The swarm made its way across Equestria's countryside, a black mass of changlings flying through calm weather. After bountiful stays in Ponyville and the Crystal Empire, times had been a bit tough at the last two cities. Food was available, but the distrust for Changelings remained which meant they were separated from the pony citizens. Despite centuries of being the only species in their kingdom, after having a few two stays where they were happily mixed with the ponies, the isolation now felt strange to them.

But the swarm flew towards Canterlot with spirits overall high. There was excitement of seeing the lavender pony known as Twilight again. Being the saviour of their whole species, they had a special affection to her more than any other creature they had ever met, and this was without the hive mind. Once they also added in the raw emotions that flowed from their Queen, their wings couldn't carry them towards their destination fast enough.

But there was also a fear of seeing the lavender pony again, and this solely came from their Queen. The hive was confused as to why she would be having such contradictory feelings, but none of them would ever be brave enough to approach their Queen and ask her.

Chrysalis was on autopilot, following the changeling guards in front of her, lost in her thoughts Should I tell Twilight right away, or wait until I hear from Cadence first? It's been a few months, surely she knows by now?

A large proportion of Canterlot, as well as press from around Equestria, had turned out to welcome the Changeling swarm’s return to the capital. Despite the former enemy having stayed after their defeat and subsequent rescue, this would be the first time they would be fully welcomed into the city with opened hooves, rather than sneaking in.

Most ponies, and a fair number of the Royal Guard, were still fearful of the changelings - the attack may have been averted but during the amensty many found that new friends had turned out to be changelings in disguise. However, having the new Princess Sparkle standing next the two immortal sisters on the balcony of Canterlot Castle gave them some reassurance, as did having the five other bearers of harmony nearby.

Discord, who was standing next to Fluttershy, filled them with mixed emotions.

The swarm started to be visible on the horizon, coming to a halt just on the edge of the Canterlot district. All eyes turned to the balcony holding the three Princesses. Sensing the mood, and readying to launch herself in the air, Celestia spoke with authority “Come Luna, it’s time to greet our guests.”

Luna put a wing in front of her larger sister, and with the white alicorn looking on in surprise Luna turned to Twilight and spoke simply “Go to her!”

“But Princess Luna, Canterlot is your and Celestia’s city, it’s not my place.” Twilight replied a little startled “I may be a Princess, but your still Equestria’s leaders.”

“Canterlot and Equestria may indeed be our realm, and the tour may be scheduled to turn up here, but I think Queen Chrysalis is looking forwards to somepony else but us old ponies.”

“Luna?” Celestia asked a little confused, before noticing Twilight’s blush.

“Princ…Luna, how did you know?” Twilight tried to remain calm but was a little flustered that her secret was out.

“I am the walker of dreams, and I have seen you in each others. Only a foal couldn't put the pieces together” Luna lightly smirked, whilst Celestia’s poker face dropped briefly for the first time in many years.

“But, it’s not appropriate surely, given the occasion everypony is here for?” the lavender alicorn shifted her weight on her hooves nervously as she spoke.

“What better way of showing how our great nations have combined than with an act of love?” Luna smiled “Especially given the amount of hatred that has been between our species in the past…”

Twilight paused for a moment, her great but young mind churning everything over. “I’m not sure I want the whole nation to know about my private life” she replied bashfully, causing Celestia to smile in a way the mare had not seen since her early tutorage as protégé.

“Twilight, you may be powerful, but you still have much to learn” Celestia looked into her former students eyes “Trust me when I say you could keep nothing like this hidden for long, and best that you control how the story breaks, don't you think? This way it'll be celebratory front page news, rather the then the seedy stuff of the gossip pages!”

Twilight turned to look at a smiling Luna and back into the loving eyes of Celestia, before a large grin crossed Twilights face. “Thank you!” she spoke to both of them, and then, without any delay, launched herself off the castle wall, much to the surprise of everypony present, especially her Ponyville friends.

Twilight flew with grace rather than speed towards the swarm, her clothes flapping in the wind. She teleported off her dress, shoes and crown, placing them neatly over a rail (much to Rarity’s delight) and picked up some altitude. Chrysalis noticed that only one darker colour pony was coming to greet her. At first was worried that Luna was alone and Celestia hadn’t forgiven their previous battles. But then she noticed the alicorn coming towards her was the familiar lavender colour of her lover.

