"Well, there's my future wife." Shining Armor watched every inch of Cadance walk into the room. His vision studied the way her hooves lifted from the floor, the way her legs bent. Her thighs and shoulders were exquisite and, when his eyes finally reached her face he saw an uncertain smile there. "What's the matter?"

Chrysalis was worried, this was the second most dangerous part of her plan. If the stupid stallion had arranged something, she might get caught out. "I am getting married in a few days, I am nervous!" It was exactly the line Cadance had used when, disguised as Shining, Chrysalis had asked her the same question.

"Want me to brush your mane? That always relaxes you, Cadie." Shining was already fetching the brush with his magic, his horn constantly maintaining the shield around the castle, but a little extra was no problem. "Come on, settle on the bed and let me pamper you."

Stepping carefully, remembering how Cadance had moved, Chrysalis did just that, laying across from Shining while he lifted the brush up. It gave the changeling queen the perfect chance to gaze into his eyes.

Something seemed a little off to Shining, but he was sure it was just his fiancee being a little frazzled. He half closed his eyes as he gently worked the brush through her mane, but a slight flash of green caught his attention and he looked deep into the mare's eyes. The more he brushed, the more he gazed, each stroke seemed to be accompanied by a little flicker of green, but each time he saw it he cared less and less. "I love you, Cadance."

Chrysalis fed, she fed well. She poured the stallion's energy back into him, timing her magic with each stroke of the brush, she looked into his eyes and slowly imposed her will upon the pony. "Don't stop brushing, now. Each time you brush you relax a little more. Each time you brush you love me a little more. You love to brush my mane."

"Love you. Love your mane." Shining smiled happily, there was indeed nothing he loved on the same scale as Cadance, the words she told him were so true they just sunk into his relaxed mind. He kept brushing.

"That is all you have to do, keep brushing my mane, keep feeling more and more relaxed. It is great to be relaxed and just stare into my eyes, isn't it?" Chrysalis' smile was wide, this pony had literally walked into her web, willingly, and that made him all the sweeter to drink.

Shining kept watching, his brain only able to focus on two things now, brushing and those amazing eyes. But his body interposed itself. "Cadie?"

"Yes?" Chrysalis was amazed he could even talk, let alone start a conversation. "What is it, Shining?"

"I want you." The words from Shining Armor cracked a wall inside the queen. "I want to… to be… with you."

Chrysalis blinked her big eyes at the stallion. "Do you mean… uh?"

Shining kept the brush stroking, but he fought with his magic to reach out another place, brushing at the alicorn's tail. Chrysalis nearly jumped. "Shining!" She was indignant, he was neither changeling nor… The big changeling paused and thought, he was certainly well sized for it, and the body she was disguised as was certainly female. What would it hurt?

When Chrysalis came out of her contemplation Shining Armor was nibbling at her neck in a way that made her squirm, once she noticed it. Still, the brush kept stroking her mane. "Alright, Shining, but just once." Giving a happy, wordless exclamation, Shining tried to get up but green wrapped around him, pushing him backwards. He was confused at first. "Shining, I want you on your back."

The words sank into the stallion's brain, but his brain wasn't thinking so much right then and if it wasn't for the powerful magic he would have mounted his wife-to-be. "Please… Cadie…"

"No, on your back." Chrysalis forced him over and into position, she saw what he had to offer. He was big, really big. "Have we done this before, Shining?" Chrysalis put some power into her words, and so got a nod from the stallion. "Then you will fit…" Climbing up and over him, she pressed her own belly down against his and immediately felt his hips buck.

Shining's length bumped into the mare's rump, but the vicinity was close, and that was good enough for him. Bucking again and again, he shoved against her with abandon, the normally caring and loving stallion held down and reduced to baser instincts.

Chrysalis was shocked at how eager he was and leaned on him with her magic, pinning him in place and keeping his bucking to a minimum. "Hold still, you want to hold still for me, don't you?" Shining's face showed regret and worry, he nodded up to her, but kept bucking. Chrysalis sighed and slowly eased herself backwards. His shaft came into contact with her, but she had to use magic to guide it to her vulva.

