I opened my eyes placing my hoof on my head groaning as my head was pounding. I looked around to see I was in a hospital room, and looked at the door hearing it open. A nurse looked at me and smiled a bit walking over setting a pitcher and a glass on a tray on the table beside the bed.

“Good to see you’re awake. The princesses, and captain armor have all been worrying about you.” Her horn had a bright teal glow as the pitcher poured some of what looked like apple juice into the glass, before walking to a heart monitor that was silently beeping as she studied it writing some things on a clipboard. “Heart rate is fine, magical scan had no bad results, except for an odd energy, but considering you’re ability to use magic, that would explain that. Well, nothing seems wrong right now, so I’m going to let the princesses know you are awake, and doing just fine alright?”

I nodded as she left studying the clipboard closing the door behind her. I got the glass and tasted it to find out it was a cinnamon apple juice. I set the glass back on table after drinking half of it and leaned back against the pillows and relaxed, feeling my eye lids get heavy. I let my eyes close to rest my eyes, until I heard the door open and a few running hoofsteps.

I opened my eyes and looked over to see my parents and Celestia run into the room and to the side of the bed. My mother was quick to pull an eyelid down staring into my eye, and pulling my mouth open to look in my mouth, asking if I was ok, what hurt, and more.

I pushed her hoof back and rubbed my chin a bit. “I’m fine mom…I just pushed myself too far.” She blinked and sighed, sitting next to the bed looking worried.

Celestia walked to her side and looked at me. “Blazing…why did you kill that pony?” my parents looked at her in shock than at me wide eyed, before I scoffed looking out the window towards the garden.

“Pony…? That wasn’t a pony…” I slowly sat up sliding back against the pillows slowly. “It was one of the very things that cause you some distress in the past Celestia…” I looked at her as she had a look of confusion. “A nightmare…” her eyes went wide, as her mouth opened but I jumped at it to stop her. “He’s been in me since before I was sent to live as a human…and only got out enough to mess with me when I came to Equestria…”

My father looked at me, before speaking. “A nightmare…you don’t mean Flare do you?!”

I nodded looking down. “I know…I messed up…”

He looked at me confused. “Messed up? I’m shocked you were able to, is all…why do you think you messed up?”

I looked at him in surprise. “You don’t know about the nightmare king?! The nightmare scourge?!?!” he shook his head as all of their ears laid back. “I…I see.” I looked down and sighed.

I saw a white hoof go onto mine and looked up at Celestia. “Blazing…we will need to talk about this…but you should get some rest for now. From what I hear, Captain Armor has an important question for you later, as well as your friends should be here soon since I sent the invitation to them earlier today.” I blinked and nodded as my mother hugged me and my father smiled at me letting me know they would be by later to check on me.

As I lied there I thought on visiting my parents since I haven’t yet, which made me feel terrible. Not knowing them for most of my life, finding them, and not having visited them yet. I slowly closed my eyes, and decided to get some rest till the rest got here.

I felt a slight nuzzling and opened an eye slowly seeing Twilight nuzzling me gently and smiled. “I guess I died if such a beautiful angel is here.” Twilight looked at me and blinked before she went red making me kiss her cheek, and chuckle. “Celestia mentioned she sent an invitation. What invitation is she talking about?”

I saw some white move behind her and looked behind her to see Armor standing there. “Hey Blaze. Glad to see your ok. I had a question I was going to ask you before but you…passed out.” I looked at Twilight who looked at Armor concerned than at me. I wonder if something’s wrong. “I wanted to ask if you would be my best stallion in my wedding. You would be up near the alter beside my sister.”

I blinked in surprise by the question. “Y-yeah, sure. I’d be honored to.” He smiled a bit and rubbed his head groaning a bit. “Maybe you should go get some rest.” He nodded a bit and left the room as I looked at Twilight. “You ok?”

She shook her head a bit sighing. “Something feels really wrong…Cadence seems…so different. She is slightly rude and pushy now…”

I got out of bed and gently hugged her. “Maybe she’s just stressed. If things seem to get worse, we’ll look into things. Find out why she seems different. Ok?” I looked at her smiling a bit.

