dark Precious Soul of mine...

[IridscentNionios 1,420]

Author's Note:So hey this fanfic is uplodead on FimFiction.net and all but i figured it wouldn't hurt much if i uploaded it here... so... please don't kill me if that is bad.http://www.fimfiction.net/story/192819/precious-soul-of-mine

IT BEGINS!!!
 

So came the day Queen Chrysalis planned for years. The day she had suffered ages to reach... like a devious Mastermind she guided her changelings, seeing through their eyes, watching from their perspective, and ordering them when necessary. She stood still as her connection to them showed her the Elements of Harmony being captured. Celestia, Luna, and the rest could not understand what she was so focused upon... their minds where bent upon escaping but Chrysalis was meticulous in her work and her cocoons slowly but steadily nullified all their attempts at escape. 

 

Her changelings guided the elements steadily back to where they begun. With eyes blank and shadows upon their faces the changelings escorted the encircled Elements back to palace. As they did Chrysalis heard the struggle of Cadence reach her ears. She turned with a frown of disappointment.

 

"Tsk tsk tsk..." she said disappointed dismissing her vain efforts at escape. She put her hoof upon the window and rested her right cheek upon it as she watched bored the town that had been struggling with the changelings. By her orders the changelings had received none were harmed... none... not even when their own lives were at danger the changelings fought only willing to disable them. After all she had a use for them and she couldn't afford to waste them... not a single pony's energy had to go to waste in order for her plan to work. Failure could very well mean death for her after all.

 

"You won't get away with this! Twilight and her friends will..." said Cadence angrily disrupting her thoughts once more. Ticked she turned narrowing her eyes as they angrily shone against Cadence. "No... she mustn't..." she said to herself on the inside as she felt the boiling anger heat her up. Fortunately for her patience the palace doors opened with a bang, revealing the ponies escorted by her changelings. Soothing thoughts of the success she had achieved, and the progress she had made calmed her down as she grinned to a gasping Cadence.

 

"You were saying my dear?" she then looked at the changelings as she gave them an order both verbal and mental. "Go! FEED!" and with that the changelings left their Queen and her prisoners as they proceeded to join the others in their efforts to gather more emotions. 

 

She watched as the wielders of the Elements frowned to Cadence and Twilight.

 

"I am sorry Twilight... we should have believed you... we should have listened to you..." said Fluttershy turning away from everyone's side standing against the wall with her mane covering her teary face ashamed of her behavior. 

 

"We should have..." Chrysalis started hearing less and less as the environment became darker by the second the wielders were confessing their guilt to each other. She realized her vision was the problem rather than the lack of sunlight... she focused her eyes upon Cadence as the wounded mare was receiving their apologies. Chrysalis felt a small pain in her heart beginning to intensify as she looked at Cadence. She knew that she had to keep them feeling minimal pain... To do that she had to keep them hating her until the last moment...

 

A light bulb lit on her mind as the idea struck her. She begun singing dancing in circles spinning around herself and throwing a bit of laughter.

 

This day has been just perfect

The kind of day that i wished since i was small

Everypony I'll soon control

Every stallion, mare, and foal

Who says a girl can't really have it all?

 

Once again she felt their hate sustain her... clashes of emotions against her fed her. The negativity was what she was... what her changelings were... Ponies that became instruments of her own hate unable to be contained within her own body. And there she stood at the balcony in the light of day enjoying the precious rays of the Sun that were now under her control. In the meantime Twilight made an attempt to escape her restraints. As they were about to advance into more solid forms to nullify her magic she zapped them with her horn releasing herself. Her hopes were now resting with Cadence the only Alicorn that wasn't nullified completely during Chrysalis' invasion. 

 

Escaping her bonds Twilight felt her magic being freed completely and zapped Cadence's slimy bindings with wrinkles upon her face forming an expression of utter disgust upon her face. Once she made sure Cadence was totally free she pointed at Shining Armor and said "Quickly! Go to him!" she had to hope that Cadence could help Shining Armor perform his spell. Cadence could only watch in surprise as Twilight bravely struggled to keep the hope in their hearts alive. As Twilight talked she shook her head snapping back into reality and coming to her senses. Right now she had to do as Twilight said and bet that Shining Armor's spell would be enough to drive the changelings away from the city. Rushing to her love Cadence looked into his eyes.

 

"Oh Shining my love... what has she done to you? Come back to me... please." His eyes remained blank as her pleas fell of deaf ears. Shining had only eyes for one mare now... and that mare was Chrysalis. She hugged him receiving no response as her sorrow for her lost love overcame her and a tear flowed from her eyes. Instinctively, as the tear fell down upon his chest, her own magic activated. A purple heart formed from her slightly glowing horn falling upon Shining's face... the magic of love was enough even in this small amount to dispel the hateful hypnotizing spell that Chrysalis had cast upon him.

