They all had gone.

Fluttershy died a spring afternoon when she decided to take a nap on her loyal rocking chair in her backyard. But such an extraordinarily pure soul wouldn’t have to be just buried. No. The little and big creatures of the forest she had helped for all her life had a very special parting gift. Not very deep in the forest, the animals chose a weeping willow and they carved the shape of what might have been described as a mausoleum so it would become the resting place of the guardian of kindness. The mausoleum had room enough for her husband’s coffin when it was his turn to accompany her. But for now, the pegasus would have her eternal resting place among the creatures of the forest that loved her so much and she had loved so much too.

Pinkie Pie died with a smile on her lips, just how everyone remembered her. Following her wishes, Pinkie Pie was incinerated and her ashes were thrown into the sea. Something surprisingly quiet and humble for someone who has always been known for preferring the extravagant and flashy.

Applejack died an autumn night on her bed. The horror took over her son Green Sunrise and her cousin Appleseed when the little Applespice went to the living room and said: ‘Grandma is so sleepy. She doesn’t want to wake up’. After a big family reunion where only the cowgirl’s closest friends were admitted, Applejack was buried in Apple’s family cemetery, next to her big brother and her sister in law.

Rarity’s death was the topic on everyone's lips that winter. ‘The worst loss of fashion world in this century’ was said by The Canterlot Times. The price of her outfits soared. Rarity was buried in Canterlot in the zone of ‘Celebrities’, originally started as a project of her own father in law. Nothing but another present to please the ego of the members of Toity family. Even so, the guardians and Spike gathered in front of Rarity’s tomb to say their last goodbye to a sad soul that simply made the mistake of choosing pride over humility.

Rainbow Dash always said she would die with style. And the Ancients knew she had done it. Rainbow asked that after her death she would be dressed with her old uniform of the Wonderbolts. It was somewhat big for her, so they had to make some adjustments. Rainbow Dash’s body was deposited in a special metallic coffin and this one was put inside a ‘wood capsule’. That wood capsule was covered with special flammable chemicals made by Twilight, which would make fire had the colors of a Rainbow. Yes. Even in death, Rainbow Dash managed to live on the edge, giving her friends and relatives a spectacular symbolic funeral in flames.

And finally Twilight. Lady Twilight ‘The Cosmic’. The leader and the last member of the Guardians Of Harmony. The first unicorn in history to marry a dragon. The one who made possible the union between Equestria and Ikaruga. Royalty, nobility and even the common people of both kingdoms gathered in Ponyville to mourn the loss of a so famous and extraordinary unicorn. Her husband constructed for her by himself a humble, but beautiful crystal mausoleum in Ponyville cemetery. And above where the coffin was kept, there was a statue carved in silver in the form of Twilight Sparkle.

Spike spent sleepless nights before he could sleep. He felt so alone now. So devastated. So lost. His wife had made him promise he would seek happiness. But how could he do it now that nothing seemed to make sense anymore?

One day, a few weeks after Twilight’s death, Celestia and Luna invited Spike to stay in the palace. The dragon had been devastated since the death of his wife and the princesses were starting to worry about the about the possibility that the dragon would never leave his depressed state or in the worst of cases, commit suicide.

Celestia decided she would have to take action on the matter personally. So after dinner, though it seemed something improper, she invited the dragon to her bedroom to talk.

When he entered the princess’ bedroom, Spike couldn’t help laughing.

“Very well. You’re starting to recover your sense of humor” She said.

“It’s not that. I just thought how little you’ve remodeled this place in almost one hundred years since the last time I was here” The dragon replied, walking to the fireplace, which he burned with his breath and then he lay on his stomach in front of her.

Celestia walked next to Spike and lay the same way.

“How do you feel?”

Straight to the matter. She was always like that when she had an objective in her mind.

“I miss her. Her… Each and every one of those six angels. Holy Gaia. I even miss Rarity and her tendency to blame others for her shit… But especially I miss my angel. I always knew these days would come. The days I couldn’t hug her anymore. The days I would have to sleep alone on our bed. The days I… I would have to do everything alone. You warned me. Ragna, Luna, everyone warned me. But neither all the warnings nor all the knowledge would have prepared me for something like this”

Spike brought his right claw to his face to cover his eyes and broke into tears. Celestia got closer to him. She extended her forelegs to hug him protectively.

“Don’t cry, sweetheart. Please, don’t cry” She begged the dragon, who was now crying on her chest.

After a very long while, Spike finally calmed down. He separated from Celestia’s embrace, wishing to make an important question.

“How do you do it, Celestia? How do you get rid of the pain? How do you forget the sorrow and the suffering from the losses?”

She knew very well what he was talking about. Of course she knew it. In her more than six thousand years of age, she had known an infinite number of ponies who were close to her heart. Ones more than others, but eventually they all had to say goodbye to her with the promise they would meet again in Jerusalem.

“It’s very easy, Spike… I never do it” She answered with a melancholic smile.

The answer surprised Spike.

“What do you mean?” He asked confused.

“That’s what I mean, Spike. I never forget the pain”

Celestia separated from him and stared at the fire.

“How could I forget it, Spike? Why should I? If I forgot the loss, if I forgot the pain of not having them by my side… It would be an insult to those who were important to me! Don’t you understand? If I no longer lamented their death… If I stopped missing them… If their absence didn’t hurt me… It would be like saying they stopped meaning something to me! I never forget, Spike. My dear ponies. My beloved ponies. I remember them all. Each end every one of those who I gave space to in my life and my heart. But I carry on… I carry on because despite appearances, life doesn’t take away from us things. It gives us space to new thing that will come. New experiences, new friends, new illusions…”

Celestia looked at Spike, who was astonished.

“It’s never easy. It’s always difficult to say goodbye to a friend. Saying goodbye to someone you love a lot. But in cases like Twilight… It’s a completely different thing. Twilight was like a daughter to me. She was my pride, my bliss… She saved my kingdom on three separate occasions when I could never have found a way to save it. And somehow she managed to be more powerful and wiser than I can ever aspire to be. And now I won’t see her again. Not until my ponies don’t need me or wish for my help anymore. Not until I have met the expectations of the will of universe and earn my place in Jerusalem. Not until this world stops existing. What happens first”

Celestia looked down for a moment, breathing heavily. She felt her heart and lungs getting piled in her throat and she had tears in her eyes, but she know she had to continue.

