It was a warm, spring day, and it was about time for school to let out. some of the foals were getting anxious.

"Come on, come on!" whispered Scootaloo, who was watching the clock with enough intense concentration to burn a sprig of cedar. as the school bell sounded, all the young Foals left the schoolhouse in a hurry. Applebloom was one of the last to leave.

Applebloom searched for her friends outside the schoolhouse and shortly found them trotting away talking to one another.

"Hey, y'all, Wait up!" Applebloom hollered to her friends, as she was the last to leave and didn't want to be left in the dust. She picked up her pace until she was cantering towards her friends. she soon caught up, since she worked on an apple orchard since she was born. As she caught up, she noticed her friends were having a conversation.

"Okay, girls, what are we doing today?" said Sweetie Belle. Scootaloo put her hoor to her chin and though deeply on the matter, while Applebloom did the same.

"Lets just go to the our Tree house and decide what we are going to do there, it will be easier if we don't have to listen to third party conversations." Sweetie Belle said over the mass of Foals that had just left school, leaning in closer to her friends so they would hear her.

"Good idea!" Applebloom and Scootaloo said in unision, and the trio trotted away in the direction of Sweet Apple Acres.

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Trachnid felt somepony poking him in the side, and he tried to ignore it, he was to tired to get up right now, and he felt like he was hit by a bus.

"Hey, you alive?" he heard a young filly's voice call out to him. She kept poking, until she poked the spot the bandages were covering.

"Aaagh!" Trachnid exclaimed, as a spike of pain shot up his abdomen and strait to the base of his skull.

"Eeeeek!" exclaimed a group of voices, and Trachnid looked up, noticing the yellow one running away. Then he looked at the closest one; An orange Filly with purple hair and matching irises. she looked as if she had seen a ghost, and jumped when Trachnid motioned for her.

"Leave me alone, monster!" Scootaloo exclaimed as she turned around and bucked at Trachnid's face. Trachnid tried to stop the blow, but twisting made his wound flare up and he stopped his arms, yelping in pain.
the blow soon impacted his face, breaking his jaw and knocking him out.

"Good shot Scootaloo!" said Sweetie Belle. "Do you think you killed it?"

"I don't know, but I don't want to find out if it gets back up!" She said, running for the tree house. Sweetie Belle soon ran off in pursuit of Scootaloo.

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Applejack soon got back home from applebucking, still sweaty from the hard work. She stopped for her break, and was in the house getting a drink of cool Apple Cider. Then Applebloom throws open the door and yells between pants:

"Help! theres a monster near the tree house!" She stopped, panting from the long run home."Please, Applejack, Big Mac, somepony, help!" At this, Applejack put down her glass of cider and rushed to her little sisters aid.

"Whats wrong, what kind of monster, and where is Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle?!?" Applejack said, worried that they could be in serious danger.

"I don't know! I left a soon as it opened its eyes! please Applejack, you have to do somethin'!" Applebloom said panicky, as she doesn't know how her friends are faring.

"Well, Lets not waste any time gettin' there, either." Applejack said, hurrying out the door in direction of the tree house, Applebloom soon following in her sisters footsteps.

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"Rarity! Wait!" Fluttershy called, as she was chasing after Rarity, who had gotten spooked at the appearance of the changling." I can explain!"

"How can you explain the appearance of that Thing in your cottage!" Rarity said, quickly spinning in place. This took Fluttershy by surprise and, being surprised, tripped over her own hooves and landed in front of Rarity.
"Are you alright, dear?" Rarity said, worried that her friend hurt herself." That was quite the spill you took there."

"I'm alright, but I just don't want you to be worried over him, he got injured in a fight with a manticore, and I couldn't just leave him there, he needed help!" Fluttershy stated. "Oh, I'm sorry if I was a bit mean there, I just won't sit idly by while something is in pain." Fluttershy started looking guilty, as if she had stolen something and was caught red handed.

"Oh, you shouldn't be expected to ignore your special talent, Dear, just think before you take care of something that could hurt you instead of being thankful for your help." Rarity said, who felt sorry for upsetting her friend. "Now, we must go and tell Twilight about this, as she would know best on what to do."

Fluttershy nodded I approval before following her friend, who was walking at a fast trot.

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as Applejack and Applebloom arrived at the tree house, she was greeted by Scootaloo, leaning out of a window, beckoning her and Applebloom inside, whispering:

"Up here, and be quick about it, please!" she stopped leaning out the window and turned around to face the inside of the Tree house.

The sisters looked between one another, then climbed the stairs into the tree house, worried about the welfare of the two. As they got inside the tree house, Applejack started pushing for answers:

"Hey, y'all, where is this "monster" you all were talkig about?" Applejack asked, suspicious. "I'm hoping y'all wont do somethin' to the extent of this as a prank?" Applejack said, looking at Scootaloo in particular.