The swarm buzzed with excitement for their Queen as Chrysalis started slowly drifting forwards, before picking up speed as she flew towards the oncoming alicorn. With the two creatures on a collision course, the pair turned away slightly at the last minute and grabbed each other in mid air. With the combined inertia spinning them on the spot, their muzzles met in an embrace.

The Canterlot elite, and the bearers of the elements, were stunned silent as the pair hovered and span in each other hooves, embraced closely. It took a few moments for what was happening to sink in before one pony started stomping her approval on the ground. The lone stomping turned into more stomps, into a cheer and then into a deafening roar as the ponies of Equestria saw their latest and much loved Princess Twilight Sparkle had found her special somepony. The fact it was the changing queen was not forgotten but the herd instinct took over and past sins seemed washed away as the ponies celebrated love and friendship.

Twilight was lost in the moment, back in the hooves of her beloved Queen, but even so and despite the roar of the Canterlot crowd her senses focused on a few ponies close to her heart in particular.

“Awww, aint that just as pretty as a picture!

“Yay!”

“Alright Twilight, way to get some!”

“Must…organise…party!”

And out of the corner of her eye noticed her young charge sharing a nuzzle with the love of his life.

Twilight broke the kiss for the moment just so she could smile at her own happiness and everypony else’s happiness for her. Chrysalis instantly felt a wave of love, both for her and Twilights friends, wash over her whilst her swarms buzzing intensified as their wings beat faster in appreciation. Eventually the pair decided that they had better get the formalities out of the way, and so broke their embrace and started flying slowly towards Canterlot, the changelings following the happy couple with a renewed love for Twilight Sparkle.

“I’ve missed you!” Twilight was the first to speak.

“I could tell” Chrysalis replied with a smirk, before looking over to her friend who was just staring at her with a look of sight derision mixed with suppressing a smile. “Okay, I missed you too!” Chrysalis deadpanned back.

“Well, I guess everypony knows that we’re more than friends now. Hope you’re okay with that?” Twilight asked a little sheepishly.

Chrysalis could sense what her changelings were feeling, and suspected Twilight’s ponies felt the same “I wouldn’t care what anypony, or changeling, thought about us. But I suspect you’ll find that they will be more happy for us than you might fear.”

“I hope so.”

“But you didn't have to give up your Princesshood for me you know?”

“Huh?” Twilight turned to the changeling.

“You took off your crown, I presumed to relinquish your body and mind to me?”

“I didn’t want it to fall off as I flew, diving to catch it would have spoilt the mood!” Twilight huffed back with a bit of a blush

“Awww, so you’re not declaring your unending allegiance to me then?”

Twilight flew a little closer to the changeling Queen and just bopped her on the nose “You don’t change do you?”

Chrysalis raised her eyebrows a little and spoke seductively “I wouldn't think you’d want me to?”

Twilight was leading Chrysalis through the castle after the slightly less intimate greeting by the elder Alicorn sisters. A formal dinner was planned later in the day, and the swarm was being distributed around the city, being welcomed into the homes of ponies much like in Ponyville. This left the afternoon free for the two alicorns and Twilight was showing Chrysalis to her accommodation.

“We have prepared a suite for you” Twilight motioned to a door on her left before adding a little coyly “Or, if you prefer, you could sleep in my quarters?”

Chrysalis smiled at her pony lover “I guess now we’re public that’s an option. Yes, I would like it very much.”

The two continued up a few flights of stairs to a tower, and Twilight opened the doors. Chrysalis looked around a little nervously.

“Chrysalis, is something wrong?”

“No, nothing…okay, I’m looking for hidden traps or kinky equipment and so forth”

“This is my suite at the castle, where there are maids and cleaners etc. I’m not exactly going to leave anything like that around, especially when I’m hardly even here!”

“So, this isn’t a trap? Or anything else?” Chrysalis replied, almost sounding a little disappointed.

Twilight trotted into the room “Hopefully there’s more to our relationship than that, but if you want to check, feel free!”

Chrysalis scanned the room with her aura, looking for magic traps or hidden equipment, but found nothing so joined Twilight in the room “Sorry, I just wanted to be sure.” She moved over next to Twilight and nuzzled her gently “Of course there’s more to our relationship than that, but you seemed so eager to get me up here I couldn't help but imagine.”

Twilight nuzzled her friend back “All in good time, I just want to hold you, to be with you.” She picked Chrysalis up in her aura and placed her on the bed, Twilight cuddling up next to her. The two of them lay together for a while, Chrysalis backed into the arms of Twilight who wrapped her up with hooves and wings.