“Once more I regret being useless and not being able to give you the answers you seek, Spike. But you must know I do know what it’s like to lose someone you love with all your soul…”

“A very long time ago, when Equestria was young… I fell in love with one of my ponies. He was an artist, you know? He made the elder stained glass windows of the throne room. We kept our love in secret. We had to. The clans of ponies had just united and the war against Ikaruga had left the kingdom with too much instability. We were happy for a long time, but he couldn’t stand that life style. But even after our separation I kept loving him… Oh Spike! He died and I couldn’t even go to his funeral!” She shouted, tearing up.

The dragon finally reacted. He got closer to the goddess of the sun and hugged her, but he said nothing. He only held her for that moment of misery and he let her cry as much as she wanted on his chest.

“So I know very well what it’s like to let someone go like that. Someone you think they’re as important as the air you breathe. Though those ponies go very far, we’re never alone. For example, I always have loved ones by my side who bring me happiness, such as Luna, Cadence, Ragna and of course… You… Even if we can’t see each other at all times, I know you’re all with me and that’s how I never feel alone”

They stayed there for who knows how long. Just embracing and enjoying the warmth of each other’s embrace. All that could be heard were the princess’ sobs and the deep inhalations of the dragon, who was holding her. She shed her tears without reservation. She was tired, so tired. Tired of using her mask, tired of hold her shield, tired of always having to pretend to be strong. Now thanks to Spike, for the first time in over a thousand years, she could afford the huge luxury of being weak, of being fragile, of letting her fears take over her freely. In her heart she knew she could afford that luxury because who was with her was Spike. A dragon who a long time ago had seen the pony behind that mask. A dragon who loved her for who she really was. A dragon who would never care about how she looked.

“I have never talked about this to anyone except Luna” She muttered weakly, still held by the dragon.

“I’m honored you talk to me about this” He replied.

“You shouldn’t. I’m ashamed. You come to me looking for an advice… And I’m the one who seizes the situation to give me some self-therapy and be weak to be able to face my demons. Forgive me…” She said embarrassed, looking at his eyes.

“Don’t apologize, Celestia. Though you don’t believe it, what you’ve told me has helped me a lot. You’re right. It is not a farewell, but a see you later. I still have a lot to live for and I have the fortune to have many wonderful ponies in my life. You above all of them”

He got his head close to hers and they rubbed their faces lovingly against each other’s.

“I adore you. Thank you for all you do and have done for me”

Celestia was now crying for other reasons. She felt so fragile, so vulnerable and yet so protected and safe to have Spike by her side. She felt intensely fortunate to have a friend who was with her. She was about to thank him when something interrupted his contact: The outbreak of a big lightning. The noise scared Celestia, who strongly hugged the dragon in search of refuge. A storm had approached.

“I forgot it’s storm season” Spike said.

“Yes, it is”

“I think I should go” She said, breaking the embrace.

“Spike…” She whispered, looking down at the floor.

“What, Celestia?”

“Could you… Could you please stay with me tonight?” She asked, raising her head to look at his eyes.

“Please, don’t go. I… I don’t want to be alone tonight… Please”

It wasn’t a petition, but a plea. Spike knew it. She had gotten rid of all her defenses just for him and now she looked completely vulnerable. The ruler of Equestria at that moment was a helpless soul who needed desperately someone to protect her from the darkness of night.

“Please, Spike. Just tonight” She repeated her plea when she heard no answer.

Spike knew it was something improper. It wasn’t very ethical, considering their records. And especially, it wasn’t professional due to the political position they both had in that kingdom. But there was no way the dragon would abandon his princess. Not when she needed him so much.

“Of course, Celestia. I’ll stay here as long as you want”

Moments later, Spike was lying on the royal bed on his stomach with crossed arms as the princess lay next to him with her legs folded and leaning her body on his with her head on his shoulder.

“Isn’t it incredible? Almost one hundred years ago, in a night like this, I was an unprepared mother cradling a son I hadn’t wished for who didn’t stop crying. Now I’m the child afraid of the lightning who’s crying and seeks refuge next to the one who once was a baby and now is bigger and stronger than her”

“Are you ashamed?”

“I don’t even know. Should I?”

Spike thought his answer for a moment.

“Well… You look so cute when you cry” He answered.

For the first time in the night, Celestia smiled and laughed.

“That’s why I love you so much” She said, rubbing her face against his neck.

“It was a night like this, you know? The first night we were together” She said with nostalgia.

“Really?”

“Yes. The same day you were born. I had brought a cradle for you to this bedroom, as well as baby bottles, diapers, milk gemstones and everything that could be necessary to take care of you. That night I fed you dinner and then I went to sleep with you. But then, after midnight, something woke me up. It was the scariest sound I had ever heard. A baby’s whimper. A huge tempest had come that night. The lightning awakened you and you were crying. Immediately after I casted a spell to block the external noise and I took you in my arms. You looked at my eyes… I kissed you on your forehead and I tried to calm you down, but you kept crying. You kept making that terrible noise that shot pain to my heart. I tried to feed you, give you slaps on your back to see if you burped, I changed your diaper, but you didn’t stop. The great Princess Celestia wasn’t able to stop a baby’s whimper. I covered you with a blanket next to my chest and I swung you until you stopped crying. And however, you were still looking at me like you were expecting something from me”

As Celestia shed tiny tears of happiness and nostalgia, Spike was listening to her attentively. He was touched by the sorrow and bliss of the princess.

“And then I saw it in your eyes. I saw you loved me. I saw you loved me, not for my crown, not for my title, not for my origin. You loved me for who I was and what I meant to you. And I loved it very much! I thought about singing a lullaby to you so you would sleep, but then I realized I knew none. So I decided to tell you a story, which is curious because instead of telling you a known story, I invented one right there”

“Do you remember that story?” He asked full of curiosity.

“Of course” She immediately answered.

“Could I hear it again?”

Celestia blushed a little.

“Ah… Are you sure? It’s a very cheesy story”

“Please. I want to hear it” He insisted.

“All… All right. But don’t laugh!”

“Of course” He said, rolling over to see her directly.

Celestia took a huge breath before starting.

“There was once a magical and prosperous kingdom inhabited by happy ponies, who were guided by a young princess. The princess guided her people with equity and justice. And though she was loved and respected by everypony, she actually felt so alone. Because despite the love she received from all the ponies who knew her, almost no one truly knew her. They only saw the authority and the supposed greatness of the figure who guided their nation, but they never noticed the pony under the crown, who dreamt about having a true friend. Then one day a gift from heaven came to her. It was a little angel. A little angel who had seen that everything the princess needed was a friend. Someone who loved her for who she was, regardless of what she did and represented for the rest of the world. So the little angel promised to take care of the princess and became her first friend in a very long time. And though they couldn’t always be together, the little angel always returned to her princess to give her his true friendship and moments of big happiness”

When she finished, her shining magenta eyes were full of tears. She slowly looked at the dragon next to her with a huge smile.