"Hey!, I don't joke about stuff like this, so get off my back." Scootaloo said defensively. "I know where the monster is, so let me show you I'm not lying!" After Scootaloo got up, stormed out in the direction of the fence where Trachnid lay. As they arrived Applejack was the first to speak.

"What in tarnation?" She looked scared at first, but then it turned into anger when she realized it was a changling. "Why on equestria..." her words trailed off as she thought of what to do with the Changling. "I say we take it over to Twi, 'cause I think she'll know what to do with it." She motion towards Applebloom. "Hey, Applebloom, help me carry it."

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Rarity and Fluttershy arrived at Twilights library after around 20 minutes of walking and Rarity knocked on her door three times in quick succession, much like how she knocked on Fluttershy's door. Impatient, Rarity knocks again, in the same manner as last time, before they hear a young male voice coming from inside.

"Im coming, give it a rest, will ya?" Before long, they see a dragon open the door. He was small in stature, purple scales with a light green stomach and a deeper green crest on his head. "Hi, Rarity" He said, love-struck.

"Spike, we are here for Twilight, so could you go get her?" Rarity said, blinking affectionately at spike, then winks at him.

"Okay, Rarity, come in" Still love-struck, he turns around and lets them in the library, then he calls for Twilight:
"Hey, Twilight, Rarity and Fluttershy are here for you!"

"Thanks, ill be down in a second!" Twilight hollers down the stairs, and they hear the scratching of a desk chair against the ground and you hear her hooves walking to the stairwell. "Okay, now what did you girls want again, I'm quite busy" She says as she is walking down the stairs, being in front of the trio when she stops talking.

"Well, I might have brought in something dangerous, and Rarity is worried about what exactly I brought in." Fluttershy said as she tried to hide underneath her hair again.

"Twilight, darling, she brought in a Changling" Rarity stated Matter-of-factly," And I was wondering what we should do about it"

"A WHAT?!?" Twilight exclaimed, looking scared and worried, "why on Equestria would you bring a Changling into your cottage, Fluttershy!" She started pacing around, freaking out. "Do you realize what could become of this?!. you could be banished for helping the enemy!. You could be thrown into the dungeon for aiding the Changling! you could..." At this, she began hyperventilating

"Twi, you are scaring Fluttershy!" Spike says flatly, and motions to Fluttershy, who Is cowering where she stands

"Oh my bad, hehe" she giggles," Well, I guess ill need to tell Celestia, punishments or not." Twilight motions towards spike. "Tell her that..." was all she said before the door was opened by Scootaloo, immediately followed by Sweetie Belle, and the sisters Applejack and Applebloom. Applejack and Applebloom were carrying a bandaged Changling, with two obvious hoof prints on his face. They walked in a bit farther and sat him down in the middle of the room.

This catches the group in the house by surprise, All of them gasping at the appearance of the Changling in question.

"Oh my, where did you find him?" Fluttershy asked immediately, breaking the silence.

"We found it by our tree house, it was passed out by the fence." Sweetie Belle motioned to his face, which was bruising. " it awoke and tried to grab Scootaloo, so she bucked it in its face." At this, Fluttershy went to her patient, and she checked his face for injuries.

"His jaw is broken, but there seems to be no other injury, except for the hoof prints." Fluttershy pointed out. "Who did this to him?" She looked at the three young girls in the room

" It tried to grab me, I got scared and bucked it in the face," Scootaloo looked down at the ground. "I'm sorry if I hurt one of your animals, Fluttershy"

"Oh, he isn't one of my animals, Scootaloo, but a Changling" Fluttershy says, and the filly's all look at each other weirdly and scratch their heads.

"What is a Changling?" Applebloom asks quizzically, confused.

"Changling's are shape shifters who feed on love and compassion, and could take the place of any one of us at a given point of time." Twilight says, never keeping her eyes of the Changling. "Their queen nearly ruined my brothers wedding and took over all of Equestria!" She put emphasis on the end of the sentence, pointing at the Changling. "That's why I want to send for the princess, because if one showed up here, who knows whether there might be more out there, staging an attack!"

In the commotion, Trachnid stirred, and the entire room focused on him. He winced as he woke, not used to his injuries yet. As he looked around, he blinked and tilted his head.
"Why are you all staring at me like that?" He asked, perplexed about why everyone was staring at him. "Who are you?" Rarity huffed at this question, pointing her nose to the air, while Twilight responded with hostility.

"Why would we tell you?" She said,

Trachnid flinched, then put his hoof to his chin and pondered her question. After a short while, he responded. "I don't know" He said, then he started to panic, looking between the multitude of faces in his fit of confusion. He soon deflated, looking more scared and helpless.

"Who am I?"

Author's Note

Sorry this chapter took so long, I fell asleep at my computer while writing it :s

By the way, I'm having trouble finding the line in Anthro writing and Pony writing, so bare with me.