Chapter 14: Royal Canterlot Wedding Part 2 (Canterlot Wedding Finale)

Drip...drip...drip...Harry sniffled his tears as he laid on all fours in a damp cave deep beneath Canerlot. Where his grandma and momma would never find him. How did he end up here you might ask? Well see he had been banished from Shining Armor and Cadance's wedding. By Shining Armor himself.

"In fact, since your no longer our ring bearer. Why don't you just not come to the wedding at all?" The angry stallion said to the alicorn foal who only had the best intentions at heart.

Afterwards, Harry had tried to apologize to his "cousin." She turned out to be a Changeling!

Harry gasped as a dark looking spell flew at him from the insectoid pony hybrid's mangled horn at him in a weird X shape that grew as it flew toward him. It struck his chest. He lay there on the throne room floor bleeding heavily.

"Momma." He gasped as he took labored breaths. "Help me." He begged for Applejack or someone to come in and see.

"I'm not your Momma deary." Came the creatures voice. She cakled evilly.

"Grandma won't let you get away with this." Harry said weakly. "Grandma, Shiny and Auntie Lulu will found out. You'll never win."

"Oh sweeite, I've already won. You see by denying your claims as simple childish games and Celestia accepting that claim I've already proven I can fool even the mighty Princess of the Sun!" The insectoid hybrid unveiled her holey wings and Harry heard insect noises. "My changling will invade Canterlot and feast on the love of its citizens! And there's nothing a pitiful foal like yourself can do about it. Who knows, perhaps when your older I'll choose you for my Royal Harem. Your are quite the cutie." Chrysalis kissed his cheek before her horn glowed again and Harry was swallowed up by flames.

Is she seriously flirting with a nine year old foal? Harry asked his mind as he felt the creatures tongue through his cheek. Creepy.

"So much for Big Brother, Best Friend Forever." Harry sniffled sadly. "I'll probably be dead before they find me." The alicorn foal dropped his head. "Its hopeless."

"Where there is love, there is always hope." Came a soft, familiar in sound but not tone voice. Harry turned around weeakly and looked up to see Cadance! The pink alicorn mare looked like she'd been through the wringer. Her mane stuck out in odd places.

"Cadance?" He asked. He raised an eyebrow. "Sunshine?" He started.

"Sunshine." Cadance smiled down at her young cousin.

"Ladybugs awake." The two rhymed together. "Clap your hooves and do a little shake." The two laughed and Harry tackle hugged her, but then he hissed after he got up and put a hoof to his chest.

"Ow." The foal whimpered in pain. "That stings."

"Your bleeding." Cadance said putting her hooves on the wound to try to put pressure on it.

"Chrysalis." Harry said sadly. "I apologized thinking she was you then she showed herself. OW ow ow ow that hurts." His eyes watered with tears.

Cadance's horn glowed. The bleeding slowed to a trickle. "That should fix it temporarily. Try not to strain yourself." The pink mare said kindly.

"Thank you cousin." Harry said giving her a hug. "But how are we gonna get out of here?" He asked. "We've got to stop her!"

The pink mare looked around and spotted a loose gem. Getting an idea she threw it into the cave. It echoed downward. She motioned for Harry to follow her as she ran. Harry ran as fast as he could to catch up with her. The two ran for a good long while before finally coming across a mine shaft. With a mine cart still attatched! Picking up a loose Sapphire of considerable size ("Spike'll love this") and putting it in his saddlebag, (Which he had the sense to bring when he went to apologize because he intended on going back to Ponyville alone if she didn't accept his apology,) Harry climbed on Cadance as they slid down a swirling mine track and at the end, it gave Cadance enough of a lift off to get her wings open! The two flew up to the light they saw and found a ledge. They looked around.

"There!" Harry said pointing upward to a opening in the cave roof.

"Your not going anywhere." Three mares said in zombiefied tones. The three bridesmaids that Chrysalis regected came upon them with glowing green eyes.

At the Wedding...

"Princess Cadance and Shining Armor." Celestia said to her "niece" and soon to be nephew in law. "It is my pleasure to pronounce you-"

"STOP!"

