Harbingers of Chaos

The Spirit of Chaos and Disharmony, Discord, yawns as he relaxes upon the sunbed he had 'spawned' for himself within his room in Canterlot. Looking through the roof at the star-filled sky above, his eyes settle on a single star.

"Hmmm?... Some form of life there..." He says to himself, spawning a book to his right containing all of the history of humanity, literally flicking through it before closing the book and frowning, looking up to the star in thought "So, 'Humans' live there... Nary a solar goddess, nor a glorious being such as myself brightening their lives up... Remarkably grey ethics..." Discord says to himself, suddenly gaining a mischievous grin

"I doubt Celestia would know..." He says, his eyes narrowing, looking at all of the corners of the room to be sure he was alone before clicking his claws four times, each click altering the laws of reality and the lives of four people on Earth. Satisfied, Discord yawns once more, closing his eyes and putting on a perfect act of sleeping... Time to give those lucky four some visions.

-- Meanwhile, on Earth --

Arach smiles, sleeping soundly on his bed, the smile turning into a slightly creepy grin, in reaction to the events in his dream...

Within the dream, Arach had just finished visiting Bronycon, and was having a great time. A bag at his side filled with shirts depicting various images of ponies. He had arrived there with his sister, and they had arranged to meet back at a hotel room at 8 PM. Excited and early, he opens the door to the room, and enters.

"I'm here!" He calls, though a little quietly for fear of disturbing other guests, to which he got no reply. "Sounds like I'm early..." He mutters to himself, actually glad, feeling a little thirsty, walking through a door and to a small room, inside which there were a few bottles of water they had brought, labeled for both of them. He walks over to his, and takes a few gulps of the water, before placing it down happily as he hears a female voice he clearly recognized as his sister's calling out: "I'm here!"

He smirks at the similarity of the words, not noticing his sudden loss of height "As am I!" He calls back, walking out to see his sister... His beloved, cherished, and DELICIOUS sister...

She sees him and yelps, eyes widening as she steps back, clearly in shock at what she saw, as Arach chuckles "What's the matter?"

She blinks a few times "Y-You're a Changeling..."

Arach grins, taking a step forwards, licking his lips as she takes a step back in response, suddenly leaping for her, levitating her into the room and biting through a wooden pole she was about to slam into his face, locking the door before looking into her eyes with a grin

"And you are excellent food..." He says in a raspy voice, before opening his mouth wide, slime covering her and quickly forming a cocoon around her, which he sticks to the ceiling of the hotel room, cackling loudly as he brightens up his horn, a green glow coming from his horn as he begins to feed on her emotions with the hunger of a predator, grinning as he feels her emotions fill the deep pit of hunger he felt, his expression faltering before he gasps in horror, jumping back, the dream fading as he sees something in her eyes...

He saw himself. Or rather, herself... He was the very image of Chrysalis, and the sight was enough to jar him out of his predatory mindset and realize what he was doing.

He opens his real eyes, looking up to his room and sighing, fully relaxing, despite the cold sweat he was covered in "...Just a dream" Says a raspy voice which he gasps at before realizing it was his own, raising a hand in panic and seeing just one thing... One thing which fills his mind with horror...

...A black hoof, with holes going the the limb it was attached to.

His breath catches in his throat as his heart rate increases, looking at the hoof with his mouth agape, a plethora of new senses assailing his quickly recovering mind.

His tail is one of the first new things to come to his attention, as he swishes it back and forth experimentally, feeling it move beneath the bed, whimpering in surprise and even a little fear, as he also notices a change of what he felt between his legs. A subtle prod from atop the blanket, before an attempted pinch, proved that he was no longer male.

It was a minor curiosity to the now-her, but nothing of much interest as she bites her lip gently and carefully, and her wings 'wake up', much like an arm would after being slept on.

She inhales at the feeling, slowly trying to sit up before wincing and collapsing again, remembering that pony bodies were not meant to sit like that, her eyes widening and pupils dilating for a second at the shock and joy of magic opening up for her. A whole new sense... Within a second, she couldn't imagine life without it.

Careful not to crush her wings, she turns to her side, and carefully sits up in the position she'd seen so many times while watching MLP

"R-Right, so, an Ali--" She begins, before she cuts off her own voice with a gasp. It had quickly developed into Chrysalis's own voice! She stares into the distance, unsure if she should be joyful or fearful, even slightly creeped out at this, her natural response being a small amount of the first, a lot of the second and an 'average' amount of the third.

"S-So, I'm Chrysalis..." She says nervously, glancing around before trying to use magic to close the curtains of her room, frowning as her horn glows and does nothing; She lives practically in the middle of nowhere anyway, so there wasn't much risk of being discovered.

After a moment, she shakily gets up, very carefully lowering out of her bed before slowly walking over to the curtains, wobbling on her hooves, terrified that she'd fall any second.

She quickly reaches the curtains, and carefully drags them closed with her more flat teeth, before shakily walking to a mirror, having to stretch her forelegs up to a desk to pull herself up to view it.

She looks into the mirror, and back stares Chrysalis. She gasps after a moment, pupils dilating as she feels the final, and most important sense open up to her: Emotions.

Now that she thought of it, she had actually felt nothing like hunger or thirst after waking up until now, but this... This was like some kind of mix... She wasn't that hungry right now, but feared the worst for later when she actually did need to eat, innately knowing that she wouldn't be able to eat normal food.

Her pupils returning to normal, she sighs, about to get down from the desk, when her reflection does not follow her movements, but instead leans up to the mirror, snout almost poking the mirror as it grins evilly, eyes turning the color and shape of Discord's as the mirror-self grins at the scream of the real Arach, who had pushed herself away from the table and had half collapsed into a sitting position, staring up at what she now assumed to be Discord, her eyes wide and mouth open in shock.

"So, tell me..." The reflection says, passing through the mirror, shape changing to Discord's at the point of contact, as the rest of his body slowly turns back to its natural form with every inch he steps out of the mirror

"...Do your legs whistle when you fly?" Discord finishes with a grin once his last hind leg leaves the mirror.