A Changeling's Lament
Chapter 25: A Changeling's Lament
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Love Is In Bloom (His World Remix) ~Queen Chrysalis Final Boss Theme pt. 2~ by youtuber KingSpartaX37
Crystals tore though the ground and hovered around Dark Chrysalis, who evilly snickered to the camera.
*Cut to black*
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic - A Changeling’s Lament
Wind picked, causing snow and dust to swirl around the corrupt queen. The humans and ponies stood their ground, trying to avoid being swept up.
*cut to black*
Final Chapter
A series of small crystals formed around Dark Chrysalis’ front-left leg, forming a cannon of sorts. She aimed it at the ground and powered it up.
*cut to black*
A Changeling’s Lament
One of Jax’s Chakrams hit the cannon, making it fire off course and into the castle. Most of the palace exploded in such a torrent of fire and wind, it was like hell itself was breaking loose.
Dark Chrysalis snarled and aimed it again. Bahamut rammed her in the stomach then jumped off her. Req jumped up into the air, sword glowing white
“SERAPHIM BLADE!”
She swung her blade down, sending out a sword beam that struck the queen in the same spot Bahamut hit her. Dark Chrysalis aimed her little cannon and fired it. It hit Req right in the chest, exploding and sending her falling right into rubble.
Fox jumped down from Orion and plunged his staff down her neck. She shrieked, reached back, grabbed him, and tossed him to the ground. She pulled the staff out and tossed it away like a piece of garbage.
Multiple beams of magic shot from the Unicorns and Alicorns, striking Dark Chrysalis on multiple parts of her body. With a flap of her wings, Dark Chrysalis shrugged it off and chuckled. “It’s going to take more then that to defeat me!” the Pentagram on her forehead glowed, causing her to roar like a monster.
The same symbol appeared on the ground beneath them and glowed a bright red. Energy rose out of it, making anyone wearing skirts hold them down. The energy slammed back down, forcing everyone inside it to slam to the ground; hard.
Ash quickly got up and fired his pistols, same with Sora and her bow & arrows. Satoshi leaned over the side of his ship and fired down at her. All 3 projectiles struck a invisible barrier and sent the shots back to their senders.
She aimed her cannon at Orion and fired. Satoshi quickly moved the ship to avoid it. He did so just in time, causing the shot to just graze it. “HEY! It took me months to put this thing back together!” Satoshi yelled. Dark Chrysalis didn’t care and continued firing.
Celestia and Luna flew up into the air, coated themselves in their respective power, and rammed into Dark Chrysalis from multiple sides. Eventually, Light Chrysalis and Zaltan joined in. Light Chrysalis covered herself in green fire and passed it over to the Gryphon King. The 4 of them attacked from different directions at different times, making Dark Chrysalis stagger a lot.
Dark Chrysalis’ eyes glowed and she screamed, causing a large burst of energy to erupt from her. It stuck the royalty, sending them falling to the ground.
“ASTRAL BREAK!” Lina, Zelgadis, and Amelia shouted. That spell merged into Gourry’s Sword of Light. He jumped up and slashed down at Dark Chrysalis’ chest. She yelled out in pain as the spell went into effect and shut off her magic. That doesn’t mean the spells she already cast were broken. She aimed her cannon at Gourry’s chest and fired, sending him careening to the ground.
Applejack’s lasso wrapped around Chrysalis’ hind legs. With one strong tug from A.J., Dash, Rarity, and Spike, they pulled her down right into the streets. Dark Chrysalis quickly got up and aimed it at them. A flurry of snowballs hit her in the head, blocking her vision.
“Keep your hooves off our sisters!” Applebloom yelled as she and her friends threw snowballs at her. Dark Chrysalis snarled and aimed her cannon instead at them.
A wreath wrapped around the queen’s neck. It tightened, making her choke. “Whatever you have planned, do it fast!” Fluttershy yelled. The Mane 6 shook their heads in complete surprise. Fluttershy was helping? That would be new in their books.
“Ain Soph Aur!”
A purple blade of chaotic energy torn though the ground, struck Dark Chrysalis, and pulled her into the castle, where it exploded on impact.
End Song.
