#36
I reached my hand to my side to check on my company, there was nothing. "What the…?"
I opened my eyes slowly, lifting my back off the bed and rubbing out the morning daze out of my system. The sun was out again and its rays were visible through the window at the far end of the room. It was peaceful once again, the warmth that radiated gently was almost smile inducing.
I looked around myself and then the room before scratching my head curiously. "Where are they?"
I stepped out of the dorm room and studied the corridor, nothing seemed to be active aside from a royal guard that oddly waved unlike the others here. I waved back with a smile and he went about his way leaving the corridor with a friendly smirk. As I lowered my hand I noticed something that I haven't seen in a few days, those gloves that had the finger ends cut off.
"Hmm?" I checked myself, it seemed I was fully clothed with blue jeans, an all-black T-shirt that was a tight but comfortable fit, and a pair of white and black sneakers. I didn't recognize all these clothes, especially the sneakers but I looked like I was ready to hit the streets shopping so I shrugged it off with a chuckle. "Thanks to whoever did this…"
I tightened the gloves, I missed how comfortable and secure they felt, and moved up to K's door and opened it. It wasn't what I expected but it was close enough, K laid there with some strange pony with odd damaged fairy-like wings, or insect, nonetheless, she was cute. This pony was cuddled in with K and had a smile that matched K's smile of satisfaction.
It was strange but I moved in for a closer look, the curiosity got the better of me. I moved up to the bedside and stared at them. I was taken by surprise as I looked at this so-I-called "pony." She wasn't like any I've seen; Her teeth were jagged, she had a snake-like tongue that slightly hung out her mouth, and resembled an Alicorn. I studied her intently as she twitched every now and then and shifted closer to K. I couldn't stop staring at her and her design, more importantly, I stared at the odd pores that were making up her hooves, horn, and hair.
"Was she hurt? Can she move with those holes in her hooves?" I asked myself as I leaned in a bit closer to get a better view, still curious. I looked at K and at her before slowly reaching my hand out to touch one of these pores, I got contact and indeed these things were real and surprisingly smooth.
She twitched as I removed my finger and slightly opened an eye and stared at me off the corner of her eye. I tilted my head and stared curiously back at her as she blinked her eyes a few more times and smiled.
"Did you enjoy last night?"
I paused and nodded suspiciously. "Yeah…how do you know about that?" She giggled as she closed her eyes and rubbed her cheek against K's body.
"What are you talking about, you were inside me last night, you should remember when you let out so much inside…"
I had to give myself a small check before proceeding. "Oh, you mean K."
She opened her eyes again, this time with a blush and aimlessly glaring at K's chest. She exchanged looks with K and me before lifting herself off the bed quickly and rapidly looking between K and me.
"WHO ARE YOU!?" She asked aiming a hoof at me. I smiled as I scratched the back of my head. "You see, I have the same question!"
K awoke and rubbed out his eyes before lifting his back off the bed. "What's with the screaming?" He yawned and stretched out before his new friend got next to him and aimed her hoof at me. K looked curiously at his side before looking up to me, squinting his eyes.
"WHO'S THAT!? HE LOOKS LIKE YOU!"
K waved at me with a tired look as he chuckled. "Hey Ben."
"Hey K," I waved back smiling, of course, I could never not smile when it was K I was seeing. His friend quickly looked at him before going towards me as she tried to understand what was going on.
"Ben!?" She asked almost outraged and wanting answers.
K sighed as he turned around to look at her and back at me.
"This is Ben, he's where I came from…"
"Came from!? What does that mean!?" She asked.
I sat down on the bed because this was going to be one hell of an explanation and I was a good reference. She scooted away from me and closer to K's side before glaring at me with distrust. I mocked her by scooting away from her and glaring at her the same way. She pouted and stuck her tongue out, being serious about it too. Of course, I did the same and she look away with a pout, leaving me to chuckle out that bit of playfulness inside me.
"This is Chrysalis, Ben, Chrysalis, Chrysalis, Ben," K introduced us to each other. That name ringed a bell, that was the name that was supposed to be a monster, she obviously wasn't but she was unique. I smiled as I reached my hand across the bed. "Hey, nice to meet ya!"
"Umm…hi," she greeted back awkwardly, unsure about what to do about my hand for a few seconds before raising her hoof and letting me grip it. I shook it firmly but not too hard since she was obviously still in a bit of shock. She stared at her hoof as I let her go, and I stared at my hand after feeling her pores once more, felt weird.
"So, you're Chrysalis! I've heard your name being swung around town in some…negative ways," I chuckled scratching the back of my head. She stared at me seriously, I obviously stated the obvious. K sighed and nodded, "Yeah but she's not like that I can assure you!" K wrapped his arm around her and pulled her in a bit closer to him.
I smiled and nodded. "I bet, she has a pretty name, not to mention, look."
She blushed a bit and nodded. "Uh…thanks, I guess…"
"No problem, now I suppose you're wondering who I am, along with K, you obviously need some info." I offered.
"Yeah, because I'm sure you probably don't even know what I am! Or what he is!" K added with a smile. She sighed as she looked around over to me.
"Okay then, explain this madness," She demanded making me lifted my feet off my floor and fully cross my legs on the bed. K grabbed Chrysalis and moved her between us so that we could both speak to her from either side. She gave us some confused looks before waiting for us to being speaking. I signaled K to begin and he did just that, except he went straight to the point. Chrysalis gave him her curious attention as he explained.
"Well, to be simple, I'm a demon that was created from within Ben…"
"Excuse me, a what now?" Chrysalis asked being calm, checking to see if she heard right. K sighed and scratched the back of his head awkwardly and nervously. "Umm…a demon…"
Chrysalis had to take that in, she looked to the bed in a bit of disbelief as K rethought what he just said.
"It's not that bad, I mean…I'm not that type of demon…" K said trying to be honest but trying make himself sound better than what "demon" said about him. Chrysalis looked at him a bit worried as she noticed how hard he was trying to make up for saying that. I was slightly amazed K wasn't being his crazy self as he explained himself, he usually acted like this when he was nervous.
"Demon…as in the ones that killed most of the Equestrian Empire centuries upon centuries ago…"
I paused for a second and K did too, what she just phrased triggered something in my memory. That book that I read over Twilight's shoulder back at her place, it spoke about a "Fighter" and a "Demon" and how they massacred throughout the empire. K looked up at me and I back at him as we both knew what she spoke of.
"I read something about that…" I responded crossing my hands across my chest. K nodded in agreement and sighed. "Yeah…me too, in one of Twilight's books"
"Yeah but those were ponies, you're…some other creatures…" Chrysalis pointed out aiming her hoof at both K and me.
"Human…" I replaced creature with the actual word. She tilted her head curiously towards me and lowered her hoof. "Oh…a hu-man?"