Everypony turned to see the disheveled looking Crown Prince in the doorway.

The mares of the Elements of Harmony all performed various gestures of embarassement. Then did a double take.

Everypony gasped as Harry stepped into the light and his injuries come with it. Blood dripping onto the red carpet of Celestia's throne room. Celestia gasped in shock. Noticing his weak appearance and labored breathing.

"You." Fake Cadance hissed. Celestia looked at her reproachfully. Fake Cadance started some crocodile tears. "Why are you so insistent on ruining my special dayt?!"

"Because its not your special day." Came a familiar voice to gasps of the crowd. Who took in the real Cadance's disheveled appearance. "Its mine." She stood in front of her younger cousin protectively from this evil witch. .

"What?" "Cadance" said in shock. "But how did you escape my Bridesmaids?"

Harry and Cadance smirked at each other.

"We can't hurt them." Harry muttered to Cadance. "Their hypnotized or something. What do we do?"

Cadance looked down. She saw a bouquet. Getting an idea, she magically grasped it and twirled it around in the bridesmaids faces getting their attention.

"I want it!" Said the bridesmaids all together as she tossed it away.

"I don't understand." Twilight said looking back and forth between the two Cadance's. "How can there be two Cadances? And what happened to Harry?!"

"She's a Changeling." Cadance explained to the crowd. "She takes the form of a pony somebody loves and feeds off of their love for them. She kidnapped me, tossed me in some lost mines, attacked Harry and did the same to him too so he couldn't reveal her."

"Cadance's" eyes glowed green in anger as did her horn. She was enveloped in a tower of sickeningly green light. When it vanished, a grotesque insectoid equine like being was in her place. She lauged wickedly.

"Right you are Princess." The Changeling sneered. "And as Queen of the Changelings, its my duty to find food for my subjects." She explained to the crowd at large. "Equestria has more love than any land I've ever encountered." She monologued as she descended the small staircase. "My subjects will be able to devour so much of it that we'll gain more power than we have ever dreamed of!"

"They'll never get the chance." Harry hissed at the evil Changeling. "Big brother's protection spell will keep them out."

The large Changeling Queen chuckled at the foal's naievite'. "Oh I don't know about that. Isn't that right dear?" She charged up her sickly green magical aura around her horn and Shining Armor nodded going "Mhmm."

Cadance started galloping toward her beloved but Chrysalis stopped her in her tracks. "Ah ah ah. Wouldn't want to go back to the caves would you?" She sneered. Cadance backed off reluctantly. Harry slowly made his way to her side. She used her magic to slow the bleeding again.

"That's the second time. I can't do it anymore." Cadance warned her cousin.

"Ever since I took your place, I've been feeding off of Shining Armor's love for you. Every minute he grows weaker. And so does his spell." She said with glee in her voice. "Even now my minions are chipping away at it!" She giggled evilly.

Outside an army of Changelings where hurling themselves at Shining Armor's protective bubble.

Chrysalis cackled. "He may not be my husband," She brought Shining Armor's head closer to her with a hoof. "But he is under my total control now."

Cadance gasped in horror.

"I plan to feed off of every last drop of his love for you. And when that happens." Chrysalis cackled as she pictured Shining Armor turning into a Changeling King.

Twilight gasped in horror. She couldn't lose her BBBFF!

"And I'm sorry to say, he is unable to perform his duties as Captain of the Royal Canterlot Guard."

"Not my Shining Armor!" Cadance said extending a hoof toward her hypnotized love.

"Soon, my Changeling Army will break through!" Chrysalis said in excitement. "First we take Canterlot, then ALL of Equestria!" She rose into the air and laughed evilly.

"NO." Said Celestia from behind Chrysalis. "You won't." She came forward. "You may have made it impossible for Shining Armor to perform his spell, but now that you have so foolishly revealed yourself, I can protect my subjects, and my grandfoal, from YOU!" Celestia rose into the air majestically as her horn glowed with the power of the sunlight.

