Marrok woke with a howl. Baning as if he cried for the moon, when he finished he was fighting the urge to transform into a Werewolf. He attempted to get up but he was tied down. Moments of struggling and he said,”WHAT IS THIS!! I COMMAND THE ONE WHO DID THIS TO ME TO LET ME GO!!!”

Marrok stopped struggling when he heard a familiar voice say,”Stop Marrok, it is no use.”

To his surprise he stopped and knew the soothing voice that called out to him in the dark room. It was Night Dancer, he could not see her but he listened to her. Marrok calmed down and looked around the room and it was pure dark, a darkness that not even he could not see through as one of Luna’s children.

Luna.

Questions began to flow into his mind. Questions that began to swirl and give him a headache. But he realized it was not a mere headache, something or someone was trying to enter his mind. He fought back with all the might he could and repelled the invader. Marrok then heard an evil laugh sound in the darkness. A voice then echoed through the chamber and tried to strike fear into Marrok’s eyes.
“I was told you were strong but not this strong. For so long I have waited for this moment.”

A candle was lit and finally the figure revealed herself. It was Chrysalis, the Changeling Queen. The Children of the Night had fought her before and could fight her again. But something was different about her. Her shape was not the same. Dark illuminate energy rolled off of her and there were patches of dark energy that replaced some parts of her insect body. And her eyes instead of being a glowing green was a dark red like Dracula’s.

She chuckled and said,”Like what you see? I recently got new powers.”

“Chrysalis.”Marrok said disgustedly under his breath,”What have you done to Shadow Garden?!”

Chrysalis walked towards Marrok and explained,”I have simply made it my new hive. After your last defences fell my drones then made the preparations. You see me and King Sombra had a plan. We would take Shadow Garden as our base of operations and continue on to take over the rest of Equestria. But.”

Chrysalis lowered her head in disappointment,”We both failed our invasion of the lands we desired. Me with being launched into low orbit and finally plummeting down to Equestria in defeat. But before King Sombra died forever after he tried to take the Crystal Empire, he merged his dark powers with me and my drones. We now have more powers than we could ever dream of. With these new strengths we will surely take over all of Equestria.”

Marrok refused to believe what he was hearing. King Sombra and Chrysalis join forces. The Children of the Night could handle regular run in the mill Changelings. But when fused with Sombra’s dark magic would mean that they could equal the strength and magical ability of the Children of the Night.

Marrok looked deep into Chrysalis’ eyes and saw an image shimmer of King Sombra. Marrok lowered his head and remembered his brothers and sisters that had fallen in battle. Pain finally found its way into Marrok, not physical pain that he could draw on to improve his strength, but emotional pain that he could not cure. Marrok lifted his head back up and saw Chrysalis tower over him and she carried a well sharpened scalpel that hovered over Marrok’s exposed chest.

Chrysalis smiled and said,”I have heard that your wounds can make you stronger. But can it get to a point where you feel utter defeat and exhaustion.”

Chrysalis shoved the sharp tool into Marrok’s chest and he didn’t flinch or cry in pain. As if he wasn’t affected at all. But then she cut along his chest and made a long line of bright red blood. The tool cut deep and he could feel it burn through his flesh and heat his skin. His mind clenched and could feel his animal side try to take over himself. Despite the strength and improved power he received from his Werewolf form he always felt contained.

He felt pushed away from his own mind, although he had great control over his own actions in his Werewolf form. Marrok panted heavily as Chrysalis removed her scalpel from his chest. She stared at the now bleeding mark across Marrok’s chest. She was expecting it to heal instantly. But it remained. Blood pouring out of it. It stung great pain into Marrok and he used all of his strength to keep it suppressed. Marrok wanted to turn into a Werewolf but that would be exactly what Chrysalis wants. But the more he struggled the more pain he felt, his special ability allowed him to be near the immortality as a Alicorn.

It was because he was near an Immortal Alicorn that Chrysalis wants to extract that power from him and put it into her and her drones. Finally the animal inside him stopped fighting and went back down into his subconscious. Sweat dripped down Marrok and Chrysalis smiled,”This will be more fun than I expected. Let us see if I can make that animal inside of you break out.”

She made another long stroke down his chest to his stomach. It again cut deep into his flesh and felt the animal try to break free. Marrok felt that his mental strength begin to wane everytime he resisted. A large T was on his chest and stomach. Blood slowly pouring out of the wounds, they were supposed to be healed by now. Not only was his mental strength began to weaken but also his physical strength.