 

As his eyes and mind cleared Shining Armor returned to his former self feeling the presence over his mind shifting. He didn't know what happened... in a fit of confusion he turned to Cadence and the rest who were holding their breaths the whole time. He sensed their gazes upon him and looked at himself. He was dressed as if ready for a wedding while Cadence was looking at him with tears streaming down her beautiful face. "What happened? Is the wedding over?" he said as her grabbed his head rubbing the sides seeking to ease the pain and clear the alien grasp over his mind. 

 

In that time Chrysalis felt another short pain within her own heart and then one of her hypnotized targets escaping the control of her own mind... something was wrong... she looked around feeling a slight sense of panic which intensified when she caught the Princess of Love and her mate hugging confused near the altar. She flew with her wings buzzing landing with a thud next to them feeling their terror rush once again into their hearts as her shade fell upon them.

 

"It's ALL over!" she declared

 

"Your spell! Perform your spell!" said Twilight frantically to the couple.

 

"I wouldn't do that if i were you..." said Chrysalis with her glowing horn pointing at Celestia and Luna trapped in the pods behind them.

 

"Unless you want something bad to happen to your beloved rulers you won't make another step, you won't take a single breath unless i say so... we clear?" Chrysalis awaited their response and as she showed them struggle the glow intensified slowly creeping from her horn up to Celestia's pod. They all watched frightened but Twilight grunted defiantly at Chrysalis fixing her gaze upon her teal cat-shaped pupils.

 

"Equestria might survive without two Alicorns but if you take over we'll be in a far worse position! We'll be worse than dead!" said Twilight but still hesitating to further encourage Cadence. There was something inside Chrysalis that seemed oddly familiar... oddly familiar with the mare she cherished as sister. As Twilight looked at them side by side her mind couldn't help but make the comparison between the two creatures. One was an alicorn of love that spread the message of love, the other was a changeling that stole love from the world. It was as if someone had taken an evil mirror and showed the opposite of Cadence before her...

 

"Silly girl you just don't understand do you? I lied before... i don't want your kingdom... i want HER!" she said pointing at Cadence. Everyone just stood there without saying a word confused and curious as to what Chrysalis had just said. Smiling with content as she finally had everyone's attention she continued.

 

"I am not going to set you free... not yet... not when I'm so close to fulfilling my dream!" Grabbing this instance Chrysalis zapped them all once again enhancing the bindings that reformed at her will. She left only their heads free so that they could hear what she had to say. Not that they had any other choice now... She approached Celestia once more and observed as the Princess witnessed the scene from inside her cocoon her muffled screams and voice unable to pierce the thickness of her magical cocoon. 

 

"You should have given me what i wanted... this would be much easier for both of us if you did." she said shaking her head. 

 

"Twilight Sparkle... what do you know of the Flutterponies?" Chrysalis asked... a seemingly irrelevant question to Twilight which didn't register at first as she was continuing to fight the hold of Chrysalis' spell. 

 

"Come on... what? The Flutterponies? What does this have to do with anything?"

 

"Oh it has everything to do with this... The Flutterponies, the Equestrian Diarchy, the Lord of Chaos and his games..."

 

Everything was going according to plan... she watched as the changelings were set to prepare the ritual.

 

"It also has a lot to do with how Cadence came to be your mentor's "niece". I suppose she used her political power to mask her true identity that was hidden even to herself..." 

 

Everyone was speechless... Cadence herself felt everyone's minds shifting into herself. Chrysalis was drawing runes upon the ground as if preparing for a grand ritual.

 

"What's she saying Cadence?" Twilight asked. Cadence remained silent as if she had spaced out for a moment.

 

"She has never met her parents..." says Chrysalis in response to Twilight's inquiry without shifting an eye from her own job. "Most likely Celestia became Cadence's Guardian by claiming to be her aunt... A little political influence into bureaucracy, turning her into an alicorn... it shouldn't be hard for someone like Celestia assume responsibility of an orphan right? After all every parent would dream of Celestia taking their child under their wing right?" Twilight felt herself addressed as the changeling Queen's words alluded. She narrowed her eyes... she didn't want to believe this... Celestia had stolen a child from the streets? But wait this could be...

 

"But of course she could have just claimed that this was an act of charity... that she was also feeling lonely... Who would blame their ruler for caring for an orphan? Who would blame their ruler for unknowingly stealing my soul?" Her work had been complete... everything had been set and she was ready. Now the only thing she had to do was finish the spell...

 

"I was known by the name Metis... a name that connoted wisdom and cunning. A thousand years ago i was ruler of the Flutterponies... known for my love for my subjects, known for my wisdom in justice, my cunning in combat... I kept our race safe and my name became characteristic of people that bore similar values. He/she has the royal "Metis" they used to say!" suddenly her face became bitter as she looked upon the ground in her own thoughts.

 

"Until Discord came... one touch... one touch was enough to ruin EVERYTHING!" her voiced echoed in the room as she stomped her hoof down in anger. "I tried to shield myself in a spell... a cocoon that imprisoned me for a thousand years covered in butterflies... when it shattered i was different... i was... Chrysalis. But something else escaped, something had seeped out of the cocoon. It my love, my hope, my wisdom... it all dissipated and vanished... or so i thought." 