The moment the velveteen lips kissed his tip Shining fought the magic, bucking hard and shattering the grip Chrysalis had on him. With a happy whinny he grabbed her shoulders with his forelegs and shoved her down onto himself.

It shoved so deep and so fast that Chrysalis' tongue was hanging out the side of her snout. She had time for a gasp of shock before he pulled back and shoved in, a little further. She had lost control of the situation, Shining was bucking her as he pleased and she… she was enjoying it!

"More…" Shining's breath was hot, he ached for his soon-to-be and the only way of quenching his fire was in her depths. Driving in and out, he saw an odd change happen in Cadance. A shimmer of green flame poured over her body and, for a moment, a black, surprised creature sat astride him. The flame reappeared and Cadance was back.

"Forget that." Chrysalis was stunned by two things, how good it felt to let the stallion have his way and just how much love she was drinking from him. "I am Cadance, you love me."

"Love you." Shining confirmed, his frown banished, his hips never hesitating. It didn't take him long to reach his peak, his wonderful fiancee was everything he wanted in a wife. His body exploded in pleasure and, in that moment, it was like a green fire wrapped around him, too.

Chrysalis nearly passed out. The food that had poured off the stallion, at his peak, would have been enough for a drone to live off for a year. She gulped it down greedily. It wasn't until she realized there was a spreading heat inside her that her climax hit. Bucking and squirming atop the stallion, Chrysalis let out a groan of pleasure that she had not felt before.

Shining gazed up at his amazing Cadie. "I love you."

The words fed the queen's ego, while the sentiment behind them fed her belly.

Chrysalis was off her game all the next day. For a start she spent the morning walking a little funny, but then Shining Armor's sister arrived and the worst thing happened. While Chrysalis was still trying to put together how she felt about everything, she was fighting her disguise's desire to do a silly dance with the princess and only realized her error too late.

"Your sister hates me." Chrysalis hid in their rooms. "Twilight thinks I am a snob, how was I to remember a silly dance from when she was a filly!"

"Twily will get over it, trust me, you just need to…" Shining's train of thought was distracted by a pulse of green in the room. He had learned to love pulses of green, in the last few hours. He smiled and looked deep into his fiancee's eyes. Nothing mattered, nothing could go wrong, so long as he could just gaze into her eyes like this.

"Again, Shining. I want you again." Chrysalis blushed as she said it, she couldn't believe she was doing this. An ache inside was hungry and the only way to feed it was by having Cadance's stallion again… no. "You're my stallion, aren't you?"

"Your stallion…" Shining felt the question was silly, of course he was Cadance's stallion. "You want me?"

In answer, Chrysalis turned around and, just as Shining was about to climb her back a knock came at the door. "Princess, you need to oversee the preparations." The changeling queen could have leveled her horn and demolished the door and the luckless pony behind it. "Princess?"

"Coming!" The queen of the changelings turned and pressed her hoof to Shining's snout. "You wait here, my stallion." Chrysalis' horn flared bright green, burning a massive amount of power to enforce her control on Shining.

"… wait here… yours…" Shining's will had been shattered by the spell. The slow burn of magic expended on him the previous night had weakened him, made him completely open for the dark queen's power.

"Good…" Chrysalis left the room to deal with the dilemma. "What do I need to oversee?"

The poor stallion waiting outside grinned and passed her a clipboard. "My Queen." The words were soft but Chrysalis had to smile wide when she heard them. "Sneaky. I decided to follow you, help with things on the inside."

Chrysalis couldn't help but think much of the drone, if he had gotten past the force-field he had certainly done very well. "How goes the invasion? I have that stallion completely in my bite, I can snap the barrier any time."

"The army is poised and ready. They will push as soon as the shield weak- And then we just have to inspect the food preparations, Princess!" Sneaky had spotted the maid trotting down the hall. "Just this way!"

