Celestia

Celestia was looking over some documents when one of her guards came in and inform her that Prince Shining Armor and Princess mi Amore Cadenza had arrived she quickly looked at the guard and smiled before saying “Thank you for informing me captain Night Hawk I will be with them in a moment I just need to finish reading this document real quick” the captain nodded and headed to his post while the princess rebooked at the document that some of the nobles sent to her. Apparently the nobles heard about what happened over at Ponyville and are already asking her to attack the changeling and reinstate Twilight's princesshood, Celestia simply sighed before thinking ‘they seem to caught on fast though I really wished they would have some tolerance and patience then immediately try and make me send my forces just to get rid of one changeling while at the same time try to undermine Twilight for showing more compassion than them...noble indeed’ Celestia then shook her head and decided to put the document away and deal with it later. She headed over to where Shining and Cadence's room is and she knocked on the door and heard Cadence said “come in” Celestia entered and see that they already were in the middle of unpacking their stuff. Shining Armor was coming out the bathroom when he noticed Princess Celestia and said “Hey Celestia how are you” upon hearing that Cadence soon realized who it was she smiled and head on over to give her aunt a hug before saying “It's good to see you again aunt Celestia.” Celestia returned the affection with a slight nuzzle before saying “It's good to see you again my niece and I’m doing fine if not a bit more exhausted than normal thank you for asking. I came over wondering if you both would like some tea before I raised the sun.” Cadence’s eyes widened real quick when she realized both she and her husband had been up all night and had to ask “Certainly. We would like some tea but do you happen to have any that could help with the fact we were up all night.”

Celestia smiled and nodded and said “I’m also sorry for asking you both to come here as late as it is but something came up over at Ponyville that I thought I should let you both know when you both rested but how about we go over what I wanted to let you know over tea” Shining nodded hesitantly making Celestia think that he must be wondering if it's bad and if Twilight might be hurt while Cadence said “Sure if it's important then it's better talk it over with some nice calm tea” Celestia had a mischievous grin and said “I didn’t know that tea can make you so energetic that it can calm you down so I’ll make sure to get myself some as well” Cadence started laughing at that while Shining was confused about the joke and they soon trotted with Celestia to her Tea room as she liked to call it.

Celestia was sitting down in her Tea room along with Shining and Cadence and they were all served some tea. Princess Celestia was sipping some herbal tea while Shining was drinking black tea and Cadence was drinking green tea. The Tea room is a very decorative room with a table and several seats for guests and Celestia herself. There are some bookshelves just in case one wants to read a story while they were drinking and there were several plants and flowers placed very thoughtfully to bring about an area of calm. There was even a bonsai tree at the center of the circular table. Celestia thought ‘So many years since I made this room. It’s the perfect place to have a small get together even if it's just tea’ Celestia looked over to Shining and Cadence and thought ‘hopefully the calm scenery will help them with what I'm about to reveal to them. Shining still has resentment about the changelings and after the wedding he was paranoid beyond belief while my niece had to go through therapy for a few days after the wedding’

Celestia soon said “Cadence, Shining what I'm going to tell you my be a bit shocking so do you want to know” Cadence nodded while shining said “I didn’t come here for nothing since in your letter it sounded important so I believe we can take it” Celestia nodded and said “Alright you both still remember the changelings right?” Shining gotten tense for a moment while Cadence shuddered real quick and said “Yes we still remember them why do you ask?” Celestia thought ‘Alright moment of truth’ and soon said “Princess Twilight Sparkle had stumbled upon one changeling and managed to bring it over to Ponyville where it is staying at the moment.” Cadence was showing signs of shock while Shining was livid and he said “There's a changeling in Ponyville with my sister!” Shining soon started to get up possible to alert the guards but Celestia used her magic to stop him from running off before saying “Shining while I definitely respect your protectiveness of your sister she can take care of herself and if you wait I can give you what Twilight sent me about the changeling himself” she summoned some files that have the picture of the changeling asleep in the hospital bed and passed it to Shining and Cadence they both opened up and looked into the file and upon reading this she noticed that Cadence relaxed a bit and winced at where the changeling had to cast a shield before a cave in happen which would have killed several guards

