My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

A Changeling’s Lament

Chapter 10

Less then Stellar Reunion

Chrysalis kissed Cadence full on the lips, much to the princess’ surprise. She quickly pushed Chrysalis away. She spit as she tried to lose the horrid taste.

“what was…” she spit again. “why’d you do that?”

Chrysalis touched her lips and chuckled. A red wine-like taste. Lucky Armor. “you don’t remember, do you?”

A confused Cadence looked up at her. “remember what?”

Chrysalis sighed and walked over to one of the murals. This one showed Cadence and Armor using their magic on the Changelings. “that day 16 years ago?” she looked over to Cadence.

“what are you talking about?”

Chrysalis sighed and shook her head. “maybe this will help jog your memory.” Chrysalis grabbed her hair and held it back like it was being tied by a scrunchy. A confused Cadence looked at it then gasped when she finally figured it out.
Cadence {shocked}: “oh no. it can’t be… Chrysie?”

Chrysalis let got of her hair. “now you remember.” she reached over and grabbed the same crystal she showed Orochi. “16 years ago, to the day, you found a injured Changeling in the woods outside the Crystal Kingdom capital. You nursed it back to health and became friends with it, regardless of what the adults said. You were the first pony to ever show us any sympathy, even gave her love… and what did you do? Moved away to this drek of a city and met that stuck-up Shining Armor and his annoying little sister Twilight Sparkle.”

Cadence stood there, dumb-struck. The Changeling who launched 2 invasions on Canterlot, the one who kidnapped her and put her in the crystal caves, the one who put ponies into slavery. It was her childhood friend.

“and I must admit, I was surprised to find out the wedding I was planning on crashing turned out to be the one for you. Granted, like yourself, I didn’t realize it was you until I was flung half-way across the world into dragon lands. That, and that you had the same attitude back then as well.”

Cadence was dumb-struck by this. “Chrysie, I… how was I supposed to know that was you?”

Chrysalis flung the crystal over. It stopped just before Cadence’s neck and extended out and small blade out light, barely touching her. “Zip it. You already proven that you never cared about me. Not then. Not now.”

“that’s not true, I…”

Chrysalis shut her up by extending the little blade further, barely poking Cadence’s neck. “you’re lucky your with child, otherwise your head would be rolling on the floor by now.” she clapped her hooves, summoning in a couple of guards. “take her to her own quarters.” The guards nodded and walked over to Cadence.

She looked back at them with a mean sneer before looking back to Chrysalis. “I’ll stay with the rest of the prisoners.” She walked on out before Chrysalis could get a word in edge-wise. If that’s what she wanted, so be it. No skin off her back.

Trixie gasped when she saw the drunk unicorn standing above her. “dad…” the drunk unicorn chuckled and staggered over to her.

“you… little bitch…” he slurred. He slipped into the sand and still chuckled.

Trixie sat there, shaking in fear, as a curious Luna walked over. “Trixie? Are you all right?” she noticed the drunkard and got even more curious. “Who’s this?”

“ever since we found you in that ditch, my life has been nothing but a… *hiccup* a living hell.”

That made Luna angry. “Hey!” she stepped in front of Trixie to protect her. “Don’t talk about my wife like that! And who are you?”

“Me?” the Unicorn took another swig of his bourbon. “I’m the idiot who let that… bitch into our home. Raised her, fed her. And she gave us nothing but bad luck in return.”

Trixie gulped. “he’s my adopted father.” she shakingly said. “ever since he, Halo, and Zilver found me on the side of a road, they’ve all been blaming me for all the bad luck they got; well, everyone but Halo and Zil.”

Luna scoffed. “well, I can tell you that Trixie is no--”

“you stay out of this, you dumb bimbo.” he angrily slurred at the princess.

“Bimbo?” Luna exclaimed.

“Hey!” Trixie exclaimed. “nobody talks about my Luna like that.”

“and you shut up too, you jinx.” he wiped the alcohol from his mouth and chuckled. “I’m gonna enjoy this. Payback.” using what magic he could use, he pulled a knife out of nowhere.