"I'll explain later, for now, let's get to know each other," I was hoping to get her distracted from my past because that was a shit-ton of storytelling I didn't want to retell.
"Right…" She responded a bit anxious, turning to K and awaiting something from him. K nodded a bit before closing his eyes and inhaling a big breath of air to calm himself.
"Well…I'm a demon, made from Ben's hate, but I'm different from other demons, unlike them, I was born inside of Ben, not in Hell, thus I'm a rogue demon because I broke the rules of being one," K explained and revealed some crazy new info I didn't know. Apparently, now he's a rogue demon for not being born in Hell and instead decided to be born inside me, that to me was incredible and probably answered most questions about K's attitude.
"Wait a minute, are you saying you act like this because you were born inside me?" I asked him curious and worried about the answer and possible outcomes if he'd been made in Hell, still, I'm thankful he wasn't. He crossed his legs like I did on the bed and nodded.
"Yeah, now I get to wander with you instead of dragging every soul I see into Hell…or in this case, Tartarus," He sighed scratching his head. "Basically, since I did what I did, I can wander about the world with freedom, but still bound to you of course…"
"That's kinda sad man, I wish there was a way I could unbind you from me…" I expressed trying to sympathize for him but he chuckled before shaking his head and whispering "That would be stupid" under his breath.
"There is but doing so will kill me, so don't think about it," He responded sounding serious and a bit depressed from saying so. I felt that deeply, it was depressing to think he was bound to me, but then again, he was an amazing company to have.
"Yeah but it's cool to have someone like you around, I can't argue you're probably the most entertaining dude I've ever met, I bet everypony here thinks so too!" I encouraged, he broke a smirk as he scratched his head once more feeling a bit uplifted by such words.
"Geez man, save you're flattering the ponies!" He came back laughing out a bit loudly. I smirked as I smacked a fist into my palm and smiled a toothy smile. "I was expressing, but still, good advice."
"Ohhhh…I see, a Master and his Demon! That fills in some gaps!" Chrysalis exclaimed proudly uncovering the mystery herself. K quickly turned to her and I closed my eyes as I nodded.
"Basically, do you need any more explaining?" K asked still holding onto his smirk. Chrysalis looked at him and pondered it for a few seconds before nodding.
"Is he as strong as you?" She asked lifting an eyebrow and lifting a hoof at me. K flashed a grin over to me and I lifted an eyebrow towards him in response.
"I haven't really tested his full strength, but last time he showed it off, well…he nearly murdered Celestia…" K explained giving an odd smile that represented his "Yeah, that's some serious shit!" feeling. Chrysalis looked at him wide-eyed as she quickly moved next to me and punched her hoof onto my arm. "Ow, my arm…"
"HE DID!?" She asked emphasizing me. I looked at her and felt a bit of dread comeback, I honestly didn't mean to hurt Celestia, it was just something that happened. K nodded reassuring her she heard right. "Yeah, it was a simulation though, but if it was in the real world, she would have been a goner!"
She turned to me and stared at me in disbelief as she gave me her full attention and asked. "What happened!?"
I stared at her face, it was very close up and it seemed quite oddly satisfying to look at. K clapped his hands on the other side of the bed to get our attention as he flicked a wrist explaining the story.
"Well, Ben tried to power up beyond his limits and triggered something, his body started backfiring and it nearly killed him, then out of nowhere he gave Celestia this merciless glare and picked her up by the neck, strangling her, while powering up a devastating attack in his other hand (K raised his own hand to symbolize what a hand was), no matter how much she cried his name out, he was blinded by something and would have destroyed her if it wasn't for it being a simulation!" K told that story with so much enthusiasm it wasn't surprising his chest popped out from the heavy breaths he was taking.
"Damn it, I know, but it was an accident! I had no idea that would happen!" It was all I could say in my defense, I had no explanation for what I did, although, I have to admit, it did sponsor my name throughout Canterlot. I felt Chrysalis come at me from my left ear as she yelled out another question.
"Why would you attack her?! Did she try to hurt you!?"
I was stunned a near half a minute, she just asked a question that I should have taken more seriously, Why did she attack me? She never really told me besides that it was a test…a test for what. I turned to Chrysalis who never broke her gaze with me before I turned to K who was also staring at me pondering the same question we all pondered.
I blinked a few times as I tried figuring out a way to respond and at last I answered with, "…yeah…she did…she dragged me into a fight, and started beating the shit out of me until I began to fight back…in the end, she said it was to see who was stronger…"
To see who was stronger? Hell no, it was now clear that Celestia lied to me and that maybe that's why she shut Twilight up back then, there was something she didn't want to tell me.
"That doesn't sound like her, she would only fight to protect her ponies…" Chrysalis added, showing her signs of confusion and curiosity. She proved my point again, Celestia only fights for her ponies, not for strength.
"Exactly, and if that's so…then why did she fight me? Was I still a threat to the ponies?" I asked, adding to her observation. I was distracted from so many things now, and I honestly hope this doesn't evolve into another problem about me existing.
"Or…are you a threat?" K added snapping fingers in a discovery. I never considered that possibility, she might be restraining the info just to not make me feel bad or something, but then again, she might be doing this to avoid me doing something dangerous. For everyone's sake, I hope it's the first one or a different possibility.
I shook away all the negativity as I threw myself off the bed and stretched out a bit.
"Well, I guess I'm damned to being a threat," I chuckled popping my knuckles and smiling, ignoring the fact I didn't have a clue about that fight, for now, everything seemed at peace and it should stay that way.
I finished loosening my body and shook off all the tingly sensations as I got Chrysalis's attention. K was using his hand to adjust his rugged hair and dusting himself off. My sight drifted to Chrysalis as she continued staring at me curiously, she was odd compared to any other pony I've met or maybe it was because I haven't met as many yet.
"So…Chrysalis," I wanted to begin some small talk to see if I could distract her from staring. I caught her off guard, she jumped a bit as she looked up to face me.
"Yes?" Her voice broke a bit there but I wasn't going press on that.
"What's up with you? I hardly know a thing about you…" I let the question hang, and she picked up on it almost immediately.
"Right, I uh…I'm Queen Chrysalis, of the Changelings…sort of…"
"Change-lings?" I asked.
"Yeah…um…we can change our bodies, or in other words, morph, hence our name-"
"Change your bodies!? A demonstration, please!?" I wanted to see this for myself, I had speculations about that name of hers, and the name of her species, "The Changelings". She looked at me with a slightly surprised look before hopping off the bed, I moved away as she made a bit of room for herself. K stared at her from the bed with nothing but a smile.
She sighed before quickly surrounding herself in a violent green light the blinded for a few seconds before dimming down. I stared at her throughout the whole process, she became smaller and she no longer had her jagged horn but she did have a fine set of pegasi wings. The green light eventually faded and all that was left was Rainbow Dash, well, Chrysalis disguised as Dash.