Shining was still very suspicious about the changeling and he asked “Celestia how was the changeling able to cast any magic if his horn is cracked I know from my time as captain that a cracked horn means excruciating pain upon trying to utilize magic and as for the talismans they seem normal except that purple orb with the changelings supposed cutie mark?” Celestia looked over at Armor and said “I believe the changeling whom I should say is named Shadow Light is very peculiar with the fact the cracks are actually his chitin reacting to what I believe is his passive magic and as for the necklace and charms they did seem normal but when I was scanning them they had a great complex rune structure and the runes themselves are anything but normal I should also note that when removed his magic started fluctuating rapidly along with his heart beat so I think those charms help keep the changelings magic in check. They also had a deal of dream magic within them especially the orb which is why Luna isn’t here right now with us. She decided to investigate into Shadow’s supposed dream magic herself”

Cadence looked at Celestia then at the picture of the changeling and Twilight's notes one more time before saying “Shadow Light seems to be a interesting pony to meet” surprising both Celestia and Shining and he asked “Really? You do realize that the changeling could be an agent of chrysalis and could actually be really evil” Cadence looked at Shining and said “In Twilight's notes Shadow revealed that he is the colt of Chrysalis but from how he acts he doesn't seem to be evil or have an ulterior motive and Shining I don’t think an evil pony would save those who were trying to capture him. Celestia by any chance are you planning on allowing us to meet him?” Celestia nodded and said “Yes I was going to let him settle down in ponyville real quick and ask Twilight to bring him over to Canterlot to talk and possible learn a bit about the changelings. I also plan to ask him about the invasion and see what was Chrysalis’s real goal. I do not believe someone who was so methodical in their attack to be doing it because she thought she can and her speech also felt a bit forced and rehearsed every time I went over it in my mind.” Celestia looked at the clock and saw that it read 6:30 AM and said “It seems I have to raise the sun I will be right back. Celestia exited the Tea room leaving Cadence and Shining Armor to drink and discuss to themselves about who Shadow is. While Celestia raised the sun she couldn’t help but think about what Luna was doing.

Shadow

“Alright time to set things up” said Shadow as he was getting the miniaturized piano off his necklace he then took a look around the room. It was fairly spacious with several paintings adorned the walls a guest bed that comes along with two nightstands on either side, Two bookcases filled to the brim with books are alongside a desk that was carefully placed between them. There was a chest with a key inside the lock on the front of the bed which Shadow checked and discovered that it was empty so he set in several important music books of his inside the chest and locked it before latching the key on his necklace he noticed a corner of the room that had a window close to it and he decided to place the miniature piano in that corner. As soon as he did he started casting the same spell he showed Fast Shot to make it big again, when the spell ended the piano was back to normal and was ready to be played. Shadow then rubbed his hoof over the crystal keys wondering if he should play or not he then looked outside the window and up at the stars. Upon doing so he noticed the moon was full and bright and the constellations were extra beautiful tonight he thought ‘Luna out did herself tonight...I better do my breathing exercises though before bed’ Shadow then started taking deep breaths closing his eyes and breathed out he did it several times and started tapping into his magic which was wild as ever a bit more so than usual ‘I hope the equestrians didn’t take my necklace off. The last thing I need is to explain my dad’s magic to anyone’ He continued to do the breathing exercise for several more minutes feeling the magic coursing in his veins getting more calmer and when his magic felt like a gentle ocean wave he open his eyes to the moon. If anyone else was in the room they would have noticed that the “cracks” in shadow's chitin were glowing brightly along with his eyes but the most strangest part though was that one eye was glowing with a ethereal purple flame while the other eye that commandeered the scar showed no signs of strange magic.

He closed his eyes and took one final deep breath letting the magic flow out of him and into the atmosphere his talismans helping guide his magic. Then the cracks dimmed and the eye lost its ethereal flame and Shadow turned away from the window to look at the piano again. He wondered out loud “Should I play a song tonight….nah I don’t want to wake any of the guards up or Princess Twilight. Shadow Soon headed away from the piano and towards the bed and got in taking note how much more comfortable it is then his makeshift bed he made back at his little cave home. He soon groaned when he stretched into the bed feeling his muscles finally relaxed after all that has happened and his eyes soon started shutting but one last thought pierced through his mind before he goes to sleep ‘Please let this rest actually be good for me for once I want a dream that doesn't involve my memories.’ As Shadow drifted off to sleep if he looked back at the window before he gotten into bed he would have noticed that the window was ajar.