She leaned against me gently looking up at me. “The others said the same thing. They didn’t believe me either…”

“I never said I didn’t believe you Twi, I’m just saying a possibility, but if it got worse I’d help look into it.” She looked at me and smiled a bit, thanking me.

We then left the room and headed down the hall. “We need to find out what’s going on, look around. Something.”

I laid my wing over her holding her close to my side. “No…you sit this out. If we are both looking around, something will raise suspicions on us. If I’m walking around, with Canterlot's current status, it’ll look like I’m just doing a patrol…making sure things are safe.”

“b-but…what if you need help? If something goes wrong?!” I nuzzled her gently and smiled at her to let her know everything will be fine. “Uuuugh! Fine…I’ll go help the girls out…but I don’t like this…” she looked at me with a concerned look. “Just be safe…alright?” she gave me a quick kiss and headed towards the main kitchen.

I began by heading down the hall towards Cadence’s room. If anything was going to tell me anything, it would be in there. I reached the door to her room looking around and quickly slipped into the bedroom locking the door, then walked over to the desk. “Hmm…nothing but forms, and some notes on love magic…? Well…she is the princess of love…makes sense…” I walked to the bed and saw the edge of the drapes looked slightly burnt with green embers. “Green…embers? Failed spell? No it’s on the edge…and no singes on the floor…”

I lifted up the drape and saw inside the drapery to the actual bed seeing some green slime on the bed. I lightly nicked the underside of my hoof making a bit of the slime float up and into a vial corking the top. As I was investigating the slime I heard the door handle rattle, which made me look at the doors to the small landing. I quickly headed out of it and flew off, noticing it was late in the evening.

I saw the girls walking down the street and secretly joined them walking with them all, waiting to see how long it would take for me to be noticed. “I can’t WAIT to do the sonic rainboom for the wedding! It’s going to be AWESOME!” she looked at me smiling widely. “Can you believe it blaze?!” she looked at me for a moment before blinking and screaming in shock jumping over AJ. “BLAZE?!?! WHEN DID YOU GET HERE?!?!” all of them were looking at me in shock.

I just chuckled and smirked. “Just a minute ago. I expected much longer to be noticed.” They all looked at Dash who moved back to my side quickly and looked away, as I pulled her closer. “Oh c’mon, don’t be sour because I scared you. I’m sorry about that.”

Dash sighed and smirked at me. “It’s fine, just don’t do it again.” I nodded as we headed to a restaurant in Canterlot and took a seat next to Twilight.

The girls began talking as my mind was too set on what I had found to listen to them, until I felt a hoof prod my shoulder making me look at Twilight. “h-huh? What’s up?”

Twilight looked at me annoyed. “Do you think I’m being possessive of my brother, or do you think something is wrong with ‘Cadenza’ too?”

I blinked and looked at the table. “something IS wrong here…I just don’t have enough pieces to even tell what the major picture is yet…and nowhere near the pieces required to finish it…for where I am now…I’m at a standstill….whether or not Cadence is involved in the problem is unknown…maybe she’s the key…maybe she’s stressed about the wedding. I can’t say…” I looked at twilight. “Sorry…”

Twilight groaned at left making the rest of us look at each other concerned. We all finished our drinks and headed back to the castle for the girls to continue on their duties for the wedding, while I searched around finding nothing new.

I noticed it was getting dark, and decided to head to the hall the wedding would take place to see all the others leaving. I looked into the hall to see Twilight on the steps crying, and hurried over to her. “Twi…what happened?” she looked at me and hugged me sobbing gently as I just held her stroking her mane.

I felt an odd presence, making me and Twilight look up at Cadence smiling at us worried. Twilight sniffled before she spoke up. “I’m sorry Cadence…”

Cadence’s eye’s flashed green making me wrap my wings around Twilight protectively, and a ring of green fire formed around us doming over us. We began to sink into the ground and I held onto Twilight until I felt we were laying on a cold surface. “Ugh…where are we…?”

I felt Twilight start to get up and yelled in pain as she stepped on my wing as she jumped off making a light on her horn. “Oh, Blaze! I am so sorry, I didn’t mean to!” she hurried to my side as I slowly got up rubbing my wing wincing in pain.