"I think this was how she looked? Right?" She asked turning to me with a proud smile, her voice was Dash's as well. I nodded and chuckled as she I clapped my hands.
"Yup, that's amazing, I wouldn't be able to tell the difference if I put you two side by side!" I exclaimed before she reverted back to her normal and smiled in the flattery. I could tell she doesn't smile often by how she hid the smile by looking down to the floor.
"I like her more like this, she's cuter don't ya think?" K leaned from the bed and gave Chrysalis a soft stroke through her hair making her blush and look off to the wall. K was going to get no argument from me, he was right all the way.
"Defiantly, you should consider yourself lucky to find a pony-I mean changeling like this…especially the queen!" I agreed and complimented both of them. I don't know whose smile I made wider first but I'm sure they both whispered out a "thanks."
"That might have worked a season ago, but thanks anyway…" Chrysalis chuckled a bit heavy and with pain. I turned to her and so did K as we both inquired about what she meant. It might have been best of hadn't asked since in a second her face became full of the pain of holding back tears.
"Oh shit, NEIN! Don't cry, my bad, my bad!" K pleaded as he immediately rushed next to her to calm her down. I got in front of her and stared at her, she sniffed away her yearn to cry and looked at the floor as she firmly smacked a hoof onto it. "I was dethroned…I… I sometimes dream of having it back…sometimes I even think I do, then I just wake up under a tree or something…" She chuckled followed by a slight tear that K almost immediately rubbed off. I sighed as I looked at her nearly let out another tear but K was calming her down with his presence.
[Yes, that last segment of Chrysalis from a few chapters ago was all in her mind]
"Who dethroned you? Maybe we can help?" I offered before K quickly got excited by the idea and nodded rapidly. "Yeah! I'll make them suffer!"
"My throne was destroyed, I was betrayed by my own…changeling…"
"Who?" I asked.
"Hmpf…Swollen with Love Thorax, then the rest of them…I lost to his…love."
"You were seduced?" K asked next.
"No, I meant, the power of love."
"Power of love? Isn't that a good thing sorta?" I asked making K frown a bit but he got the point I was trying to convey. Chrysalis looked up at me and shrugged.
"I guess it might be…I don't really know, all I know is that I lost and lost everything…I can't imagine what Luna, Celestia, Cadence, Shining, and everypony did after hearing I lost to love, they probably laughed and had a feast…"
"Luna? Celestia? Cadence? Shining? What are you saying?" I asked moved by her words, and how cruel she depicted them. She looked up to me with a serious glare that made me retract what I said for a new question. "Or, in other words, what happened between you all?"
She explained it all to me and K in what seemed to be a long half an hour but was actually half of that. I could see where she was coming from when she said that they would've probably laughed at her and K knew too after all that. She chuckled as she sniffed back another tear and smirked. "I guess I have myself to blame for all of this…"
"Yeah, but still, be glad you ended up with a cool guy like this one!" I encouraged. K nodded and agreed. "Yeah, now you got friends like us!"
"Friends? That's what got me dethroned in the first place!" Chrysalis added outraged by K's words.
"And now it's going to make you enjoy life much more!" K quickly added to her comment with a great joy in his tone. Chrysalis scowled at K for saying that and quickly turned to him to object but K's grin got the better of her
"MAKE LIFE BETTER!? YOU…You…okay maybe there is a good thing to…F-friends," She admitted struggling to say that word she found offensive, and who could blame her when it was always in her way in the past; I'd feel the same way if I was in her situation. It was obvious K's grin is the reason she blushed and accepted his words; based off what she said earlier (About how "I"(K) "filled" her up) I can only assume K had blackmailed her feelings with sex, low but gets the job done.
"Wow, that's all it took?" I asked out loud to tease. Chrysalis frowned at me while K chuckled and nodded.
"Funny how things work out, right?" He chuckled.
"Work out? I don't have a thing to do, I've got no throne, I'm basically powerless!" Chrysalis argued, pouting towards the floor. K shook his head as he looked over to his pillow, launched it and looted something from under it. He turned to Chrysalis and smiled.
"You're not powerless, you got looks, literally many looks, magical strength, and us by your side! Who do you have to fear!?" K was being his normal uplifting self again, and good thing he was since Chrysalis couldn't do anything but bust a smile and giggle.
"Just shut up, and help me get out of this castle before they find me…"
"Get out? NO! Prepare to be reintroduced to the princesses!" K grinned making her object on the spot and shake her head quickly.
"NO! ARE YOU STUPID!? YOU KNOW WE DON'T GET ALONG!"
"SCREW YOUR PAST RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM, I'M A DEMON! AND I SAY YES!" K replied placing his hand on her horn and shutting her up instantly. It was a nice move considering that the horn was their weakness. K ran his fingers to his forehead and I slapped my hand onto his shoulder.
"Wh-what are…you doing!?" Chrysalis mustered out making K smirk. "Fixing old problems…"
"Oh boy…"
poof*
"I'm glad we all got over that cider epidemic-" Celestia's voice emerged from ahead of us as I touched a smooth floor beneath me and so did the company I was with. I studied all the looks we were getting from all the ponies that were in front of me, it was all of them all on that long table with food everywhere. All their mouths were dropped wide open and their eyes were rounder than geometric circles.
I turned to my side to K and Chrysalis and I didn't know what was more shocking to the ponies; Chrysalis being before them, or the fact that she was all red as K held her over the ground by the horn and he was clueless as he stared at the ponies in front of him. It strange how he didn't notice it when he literally had her face next to his as he hovered her high over the floor.
"Yo, K! Let her go!" I ordered him making him turn to me with a lifted eyebrow.
"What?" He looked to the angry and embarrassed changeling next to him. "Oh! Sorry about that!"
He placed her on the floor instantly and chuckled nervously as Chrysalis lifted herself and shook away all the tingling she felt from being held by the horn.
"Don't do that again!" She scowled. K shrugged as he apologized once more.
"Be a bit more chill you two, look at the attention you're getting!" I whispered loudly to them as I signaled the ponies that stopped eating breakfast. They instantly turned and Chrysalis froze in place as her eyes widened and her mouth hanged slightly opened while K, on the other hand, smiled as he waved.
"Hey!" He greeted but they didn't greet him back. It wasn't surprising since they didn't even notice him as much as they noticed Chrysalis as she seemed to be having a mental struggle as she shivered and trembled at the sight of all of them.
"K…get me out of here…please!" Chrysalis pleaded taking a step back and shaking her head in denial. K looked at her and over to the ponies before stopping Chrysalis from moving any farther away by jumping back and using his foot to slide her forward.
