Luna readied herself for departure. She had only a few hours of sleep, but she could still make the trip and do her business at her destination. She wanted to go before Cadence came back to the castle after the honeymoon. Yesterday was filled with cleaning Canterlot after the Changeling invasion, watching for any signs of any Changelings left in Equestia, and setting up an exicution. The exicution was of no pony, but of a rather recent visitor that brought her spawn with her. If it wasn't Canterlot and she hadn't hurt Cadence she would had gotten off much easier.
As usaul, luck sided with the enemy. While she was on the way out, she almost floored her daughter. Knowing Cadence, she was going to ask about the Changelings. Of course her mother was the best pony to go to, long ago they with the other monsters where under her protection. After her banishment to the Moon, the dragons took control of most of the other monsters in a massive war that Equestia was the battleground for. But she still knew almost every last detail about each and every breed of monster.
"Hello deary, how was the honeymoon?" Luna said politely. She wanted to be out the door by now, but she wasn't exactly going out with permission from her sister, so she couldn't draw attention to herself by bolting out right now. She would be willing to make time for her little girl anyways.
"It was good. Who knew that such a quaint place like Ponyville could give someone such a fantastic welcome?" Cadence said with a muted laugh.
"Trust me, they love newcomers. If the Changelings hadn't come in such a aggressive way, they would had greeted them in with open arms, I would imagine."
"Speaking of them..." Cadence began. Luna knew that she would ask. Her daughter loved to know more about the world, and an elder alicorn was the perfect place to go to. Espeacailly if said elder was your mother.
"So, what do you want to know?" Luna beat her to the question.
"Well, where did these things come from?"
"They hail from our southern boder, close to dragon territory. They are one of the last monster races that are still loyal to me. The queen was arrogant and defied me, and as such she will pay the price soon."
"Alright, what's the price?"
Luna felt like kicking herself. She said too much in that statement. There was no way she could hide the exicution from Cadence now. This was not how she planned to start off the day, explaining how she was going to put Chrysalis, even though Cadence was her victim, through the worst death a Changeling queen could experence, from a cutureal, mental, and phychical level. She didn't want Cadence to know simply becasue even though she had known Cadence's personality almost entirely, she didn't know how she would react to the news.
"Her life," Luna said solomly. Much to Luna's fear, she saw a spark in Cadence's eyes at that phrase. She couldn't read that spark, but she knew she would most lilky not like her reaction.
"So, you're off to kill her?" Cadence asked, clearly intreged.
"Exicute her. There is a differnce between that and simply killing her. Exicution is caried through the law, and for a queen to do what she did, there is only one form of exicution."
"Being...?"
"...seeding."
"What does that intail?"
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"Just promice me that you'll be quiet during the cerimony and you'll keep your cool during the seeding," Luna said while she flew by Cadence's side.
"Alright," Cadence said, gliding by Luna. The two had left a few minuties ago, and Cadence an Luna left a note explaining that they where out talk in privite.
"Are you sure that you want to come?" Luna said, worried about Cadence's answer.
"Oh, I wouldn't miss it for the world," Cadence said coldly. Luna was disturbed by this. As much as she hated Chryslalis, she had hoped that Cadence would have forgiven her. She didn't want Cadence to turn out as she had. Cadenece sensed this and said "You hate her for what she did to me, I'm in this for my husband. You love me to the point of killing for me, and it's the same for me and him. I'd do the same for you, but I'm her to punish her for her crimes against not only me, but to all of Equestia."
Luna understood where Cadence was comeing from, but it didn't remove the feeling of worry. She had done horrible things for simlar reasons. Thank the Creator that Cadence's heart belonged to Shining Armor, if it had been some one like Discord... Luna shuddered at the thought.
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"What are you doing in my terrtory Sheava?" Queen Chrysaalis demanded as the other Changeling Queen stood outside her hive.
"It, as of today, is not YOUR territory," Sheava replied coolly. The two stood apart close enough for their horns to touch. The two glared at eachother.
"Is that a chalange?" Chrysalis growled as she pushed her horn against Sheava's, ready to twist her head and set Sheava off-balance should she turn agressive.