“I’m fine…really.” I examined my wing feeling the pain throbbing through it. “I think you just pinched a nerve is all…I just need to let the pain flow through, it’ll stop on its own.” Twilight looked at me worried, as a projection of Cadence appeared on the wall taunting Twilight.

She shot a bolt of magic out that began to bounce around making us duck down, until it hit a wall destroying it. When the smoke cleared we saw a disheveled Cadence look at us and try to slide away. “Wait! No, no, no!” Twilight had tackled her and I rushed over as Cadence saw it was us. “Blaze…Twilight, it’s you! I am so relieved to see its you two. The other Cadence is an impostor, you have to believe me!”

Twilight glared at her as her horn began to glow. “And why should we believe you?!”

Cadence slipped out and started doing odd motions as she chanted out an odd little phrase. “Sunshine, sunshine. Ladies bug’s awake. Claps your hooves.” Twilight joined in on the last phrase with her. “And do a little shake.”

Twilight and Cadence smiled at each other as they hugged, and I looked back feeling a burst of air. “I know this reunion is a great thing and all, and I hate to ruin it, but we need to get out of here, and stop that other Cadence before her plan…whatever it is…succeeds…”

The two nodded and we all headed towards the direction the air was coming from. We eventually found a mine cart on some rails as the two jumped in. pain was still flowing through my wing but I dealt with it as I pushed the mine cart down the track flying behind it. It wasn’t long till we were in a large crystal cavern with three mares in dresses, walking towards us, in a zombie like fashion.

Cadence used her magic to throw a bouquet of flowers that the mares all chased after making me just stare in that direction with my eye twitching. “Ok…either they wanted to be married more so than their brainwashed…zombie control thing, they had over them…or that mind control was just terribly implemented…” They just chuckled as they started running up some steps that opened up out of a hidden doorway near the room I stayed in, which we headed for the hall as fast as we could from there.

Me and Twilight barged into the hall as everypony looked at us in shock as we looked like we had just crawled out of the ground, and I started to slowly walk forward glaring at ‘Cadence’. “Celestia I know you told me long ago this was to stay secret…but this is FAR too important!” I turned into my elven self pulling out my sword, seeing it had changed to a katana with an odd style hand guard, as everypony gasped staring at me in shock as I pointed my sword towards the impostor. “You are under arrest for impersonation, and terrorism, as well as assault on royalty!!!”

Celestia looked unhappy at me as she spoke. “Blaze, what is the meaning of this?”

“The meaning behind this is that…THING, is NOT princess Cadence! And I have irrefutable proof…TWO in fact…” I reached into my pocket pulling out the vial of green slime. “Evidence A, being Changeling paralyzing toxin…” I stepped to the side hearing hoofsteps behind me. “And evidence B…”

“Is me!” I smirked hearing Cadence call out her presence at the doorway.

The fake cadence got engulfed in a flash of green flames turning into a pony-esque looking creature with hole-riddled bug wings, hole-riddled legs, and long green mane and tail with a gnarled up horn, standing there as tall as Celestia.

“You’re attack on Canterlot ends now!” I gripped my swords hilt tightly

“You think you can stop me…Chrysalis? The QUEEN of the changelings? None of you could dare to stand up to my level” Chrysalis began to walk down the steps. “ever since I took your place…princess…I have been feeding off armor…even now he grows weaker…his will becomes mine…” she looked at me as my neck began to burn making the tip of sword fall to the floor as I held the side of my neck groaning trying to keep myself standing as my strength seemed to drain out of me. “As does yours, ser knight…”

I started to hear whispers in my head grow louder as I fell to my knees panting heavily unable to hear anything but the whispers. After a while, I forced myself to look up to see Celestia’s horn be hit by the changelings magic making her fly back and slide on the ground unmoving. My eyes went wide as I felt my heart beat a few times, harder than usual, and slowly looked at Chrysalis. All I could hear now were the rushed sounds of hooves running out of the hall, knowing the girls had went to get the Elements of Harmony, and the guests had left to get somewhere safe.

I bared my teeth as I started to hear growling sounds, and felt my body tensing up, painfully making my whole body ache. I slowly stood up feeling like the ground was trying to pull me back down by intensifying the gravity around me, as I just stared down the changeling queen.

