The Golden Queen

Changelings: A parasitic sub-equine species known to take the form of their prey and feed off their emotions. Most commonly, love. They have little intelligence of their own other than to feed and to obey their queen to the ends of the world. The queen changeling is the only smart being in the whole colony. She uses her drones as her eyes and ears and orders them to take forms of their hosts. As the hive continues to grow, the queen becomes more parasitic in nature. Deranged to the point where love barely calms the raging beast inside, it is advised to extinguish a hive on sight before the queen attacks it's quarry. Changelings are barely considered self aware, so do not feel bad if you have to crush their skull to save yourself. They're only doing what they've been programmed to do, feed.

~ Species of Non-Equestrian Origin Expert, Sour Grass

Today I went out in my garden and saw the strangest thing...

The forest seemed alive with unknown power. I feared that the woodland creatures stood no chance against the beings that emerged from it, as they came charging out of the bushes in fear and ran past me into the city.

Black warriors of beetle origin walked on all fours as their sickly green fire sprouted from their horns and burned down the forest around me. I dashed away as quickly as I could from the things and ran into town where my friends would be. I sent them a text to ask if I could reside in their dwelling until I could get some help in investigating these strange beasts, but the creatures must be sensitive to the electric currents in the air and chased after me.

I tried to hide, but they would find me easily. I resorted to hiding in a heavily populated coffee shop nearby.

A glance behind me showed that the beings were using their sick green fire to douse themselves in a false form. They soon came in after me.

I was afraid. Luckily I knew the cashier Stacy, and whispered over the counter there were thugs looking for me, and she called the police and then came back.

The wolves in sheep's clothing slowly inched towards my spot, grumbling in an unknown gibberish, but they clearly had no idea how human politeness worked and grabbed my free arm as I screamed. More of the beings tackled me and other customers until they outnumbered us.

My head was slammed down on the floor next to Stacy as I turned and looked into her pleading eyes. She silently was begging for help, and here I was just as helpless as she.

Something snapped inside me, and while the black creature was distracted, I took the opportunity to kick him where the sun don't shine, but he just looked at me and laughed cruelly. They had no junk! They didn't feel any pain as I kicked and screamed and eventually bit its leg.

The other creatures took interest at my skirmish as well and dropped their disguise before staring at me too. I snarled and bared my teeth at them, but they surprised me by snarling back and revealing their much longer set of fangs.

Panic ran up me, which only fueled my anger more as I struggled against the black creature pinning me.

Then they let me go. I froze in confusion for a moment as I got up to bolt, but some weird force pressed against my head and I howled in pain.

"Well this is interesting..." A voice echoed from out of nowhere, making my head throb.

"A human strong enough to resist me, and push back my mind." It chuckled as a taller black creature came into my view and grinned. It opened its mouth and revealed two very unreal sets of long fangs as it grinned at me. "Hello, Rachel"...

"AHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Oh thank god it was just a dream!

I panted as I awoke in my bed with sweat pouring down my face in sheets. I took some deep breaths and looked over at my alarm clock which read 2:30 in the morning meaning no one was up at this hour except me.

I took a moment to let out some stream from the dream and yawned before feeling the need to use the restroom in my dorm and got out of bed.

While walking I briefly pondered the strange dream before pushing it out of my head and focusing on rubbing the crud out of my eyes.

'Just hold it in for four more hours Rachel, and then you're free for Spring Break'. I reminded myself as I combed my hair in the mirror.

A few absent minded strands had stuck on my comb but I shrugged it off to my tossing around in my sleep and shut the lights off.

Before I left the room though I took a acetaminophen, for my growing headache, and climbed back into bed. Nothing was going to ruin tomorrow. It was an important day for me...