Luna

‘Alright he is asleep now time to see what he dreams of or if he is hiding anything important.’ Thought Luna as she crept into his room through the window that she opened. As she enters the room the took a quick notice of the surroundings and making sure the changeling didn’t put any wards to let him know someone is intruding she silently went towards the chest at the foot of the bed. She attempted to open it but found that it was locked even when she tried to lock pick it with her magic so she ignored the chest and headed towards Shadow himself. He seemed to be sleeping peacefully and his wings twitch every so often as if he was imagining flying or doing something that involved his wings. She then did a quick magical scan on the changeling and soon hit that same wall that both other princesses hit but instead of leaving it alone she started analyzing the block itself. ‘Interesting the Changeling has some form of dream magic but something doesn't add up the magic feels ancient possible older than me and that shouldn’t be possible’ thought Luna as she probed the wall for any difference in strength or any holes in it. She soon found one weaker spot on it then focused her dream magic on it slipping her though and into the dreamscape of the changeling.

To the imagination of others some might think the dreamscape is a beautiful place full of wonders and mysteries while others think it's a never ending void of nothingness both have their own part of the truth as it is almost like a void but its beauty comes in the form of the dreams of others appearing into existence in this place but strangely enough it was empty as if the changeling wasn’t sleeping at all. Luna started worrying if she walked into a trap but upon looking around again she noticed an invisible movement within the plane of nothingness floating towards it she realized that the changeling was hiding his own dream from her. ‘Strange it seems he set up a defense of sorts by making his dream invisible to anypony who trespasses but why?’ with a bit of magic she revealed the dream which was purple in color and flowed like water into a perfect sphere she soon closed her eyes and with a bit of magic she dived into the sphere and into shadow’s dreams.

When Luna opened her eyes she found herself in an underground cavern but it seemed to be carved out. She looked around the passageway and noticed green crystals adjourned the walls of this cavern casting light into the passageway but strangely enough not tinting the world around it green. She trotted along the cavern and after a while she stumbled upon a huge cavern but that wasn’t the strangest part the strangest part was that she discovered a huge town carved out in the rock and it also included a castle with a strange moat that was black and she saw hundreds of changelings going to and fro from place to place she decided to approach the town but casted a spell to render herself invisible to the dreamer and changelings within his dreams. After she cast the spell she started headed over to the town but she stopped when she saw three small changelings running towards her. Two colts and a filly changeling were headed over to her and Luna recognized one of those changeling colts as Shadow mainly because even little he still had those strange cracks on his chitin and his necklace but strangely he had no scar over his right eye. The second changeling colt seemed a bit taller than Shadow and had a small constant grin as if he knew the joke of the universe. The filly had a strange cloth on her that seemed to be regal looking including the scarf and she had a happy expression of barely conceived excitement. They past Luna and the colt version of Shadow said in what was surprisingly Japonese (“Come on everyone we're getting closer to the surprise”)

‘huh it seems they know Japonese and come to think of it the town also looked like an ancient Japonese village’ thought Luna as she tailed the trio. She also thanked her mother for teaching every single pony language known on eques even when Luna used to think it wasn’t necessary as she follows the changelings she decided to listen in on the conversation (“come on Shadow are we almost there or are we not almost there”) said the taller changeling. He simply nodded and smiled before saying (“We’re almost there I promise Ghost oh and Swarm I promise you it's gonna be a wonderful gift I could find for you”) When Shadow finished the filly was actually shaking from excitement and said (“Come on shadow stop teasing me about the gift for the great Swarm and just take me there already!”) Shadow laughed and so did Ghost and he said (“Your right Swarm if we wait any longer then we will…”) Swarm interrupted Ghost by saying in a stern voice (“Ghost don’t you dare ruin this birthday with a pun...I even made you promise not to do it”) even with the stern talking Ghost simply finished his sentence with a even bigger grin (“Burst with excitement.”) Swarm facehoofed and groaned out (“first mother WHY Ghost and on my birthday too”)