 

Once again her magic flowed in circles in her horn flying like a magical serpent grasping Cadence in a tight embrace. 

 

"What are you doing? Let me go! Leave us alone!" Cadence fought against the magic wiggling her hooves and shifting within but without any great result.

 

"Don't fight it... you'll be much better soon enough. Come home Cadence... come home... i know you have felt empty for a long time... complete me. Look upon your heart, look upon your mind... and then look at me. Know the truth of your nature hidden within mine..."

 

"I am nothing like you! Even if what you say is true... even if Celestia picked me up from the dregs of nothingness that doesn't make me a part of you!" In response to her doubt Chrysalis released her from her hold. When Cadence overcame her initial surprise and pain she looked upon to see Chrysalis bitting her own hoof as hard as she could causing two small marks appear on her body. At the same moment Cadence grabbed her own hoof only to see that there were two identical marks at her own hoof. No... it couldn't be... she couldn't be something like that evil bug! That was impossible!

 

"Discord's spell split us in half... and as my escape from my pod took a thousand years so did your re-incarnation... That is what Discord's magic does after all doesn't it? It shows the evil nature of someone? Twisting them to the opposite? So it was that i became full of hate, anger, rage... Emotions like that radiated into our species causing our transformation... causing us to become monsters, parasites, worse than living beings!" slowly but steadily during her last sentence Chrysalis started breathing quicker, and a short time later her face begun to twist and turn as her blood boiled in rage. She gritted her teeth trying to contain her feelings...

 

"I tried to warn you... tried to tell Celestia and Luna that i needed you... but all they saw was monsters threatening to hurt a young filly. But now you know... now the truth is laying in front of you... We can do this the easy way... or the hard way... but i warn you that the hard way has us both feeling excruciating pain, to the point of the danger of death." 

 

While Chrysalis was explaining things Cadence couldn't help but let the truth sink in to her. She was right... Chrysalis was like the Discorded version of her... and her memories... she had none of her parents, none before Celestia and Luna. Strangely enough she felt it all came together... how she knew about the changelings, how she could never truly do evil. She lacked the capability to do any evil act for that matter... she was practically viewed as a saint, a stellar example for other ponies. It wasn't because she had learned this way, it was because she was deprived of any evil thought... Evil did not exist in her soul... and that part of hers stood now before her in all her dark magic prowess and glory.

 

"What will happen to me?" she responded in fear ignoring the voices of Twilight and her friends that protested in the background. She couldn't hear them now... even Shining Armor was distant...

 

"Please Cadence! Don't do it! I can't bear to lose you!"

 

However Chrysalis was the one to respond sending waves of magic muffling them all. "Silence! I do not know what will happen to you Princess... if your goodness in your heart is strong enough... if you value your friends, your wisdom, your lover... then they will persevere. This is a ritual that has not been cast ever before... as were the effects of Discord's spell."

 

"But... the Elements of Harmony..." she protested.

 

"The Elements of Harmony are too volatile and too dangerous for this situation... they are meant to cleanse evil not unite it with good. Even if the rest of the changelings were affected by them i would die... and this would drag you with me... the hole within your chest would grow, and it would eventually consume you out of lack of balance. No Princess... this has to be done this way, and it has to be done now... before it gets worse." Chrysalis had an imminent tone and was impatiently tapping her hoof on the ground annoyed by the stalling for time.

 

"Alright... alright... i agree... let's do this." she breathed out in surrender and Chrysalis smiled satisfied. 

 

She guided Cadence to sit at the proper place upon the runes. Murmuring incantations Chrysalis' horn gathered the love that flew upon the air from the imprisoned changelings. Everyone contributed... even the Princesses... none's emotions were ignored, none... The energy flowed within the air drawing them to the epicenter of the runes that responding by lighting up in the floor. Within a burst of light streams of magic engulfed both Chrysalis and Cadence and begun expanding eventually joining in one.

 

Cadence felt it... memories, experiences joining her... but she also felt Chrysalis' personality also seeping into her. The evil, the temptation, bit by bit she felt the lure of the dark side calling her forth telling them to embrace it... to accept it. What could she do? If she refused it she would lose herself, if she didn't she would lose herself as well... She started mentally saying the goodbyes to those that were close to her... Celestia, Twilight, Shining Armor... she felt her heart swelling with the bitterness of loss and the evil feasting upon it. Weapon... they would become her weapon now. No! She told herself, she wouldn't allow herself to be controlled like Luna or anyone else! She would be Cadence! She would keep those who she loved close to her and even if her name would be different she would still inside herself be Cadence!

 

As she took that decision an explosion occurred as waves of magical energy swept upon Canterlot and the surrounding areas touching all the changelings they came into and harming none else in the process. The explosion also dispelled all the cocoons around and the ponies watched as the changelings started having cracks of teal light from inside their husks. As the cracks formed their shells shattered revealing what looked like unicorns with diaphanous butterfly-like wings of different complexity... it also restored their cutie marks. The ponies previously terrified by the hideous changelings approaching with curiosity and a bit of fear their former enemies. 