"Calm down, I'm here, don't be afraid…" K reassured her with a calm smile and damn that smile was something strange coming from him, almost makes him look as friendly as Flutters. "What the?" K asked as Chrysalis hid partially behind him, she found it hard to take in his words but she stopped trying to run away and stayed. K must have realized how serious he should take this, he looked ahead at the ponies with a firmer smile that dared them to say something and his arms crossed over his chest. It seemed they all wanted to get a look at Chrysalis but none had the courage to get close, they remained seated, well most did anyways.
"CHRYSALIS!?" Luna exclaimed getting up from her seat to get a better view of Chrysalis hiding behind K. K met her eyes first and chuckled a bit as he nodded.
"Yeah, I got Chrysalis with me, cute ain't she?" He asked being friendly and semi-flattering. Chrysalis blushed as she closed her eyes tightly, praying to be somewhere else but here. "Don't worry, we're here with ya," I reassured her holding a comforting smile. She opened an eye to look at me before opening the other and taking a terrified breath.
"WHY IS SHE HERE!?" Luna asked next. Chrysalis jumped a bit and I turned to Luna.
"Because I thought maybe it's time we had a reunion," K replied stepping away from Chrysalis revealing her to the ponies in front of us. Chrysalis stared ahead of her trying to hold composure and not squirm to another hiding place, she was shivering, and her face was just holding back fear.
"Re-union?" Celestia asked getting up from her seat as well and looking over to K.
"Yeah, we all sit down and talk it over the table, can we?" I asked with a smile. Smiling is always a good way to covey a question; Luna and Celestia slowly choked out a weary "S-sure" out of their sort of nervous bodies with fake smiles. Almost consecutively, Flutters, Dash, and Vinyl unoccupied three seats next to each other and filled in others seats around the table, a kind gesture but it seemed to be played out of fear and worry.
K gleamed with joy as he turned to Chrysalis and clapped his hands once.
"Great! Come on Chrysi," He joyfully offered aiming a hand at the three seats.
Chrysalis's eye twitched as she snapped at him. "Don't call me that!"
K pouted childishly and he rolled his eyes, just when he was making good progress. "Geez, I thought I could call you that."
Chrysalis sighed as she carefully neared K a bit closer, making contact with his body. "Well…not here…" she whispered out to avoid any more awkwardness. K got the point and whispered out and "Ohhh…" as he apologized for calling her that. They seemed clueless about how they were being seen as by the audience that were watching their "couple drama".
"Come on you two lovebirds, we gotta take a seat before we flat-out look stupid…" I chuckled walking over to the long table and taking the seat left to the middle one. K nodded with Chrysalis as they moved to the table too, K being mighty proud while Chrysalis hanged her head low as they passed by the seats of, Rarity, Lyra, Bonbon, and Applejack. She lowered her head a bit lower each time they turned to look at her and whispered some drama.
They got to the table and K took a seat in the seat, right of the middle one, thankfully too since having Chrysalis sit right next to Applejack or Dash might not be a good idea considering the past between all of them. K made sure to pull back the seat to allow Chrysalis to hop on to it and pushed her back when she was.
We couldn't really have chosen any better seats; we were parallel to Luna, Celestia, and Twilight, I had Celestia in front of me, K had Luna, and Chrysalis, unfortunately, had pissed-looking Twilight. I looked at the food in front of me, which was appetizing but my hunger was diminished by the sudden reunion of old foes in front of me. Everypony and princesses had their eyes locked onto Chrysalis, and poor Chrysalis was getting her soul sucked out by their stares, she maintained incredibly idle; wide-eyes, glued-shut mouth, ears perked straight up, and her body sitting upright and stiff. It wasn't long before K and I realized we've been sitting quiet for two minutes.
"I assume you know each other very well?" K began. He knew the answer but asked for the sake of starting conversation. Even if K didn't ask them, everypony on the table nodded simultaneously and responded with "Yup" or "Y-yes". Chrysalis glanced at K before looking ahead at Twilight staring her down.
"Yes, we have…history…" Celestia answered, being calm but trying to throw the spotlight on Chrysalis. K nodded accepting that answer. I could tell Chrysalis was a bit easier after hearing Celestia talk, but she still glanced at Twilight every now and then, she seemed to have some grudge towards Chrysalis.
"Okay then, if that's so…then why are you surprised to see her?" K asked another question and this time I could see how he was aiming to get somewhere. Luna and Celestia gave each other a look as they tried to come up with an answer before getting back to him.
"Well, there's many reasons!" Luna responded. K lifted an eyebrow as he got a glass of water in front of him and drank out of it leaving it half full. "Then please, tell me."
Chrysalis finally looked away from Twilight to look at K, she had this surprised look, probably from seeing that K was actually trying to get some something out of this odd reunion. Twilight squinted her eyes suspiciously at Chrysalis before looking up at K as well.
The princesses looked at each other for support before nodding and getting back to K, who waited patiently with a small smirk.
"Right then, reasons…um…can we ask why is she here in the first place?" Luna asked starting off nervous but ended aiming her hoof at Chrysalis with a frown slightly showing. Chrysalis gave a "hic" as she blushed a lightly, as K nodded and placed his hand to chin to ponder about it.
"Well…um…I think she came to me actually, twice, last night and two nights ago…" K claimed. Celestia, Luna, Twilight, as well as everypony were dumbfounded and had to swallow their words before blurting them out, Twilight slightly raising her voice.
"I remember, it was two night ago, I was there…" Twilight let out before Celestia caught on immediately. "And you didn't say anything Twilight, why is that?"
"I was…too shocked to say anything in at the moment, then K did…you know…so I ended up too busy, I'm sorry," Twilight apologized as she looked straight ahead at Chrysalis, still for some reason looking pissed. Chrysalis, this time, frowned a bit and mustered out the courage to respond.
"What?"
"Why did come back a second time? And how did you get into the castle without us or the guards noticing?" Twilight was demanding the answer; her tone was strong and almost unlike her. Chrysalis paused and was put in a corner in which no one here understood why she couldn't just answer.
Twilight was impatient and lifted an eyebrow. "Well?"
"I…uh…came to…" Chrysalis was avoiding looking at Twilight by looking at the glass of water in front of her. Twilight clenched her teeth as she placed her hooves on the table, shaking it, before yelling out at her. "Come on! Just say it!"
Chrysalis frowned as she looked up at Twilight and growled back. "I came to see K!" She responded at the same time Twilight finished rushing her and created an odd silence between everyone at the table, even the princesses were shocked at the moment. K was stunned too and sipped out of his water nervously as he looked at everypony at the table eyeing him and Chrysalis. I also was stunned but by the reactions that everyone gave.
"Did…you say…K?" Twilight asked separating the words and giving a slight laugh between each word which easily made Chrysalis annoyed.
"Yeah, is there something wrong with that!?" Chrysalis asked sternly.