“And since that day, Spike, the princess no longer felt sad or alone ever again” She concluded.

Spike sat up with a serious expression. He got closer to the princess and wiped her tears with his claws and finally hugged her affectionally.

“You’re my best friend, Spike. You’re my family… You’re my angel… My beloved angel”

“And you will never be alone as long as I’m alive, my princess. Just call me and I’ll be there for you” He whispered to her ear.

It was very improper. Too much maybe, but neither of them cared about it. It only mattered their friendship and the love they had thanks to it. Spike leaned back on the bed, bringing his princess with him. He kissed her on her forehead and finally rested his head on the pillow to be able to sleep. She rubbed her face against his neck one last time before sleeping, feeling completely happy to be next to his most beloved friend. Her irreplaceable guardian angel.

Twelve years later

It was a beautiful spring day. The day before, Spike had been visited by his sister in law Cadence and her two children: Siegfried and Amaltea. They weren’t so different from the rest of the Kirins born from a pony, except for a small great detail: Siegfried and Amaltea had a unicorn’s horn and were capable of using magic.

The queen of Ikaruga and guardian of Love spent the afternoon in Spike’s house while her children were walking through the village, visiting their friends in Sweet Apple Acres and Sugar Cube Corner, among other places.

But now and how it usually was at those times, Spike was alone in his house. He was playing his piano in the living room. The song was named ‘One Last Wish’. It was a very melancholic song, even depressing. But at the same time it was very happy. It helped him remember old times. Better said, times when his house had more than one inhabitant. He could almost hear the sound of Twilight’s hooves and smell her lavender scent he liked so much… The memory itself filled him with happiness.

But he heard something. The sound of the ringer. Who could be at that time when most ponies were having lunch?

“Good afternoon, Spike. Telegram for you” The pegasus mailman said.

“Thank you” He said, taking the postal envelope.

“Have a nice day” He said, flying away in a hurry.

Spike was somewhat confused. Why would anyone send a telegram to him? A telegram that had been sent from the same Ponyville? He opened the envelope and saw a letter with a brief message that only contained the name of a restaurant, the time, the table number and finally a signature made with a kiss of emerald green lipstick.

Spike had never seen any pony or dragon use that lipstick color. That’s why it was easy for him to deduce who it belonged to.

“Is it… Is it possible?” He wondered.

After so many years, the last time he knew something about her was about ninety years ago and she had told him she would go on a journey through the world. How was it possible she returned to Ponyville after so many years? How long do changelings live?

He checked the time. The appointment was in three hours. It was more than enough time to get ready. And so he did it. He took a shower, he brushed his teeth, he ‘waxed’ his scales so they would shine. Damn! He hadn’t groomed that much since Amaltea’s baptism. He felt… nervous. Was he really going to meet ‘her’? And why did he feel so happy about it? Maybe because though it had been a very little time, she had an important episode in his life. Besides, she was the only other female he had shared a mouth-to-mouth kiss with, in addition to his late wife.

“Is it… Is it actually her?” He wondered, looking at the note like he was waiting for an answer.

Later, Spike was in the restaurant in a private balcony, waiting for the one who had sent the letter to him. The balcony had opaque glass. That is, though one could see through the window perfectly, nothing could be seen from inside the restaurant. Spike was playing with his fork, making it spin like the propeller of an electric fan with his powers.

“Was it a fake note? She has already delayed ten minutes. Or was she trying to test my interest in… This reencounter” He wondered.

He stopped playing with his fork and rubbed his temple. Had he arrived there to waste time? Suddenly the door opened. Spike’s breathe stopped as well as his heart. Slowly, through the doorway, entered calmly a black unicorn like night. She had aqua blue straight hair, dancing to the rhythm of her walk like a living waterfall. Green eyes and shiny like emeralds. She was wearing a black dress with bell sleeves and lime green embroideries.

“I’m happy to see you… My Lord” She whispered with a warm smile.

Spike remained silent, enthralled by the unicorn’s immense beauty and astonished to confirm it was really her.

“How strange. I remembered you with better manners” The unicorn joked after a moment of not having an answer.

That was enough to pull Spike out of his trance. He smiled when he recognized the queen and stood up from his chair to go to her.

“What other reaction could be expected from someone who meets an old friend they hadn’t seen in ninety years?” He replied ironically.

“My goodness. And I thought the color of the lipstick had been a very vague clue”

Spike smiled even more. When he was in front of her, the unicorn extended her right hoof so the dragon would kiss it. Spike took it and then she jumped with her forelegs and surrounded his neck to hug him tightly.

“I missed you, Spike” She muttered.

Spike was again static without knowing whether return the embrace or not.

“I’m happy to see you too, Chrysalis” He replied.

“By the way, it’s been ninety one years” She said, correcting the dragon.

“Does it matter? You haven’t gotten older at all”

Chrysalis separated slowly from his arms with a smile that was less happy than before.

“That’s what I’d like. Don’t forget this is a fake appearance. Time hasn’t been able to take my soul yet, but it has managed to wither my body”

Her body turned into a familiar lime green fire, revealing the queen’s true form. Spike didn’t really know what to wait and what he saw surprised him more for the better than for the worse. Her figure had hardly changed. She was still that tall and slender creature with thin legs, just like so many years ago. There were only little differences on her skin. If the first time he saw her she looked between late twenties, now she seemed to be the mid-forties.

“I look older, don’t I?” She joked.

“I was going to say mature”

Chrysalis laughed a bit. She was again the unicorn she was before. After all, she didn’t want the waiter to enter at any moment and saw her with her true form.

“My deepest sympathy for the death of your wife, Spike” She said very seriously.

This time Spike lost his smile.

“Thank you so much, but don’t worry about it. She has gone and we had better let her rest in peace. Years have passed. It will do no good for me to keep mourning her death” He replied.

The waiter soon entered the balcony. The old friends took a seat and ordered their dishes.

The food was delicious, but not as much as the conversation. Spike didn’t understand why or how, but it was extremely easy for him to talk with the queen. And he was really enjoying being with her. Spike talked about his political career, changes and effects in Equestria due to its union with Ikaruga and of course: his marriage.

Chrysalis talked about her journeys and the adventures she had been living across almost all the world. From the snowy mountain chains that formed Balthosna, kingdom of griffins and even the deep ocean in the underwater cities of Itacar, kingdom of mermaids. With so many journeys, she had become a writer (among other things) and she had written some very successful novels, though few of them were from the same author.