 

The Flutterponies no longer bound by their curse proceeded to apologize for what they had done. They didn't await an order from their Queen now, they were no longer bound in an absolute control, no longer were they filled with hate, anger, and malice. As a desire to make amends fixing the castle and the mess they had done. As for Chrysalis...

 

When the explosion and the light fell down everyone gathered upon the area where Chrysalis and Cadence had been subjected to a great spell and as they did a shining alicorn figure descended. Everyone rejoiced thinking that Cadence had survived the spell but what came before them was not what they expected. She was an alicorn with black coat, and a teal sparkling mane. She wore blue shoes with Shining teal gems upon them and had a cutie mark of a purple crown with a small teal heart below it. As she opened her  green eyes she saw everyone scrutinizing her top to bottom speechless.

 

"Twilight... Shining... please don't look at me like that." from her mouth what came was the confidence of the voice of Queen Chrysalis... but both Twilight Sparkle and Shining Armor recognized within her the kindness and the sweetness of the voice of their beloved Cadence. They looked into her eyes and saw inside her the reflection of their beloved... she was still there... her alicorn nature was still there, it was her and they felt it inside them. They both rushed at her and soon everyone followed sharing the happiness. 

 

"Oh Cadence! We love you so much!" Twilight said with tearful happiness overcoming her.

 

"But I'm not..." she tried to react.

 

"You'll always be Cadence for us... even if your name changes in our hearts you will always be Cadence." Shining Armor felt at peace knowing his beloved Cadence still lived somewhere.

 

That day was the happiest day in all of Equestria... it remained in history as the day an invasion became the greatest moment of happiness. As for what happened next... that... is another story in itself.

TADA!!! This is the end! Did you like it? Opinions?

Author's Note:If you see any similarities with the X-blade and the story of Ventus and Vanitas then it's only natural as they were the inspiration for this story. As was Draco the Dragon. This was written upon three hours, later of course it was edited but no nothing else... so judge it as that.

[Dipper 42]

Wow.. I loved it! You wrote it very well, keep up the good work!

[IridscentNionios 1,420]

Wow.. I loved it! You wrote it very well, keep up the good work!

Thank you! There is actually the thought of a sequel in the works!

[Dipper 42]

Cool! Tell me the link if you ever do it, I'd love to read the sequel

[IridscentNionios 1,420]

Cool! Tell me the link if you ever do it, I'd love to read the sequel

@@Dipper,

So came the day Queen Chrysalis had planned for years. The day she had suffered ages to reach... like a devious mastermind she had guided her changelings, seeing through their eyes, watching from their perspective, and ordering them when necessary. She stood still as her connection to them showed her the Elements of Harmony being captured. Celestia, Luna, and the rest could not understand what she was so focused upon... their minds were focused on escaping, but Chrysalis was meticulous in her work and her cocoons slowly but steadily nullified all their attempts at escape.

 

With eyes blank and shadows upon their faces, the changelings escorted the encircled Elements back to the palace. The Queen’s control over them was absolute. As they did Chrysalis heard the struggle of Cadence reach her ears. She turned with a frown of disappointment.

 

"Tsk tsk tsk..." she said,dismissing her vain efforts at escape. She put her hoof on the window and rested her right cheek upon it as she watched the town that had been struggling with the changelings. By her orders the changelings had received, none were harmed... none... not even when their own lives were at danger the changelings fought only  to disable them. After all, she had a use for them and she couldn't afford to waste them... not a single pony's energy had to go to waste in order for her plan to work. Failure could very well mean death for her, after all.

 

"You won't get away with this! Twilight and her friends will..." said Cadence angrily, disrupting her thoughts once more. Ticked, Chrysalis turned, narrowing her eyes as they angrily shone against Cadence. "No... she mustn't..." she said to herself  as she felt the boiling anger heat her up. Fortunately for her patience the palace doors opened with a bang, revealing the ponies escorted by her changelings. Soothing thoughts of the success she had achieved, and the progress she had made, calmed her down as she grinned to a gasping Cadence.

 

"You were saying, my dear?" She  looked at the changelings as she gave them an order both verbal and mental. "Go! FEED!" And with that, the changelings left their Queen and her prisoners as they proceeded to join the others in their efforts to gather more emotions.

 

She watched as the wielders of the Elements frowned at Cadence and Twilight.

 

"I am sorry Twilight... we should have believed you... we should have listened to you..." said Fluttershy, turning away from everyone and standing against the wall with her mane covering her teary face, ashamed of her behavior.

 

"We should have..." Chrysalis started hearing less and less as the environment became darker by the second. She realized her vision was the problem rather than the lack of sunlight... she focused her eyes upon Cadence as the wounded mare received their apologies. Chrysalis felt a small pain in her heart beginning to intensify as she looked at Cadence. She knew that she had to keep them feeling minimal pain... To do that she had to keep them hating her until the last moment...