"It's a fact. You have lost your right to rule. I'm here for the exicution, particualry to perform the seeding."
Chrysalis attempted in a panic to twist her head to throw Sheava off-balance, but insted she felt herself be heaved into he air and tossed away like a rag-doll, a horrifingly familar blue aura surounding her.
"She speaks the truth," Luna said while aproching the hive, Cadnece by her side. The comotion caused the air to be filled with the buzzing of wingbeats as the inhabitants of the hive came out to defend their queen, the soldeirs ceaseing thier agressive stance when they saw Luna and Cadence, bowing their heads in reverence.
"Kill them you fools! Save me!" Chrysalis screamed as she scrambled up to her hooves to fight. The rocky ground of the mountains made her hoofsteps have a sharp clack to them as she moved twords Luna, fangs bared. She galopped twords her, hopeing that this would catch her off guard.
A few words left Luna's lips and Chrysalis' legs stopped moving, sending her to the ground. Her minons stood and watched, silent.
"You must be punished for your crimes. For defying my will, attacking Equestia, and harming my child, your punishment is death by seeding," Luna spoke, loud enough for the ring of Changelings could hear. Panic flashed through Chrysalis's eyes. Cadence thought about what her mother had told her about seeding.
Changeling Queens behave much like most ant queens do, but thier reproduction rate was low, one clutch of eyes each year, but when they do, they produce huge numbers of them, millions. That is many mouths to feed, consitering that the youngsters must feed off of flesh before they know how to asorb positive energy. I'll get to the relevence of that in a moment. As to the mateing rituals, the male is never willing. The queen's soldiers easily overpower potental mates, and then they are brought before the queen."Please, have mercy! Kill me as violently as you like, but please not seeding!" Chrysalis screamed, unable to move her body.
The mate is used to firtalize the eggs, but thier part in the ritual is not done.Sheava stepped forward, her fangs bared. The Changelings began chanting "Seed her! Seed her! Seed our terturous queen!"
The eggs are tiny, small as spider's eggs. The hatchlings can fit on the tip of a feather, but in a few days they grow to full size. Sheava put her hoof down softly on the side of Chrysalis' head, then pressing down to hold it down for the ritual. Chrysalis sobbed, a small pool of tears forming beside her face.
Just as the eggs are like that of a spider's, so is their first meal. The chanting became almost feverous and Cadence knew that the seeding was about to begin. She felt slightly sick to the stomache, and knowing what was going to happen, she wasn't sure she could watch. She looked to her mother and saw in her eyes the same uneasyness.
The queens will inject the eggs into the mate, letting him live. Sheava looked to Luna in a wordless question for the permission to begin. Luna nodded.
The eggs will hatch inside of him, eating him from the inside out. Cadence did her best not to flinch as Sheava stuck like a cobra, digging her fangs into Chyrsalis. Chrysalis screamed in pain and sobbed harder then before. For half a minuite, the minons feel silent, watching their queen suffer as the eggs were being injected into her.
That injection is the seeding, and it's of the highest shame for a queen to be seeded. Sheava stepped back finnally, licking green blood off her fangs. The minons stayed silent as their queen sobbed and whimpered pitufully.
"H-how long will it take mother? For the e-eggs to hatch?" Cadence whispered to Luna.
"Sheava had mated about an hour ago. If those eggs had stayed any longer, the eggs would had hatched inside of her. They should hatch in a moment," Luna said.
All was quiet other then Chrysalis' sobs and murmers to herself. Suddenly, Chrysalis began screaming. The scream caught Luna off guard, making her break her consintation on her spell, allowing Chrysalis to writhe in pain.
"I can't watch!" Cadence said while burying her face into her mother's side. Luna steached out her wing over her daughter, comforting her. She turned her head to whisper to Cadence, useing that as an excuse to not watch. Even the Changelings could help but flinch and take a few steps back, including Sheava. Soon they couldn't watch, and as such Chrysalis died alone, with only her screams' echos to remind anypony of her existence past that point, for there was no body to bury.
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