Ghost was laughing a lot while Shadow gave him a raised eyebrow and Ghost said (“Oh come on Shadow it's close to night time and I haven't said a pun all day during Swarms birthday”) Shadow shook his head and shrugged his shoulders before saying (“Meh that was 5/10 good try but not that funny”) Ghost seemed to have cringed at that and they continued to trot in silence before Shadow soon started speeding up again. (“This way everyone we're here!”) exclaimed Shadow as he headed off to what appeared to be a carved out chamber that only goes up and when they looked up it leaders to the outside world and right now there's a night sky and a meteor shower happening right above them. Swarm gasped out and squealed in joy at the sight while Ghost simply gasped at the sight of thousands of meteors flying past through the stars. ‘That’s strange they act like they haven’t seen the stars in years or any of its wonders but it’s nice that they think the stars are that lovely’ thought Luna looking at the excited changelings watching the meteor shower pass by. When the last meteor pass by the night sky Swarm turned over to Shadow with some tears in her eyes and literally latched herself on shadow's breath hugging him so hard that he was gasping for breath and she said in rapid succession(“ThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyouThankyouTHANKYOU Shadow. This is the best Birthday I ever had”) Shadow struggling to breath said (“..ack..No...gasp...Problem swarm...Ack...Can I..gasp..Breath Please.”) Her eyes widen when she realized she was strangling her friend with her hug and quickly said sorry before releasing him

When shadow managed to finally breathe normally he said (“Hey guys?”). The both looked over to Shadow who happened to have a grin before touching them both on the nuzzles and saying (“Tag”) and started running off in a random direction laughing like crazy and saying (“Bet you both can’t tag me”) Swarm and Ghost looked at each other and then grinned a predator like grin before saying at the same time (“Oh it's on”) and they proceeded to chase Shadow around the room laughing and playing different games and some of which was entirely made up. When they were tired they decided to watch the stars when they all heard someone calling for them and it was a voice that Luna didn’t recognized but could guess who it was (“Shadow! Swarm! Ghost! It's time to eat”) they all groaned and ghost said (“Dang it Shadow why did your mom had to implement Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner seriously we don’t even need to eat physical foods just the positive emotions”) Shadow just shrugged and helped Swarm up to her hoofs and they started to trot back home.

Luna was going to follow the changelings to their home but she started hearing a loud ringing coming from behind her and when she turned around she saw nothing but a lifeless void. Confused she turned around again to see the same scenery but in the center of the void was Shadow back to his normal self with the scar and a bit more bigger than his normal self. He seemed to be in the middle of meditating as Luna approached him. She kept getting this nagging feeling of danger the more closer she got to the changeling and when she got close enough a strange symbol suddenly brighten below her and she tried to jump away but her muscles suddenly locked up. She couldn’t move anything except her eyes and looking at shadow it seemed he hadn’t made a single move and his horn wasn’t glowing either but the cracks in his chitin seemed to be brighter than usual. She suddenly heard a loud clicking noise come off from behind her and felt some sort of piece of metal touching it. The being who was holding the weapon said something in a unknown language at first but when it realized she couldn’t understand it the figure switched its language and said in Japonese (“You shouldn’t be here Luna...Let me show you the door out of here”) She heard a loud bang and she was launched out of both the dream and the dreamscape and violently back into her mind causing her body to jolt backwards and her wings outstretched.