Everything was so natural and comfortable. Like two old friends enjoying a reunion they had been waiting for years.

“And what brings you back to Equestria?”

“Revenge…” She evilly whispered.

Spike, who was cutting his steak with a knife, stopped short.

“Hahahah! Calm down, Spike. Why would I seek revenge? Or rather against what or who? All the guardians rest in peace now and Ragnarok would burn me before being able to get close to Cadence. Besides, you’ve told me she had a hard time with her ex-husband. Though I think that was best for her. She’s now queen of her own kingdom and has a real man on her bed” She said cynically.

“… What do you mean?” The dragon asked. He was suddenly very interested in the new subject.

“I mean that Shining Armor might be friendly, polite and of course, handsome. He wasn’t a dream couple. He was bossy, despotic, negligent and a complete incompetent when it came to pleasing her partner in bed”

“Wait… Do you mean you and him…?”

“You haven’t thought I fed on his love just with kisses and hugs, have you? But as I said, he was a failure”

“Are you serious?”

“The poor demon had premature ejaculation”

Spike looked at the queen with widened eyes for a moment before laughing out loud, shaking the entire room with his laughter.

“Hahahahahah! Son of a bitch! You broke your wife’s heart, but considering that if she had stayed with you, you would have made her fake orgasms for her next eighty years! Losing you was the best thing that could happen to her!”

Chrysalis simply stared at the dragon astonished at his laughter.

“Oh Holy Izanagi… This is the best thing you’ve told me tonight… Haha! I wonder if Ragna knows about this” He said as he wiped his tears of laughter.

“I’m glad you’re having fun”

“Yes, well… But now be serious. Why did you come back?” He said, regaining his seriousness.

Chrysalis looked away for a moment before looking at the dragon again.

“I was looking forward to seeing… An old friend of mine. And I was hoping he still remembered me” She said with some melancholy.

“How could I forget the one who made my wedding possible?” Spike asked.

“Thank goodness. Well, after spending so much time travelling across the world, I decided it would be good to come back to Equestria and really know its culture, for the weeks I was here, all I did was to conspire and feed on Shining Armor’s love” She explained.

“And where are you going to stay?”

“Here in Ponyville, of course. I'm renting an apartment close to Everfree hills”

“Hahah! When I arrived, that was a no one’s land. Now the entire place is heritage of the nation”

“Many things have changed. So have you. And for the better I must say. Not like me”

“How… I mean, how many years does your species live?” The dragon asked.

He really knew nothing about changelings and was very intrigued about how the queen had apparently aged a couple of decades in the last ninety years.

“We live as much as we can. We don’t have a… Fixed life expectancy. Without magic, we live more or less the same as a pony in good health. But as long as we can feed on feelings, we can live for a very long time. Though besides Haggard, no changeling has lived for more than three hundred years” She explained.

“Then you’ve been feeding on the emotions of the ones who are around you?” He asked slightly alarmed.

“I didn’t steal it or I fooled anyone if it’s what you’re insinuating!” She answered outraged.

“We changelings don’t need to wash anyone’s brain to feed on them. For example, if I’m at a party or at a dance and everyone is dancing and partying, overflowing with love and happiness, there will be enough ‘love in the air’ so I can feed without hurting anyone”

“I… I see. That’s fine. Well… I’m glad you’re fine and have had so many adventures and satisfying experiences. And thank you for preparing all of this, though if I remember well, wasn’t I the one who promised you an appointment if we saw each other again?”

Chrysalis was unable to not blush a little when she heard the question. Did he remember her? Yes, he did!

“Well… Yes, it was you. But I wanted to give you a surprise for my comeback. Though now that I’m living in this city, you’ll be able to make it up to me whenever you want”

“Yes… Absolutely” He said.

They left in separate ways that night, but they met again a few days after. Spike took her to the theater to see ‘The Mormon’s Book’. A highly acclaimed musical that season. Spike and Chrysalis exited the theater while laughing out loud, just like all the audience. She said she had never laughed so much in her life.

The next weeks, Spike introduced ‘Hive’ to his circle of friends. Most of them were descendants of the Guardians of Harmony. And eventually of course, he had to introduce her to the princesses. A situation that made him more nervous than her, but fortunately, nothing bad happened. She got used to the group very well, but especially the dragon’s company. Spike got used to the queen’s company too. So much that he was even starting to forget about the fact Chrysalis had been the leader of the Changelings and she had committed multiple serious crimes against Equestria. So he started to enjoy a lot being with her. He enjoyed it so much that he was actually beginning to worry, so he sought advice about the matter…

Without him even noticing it, it had already been ten months since Chrysalis had come to Ponyville. And in the city, some began to say rumors that there existed something more than friendship between the dragon and the unicorn. Fortunately, Spike hadn’t found out, but Chrysalis had, who had been questioned by a lot of her neighbors and friends about how she had managed to seduce the most coveted dragon in Equestria. She, of course, answered they were only friends. Something that was all true and that is exactly why it hurt her so much. She had struggled to drop hints to him. Some more subtle than others, but so far nothing seemed to give results.

They both had been cultivating their friendship for months. But then it came the night their lives and relation would change forever.

It was the first night of winter Northern Lights in Ponyville. Spike had invited Chrysalis to see the dancing lights in a very special place in his heart. Special just like the changeling was now. They sat on a picnic blanket Spike had brought and waited for the spectacle to begin. As there was no one else around them, she was with her true form. And unless it wasn’t Spike’s imagination, she looked much younger than in previous meetings.

It must be she has been able to feed better thanks to all the love in Equestria air The dragon thought.

“It’s a beautiful place” Chrysalis said.

“I know. People wanted the tourist route of the alpinists to get here, but I diverted the route so no one would come here”

“Any special reason to protect this place?” She asked surprised that the dragon had that much interest in that place.

“When I was a child I used to talk with Celestia here when something bothered or worried me. And this is also where I proposed marriage to Twilight” He said with a lot of nostalgia.

“I see… I would have liked to know her. I know that she would probably have wanted to put me in a dungeon. But I never had any hard feelings to her. She did what she had to, just like me”

Spike looked at her confused for a moment. When he did, she smiled.

“Of course these days, I’m happy it happened like that”

Spike smiled a little, dispelling his fears. At that time the sky lit with the night lights of the aurora.

“There they are” He said.

He lay on his belly with the queen next to her in the same position. Slowly, very, very slowly, she rested her figure to lean on the dragon’s body. Whether he noticed it or not, he offered no resistance or complaints.