3rd person

Celestia, could just weakly watch Blaze stand up, and stare Chrysalis down. The next thing she knew, there was a bright flash of yellow light that made her eyes shut from the brightness, as well as a loud, crazed roar of a creature having gone feral. She opened her eyes to see a creature that looked like discord, but with a different, darker color palette, and bright red glowing eyes, with a red draconic tail with some bladed spikes on the end, holding a limp, elven Blaze by the back of the neck growling ferociously.

Celestia could feel a cold air flow from the creature. “Another…D-Draconequus…?” The Draconequus tensed the griffon claw on the back of the elven Blaze’s neck making a loud snapping sound resonate through the hall, and toss the body aside, making it land near Celestia, as she stared in horror and fear at the body near her. “B….Blaze…” Celestia weakly pulled herself to the body, and gently nuzzled it. “Please say something…” she got no response as tears began to flow down her face. “a-anything….please….” she shook the body making its head fall over making it look at Celestia with cold, lifeless eyes. “No….please no…”

Celestia closed her eyes holding her sobs back. The sound of growling made her eyes snap open to look at the Draconequus seeing him head up the stairs towards the changeling queen. Armor got in the way, about to use magic on it. Armor was grabbed by the horn in an instant, as a yellow light went over Armor’s body and tossed aside landing near Celestia.

Cadence hurried over to him holding. “Shining! Come on, look at me, please!”

Armor groaned and opened his eyes rubbing his head. “I feel like I was tossed around like some kind of doll…” he looked at the doorway to see Twilight and her friends guided in by changelings and brought over to where they were.

They all looked at the Draconequus creeping towards Chrysalis deflecting all her bolts like they were nothing, as the changeling queen began to look scared backing away. Twilight and her friends saw the body and headed over to it quickly, before Twilight looked at the events between the changeling queen and the Draconequus, than at Celestia. “P-princess…what happened?! Is blaze ok?!”

Celestia looked at the body and lowered her head as her ears drooped looking up quickly hearing a loud roar to see the Draconequus slap a few changelings out of the way and swing its claw at Chrysalis.

“THAT IS ENOUGH!!!” a loud raspy voice echoed into the room as the doors were bust open and bright blue chains came flying in chaining the Draconequus’ limbs and around his neck as he tried to go after Chrysalis still breathing heavily and growling in her face.

Everyone looked at the doorway to see a dark blue alicorn with glowing blue eyes with black sclera walk in and head towards the Draconequus as the chains bound themselves to the floor around it. “You must get a hold of yourself now, before you kill her. This is not you, and you know it!” the blue alicorn reached the Draconequus, as it faced him breathing heavily. “Even now your body is being torn apart by the amount of power you are using…you need to get control again…” he nodded towards Twilight and all of them over there. “Look at what you are doing to them…”

The Draconequus looked over at them as they all flinched in fear, Twilight and her friends pulling the body back, as they had tears in their eyes, making the Draconequus blink as blue swirled into its eye forming a blue pupil in the red eyes, as it focused on Celestia mostly then looked at its griffon talon and lions paw, before looking at the Alicorn. The alicorn nodded slowly. “w-what happened to me…? Please tell me I didn’t…”

The alicorn shook his head. “No…I was able to stop you…especially before you killed an elemental…” the Draconequus looked at Chrysalis and shook his head looking at death, about to reply but death cut him off. “I know what you want to say…but you don’t understand her true reason…she didn’t attack Canterlot to take over…she attacked to free her kind in the dungeon…to get love for her subjects, so they can live…they attacked…to survive…”

The Draconequus blinked and looked at Chrysalis as she looked between the two in fear. “To survive…” the Draconequus walked up to chrysalis as the chains faded away, and held its talons to her. “I don’t want to fight anymore…”

Chrysalis blinked in surprise before accepting his talon as it helped her up. “I…don’t understand what is going on…”

“Maybe it’s best you don’t…” the Draconequus closed its eyes as flames covered him. When the flames dispersed, Blaze was left sitting there as he flexed his wings a bit.

