but that would be harder to deny, at least with hints she could deny that she implied anything of that nature.
She knew that writing for her would be fairly easy, just be overly blatant with it. Outright say it in the letter she was to send, but for Luna she was going to have to inquire to Luna's diction if twilight was to be fooled. Once the makeover activity came around she decided to strike up conversation. "I heard that you spent Nightmare Night with Princes Luna, I must say I am jealous, What was it like?" she took on a curious voice like a schoofilly who had heard tidbits of a rumor and wanted to know more.
"yes I did, Everypony believed her to be nightmare moon, and feared her. She did not understand why they where fearing her, she expected to be loved like her sister," Twilight paused there, "Is there anything specific you wanted to know?"
"Nothing specific, how about you just retell the entire night?"
"um," Twilight flipped through the book, "Ah yes here it is, story time, It is supposed to be a scary story, I don't think that counts as a scary story?"
"I wouldn't know, how about you just tell it anyway," Chrysalis tried to sound informal to get closer to the element of magic.
"Can we do that? Just tell any story instead of a scary one?" she flipped through the book and started to become quite panicked.
"Of course you can. It is your slumber party not the book's," Chrysalis' comment did little to assuage Twilight's nervous disposition.
"But it is supposed to be by the book."
"If the book was an exact guideline the sleepovers would soon become boring," Chimed Chrysalis.
"I guess your right," Twilight droned, defeated, her head hanging low.
"Don't feel down," Chrysalis brought a hoof under Twilight's chin to lift her face up, "Just tell the story you will feel better after the story is over."
"Alright," She looked around, "Can you cover your eyes for a moment?" Twilight asked, a tinge of nervousness permeating her voice.
Chrysalis complied, but she listened very carefully mapping out her exact steps. Twilight moved some books, and chrysalis mentally noted where they where, and then Twilight's hoofsteps returned twilight back to Chrysalis. "Alright you can open your eyes now."
Twilight was levitating a notebook, and opened it to the first page, "I document parts of my life, Holidays especially," Twilight blatantly lied, and chrysalis could tell. This notebook was not quite a documentation of a day of her life, but more of a notebook on Luna.
She retold the entire night in excruciating detail. It was Just what Chrysalis required, but more than she ever expected to ever gain before she enacted her plan, much less a single night, at this rate her plan come to fruition by weeks end.
Though before long they did have to go to sleep, Twilight had Chrysalis close her eyes while she put the book back, then gave her a bed at the base of her own to sleep for the night.
Once Chrysalis was confident that Twilight had fallen into slumber, she crept from her bed as silently as she could and went to the shelf which contained the notebook, She had to know what else that item contained. The large portion of it is her questioning herself, about her preferences, results from tests in magazines, all of them pointing in a single direction. Twilight was denying it, but she was aware of her feelings.
This was going to be too easy , Chrysalis cooed mentally, placing the book exactly as it was before, exactly not any difference, even for one who looked for any tampering would have difficulty noticing something was wrong. She returned to the bed to sleep, even a changeling needs to rest their mind.
She had enough information for the letter, to set her plan in motion, she was slightly short on information of Luna, but enough to make due at imitating her. As for the sending of the letters, she would either become a mailmare, and take the letters herself, or intercept the return letters some other way. So that the letters would not get to either party but instead get to Chrysalis and learn from each time they get together. Each time she goes on a date with either of them she will be able to model herself after the one she dated a little more accurately and thus be less likely to be discovered. If she were to be discovered it would be the end of the changeling queen, and changelings as a race would cease to be. Failure was not an option for the queen of the changelings.
The night passed quickly through Chrysalis' dreamless night. She rarely dreamed and she did not really mind, she found dreams pointless. She was for the most part practical.
She awoke from her slumber late in the morning, the sun was high in the sky. She looked over her disguise to make sure none of it has slipped during her slumber. Her disguise checked out without any flaws in its structure. She had an unimaginable amount of practice in shape shifting, but neglecting to check on a disguise is a fools mistake, and Queen Chrysalis was no fool.
She walked down to the main lobby of the library, Twilight was reading a novel, and blushing, it was the same book that Twilight looked at before asking Chrysalis the coltfriend question. Chrysalis could only assume that it was a romantic novel, probably somewhat smutty. "Thank you very much Miss Sparkle, I am going to head off to try and find work" Chrysalis lied.
"Are you going to be back again to spend another night?"
"I will try not to, I don't want to be a burden to you." She was going to try to find another place to stay if she could, because staying there would be rather dangerous after a while.
Chrysalis tread downtown in the hopes of finding the post office, so that she may find out who the mailmare is that carries the letters from Ponyville to Canterlot. Then all she had to do was replace them, bribe them or intercept them. Unfortunately she had little to bribe with, so that only left the option of taking their place and doing their work or intercepting the letters before the got to Twilight.
After a short amount of wandering through the town she came across a building that had a sign in the shape of a letter hanging over the door.
she waited in the shade of a nearby building, to either think of a plausible reason for asking who takes the mail to Canterlot, or to wait and see who it is. Though her thinking was cut short, a pegasus stallion with a cart came out of the side of the building. She carefully observed his entire form, while he prepped for his flight. After taking off she observed where he was headed.
To Chrysalis' disappointment he headed in an entirely different direction, towards Fillydelphia. She went back under the overhang to try to continue thinking of a way to properly ask for who takes the mail. Though soon another courier came out, this one a mare. Chrysalis did the same for the last one, examined her entire form as she prepped, how she moved. Then observed which way she took off. This time for Canterlot.