Harry gasped in awe at his grandmother's power. He had never seen her in action before.

Celestia fired the sun beam at the Changeling Queen. Chrysalis fired her own beam back with a " NO!" She grunted and forced more power into her spell with another panicked "NO!" And in everypony's surprise, was overpowering their Princess's! Celestia's eyes widened in shock as she was struck by the sickly green beam.

The ponies gasped.

"GRANDMA!" Harry shouted and ran over to her side as she lay on her actual side. Her horn slightly burnt from using the sun's power. Her horn crackled with power. Her crown laying beside her.

"Princess Celestia!" Twilight shouted in fear of her mentor's life. She and the other Elements of Harmony rushed to the Sun Princess's side as well. Applejack hugged her son who winced.

"Shining Armor's love for you was stronger than I thought." Chrysalis said with glee. "Consuming it has made me even more powerful than Celestia!"

"My little Prince." Celestia groaned weakly to her grandson. "I am sorry for dismissing your claims. She fooled us all."

Harry cried over his grandmother as she nuzzled him in apology.

"The Elements of Harmony." She told the group. "You must get to them. And use their power to defeat the Queen!"

Twilight and the other mares flung their dresses into the air and ran outside. Rarity however...stayed behind and caught them gently.

"Rarity!" The group called. Rarity blushed and put her most respectable works down gently and galloped away. Tossing her own gown gently aside as well.

Chrysalis laughed evilly. "You can run! But you can't hide!"

Twilight looked up and saw the Changeling Army. Chipping away at Shining Armor's barrier like Chrysalis said. After a bit, a crack formed. And the Changelings dove all together at the barrier, and it dissolved.

They zoomed into Canterlot immediately and started attacking the populace.

"Go! Go!" Harry shouted as Changelings zoomed after them. "Chidori Sharp Spear!" He shouted sending his black lightning spear at the horde. "Sharp Spear! Sharp Spear! Sharp Spear!" He sent three more and followed his fellow Elements.

In front of the building where the Elements where kept, they encountered a whole entire horde of Changelings. A few licking their lips.

"Looks like we're gonna have to do this the hard way. Rainbow Dash punched her right hoof with her left. She moved forward...only to be confronted by Rainbow Dash! An exact look alike of herself was right in front of her! After a few silly movements, the Changeling pushed her back.

"How did she?" Rainbow Dash asked in shock.

The horde then transformed themselves into copies of the seven ponies. Noticably all of the Harry clones where all healthy, uninjured and right next to the Applejack clones.

"Their Changelings remember?" Twilight said to Rainbow Dash.

"THEIR CHANGELINGS REMEMBER?" A group of Twilights said to Rainbow Dash.

"Don't let them distract you. We have to get to the Elemetns of Harmony." Twilight reminded the group.

And they rose to fight the Changelings. Or in Fluttershy's case, trick them into leaving her alone. A group of three came up to her with intimidating glares never seen on the Real Fluttershy's face. She mimicked them and mimed some fighting punches. The trio of Changeling Fluttershy's left her alone. The pink maned pegasi phwewed anmd turned only to run into more Changelings. Of Rainbow Dash. Only one of them was the real Rainbow Dash! She kicked and punched the others aside and helped Fluttershy up with a friendly smile.

Applejack and Harry where back to back in an army of Applejacks.

Wait a minute. He ain't injured! Applejack realized and when the Changeling saw the look on her face, it changed into her jumped. She dodeged. "Okay this is just gettin' weird."

Twilight saw the pile of Applejacks and zapped them one after another off of her and right back into their real forms. Soon she had one in her magical grasp.

"Real me! Real me!' Applejack said to Twilight. Applejack phwewed as she set her down.

Harry flew into the air and clones of him followed. The alicorn copies intending on him being their lunch. He changed direction, changed again and slammed into the lead Changeling's back of his neck. It sent him hurling into the ground as a changeling.

"You guys may be able to mimick my looks and voice." Harry said.

"YOU GUYS MAYBE ABLE TO MIMICK MY LOOKS AND VOICE." The group repeated.

