The Sun's Shadow
The changelings are back...sorta (Edited)
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Celestia was slowly opening her eyes within her new prison and though she wouldn’t admit it in public the strange cocoon the changelings put her in was strangely comfortable. Celestia decided to take in her surroundings or as little of what she can see.
‘It would appear that I might be upside down hmmmm...that's strange I should be feeling the effects of blood rushing through my head about now’ Thought Celestia. Even though she could see a bit of her surroundings it also doesn't help with the fact that everything is tinged green. From within her prison she saw Chrysalis and it appeared the changeling queen was giving a speech of some sort but it sort of saddened Celestia that she couldn’t hear her speech since all sound seems to be muffled.
‘Even though she defeated me she is going to be defeated by the elements I just know it but it would be interesting to hear what she believes is the right reason to attack us even though we never even knew changelings existed’ contemplated Celestia. After a while of just sitting there in her cocoon and almost dozing off from boredom Celestia saw the doors open and see the Twilight and her friends along with her niece Cadence captured. Celestia’s eyes widened seeing them captured and she felt a twinge of fear creeping up on her but it was soon replaced with relief when Chrysalis said something to the changelings and instead of killing them they put a weird substance on them and stuck them to a wall while making sure that they can’t break free.
‘That was a close one but why spare them she acted like she was goanna kill me and everyone but instead she merely outperform my magic and entrapped me in this peculiar prison though she did had a few good hits on me’ Celestia then noticed that cadence somehow broken free and is heading somewhere off to her right but it was out of her limited sight but she dose sense some sort of power gathering over there. She then looked at Chrysalis and narrowed her eyes ‘Shouldn’t she sense that? There is something off about this invasion’ Chrysalis then turned around and noticed something going on to her right, her slitted eyes widened a bit when she realizes that something was going on and she yelled something towards where cadence went and was running over there but stopped, eyes widening in shock at seeing something.
Celestia then heard a huge muffled sound of a shield spell being performed and Celestia smiled knowing that Shining Armor had somehow managed to break free of Chrysalis’s spell probably with the help of his true wife. She then see a shield expanding over her and noticed some regular drones literally flying off to get away from the shield while Chrysalis stood there stunned. Then her stunned looked faded away as if it were nothing and time seemed to slow down for Celestia when she noticed instead of anger as her next emotion on her face she instead show a knowing smirk as if she expected this to happen the shield had reached Chrysalis and sent her flying off through a window and judging from the angle she was going, she would land within the Everfree. The last thought she had for the Changeling queen was simply ‘What were you REALLY planning’
Celestia woken up from the dream of the events of the Canterlot wedding with her sister yelling at a certain nephew. “Blueblood I will not lend you all my guards to arrest one of your maids because she fallen asleep on duty and is snoring loudly” Celestia cringed hearing that, even though she does love her nephew he can be a bit of a handful at times. 'I better get to Luna before she does something she might regret' Celestia then gotten out of bed and noticed that there was a scroll sent from the newly crowned princess Twilight on her nightstand, Celestia decided to read it after she raised the sun and prevent luna from doing something horrible to... “BLUEBLOOD GET BACK HERE YOU SHALL NOT SAY SOMETHING LIKE THAT TO ME WITHOUT CONSEQUENCES!” ‘I think the sun can wait a few more minutes.’ quickly thought Celestia rushing out the door of her bedroom to convince her sister to not eviscerate her nephew.
Twilight
After sending the letter to Princess Celestia, Twilight decided to get her notes together and send a few of her guards to keep an eye on the changelings den so that if it decides to move, she will be able to track down or capture the changeling. While Twilight was reading over some of her notes on what little information there is about changelings one of the unicorn guards burst into her study panting up a storm.
“Your…(pant)...majesty…(pant)...there's a problem…(deep breath)...happening at the changeling’s lair” Said the guard clearly tired from rushing to her.
Shocked twilight asked “what happened did the changeling discovered he was being watched?!?”
The guard shook his head and took another deep breath to speak clearly “No ma'am. A filly on a scooter rode up to the changeling’s cave and entered but not before glancing around her surroundings first” Twilight's heart started racing do to the fact that she knows who that filly is but just in case she asked “d...do you know what the filly looked like”
The guard nods and said “yes I do the filly had a orange coat and a purple mane and had a shield with a purple lightning bolt on it as her Cutie mark” when the guard finished Twilight’s eyes shrank to pinpricks and quickly with a hint of fear in her voice “We need to get the rest of the guards over there right now!” The soldier then bowed to her and started galloping back to let the guards know to get ready leaving Twilight alone wondering what will happen to the filly.
‘Sweet Celestia please let Scootaloo be all right’
Scootaloo
‘Is it just me or does it feel like somepony is watching me’ Thought the Pegasus filly as she rode on her scooter towards the front entrance of the cave she then stopped and look towards the rest of the Everfree with a look of suspicion and tension. She then turned around and entered the cave and head into what seemed like a dead end but without stopping she continued riding forward until she went through the dead end into a maze of paths. She went off of her scooter and looked at the grooves she made with her scooter on her constant trips to visit her good friend.
‘I wonder if he is alright and didn’t get hurt by Timberwolves...again’ Scootaloo managed to reach the wooden door and started hearing a sound of a piano being played but by one note and a huge wait before it gets played again but in a different tone.