She stayed under the overhang and thought about her plan and any flaws that may arise, or anything she would like to avoid. She wanted to avoid pulling that heavy cart, she had not realized that so much mail was sent.
If she were to do anything else she would need more knowledge on how the postal system works. For that she was going to ask. Something simple, her go to intelligence gaining excuse, she would say she was going to write a paper. She used it often, but it worked and ponies more often than not just comply and answer any questions that are asked. So it was time for her to find out how the postal system works in Ponyville. She walked into the front door of the quaint building.
Inside the structure was very bland, the walls where all painted a simple tan color. in places there where wooden crates, folded cardboard boxes, trays which contained letters, a box here and there filled with scroll ribbons, scattered piles of parchment. There was no conceivable order to how everything was placed. On the far side of the room there was a counter that surrounded a door on the far side of it, the counter had a section that could raise up to allow the pony working there to enter and leave.
She went up to said counter and rang a bell. A few moments later a beige stallion wearing glasses and a calm demeanor came to the counter, "Hello Ms, may I help you?"
"Yes you can. I'm going to write a report on the postal system, and I was wondering if you could show me how everything operates?" she said matter of factly.
"Well come on back and I will show you, stay as long as you like. Just try to not get in my way," he stated in a friendly neutral tone.
He lifted the gate on the counter, and let Chrysalis through. and lead her to the back of the office where the mail was sorted. Now that he was no longer behind the counter She could see his cutie-mark, It consisted of three envelopes.
In the research she found out it took over a day to sort out the letters once they had arrived. and with the distance between here and Canterlot, by the time they get back it is rare that any of them actually get sorted. She had her plan. Chrysalis would simply sneak in at night and intercept the letters and replace them.
Now there was no kinks left in her plan, and it was about to be enacted. Her hive will be reconstructed and stronger than ever.
Luna's loneliness
The clock strikes ten in the afternoon. Many of the ponies are getting in bed or are getting ready. In some places there are parties still going on. Canterlot, however, is not a town with many late night parties.
Princess Luna stared from her balcony, she watched as candles where being blown out across the city. Her heart sank each time another light went dark. Since she was for the most part nocturnal, and only awake in the day for important matters, she had not much chance to acquaint with ponies. She sighed as another candle went dark.
She decided to stop watching the city and look up to her canvas, the beautiful night sky. Jeweled precisely, it was very hard work on her part, but is one of the more beautiful sights in Equestira, yet few actually look at it.
The princess had only a few friends. Her sister the main one. A couple astronomers who run the Canterlot observatory, they stayed up half the night then traded off. Then there was Twilight sparkle, without her help she would not have been able to speak to the astronomers properly.
Many of the citizens of Equestria still did not trust Luna, still believing her to still be Nightmare Moon, or Nightmare Moon in disguise, others fear her because they believed that she would become Nightmare Moon once more. Since her return some even dared not go outside at night, though they where a small percentage, there where enough of them that it was noticeable.
These numbers are growing ever smaller, but the smaller their numbers the slower their numbers decrease. She looked down to the palace courtyard, where the Night Guard was patrolling the castle. She did not socialize with them. They where soldiers, and therefore would only address her as a soldier to their general. That made conversation nigh on impossible.
Luna grew bored and began reading a novel. She was reading a romance novel, since being a princess lead to little time to actually do anything romantic, and when she could get the chance usually her stature would simply get in the way of it. So instead she read romance novels, just to know what it was like. The particular novel she was reading, was about a mare named Avah Rachael Age, who had just fell in love, but the buck she fell in love with was oblivious. Luna was at the standard part where she was about to proclaim her love to him. Or at least that was what Luna had inferred, because of the order of other novels such as this.
She quietly began reading under her glorious moonlight. She had forgotten all that was happening around her as became lost within the words. Her heart began to race as she was about to tell the stallion how she felt. Her heart was beating very fast.
After she read it, she was quivering with anticipation. The buck acknowledged her feelings, and accepted her love. At reading that Luna sighed happily and hugged the book. She then remembered she was outside on the balcony, she looked around to try and make sure there was nopony out 'moon gazing' again, she didn't want another rumor that her sister would have to deal with.
She went back inside to continue reading, She didn't want to take any more chances about being watched by one of those creepy ponies who always watch the princesses. Luna wish she could be in a relationship just like Avah, but she had no clue where to start and the only stallions she knew where the Royal Guard.
~~~
In Ponyville Twilight was also engrossed in a book. she had just bought it recently and was reading it for the first time. She was reading an already familiar story to you however, about one Avah R. Age. She was reading the very end of it. Twilight loved all genres of books, but romance novels gave her insight into something she had, effectively, no real knowledge of. The next book on her list to read was one that made her quite nervous, one she tried to put off, but knew she would have to read eventually. She was confused, and the only way she knew how to get past confusion was to read a book.
While stalling for time to put off reading it, she wondered what had happened to surprise, she had not seen her in a few days. She shrugged it off assuming that she had found work and a place to stay. She picked up the book, titled "What's your preference?" she reluctantly flipped to the first page. She began reading, the first chapter was titled, "The heart wants what it wants."
She was about two pages in when she received a letter delivered to her door. The letter had only her address on it, no other markings. When she opened it her heart skipped a beat. On the inside flap of the envelope was the seal of the lunar princess. She began to read the letter
Dear Twilight Sparkle
We are quite lonely in this castle. We were hoping to spend a day with you. It shall be such a fun time. 'Twas so much fun the last time we came to Ponyville, I was hoping we could have some more. We hope that you will accept our offer, and respond with good haste. And please keep this away from my sister, she thinks we shall be going on a regular spa trip.