Trixie went into shock, recognizing the knife as the one he used on her when she was a kid. Luna stepped in front of her to protect her, horn glowing blue. “stop right there!” she proclaimed in her Royal Canterlot Voice. “you take another step and I’ll personally place you under arrest.”

The drunkard scoffed and laughed. “try me. *hiccup*” he thrust the knife forward but he was so drunk, he missed by a mile. Luna used her magic to tie his legs together and hung him up like a pig at a barbeque.

“I warned you.” Luna smirked. Trixie hugged Luna, thanking her.

“this isn’t over.” he slurred. “I’ll get you eventually, you bitch.”

Trixie looked at Luna, hoping to say what she wanted to say as a new duchess. (I looked up my royalty. Trixie is technically a Duchess now, as Armor is also a Duke.) Luna nodded in approval. “yeah, dad? Well, let’s see how well you can do that when your spending life in jail.”

Shadow stormed into his house and shut the door on Dash, flattening her snout a bit. It extended back out and she knocked on the door.

“Shadow! Shadow, can we please talk?” Dash pleaded.

“Go away.”

“Shadow, please…”

“Just go away. I had enough heartache in my life. I don’t need more.”

Dash started to feel heartache as well. Could this be what Shadow felt back then? “Shadow…”

“just go away!”

Silent tears fell down Dash’s face as she gave up. “fine!” she exclaimed. “If you don’t want to talk about it, Fine! I don’t need you!” Dash turned and stormed off. Eris jumped down from her back and stayed where she landed. Soarin’ walked after his sister to try and convince her otherwise, leaving Scoots and Eris behind.

The 2 looked at each other, then to the door. “You thinking what I’m thinking?” Scootaloo asked. Eris hit her fists together, frightening Scoots a bit. “scary.”

“take him to the local prison and tell them to put him under lock and key.” Luna told the local police. They bowed to her and walked ff, dragging Trixie’s drunk adopted father behind them.

Halo and Zilver walked past them and ran over to Trixie. “we just heard.” Halo said, hugging his little sister.

“Are you okay?” Zil asked. Twilight and Applejack arrived just when Trixie let her brother go.

“I’m fine. I’m fine. Thankfully, Dad was too drunk to even leave a scratch. Besides, I have someone to protect me.” she looked at Luna and smiled.

Zilver looked back in their father’s direction. “what about him?”

“He’s gonna get life in jail for attacking royalty.” Luna said with a smirk.

“Oh, that’s right. Trixie’s a member of the royal family now.” Halo said, hitting himself in the head because he was incompetent.

That gave Zilver a wicked idea. “that means we’re also royal and that means th--”

“no!” everyone exclaimed, spoiling his mood.

“I’m royalty because my brother married Cadence but you don’t see me or Spike throwing it around.” Twi said. A.J. nodded in agreement.

“no, but Rarity.” Trixie sighed. Everyone sighed with her.

Shadow repeatedly hit his head against the wall. “stupid, stupid, stupid. Dash returned after all this time and what do I do? Treat her like crap. Ugh, I’m no better then those annoying trio of dragons that passed though here.” Shadow reached over to his picture stand and grabbed a picture of him and Dash at a carnival. He closed his eyes and hit the back of his head against the wall. “Stupid.”

“if you still love her, why did you treat her like that?” Scootaloo asked. He looked over and saw her standing in the door. Eris was being her usual interested self and explored Shadow’s place.

“how’d you get in?”

“you forgot to lock it but the question still stands.”

Shadow sighed as he looked at the picture. “guess I was surprised to see her here. To see you all here. And with Soarin’, too.” he tossed the picture away and sighed. “So, what’s new with those two? They getting ready to get married or something?”

Scootaloo was about to say something but decided to keep it to herself for now. Let Soarin’ being Dash’s brother a surprise. “no no. they broke it off.”

He was surprised to hear that and it showed on his face. “They what?”