Shadow

Shadow woke up with a start and started hearing something crash to the ground. Acting on instinct and his dad's training he quickly tossed his covers over the intruder who entered his mind and started wrapping it around what was a Pegasus with really long wings. ‘Ok whoever is trespassing in here is distracted now to summon my weapons’ Shadow quickly charged up his sword and in a flash of purple flame Shadow quickly summoned two broadswords with musical notes embedded in the blades. When the figure brought its head out of the tangle of covers Shadow quickly positioned the blades on the intruding unicorns neck ‘Wait a minute unicorn? I could have sworn…’ Shadow thoughts were cut out when the figure used her magic to fire a bolt at shadow and he quickly blocked it with his other blade while the other one stayed on her throat. “Alright Who are you and why the HECK did you trespass in my mind” to make the question be answered more urgently he pressed the blade closer to her throat and in a strained calmed voice she said “My name is Luna...princess Luna” Shadow's eyes widened at that and he was about to ask why did she go in his mind when the door to his room burst open and several of Princess Twilight's guards entered the room. One of the guards demanded shadow to drop his weapon and he desummoned them but the guards thought he was doing something else so one of the Pegasus guards tackled Shadow causing him to hit the wall with his head and received a flurry of blows aimed for his muzzle. Several other guards picked shadow up and were dragging him away but not before he had one last look at Princess Luna and she seemed to took one last look as well before looking stern at the changeling and he did his best to meet that stern look back before the guards took him away from his room and through several hallways before having to go down a staircase that lead to what he would describe as both dungeon and a lab. The guards toss him into a random cell and left leaving shadow to his thoughts. He looked around the cell he ended up in and summarized his thoughts about what just happen with one sentence in his respective language (“Bucking Hell”)

Twilight

Twilight was sending her last report about Shadow to the Celestia before settling in for the night before hearing what sounded like a fight going on. She headed outside her door and looked over to her guard who was standing vigilant beside it and asked “Guard mind checking on what's causing that noise please” The Guard nodded and saluted to her before galloping along to check up on that noise. During a lengthy period of time she saw more guards heading over and she decided to look into the situation herself. Following the guards she saw Fast Shot outside Shadow’s room talking to a recruit but when he noticed the princess he quickly dismissed the recruit and trotted to her. Twilight asked “Captain Fast Shot might I ask what's going on here?”. The captain sighed and said “Princess Luna apparently visited Shadow during the middle of the night to looked into his dreams and apparently he woke up and attacked Luna” Twilight was shocked at hearing that considering how cooperative the changeling was and she asked “Is both Luna and Shadow ok?” Fast nodded and said “Yes ma’am they're both fine but Luna has a small bit of bruising from when the changeling tackled her when he launched his covers to tangle her up before somehow summoning dual swords and went to position them at her throat trying to gather information from her but when the guards came in they immediately tackled the changeling and took him off to the dungeons so I have no idea about the state of Shadow” Twilight then said “ok captain fast shot mind checking up on shadow while I talk with the princess and try to defuse the situation.” They both went off in different directions. Twilight heading over to where Luna was and Fast Shot was heading over to where Shadow is. When Twilight reached over to where Luna was she was already about to leave but Twilight quickly stopped her by asking “Luna? What are you doing here if you don’t mind me asking” Luna stopped and turned around to see Twilight and she said “I was looking into the strange changeling’s dream and his magic to see if he was a threat obviously he was since he attacked both in dream and out” Twilight frowned and asked “Are you certain you think he is dangerous. As much as I believe he could be dangerous I also believe he could be a friend.” Luna raised an eyebrow at that and said “Yes I believe so considering when he noticed me in the dreamscape he somehow managed to throw me back out of it and his first reaction to waking up was to attack me” Twilight decided to ask “Can you at least tell me what question he was asking you when he was on top of you” Luna nodded and said “He was asking me who I was. I believe when he launched his covers on me he didn't had the chance to see who he was attacking he was going to ask another question but he was interrupted by the guards bursting into his room.” Twilight soon realized something and asked “Luna do you think the changeling didn’t know it was you in his dreamscape and at the same time do you think that something like entering his dreams without permission is a offense in their society?”