Sincerely
Princess Luna
~~~
Meanwhile in Canterlot
A knock on Luna's door awakens her, she is grumpy for being awoken. However she likes being woken up, because no one dares to wake her up without cause. Upon opening it, she found one of her night guard with levitating a letter. She had given them instructions that certain letters where to be brought to her as soon as they arrived. If they involved the fate of Equestria, If they where from somepony she knew, which was a short list, they were to be brought to her immediately. She thanked her guard and dismissed him. Then opened up the letter assuming it was something dire happening in the country.
Dear Princess Luna
This is twilight sparkle. I wanted to come to Canterlot to visit with you again. I rarely eve see you or converse with you. So a nice stroll in the Canterlot gardens one night next week would be so much fun. And during the night it will be so beautiful out. Being a princess must be stressful, please write back quickly.
Sincerely
Twilight sparkle
If Luna's books had any actual fact in them, this was a sign that Twilight may have feelings for her. However Luna decided to err on the side of caution, and just see how this went.
~~~
Twilight however did not pick up on the romantic clues embedded into the letter, but she was still very excited, because she would get to spend another day with Luna. She needed to start planning immediately.
Feel free to point out any errors, just please be polite about it.
Princess Luna was excited, more than a princess should show in public. She was glad they where going to meet at night since most ponies would be asleep. The statue gardens would also be abandoned as Luna was having the guards shut it down for the night. Though it is not like it gets nighttime visitors, but she would rather not take any chances, not even the guard would be on the grounds themselves only on the perimeter. She told the guards to tell anypony who asked, if anypony asked, that it was going through some nighttime maintenance.
Luna was even more glad that 'Twilight' had offered to do it at night. She was going out of her way and sleep cycle to make it easier for the lunar princess. Luna really appreciated the thought behind that. From what she learned of Twilight from Celestia, and seen for herself, is that Twilight planned everything out beyond what is actually necessary. She was sure that 'Twilight' had planned to make it easier for Luna.
She brushed her coat, more than normal, and normally she brushed her coat to perfection. She really wanted to make sure this time though, because from what the letter implied, if she had read it correctly, had shown that she had feelings for her. She wanted to be ready.
The one thing made her more paranoid than normal. Was that Twilight was female, and a relationship between to ponies of the same gender was taboo before she was banished. Though she had read a book like that. They seemed happy enough, When they where confronted about it they would just say that "The heart wants what it wants."
She new she had feelings for Twilight, but she did not know enough about them. and romance novels rarely have two mares. She had very little social skills so she did not know how to confess to the mare, and when she was growing up it was such a taboo, she still had fear for asking for advice.
However, now was her chance, and she was ready to leave. she opened her wings and flew off.
~~~
Chrysalis had the night planned out. She was awaiting at the castle statue gardens. Luna had given the guards permission to let only Twilight through. Chrysalis' plan for this was patience. She would wait until Luna confessed her love. Though if Luna doesn't seem to be coming around she would declare it, and feed off the love. She knew that if she played it out well the love would release like a supernova.
Chrysalis had put on a perfume, to arouse that much more love from her. The more love she could feed off of right away the less time she would need to take the love from them and could rebuild her colony. and begin placing changelings into society, like she had before. The only difference would be that she wouldn't take the changelings from all across Equestria for the siege. Because now she had to rebuild from scratch.
Soon chrysalis could see the lunar princess flying in. Once she had landed, Chrysalis walked right up to her. Closer than anyone would normally get to anyone else, just so Luna would get a good smell of the perfume. "Princess Luna, how are you?"
"We are doing very well Twilight Sparkle."
"Have I ever told you how much I love The royal we?" Chrysalis cooed suggestively.
Twilight had mentioned extensively in her journal about how Luna had used the royal we. That worked perfectly, for an adorable puddle of red surfaced in a sea of nighttime sky blue. While Luna was internally expressing love, Chrysalis was engorging herself on the love that was simply radiating off of Luna.
Once Luna had come back from cloud nine she asked, "We will keep that in mind," Luna stated in a somewhat bashful manner.
Chrysalis wanted Luna to proclaim her love first, so she would know exactly how to word it. Unless of course Luna doesn't outright say it, and instead uses a series of questions. Or is simply to shy to say anything, so that Chrysalis would have to declare it.
"Your night is so beautiful," Chrysalis decide to start blushing, she could control every aspect of her disguise so that she could give off any body language she wanted.
"Your flattery makes us quite happy," She stood right next to 'Twilight' and asked, "Twilight, dost thou have feelings for me?"
"What do you mean?" Questioned Chrysalis, she knew exactly what she meant, but wanted to draw it out.
"Dost thou," Luna gulped, "Love me?"
Chrysalis made the face of the faux Twilight become a beacon of red, "Yes, Luna, I love you. I love you more than anything."
The resulting flood of love caused chrysalis to have a moment of extreme pleasure. The love was stronger than she could have ever hoped. Immediately after she threw her hooves around the lunar princess. Another flood of love nourished the queen. Luna wrapped a hoof around 'Twilight' and returned the hug.
"We love thee as well, thine nature is simply adorable."
They walked to a nearby patch of soft grass, and looked up at the stars leaning against each other, Luna enjoying the company, Chrysalis eating her fill of love.
~~
Now for the other side of the spectrum, Chrysalis only needed to engage Twilight in a relationship with a false Luna. When Twilight had sent back a letter in response Luna wrote back again and suggested that they have a picnic in a secluded part of the whitetail woods just between the two of them. The explanation for that being that most ponies where still uncomfortable around the lunar princess.