 

A light bulb lit in her mind as the idea struck her. She began singing and dancing in circles, spinning around and throwing in a bit of laughter.

 

This day has been just perfect

The kind of day that I wished since i was small

Everypony I'll soon control

Every stallion, mare, and foal

Who says a girl can't really have it all?

 

Once again, she felt their hate sustain her: clashes of emotions against her fed her. The negativity was what she was, what her changelings were, ponies that became instruments of her own hate, unable to be contained within her own body. And there she stood at the balcony in the light of day, enjoying the precious rays of the sun that was now under her control. In the meantime, Twilight made an attempt to escape her restraints. As the bindings  were about to advance into more solid forms to nullify her magic, she zapped them,releasing herself. Her hopes were now resting with Cadence, the only Alicorn that wasn't nullified completely during Chrysalis' invasion.

 

Escaping her bonds, Twilight felt her magic being freed completely and zapped Cadence's slimy bindings, her face forming an expression of utter disgust . Once she made sure Cadence was totally free, she pointed at Shining Armor and said "Quickly! Go to him!" She had to hope that Cadence could help Shining Armor perform his spell. Cadence could only watch in surprise as Twilight bravely struggled to keep the hope in their hearts alive. As Twilight talked she shook her head, snapping back into reality and coming to her senses. Right now she had to do as Twilight said and bet that Shining Armor's spell would be enough to drive the changelings away from the city. Rushing to her love, Cadence looked into his eyes.

 

"Oh Shining, my love... what has she done to you? Come back to me... please..." His eyes remained blank as her pleas fell on deaf ears. Shining had only eyes for one mare now, and that mare was Chrysalis. Cadence hugged him, receiving no response as her sorrow for her lost love overcame her and a tear flowed from her eyes. Instinctively, as the tear fell upon his chest, her own magic activated. A purple heart formed from the slight glow on  horn, falling upon Shining's face. The magic of love was enough, even in this small amount, to dispel the hateful hypnotizing spell that Chrysalis had cast upon him.

 

As his eyes and mind cleared, Shining Armor returned to his former self, feeling the presence over his mind shifting. He didn't know what happened, in a fit of confusion he turned to Cadence and the rest, who were holding their breaths the whole time. He sensed their gazes upon him and looked at himself. He was dressed as if he was ready for a wedding, while Cadence was looking at him with tears streaming down her beautiful face. "What happened? Is the wedding over?" He said as he rubbed the sides of his head, seeking to ease the pain and clear the alien grasp over his mind.

 

In that time, Chrysalis felt another short pain within her own heart, and one of her hypnotized targets escaping the control of her own mind... something was wrong... she looked around, feeling a slight sense of panic, which intensified when she caught the Princess of Love and her mate hugging near the altar both confused. She flew with her wings buzzing, landing with a thud next to them and feeling their terror rush  into their hearts as her shade fell upon them.

 

"It's ALL over!" she declared

 

"Your spell! Perform your spell!"  Twilight frantically said to the couple.

 

"I wouldn't do that if i were you..." said Chrysalis with her glowing horn pointing at Celestia and Luna, trapped in the pods behind them.

 

"Unless you want something bad to happen to your beloved rulers, you won't make another step, you won't take a single breath unless I say so... we clear?" Chrysalis awaited their response, the glow slowly creeping from her horn up to Celestia's pod. They all watched, frightened, but Twilight grunted defiantly at Chrysalis, fixing her gaze upon her teal cat-shaped pupils.

 

"Equestria might survive without two Alicorns, but if you take over we'll be in a far worse position! We'll be worse than dead!" Said Twilight, still hesitating to further encourage Cadence. There was something inside Chrysalis that seemed oddly familiar... oddly like the mare she cherished as a sister. As Twilight looked at them side by side, her mind couldn't help but make the comparison between the two creatures. One was an Alicorn of love that spread the message of love, the other was a changeling that stole love from the world. It was as if someone had taken an evil mirror and showed the opposite of Cadence before her...

 

"Silly girl, you just don't understand do you? I lied before... I don't want your kingdom... I want HER!" She said, pointing at Cadence. Everyone just stood there silently confused about what Chrysalis had just said. Smiling with content as she finally had everyone's attention, she continued.

 

"I am not going to set you free... not yet... not when I'm so close to fulfilling my dream!" Seizing the moment, Chrysalis zapped them all once again, their bindings reforming at her will. She left only their heads free so that they could hear what she had to say. Not that they had any other choice now. She approached Celestia once more as the Princess witnessed everything, her muffled screams unable to pierce the thickness of her magical cocoon.

 

"You should have given me what i wanted... this would be much easier for both of us if you did." She said, shaking her head.

 

"Twilight Sparkle... what do you know of the Flutterponies?" Chrysalis asked, a seemingly irrelevant question to Twilight which didn't register at first as she continued to fight the hold of Chrysalis' spell.

 

"Come on... what? The Flutter Ponies? What does this have to do with anything?"

 

"Oh it has everything to do with this... The Flutter Ponies, the Equestrian Diarchy, the Lord of Chaos and his games..."