"You can't be serious!? All you were ever good for was feeding off of love and ruining our lives!" Twilight yelled back more serious than a few seconds ago. That must have hurt Chrysalis bad since she was almost immediately lost all will to respond back and swallowed deeply as she got that lump in her throat that makes it difficult to breathe. In seconds, Twilight was going to respond with another hurtful comment before Chrysalis quickly growled as her eyes widened with rage and she cut her off on the spot.
"Shut up! Talking about being the "Princess of Friendship" when all you do is cause turmoil among those trying to change!" Chrysalis fought back placing her hooves firmly on the table making it shake violently. "And if you think what you're saying is true, then who's to say, you haven't failed your role as a princess already!"
Everypony around the table gasped loudly and K even choked on the water he was drinking. If I felt that verbal comeback deeply, then I couldn't imagine how Twilight must have taken it internally, not so well. Twilight slowly lowered and let her body loosely fall onto the seat, she stared at Chrysalis with nothing to say back, but Twilight's look of defeat and realization was enough to describe how damaged she was from that unexpected outburst. What Chrysalis said must have sounded reasonable to everypony here since they did nothing to defend or support Twilight, not even the princesses could defend her, they were stunned into silence.
"I came to see K…that's all…" Chrysalis eased out, sighing deeply as she lowered herself back onto the seat and letting out a deep breath to let out the stress. She stared aimlessly at the glass of water in front of her trying to get an understanding of what was happening. K glanced at me, trying to tell me with his face, "Oh shit, this wasn't how I planned it at all!", I nodded reassuringly to tell him, "It'll work out, give it time!". We exchanged another set of nods before Twilight mumbling something got our attention.
"I…I'm sorry, Chrysalis, I'm sorry…" She apologized, regretting ever being harsh towards her. Chrysalis ended her gaze with the glass and focused on Twilight as she straightened her posture to a more suitable one for conversating. Chrysalis followed and fixed her attitude along with her posture.
"Y-yes…" Chrysalis eased out with a nod but she wasn't done there, no, she had something else stuck on her tongue. She closed her eyes and inhaled deeply. "I…" she paused before letting out her breath and staring at Twilight eye to eye. "I'm sorry too…"
Judging from all the wide eyes in the room from the ponies and princesses, Chrysalis apologizing was a huge deal apparently.
"Did you…apologize?" Twilight asked wanting to make sure she heard correctly. It was difficult but Chrysalis managed to nod her head accordingly. "Yes…"
Twilight swapped surprised looks with the princesses before looking back at me and K.
"What did you do to her!?"
We both immediately raised up our hands in our defence. "Nothing!"
I turned to K surprised he said he did nothing. Obviously, he did do something quite "Unclean", or in other words, deflowering. Twilight quickly turned over to Chrysalis, questions rushing across the table.
"Chrysalis? What happened? Aren't you supposed to be…you know…evil?"
"Hmpf, well after waking up under a tree clutching a poster for a concert and suitcase full of belongings, it's safe to say anyone in their right mind would realize there's got to be something better to do…sadly it had to be me to realize that, still, I'm not a do-gooder neither," Chrysalis chuckled through a gentle smile, trying to numb the internal pain of her unfortunateness.
That small expression was impactful to me, K and everypony in the room, but it seemed the two princesses had a hard time buying that story. The princesses stared suspiciously at Chrysalis as she, out of nowhere, spawned the concert poster from thin air in a green glow.
"You see, poster!" Chrysalis explained moving the poster up to Twilight's face so she could look at it. Twilight took the nearly falling apart poster with her magic and studied it for a few seconds before placing it down on the table.
"Yes…but wait…are seriously telling me, you're here to see the concert!?"
"No, I thought "he" would be at the concert, so I came to…find him…" Chrysalis placed a hoof on K's arm making his smile a little wider.
By now, Twilight had all the clues like everyone else at the table, that, there was something going on between these two; she had all the clues but she found it hard to believe.
"So…you came for K…do you have something of interest on him?" Twilight asked. Chrysalis, of course, had interest on K but of course, she would try to downgrade the meaning of interests. Even if she was nervous about Twilight asking, she should have considered how she was speaking about K earlier.
"No, I just wanted to see him again…that's all…" She quickly responded. The table hid most of their lower bodies and Chrysalis used this to hide her fidgeting hooves as she answered. Twilight smiled a bit, finally showing off a less aggressive side and a friendlier one. Chrysalis softened up a bit but couldn't pull off a smile back.
"Ohhhh…" She exaggerated the expression very well, as if making a discovery. "I get it! You like him, don't you?"
The princesses choked on their water, and everypony gasped as Twilight revealed the quite obvious observation. Celestia and Luna coughed their lungs out before finally expressing what everypony on the table felt like yelling out.
"*Cough* WHAT!? *Cough*"
"Love is in the air with these two!" Twilight giggled, playing around with Chrysalis. Of course, how could I not see Chrysalis denying it coming, she denied it like an exposed teen would; with no good counters, just "no" to everything.
It felt nice for a change to have these two conversating semi-civil-like, they weren't fighting, they were playing around. K looked to me before smiling and shrugging telling me, "Oh, you were right!". I returned it with a nod. "I told you so."
As they threw back and forth "Yes" and "NO!", Celestia quickly cut into their argument.
"Quiet! Chrysalis explain yourself! Those can't be your real motives!?" Celestia asked still uncertain and sketchy about her. She forced us all into a quick pause, her voice was spine-tingling, there was so much emotion put into it. Chrysalis shook away the goosebumps and got back to Celestia.
"I've already explained everything! There's nothing left to explain!"
"How did you even meet K or figure out about him!?" Celestia asked next making K stare at her more confused than he already was about her strange approach. Chrysalis had an answer well prepared and didn't waste time giving it to her.
"I sensed his strength, it was immense and I followed it…nothing more," She answered calmly to not agitate Celestia's nerve. K quickly nodded as he reached into his pocket.
"Yeah, I was going to go find her that same day too," He pulled out the stone from his pocket and reached it out to Celestia's face. "Isn't that why you gave me this?"
Celestia backed her head away from the stone to get a better view since K shoved it into her face. "Gave you-?" She paused before quickly widening her eyes and latching onto the stone with her magic but K quickly gripped the stone to avoid it leaving. "WHERE DID YOU GET THAT!?"
"Uh…I found it, and I kept it!" K said. He pulled back on the stone but Celestia pulled back harder and nearly launched him out of his seat if it wasn't for Chrysalis using her magic to grab K's body and force him back down onto the seat.
"You're not supposed to have that! Give it back!" Celestia demanded still trying to pull the stone with her magic but K quickly placed both hands on the stone and refused to lose grip. "NO!" K exclaimed as he brought his hands on his chest and secured the stone. Celestia quickly used her magic again but this time to undo his fingers and separated his hands. K was about to lash out in another yell but Twilight quickly cut him off.