Emil’s sword hissed from the energy it had unleashed. Emil fell over onto one knee and panted. That took a lot out of him. “Did that do it?”
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2OGYMSfDfM
Zanza - Xenoblade Chronicles OST
A beam of pure concentrated darkness shot into the dark clouds above. Energy shaped like electricity shot down from multiple angles and struck the spot where she hit.
“I don’t think so.” Spyro said.
Dark Chrysalis rose into the air, laughing like the madwomen she is. One she was 50 feet in the air, she looked down on the ants and laughed again.
“you have no hope against me!” she proclaimed. “just lay down your arms and I will endeavor to make your deaths as painless as possible.”
“not a chance!” Fluttershy exclaimed. “this is our world and we will fight to protect it!”
Dark Chrysalis laughed at the ridiculous sentiment. “Your world? This world doesn’t belong to you! It belongs to me and His Eminence!”
“Eminence?” Luna muttered to Gilda. She just shrugged in return.
“His Eminence is the one true ruler of this world and I, his first daughter, will get it back for him!”
“what’s she talking about?” Cadence asked Light Chrysalis.
“I don’t know. Guess she’s gotten cuckoo when she went evil.” Light Chrysalis said, not really knowing what her dark counterpart is talking about.
Crystals rose out of the ground and out of the mountain and began to form around the dark queen. “Soon, my brothers and sisters will rise and take this planet back for our glorious father. And then, this pathetic rock will experience true darkness beyond compare!”
The wind picked up as the crystals began to stick together and form something around Dark Chrysalis. Whatever it was going to be, the good guys are prepared to take it on.
“Jax, here’s a note for you.” Aura joked, holding himself against the wind. “the evil versions are always insane.”
“Already figured that out.” she replied.
Dark Chrysalis opened her eyes. That, in turn, opened the eyes of the thing that had formed around her; a massive crystal version of the demon form of Requiem’s brother.
“how’d she find out about that?” Req exclaimed.
“She must’ve seen our fight with Nightmare Moon!” Trixie said, holding herself against the storm.
Crystal Catalyst roared to the sky with lightning falling all around it.
End Song.
Orochi sat back on the mountain and watched this little show.
“This Eminence she’s talking about… you think she’s talking about our local ally?” Aqua asked.
Glacies chuckled and pushed their body off the rock. “if it is, he’s gonna have a lot to explain. Thankfully, we don’t have to worry about him for 17 years. And if it isn‘t, then there‘s something worse then us out there.” Orochi disappeared in a flash of dark fire.
Begin Song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhtjSi9WjU4
Tenkuu no Canaria - Tales of Symphonia OVA Tethe'alla Arc Opening Song
0:00.
Crystal Chrysalis Catalyst finished it’s roar and prepared to do battle with them.
“Well, we had plenty of practice with this form.” Gilda joked. “This should be a walk in the park.” she said with a wink.
Crystal Chrysalis Catalyst roared and chuckled. “it’s funny to think you can defeat me.” she said in a deeply demonic tone. Her back sparked, forming giant crystal wings. “this world shall be return to his Eminence. And I shall be praised.”
Energy shot out of her new form, flattening any trees and buildings nearby. The humans and ponies were able to keep themselves up.
0:16.
Req gripped her blade and charged in to the corrupt queen. Everyone else followed suit with their own tactics.
Large crystal missiles appeared besides Chrysalis’ head. with a growl, they were sent hurtling towards her and everyone else.
Req swung her sword, striking the missiles away before they hit her. Celestia brought up a barrier that protected everyone from the rest.
Spyro, Cynder, and Bahamut flew out of the barrier, coated themselves in fire; either red, blue, or black, and rammed themselves into the monster’s chest. The monster staggered backwards but didn’t lose it’s footing. It swat the dragons out of the sky.
Req jumped onto her right arm and ran up it. Dark Chrysalis took notice of this and tried to squash Req like a bug with her other hand. Thankfully for Req, speed was her specialty. She ducked and slid underneath it, stabbed her sword up into the hand, and hung on for dear life as the monster moved it’s hand away.
Gilda and Zaltan flew over the beast. Zel and Gourry jumped off their backs and down to the monster. They drew their swords and swung down onto her left shoulder. Dark Chrysalis roared in pain as energy shot out of her wound, sending the town rolling in mid-air to the town.