"And where did you hide the three mares?" Chrysalis looked over the three unicorns who were destined to be her bride's maids. "In the crystal caverns?"

"One scheme isn't always the best to repeat, they are tucked away, My Queen." The changeling that looked like Lyra turned around and looked over their disguise in a mirror. "More and more of us are sneaking in, but it takes some… effort. The train seems to be the best way."

"Perfect. Oh, now I need to go and look at the stupid dresses. I swear, I should just burn this place to the ground now and-" A hoof pressed to Chrysalis' snout as two guards came into view, each bowed as they passed. The queen stared at her drone but smiled. "Good work, but do not touch me again or I will bite your leg off."

The inspection of the dresses was a moment of distraction, then Chrysalis stalked back to her bedroom. "Princess!" It was a real pony this time. "A Miss Pinkie Pie needs to have a word with you about decorations!"

Chrysalis' horn began to charge with energy, at the last moment, just before unloading it into the pony, she calmed herself. "Where is she." The words were full of enough anger that the poor unicorn's legs started to wobble.

"In the hall where the wedding will be… P-P-Princess…" The sound of knees knocking together was heard as 'Cadance' stalked from the hall.

The sun was down and a slight tension that Chrysalis had been feeling seemed to lift. "She is asleep." The Queen of the Changelings curled her lips into the first genuine smile she had had for quite some time. "Shining?" The door was thrown open and she saw him, still standing right where he had been, staring at the door. The moment his eyes adjusted and saw what he thought was his betrothed he trembled and passed out.

Chrysalis hadn't realized how much he had fallen into her power, she must have pushed too much. "Shining, wake up my stallion…" A knock at the door sounded and Chrysalis' snarl was enough to rouse the stallion.

"Cadie?" Shining felt really odd, but then a flash of green came and he was staring up into Cadance's eyes.

"You feel good, you feel normal. Act like nothing feels strange." Chrysalis blinked to break the effect off. Shining blinked as well, the green glow in his eyes fading.

"I feel good!" Shining heard the knocking and called out, "Coming!"

After leaving the two to chat for a moment, Chrysalis invited her prey into the next room. "Could I speak to you for a moment, dear?" She didn't wait for his reply, turning and leaving the room.

As soon as she had Shining alone with her, she reinforced the magic on him. It wasn't enough though. "Are you disagreeing with me?"

"I guess I am I-" Shining twitched as a shiver ran through him. Then the green came again and he felt perfect again.

"Are you getting another of your headaches?" Chrysalis sent a ton of magic into the stallion. "There, all better."

The scampering of hooves made Chrysalis check, and grin when she saw the annoying unicorn bolting from the building. Turning back to Shining Armor, she sighed. "Now, I have something special for you." She stepped slowly around the stallion. "Something that will… hedge my bets."

"Special? For me?" Shining's head was about as dazed and full of confusion as it could get, but her words were crystal clear through it all.

"Oh yes." Chrysalis closed the bedroom door and locked it. "This isn't going to hurt, at all." She gave him another pulse of her magic.

"… not going to hurt…" Everything was foggy now, for Shining, except his Cadie.

"This day is going to be truly perfect, and if it isn't, if just the slightest thing goes wrong… I will not lose you." Chrysalis held up a ball of goop. The stuff would taste terrible, as well she knew, but inside was the smallest drop of the pure essence of a changeling. Poison to normal ponies, with the right flick of magic at the right time it would change from deadly drug to mutagen.

"Here, Shining, this is a nice big… uh, muffin." Chrysalis was briefly at a loss as to what to call it, pony food was not her strong point. What predator ever kept track of the food of its food?

In the green glow of Shining's eyes, the pile of slime on the dark, hole-filled hoof looked like the most delicious thing ever, and his Cady was hoofing it right to his mouth. Shining opened wide and gulped it down whole.

"Perfect, so very perfect." Chrysalis petted the unicorn on the head. "Tomorrow will be just perfect..."

Author's Notes:

This day is going to be perfect!

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