This is My Story

What can I call home, I don't have a family, I have (correction) I had a hive. That was the closest thing I've ever had to somebody caring for me... My hive brothers and sisters... We, we were raised from crystal eggs to where we are now. And now I wish i had died in the explosion. I have nothing, my connection with my hive has been lost and I am alone and broken. I am sad and alone. It's strange, I've tasted my feelings before, Love being sweet with hate being bitter. But sadness. Sadness taste like sadness. There is no way to describe it. I'm stuck in a cycle, I get hunger pains and am forced to eat the sadness of the other Changlings who didn't die. We are all disconnected and alone. But being alone together is better than death. My body is broken and my soul is crushed too. I tried to fly, to fly away from my dying brethren. I only made it about half way to Ponyville before the royal guards shot me down with their rays of magic. I landed about in the EverFree Forset and I'm awaiting my slow death. I haven't fed in a few day and my magic shield is failing. Soon I will become completely visible to any passerby's. Then she came. I remembered her. Her sunflower coat. I had mimicked it during the battle. I assumed she was one of us when she pointed us into battle while trying to hide, after looking back I could see her prismatic friend kick away the clones. She had tricked me. But that was ok now, she was my savoir, she was gonna walk over and crush my skull hopefully. I didn't want to live. I had lost my hive, my purpose. My life was supposed to be devoted to my Queen but she was now imprison and our connection was lost. So many of my brothers and sisters died before my eyes, and now it was my turn. She stood over me, the sun blocked out around her so I could only see her shadow. She was rather... *beautiful*?[ Yes beautiful, and now she was gonna kill me, I closed my eyes and felt a single tear escape my eye, it fell upon a large cut on my hoof, It stung like crazy! But that was ok, because I was gonna die, or was I... why is she just looking at me? Is she gonna say something, tell me I'm a monster? Why, why must she prolong my suffering when I want to do now is die. I want to go to my queen and be with my 'family' why won't this stupid pony just kill me!/i]

"please" I begged

"what?" She seemed to be confused now, she tilted her head and the sun shone in my eyes

"kill me" I look at my body, and I tasted something... Empathy? Pity maybe... but it was coming from her? Did she pity me? Did she forgive me and now felt sorry for me? Why?

"why would I do that?" I saw a tear drip onto the soil in front of where I had crashed and was now going to die.

"because, I don't want to live, I'm a monster and I tried to kill you and your friends" I looked at her wondering why she was sad? The flavor came back to me, I hated it, it radiated out of both of us. Then she did something no pony or changeling had ever done before...

She sat down next to me hugged me tightly with both hooves!

It was bouncing everywhere, I could feel my mind go blank as I tried to suck in as much emotion as I could I felt my bones healing and my wings gaining power. My horn began to glow and I moved a tree branch off me as I stood up. She cowered down in fear.

"please don't" she cried out almost sobbing now

"what? I'm sorry? What did I do" *why was I apologizing to her? I should be feasting on her! I should stick my fangs right into her bucking neck and suck all the love I can out! but I couldn't, no... I felt something. It was a familiar feeling... I thought, tiring to remember where I had tasted this particulate emotion before... and then I realized... This feeling was coming from inside me. I had felt it given to me when I had posed as a father. 'my' wife, when she kissed me... This feeling was love. I felt it for this mare*

"you're... you're not gonna suck my love?" she spoke and looked up, I could see her cutie mark. Three small pinkish butterflies

"no, I wish I could, I want too, but I can't bring myself to do that anymore" I looked down almost ashamed... I was a loved eating carnivore and I couldn't even do that!

"What do you mean? Your supposed to eat my love?" She put her head in the same cockeyed way she did earlier.

"That's not the only emotion we feed on. It's just the most tasty... I can taste it now. Can I ask you name?" *EREMEGERSH WHAT WAS I DOING! I"M A MONSTER no... I was a monster, I'm something else now. I can't feel it but if I was a monster she wouldn't still be alive*

"um, I'm Fluttershy... whats your name?" Fluttershy spoke in a soft tone like she had but it seamed to have more depth now, now that she wasn't just a faceless nopony... she was going to be nice to me even though I was a monster, or something else... I don't really know yet... Then I realized i couldn't answer her question.

"I... I-I don't have... a name... or at least I don't think I do. I was part of a hive and when I was in the hive we had a telepathic connection to our queen and that was us, we were one and our name was the changelings..." I thought about smiling at the memory of the good days in the hive... I felt something else now too, It tasted almost as good as love. Happiness, Yes, I felt this several times when I pleased the queen! And now I felt it because this *Fluttershy wanted to be my friend*

"may I give you one. A name" Fluttershy asked

"NO!" I shouted "I'm sorry, its just... I don't want a name because then it means that I'm lost forever now... and I will never see my brothers or sisters again... so no thank you"

"Oh, its ok I understand" Fluttershy hugged my again, I felt her tears hit my shell. A new sensation rushed up my spine. Love again! Did she love my too? But why? My heart sunk, she had no reason to love a monste- My thoughts we interrupted with her words again

"would you like to come to my cottage? I bet you need a place to stay for a while!" Fluttershy began to walk to her cottage without my answer... whatever that didn't matter I had my first friend and I wasn't going to let her down! A smile appeared on my face, it was the first time I smiled since we broke the force field... and the first smile ever with my new friend...