 

Everything was going according to plan... she watched as the changelings set to preparing the ritual.

 

"It also has a lot to do with how Cadence came to be your mentor's "niece". I suppose she used her political power to mask her true identity, hidden even to herself..."

 

Everyone was speechless, Cadence herself felt everyone's focus shifting to her Chrysalis was drawing runes upon the ground as if preparing for a grand ritual.

 

"What's she saying Cadence?" Twilight asked. Cadence remained silent, as if she had spaced out for a moment.

 

"She has never met her parents..." replied Chrysalis, not lifting an eye from her own job. "Most likely Celestia became Cadence's guardian by claiming to be her aunt. A little political influence into bureaucracy, turning her into an alicorn. it wouldn’t be hard for someone like Celestia to assume responsibility of an orphan right? After all, every parent would dream of Celestia taking their child under their wing, right?" Twilight felt herself addressed as the changeling Queen's words alluded. She narrowed her eyes... she didn't want to believe this... Celestia had stolen a child from the streets? But wait, this could be...

 

"But of course, she could have just claimed that this was an act of charity, that she was also feeling lonely. Who would blame their ruler for caring for an orphan? Who would blame their ruler for unknowingly stealing my soul?" Her work had been complete, everything had been set and she was ready. Now the only thing she had to do was finish the spell...

 

"I was known by the name Metis, a name that connoted wisdom and cunning. A thousand years ago I was ruler of the Flutter Ponies. Known for my love for my subjects, known for my wisdom in justice, my cunning in combat. I kept our race safe and my name became characteristic of people that bore similar values. He/she has the royal "Metis" they used to say!" Suddenly her face became bitter as she looked upon the ground, lost in her own thoughts.

 

"Until Discord came. One touch... one touch was enough to ruin EVERYTHING!" her voiced echoed in the room as she stomped her hoof  in anger. "I tried to shield myself in a spell: a cocoon that imprisoned me for a thousand years covered in butterflies. When it shattered I was different. I was... Chrysalis. But something else escaped, something had seeped out of the cocoon. My love, my hope, my wisdom... it all dissipated and vanished... or so i thought."

 

Once again her magic flowed in circles within her horn, flying like a magical serpent and grasping Cadence in a tight embrace.

 

"What are you doing? Let me go! Leave us alone!" Cadence fought against the magic, wiggling her hooves and shifting herself, but without any result.

 

"Don't fight it.You'll be much better soon enough. Come home Cadence... come home... I know you have felt empty for a long time... complete me. Look upon your heart, look upon your mind... and then look at me. Know the truth of your nature hidden within mine."

 

"I am nothing like you! Even if what you say is true, even if Celestia picked me up from the dregs of nothingness, that doesn't make me a part of you!" Chrysalis released her from her hold. When Cadence overcame her initial surprise and pain she looked to see Chrysalis biting her own hoof as hard as she could, causing two small marks to appear on her body. At the same moment Cadence grabbed her own hoof, only to see that there were two identical marks on it. No... it couldn't be... she couldn't be something like that evil bug! That was impossible!

 

"Discord's spell split us in half, and as my escape from my pod took a thousand years so did your reincarnation. That is what Discord's magic does after all, doesn't it? It shows the evil nature of someone? Twisting them into their opposite? So it was that I became full of hate, anger, rage. Emotions like that radiated into our species, causing our transformation... causing us to become monsters, parasites, worse than living beings!"  Slowly but steadily during her last sentence, Chrysalis started breathing quicker, and soon her face began to twist and turn as her blood boiled in rage. She gritted her teeth, trying to contain her feelings.

 

"I tried to warn you, tried to tell Celestia and Luna that I needed you, but all they saw was a monster threatening to hurt a young filly. But now you know. Now the truth is laying in front of you. We can do this the easy way, or the hard way, but i warn you that the hard way has us both feeling excruciating pain, to the point of the danger of death."

 

While Chrysalis was explaining things, Cadence couldn't help but let the truth sink into her. She was right... Chrysalis was like the Discorded version of her, and her memories, she had none of her parents, none before Celestia and Luna. Strangely enough she felt it all came together: how she knew about the changelings, how she could never truly do evil. She lacked the capability to do any evil act for that matter. She was practically viewed as a saint, a stellar example for other ponies. It wasn't because she had learned this way, it was because she was deprived of any evil thought. Evil did not exist in her soul, and that part of her now stood  before her in all her dark magic prowess and glory.

 

"What will happen to me?" She responded in fear, ignoring the voices of Twilight and her friends that protested in the background. She couldn't hear them now: even Shining Armor was distant.

 

"Please Cadence! Don't do it! I can't bear to lose you!"

 

However, Chrysalis was the one to respond, sending waves of magic to muffle them all. "Silence! I do not know what will happen to you, Princess. If the goodness in your heart is strong enough, if you value your friends, your wisdom, your lover, then they will persevere. This is a ritual that has never been cast before, as were the effects of Discord's spell."

 

"But... the Elements of Harmony..." she protested.