"Stop! Celestia! It belongs with him!" Twilight claimed using her magic to counter Celestia's. Celestia looked at her, surprised that she cut her off and asked the only thing she could ask. "What!?"
"Yeah! She tested it and it chose me!" K revealed. I was there when the stone was claimed as his, so I had had to give my own testimony. "Yeah, I was there too, Twilight tested the stone and it chose K."
Celestia shook her head silently as she retracted her magic and exchanged looks between me, Twilight, and K. It was if she had lost her mind that she suddenly stopped and looked at K and Chrysalis and placed both hooves on the table.
"By all the delicious flavors of cake!" Celestia expressed quickly turning to Chrysalis with the most surprised look she's given in my presence. "Chrysalis, you can't really love him!? Right!?"
"What's the problem with it?" Chrysalis responded tilting her head curiously. She answered that like she didn't just witness Celestia fully lose her composure. Celestia quickly retracted her hooves from the table and give faint chuckles as she stared at Chrysalis, still trying to believe what she was hearing.
It was obvious Celestia wasn't going to answer that question with all her trauma going on, so Luna decided to squeeze into the scene. Highly unlike Celestia, Luna was not asking twice about anything, on the contrary, she was smiling and glad over all this.
"To explain a bit better, we just created your stone for the fun of it, we joked about it since…we never expected it to actually find an owner!" Luna giggled as she took the stone from K with ease, leaving K staring into his empty hands mentally saying, "Oh…she took it…".
Luna twirled the stone with her magic before placing in front of Chrysalis on the table, Chrysalis stared at the stone before picking it up with her magic. "You see this stone is made for finding love…strange thing was we never thought yours would find somepony but it found K!" Luna joyously explained making Chrysalis's curious as she placed the stone down and look at her.
"So, is it a good thing K found this?"
"Yup, like I said, it finds love!"
"Are you saying he loves me?"
"I don't know about him because the stone represents your love! Who would've thought a simple joke could end up causing the world of a difference!" Luna joyfully expressed.
"Do you love me Chrysi?" K chuckled, leaning closer to her seat from his. Chrysalis looked away in my direction and blush heavily as she pouted. "I told you to not call me that!"
"Do you?" K persisted making it hard for her to keep up her pout. Her pout instantly morphed into a smile as she giggled, "Oh, shut up, talk to the stone!" Chrysalis slid the stone over to K and K used his finger to launch the stone into the air and catch it.
"Love you too in that case…" K chuckled pocketing the stone and drinking from his water with a smile that wouldn't cease to impress all those around him. Chrysalis smiled too as she sighed and straightened her back on the seat before glancing at K. "Me too…"
"I don't really know what to say…" Celestia commented looking at Chrysalis in disbelief.
"I know, how about, Oh my Celestia! I can't believe our fooling around worked out!" Luna added. Celestia nodded with Luna's claim before Twilight stepped into the conversation.
"I was thinking more like Congrats!" She giggled looking at Chrysalis while Chrysalis returned her look with a smirk.
"Yeah…that's…right…" Celestia agreed before straightening up and sighing. "I guess this is congrats Chrysalis! Just don't go and terrorize my ponies alright?"
"I guess I'll just have to scratch it off my to-do list," Chrysalis played around before chuckling. "I didn't really plan on doing that…"
"Well, with that being said, I never thought I would say this…welcome to Canterlot Chrysalis." Celestia introduced with her hoof moving in a rainbow over her head.
"Wait so it Chrysalis really a friend now? What the heck!?" Dash asked beside me.
"Yeah, do we just call her that now?" Applejack asked K from K's side.
"Yeah?" The rest of the ponies asked, agreeing with Dash and AJ's question. I looked at Chrysalis and around the table along with K as we studied their looks of uncertainty and worry.
"If you want…I understand the past between y'all, so it's up to you to decide whether you want to accept her," I wisely explained making them ponder. They stared and asked among each other before finally, they all looked up to me, K, and Chrysalis.
"Well if she isn't going to hurt us anymore, I'm okay with calling her friend…" Flutters said from the far end of the table before getting nods of agreement from Pinkie and Vinyl before being joined everypony.
"Cool, appreciate it Flutters!" I thanked with a smile making her smile back gently.
"And everypony here too." K added, ending my thanks to everypony. They all let out a breath of relief as they slouched in their chairs and exchanged silent smiled between each other. Chrysalis and K smiled as well as they exchanged these odd eyes daring lovers give.
I slouched back a bit too, to relax but quickly stopped when something pressed against my thigh. I reached my hand into my pocket and pulled out the source of the uncomfortableness; it was Princess Cadence's stone.
"Yo, I gotta question!" I inquired, completely going off topic or maybe still on it but relatively not concerning Chrysalis or K. Everypony, princess, K, and Chrysalis turned to me as I gripped the stone in my hand, concealing it from their view.
"Yes?" Luna and Celestia asked together. I opened my hand and showed them the stone, everyone looked at it strangely and confused as I flicked it up like a coin and caught it.
"This tells one's love, right?" I asked.
"Yes…" They answered not getting the point of my argument. I nodded as I played with the stone in my hand.
"Okay…" I said stopping my little display of coin skills and showed it off for all to see. "But if Cadence is married then why do I need this?"
"Cadence? What are those three up to?" Chrysalis asked randomly. Three? I thought they were a happy couple, not a three-way marriage conundrum.
"Three?" I asked turning to Chrysalis. She nodded before looking curiously ahead at Luna giggling to herself, I turned as well.
"Oh, they're fine and yes, they have a baby filly, making them three," Luna answered the both of us. I paused before quickly bringing the stone up to my face and staring at it intensely. I didn't want to imagine the problems this thing would bring if I kept it any longer.
"What the hell!? I really don't think I should have this, uh, here…" I said reaching the stone out to Luna. She and everypony/changeling/princess stared at my hand as I held it out for maybe half a minute with nothing happening. Luna just stared at my hand completely lost and unsure about what to do.
"But that's yours…I made sure to test it too…" She finally said pushing my hand back to me with her magic. I looked at my hand and opened it to the see the stone once more. This couldn't be right, how can a married pony love another that isn't her husband, I didn't want to believe it neither did I want to have anything to do with a betrayal.
"What the? No! That can't be!" I refused reaching the stone out to her again with an open hand, hoping she'd take it up without a question, obviously that wasn't going to happen. She slowly closed my hand with her magic and pushed it back to me again, pressing my closed hand against my chest, above the area where my heart was.
"Why not?" Luna asked almost saddened by the fact I didn't want the stone. It was obvious she couldn't understand my reasoning and I was pretty sure she had all the clues to deduce her own theory, so why wasn't she thinking what I was thinking? I brought my hand down onto the table gently as I cocked my head curiously and stared at the stone pondering if I was missing something.