Chrysalis closed her eyes, for at that moment she was barely interested in the lights in the sky. She only wanted to enjoy the proximity of her body with the dragon’s and enjoy its warmth. Chrysalis treasured his company. She treasured moments like this that Spike prepared so they would be totally alone. She loved the feeling of fullness and peace the dragon gave her. But she desired more, much more. And she had decided to turn that night into the one when she would get more than a hug and a kiss on her cheek.

She extended her left foreleg and put her hoof on Spike’s right claw. Spike slightly deviated his eyes to the changeling next to him. She was looking down with insecurity in her eyes. After a sigh, she raised her sight to him with a melancholic glance.

“Spike… Let’s stop playing. We both know that the real reason I came back to Equestria was to be with you… Because… Because you’re special to me. More than you think. And if I’m special to you… I beg you to tell me”

‘You’re special to me’ Why had she said that? Why hadn’t she said ‘Because I love you’? Was it so hard to say? Maybe she had said that because saying the other thing would have made her look desperate. Maybe because she herself wasn’t totally sure about her feelings. Maybe because she feared rejection or scaring the dragon. In any case, she patiently waited for his reply.

Spike looked at the queen without saying anything. It was true that Spike had also come to consider the queen as someone special. Even now it didn’t stop surprising him how enjoyable being with her was. She was funny, smart, she had a lot of stories to tell and she was very attractive. Even exotic. She had slowly been becoming a valuable and dear friend. But after several months of spending time together, the dragon began to notice how his perception of the queen had been changing slowly.

Flashback

Distressed, he looked for Celestia to talk with her about the matter. How could it be possible for him to fall in love again only twelve years after the death of his beloved wife?

“What’s bothering you, sweetheart?” Celestia asked very calmly.

“Didn’t Twilight tell you not to be afraid to find love again?”

“Yes. But I never thought I would find it so soon. I feel like just yesterday I was holding Twilight in my arms. And starting a new relationship makes me feel like I was saying she no longer means anything to me” The dragon replied distressed.

“Sweetheart, of course you still care a lot about Twilight. You worrying so much about the possibility to offend or betray her even with all these years is the proof of that. You have a life, Spike and you want to live it. That is the most comprehensive thing in the world. Besides that unicorn Hive is wonderful. I’m surprised you haven’t taken her here so she can see the palace”

“She… She doesn’t like Canterlot. She says it’s all personal reasons”

“Oh, I see. Well, in any case, if you really like her, if she really has become so special to you, then you have nothing to be afraid of. And you know you’ll always have my support in whatever you want to do” The princess said warmly.

Flashback ends

“Spike?” Chrysalis asked, pulling the dragon out of his memory.

He looked in her eyes. The queen dying of anxiety and fear of being rejected. And then something awakened in Spike. A duty, a need, a wish. The duty to protect her. The need to have her by his side. The wish to discover if he could really love her. And if so, love her forever.

“I… Don’t know how special you’re to me, Chrysalis. But now I’m going to find out”

He separated from her a little to have a better angle. He looked at her lovingly and slowly got his face closer to her. When she realized what was happening, Chrysalis’ heart began to pound so hard that it seemed like her shell would break into pieces. She closed her eyes and prepared her lips for what she had expected for years.

Then it finally came. She was kissing her lost prince. Happiness and exhilaration overloaded her body in an instant. Spike had intentions to make it a simple kiss, but the changeling had more interests. With enough strength she managed to put her tongue in the mouth of her new lover and a passionate tongue battle started. Spike was surprised by the gesture, but he offered no resistance. The queen’s tongue was very different from Twilight’s. It was longer, thinner and a little rougher. But in no time he would compare who kissed better. Chrysalis threw her forelegs around the dragon and pulled him closer. She clearly had no intentions to let him go.

They were both in ecstasy. One by the wonder of what seemed to be the reencounter with love and the other one by the wonder of having finally found it. But Spike suddenly felt a little tingling in his head. It was neither painful nor annoying. Just a strange sensation in his head. He also noticed a strange green glow through his eyelids. He decided to open his eyes to see what it was.

His eyes widened when he saw it was the queen’s horn, apparently sucking more green aura from his body. Spike immediately broke the kiss and pushed the queen, almost making her hit the ground.

“What does this mean?!” He demanded, cleaning his mouth after.

Chrysalis, confused by the shock, looked at the dragon, seeing his anger and then she noticed how her horn was glowing. She covered it with both her hooves, extinguishing the glow.

“It’s… It’s not what it looks like! I can explain it!” She screamed full of panic.

“Were you feeding directly on me? Was that your plan from the beginning?! Seducing me and feeding on me to conquer Equestria, like you did with Shining?!”

“No, it’s not that at all! I swear!” She continued begging.

“How could I be so stupid?! How did I think you could be my new love?! How could I be so stupid to not realize it was just a trick?!”

“Spike, I beg you! Please, listen to me for a moment!”

“Give me a reason why I shouldn’t take your ass to the authorities right now!”

“’Friends offer each other the benefit of doubt’ Wasn’t that what your wife wrote in one of her books?” She yelled with desperation.

She was crying. She was crying buckets of sadness. She was crying afraid to have spoiled the chance to find the love of her life. Spike managed to see in her sadness. And in the truth she had said. Friends don’t jump to conclusions so hastily, no matter how bad things look. So he decided to give her a chance because he really considered her his friend. And he really wished them both to be something more.

“You had better say something good… Talk”

Chrysalis sighed deeply, relieved by her new chance.

“What happened a moment ago… It’s true. I was feeding on your love, but it wasn’t with bad intentions! For my species, feeding on other’s love is a reflex when sharing intimate contact. It's in our nature”

“It’s also part of the nature of female praying mantis to eat the head of their mates when they stop mating” Spike replied.

“I know it looks bad. Just give me a moment, please…”

Chrysalis sighed deeply and turned around for a moment before looking at the dragon again.

“Despite what you may think at this moment, I’ve been totally honest with you about all I’ve said and done since the day we met again. I’ve only told you the truth… But… I haven’t told you all of it”

“…And what haven’t you told me?” The dragon asked, still distrusting the queen.

“I didn’t tell you… I had several mates during my trips around the world. The first one of them lived in the desert of Ereclos. He was a very gentle sphinx. I didn’t love him very much, but I was sure that if I gave him a chance, what I felt for him could actually become love. But so there could actually be love, I’d have to show him who I really was because I wanted him to love me and not my character. And neither did I want my relationship to be based on a lie… When he saw the real me, he no longer wanted to know anything more about me. Then I went to Feraled where… I fell in love with a lycanthrope who was the chief of the police department of the city he lived in. But when I revealed my true identity… He got very mad! He accused me of trying to seduce him in order to wash his brain. I had to escape the city because all the police force was looking for me with the command of ‘dead or alive’”

Chrysalis stopped her story to wipe her tears.