 

"The Elements of Harmony are too volatile and too dangerous for this situation... they are meant to cleanse evil not unite it with good. Even if the rest of the changelings were affected by them I would die, and this would drag you with me, the hole within your chest would grow, and it would eventually consume you out of lack of balance. No Princess... this has to be done this way, and it has to be done now... before it gets worse." Chrysalis had an imminent tone and was impatiently tapping her hoof on the ground, annoyed by the stalling for time.

 

"Alright... alright... I agree... let's do this." she breathed out in surrender, and Chrysalis smiled, satisfied.

 

She guided Cadence to sit at the proper place on the runes. Murmuring incantations, Chrysalis' horn gathered the love that flew upon the air from the imprisoned ponies. Everyone contributed, even the Princesses, none were ignored, none. The energy flowed within the air, drawing them to the epicenter of the runes, which responding by lighting up in the floor. Within a burst of light, streams of magic engulfed both Chrysalis and Cadence and began expanding, eventually joining in one.

 

Cadence felt it, memories, experiences joining her, but she also felt Chrysalis' personality seeping into her. The evil, the temptation, bit by bit she felt the lure of the dark side calling her forth telling them to embrace it... to accept it. What could she do? If she refused it she would lose herself, if she didn't she would lose herself as well. She started mentally saying goodbyes to those that were close to her... Celestia, Twilight, Shining Armor... she felt her heart swelling with the bitterness of loss and the evil feasting upon it. It was within that darkness however that she found her weapon to face this. It was determination. They would become her weapon now. No! She told herself, she wouldn't  be controlled like Luna or anyone else! She would be Cadence! She would keep those who she loved close to her, and even if her name would be different she would still be Cadence!

 

As she made that decision an explosion rocked the castle, waves of magical energy swept upon Canterlot and the surrounding areas touching all the changelings and harming none else in the process. The explosion also dispelled all the cocoons and the ponies watched as cracks of teal light appeared from inside the changelings’ husks. As the cracks formed, their shells shattered, revealing what looked like unicorns with diaphanous butterfly-like wings of differing complexity. It also restored their cutie marks. The ponies previously terrified by the hideous changelings approached them  with curiosity and a bit of fear.

 

The Flutter Ponies no longer bound by their curse  apologized for what they had done. They didn't await an order from their Queen now, they were no longer bound in her absolute control. No longer were they filled with hate, anger, and malice. As a desire to make amends filled them, they started fixing the castle and the mess they had made. As for Chrysalis and Cadence...

 

When the explosion and the light vanished everyone gathered around where Chrysalis and Cadence had been, and as they did a shining alicorn figure descended. Everyone rejoiced, thinking that Cadence had survived the spell, but what came before them was not what they expected. She was an alicorn with black coat and a teal sparkling mane, upon which rested a teal crown with white pearls and golden lining around the base. She wore blue shoes with shining teal gems upon them and had a cutie mark of a purple crown with a small teal heart below it. As she opened her  green eyes she saw everyone scrutinizing her top to bottom, speechless.

 

"Twilight... Shining... please don't look at me like that." Her voice had the confidence  of Queen Chrysalis... but both Twilight Sparkle and Shining Armor recognized within her the kindness and the sweetness of  their beloved Cadence. They looked into her eyes and saw inside her the reflection of their beloved: she was still there, her alicorn nature was still there, it was her and they felt it inside them. They both rushed at her and soon everyone followed, sharing the happiness.

Oh there was doubt sure. Paranoia even. There needed to be confirmation, and this was the time.

 

First it was Twilight Sparkle who stepped forth and raised an eyebrow, she still wasn’t sure what she saw was even related to either Chrysalis or Cadence.

 

“So… what do we call you now? How do we know how much of Cadence or Chrysalis you are? If you are even any of them that is. How about we do the ‘dance’?” she inquired. The new alicorn before her grumpily surrendered to her request.

 

“Sunshine, sunshine, ladybugs awake. Clap your hooves and do a little shake!” When they were done it was clear that Cadylis or whatever they should call her was familiar with “that awkward dance,” as her mind called it.

 

“Uhmm… Twilight if you don’t mind… Let’s not do that again shall we? Not unless it’s necessary. I really don’t like shaking my flank in such an inappropriate manner in front of anyone but my husband, or at least husband-to-be.”

 

“But…”

 

“No buts Twilight… maybe we can find a new one? To be honest Chrysalis was more “terrified” and “stunned” that you had such a gesture. She knew of it. She just didn’t want to do it.” She gave them a shy smile.

 

“As for what you should call me, I think Amora seems nice. Figuring as i’m neither Metis, nor Cadence, nor Chrysalis now. Let’s just say a change of name would be nice to herald a new era.”

 

“So… Amora huh?” Said Shining Armor. He was still unsure of how to feel about this, just as Twilight was. Hell, the rest of the Elements of Harmony were practically speechless. But Shining had a question to ask. He had to know if the mare he loved was still inside that body. His heart had a weird emptiness now and he couldn’t exactly pinpoint the reason. Was it that she was different now? Maybe it was that he was drained from his love before? No… it was none of those reasons. He couldn’t quite put his hoof on it, just as he didn’t know what to say.

