Change of Heart

Chrissalis leaves with a pleaced grin on her face.
I look back at the real Icy Song. “So playing the Ocarina is your specialty? Let's see if that also got copied”.
I leave the room and look around in the nearby rooms for Icy Song's items

He must have had something on him when he came here. I think as I look around but seemingly in vain.
I turn to eave the current room I am in, only to see a changeling there. It nod's to it's right. I nod in response knowing it wants me to follow it. We walk down a couple of corridors and in to a room, there lays a emptied sadlebag on a table in the room, next to the bag there is a small book a box and some apples that's almost bad,

I walk up and open the box, sure enoughe there is the ocarina laying protected by a soft cover on the inside of the box. I open the little book and to my suprise it's filled with notes to different songs.

I look through the book for a song that is easy to play, don't take long before I find the most iconic and simple song ever “Happy Birthday”.
I pick up the ocarina, and put my lips on the mouth peace and start playing. I notice I don't have to look at the notes I can play the song anyway.

So I did get his talant in playing the ocarina, good. I think to myself before putting everything back in to the sadlebags. I consider taking the apples but decide that it's not worh the risk of having them getting bad.

I walk out of the room and head for the throne room, I get acompanied by a few changelings but it dosn't matter to me, I'm happy to not having them talk all the way, there literary is no need for them to talk using their mouths since they are all part of the hive mind.

I reach the throne room and see a bored Chryssalis there. I walk up to her and bow.
“Thought I should let you know I'm heading out to Equestria now.” I say, still not comfortable in my new shape and my new voice.
Chryssalis nods at me. “Good remember you talk to one of the changelings hiding in canterlot and the nearby area to report to the hive mind, Good luck with your task.”
“You don't forget the main reason I do this is to find out if my friends also came to this world, and during the time I gather information about that I will try to find out all I can about the task you have given.”

Chryssalis sigh “Go now you stubborn lit-”
I interupt her before she finnishes talking. “I am going.” I bow again and run out of the throne room out to a balcony so I have a good start to fly off from.
I take of from the balcony and as I raise in altitude and look down at the changling castle, if you now can call it that, it looks just like a random rock formation that someone has put a lot of holes in.

I sigh and fly out over the lands, I expected to see atleast a lake close by, buy it's just a barren wasteland.
No wonder that the Queen wants to get her people to a new land, and if Equestria truly is the largest kingdom I don't see why they can't give some land to the changeling. I think to myslef. Atleast the wind is fresh.

I stop by a large rock tower and land on top of it.
I don't even know where to fly to get to Equestria, and I don't feel like flying the wrong way.
I sit down and close my eyes focusing on the wispering I hear in my head, hoping to be able to pick up how to fly there.

I must have been sitting there for half an hour before I give up, I open my eyes and stand up.
I turn around and jump up in to the air and starts flying back.
All I need to do is to find a single changeling and have it think out the rout for me. I think to myslef as I push on to waste as little time as possible.

Half way back to the castle I see a small group of changelings, 5 of them to be precise. I come crashing down right infront of them, making them jump up in to battle ready positions.

As the dust from my landing spreads out and the changelings see me thay take a second to relax. I step forth to the changelings.
“ How do I fly to Equestria? ” I ask them. Even without my small connection to the hive mind I could have told how they laughed at me.

I roll my eyes at them but do nothing else about their laughing. The five changelings all point in the direction behind them and I hear the wisper “North” in my head.
I nod “Thank you”. I spread my wings again and shoot of up in the air again.

Lucky I turned back, but I wonder where I would have ended up if I continued to the west as I was flying in at first. I think to myself.
The wiev isn't anything special in this direction either. Well the horizon is pretty but it has always been.

I speed up abit more to get out of this boring area as soon as possible. After an hour's flight I have to land and rest for a bit. Still not used to flying I'm surprised I managed to continue flying all this time.

I sit down next to a rock and lean my back to it, enyoing the chill it gives.
I don't know for sure why but I pick up the ocarina from it's casing I end up just sitting watching the instrument. After a short while of just watching the ocarina, I start playing. I play a few different songs, forgetting about time. When I snap back to reality thanks to my growling stomach the day has passed and the night has begun.

Damn how long was I playing the ocarina? 10 minuits or 10 hours?. Eh dosn't really matter now that I think about it, I don't have a time limit after all.
I put the ocarina back in it's casing and get up on my hooves preparing to fly again.
I jump up in to the air only to have my right back hoof grabed.

I look back and see that two young dragons are standing there, next thing I know I'm giving the ground the biggest hug I've given anyone. Feeling dizzy I manage to get up on my hooves but I see tripple, I start backing away from the dragons, shaking my head to refocus.

The dragons smile at me and throw themselves at me, I manage to jump over their claws as I land I sove my back hooves in to the spine of one of the dragons, hearing bones either break or jumping out of place atleast.

I take this oportunity and jump forth and out of sight from the dragons.
The unharmed dragon tries to help the injured.
“Stop that go get that pegasus!” the injured shouts at the uninjured one.
He nods and starts running up after me on the trail I went up through.

I hear the dragons coming from behind me, I turn my head to the sides and only see one dragon. I stop in my tracks sliding a few feet before I turn to face the dragon.
I throw of my pegasus form showing my changeling form as I charge my horn ready to fire at the dragon,

The dragon don't seem to care that I'm a changeling.
He keeps running for me, reaching back with one of his claws getting ready to slash me. I aim for it's sholder shooting out a small beam of energy forcing the dragon to stager abit, I shoot another at his arm starting to tear scales and a little bit of flesh.

The dragon roars in pain and slashes at me with it's other claw, something I didn't think it would do considering the wound in it's sholder. I get hit in the face and thrown to the side, the dragons claws left wounds deep enoughe to bleed.

