For those of you wondering the word 'Peytral' is a style of armor worn on a horse to cover up the chest while in battle. In this case it is the golden armor that Celestia wears around her chest and neck.

Celestia took a step back as Chrysalis laughed coldly. Stepping forward, Chrysalis's horn slowly glowed green, illuminating the surrounding area. Chrysalis smiled wickedly to Celestia, saying as she slowly began to circle her, “What’s wrong, Celestia? Surprised to see me? I would think you would have remembered seeing me here all those years ago.” Celestia said nothing, simply standing her ground while keeping a very watchful eye on the changeling queen.

Soon, Celestia, watching for any signs of attack, said, “What are you doing here, Chrysalis?”

Chrysalis didn’t immediately reply. She stopped circling Celestia and looked around, saying, “Ah, memories. They are such fickle things, aren’t they, Celestia?”

“What do you want!” Celestia shot back, her patience running thin. “I don't have the time to deal with you.”

Chrysalis laughed coldly as she started to circle Celestia again. Both the queen and Celestia kept the other in constant sight, each locking eyes with the other. Soon enough, Chrysalis, her anger finally reaching a breaking point, fired a green energy bolt at Celestia, causing the latter to jump back.

Celestia shot back with her own energy bolt, only to be completely shocked when she saw an energy shield suddenly surround the changeling queen’s body. With a half-confused and slightly angry look on her face, Celestia snarled out bitterly, “How did you know how to use that spell, Chrysalis?”

“Hmm, perhaps I’ll tell you after I defeat you Celestia,” Chrysalis sneered back. “After all, you do have much to answer for.”

Celestia took a step back as Chrysalis began to slowly advance again. Using her magic, Chrysalis fired another bolt of energy at Celestia, only for her attack to completely fail as Celestia quickly used her own energy shield to deflect the oncoming attack.

Celestia used her own magic and fired a small round of magical energy at Chrysalis, saying, “Chrysalis, end this foolishness now, before one of us gets hurt!”

Chrysalis laughed wickedly and jumped at Celestia. Reflexively, Celestia flew and landed safely a few feet from where Chrysalis landed. She called out to the changeling queen while her horn glowed bright pink, “Chrysalis, I will ask you again to end this encounter! I don’t want to hurt you.”

“Hurt me?” Chrysalis replied, tilting her head to the right and smirking wickedly at Celestia. “You have already hurt me.” Chrysalis dropped her smirk and fired yet another round of energy bolts at Celestia, hitting her squarely in her peytral and knocking the princess to the ground. “You hurt me when you killed my daughter!”

Celestia slowly rose to her hooves, shaking off the pain of being struck by Chrysalis's attack. Looking down and placing a hoof to her chest, she saw that her peytral was smoking slightly from the previous attack. Looking back up at Chrysalis, Celestia said, “What are you talking about? The only time we've interacted was at Shining Armor's wedding, and that was two years ago. How could I have killed your daughter?”

Chrysalis lunged in, hitting Celestia in the chest and knocking her up into the air. With Celestia momentarily unable to defend herself, Chrysalis quickly gained the upper hand. Quickly using her magic, Chrysalis entrapped the princess in an energy field, preventing her escape. Turning her head to the right and left while keeping Celestia encased in her magic, Chrysalis began to toss Celestia about the room as if she were little more than a rubber ball, the orb moving as Chrysalis moved her head. With each blow, the force of the impacts grew that much more intense.

“You’ll pay for what you've done, Celestia!” Chrysalis snarled. “I will have my vengeance!”

Celestia tried several times to break free, only to fail each time. Seeing that her prey still had some fight in her, Chrysalis loosened up on her magic, allowing Celestia to drop to the ground like a stone.

Hitting the cold, hard ground with a loud, painful thud, Celestia screamed in pain as she rolled to a stop near the broken base of the crystal chamber with the number thirteen carved into its base. As Celestia tried to stand on her hooves, Chrysalis again charged in, raising her front hooves up in front of her and kicking the princess hard in the stomach and chest. Celestia immediately found herself toppling head over hoof, rolling towards the very same cliffside that the crystal chamber had rolled over seventeen years ago. Skidding to a painful halt, Celestia again tried to stand, only to find herself encased again in Chrysalis's magic.

“Why--” Celestia coughed, “--are you--” she coughed some more, “--doing this?”

“Why, to kill you, my dear. Why else would I do this? I hate you for what you did to Crystalis.”