‘Guess he is tuning his special piano...wait he is tuning his piano that means…’ The filly had gotten a mischievous grin and slowly opened up the door and quietly entered the room. She then looked towards the center of the room and see her friend tuning his special crystal piano. Scootaloo silently head right to the changeling taking extra care to not be in his line of sight. ‘Oh this is the perfect revenge for that prank he did the last time I visited’ Scootaloo managed to get right behind the changeling who was oblivious to its impending doom Scootaloo then took a deep breath.
“.......HEY SHADOW"
SCREECH
DONG
“owwwwww” moaned shadow. Scootaloo was laughing hysterically trying hard to catch her breath from the sight that laid before her. Shadow was scared so bad he literally dived head first into the piano and somehow getting himself tangle with the strings within the piano. the changeling then glared at Scootaloo and said “Did you really need to do that” Scootaloo managed to get her composure just to answer this one question. “Yes, yes I had to since you did got me yesterday” The changeling rolled its slitted eyes real quick before replying “Come on Scootaloo you know that prank didn’t hurt you heck it only left you wet and I made sure the bucket didn’t hit you in the head”
Scootaloo ears pinned on her head after realizing that shadow was indeed in pain “sorry shadow here let me help you out of there.”
Twilight
Twilight was rushing through the cavern with several guards of her guards that were on duty watching the cave for any signs of activity and after a few accidental turns and dead ends they all managed to finally reach the door and Twilight was just about to rush into the room before she started hearing voices behind it curious she stopped her guards real quick in order to listen in better
“Come On shadow it be awesome if you could just come to ponyville with me I can easily visit you some more” said the first voice which Twilight instantly recognized it as scootaloo’s voice.
“Alright Scootaloo I’ll tell you again one last time because I'm starting to get tired of repeating no every time you try to convince me to head to ponyville” started the second voice which she guessed was shadow and was the changeling.
“I have three reasons why I don’t want to go to ponyville. The first reason is because I'm a changeling and they are more than likely gonna chase me out of town trying to kill me in the process of chasing me away. The second reason is because I can not disguise at all. My mom never taught me how to disguise yet so I can’t hide amongst ponies and that will lead to me getting either captured or killed and that's something I really don’t want. My last reason is because of what happened at the wedding I believe that princess Twil…” The changeling never gotten to finish that last reason for Twilight herself along with some guards barged in through the door surprising both Scootaloo and the Changeling known as shadow. Twilight has a spell at the ready but hesitated on using it on the changeling because he was looking straight at Twilight and her guards with mounting horror and Scootaloo stared wide eyed at Twilight with a look of pure surprise. They both stared at eachother before the changeling backed up once and looked at Scootaloo and yelled “Run” To Scootaloo before turning around and slamming a door open that lead to another maze of paths.
“Guards catch up to that changeling and try to retrieve him but do try hard not to hurt him. I will look after Scootaloo and make sure the changeling didn’t harm her” said twilight. The guards saluted Twilight and headed off to chase down the changeling that bolted. Twilight then looked at Scootaloo who was still shocked to see her and Twilight only had one thing to ask “Scootaloo were you keeping a secret from me” The Pegasus filly winced when Twilight said secret and said nothing while keeping her eyes on the floor.
Shadow
‘Crapcrapcrapcrapcrapcrapcrap’ those were the only thoughts rushing through shadows head as he was rushing through his cavern that he created for as a back door for Scootaloo if the front entrance.
‘Oh sweet mother I am so dead! How did she found my home just HOW’ The changeling then started to hear Armor clanking nearby and his slitted eyes gotten smaller from the fear that has gripped the changeling “oh crap” Yelled the changeling skidding to a stop when his path was blocked by several unicorn guards charging up stun spells. When they fired one of shadows charms started glowing purple along with his crooked horn and he literally burst into a dark smoke that seemed to move forward past the guards and then he reappeared from the smoke he then made a sharp turn to the left thinking ‘Thank the first mother my dad taught me how to shadow walk but jeez he didn’t warn me of how disorienting it was’ said the almost dazed changeling slowing down a bit so he doesn't trip over himself. One of the guards were catching up to him powering up a powerful spell so the changeling quickly ducked to the ground as the spell flew over him and impacted the wall causing the cave to tremble.
One of the guards yelled “Horseapples! A cave in is about to happen get out of there” The guards started heading back but several boulders had already blocked their escape route and several more were about to fall on them when a bright purple shield appeared right above them. “Ack” exclaimed the changeling shakily holding up the barrier his head was actually trembling from the weight of the boulders on his shield and the shield itself showed some cracks already forming the changeling then looked at the guards who were staring at the changeling in awe and he shakily said “g...get...out...from underneath there” the guards quickly got up and headed off while one unicorn guard waited behind staying next to shadow and seeing that the guards are at a part of the cave that's not caving in she quickly touched shadow and teleported to that spot in the cave. Shadow was completely dazed and hurt from doing that and the first thing he did was shakily touch his muzzle and when he brought his hoof back a bit of green blood was on it. Upon seeing this shadow said “huh I'm bleeding” before he tipped over and fell on his side. The guards were saying something but shadow didn’t heard them real good and the last thing he heard before surrendering to unconsciousness was
“some...hel…...medic”
Author's Note
Whelp looks like no one got seriously hurt other then shadow so all is good though I think a certain somepony is in trouble for keeping a secret
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