[Picture Series] Misguided Love Part 03/21 (Patreon)

"Oh…now that I think about it, your personality did seem to change drastically three months ago. I think that kinda the reason why I fell in love with you." Shining said, looking down with a thoughtful expression on his face.

"'Changed personality'? Care to tell me how you started to fall in love with fake me? What kind of personality made you love her?" Princess Cadence asked, sounding interested, like the Princess of Love trying to do her job.

"Well, before I met what turned out to be the Queen, I only thought of you as friend, like you clearly think about me, and as a royal princess that a loyal Captain like me must protect. You always spent your time with nobles, high-class meeting and other royal business. That always made me felt like your status was higher than me. Not an equal, impossible to reach and become a lover with..." Shining explained, before looking Cadence right in the eyes, "...but around three months ago, your personality seemed to change. You were more friendly towards me and playful. Sometime you even played pranks on me! You spent less and less time with your boring royal business and more time with me. You loved to just spend time like a normal mare instead of a Princess, just coming with me to see a movie together, playing game in the arcade with me, or even visiting the pub and going to a karaoke restaurant with me and some of my guy friends. You...I mean, that fake you, is a mare that was a lot more fun to hang out with....not to say you aren't of course. Hanging out with the fake you like that finally turned into me asking you on a real date...then I fell in love with her... "

"So the fake me, the Queen of the Changelings, is 'more fun' than me, and that seems to suit your romance tastes more." Princess Cadence said, before looking at Shining, then over the whole audience of the wedding, including Twilight and her friends, "...but how could you, nor anypony at all, see that huuuuge difference between that imposter and myself? Also, don’t you think three month of dating is a bit too fast for you to consider marriage?"

"Well…we might have only dated for three months, but you and I have been best friend for over twenty years, Cadence. It made it feel like we knew each other for very long time. The fact is, it was me who asked for fake Cadence to marry me. I just wanted to play a prank with her one day like she did with me despite knowing it was a bad idea, even with an obviously fake ring made of tin foil, but that fake you seemed to think I was being serious with it." Shining sighed again, rubbing his forehead with a hoof, "...she seemed very happy and was crying before saying 'Yes' so many times. I felt too bad with how happy she was to tell her that it’s just a prank, and when Princess Celestia was told about my proposal from fake you, the wedding was quickly prepared...I bought a real wedding ring and now here we are..."

"Mmmm, I see," Cadence said, " but how can you sure that it isn’t because of a mind control spell that you like her?"

Shining Armor shook his head firmly. "No, I know our love was real. She didn’t used any mind control on me that I know of. What Twilight saw last night really was just her helping to calm my headache that I got from maintaining that huge barrier that covered the whole city of Canterlot for so long, and that daze I've been all day is from a lack of sleep and magical exhaustion. I’m not even sure if she even has a spell to mind control anypony at all…"

"So you aren’t under her spell, and you never loved me in a romantic way until three month ago, when I was replaced?"

"Y…yes Cadence, that's right. Why do you ask?"

"Shining Armor…I think you really did fall in love with this imposter…the Queen of the Changelings." Cadence said with a sigh, "Do you know what spell it is that I cast to gave you a strength to cast the barrier that repel all Changelings? It turn out that it was from the power of love that you hold for the fake me. Because you thought she was me…and well…" Cadence paused as she made a realization, feeling very uneasy now.

"You...just used your love for the Queen to defeat her and blast her away…"

Shining Armor looked at Princess Cadence with horror at the revelation, before deeply thinking for a while, coming to a decision. "Cadence, I…I have to go. I need to know if this love is real between us, even if it costs me my life." Shining said as he turned around and ran quickly from the room, before anypony could say anything to dissuade him.

Princess Cadence gave an uneasy smile as she watched her long-time friend leave, surely heading out to the Badlands, or along the way, to where the Changelings had likely landed. "Please go my friend, find her again. If she is really is your true love, please keep your love for her and and don’t let her go, no matter her species…" she whispered to herself, before then turning to face with Twilight and her quintet of friends, as well as the rest of the remaining and rather confused guests, Celestia still hanging from the rafters in the cocoon. It would seem she had a wedding to cancel now officially, as well as cutting down the monarch from her hanging prison.

There was indeed much to be done to fix what the Queen had wrought on this land.

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