Twilight accepted and was waiting for 'Luna' in the whitetail wood. She was slightly uncomfortable being alone in the woods, but was more uncomfortable from being nervous that Luna would not think as highly of her at the end of the picnic. There was no foundation for this worry however, Twilight was just paranoid about every possible thing. This combined with her tendency to overreact was a bad combination.
This time she was, however, managing to remain relatively calm. Soon a shadow flew over the waiting unicorn, she looked up to see what it was. To her relief, somewhat, was 'Princess Luna'.
'Luna' landed gracefully in front of the purple mare. "Good day Twilight Sparkle."
"Hello Luna, how are you?"
"We are doing very well Twilight Sparkle."
"Twilight is fine."
"Yes Twilight," she emphasized Twilight's name.
"I wasn't sure what you liked so I brought a little of everything," Twilight gestured to the plethora of foodstuffs laid out before them.
"Yes it is quite nice, But we hath come with a different motivation. Twilight, What doth thou think of us?"
Twilight slightly blushed, "Well I think you're nice."
"That is not quite what we meant with the question. Twilight, doth thou have feelings for us?" The false form of Luna queried, "Twilight, I-I love you."
Chrysalis turned A slight shade of red that was most becoming of the situation. It helped show the sincerity of the question. Twilight went into shock at the question trying to come to terms with what has just happened. She had not accounted for this and now had to completely improvise. She placed a reassuring hoof on Twilight's shoulder, "Twilight, are you alright, we hope that we hath not betrayed thine trust. We hope that our outburst will not diminish our friendship. Please Forgive us," Chrysalis began to fake tears.
"Luna," Twilight jumped onto the nighttime mare embracing her, "Please don't cry I do love you, I just wasn't expecting you to say it so, suddenly."
Chrysalis was feeling so much love being released she was almost a quarter of the way to being able to restart her colony. Many times faster than she had ever expected. These two were so reserved that the buildup of love was like a flood of pure emotion, If any changeling other than Chrysalis where to absorb this much at once they would become intoxicated, and possibly even overdose and meet an untimely death.
Amiable adoration
Chrysalis lay wait in a cave in the hills of the whitetail woods. She was calculating how much more love she would need before she would be able to rebuild her nest.
At her calculations it would not be much longer, She would only need to go on four dates with each of them to be able to start anew. She was so close, she could almost taste it. If she were to live off of that love herself she would live decades. However she would have to expend much of it to call the remaining changelings.
Chrysalis picked up a quill and began writing a letter.
Dear Twilight
We where hoping to go on a camping trip with you. We Shall have a wonderful time, dost thou agree? We would like to meet in the Whitetail Wood, where we had our picnic at. We shall be waiting there for thine appearance on fifth-day at mid day. See you soon MY love.
With love,
Chrysalis purposely added 'my' to the letter to make the letter more persona. She looked outside the cave. The sun was going down and Chrysalis was going to have to put the letter in the mail. As well as prevent any other actual letters from being received. She had to do this twice a day. She had to sneak in after Twilight, before any of her letters get sent to Canterlot, then in the afternoon to prevent her from receiving any letters.
As the sun was setting she flew in low. The post office closes at sundown so she went right after closing time. They left and she snuck in. Anything addressed to Twilight was looked over, anything from Luna she took and replaced with her own. She waited patiently for the mail sorter to leave and then she made her move. She went in, and went through the Canterlot pile. There was a letter with the lunar symbol on the outside of it.
She took it and read it at the post office. Luna was proposing a picnic outside of Ponyville next week. She didn't even need to plan anything for Luna this pair of dates. She would write a confirmation letter as soon as she got back to the cave. Now all she did was place The letter to Twilight in the pile of letters from Canterlot. She left out the side exit where the letter carts departed from, being very careful not to be seen.
When she was sure that nopony was around she exited the building and flew to the cave to continue organizing her plots and decide where to begin her new hive. It was a difficult to decide on a proper location. the hive has to be someplace secluded, very secluded, and it still must be nearby to a source of love so that the changelings would be able to easily go out and feed off of love.
~~~
Chrysalis awaited the appearance of the purple mare. She had a basic tent she 'liberated' from the local camping supply store. She set it up with her magic ahead of time so her green magic would not giver her away. That was the one flaw with being a changeling if one used their magic, it would still be green. Especially noticeable for one who has previously dealt with changelings before.
Soon hoofsteps could be heard coming through the woods. Chrysalis turned to see Twilight approaching, She Smiled a warm happy smile. The smile elicited a blush and a smile from Twilight.
"We extend Salutations dear Twilight."
"Hello Luna."
Twilight was very happy, she would be able to spend a night with her marefriend. As that though crossed her mind she remembered 'Surprise' and could now relate. Though that was thought was soon forgotten as she remembered she was in an actual relationship.
"How art thou my dearest Twilight."
"I am wonderful, I missed you while you were in Canterlot."
"As Did We Twilight."
Twilight grabbed a book from her saddlebags. Inscribed on the cover was a picture of the basic triangular prism tent. "Twilight Do you really have to have a book? Why don't we just enjoy the time?"
"I have never been camping before, I wanted to do it right."
Chrysalis wrapped a hoof around Twilight's neck and planter her lips onto Twilight's. After several moments of feeding of direct contact Chrysalis told Twilight, "If we have fun and enjoy the trip then everything worked out."
Twilight was speechless, but she did manage a nod, with her mouth agape. Chrysalis gently closed her mouth. After that last kiss she gained so much love, it was unimaginable how much had built up in this conserved unicorn, and Chrysalis intended to feed on all of it.
