Ch. 3: The New Kin

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Fluttershy clenched her teeth tight as she felt the whole brood try to climb out of her at once. "No...." she moaned again, panting in heavy gasps. She tried to remember the advice she gave her first hens. Deep breaths, followed by short presses.

"My queen."  Fluttershy turned her head toward the Changeling from the hut. It walked slowly to her overstuffed womb exhaling a spicy iridescent mist as he kissed her forehead. "They are close to hatching, Fluttershy."

"They're too many..." She gasped. She tried to get herself up, but the sheer weight of her babies had put her pinned leg to sleep.

"That is the smallest brood you could deliver." The Changeling grunted. It rose and returned to her side with one of its hoof holes filled with a bouquet of flowers. "You must be hung-" Fluttershy snapped her mouth full of the flowers, slurping the stems down awkwardly as she chewed the whole wad and gulped graciously. "More?" it asked. Fluttershy replied with a fast nod. When he returned with another bouquet of flowers, Fluttershy had gotten back on her couch. It hoofed them over to her and she ate these flowers slower than the first.

"A-are you going to be spending a lot of time here?" Fluttershy inquired.

"No. I plan to return as always, at sunset." The Changeling said.

"Where are my animal friends?" Fluttershy asked.

"I told all of them that you weren't feeling well and needed to spend a long time alone to recuperate. Your rabbit was the hardest to convince-but after he watched you sleep for a while, he accepted it."

"That's Angel Bunny...Do you have a name?"

"Remnant." The Changeling said mournfully. "I was one of the late queen's prized studs."

Fluttershy frowned at the idea. Remnant cleared his throat. "I didn't mean anything by it, Fluttershy...it just slipped off my tongue." He calmly stated. He placed his ear to her girth, as a smile slowly stretched from his lips. "I already know they will be kind-hearted. They sensed your pain and have calmed down considerably since your feeding. Tomorrow will be very busy."

"Maybe they were hungry too?" Fluttershy reasoned, she shyly peaked at his inner thighs which cradled a flaccid stub of meat that left Fluttershy second guessing if this was the same Changeling from the hut. Remnant sat down, pulling his thighs tightly together as he witness her admiring his dick. "On the subject of studs...." Fluttershy awkwardly mumbled on. "I...I don't understand...well in Zecora's hut you were just...so...so-" She stumbled.

Remnant tilted his head, squinting as he pieced together what little information he could gather from Fluttershy. He smirked wide as he explained."Oh...I had forgotten that ponies aren't asexual like my kind. What does your kind call us again?"

"Changelings."

"If there is no suitable queen, the higher ranking males will...adapt. It was jarring to say the least...like condensing water and oil so tight that they had to fuse as one. I knew I was male, yet I could feel larvae grow within me." He winced as he recalled the feeling,  sorrow breifly tainted his thoughts about what he had done to Fluttershy, her element was more powerful than he fathomed.

Fluttershy coughed softly as  he caught Remnant's obvious discomfort. "Like clown fish?"

"Maybe." Remnant shifted his view away from Fluttershy and sighed. "I should leave early today...I'm worried another deserter might pick up on my scent."

"H-how many Changelings do you think are in the forest?!" She asked worriedly.

"If we are lucky, none. But a starving Changeling, no matter their age can smell...love." Remnant kept his face affixed looking out the window, unwilling to see Fluttershy's reaction to his shameful truth.

"I think it would be best for our children...if you stayed." Fluttershy said reassuringly. She placed a hoof to his shoulder hoping he would turn to face her. Remnant fangs poked through his smile as he looked to Fluttershy. Her eyes were dull as if void of pure reasoning.

"But my-" Fluttershy shushed him sweetly.

"When you served under Queen Chrysalis...was their any love between you and her?"

"No." Remnant said bluntly. His eyes linked to hers as he caught on to her words. "You want to see what will happen if the children are surrounded by love?" Fluttershy nodded softly. She wrapped a hoof around his neck and pulled him in close. Remnant didn't need anymore of a hint, he laxed his lips for his queen. The two hyperventilated as they exchanged kiss, spit and tongue.

Fluttershy silently noticed as Remnant's cold insectoid eyes changed to a kinder almost equine shape. His holed ears grew in fullness and his fanged teeth lost their imposing sharpness. Her instincts were right, without the feeling of love Chrysalis had changed her kind, but not permanently. She wondered if Remnant could be changed permanently from her.