"Why not…" I looked away from the stone and to Luna. "Do you believe in adultery?"
She rose an eyebrow and shook her head silently. I looked around the table to see them all staring at me curiously, besides K, he knew well what I was arguing about but remained oddly silent.
"Never mind then but can you explain…" I adjusted myself on the seat and glanced at the stone before focusing on Luna holding the stone between us. "She's married…how can she love someone who isn't her husband…isn't that like betrayal?"
They all exchanged confused looks before all staring me down, I felt their confusion just from their stares. Luna pondered the question almost childishly as she placed a hoof under her mouth and swayed her head gently side to side. She eventually opened her eyes with a smile and with a hoof out to me.
"Betrayal doesn't exist when it comes to Cadence! She's the "Princess of Love after all!"
"Are you saying Cadence can go pick up a random stallion and nail him on the spot with Shining just standing with their daughter, both watching with smiles?" K asked crossing his hands across his chest and raising an eyebrow.
"Yeah! That's what I'm trying to sorta ask!" I implied agreeing with K's explicit question. He closed his eyes as he nodded and waved his finger. "Adultery was frowned upon back on Earth, is it not here?"
Luna looked at her sister and asked something not trying to hide the question.
"Is that a bad thing?"
"I don't think so, mother never said anything about this…" Celestia responded pondering it too.
K looked to me with the "Seriously?" look on and I looked back at him equally but he was more disappointed while I was surprised. I looked down to Chrysalis to see if she understood my point, and she thankfully did, she shrugged as she let out in a casual sigh. "They won't understand, might as well just let whatever happens, happen."
I nodded to her judgment as I turned back to the princesses. "You know what? Forget about it, I'll let time decide what to do with me." I finally allowed them to end their mental struggling. They nodded accordingly with my decision and returned to their oddly casual selves, conversating and joking about what I just tried to explain.
"Geez…" I sighed slouching on the chair and using my arm to rest my cheek on. Chrysalis and K turned to me and chuckled a bit. I focused my eyes on both of them. "What?" I asked a bit annoyed that the princesses were still mocking me for what I said.
"This world's logic is weird but cool, isn't it?" K asked me with a smile. I looked to Chrysalis and the rest of the ponies conversating at the table like a normal people would. He was right, I guess I could admire the fact this world is crazy new to me, I couldn't help but crack a smile.
"Yes, it is…" I chuckled closing my eyes for a bit of rest but quickly opened them when Twilight caught my attention with her suddenly questioning Chrysalis about something.
"So, you're not looking for revenge anymore? Right?" Twilight asked. Chrysalis quickly looked at her and she paused for a few seconds before looking to the floor.
"I guess my work isn't done after all, Yes, I still want my revenge!" Chrysalis responded making everypony freeze and slowly turn to her. Twilight's smile faded and her joy suddenly became a trembling worry as she quivered in her seat. Celestia and Luna rapidly turned to Chrysalis and stared sternly at her.
"You still want revenge!? I thought you said you had no more intentions!?" Celestia exclaimed dumbfoundingly.
"Yeah! What gives!?" Luna asked next with the same tone of voice. Nice slang from Luna.
"My throne was special to me and so was that power…that is something I will never so easily forget, I've been plotting my revenge but stopped when K appeared…maybe I could pull off this one final scheme…" Chrysalis chuckled giving a malicious grin towards them.
"No, why would you do that after this!?" Twilight asked getting off of her seat and placing hooves to table, rocking it. Chrysalis scoffed as she flicked a hoof and spoke out as if this was common sense.
"For revenge and to prove myself once more…what else!?"
"We won't allow you to do so!" Celestia implied getting up from her seat before Luna forced Celestia to sit down with her magic. I glanced at them, struggling with who to support in this argument, they both had reasons to be pissed and some reason I could relate to my own life. Chrysalis stared down Celestia before looking to her side and at K rapidly rising from his seat.
"Why not settle it…" K finally decided to break into the conversation with his toothy grin, and standing up from his seat, aiming a finger towards the ceiling. "WITH A DUEL!"
"WHAT!?" We all asked as we stared at K change from excited to frowning. "What do you mean what!? A duel!"
"How will that help us!?" Luna asked.
"We have fun destroying each other in combat and seeing who's stronger!" K excitedly exclaimed sending a punch into the air that actually caused a wave of air that nearly knocked down all ponies off her seats but the magic of the alicorns and unicorns grabbed them before that could happen. K scratched the back of his head awkwardly. "Sorry about that…"
"ARE YOU INSANE!?" Celestia asked K as she used her magic to force K to sit back down. "I REFUSE TO FIGHT AGAIN!"
"Please listen! You'll love the idea! I promise!" K pleaded placing his elbows on the table with both hands pressed together in standard begging manner. K annoyed Celestia with his constant repetition of the word "please". She finally snapped at his twentieth beg.
"Alright! Just say it!"
"Cool-cool, now listen,"
We all leaned in a bit closer to hear him out, everypony showed off their interests quite clearly, even Celestia was listening in interested by the offer even after she despised it a minute ago.
"We'll have two groups, Chrysalis's group, and your group," K began assigning roles giving Chrysalis the leader of her own team and Celestia the leader of her own team. As soon as K gave the order to Celestia to be leader of her own team, Chrysalis quickly cut in.
"No, make it Starlight! Starlight Glimmer!" She excitedly asked
"Who?" K and I asked.
"She was the main cause of my problems! Twilight's student to be exact, a young protégé in the making…" Chrysalis explained with a well over excited tone. Twilight quickly got involved along with the princesses.
"NO! I will not allow you to hurt her!" Twilight sternly refused.
"I will take the role of leader!" Celestia said. Chrysalis refused having her as leader and went back to wanting this Starlight Glimmer aka Twilight's student/protégé.
"Revenge is blissful when it's to the problem, so I want Starlight!"
"You were the problem of your problem! So don't take it out on Starlight!" Twilight struck back.
"I'm not taking it out on her, but you all in general!" Chrysalis explained with a mischievous laugh.
"She's got a point, a leader will always require assistance from his or her pawns, that is why we I agree with Chrysalis, and this is her revenge so let's make it interesting!" K said before getting looks of "what the fuck!?" from all three of them.
K aimed his finger to them and nodded. "I want Starlight as your leader!"
Twilight growled at K for a bit before accepting it. "Fine! I'll make sure she knows!"
"Twilight are you sure?" Celestia asked. Twilight nodded with a new grin that stunned us all for a bit before she explained it. "If Starlight defeated her once, then I'm sure she'll do it again!"
"R-right!" Celestia agreed, she seemed to have a great deal of faith in Twilight. Twilight nodded as she turned back to K and stared at him waiting to hear the rest. K smirked and nodded as he explained the rest.
"AWESOME!" Chrysalis yelled out of character, causing us all to look at her with raised eyebrows. She chuckled nervously as she cleared her throat. "Uh…I mean, now I can exact my revenge to the maximum potential."