Despite all of this he spat at Chrysalis’ face and she reeled in disbelief. She wiped the spit from her face and jammed the scalpel into his left eye. Chrysalis slowly removed her scalpel from his eye socket and his left eye darkened and she yanked. Pulling the eyeball right out. Finally he screamed in horrible pain, his cries echoed in the darkness of the room. The animal inside almost overtook him but he put up his defences once again and suppressed it down further.

Chrysalis saw an image of the animal that fought against Marrok. Briefly she saw a humanoid werewolf pony hybrid larger than any werewolf she had ever seen. A werewolf with jet black fur and piercing red eyes and teeth like daggers. For a moment Chrysalis stepped back in fear, she had heard legends of the Alpha of the Pack. She heard stories that he could wipe out an entire horde of drones with barely even putting strain on himself. Chrysalis heard stories that he could leap from one side of the Everfree forest to the next.

She saw the image of those tales, in the flesh. This made her smile. She could use that strength for her and her drones. She needed to let the wolf come out and drain the energy from his form.

Marrok struggled and strained against the bonds crying and howling in pain. Chrysalis stepped back to her position and put her scalpel on a small metal tray with many tools of torture. But she didn’t pick up a tool to replace the scalpel. No what happened next was savage and Chrysalis’ eyes widened in excitement.

She ripped open his chest cavity where the large T was. Flesh ripping apart and the sound of rib bones crunching as his chest was ripped wide open. Marrok cried in horrible and unbearable pain. Marrok looked down and he saw his very own intestines. His lungs, his furiously beating heart, his cracked and mangled rib cage, his stomach, his large and small intestines, his kidney’s, his liver. All of it. His eyes widened in fear and he felt the unrelentless rage of the animal inside. He screamed in the darkness,”NO NO NO NO!!! I WILL NOT GIVE IN!!!!”

More cries of agony and he felt his mind slip away and he fell unconscious from the traumatizing sight he had just saw. Chrysalis swore under her breath and turned away from the now mutilated form of Marrok. She could not continue her experiment, she wanted him alive for the whole experience. But she had more Children of the Night that needed torture, Chrysalis then turned her gaze towards one named Night Dancer. Her powers were unique and even Chrysalis couldn’t take that away from her.

Night Dancer was crying as she saw her brother be mutilated and ripped open. It was gut wrenchingly horrible to watch. She knew that Chrysalis would do that for a few reasons. To demoralize the rest of the Children of the Night. To find the source of their special talents and use them for her and her drones. Night Dancer knew that she would be the next one to be tortured, Chrysalis would torture and kill the Original Four. She would only torture for a day and only recently started doing it since when Luna was banished we were sent into hibernation.

The Children of the Night and Princess Luna were magically connected and when Nightmare Moon took over Luna their connection severed. The connection would not kill them, but put their minds at rest.

Chrysalis was in a tough spot. She could continue the torture or wait until Dracula is captured. One of her drones barged in and said,”My queen. Dracula has been spotted and found in the Everfree forest and he is not alone, he is in the company with two Elements of Harmony.”

Chrysalis thought for a moment and pondered the decisions she could make. She could wait until Dracula found her and her drones or she could send out more drones to capture him. Dracula was the most powerful of all the Children of the Night, that alone made him a threat. If she sent more drones that would only make him more powerful, Changelings have a small amount of unicorn energy that is how they can change forms. Finally Chrysalis turned to face her drone and said,”Send more drones. I want him found and captured immediately. And gather another horde to storm Canterlot. We have waited long enough.”

The drone nodded and ran out of the room. Chrysalis turned around at the now opened Marrok. She walked over to the unconscious Alpha and cast a spell that prevented the body from decaying itself, although it would hurt, he however would die quicker. And that is something Chrysalis couldn’t have. Now she had to wait, but she had more Children of the Night to torture and kill. She had plans for them.

A thousand years of preparation would finally pay off. Chrysalis knew that they shared a connection to Princess Luna, so she moved Shadow Garden and cast a shadow spell all around it. Preventing Princess Luna or Dracula from finding its location. And once she killed and absorbed the powers of the Originals her and her Changelings would be near invincible.

Author's Notes:

Every fifth chapter will be from the perspective of one of the Originals. (So, Marrok, Night Dancer, Riptide and Dracula).