He looked over to see Celestia, Twilight, and the others looking back and forth from the body to blaze looking dumbstruck, as he smiled a bit. Twilight looked at Blaze and teleported tackling blaze in a hug crying. “I thought I lost you! Don’t ever…EVER….scare me like that again!!!”

Blaze could just look at her and smile a bit hugging her, and then looked up to see the rest of the girls running to tackled him. “ wait, WAIT!” he yelled out as the rest of the girls tackled him hugging him sniffling, except pinkie crying out as a river of tears left her eyes crying. Blaze groaned a bit from the added weight and looked at them smiling. “I’m sorry I scared you girls…seeing Celestia hurt…I guess I just….snapped…”

He looked up to see Celestia looking at him with a blank face, before smiling a bit and nuzzling him. “I’m glad to see you are ok Blazing. I was so scared when I saw…” she looked at the body as her ears drooped, than looked at chrysalis who just watched in shock, unable to react from the fear still in her from seeing the monstrous Draconequus that was before her turn into a pony. “Question now is…what to do with you…”

Blaze 1st person

I carefully got the girls off me and walked up to Chrysalis as she looked at me with fear in her eyes. I sighed and turned around sitting there and leaned my head over. “Take what you need…”

I heard everypony yell ‘what’ in shock, before I heard Chrysalis speak with a shaky tone. “W-why would you…help me after what I had done…?”

Death walked over to her. “Because he needs you…you are the elemental of nature…you are an important part of a battle to come that the elements of harmony cannot stop.”

I noticed Celestia look at Death with a blank stare. “Oh, uhhhh r-right…Celestia….Death…Death… Celestia…” Death looked at Celestia and bowed his head, as he faded away. “Yeah…he does that…”

I felt a sharp pain in my neck, looking over a bit to see chrysalis biting into my neck. I heard the others gasp and held up a hoof to stop them, and sat there feeling weaker by the second. After a while I felt her let go and sigh. “t-thank you….” I blinked and looked at Chrysalis as she was wiping her eyes. “You helped me…after attacking you and your friends…after everything I’ve done…”

“As Death said…you are an elemental like me…and we’ll need to work together in the future.” I looked at Celestia heading over to her as she watched me. “Celestia…do you think there could be peace between ponies and changelings? I’ll be sure they don’t attack ponies…”

Celestia looked at Chrysalis than at me. “I suppose, but I will be keeping a close eye on her…if one changeling attacks a pony, I will have them all banished from Equestria…”

Chrysalis was taken to a room while Celestia walked up to my side. “Now…I think it’s time to plan a real wedding.”

It didn’t take long for everything to calm down, and the wedding was put back together. The wedding went off without a hitch, but as I was heading out of the hall with Twilight I felt a hoof tap my shoulder making me turn around to see Night Light and Twilight Velvet, making me tense up. Twilight looked back as well and gasped hurrying to my side watching her parents.

Velvet was the first to speak up as she watched me closely. “We wanted to ask…what you are.” Night kept staring at me, which made me really nervous.

I gulped and sighed looking down. “I…know I haven’t been completely honest with you two…” I looked at them quickly. “I haven’t LIED to you two, just…kept secrets. I didn’t always live as a pony, even though…I was born one.” They looked at me incredulously, which made me sigh telling them my whole story as we walked out of the castle, and to their home walking inside ending up in the living room as I sat next to Twilight on the couch finishing my story not long after.

Night began to tap a hoof to his chin. “I see…so you’re the colt of Slab and Petals. Well…this does come as a shock Blaze…I don’t know what to think exactly.” I felt Twilight’s foreleg wrap around mine as she leaned against my shoulder, knowing she must be worried about her parents possibly disliking her being with me now. “Twilight did you know about this? And for how long?”

Twilight looked at her mother than her father before replying. “Since…before he was turned into…or BACK into a pony as the case may be apparently.” She looked at me and smiled. “that doesn’t change how I feel though…I know he’ll be there for me…my friends…all of us…I know it.” I blinked and nodded as I smiled while nuzzling her.

I heard her mother’s voice ring out as I nuzzled her. “Awww. I’m happy to see you with such a caring stallion, sweetie.” I and Twilight looked at velvet. “We still trust you Blaze, we just wish you would have been honest from the start.”