Chrysalis could feel the love she needed to survive simply flowing between the two of them by osmosis and the changeling did not even need to attempt to use magic to extract the emotion. She wanted to tell Twilight what had transpired in the Crystal Empire, but was almost scared. And the love flowing into her, and her swarm, made her too happy to even think about upsetting her friend.

Chrysalis turned round and looked into Twilight’s violet eyes, and started licking her neck. Twilight turned her head slightly to allow the changeling to perform the grooming action, and sighed contently as licks and nibbles at her neck continued. Chrysalis then moved up slightly, licking the side of Twilight's face before taking her ear into her teeth, sucking and licking on it.

Twilight started giggling at the soft touch and then got the feeling that was starting to heading towards more than a friendly groom “I'm all for affection, but perhaps we should save this for later?”

The changeling let the ear fall out of her lips, and returned to face Twilight head on. Wordlessly, she planted a kiss on the pony’s lips before licking the underside of the muzzle, before slowly continuing down the front of the alicorn at a very leisurely pace. Laying side by side made this a little awkward, and despite her earlier protests Twilight decided to help out. She turned slowly into she lay on her back, presenting easier access to herself to her partner, who was more than happy to lay ontop of her love as she continued to leave a trail of wet fur from her muzzle downwards.

Twilight closed her eyes and thought back A little over a year ago I had never felt the sexual touch of another creature and I could have hardly imagined that my lover would have been a former arch enemy of Equestria. Let alone being an Alicorn, freeing and bucking Discord and everything else that has happened. Life is weird!

But those thoughts didn’t last long as Chrysalis slowly made her way down Twilights body. The slow pace was a little teasing, but unlike their usual sessions there was no mischievousness to it, it was pure affection. When Chrysalis found herself nearing her usual area of interest, she kissed and licked between the teats before continuing. Twilight couldn’t help but groan that they were missed, and Chrysalis smiles at how her lover had gone from slight resistance to being deeply engrossed in just a few minutes.

She backtracked a little and took one of the teats in her mouth, kissing and licking it in slow sloppy actions. When she moved over to the other, the wetness left behind and the cool canterlot air made Twilight shiver a little, and her back arched to allow the wings to fully spread. Chrysalis could spend all day pleasuring her lovers body, more than happy to play with the two mounds for hours if it gave her Princess pleasure.

After a suitably long time alternating between each teat, Chrysalis continued downwards until she made it to the tip of Twilight’s marehood. She broke contact with her lips for for a few seconds as she repositioned herself, and Twilight found herself without the contact of her lovers lips and desperate wanted the attention again.

The changeling then slowly licked upwards over Twilights marehood in a single long stroke, avoiding making contact with the pony’s pleasure button. She then circled down the left edge of the lips before repeating the action this time on the right. Chrysalis didn't want to tease Twilight too much, but wanted their first official time together to be sensual. She continued this pattern slowly for a long time, allowing the pleasure to build slowly.

Twilights marehood became moist as the changelings saliva mixed with the pony’s own juices, and the delightful lavender smell of the mare drifted into Chrysalis nose. It made the Queen very happy that she could pleasure her lover so and all thoughts of the news she had to deliver were forgotten. All that filed her mind was the sights, sound, scent and taste of her lover.

Chrysalis gently took Twilights clitoris in her lips and teased the nub gently with her tongue, causing Twilight to moan audibly. Chrysalis continued to massage the nub of nerves and Twilight looked down to see her lovers attention was focused intently on her marehood. The pony just closed her eyes and stretched her head back as wave after wave of pleasure crashed through her mind. Without their usual bondage, spells or magic suppressing, she wasn't quite sure what to do with herself - should she just lie there or get more involved. However, as hormones raced around her body she soon was too caught up in the moment to think about doing anything.

Just as Twilight was nicely building towards the edge, a knock rang out on the door.

“Just ignore it, they'll go away” Twilight managed to moan between her gasps as she felt the crescendo approaching.

The knock rang out again “Oh Twilight darling, are you in there?”

Twilight eyes burst open and she literally shot out of the bed, her wings flapping madly in panic, leaving Chrysalis a little surprised and shocked at the sudden departure, her mouth left empty.

“Oh sweet celestia, I asked Rarity to come over…” Twilight teleported herself to in front of a mirror and tried to make herself look presentable. “Just a minute!” she called out.

Chrysalis initially just watched in amusement at Twilight’s little freak out, but decided to help out. She quickly made the bed and went and sat down on a nearby cushion. Twilight checked that everything seemed in order, and then opened the door.