Remnant lunged himself away from her, as his features reverted to normal. "What did you do to me!" He growled bitterly.

"I-I did nothing, nothing but what you were doing...kissing!" Fluttershy quivered. She tried her best to scrunch her body into a ball.

He bit his lip, bowing his head low as took a deep breath."I felt myself change, I wasn't in control...I felt weak and lonely." He said, regaining his composure. "Forgive me Fluttershy."

Fluttershy peeked her head out. She didn't know why, but she trusted him. She wiggled her body to his side of the couch. "That's because you felt love. I'm not sure how the elements of dis-harmony work, but I know well enough that harmony relies on the balance of others. You must have felt something like that..didn't you rely on your other Changeling...kin?"

"No...never. If we fell, then we were left to our own. Queen Chrysalis never instilled this need, she could simply breed more." He looked up to her with a lost expression. "How do you overcome this weakness? Is their a sacred magic, or blessing?"

Fluttershy giggled softly as she heard Remnant speak of the Elements of Harmony like invisible tenets. "Everything, not just ponies use Harmony. Mother bears share their food with their cubs, and dogs and other pets are loyal to their keepers. I don't think you see harmony as real as it is. That so called weakness you feel, might just be from not understanding how you feel..." She brushed her snout to his. "Instead of believing it makes you weak...what if it was another word? Like camaraderie."

Remnant's twitched his ear and lowered his gaze as he went into thought. "I think I understand..."

Fluttershy wriggled her numb leg loose as Remnant helped her up, and by using both of their wings she successfully landed over to her bed. Remnant adjusted a pillow to her back when she was finally comfortable Remnant tucked his body low under her bed and curled his legs together. He gave a shallow sigh as he changed into Fluttershy's favorite bunny.

Fluttershy squinted her eyes as she suddenly jerked awake. She could feel them, her children violently pushing in every direction. Yet she couldn't scream, or shout not even moan in agony. Her mouth was stuffed with a familiar green ooze that left her tongue stiff and numb. The slime was sickeningly sweet, yet overly salty. It was toying with her sense of taste, which was making Fluttershy hungry for real food. In the corner of her hazy eyes she saw Remnant's deep aqua eyes...only there was another pair of aqua eyes, she watched this pair of eyes lower. Remnant flung with a loud *crack* into the wall. The other Changeling flew on top of Fluttershy.

It widened its eyes as its belly rubbed against hers. It placed its tongue distastefully into the gel until Fluttershy could feel the warm air from it rushing into her throat. An involuntarily cough caused the extra gel to splash into the invading Changeling's face and It lowered its eyelids in anger. It took a deep exhale, and with its inhale Fluttershy wheezed sporadically as the Changeling feasted off her love. Fluttershy teared as it readied itself for an even bigger feed. Whatever warmth the intruding Changeling provided was all Fluttershy had, even her womb lost its warmth. It tugged its head up with its next inhale like a robin fighting for spring's first worm. Fluttershy felt her body raise up with the invading Changeling's tug. Then it stopped.

It hunched itself on Fluttershy's round mound, sticking its tongue out lazily. It had eaten so much, that it put itself to sleep. Fluttershy stared at its eyes that weakly tried to stay open. Soon its head tilted and it dozed off. Fluttershy raised her blanket to her snout to muffled her sobs, and pants of breath as her warmth pulsed back into her.  Her eyes looked over to Remnant who was barely moving. Her body shuddered in pain, with all the excitement she wouldn't be getting anymore sleep. No matter how she moved, the napping Changeling wasn't going anywhere without first waking up. All Fluttershy could do was stare at her intruder.

The room had been still for a few hours or so 'til Remnant lifted himself on to her bed quietly, he opened his mouth and bit hard onto the Changeling's neck, just before its chitin. The Changeling hissed wildly, failing its head at Fluttershy. She winced her eyes, tugging her sheets over her eyes as she screamed. The two Changelings thudded to her floor. They exchanged primal hisses and growls, until a pained yelp echoed throughout the cottage.

Once more a Changeling hopped up on to her bed. Fluttershy had pressed a pillow to her ears while the two had fought, she cracked out a cry as she felt movement on her bed, tears already moistening her pillow.

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