Chrysalis leaned in for another kiss, as she did so Twilight closed her eyes and prepared for this one. Chrysalis could feel the warmth of Twilight's lips. For reasons Chrysalis could never understand, there was something to be done during a kiss that extracted extra love. She opened her mouth slightly to allow her tongue to worm its way through.
Upon feeling 'Luna's' tongue pressing through Twilight separated her lips to allow its passage. Their tongues danced happily around each other, feeling each and every detail inside Twilight's mouth.
Chrysalis pulled away, and Twilight tried to follow.Twilight was left weak after the kiss. For two reasons. One she was left weak at the knees from kissing 'Luna' though she was also weak from being drained of love. Twilight however only truly noticed the weakness of her knees, and any other weakness she accounted for the kissing 'Luna' reason. She did not suspect anything. Much longer and Chrysalis would have Twilight under her control.
"How about we have some smores, I will get the supplies while you get the fire started." Chrysalis cooed.
The truth was Chrysalis had read the same book, so she would have an idea what to do at a camping event. Twilight looked around to see a spot had already been made for a fire, a circle of stones, and a small mountain of wood sitting nearby. Chrysalis had already gone into the tent, and was looking for the ingredients. She was purposely taking her time so that Twilight would have plenty of time to start the fire. If she had to help her green magic may give her away, and there will be no chances that can be avoided.
Twilight had open the camping book. "I know there is a fire starting spell in here somewhere," She flipped through the book, "Ah here it is."
The fire starting spell
After reading the instructions she set the book down and prepared for the fire. She placed an appropriate amount of wood in the fire pit, and charged up her horn for the spell. Following the instructions exactly she soon had the fire started. considering she lit almost all the logs on fire by using more energy than required.
Soon after 'Luna' trotted out of the tent, the bag of treats dangling adorably from her mouth. She set the bag down next to twilight. "Shall we make smores?" Chrysalis spoke.
While Twilight was focused on putting her smores together chrysalis quickly put the marshmallow on her stick so that Twilight would not see the green glow of her magic. Then afterwords Chrysalis leaned the stick on her hoof and the ground avoiding to use her magic to hold it.
After the smores had finished It was getting rather late, Twilight was getting tired. They went into the tent. And Chrysalis showed the sleeping bag she had 'bought' It was very large, large enough for the both of them, and that was the point. They crawled in and Chrysalis snuggled up next to twilight. They soon drifted off to sleep chrysalis feeding off of the ambient love emanating of of Twilight.
Twilight's dreams consisted of spending time with Luna. Having wonderful dates with Luna. She Walked through the park with her, and everyone around her was happy. None of them cared they were together.
Twilight woke up with a smile in her face, Chrysalis had already woken up and left the tent. She was standing outside just looking at the surroundings. Twilight walked up to her and leaned against her like only two ponies in love could do. "Good morning Dear Twilight."
"Good morning Luna."
Chrysalis rubbed her nose against Twilight's eliciting more love from her. The rest of their camping trip went on much as already been described, nuzzling, kissing, hugging. Enjoying each others company. Chrysalis was feeding every second. And all was going according to her plans.
They soon packed up and head off to their respective abodes. Chrysalis at first flew off in the direction of Canterlot but after she had left the line of sight of the purple unicorn she turned around and went back to her cave. To prepare for the picnic with Luna.
Princess's Picnic
Luna Was sitting ready for the picnic, Waiting for 'Twilight' to show up. She had a wonderful moonlit picnic prepared. With may varieties of food. Hay sandwiches, Daisy sandwiches, Cupcakes, lemonade and various other snacks.
"Hello Luna," Spoke Chrysalis in the voice of Twilight.
"Hello dear Twilight, We hath missed you greatly whilst you were in Ponyville."
"I missed you too," Chrysalis threw her forelegs around Luna and Luna returned the favor.
"We hope you will enjoy the banquet we hath prepared for you."
"The picnic looks wonderful," Quoth Chrysalis staring at Luna.
Luna giggled at 'Twilight' knowing her intention behind those lines. Chrysalis leaned in sloppily to kiss the lunar princess. Her mouth was puckered her eyes where closed and she was about a foot away from Princess Luna.
Luna giggled and met 'Twilight's' lips. Chrysalis was planing to keep this kiss rather simple because Twilight's first kiss was with Chrysalis. She would thus have no experience at it.
Luna could feel the warmth of chrysalis, She could smell the perfume 'Twilight' was wearing and could only imagine that she didn't typically wear any. Chrysalis could feel the cool warmth of the night time princesses lips. It was an interesting sensation, like none other chrysalis had ever encountered. For it had both the warmth of a living breathing pony, but also the coolness of a spring night. Even chrysalis could agree that this was enjoyable. It was wonderful for chrysalis, chrysalis was enjoying this and let her experience with kissing slip through.
Her mind went to autopilot for enjoying this, And she almost never enjoyed anything. She let her tongue through, The inside of Luna's mouth felt the same way. The sensation was pure ecstasy. She was feeding on such a high level it was like a binge.
Luna looked at 'Twilight', into her eyes. They showed pure love. Chrysalis could see the same in the Princesses eyes, She was even managing to feed off of the love coming from Luna's eyes.
However the love in the eyes of Chrysalis was synthesized. Chrysalis could show anything she wanted in the eyes of her disguise. Though she cannot in her normal eyes. Evolution has yet to make a perfect species. Though changelings come very close with their abilities.
"Luna, I-I love you," spoke chrysalis, faking a stutter.
"We love thee as well Twilight," sung Luna, "Look to the stars."
Luna gestured to the sky, "Alright," Spoke Chrysalis.
"The astronomers are going to yell at us for this," Shooting stars began to ark across the sky, "But we wanted to give thee a nice show for our picnic."