“He had told me he loved me… And he tried to kill me” She muttered, shedding other few tears.

“Some time later, when I settled in Kokiri, I knew a fairy. He was a priest. Not that kind of priest, obviously… He accepted me… Can you believe it? At the beginning at least. We said we would find a way to carry on. But at the end my origins were more important than his promises and ended up telling me our love wouldn’t work…”

She looked down as she wiped more tears. Spike was looking at her. His anger and suspicions were totally forgotten.

“I had had my heart broken three times. And why? Because I tried to be sincere. Because I didn’t want to have a relationship based on a lie. Because I really wanted to love! But it was useless. Because all the times I revealed who I was, all the others saw was a monster… It was then that I remembered it. I remembered that dragon who gave me his forgiveness and offered me his friendship, even when that same day he tried to kill me and had all the right to do it. The only one who had told me he preferred my real appearance to any other shape I could take”

She raised her head to meet the dragon’s.

“The time we shared was very brief, Spike. But that day in the jungle… Your wedding day… It was the first time I felt the warmth of friendship from another living being besides my parents and my friends when I was a child. And the first time I felt the affection of a male one. I realized that if there was someone in this world who could love me for who I am… It was you”

“Chrysalis…”

“But you were married and I knew there was no way to pull out of your marriage, not that I wanted to. After all I had seen how your love for her was an incalculable force. Then one day I heard she had died… But I couldn’t simply come and claim your love… So I decided to seek love elsewhere but it was no use. I’ve waited for all this time because I was afraid you thought I was an opportunistic and unfeeling rat who was trying to take advantage of you. I swear this is all true. As for the matter about my horn a moment ago, that’s what all changeling couples do. Instead of feeding on other creatures’ love, they do it simultaneously with their mates. Maybe that doesn’t make much sense, but it works and the couples who truly love each other live long and healthy lives”

“And why did you feed just like that?”

“It wasn’t my intention. I thought about explaining all of this to you before… I had waited for a kiss for so long and the happiness and the pleasure were so big that I let my instincts take over me. I’m really sorry. Just… Forgive me, please”

Spike simply looked at her in silence while she was trembling in fear of being rejected. After what seemed an eternity, Spike looked up to the sky where the auroras were still dancing.

“I’ve heard enough” He interrupted her.

He got closer to the queen with an indecipherable expression. She was waiting for his answer, ready for her heart to be broken into pieces. Spike got even closer and without warning, he wrapped her with his arms.

“I forgive you, Chrysalis. I forgive you because… Because I’m in love with you” He whispered to her ear.

Chrysalis felt how her heart was thrown to the sky and raise higher than the auroras. She hugged the dragon desperately and rubbed her face against his chest and his neck.

“YES, YES, YES! I love you! I love you with all my force!” She shouted with joy, managing to make the dragon lose his balance and throw him to the floor, making him laugh.

“Hahah! My goodness, Chrysalis. Calm down, you look like a child”

“A 127 year old child who has just received the present she has been waiting for almost two decades!” She replied.

“Are you 127 years old?” The dragon asked confused.

The question managed to stop the queen’s euphoria.

“Yeh… yes. Do you have any problem with that?”

“Not at all. It’s not even noticed” He said, rubbing his cheek with his right claw.

He got his face closer to hers, but before their lips made contact, he kissed her on her cheek. Then on the base of her jaw and down her neck, giving small exhalations of his warm breath. Chrysalis sighed surprised, knowing where those caresses were going.

“Spike… Spike, wait” She said, separating his face from her body.

“What’s wrong?” He asked confused.

“I want this with every fiber of my being. But I’d prefer our first time to be in a… More private place. Do you understand?” She uncomfortably said, being afraid of upsetting her new mate.

He only smiled.

“I understand you perfectly. Besides it’s cold out here. Your house or mine?” He proposed.

“Yours is closer and I bet your bed is bigger” She answered.

A flash of green fire and then they both appeared on Spike’s bed.

“Wow. I didn’t know you could do that”

“We have more than enough time so I can show you what I can do” He said, pulling him closer to her to kiss him passionately…

Never in her life had she felt happier. Never in her life had she thought she could be so happy. She had found it. She had found happiness, fullness and especially, love. True love that had been given to her and just her. And thanks to all the love she had absorbed, all her time scars had been healed, leaving the beautiful young Spike had seen almost one hundred years ago in the royal wedding.

“I love you…” She muttered, cradled in the dragon’s arms.

“I love you too” He replied, much more tired than her.

“That was divine”

“Yes… Though I have never felt so tired after doing it”

“Sorry, I couldn’t resist it”

“Are me and my love so tasty?” He joked.

“Exquisite. And in industrial quantities. In fact, despite being so tired, I feel more powerful than ever. I feel like I could conquer Equestria by myself right now” She said with an evil grin that made the dragon’s blood freeze.

Seeing his reaction, the queen laughed out loud.

“Hahahah! Your face is priceless… Please, Spike. Why would I conquer Equestria, now that I have you?” She said, kissing him on his cheek.

“I’m going to have to get used to that kind of jokes, I guess”

“No doubt. But before that, there’s something I must do” She muttered, standing up with her hooves on his chest.

“What’s happening?”

“Shhh… Just watch. This is the secret ritual of my species”

Suddenly, Chrysalis’ horn glowed, but it wasn’t her typical green aura. This was a blue aura, much brighter and pure than he was used to seeing. Chrysalis looked at his eyes and got her face closer to his, pointing him with her horn.

“Don’t worry. This won’t hurt you… I think” She said at the time the tip of her horn made contact with his forehead.

Spike felt a strange sensation in his head that then became pleasant. Like a kind of massage. Then he heard a strong shine that forced Spike to close his eyes, accompanied by a feeling of warmth. Before he could open his eyes, he felt his lover’s lips claim his.

“It is done” She said when their lips separated.

“What was that, Chrysalis?”

“The Ritual of Vital Commitment” She said, leaning again on his figure.

“Vital?” He asked even more confused.

“Changeling marriages are much more… Complicated than most species’. When two changelings want to marry, it’s more than an emotional or legal agreement. It’s a life agreement. When they make The Ritual of Vital Commitment, the couple significantly increases their ease to absorb and feed on their mate’s love, paradoxically causing the other one almost no wear. But at the same time they lose the ability to feed on feeling from any other living being. Their mate become their source of magic and thus, life”

“And you’ve just done that with me?” He asked surprised.