0:56.
Orion fired it’s port cannons at the monster’s chest, each one of the 20 shot volley causing quite a explosion.
Req flipped over Dark Chrysalis’ hand, pulling her sword out in the process, landing on the other side, and continued to run up her hand.
A orb of pure energy appeared in Dark Chrysalis’ right hand. She tossed it down to the group. Using her Element, Twi stepped in front of it and summoned a barrier to stop it. The orb hit, struggling to break though it. Twi held her ground but it was too strong. Nobody but a glancing Trixie noticed but Twi’s stomach briefly glowed. The barrier grew more powerful and sent the orb back to sender, hitting her in the head.
Twi collapsed and panted. Halo ran over and nuzzled her. “Don’t do anything like that again. I don‘t want to lose you two.” he somberly said. Twi looked at him and smiled with a chuckle.
1:30.
“This world shall be ours! Forever more!” Dark Chrysalis proclaimed as she summoned more crystal missiles.
Bombs flung by the catapults struck against the monster, causing her to stagger again. The missiles fell harmlessly to the ground.
“Nice timing.” Celestia said to the engineers in charge of it.
Dark Chrysalis rose up, opened her mouth, and fired her own beam attack. The attack hit the center, causing quite a explosion that destroyed only half of them.
“No!” Celestia yelled out. Dark Chrysalis powered up another beam and sent it towards the princess. Light Chrysalis stood in the way and summoned her own barrier that blocked it. Celestia added her own power to the barrier, causing the beam to dissipate. “thanks.” she told the good one.
Req dragged her blade behind her, leaving a long scaring wound as she ran up Dark Chrysalis’ arm. The dark queen roared and tried swatting her off again.
“Cardinal Rift!”
A series of red colored beams wrapped around Dark Chrysalis’ arm and pulled it into a abyss. The quick, yet painful, process left the monster without a right arm. Req looked back to see Jax give a two fingered salute as she ran on the ground.
Req reached the monsters shoulder, jumped off it towards the head, spun her sword, and raised it above her head.
2:10.
Dark Chrysalis grabbed her before she could reach her head, roared at her, and tossed her down to the ground. Req landed hard and skidded into a snow-covered lamp. Gilda and Zaltan, along with a few nameless Gryphon’s, flew in front of her eyes, blocking her vision and forcing her to try and swat them down.
“Damn. Nothing we do can leave a scratch.”
A light bulb went off in Lina’s head. “well, I can think of one thing.” she said with a smirk.
Req and Jax looked at each other. “That just may work.” Jax said.
“but we don’t want to destroy the city.” Req pointed out. She thought about it for a quick moment then thought up a plan that may just work. “Everyone!”
Dark Chrysalis fired a beam attack, causing the little gryphon party to break up, when the main cannons from Orion fired and hit her in the back. She turned to face the ship and snarled.
“Hey Ugly!” Satoshi yelled out. “Your mother was a stink bug!”
Dark Chrysalis growled furiously and roared, stretching her wings out. Orion quickly entered speed mode and shot into the air. Chrysalis gave pursuit, roaring and flying as loud as she could.
2:38.
Orion and Dark Chrysalis flew as high as they were able before the monster grabbed the ship, pulled it close, and put the squeeze on it.
Back on the ground, Req, Lina, Jax, and the Elements of Harmony looked at each other and nodded. Req summoned her wings and flew up into the air. Lina used a spell to make her fly up.
“What are you guys planning?” Shadow asked.
The Elements circled around Jax as a glyph appeared beneath her. “something to save your world!” they closed their eyes and concentrated on the spell, which Jax began chanting.
“Darkness Beyond Twilight, Crimson beyond blood that flows. Buried in the stream of time is where your power grows…”
Lina reached her designated spot and began chanting the same spell from the beginning. Req reached her spot and did the same thing.
“I pledge myself to conquer all the foes who stand before the might gift bestowed in my unworthy hands…”
The glyphs beneath all 3 chatting humans glowed bright red as red lightning shot out around them and the orb that formed in their hands.
“let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess…”
The spell’s echo reach all the way to Dark Chrysalis’ ears. She saw that spell in action earlier down at the plains. She let the ship go and flew back down to the ground.