Chrysalis lifted Celestia up into the air, then threw her back towards the entryway of the room. Celestia slammed into the doors, painfully screaming out. Her right wing had folded behind her back, and the bones within snapped like twigs. She hit the floor hard, coughing as another bolt of green energy struck her in her chest, knocking her through the doors and into the hallway beyond.

Chrysalis laughed as she followed Celestia out of the doorway into the hallway, saying, “You really don’t remember, do you?” A sick grin grew on her face. Chrysalis approached the badly injured princess, smiling widely. A smile which slowly diminished when Celestia began to climb back to her hooves.

“You and I used to be good friends," Celestia said. "But after your daughter was...was killed, you disappeared. You looked so very different then.” Celestia looked up, her mouth dripping blood from her split lower lip and her right wing bent in an unnatural, painful position from being broken in four places. “I can see what hate has turned you into. I beg you to let your hate go, to release yourself from your inner demons.”

Chrysalis chuckled, "Oh, now you remember killing my daughter. Good killing you now will be much more...fun." Chyralis slowly walked to the right, trying to take a better position for her next attack on Celestia. Celestia again tried to reason with the changeling queen. “Please, Chrysalis. What happened to Crystalis was an accident. I didn’t know that she was going to dart out onto that bridge. I tried to save her. I tried, but I wasn’t able to.”

“Hmph, like Tartarus you tried to save her!" Chrysalis shot back in anger "You can claim that all you want to, Celestia, but we both know that you wanted my daughter to die. You wanted me to hurt, to suffer. Well, now it's time for you to pay for all that you have done.” Chrysalis snarled bitterly. “You killed my daughter, and I have waited a very long time for you to know what that is like.” Chrysalis stepped forward, smirking deviously to Celestia. Slightly lowering her head, she continued, “You remember when your daughter suddenly and tragically died from sudden foal death syndrome? I'll let you in on a little secret." Chrysalis brought her muzzle very close to Celestia's ear and whispered, "It was all me."

Celestia took another step back, her eyes beginning to tear up as she thought of her daughter's death and the sadness still within her heart. Looking to Chrysalis, her vision blurred from the tears, she choked out, “She was innocent! Why did you kill her?”

“Innocent?” Chrysalis used her magic, wrapping a green aura around Celestia’s throat and lifting the princess up off the ground. “INNOCENT!?” Chrysalis threw Celestia through a nearby wall, causing her to scream in pain as her left wing was crushed between her body and the wall, the bones within her wing snapping and breaking like glass. Dropping Celestia to the ground, Chrysalis slowly walked over to the very badly injured princess, screaming, “MY DAUGHTER WAS INNOCENT! HOW COULD YOU JUST LET HER RUN OFF LIKE THAT AND NOT GO AFTER HER? SHE WAS ONLY SIX YEARS OLD, CELESTIA! SHE WAS ONLY A LITTLE FILLY! HOW COULD YOU DO THAT TO HER!?”

Celestia tried to climb to her feet again, only to fall to her stomach as she began to sob heavily, saying while Chrysalis, seething with rage, grew ever closer to her, “I-I'm so sorry, Chrysalis. I never meant for your little one to die. Please, please forgive me.”

Chrysalis ran forward, slamming her front hooves into Celestia's chest. Picking her up once more, she held Celestia against a wall, glaring at her. Suddenly, a look of inspiration grew on Chrysalis's face, and she began to softly laugh. She suddenly dropped Celestia, who hit the ground with a pained yelp and lay where she landed. Chrysalis smirked as she gleefully and wickedly said, “I think I know a better way to hurt you, Celestia. I will bring your student Twilight here, and you can watch as I feed off of her love for you, not stopping until I've drained her dry.”

“N-No. Stay away from Twilight. P-Please, I b-beg you to stay away from her.”

“Now, now. It's not like you to beg for--” Chrysalis's eyes went wide when she sensed a deeper reason for Celestia's begging for Twilight's life. “Oh, I see. I see why you don’t want me around Twilight. Your failure is now complete, Celestia.”

“No, you can’t. I...I won’t let you,” Celestia stammered, trying to stand back up. “I can’t allow this to go any fur--”

Celestia’s eyes went wide when she felt a sharp pain in her chest. Looking down as darkness slowly began to creep over her vision, Celestia saw Chyralis’s horn in her chest. Shaking, she looked across the room, spotting her peytral on the other side of the room, having most likely come off while she was being tossed about. Her eyes began to roll up into her head, and her body became as weak as a newborn foal's. Darkness took over her vision as she succumbed to the oblivion of unconsciousness, hearing only Chrysalis's dark laughter in her ears as she passed out.