“Exactly”

“But… I’m not a changeling”

“That means the only one who can benefit or suffer by this agreement will be me” She replied calmly.

Spike looked at her surprised by her confidence and thought for a while.

“What will happen to you if… I mean, what happens to changelings when they stop loving each other?”

Chrysalis' expression turned a little more serious.

“When I said the marriages of my species were complicated, I was being serious. The mate must be chosen very carefully because if they lose their love, they won’t lose their pact. When love is lost, the couple must feed on what remains. Jealousy, resentment, hatred… That or they can break up, but when they do it, they must understand they will no longer be able to feed on anyone else’s feelings. No more magic. And without magic, we’re so fragile against time like anypony. It’s like invite death to our house. That’s why Haggard never did it and changed wives all the time. It was his way to mock his people and boast the freedom he had” She explained.

“But Chrysalis, are you sure you want something like that with me?” He asked very dismayed.

“What worries you, honey? As I said, the only one who can be hurt is me”

“That’s exactly what I’m worried about!”

“Why? Didn’t you promise me a while ago to love me forever?” She asked anguished.

“You’re not taking this seriously!” He shouted.

“Of course I am!” She replied.

“Do you know what I’m giving you, Spike? Or do you think I don’t understand? When a changeling says ‘I give you my life’, it’s not a metaphor. I understand very well what I’ve just done. I understand I will now have to live from you. And that doesn’t bother me. Do you know why? Because after all, I started living the day we knew each other… Though it sounds very cheesy or stupid”

Spike looked at his mate surprised by that last assertion.

“My life has belonged to you all these years, Spike. And now I’m giving it to you formally. Please… Take care of me. And if you don’t want to, do what you want to me. Because I’m yours. Completely and eternally yours” She whispered seductively, kissing him on his cheek.

Spike sighed with resignation.

“You’re going to make me crazy, you know?”

“I assure you that if you go crazy because of me, it will be just in love”

Spike laughed at the queen’s comment. He was no longer able to distinguish whether it was a joke, irony or sarcasm. He didn’t understand his luck either. No… Luck had had nothing to do. Who had guided him to that unforgettable night? Love, of course. That powerful magic that unites the most distant ones. Yes, a really incredible force. An unpredictable power.

But he had no strength to philosophize about the matter or anything else. He was very tired.

“Besides, the spell will make you not get so tired the next time we make love” She muttered, noticing how the dragon was falling asleep.

“I will like that… Good night, Chrysalis… My angel of a thousand faces…” He whispered, falling asleep with the queen in his arms.

“Good night, Spike. My prince in purple armor” She said happily, giving him a kiss on his cheek.

Spike soon fell asleep, leaving Chrysalis watching his sleep.

“Successful, wealthy, powerful, he doesn’t snore… I can’t believe he was still single after so many years” She laughed ironically.

She looked out the window of the bedroom balcony. She slipped out of the dragon’s embrace. She opened the door slowly and went downstairs, stopping in front of the fireplace. Above the niche of the fireplace, there was a painting made by Spike. On it, it could be seen Twilight in all her glory with her ceremonial uniform as Master Sorceress of Equestria. Chrysalis looked at the picture for a moment before smiling and making a little reverence.

“You know what, Sparkle? For a long time you became the living being I hated the most after haggard. I used to dream about the day I would take revenge on you and all your loved ones. But after knowing Spike and after he made me realize my world hadn’t ended, I stopped having hard feelings for you… I never admitted it before, but I even ended up being grateful for what you had done that fateful day you prevented me from conquering Canterlot. Because though it was indirectly, it was thanks to you I could make all my dreams come true. And thanks to you, my greatest dream has finally been fulfilled… Thank you, Twilight Sparkle. Thank you so much. If it wasn’t for you, I would never have known him”

Chrysalis felt rather silly talking to a painting, but at the same time it felt like the most correct thing in the world.

“I know you must be watching all of this from Jerusalem. Don’t worry about Spike. I will take care of him so he won’t be alone or sad anymore. And though I don’t know if I’ll be able to make him as happy as you did, I assure you I’ll do my best because… Because I love him”

She gave the painting another reverence and came back to the bedroom of her beloved dragon, who was sleeping peacefully. Chrysalis climbed into the bed and after giving him a kiss on his cheek, she leaned her figure next to his and let herself be wrapped by a deep and beautiful dream.

Five months later

Chrysalis was going to Spike’s house, eager to be with her beloved and be able to enjoy the delicious dinner he had promised her for their appointment. Besides of course, the passionate night that would be after the banquet. But when she arrived at the mayor’s house, he wasn’t the one who opened the door, but the goddess of the sun, Princess Celestia. When she saw the ruler of Equestria, Chrysalis’ blood froze completely.

“Good night, Chrysalis. Spike was right. You are very punctual. Come in, please. We have a lot to talk” She said politely.

“P… princess? How did you…? Where is…?”

“Calm down, Chrysalis. I have no bad intentions and you have nothing to be afraid of. Come to the table. You surely don’t want the delicious food Spike prepared for our reunion to get cold”

Chrysalis eventually found herself sitting in the dining room table, which was decorated with several dishes.

“Actually I was surprised a bit when Spike told me you ate meat. But I suppose it was obvious. After all, for some reason you have fangs” Celestia said, as she served herself on his plate a little of everything vegetarian.

“Princess… Why are you here?” Chrysalis asked without even knowing where to start.

“To speak about your relationship with Spike, of course. If you wonder when I knew it, it was this morning actually. He told me”

“And… What else did he tell you?”

“Everything. Well, he didn’t exactly say it to me. I looked into his memories and I checked if he was under the influence of one of your spells like you did with Shining Armor” She used an accusative tone for the last sentence.

“If you think my relationship with him is an elaborated plan to conquer Equestria, I assure you that you have nothing to be afraid of. My feelings for him are all true” The changeling replied without hesitating.

“Yes, I know. And now I also know that despite what seemed to us back then, you had… Strong reasons to attack Canterlot. And I know you suffered a lot before and after that” She said with empathy.

“All of that is in the past. I’ve left the changelings. Now I belong to Spike” She answered very seriously.

“… Has Spike told you he doesn’t like you to think you belong to him?”

“Many times, actually. But I like feeling I’m all his” She joked.

“Well, I guess that’s a matter of cultures. Then, the reason for my visit is not to talk about the past. What happened in Canterlot was almost one hundred years ago. I have no hard feelings for you and I know nor does my sister. After all, you would have done a great favor to Cadence if you had stopped the wedding. What I want is for you to tell me your version of the present so I can help you both with your future”

“Then… Are you okay with me and Spike being a couple?”