3:12.
Jax, Lina, and Req snapped their eyes open; Jax being the first to launch it.
“DRAGON SLAVE!!!”
A intense but indescribable powerful beam of red light shot out of Jax’s hands and up into the air towards the Dark Queen. A few seconds later, Lina fired hers, followed by Req a few seconds later.
The Elements of Harmony added their own power into the attack via sparkles coming out of the pendents.
Dark Chrysalis shrieked as she made her way back to the ground, only to see the beam too little, too late. The Dragon Slave hit her, engulfing her bright light.
“That was for Edge!” everyone yelled.
3:40.
The Dragon Slave tore away at Dark Chrysalis, disintegrated the crystals that covered her. The queen yelled out in agony as the light engulfed her and destroyed her.
A massive and powerful explosion followed that, if done in the city, would’ve destroyed everything from there to Ponyville.
4:02. End Song.
Begin Song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiy9YB1coMw
My Heart Will Go On - Titanic Theme by Celine Deon
Twi stood on the edge of a bench, looking up at the sky. Hard to believe she was fighting for the fate of the world 4 hours ago. During the battle, she felt something… weird in her stomach. Maybe all that being throwing about made Starlight restless. She knows she would. Halo walked up beside her and nuzzled her.
“How’s Fluttershy?” she asked.
“terrible. She went into the gardens and won’t come out.” he sighed deeply. “guess she’s taking Edge’s death harder then anyone thought.”
“how would you feel if you lost the one you loved?” He did and shivered. Even thinking about losing Twilight and Starlight filled his heart with dread. Twi hugged him, glad to have him by her side. If only she could say the same for Fluttershy.
Speaking of the yellow Pegasus, she sat by herself in the middle of the war-torn Canterlot Gardens, sobbing her heart out under grey raining clouds she had moved their herself.
She still didn’t want to believe that Edge was gone. The one person who she loved with all her heart and soul was gone. She just… didn’t want to believe it.
Body’s of the dead lay out for everyone to pay their respects to those fallen in battle. Some had lost their best buddies or someone special, while some have lost entire families.
Scoots stood in front of one and cried, not wanting to believe this. Dash walked though the bodies, noticed her, and walked over. “Squirt.” she called out. Scoots heard her but didn’t want to talk. “what’s wrong? Are you okay?” Dash calmly asked. She didn’t reply but instead kept crying. Curious what had her in such a defeated state, Dash walked over and looked at what she was crying at. What she saw made her heart sink.
Among the dead was her half-brother Soarin’.
A soulless Dash fell to her knees, not wanting to believe it. She lost her mother, she lost her brother, she lost her father. And she had no relatives. She was truly all alone in the world now. Scoots hugged Dash and held her tight, not wanting to be alone. Dash knew the feeling and hugged her back. Both of them cried in each others arms, not wanting to believe this.
Jax watched as Derpy cried over the badly-wounded Dinky. Dinky’s friends were there with her, being stronger then Dinky’s mother. Jax didn’t want to confront her, not wanting to incur Derpy’s wrath. She broke her promise to keep Dinky safe and lord knows she’s going to pay the consequences, just… not now. Plus, hanging around dead bodies was never her thing. With a heavy heart, She walked off, leaving them alone. She needed some time for herself.
Celestia, Luna, Light Chrysalis, and Zaltan nodded, agreeing to the Changelings terms of surrender.
“Very well, then. You and your Changelings are now honorary members of Equestria.” Celestia proclaimed.
Luna poked light Chrysalis in the side. “welcome to the family.” she joked.
Happy tears formed in Chrysalis’s eyes as she looked to her people. “Thanks. And I swear, we’ll do whatever we can to help repay for what we had done.”
Zaltan noticed something and chuckled. “I think some of your people are beating you to the punch.” the other 3 looked to see a Stallion who was once a prisoner give some flowers to a female Changeling, who blushed at the gesture.
“Woo-hoo! This thing is Awesome!” Applebloom said as she hung off the Silver Dragon’s tail. The dragon flipped her tail up, sending Applebloom up into the air, and caught her with her wing. “Can we keep it!?”