"But how about magic?" Harry asked with a smirk.

"BUT HOW ABOUT...HUH?" The group looked at each other in confusion. Harry spread his wings and his feathers crackled with light black electricity.

"Chidori Feather Barrage!" The wings relased feathers at the group of Changelings before him. As the feathers made contact, ZAP! The changelings where fried!

"Fried Changelings...I'd rather have an apple fritter." Harry said with a raspberry at the group. He then went to help Fluttershy who was being ganged up on again.

Pinkie Pie was face to face with a Changeling. It morphed into Rarity first. Then Rainbowdash, then Fluttershy. In typical Pinkie fashion she giggled. "Do me do me!" She bounced eagerly.

The Changeling Fluttershy rolled its eyes and changed into a perfect copy of Pinkie Pie complete with happiness.

She grabbed Harry who had just walked by and revved up his black lightning like a gattling gun. Zap zap zap zap! It was hurled at Changelings left and right leaving them fried. Smoke coming off of one as it stumbled around and collapsed.

Smack Slam Smack BOP Smack Slam Smack Smack Bop!

Soon they defeated the Changeling horde. and ran inside...only to encounter another horde of changelings. The group gathered around their youngest because he ws still injured as the Changelings closed in.

Celestia awoke. She opened her eyes slowly. She was imprisoned inside a cocoon! She saw Changelings sneering at her from outside the monstrous prison that had the power to turn Ponies into Changelings by force.

"You won't get away with this!" Cadance declared to Chrysalis. "Twilight and her friends will-"

They turned to see Twilight and the other Elements of Harmony being escorted into the throne room by Changelings.

"I only see six. Where's? Celestia wondered.

Harry's form came into view as he was thrown into Chrysalis's sight. The girls gasped. They didn't see where the two Changelings that had him took him.

"Ahh. Looks like my subjects had themselves a little snack." Chrysalis chackled seeing the bite marks on the foals neck. Harry was bleeding heavily from his wound again and wheezing. "Looks like I'll have a new member of the horde very soon. All he needs, is a little love." She made her way toward the fallen alicorn prince.

"Not my baby! please not my baby! I'll do anything!" Applejack pleaded as Chrysalis came closer.

Harry's eyes flung open as he was thrown into memory. His eyes going out of focus in terror. Applejack's voice warping as she cried "ANYTHING!" As Chrysalis loomed ever closer to begin his transformation.

"Not Harry! Please not Harry!"

"Stand aside. Stand aside you silly girl!"

"Please not Harry! I'll do anything!"

"You realize the reception's been cancled don't you?" Chrysalis said to the mares. "Go." She ordered. "Feed!" She declared. The Changelings fled the throne room and left for the city.

Chrysalis cackled. "Its funny really, this foal was suspicious of my behavior all along." She picked him up gently. "Too bad the rest of you where too caught up in your wedding fever to listen to him."

"I. I can still stop you." Harry groaned weakly. Inspired by his birth mother's sacrifice for him. He was back. Some of the color was back in his coat. And his color was coming back! The love he has for his friends, mother and grandma empowering him and replenishing him. "I have...spells." He collapsed after Chrysalis laid him down gently. Intending on finishing the job and turning him.

"Your Chidori you mean? I know all about your little arsenal of lightning based spells you pathetic foal." Chrysalis chuckled darkly."This day has been just perfect, the kind of day of which I've dreamed since I was small." The Changeling Queen sang as she watched her Changelings attack Canterlot citizens. The Mane 6 glared at her. Furious after what she did to their youngest Element of Harmony who was still bleeding on the palace floor. "Everypony I'll soon control. Every Stallion, Mare and Foal! Who says a girl can't really have it all?"

Twilight crawled up to Cadance and zapped her free. "Quick." She said. "Go to him while you still have the chance."

Cadance ran over to her beloved Shining Armor. She held his face gently. He was still hypnotized. Hugging him, her horn sparked with magic. And released a heart. The heart floated to Shining Armor's forehead and popped inside. It released him from the hypnosis.