 

Amora instinctively moved closer to him. She had a compassionate expression. A soft smile adorned her face, and her eyes looked straight into Shining’s as if seeking to communicate with his soul. Shining couldn’t just ask the question, he couldn’t just know what was true with words. So in one “dash” of bravery he hugged  Amora and kissed her. Amora herself didn’t hesitate. She knew, after all, what her own heart beated for. She had the desire, the will, and the love of this relationship. If he hadn’t done it she would have. After all, the reasons they fell in love were still there, all the secret meetings, the chases, the nights… oh the nights!

 

After they released each other from their passionate kiss, Shining was crying.

 

“It’s you… by the maker it’s you. Oh Cadence I thought I lost you…” he said resting his head upon her shoulder while Amora leaned on him, caressing his back.

 

“I was never gone Shining, and thank you…”

 

“Thank you? For what?” he inquired as he wiped his own tears and pulled his head back, but still held her into a hug.

 

“Your love was one of the things that kept me alive while I struggled to find my true self. Your love, the motherly care of the Princesses, the friendships I made… when I was getting swallowed by the darkness they came to me, even Chrysalis herself contributed to me being who I am now.” Shining was speechless. Everyone was. Who could blame them with what they heard, plus their “smooching” was too passionate to hold the blushes down.

 

“I thought inside that darkness everything was evil. But Shining… even though you might hate Chrysalis for brainwashing you, she had one thing that made me who I am now. She had determination. Determination granted me the strength, the power to stay my own course, to hold on to the things I valued the most.” she looked at Twilight, then Shining, the rest of the Elements, then the Princesses.

 

“So, you still are on our side?” Asked a relieved Celestia, shaking a bit after the release from her cold prison. She was unsure of what to say, what to apologize for and what not. She was probably trying to wrap her head around all this. “To think I was so wrong all this time…” she shook her head, disappointed in herself for having made such an amateurish mistake. She should have seen past the darkness, past the cover of the book. Princess Luna approached her as well, putting a hoof over her shoulder in a sisterly manner, trying to comfort her.

 

Amora’s reaction, however, surprised her. She pushed Twilight and Shining away and trotted over to the solar diarchy and… hugged them. She hugged them dearly, she held them close, she wanted to show them her love, she wanted to say so many things.

 

“There’s no point in blaming yourselves for the past. What only matters is the future. In any case, I am glad you took me in. You protected me, you nourished me, and gave what every filly should have. Care, love, friends, and family. Maybe you got a little overprotective. I just hope I didn’t do too much damage to you by besieging your city.”

 

Celestia was about to retort, but Amora released her hug and raised her hoof. “I’ll answer to the ponies of Canterlot myself. It is how it should be. I’ll be the one paying for my sins. In the meantime...”

 

A new light shone upon her through the windows. It was still day… this marriage could still be saved. She turned back to Shining, who was still crying a bit. She knelt before him and took her crown in her hooves. Could it be? thought Shining. Was she doing what he thought she was?

 

“Shining Armor…” said Amora with a serious expression as she looked at him from her position.

 

“Y-yes?” Was the only thing he could stutter in response.

 

“Though this wedding ceremony might be ruined, the reasons we fell in love are still there. Our love has persevered against the unthinkable. I want you to stand beside me, my love, my guardian, my candle in the darkness.”

 

“Cad.. Amora… are you asking me to…” he couldn’t say it.

 

“Yes. Shining Armor, will you marry me?”

 

The room was filled with silent anticipation. Throughout all of this the elements had all deadpanned. Even Pinkie Pie was silent through the whole thing, unsure if she should feel happy and throw a party, or stay silent in recognition of the seriousness of the situation. That alicorn still “bugged” her a bit.

 

Shining Armor could only nod in response as they hugged tightly once again. The room was filled with cheers of happiness as everyone shared Shining’s joy . The one that broke the cheers was Pinkie Pie herself, as unlikely as that may seem.

 

“WHAT UP PONIES! NO TIME FOR SLACKING! WE GOT A WEDDING TO PLAN!”

 

And so it was that the day of an invasion ended in a way none could have predicted. The universe was in a really good mood that day it seemed. Go universe! But what did happen the day after that? How did the party go? What happened with the Flutterponies? That… is a story for another time.

HEY GUYS THIS HAS BEEN EDITED AND EXPNADED A BIT READ THIS PLEASE TELL ME IMPRESSIONS!!!

[User0815 264]

this was soooo awesome!!!!

[IridscentNionios 1,420]

@,Give it a like in my fimfiction account. Anyways... 

[User0815 264]

@IridscentNionios you got it!

[IridscentNionios 1,420]

@, Thanks a lot! I might be doing some sequel in the future.

[Princess Oceangem 61]

This is totally amazing!!! I read Ink rose's Chrysalis origin story before but this is much cooler! Also it explains why Cadence is always so good all the time, Yay!