Applejack wasn’t so sure. They already had 2 dragons staying in the barn; having another one, and a bigger one at that, would be odd. “I….” Applebloom gave her puppy dog eyes. A.J. couldn’t resist that. “Let me talk to Granny and Big Mac, hear what they have to say about it. But, as far as I am concerned, yes.”
Applebloom cheered, jumped down, and hugger her sister. “oh, thank you thank you thank you.”
“just don’t make me regret it.”
“where did they put Edge’s necklace?” Friction asked as they walked though the funeral fields, each carrying a bushel of flowers.
“un… over there.” Leon said, pointing to a area between 2 Gryphons. The two walked over to the ’grave’ of Edge and were preparing to put the flowers down when they noticed something unexpected.
Edge’s necklace was gone.
Jax walked though the Canterlot Gardens, not wanting to confront Derpy. She hopes Dinky will be okay. She grew attached to that little Unicorn. They’ve been though a lot together and she didn’t want her to die.
Her thoughts then turned to that giant monster Oscurita. What happened to that thing? All she knows is that Satoshi rammed Orion into it, breaking it’s wing and making it fall. still, a giant his size could easily survive a fall from that height so this couldn’t be the last time they saw him.
She reached the spot where Fluttershy was, unaware that she had walked in that far, and saw her. She hid behind a tree and watched her cry.
Fluttershy sniffled as she wiped her eyes. She had to keep strong; for Edge’s sake. So he didn’t sacrifice his life so she could have her’s for nothing. She got up and wiped away the last tears she had to give. She heard footsteps behind her, thinking it was one of her friends.
“sorry to keep you waiting.”
Fluttershy’s heart leaped back to life and repaired itself upon hearing that voice. It couldn’t’ be possible. It couldn’t. she slowly turned around and saw that it could.
Standing before her was a very much alive Mirror’s Edge, wearing the necklace she had given him. “what? Were you suspecting someone else?”
Fresh tears began to fall as Fluttershy happily looked to him. “You’re Alive!” she ran over and hugged him, which he was suspecting. “I thought you were dead!”
Edge looked at her with somber eyes and held her close. “so did I.”
The Blast hit Edge and sent him over the edge, his body on green fire as he fell to the valley far below.
“(so… this is how it ends.)” he closed his eyes and smiled. “(as long as Fluttershy’s okay, I don’t care if die…)”
“you would sacrifice yourself for love?”
Edge slowly opened his eyes to see the Black Knight over him. He wasn’t falling anymore, since the knight stopped him with his magic. “you would gladly lay down your life to protect someone important to you?”
Edge answered immediately, fully knowing the answer. “yes. I would.”
Beneath his helmet, the Knight pondered is words. He knew this creature’s situation quite well. He summoned his sword and placed the tip over the Changeling, glowing a dark green.
“Cure!”
Fluttershy cried into Edge’s shoulder. She hit him in the other one, angry that he let her think he was dead. “I… didn’t want you to leave. I didn’t want to say good-bye.” she cried.
“why?”
Fluttershy looked into his eyes with tear soaked eyes. “because I love you, Edge. From core of my soul, I love you. I’m sorry it took me so long to realize this and I’m sorry I broke your heart during Trixie’s and Luna’s rehearsal but… I just didn’t know at the time.” she continued to cry, causing a small river down his shoulder.
Edge just smiled and held her head up. “I love you too, Fluttershy. And I promise, I will never leave you.”
Fluttershy chuckled, causing more tears to fall. Edge cleared them away. They deeply looked into each other’s eyes and leaned close to each other.
Jax leaned her head on the tree and smiled, she put her back to it and looked up to the sky. At least someone got a happy ending. Not everyone was as lucky. She looked up to the sky, wondering where her happy ending was.
For the first time since they’ve known each other, for what seemed like an eternity, they did something that felt so right.
Fluttershy and Mirror’s Edge shared a long, passionate, and a very much belated kiss.
End Song.
The adventure continues in Friends from Unexpected Places, starting with chapter 'Glade'
Author's Notes:
well, that's the end of this side-story. almost everyone got a happy ending.
but... who was that Unicorn?
and if you thought this Side-Story was a emotional tear-jerker, you ain't seen nothing yet. i got one more left to go and i sure you hope you have tissues.
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