"Guh. Huh?" Shining Armor said as he was coming too. "Is the wedding over?"

"Actually." Harry groaned. "I'm not done yet." He stood shakily.

"Stay down sugarcube. Yer losin' a lot a' blood there." Applejack rushed to his side.

"Shield of...The Mother." He mumbled.

What's this? Chrysalis asked herself. His magic is changing. From offensive...to...

"I REJECT!" He shouted. A pink colored five pointed star shaped shield rushed at Chrysalis while spinning and sent her flying from the castle out the door. But not out of Canterlot.

"Wow. How'd you do that?" Twilight asked the injured foal eagerly as the other Elements of Harmony came up to him to help him up.

"Since I met big brother Shiny I've been trying to work on defensive magic as well as offensive." Harry said with labored breaths. "We only needed time."

"Shining Armor." Celestia pleaded. "Your Barrier Spell. Please."

"I'm not sure...I have the strength." Shining Armor said as his horn gave off a pathetic pink sparkle.

Cadance walked up next to her husband to be. "My love will give you strength." They nuzzled. Then crossed horns.

As promised by Cadance, her love for her husband increased his magical power. A arc of magical power connected the two loved ones. Wonderous radiant magical aura surrounded the pair and they opened their eyes. Smiling at each other with pure love in their hearts. The two rose as the power grew. The Elements of Harmony watched in awe. The two became one magical power inside the aura in the shape of a heart. Shining Armor's and Cadance's spell hurled all Changelings back to wherever they flew out of. A pink/purple shield bubble surrounded Canterlot.

The Mane 6 mares and Harry cheered. Harry somewhat weakly. He wobbled as he stood again. His vision blurry.

"Sugarcube?" His mothers voice asked. Her voice a little distorted. He was losing too much blood. Chrysalis's curse did a number on him.

"Sugarcube!" Applejack panicked as Harry collapsed to the ground. "Wake up! Please wake up baby! This isn't funny!"

"He's lost too much blood." Cadance said. Rushing to her cousin's side. "Aunt Celly we need to get him to the hospital now!"

"Right." Celestia agreed. Worried for her favorite grandfoal.

"Nurse Redheart!" "Cadance said as the gourney carrying Harry hurried through Canterlot General Hospital. "We need the surgical room now!"

"You can't just barge in my hospital without...is that who I think it is?"

"Yes. And the young Crown Prince has lost a great amount of blood from a dark magic curse from the Changeling Queen. We need blood now!"

"What's his blood type?"

"Type O."

"Good. You get prepared do heal. I'll prepare the transfusion. All right ladies! We have a Royal Family Emergency!" Nurse Redheart declared to her staff. Not only mares, but she was like a military officer the way she trained her medical ponies.

Many Hours Later...

The Mane 6 Mares where waiting in the waiting room. Celestia had to rush back to the castle when the media found out about the Crown Princes condition.

"Is it true the Crown Prince is in critical condition at Canterlot General?" A female reporter pony asked the Princess of the Sun.

"Unfortunately yes. Harry defended Princess Candeza from the Changeling Queen with no regards for his own only that, after he was gravely injured, heavily bleeding, he banished Chrysalis from the Palace with his own protective spell. For this I honor him with this window." She motioned to a new stained glass window in the palace showing a young, dark alicorn foal with a pink star banishing the Changeling Queen out the door of the palace. "And it was then that Cadenza and her husband to be banished the Changlings back to the depths from wence they came with thier love. For this, I honor them also with a new window." The reporter ponies saw a second new window with the Love Princess and Captain Shining Armor floating in the air with crossed horns banishing the Changelings from Canterlot.

"How's he doing?" Shining Armor asked as he came in.

"We don't know. They've been in there for hours." Twilight told her big brother. "Applejack's been such a nervous wreck. She finally passed out about an hour ago.

PING. The lit sign saying Surgery was in progress faded. From the double doors came Nurse Redheart and Cadence.

"How's my baby?" Applejack asked. Suddenly awake.

"He'll survive." Nurse Redheart finally revealed.