I sighed lowering my head feeling ashamed not trusting them. “I-I know…I was just scared…that you would see me as a freak…a monster.”

I felt a weight on my shoulder and looked over to see Twilight leaning her head against me smiling. “You aren’t a monster, Blaze. Sure you’re different…sure you can use magic even while being a Pegasus, but it’s who you are. That doesn’t make you a monster, or a freak. It makes you special…unique. I never once saw you as anything but incredible, strong, kind, and I couldn’t imagine my life without you here.”

I felt my face heat up a bit but I couldn’t help but smile. “Wait…” I looked over at Night, as he was looking at me confused. “You can use magic as a Pegasus? I mean, sure I saw you change into that…uhhhh…human, right?” I nodded. “I know you can become a human, but…what is she talking about Blaze?”

I chuckled nervously. “Right, that. I can use fire magic through my wings…or feathers really.” –I opened my right wing and make the ends of some feathers ignite with a flame. “I can make my whole wing ignite at will, but I thought I would be safe and just demonstrate with this, so I don’t burn anything.” I made the flames go out folding my wing again. “I can use my wings as a shield against some magic attacks and even throw balls of fire with them. Once, I even started to spin with them on fire while in flight and basically became a drill made of fire to attack.”

Night blinked watching. “Hmm. Interesting. For some reason, this ability sounds familiar but…I can’t quite recall where I heard about it from…” I flinched slightly thinking he may have known about the elementals. “Maybe from some comic book when I was younger. Who knows. Anyway, I’m sure you two need to get ready for your travel back to Ponyville. Be careful, alright you two?”

Twilight and I left her parents house and met up with our friends near the station, and began to head home. I’m just concerned about how the treaty negotiations between the princesses and the changeling queen will go. I’m sure they will let us know; at least…I hope so. It’s still a huge shock. Chrysalis…the nature elemental? This alliance will definitely be weird for me. Especially with the….insectoid equines…I can feel my skin crawling just from the thought of it right now, but I guess only time will tell if things will be fine.

Author's Note

ok, some [or one part] of this chapter may seem...dull...i lost my notes again...i fucking hate when other people decide how my stuff or room should be arranged. IT'S MY ROOM DAMMIT, I SHOULD HAVE IT HOW I WANT IT TO FUCKING BE!!!!

well, i'm sorry i wanted to help you have room for that weird blindfold you want to get for hearth's warming...

its a VR headset, and its not the VIVE! its the PLAYSTATION headset...it isnt going to be the "room manipulation area" like in the VIVE's job simulator!

i'm sorry!!! waaaaaaahahaaaaaaaaaa!

w-wait wait! dont cry! i'm just annoyed about losing my notes! i'm thankful you wana help just ask me first instead of just doing things! i have to find my notebook, my playstation move wands....and the cables to everything again since you took all those out, and add in the fact that stuff at work has become chaotic, and i was told to stop fixing it, as well as cigarettes keep getting moved and switched around every other week now...i'm just losing it. AND having to get that fridge in almost by myself was a HUGE pain in the ass...fridge doors handles off, main front door off, move furniture, get fridge in place, readjust its legs to balance it, fix one of the doors, puut front door back on...and you all nowhere to be found at the time...magic would have REALLY helped out.

sorry, Princess Celestia needed to see us.

ah ok...wait...YOU CAN GO BACK AND FORTH EASILY AND YOU CHOOSE TO STAY HERE?!

uhhh....well, we like being here with you. no day is ever regular with you.

....im just entertainment to you...?

NO!

of course not, you're our friend.

did he just think we use him for entertainment?

why would we do that?!

i can't believe you wou-

ok, ok! i get it. i'm sorry. i'm so used to being used i sometimes see the worst in people...throughout school i was always defending others with no word or act of thanks...treated bad the next day by that very person...friends using me because i was spoiled with games and such through life...had a pool...i just became reclusive and saw the worst in others...i'm sorry.

i'm so sorry sugarcube. we would never use you. we're sorry for making you feel that way.

how about we just all let this go, and jsut be honest with each other from here on in?

sound's great. princess celestia will be moving in as well by the time you finish the next chapter...i'm sorry...

.........fuck.........