Shooting stars flew across the sky and lit up the two mares in the vacant castle statue garden, "It's beautiful, Just like you."
Luna giggled at the complement, "Thank you, we only wish the best for thine enjoyment."
Chrysalis decided to just enjoy the show and feed off of the ambient love of Luna, not to overfeed herself in one night. She wanted to feed off of Luna just a little longer so she would be able to get more love in the long run. If she fed all at once she would not get as much love as she would if she were to feed off of a chunk of their love for several nights and let the love and strength regenerate over small periods.
It was basic survival, if you use all of the resources at once there will be none left for future times. The show was quite beautiful, although Chrysalis has no care for beauty or aesthetic. So she just watched in boredom as she fed of of the lunar princess.
After several minutes of watching the Stars Luna was the first to speak, "Shall we begin eating," she gestured towards the food.
"I almost forgot, alright."
Chrysalis groaned internally for having to consume food again. It was unnatural for a changeling, and the only reason they could even consume it in the first place was so that they could fit in.
"Try the cupcakes, we had the royal chef prepare them."
Chrysalis ate one of them, "They're Delicious," She lied, Changelings have no sense of taste for physical foods.
The two sat leaning against each other enjoying the picnic. Or at least Luna was enjoying the picnic, while chrysalis went along with it putting on a false smile. Chrysalis tried to eat as slowly as possible without seeming to be, she did not want to eat more than she had to. She still had to seem like she was eating and enjoying the picnic though, which meant she still had to eat at somewhat normal rates.
After eating a sandwich Chrysalis said, "I think I've had enough to eat."
"Are you sure? we had all this prepared specifically for you."
"Yes, I just want to enjoy your company," chrysalis responded.
Chrysalis stopped eating and Luna followed suit, They just sat against each other and enjoyed the stars. Soon their picnic ended and they both left for their respective homes.
~~~
Chrysalis sat at her cave and planned the next date she was going to have with Twilight Sparkle. She was going to take Twilight on a nature walk. Pony couples seemed to enjoy nature walks quite a bit, Chrysalis planned to use that to her advantage. She wrote Twilight a letter planning everything out.
She was going to meet Twilight sparkle at the beginning of the Ghastly gorge ridge that Tuesday at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Then they where going to walk along the ridge of the gorge. Chrysalis was going to listen intently of everything Twilight says, because no doubt she will have much information on just about everything they will see and give a lecture. Chrysalis would memorize the lecture and repeat it with Luna. It was a simple plan, and simple plans tend to work out the best.
Chrysalis was only going to take another date after the upcoming one and then she would take her leave and begin her new hive. After it was set up she would send out a beacon for all remaining changelings. With changelings again, she would once more be queen.
~~~
Luna sat in her thrown room. She had an idea. she knew Twilight would love it. She knew just what she was going to do. She had a morning meeting on the upcoming Tuesday, it would end around noon. Then by about one or two o'clock if she hurried she would be able to be at Twilight's library for a surprise visit. She just knew that t would make Twilight happy, as well as herself. It would be the most wonderful of times.
Failing folly
Luna was sitting in the meeting, her mind completely elsewhere, specifically, at Twilight's library. She was hoping this meeting would end quickly so she could hurry on to Twilight's house. She really wanted to see the look on her face when she showed up at her door.
The meeting was over economy and basic politics, while Luna was good at that it was far from something she enjoyed. She would rather be anywhere than this meeting, but mostly she would rather be in the company of Twilight Sparkle.
With her daydreaming the meeting passed faster than expected. After being bidden good day, the equivalent of goodnight to one who is nocturnal, by her sister, Luna snuck out her window and head off towards Ponyville. Princesses are the fastest type of pony, even the fabled Rainbow Dash may come to her loss in a race with a princess.
The trip did not take long, and soon she was in Ponyville. She figured that since Twilight was the student of Celestia, a visit from her sister would not be too out of the ordinary, just as long as it didn't happen too often.
Twilight was in her shower, preparing for the date with 'Luna' she was going to have later, unaware that the real Luna was almost at her doorstep. Twilight was cleaning her mane and tail so heavily that even Rarity would be impressed by it.
Twilight as well was showering, was lost in a daydream. About you guessed it, Princess Luna. She was imagining the fun they were going to have at the nature walk. She wasn't that fond of being outside, but if it let her spend time with Luna, she would be up for anything. She was soon aroused from her daydream by a knock on her door.
Twilight used a spell she had enchanted her door with. A magical peephole if you will, to see outside of her door. She nearly fell down in the shower after seeing who it was. She didn't bother to dry off her mane on her way down. She quickly opened the door.
Luna stood there with her mouth agape. There standing before her was twilight, hair wet and dripping over her shoulders and down into her eyes. Looking through her mane, "You're early," Twilight smiled, "Normally I would freak out, but since it's you. Come on in."
"Early? We came here on a whim. This visit was to be a surprise. How can we be early, you shouldn't have known we were coming," Spoke the lunar princess as she walked into the library.
"But you sent me a letter," Twilight floated her the letter inviting Twilight to the nature walk.
"We did not write this?" Luna was wondering how this happened.
Twilight examined Luna, Her magic was blue, so she couldn't be a changeling. Changeling magic was green, at least that is what she had thought. "Then who did?"
"We hath no idea Twilight, but we shall find out later this evening."
They could not wait in silence of course, so Luna began, "Twilight, how much did thee enjoy our Meteor shower we gave thee at the picnic?"
"But our picnic was during the daytime," Twilight informed Luna a touch of confusion in her voice.