"Right! Now to finish, the leader can take as many fighters as she needs, even an army if she has one!" K explained using his hands to give off a clearer picture. Celestia laughed out loud a bit which was clearly out of character for her too.
"Face it Chrysalis, you can't win this!" Celestia mocked forcing Chrysalis to laugh out loud as well before grinning.
"We'll see Sunbutt!" Chrysalis returned with the second most humorous thing she's I've heard since that describing "sex" incident. I couldn't help but smile and hold back my laughter, my chest popped out a bit as I held back the laughter wanting to escape. Celestia quickly aimed a hoof at Chrysalis and gritted her teeth.
"That name is CLASSIFIED!"
"Wow, I like that name!" K commented before waving his hand to get their attention, "But anyways, now we just have to decide where to host this! Any ideas?"
"How in that world of simulation!" I quickly offered aiming my sights to Celestia. "We are capable of feeling pain and it's the same as actually fighting, so it'll make it more exhilarating!"
"Excellent! Oh Goody! Goody! Goody!" Chrysalis giggled to herself rubbing her hooves deviously.
"I guess no pony can get hurt in the end, right?" Celestia asked looking around to get approval from everypony. She got the approval of Luna and Twilight but had to ask again before getting the approval all the ponies in the room.
"So, it's decided?" K asked.
Celestia looked around once more before nodding. "Yes! In the simulation world, it shall be done!"
"Alright! Now, let's decide on a time!"
"Tomorrow!" Chrysalis quickly answered still holding onto these excited set of eyes and a huge smile of satisfaction. K and I had no problem with that but it was up to the princesses to ultimately decide since they were part of it. They looked at each other and nodded.
"I guess it's then, we won't be busy that day so it's fine!" Celestia explained before looking to Chrysalis. "Do you promise to stay out of trouble till then?"
"Of course, It'll be worth the wait when I humiliate all of you!" Chrysalis proudly exclaimed.
"Keep talking! We shall see tomorrow!" Luna grinned before everyone finally finished boasting and taunting. Everypony, Chrysalis, and K took their seats and took a bit of time to simmer down. Chrysalis chuckled to herself a good amount while K drank down the water in front of him.
I slowly slouched on my seat again and sighed before quickly jolting up again, why can't I get a moment to rest? Apparently, K had given the table a sharp jab to the table and startled everyone, including me.
"Now, why don't we discuss this concert business, we haven't forgotten about it, ya know?" K brought up. I guess now wasn't a time to be sleeping, he brought up a good point and now I was well excited. "Yeah, he's right! It's was at noon, wasn't it?"
"Noon is an hour away, you should prepare yourselves!" Twilight warned. She was better off just telling us the time because we didn't really have time to practice or anything, not that we needed it for that matter.
"Well, we don't really need that much…I'll just have a good time! Plus, I'll get to see that Octavia pony again!" I said rubbing my hands togwther in anticipation.
"You know Tavi!?" Vinyl suddenly asked from the far end of the table. I looked over to her, her glasses where there but not covering her eyes.
"Tavi?" I asked before my mind comprehended it. "Oh! Tavi for short! Yeah, I know her, slightly that is."
"Wow! How is she?"
"Last time I saw her she made fun of my choice of instrument, so I say she's fine apart from being too overconfident, but that's still a good thing," I said remembering that day in that store. Vinyl glanced at me with a smile as she nodded. "That sounds like her, are you two friends?"
"I have no idea, but I'm sure I'm on her good side," I smiled, reassuring her I was good and that Tavi was too. She smiled back perfectly. "Awesome, can't wait to see her again!"
"Me too," I whispered out before looking at K get up from his seat and back away from the table, he turned away from the table in the direction out of this food court.
"Well, I'm gonna go grab my guitar!" He said waving his hand in dismissal before turning and aiming a finger at me. "Where's yours?"
"In Celestia's room, I'll go get it," I replied getting up too and moving away from the table waving my hand. "I guess we'll meet later, see ya!"
Without hesitation, Chrysalis got down her seat as well and moved to K side. "I'll go with K." K chuckled and nodded. "Cool!"
"And I'll go with Ben," Twilight claimed hopping off her seat and happily trotting over to my side. I cocked an eyebrow and nodded suspiciously before she filled in the details.
"I'll introduce Ben to Starlight and Trixie along the way!" She happily explained. Trixie? I remember that name well, she was an odd case, I don't know how this reencounter would go but I know she's got an odd thing for seduction, plus her look even gives off a seductive tone.
"Alright, come on Ben, let's get your guitar and then I'll show you two of my favorite pupils, I'm sure you'll like them!" Twilight expressed tugging my shirt a bit with her magic. I nodded and waved back once more as all of them disappeared from sight. K was already long gone by now but I'm sure he's got something planned considering he has Chrysalis with him, maybe they'll plan out this duel we plan on having.
I arrived in Celestia's room via Twilight's teleportation and quickly grabbed my guitar but I had to pause for a second to study something odd and peculiar in the room, on a dresser with a mirror, it was carelessly left on a stand that levitated and rotated it with some magical force. It was another stone, double sided like the princesses one and even had the same cutie marks but this one had a deeper shading of the original color and a different feel to it, a more malevolent feel. I reached out my hand to at least get a touch but Twilight quickly appeared from behind me.
"Come on Ben, you gotta meet Starlight and Trixie!"
I quickly but gently placed my hand on the stone. I seared my hand drastically and I quickly shoved my hand into my pocket to avoid Twilight seeing anything. I hid the pain well with my face and nodded. Deep inside I could feel my inside screaming curses at the stone, I would have cursed out loud if I hadn't prepared myself before touching it. I had a general idea I was going to get burned by it considering the one I had earlier did the same but the burn of the last one was one-fourth of this one. I let out my breath slowly and turned to her clenching my hand tightly.
"Okay…let's go," I said casually, giving one more glance back at the stone before feeling the teleportation magic surround me.
"Great! You'll love them!"
Something odd was going on with these stones and I forgot to ask the princesses why the other one burned me. For now, I'll remain quiet until our next meet up when they aren't busy. The pain was simmering down but still I won't forget how badly it hurt, and I especially won't forget that stone that mimicked the princesses, the damn thing felt way off bounds.
It's nearly show time, I got a lot on my mind, and I'm about to meet this Starlight and seductive Trixie, this day (of course) can only get crazier.
Back at the table...
"Sister, did you notice anything odd about Chrysalis?" Luna asked Celestia. Celestia turned to her sighed.
"Besides her not inprisoning us or taking over I say, no," Celestia replied sighing once more. "Why do you ask?"
Everypony at the table took one breath before yelling out at the top of their lungs.
"BECAUSE SHE HAS A CUTIE MARK!"