A Changing Story

The changeling queen looked into the eyes of the two foals fear washing over them. Their scars bled, and the mud on their coats dripped. The queen fell over on one of her legs, struggling to get back up. As soon as she was able to get a grip on the ground with her dark back hooves, she let out a terrifying laugh. It sent chills down the fillies’ spines.

“You… you both, will take care of the hive mind, seeking control over Equestria...Forever!” The sisters looked at each other nervously. Until Cadance spoke.

“Perhaps we never should’ve gone…”

*

“Muhahahaha-ow…” She started before going limp again. She growled, her jagged horn lighting up with a bright green. Her dark blue mane shifted, as she rose into the air, a bright blue beam surrounding her, the two filles rose as well. Love Note had read about changelings, but didn’t know what was going on, that is until her sister let out a painful scream. Love Note’s head turned immediately to see her sister crying and sobbing. spikes of what looked as changeling wings cut through her own, forcing the bone and blood of them to shoot out of her body. A horn jammed in the front of her head, breaking the edge of her skull. Love Note gasped, tears forming in her eyes until she screamed as well. Then gallons were pouring out just like the blood. Jagged pieces of broken horns, forced its way to replace Love Note’s. The evil wings didn’t take its time, but instead just cut out quickly. The blood drip to the ground,gallons surrounding the place they once stood. The changeling queen, who was screaming herself, lit up her horn more, picking up the piles of blood and rushing around them. Their coats and mane changed completely different colors, if anything the opposite. The fillies fell they were much taller and a bit older. The queen however, was having a magic surge, the blue magic surrounded her, her eyes bled and the magic stopped,but a small lightning bolt from it, hit her, and her whole body disintegrated. The sisters gasped looking down. Until Love Note spoke.

"What.. happened?" She asked, her magic grabbed a mirror out of her saddlebag. She looked at herself and gasped.

"What are we? What am I?" She cried, Cadance stepped forward to her sister, gasping at the sight.

They were changelings.

*

Cadance took a few steps backwards, then looked down to her holey hooves. She panted. Love Note remained silent, the mirror dropping to the ground. The only noise hearable was Cadance's crying, that was until millions of changeling soldiers peered out from the woods around them.

"Behold! The changeling Queen- queens?" A dark mare soldier started, then saw Love Note behind Cadance.

"Ah, is it to be a fight to the death?" A dark blue one said, hoping.

"Oh! Exciting! A fight!" A dark pink one jumped, her bright pink wings fluttering.

"Fight! FIGHT!" An orange one said, waling up to Cadance, who was terrified.

"Love Note..." She started, until two changelings stepped forward. One a black yellow, and a gray one.

"Now fighting isn't always, the answer!" The yellow one said, then the orange changeling scoffed, her country voice digging deep into her voice.

"Flutterwing! You know better! If you fight with the changeling laws, you will be executed!" The gray one stepped up.

"Excuse me? Before our queen, Liveevol, sacrificed herself and made us new queens, only because she was decaying and we were doing terribly with food, we were happy! Also, you are not the commander, you were not left in charge, Blacklight, tell her!" The dark purple changeling walked to her fellow changelings slowly.

"What do you propose we do?" She asked calmly.

"Are you kidding me?! You're going to listen to them but not us?" The blue one commented.

"RainFlash! Watch your tongue!" Blacklight screamed back.

"But they-" The orange started.

"Same with you FeastJack!" She shouted.

"Oooh! Some changelings are getting told!" The pink one said.

"Pinkie Lie!" Blacklight threatened. The pink changeling hushed. FeastJack and RainFlash both laughed, mocking her friend silently.

"Now, Clarity..." The purple changeling turned to the gray one.

"I think Flutterwing would say it better." Clarity sighed, trotting away from the yellow changeling hiding behind her. Blacklight looked down at her, scowling deeply.

"Do we always have to kill them? Even though we're changelings, we don't kill, we feed on love, they're two different things, and I don't know if others are, but I'm terrified every time I hear screams because of battle for queen hood, or because somepony found us out, and even if they did, we can hypnotize them!" Flutterwing yelled, then realizing she had, curled back down looking at the dirt. Blacklight glared at her for a few minutes before turning to the crowd of changelings.

"I've decided to take mercy to the two, we shall let the two princesses decide which one of them is to leave and stay a changeling and live alone forever, while the other lives here as a queen!" All the changelings cheered except for RainFlash and FeastJack.

"However..." Blacklight continued as all the changelings began to turn around to walk to their hideout.

"I will only spare them if they willingly come with us, otherwise, I'll use force, and if it gets past the point where they test my patience, I, personally will kill them." Flutterwing and Clarity both gasped, Clarity ran over to Love Note pulling her hoof up, Love Note sighed, and sat up, trotting along with Clarity. She looked back at Flutterwing and signaled her that the herd was moving. Flutterwing nodded back, her head looking back down at the sobbing filly.

"I.. never... asked for, this." Cadance said between sobs. Flutterwing sighed, and gripped the filly's hooves.

"I know... I've met so many ponies turned into changelings. It seriously kills me inside, but if you want a chance to live, a chance, you better get up and start walking, or else..." Flutterwing paused.

"They'll kill you." She finished, Cadance nodded, lifting her self up walking quickly by the side of Flutterwing. As soon as she saw her sister, she galloped up to her side.

"Where do you think they're taking us?" Cadance asked her sibling, however, Love Note's eyes were dark and stared at the ground.

"We are now monsters." She finally said after minutes of deathly quiet.

"I know but still," Cadance continued, but there was no answer to her sentence.

"What's going to happen?" Cadance asked, looking to the ground. Love Note said nothing.

"Are we going to...to...to, die?" Cadance asked a question once more. No response.

"Love Note? What are we gonna do?!" She complained, in a little less than a whisper. Still, nothing. Cadance grew concerned, she knew they would have to pick, but she would never abandon her sister, she just hoped that Love Note would do the same.