This dishearten the lunar princess, meaning that the twilight she was dating was false, "Then it looks like I have been dating an imposter," Luna was sad, and enraged at the same time.
"Princess Luna?" Twilight Queried, becoming worried about Luna.
Twilight herself was feeling the same, but more confused on the matter than actually feeling anything.
"Leave me be Twilight Sparkle, I need to gather my thoughts."
Luna became very depressed at the notion, She sat there crying in the corner. Twilight came over to see how she could help, but twilight was waved off.
Twilight did just that until the time when Twilight was supposed to meet 'Luna' at the gorge. "Luna, We should go now if we are going to catch the imposter."
"Yes We must Bring this imposter to justice," She looked at the clock, it was almost four, "How should we get there, it is almost four now?"
"Well I was going to teleport, but have you been to the ghastly gorge?"
"No, So we cannot teleport there, How about We fly us over there with you on my back?" Luna asked and Twilight nodded.
They went outside, and Luna took a knee so that Twilight may climb onto her back. Twilight hugged as strong as she could around Luna's neck without actually squeezing her neck. Twilight could feel the softness of Luna's coat. Luna could smell the real Twilight's natural scent. she enjoyed Twilight's natural clean smell to a strong perfume.
Luna Spread her wings and Flew at incredible speed, Twilight hung on for dear life.
Chrysalis awaited disguised as Luna, at the beginning of the trail that goes along the ridge of the gorge. She believed that Twilight would teleport there any second. But when she heard wings zooming in and a loud thud of something large landing she turned around. There was the Real princess Luna, with Twilight Sparkle.
Chrysalis tried to run away, but was quickly wrapped in blue magic. "Hello Imposter, reveal thine true form."
Luna's horn glowed brighter, and with a large electric sound emanating from the aura around chrysalis the disguise was throne and Revealed the true form of Chrysalis.
"We art assuming thou art a changeling, Sister was right you do look very odd. We are going to take you immediately to our sister. Twilight do you wish to come?"
"Yes," She spoke angrily.
Twilight was furious, once she replaced her foalsitter, and now she assumed Luna and played her for Twilight's love, as well as vise versa for Luna's love.
"Stand close Twilight, we are about to teleport back to the castle."
With a bright flash all three had disappeared, only to reappear in the Canterlot Castle throne room.
"Dear sister we found this imposter posing as us."
"Chrysalis! You not only try and replace my niece for her wedding, you also try to replace my sister. You are going to the dungeons for this."
"Celestia, she also tried being me."
"And my student? What have you to gain from either of them? as far as I know they aren't in any relationships."
"Well," Spoke Chrysalis, "Your prized pupil has become infatuated with your sister."
"And that is their business, and you should have left them to it. You are going Straight to the dungeons for further interrogation and imprisonment."
With that Celestia and Chrysalis where whisked away in a flash of brilliant Yellow light. leaving only Twilight and Luna left in the Canterlot Throne room.
Twiluna Time
Luna and Twilight sat there in the royal Canterlot throne room. Neither had any clue what to say. They both wished that they could still have a relationship, even though they never had one in the first place.
Luna was the first to gather her nerves, "Twilight, do you think that we could. . .?" Luna trailed off
"I would love to, If that's alright with you."
"Yes, how about we talk this over in the dining hall."
They walked in silence to the dining hall. While in there they did not say much there either fir a while.
"This just feels so," Twilight paused, "Awkward."
"We agree, Maybe some food will ease the tension."
With that they ordered some food from the kitchen staff. "Well we could start by, Never mind," spoke the purple mare.
"What did she do for the first date?" Luna asked with a strong sense of unease.
"We had a picnic," Twilight answered with caution.
"We had a walk through the Canterlot castle gardens," Luna continued.
"So, should we actually go on a date?" Twilight asked.
"We believe so, if you really do love us." Luna responded.
"I really do love you Luna," Twilight reassured.
"Then nothing shall separate us," With that Luna flew over the table to Twilight and wrapped a wing around her.
"We think we should start by enjoying a good book together?"
"That sounds wonderful."
~~~
"Why were you impersonating my sister?" Demanded Celestia to a Bound Chrysalis.
"I needed love to rebuild my nation, my citizens are dying."
"But why my sister,"
"She was an alicorn, and had such strong love for your student, I needed a source such as her, or I would have died and my changelings starved."
"So it was only for your subjects."
"Yes, My subjects where dying. That is the only reason we invaded Canterlot, we where going to die off. We had to survive."
"Why didn't you ask?" Celestia demanded.
"We did not think you would allow us, We are the mot hated of species, asking usually ends up with execution."
"You will stay here, I have other matters to deal with. You had better think over your mistakes while I am gone.
Celestia went on to see Luna and Twilight to see how they where fairing. As she walked down the halls she could sense the aura of her sister. It was coming from the library. Celestia knew that was a place that both of them would enjoy.
However when she opened the door she was surprised beyond comprehension. The two where laying on Luna's royal reading pillow, and nuzzling each other, Luna had her wing wrapped around the purple mare. A kiss sealed the deal. Celestia would normally oppose such an action, but given the two of them and their feelings, she decided to leave them to each other.
Back by popular demand Devious dining.
Celestial Concerns
Celestia paced in her royal bedroom, she was worried about her sister and her student. One issue was that Luna was nocturnal, leaving little time for them to actually be together. As well as the elements of harmony, would she be spending less time with her friends now that she is with Luna.