Satisfied with her work, Chryaslis, removed her horn from the fallen princess's chest and turned to leave, only to suddenly stop in her tracks when she felt a sudden wave of heat. Looking around in confusion, she said, “What? Where is this heat coming from?” Turning around to face Celestia, she was shocked to see the once-fallen princess rising up off the floor. “You just don't know when to die, do you? I GUESS I'LL JUST HAVE TO FINISH THE JOB!” Chrysalis screamed out in rage, charging forward.

Celestia’s mane and tail burst into bright, yellow flames. Her eyes became two perfect, white spheres. Her fur glowed as brightly as the sun. Chrysalis came to a skidding halt a few feet from Celestia, who opened her now-mended wings fully, taking high to the air. Looking down on her enemy, Celestia screamed out, launching a beam of white, cosmic energy at Chrysalis. Chrysalis, knowing she was at her own end, screamed up to Celestia, “IF I AM TO DIE HERE, THEN I'M TAKING YOU WITH ME!”

Chrysalis spread her wings, flying towards Celestia’s attack head-on, screaming in rage. The resulting explosion from her attack mixed with Celestia’s engulfed what was left of the massion, reducing the laboratory to little more than mere rubble.

Celestia had quickly gained the upper hand, sending a very badly injured Chrysalis toppling head over hoof back to the mansion's laboratory floor. Seeing that her once-dear friend Chrysalis was about to hit the ground, Celestia quickly dove towards the ground, unfortunately coming just short of catching her former friend. Chrysalis hit with a loud, echoing thud and lay motionless.

Celestia landed nearby, her eyes brimming with tears. She screamed in rage, sadness and hate for her once-good friend, now fallen and near-death enemy. As Celestia walked up to her, Chrysalis coughed out to Celestia, while trying to hold her broken front right leg out to her former friend. “C...Celestia. I...I need to forgive you.”

Celestia knelt down, gently pulling Chrysalis to her. Crying, she replied, “Shhh, Chrysalis. I'm here. You’ll be alright.” Celestia trembled while holding her former friend in her hooves, tears washing over her cheeks like a broken water faucet, “Y-You’ll be alright, Chrysalis. You'll see”

Chrysalis coughed. “Y-You're a--” She coughed some more, this time coughing up blood. “You're a terrible liar, you know that, Celestia.” Chrysalis smiled lightly as she continued through fits of coughing, “You--” she coughed harder, spitting up even more blood “--need to know that not all of the changelings are like me.”

Celestia blinked a few times a look of confusion slowly came over her face, “I don’t understand. Are you saying that there is a way to save your changelings.”

“Yes. There is a way, but the one that can save us has not been freed from her own anger and hate just yet.”

Celestia swallowed hard as she felt her former friend's body slowly growing cold. Knowing that Chrysalis was close to death she said, “Hang on. I’ll get you out of here.”

“You can't, Celestia. You must save Twilight. She's...the only one...that...can...”

Chrysalis's eyes rolled up into her skull as she passed out in Celestia’s hooves.

Taking Chrysalis into her hooves and holding her tightly in a warm hug, Celestia cried silently, shaking her friend, trying desperately to awaken her, saying, “Chrysalis, stay with me, please! I can’t lose you again.” Checking for vital signs, Celestia found a very faint heartbeat. She was alive, but barely. Celestia looked down at Chrysalis, her former friend and now fallen enemy. She looked around at the surrounding laboratory where so many horrible things were done seventeen years ago. She thought of Twilight and how she was now a drooling wreck after visiting the accursed place.

And something snapped inside Celestia.

while holding her former friend in her hooves, she threw her head back and screamed in rage and sorrow, letting lose all of her power and setting the building ablaze. Pulling Chrysalis to her, she said as the flames began to do their work, “I will make things right for you. I will save both Twilight and your changelings.”

As the building exploded around her, Celestia closed her eyes, allowing the flames to do their work. Celestia felt two gentle hooves wrap themselves around her, just as the building started to come down on top of her. The only words she heard before passing out completely were, “It’s not your time yet.”

As the mansion blew up from the inside out in a large ball of yellow and red flames, Luna’s eyes snapped open. She jumped to her hooves, and without thinking, she ran forward towards the mansion. As she got close, another part of the mansion exploded, knocking the princess of dreams back against the boulders her sister had put her behind earlier. Looking to the collapsed and flaming ruins of the mansion, she screamed, “CELESTIA!” No matter which way she looked, and no matter how hard she screamed, Celestia was nowhere in sight.