“I’m not actually totally convinced about this, but, after Luna, Spike is my most beloved one. And it’s true I haven’t seen him so happy since he was with Twilight. So I would never try to take his new happiness from him”

Celestia’s cheerful expression suddenly turned cold in an instant. Even maleficent.

“But I warn you, Chrysalis. If you hurt Spike. If you hurt a single pony or dragon who lives in this kingdom, or if you give me reasons to think you plan something against Spike or Equestria, I’ll give you the honor of being the first changeling to walk on the sun. Have I spoken clearly?”

To be sincere, besides her lover, Chrysalis considered unlikely to be able to fear someone. With all the love she had absorbed, she felt as powerful as the same Ancients. A threat of a mere goddess seemed so insignificant to her now. But of course, she wasn’t so imprudent or so proud to mock or ignore a princess’ threat.

“I swear you have nothing to worry about” She replied solemnly.

“That’s what I hope. Then, why don’t we start? How was exactly your selection process? What did him that convinced you he would be your true love?” The princess asked, crossing her forelegs.

“Didn’t you just say you saw it all in Spike’s memories?”

“Yes, but I only saw things from his perspective. I want to know yours”

Chrysalis closed her eyes for a moment, remembering that day she knew the dragon in the jungle.

“He… Saved my life. He gave me his forgiveness. He put me safe while he was fighting a group of wargs… He did all of that for me, even when I was a fugitive criminal with a long list of crimes against his kingdom, his princesses and her friends… That day he… Showed me the joy of living”

“Tell me more, please” Celestia said.

Seven years later

A dragon was on his bed sleeping peacefully on his back with his changeling wife doing the same next to him. Suddenly there was a loud knock on the door and moments later, it opened, letting in three small creatures.

“Daddy, mommy!”

“Mommy, mommy!”

“Daddy, daddy!”

The three infants entered while screaming, abruptly waking up their parents, who took a while to realize what was happening.

“Children, calm down! Don’t yell so loud. You’re going to wake up all the neighbors. What are you doing now awake? It’s…”

“Two o’clock” His wife replied, who was watching the alarm clock next to the bed.

“Thank you, honey. Well, what’s wrong, children?”

“Ariadne has had a nightmare!” One of the girls said.

She was a changeling with scaly skin, wings and dragon eyes. Her superior scales were yellow and the ones on her belly were orange. She had magenta eyes, which they looked very similar to Celestia’s.

“I went to Morgana’s bedroom to not be alone, but she ended up getting afraid too. And then we went together to Sephiroth’s bedroom, but he got afraid too” Ariadne explained.

She had the same physical features than her sister’s, except for the colors. She had pink scales, pastel blue belly and green eyes.

“I wasn’t afraid! I told them to come with daddy and mommy so they would shut up” The boy complained, though he was clearly afraid.

He had white scales, grey belly and aquamarine blue eyes.

“Ok, ok. Don’t cry, my loves. Come with your mommy” Chrysalis said lovingly, attracting her children to her with her magic and wrapping them with her long forelegs to kiss each on their forehead.

Spike simply laughed at the scene. Maybe because after all she was his loving wife, but Chrysalis was the best mother he had ever known. Changelings usually lay between six and ten eggs, though most times only half survive. Chrysalis had only laid three and all of them had hatched, bringing to the world her beloved children. The first hybrids between dragon and changeling in the world.

“Can we sleep here with you?” Morgana asked.

“Yes, of course. But we should sleep now” Spike said while yawning.

“No! I’m not tired. Let’s play a game” Sephiroth said.

“No, son. It’s too late”

“Tell us a story” Ariadne said.

“A story!” The triplets shouted.

Spike sighed, knowing he had no escape.

“Alright, alright. What story do you want?”

“Tell us when Twilight grandma and her friends defeated Discord” Ariadne said.

Spike immediately looked at her wife, who didn’t seem very convinced.

“Dears, your father has told you that story thousands of times” Chrysalis tried to persuade them.

“But we like it”

“Very well, if you want it so much, go on, honey. Tell them how Twilight and her friends defeated Discord” She approved with apathy.

“All right. Well children, a long time ago, before you were even born or your mother and I met, the days that Cannan, our city, was known as Ponyville… There lived a sorcerer's apprentice unicorn. Her name was Twilight…”

The three children, who weren’t more than five years old, had fallen asleep when Spike had only told them one third of the story. Spike volunteered to take them back to their beds. A labor he returned from soon, finding his wife turning her back on him next to him on the bed.

“Why don’t you like that story?”

“It’s not that I don’t like it. I don’t like the face you make when you remember her” She answered defensively.

“I’ve told you a thousand times you don’t have to compare yourself to her. I still love her so much and I love you too. But I have never spent a moment to compare you both in any way, especially not about ‘who I love more’ or ‘who managed to make me happier’. You don’t have to compare yourself to her” He said softly, stroking her shoulder.

“I don’t compare myself to her. It’s just that… It bothers me to know I’m not the only one who occupies a so special place in your heart. I'd rather not share it with anyone. That’s all” She answered without looking at him.

“What’s wrong with that?”

“Nothing. I simply don’t like it. That’s all. Call it a whim or whatever you want to call it” She answered somewhat cranky.

“Well… You may have to share my heart and my brain, but the rest of my body is just yours” He said mischievously.

“I like how that sounds” She said, throwing her forelegs around his neck to kiss him.

She quickly managed to push him against the bed, positioning above him.

“Now?”

“You made the invitation. Now take responsibility for the consequences” She said, almost like an order.

“Yes, my angel”

And just like that, Spike began to make love to his wife.

Love. That strange and fascinating magic that made him love at unsuspected levels the same unicorn who had given life to him. That force that fixed the broken heart of a desperate queen, uniting her with an unexpected lover who managed to make her happier than ever. That power that guided a sad and lonely soul to find the joy of living and give herself in body and soul to her savior, who ironically had tried to kill her.

That magic able to unite the most distant souls and help them find redemption, comfort and consolation. But especially, happiness. Yes, love was magic. A wise and unpredictable magic.

“Yes, love is truly unpredictable” Spike muttered while he was stroking the mane of his loving and satisfied wife, who was leaning on his chest.

“Say it again” Chrysalis said.

“Love is truly unpredictable”

“Poetry” She whispered, falling asleep.

Spike kissed her on the base of her horn and got ready to accompany her to the world of dreams.

Author's Notes:

I personally think this is the best Spilight fic ever written. Please, people, post your comments.