What about Luna's immortality, eventually Luna would outlive Twilight, Luna would be heartbroken. Celestia didn't want to see her sister have to go through that. She wondered what the public would think, the age gap is gigantic. Luna was a princess going out with her student, that gave up to more worry. Celestia had absolutely no clue what to do. All she could think of where bad outcomes, but remembering how happy they where together kept her from wanting to separate them.
Celestia was without clue as to what to do, so she decided to interrogate chrysalis a little to get her mind of the current situation.
Chrysalis was in a stone prison cell with little to no light whatsoever, she could barely see anything. It was damp, and she could tell it had not been used in years, if it had ever been used at all. As far as Chrysalis knew there was very little crime in Equestria. A door down the hall opened flooding light into the dungeon, lights being illuminated as the figure wandered closer to chrysalis' cell.
Celestia began by casting a truth spell, Chrysalis would only be able to speak and act the truth.
Celestia came up to her bars and stared through them to chrysalis. "Chrysalis, tell me again why you needed to take the places of my student and my sister?"
"Because I needed love to rebuild my hive, and they where the strongest sources of love I could find, all I had to do was get them together."
"So they weren't together when you found them?"
"No, But they wanted to be, A changeling can sense love. And I could sense a lot of it coming from the two."
"Did you ever try asking ponies to let you feed off of their love?"
"The last time that happened was the crystal empire, I was just a foal. My mother went to the Chrystal Empire, She asked if they would let us feed off of their love so that we may be nourished. They gave us a set of conditions, If my mother was to win a jousting competition they would allow it, but if she were to fail she would be executed." Chrysalis grew very somber, "They pitted her against their best night, And my mother failed."
Chrysalis walked to the far corner of the cell and hang her head low sitting there. Celestia was unfamiliar with changelings, but when a creature is distressed, Celestia knows, and Chrysalis, is distressed.
"If you had asked, I would have arranged something," Celestia sighed, "I will return later."
Celestia was not liking anything that had passed today, now another was added, she was planning to negotiate with Chrysalis. Though now she was going to talk with her sister, everything was spinning around in Celestia's head she needed to organize her thoughts.
It was nearing the end of the day soon it would be nightfall, Lu8na had stayed up all day, not too much hassle for an alicorn but still it would add up eventually. She followed the aura of her sister. Celestia found them in the dining hall enjoying a very large smoothie together. They where conversing on books, ones they have read or would like to read, comparing there thoughts on different stories.
"Ahem," Celestia interrupted.
"Hello sister, what have you learned from Chrysalis?" Luna asked not knowing what else to say.
"Luna, may I speak with you privately." She worded it as a question, but she wasn't asking, yet wasn't harsh either.
"Yes sister," Luna nuzzled Twilight once before leaving.
Once they where outside the room Celestia decided to be the cross between neutral and the antagonist of the story, "Why Twilight?"
"We are not sure," Luna answered, "Maybe it is because of how quickly she accepted us, or her demeanor."
"I can understand that, she was always very nice. You do know that you will outlive her don't you?"
"Yes, we hath already come to that conclusion, She says that we should just enjoy the time we have together."
"It seems that chrysalis was very truthful with what she said," Celestia said.
"What did Chrysalis say?"
"That you two had very strong love for each other."
"Then why do you sound so disproving of us sister?"
"I am just trying to accept it, but it is so weird. I am surprised you accepted it already, since you when you left, and when we grew up, a relationship like this would often lead to an execution, and you already accepted it. It just feels Wrong, But I want you to be happy."
"It is alright sister, All will turn out just fine."
"I believe you, I just need some time to accept it, that's all," Celestia too a breath, "I want to speak to Twilight about this as well."
"Alright, we will send her when we go back."
Celestia waited there for a few minutes before Twilight Came, "I trust you know what we will be speaking about?"
"I believe so, about me dating your sister?"
"Yes, I am letting you do this, I just don't know how to feel about it that's all."
"I don't understand."
"Well Twilight, when I grew up, a relationship like this usually ended at the gallows."
"Oh, I see,"
"But you two really love each other don't you?" Asked Celestia, She already knew the answer, she too had seen the photograph of the two of them at Nightmare Night.
"Yes, Please don't hate me." Twilight pleaded.
"I could never hate you, I am just a little confused."
"Well So were we. After we found out that we were dating an imposter," Twilight told Celestia.
"Well I should let you get back to your date now," Celestia dismissed her student, "but I will still be expecting friendship reports," exclaimed Celestia as twilight was leaving.
"I promise I won't fall behind on my studies because of this."
These talks helped Celestia, slightly, they helped her start accepting her sister dating her student, no matter how wrong it seemed to her. Now that left one thing on Celestia's agenda, Chrysalis.
She went down to the dungeon where chrysalis lay, She was distressed. This time however she was not faking emotion, she was genuinely depressed. She missed her mother deeply and having to explain what happened to her really got to Chrysalis.
"Chrysalis," Celestia beckoned.
"What," Chrysalis moaned.
"I have been thinking, Maybe we could arrange something for your changelings. As long as they don't cause harm."
Chrysalis didn't respond, she didn't believe Celestia was being honest with her.
"If you promise not to cause any harm, I will let you out and we can arrange it."
"You're lying."
"I am not, I do not lie about diplomatic matters."
Celestia opened the door to the cell, "Now do you promise not to cause any trouble once I let you out?"
"Celestia," A guard chimed in, "That is not a good idea, she attacked Canterlot."
"Because her people were starving," She silenced the guard with a motherly logical statement.
"I promise," Chrysalis sounded defeated, but for once how she sounded was not a ruse.
"Alright then, follow me and I will see what we can arrange for your changelings."
Celestia waited for Chrysalis to get up, and stand next to her. Chrysalis hung her head, believing that nothing could be done.