“yeah. And it’s because of you. Dash loved you. She still does.” Shadow scoffed, not believing a word she said. “it’s true. You know what happened when you disappeared? She tried to commit Suicide.”

“She what?”

“yeah. She was so distrat that you left that she threw herself off a cliff with her wings tied. She loved you but she didn’t want to tell Soarin’ because of what he might do if his heart was broken. She never took her heart into account.” a loud crash came from the kitchen. They both looked in to see a pot scraping across the floor. “oh, brother. Eris!” Scootaloo walked in and took the pot off the baby. “you know better then to do that.”

“who the… what the… who is that?” a confused Shadow asked.

“oh, right. Shadow. This is Eris. Eris, meet Storm Shadow.”

In her usual cheerful matter, Eris waved to him. “hi, Storm Shadow.”

Shadow nervously waved back. “who is she?”

“I just told you. Her name is Eris.” Scootaloo grabbed her and placed the baby on her back. “Dash’s daughter.”

“Daughter?!?”

“well, adopted daughter. We found her after I was able to stop Dash from killing herself. It was thanks to her that Dash was able to move on. After you left and broke her heart.”

Shadow looked away and sighed. “she really loved me?”

“she did. She still does. And if you love her, you’ll go talk to her.” Scootaloo left with Eris on her back and closed the door behind her.

Shadow walked back out into the living room and grabbed the picture he threw. “Dash…”

Celestia walked back to the refugees at the train station and sighed. “they won’t like this.” she sighed. She walked into view, getting the attention of all the ponies.

“So? How’s it go?” Sora asked.

“well, good news is that they have buildings for us to take shelter.” the refugees cheered but Celestia stopped them. “but… the bad news is that there isn’t enough for all of us.” the crowd moaned and got a bit sad.

The humans looked at each other and came up with the same idea. “you guys keep the buildings. We’ll camp outside.” Lloyd said.

“are you sure? We don’t want to inconvenience you.” Fluttershy said.

“we camp all the time back home. This is nothing different.” Gourry said.

“besides, this town has no snow and is surprisingly warm. We’ll survive.” Ash said. “plus, Req and the injured will be stuck at the hospital for awhile so more room for you guys.”

Celestia felt touched by their sacrifice and generosity. “thank you. We don’t know how we’ll repay you.”

“it’s nothing. You’d do the same if it was one of our worlds.” Riku said. Marble shrugged in agreement. That’s true.

Dinky shook in fear as she found herself a few feet away from a slumbering Oscurita. “oh no. oh no oh no oh no.” she slowly backed up, careful not to make any noise. She accidentally brushed up against a rock, causing it to fall over the side, creating a lot of noise among the way. She winced, hoping he didn’t hear that. She nervously looked up and saw that it didn’t wake him up. She breathed a sigh of relief, not aware of the tail moving behind her.

Oscurita’s tail crashed into the ground behind her, scaring her as it snarled around her and picked her up. She struggled to get loose as she was brought to his shadow-less face. Derpy froze in fear when she saw the size of his teeth. “p-p-p-please don’t eat me.” Oscurita snarled, baring his teeth for her to see. She gulped and closed her eyes hard.

Oscurita snarled and brought her close to his mouth when something reflected in his eyes, coming from her chest. He looked and saw a golden ring being held around her neck like a necklace. The slits in his eyes went wide as he recognized it.

Dinky popped open one eye to see his eyes go wide and his growl soften. She looked down at the necklace then back up to him. “what, you like gold? Or did my cuteness overwhelm you?” Oscurita didn’t reply but instead lowered Dinky back to the ground and let her go. She delightfully gasped and kissed the ground. “thank you. You know, you’re not as bad as Jax and her friends say you are. You have compassion. You care about some ponies.” Dinky ran off, glad to have gotten out of this alive.

Oscurita laid back on the mountain and snorted. If only she knew.

Author’s Notes.
Keep in mind the chapter name. these are all reunions so how are Dinky and Oscurita a part of this? Go ahead and guess, throw out those wild speculations.