The mares all cheered. Pinkie was already planning a "Get well soon" party in her head.

"What about the Dark Magic though?" Twilight asked.

"Unfortunately Twilight, Dark Magic wounds never fade. He'll have a scar for the rest of his life." Cadace told the mares.

That statement was bugging Twilight. Harry had two scars now. So how did he get the one on his forehead? And what made it such an odd shape?

"I would also suggest some therapy." Nurse Redheart said. "Some ponies after life or death situations tend to have continuous stress over it."

"I've seen that in some of my fellow soldiers." Shining Armor said sadly. "Its really sad. And can be very dangerous."

Medical Ponies wheeled out Harry's gourney so his friends and family could see him before they took him to his room at the hospital. The blood was gone from his coat. And he was all stitched up. The wound in a large, slightly warped X pattern on his chest. He was unconcious.

"Fortunately, he remained unconcious through the entire operation." Nurse Redheart added worriedly. "If he doesn't come out of it soon we'll need to hook him to..."

Harry moved lightly. Then yawned. "That was a good nap. Dash was right about clouds." But then he fell asleep again.

"Or he was just in a deep sleep." The nurse pony sweat dropped. The mares and nursing staff laughed.

"I'm not surprised. He spent an enormous amount of energy fighting off Chrysalis." Shining Armor chuckled. "Sleep up kid. You've earned it." He said to the snoozing foal.

A few days later...

Wedding Music...Play!

The Cutie Mark Crusaders came bouncing in spreading flowers around the throne room. Cadance and Shining Armor came trotting up to Celestia side by side.

Harry followed shortly after. Cameras flashing as the Crown Prince rarely visited Canterlot and he was kind of a semi celebrity now. Many reporters had been thrown out of Canterlot General by Nurse Redheart and her staff. The Press getting plenty of pictures of the Prince's new battle scar. Harry cautiously walked up to his family with the rings floating ahead of him on a pillow. He wobbled slightly but his grandmother caught him with her magic.

"The rings please?" Celestia asked her grandfoal. Harry eagerly levitated them up to her. She presented them to Cadance and Shining Armor.

Usual Wedding Yada Yada

"I now pronounce you Mare and Colt." Celestia declared.

The two embraced. The crowd cheered.

At the Wedding Reception, Harry and Twilight sang a duet "Come Fly With Me" by Twinkle Toes. An old favorite of Cadance's (According to Twilight)

Before long, the cake and sweets had been eaten (Quite a bit by Celestia and Harry, who had inherited his grandmother's sweet tooth) and Shining and Cadance had left for their honeymoon.

"Ugh. Never again." Harry groaned from Applejack's back.

"Keep telling yerself that sugarcube." Applejack said. Knowing full well that it would happen again. He binged on apple sweets a lot at home. The Reunion was a fine example of his inherited sweet tooth when he won the eating contest for foals his age.

The Mares laughed at their youngest Element.

"But just wait for the Bachelor Party I'm planning!" Harry said semi eagerly. Rubbing his poor tummy. "Momma. What's a Bachelor Party?"

Even Applejack laughed at his innocence.

To Be Continued...

The comics where vague but Chrysalis told Twilight she planned on draining her and then having Twilight drain her friends. So that gave me the impression that Changelings are similar to vampires. So when a ponie's love is completely drained, they become a changeling. Or they have to be Turned by a sire. Or possibly by those cocoons. Scary if you think about it.

Yes I gave Harry Celestia's sweet tooth. By the way, read The Glaring Gafes of Gabby Gums. its a funny ficlet that portray's Featherweight's apology to Equestria for Gabby Gums. Rebuking some articles, but sadly confirming others. One is Celestia eating forty cakes. Quite a sweet tooth the Sun Princess has.

Yes. Twinkle Toes is Frank Sinatra ponified. NO ONE IS SAFE FROM PONIFICATION! MUAHAHAHA! Pulls lever on what resembles a roboticizer from Sonic. The light's flash and the machine spins and when its done, Frank Sinatra is a unicorn pony.

Please leave a review! I worked really hard on this two parter!