I was surprised to see that my blood now instead of red is somekind of green/yellow-ish color. I charge my horn again, getting back up on my hooves, aiming for the dragons injured arm and shoot a bigger beam of energy. Shooting the arm of the dragon. It roars in pain and try to stop the bleeding by covering the wound with it's other claw.

I smile at him and charge up again, I see the fear in the dragons eyes right before I shoot a beam at it's neck making a hole go straight through.
I smile at him wickedly as the dragon slowly gets down on it's knees trying to breath again.

I walk up tp the dragon taking it's form, I softly rub my cheek, and yes my wound is still there. “Damn it, I hoped it would heal” I say to myself as I remember the second dragon.

I walk back to the second dragon whitout changing form. The injured dragon hasn't moved much, when it sees me it gets a angry look.
“ I told you to bring the pegasus here I said ”
I laugh at him. “ I did.” I slash open his throat. Changing form back in to Icy Song's.
The dragon tries to say something but all that happens is the blood covering his throath gets air bubbles in it. I laugh like a mad man at the dragon before I take of again, chin still bleeding.

Another hour later the sceenery change and it becomes grassland. My eyes open wider. Where there is grass there has to be water. I fly higher up and see a lake another 10 minuits down the road. I fly there as fast as I can, landing by the lake dipping my chin and shruging from the pain. I notice now that I've bleed red blood since I turned back to Icy Song.

I clean my face completely and then starts to drink from a bit up the lake. Not wanting to drink from my own blood. Before I know other wise I've thrown of my sadle bags and let myself fall in to the lake, getting my coat cleaned atlest.

“Anypony out there?” I hear a female calling out in the night. I climb out of the lake and see the light from a horn on somepony, and she appearently see me too.

“Who's there?” she ask again.
“My name is Icy Song” I reply after a minuit, almost giving myself away first.
My eyes adjust to the light from her spell and I see that she is a young pink mare,
her cutie mark is a bandages in a cross. I turn to pick up my sadlebags, don't realising I'm showing her my slashed side of the face.
“Oh my, What in Celestias name happened to you?” she ask in a paniced voice.

I look up at her, trying to give her a confused face when my chin starts to shoot out pain again. “Oh yeah. I got lucky around some dragons.” I say, not thinking it's anything special about it.
“Dragons?! Where ? Why? ” she is panicing
“Calm down they aren't here” I try but she starts to rumble something I don't hear anything of. I sigh and slap her.
She stops in her tracks open mouthed.
“I said they arent here, I ran in to them an hours flight away from here, and no they did not follow me”
She takes a deep breath and nods, “come with me and we can get a look at that so it don't get infected”
I nod and walk after her.
She brings me to a hotel and gives me a room, before she runs and get a first aid box to clean my wound.

The cleaning is more painfull then getting the slash itself. I bite in to the blanket not to scream. She puts on a bandage that covers the whole slashes.
“you can't take it of for atleast three days”
I sigh and roll my eyes at it. She notices it and give me a stern look.
“ Three days” she say again
“Alright, alright” I reply.
“How much will this cost me?” I ask her
“The room or the check up?” she ask with a smirk on her face.
“Both” I sigh
“Nothing, it's free for tonight considering you had to face dragons”
“Thanks, do you mind leaving me alone so I can sleep?” I ask as politely as I can.
She smile and nod without saying anything she just leaves the room.

I quickly get up and lock the door, I then proceed to cover all the windows just in case I shift back to a changeling in my sleep.
After the windows is coverd I fall down on the bed and fall asleep before my head hit the pillow.

There is a loud knocking on the door. I wake upp irritaed cuz of it, when I try to rub the sleep out of my eyes, something seems wrong, when I realise what it is I'm looking at a darkgray hoof and leg. I almost scream out in panic before the events of yesterday comes back to me.

How much did I change back to a changeling? I think to myself and check myself in the mirror, I've changed back fully. Damn it, I hurry away from the door and change in to Icy Song as the knocking comes back on the door.

“Yes what is it?” I call out sleepely as my voice has changed back to the dark deep voice of Icy.
“You missed both breakfast and lunch, you alright in there?” a stalion calls through the door. I look around in the room seeing nothing that can show I'm a changeling. I unlock and open the door.
“Yeah I'm alright, it's just I'm a heavy sleeper.”

The brown earthpony stalion with green eyes and blue mane looks over me.
I smile softly and rub my eyes again.
The stalion leans in abit and wisper. “ We heard that you got in some trouble with dragons, that's why we where so worried “ he moves back from me but keeping his eyes on me. I smile akwardly at him, “Ehm yeah I got in a lil fight but it's alright really” I try to explane to him.
“Alrighty then” he says and leave.

I sigh heavely and start to move towards the door only to be stoped by my groweling stomach.
I facehoof hard, I just rememberd I didn't eat anything at all yesterday.
On the other hoof I don't have any money so I can't buy anything to eat either.
I look around seems I was the only one who heard my stomach. I sigh in releaf and throw myself out the door and take of in to the air.

After abit of flying my luck turns around, I see a couple of apple trees, I look around and don't see anyone around. I nod to myself and fly down to take afew apples, I throw in five apples in my sadle bags, and I eat tree apples before I move on with a happier stomach.

The flight inside of Equestrias borders are a lot easier to handle, not only is there more food along the way, there are also a lot of clouds to rest upon, aswell as lakes and rivers to drink and wash up in.

I try to avoid towns as much as possible, and there for only run in to a few pegasi who are flying about. We only nod at eatchother in aknowlagement of eatchother before I break of and fly abit of course to get away from them.