“Rarity, I forgot you was coming over, please come in” Twilight greeted her friend.

Rarity started to enter the room, and then paused nervously. Looking a little bashful, she spoke hesitantly “Erm, should I come back later?”

“No, not at all!” Twilights grin was a little forced and her cheeks were still a little flushed “Chrysalis and I were…just catching up…about her travels…and the Crystal Empire.”

“Are you sure I'm not interrupting something?” Rarity asked in a way that was more statement than Question, causing Twilight to blush further “I really don't want to stop you from you, erm, catching up.”

Twilight started flustering and didn't know what to say. Chrysalis stood up and approached the unicorn guess “I know we barely know each other, but sorry Rarity I have to ask if Twilights too embarrassed….how did you know?”

Rarity blushed matched Twilights “Well, a lady doesn't usually like to talk about these things, but there is a rather…erm…interesting perfume –“ Rarity air quoted with her hooves as she spoke “- in the air”

If Twilight could burst into flames with embarrassment she would have done so but fortunately she could only do so in anger “Oh sweet mother of equestria, I didn't think of that. I'm so sorry!” Twilights horn lit and her intimate smell disappeared from the room, and numerous fresh flowers appeared in vases.

Rarity smiled, but was still a little put off “No need to apologise, I was the intruder after all”

“No, I asked you to come over, we just got a bit caught up in our reunion!” Twilight continued to blush looking over to her lover "Please, do come in!"

Rarity trotted into the room and looked to the changeling queen “Chrysalis, I think I speak on behalf of all of Twilights friends when I say we welcome you into our little group…” she greeted warmly, but then marched up and stared at the large alicorn “But do anything to harm her emotionally and you’ll have the whole of ponyville to deal with, capish?”

Rarity’s face had grown fierce, but within a second was back to her usual smiling self, and proceeded to put on her dressmaking glasses “Now that that unpleasantness is out of the way, I have the dresses you asked for Princess” and rarity levitated in two large boxes towards the two members of royalty.

“Rarity, please don’t call me Princess”

“Sorry, but if I’m acting in my official capacity than I have no choice. Now Princess, you've obviously seen your gown but here is the one for you guest.”

Chrysalis took the dress box in her own aura, and opened it up. Inside was a beautiful black and green formal gown, and the changeling was left speechless. Having dealt with surprised mares receiving unexpected gifts before, unfortunately for the unicorn not usually her but her clients, Rarity took the lead in the conversation.

“The colour scheme you requested was a little unusual, but now obviously I can see how it matches the furtone…erm…skintone of the body and wings brilliant. Princess, I think your design choice for the rough scalloped edging to the hem was ingenious as it will match Queen Chrysalis’s, erm, features...the holes and the unique wings!”

“Well, I learnt from the best!” Twilight smiled at her friend.

“Princess, you do flatter me so” Rarity replied with a formal nod much to Twilights annoyance.

The changeling was just standing there looking at the dress in her aura “You… you had a dress made for me?"

“Of course, I thought it would be a nice welcome gift. I know you can take whatever form you want, including clothes, but…do you like it?”

Chrysalis “Like it? It’s the first gift I’ve ever been given…I love it!” and she nuzzled Twilight affectionately, before turning back to the unicorn in the room “Thank you for making me this dress Rarity”

“It is no problem your highness, Princess” Rarity bowed.

“Please don't do that Rarity” Twilight begged her friend

Rarity took off the glasses she had put on “Glasses are off so I'm no longer the royal dressmaker, so you’re back to Twilight…” and she turned to the other creature in the room “And, erm, your highness? What should I call you?”

“Your highness will do, or Queen, or Grand Supreme Ruler of All, any of them would suffice!”

Rarity looked over to Twilight with confusion. "Her humor is always like this…” Twilight rolled her eyes “…you’ll learn to embrace it…look how we cope with Pinkie. Just call her Chrysalis, that’s an order.”

“Okay, Twilight, Chrysalis. Sorry for interrupting earlier and I leave you two to, well, whatever you were doing!”

Chrysalis trotted up to the unicorn “Rairty. Please stay for tea…I mean, I understand if you feel a little awkward but I would love to meet all of Twilights friends now that we are going to be closer to each other”

“Are you sure? It would be delightful. I wouldn't mind getting to know the real you rather than the evil megalomaniac of your public ponysona, no offence!”

“That is the real me, but none taken” Chrysalis smiled back.