Luna noticed get the logic in that statement said “That could be possible but at the moment the only way we know about changelings is what you gave to my sister and her impression about shadow” Twilight nodded and said “Maybe the changeling was dreaming about something personal and when he launched you out he immediately attacked you thinking he was attacking an intruder not a princess of Equestria” Luna was soon showing some signs of doubt about her earlier statements and Twilight said “Luna maybe we should talk with shadow about his dream if it was special to him cause he certainly didn’t like anypony peaking.” Luna shook her head “If the changeling is still angry I doubt we would be able to talk” Twilight rebutted that statement by saying “Luna when I tried to talk to the changeling about his past I noticed he was avoiding a great deal of questions about it. I believe they might be personal and whatever dream you viewed was really personal to shadow so we do need to talk to him. If we don’t then we will lose all trust he had to us and we won’t learn anything about shadow at all so please Luna at least help us defuse this situation because it was a honest mistake on shadow’s part” Luna seemed conflicted about that and waited on answering it for several minutes before sighing and saying “Ok I’ll talk to the changeling by myself so he won’t feel like you're forcing me to apologize to the changeling” Twilight nodded and said “Ok Luna I’m going to check and see if Captain Fast Shot managed to get Shadow out of the dungeon and if he hasn’t then I’ll help him get Shadow back to his room and when that happens I would like it if you talk to him and apologize about that.” When Luna nodded Twilight soon headed off to the dungeons

Shadow

‘this couldn’t get any more worse.’ Thought Shadow as he meditated in his little jail cell. “Well, well, well guess what the bug gotten himself in” said somepony near his cell. ‘I stand corrected...why do I make this easy for the universe’ thought shadow when he realized the warden noticed him. The stallion in question wore a mask and cloak to cover his face and cutie mark but shadow can see that the eyes are tinged sky blue and that the stallion was either a Pegasus or a earth stallion but since shadow doesn't see any bulges at the side of the cloak he decided to guess he was a earth pony. “You know I had some friends and family over at Canterlot during the wedding invasion. Caused a lot of problems with my family and my friends became so paranoid about changelings they still refused to leave their homes and I also might have to add your kind made my grandma have a heart attack and died during that invasion.” Said the stallion who now grabbed the bars obviously staring and generating as much hatred as possible to scare the changeling but shadow simply sat there in his meditative state and calmly said “I know you're building up to something so just get it over with unless you only got the job as warden just to chat with your prisoners” inside shadow's head he thought ‘Yeah taunt the guy who is more than likely going to torture you as soon as possible good thinking shadow good thinking hey if this works out maybe you can channel your inner dad and be a smartass while you die a agonizing death’ Shadow was snapped out of his thoughts when the stallion hit the bars causing them to bend a bit and said “Alright fine if you want to do it now why not” he opened the cell and quickly entered and shadow adopted a defensive stance and attempted to get the warden away from him but the stallion was to strong and only managed to be rewarded with a punch to the muzzle again and a hit to the gut. The stallion then knocked shadow out with one powerful punch to his skull.

When shadow came to be again he find himself strapped to a table. He immediately tried to test the straps and see if he could slip them off but he couldn’t. ‘Ok strapped to the table in the dungeon yeah this isn’t going to be pretty’ Shadow then looked to the side to see the warden doing something to some tools over a fire he then removed a glowing hot stick of metal and he turned around more then likely grinning his ass off behind that cloak and mask and he said “Ah glad you're awake guess I won’t need the bucket of piss to wake you up.” Shadow then tried struggling when the warden gotten closer and closer to shadow filled with malice. “Now your going to scream and I’ll make sure to bring it away quickly” he then moved the red hot metal and touched shadow's horn causing a sizzle and huge amounts of pain going through shadow but he bit down and refused to cry out in pain but thought ‘AHHHHHH...First mother that hurts oh sweet first mother someone help me!’ The stallion then removed the hot iron rod and looked at shadow obviously annoyed he didn’t scream in agony. “Ok guess we got a silent one then we'll don’t worry I know just the perfect way to make you squeal like a pig” the stallion soon moved the rod downwards deliberately slowly towards Shadow's privates causing him to widen his eyes and looked at the Stallion in fear ‘He wouldn’t’ he then started lowering the rod very slowly and shadow screamed in his mind ‘OH SWEET FIRST MOTHER HE WOULD’ Shadow then yelled “Help Somepony help me!” The stallion lifted his head to look at shadow and was more than likely going to taunt the changeling when the door burst open and he heard captain Fast Shot “Warden stop this right now!” The earth stallion quickly threw the rod away obviously not pleased by that and quickly snapped to salute and calmly said “Sir I didn’t expect you to be down here what is it that you want” Shadow looked over to Fast Shot and saw the stallion was beyond furious and said in a strained voice “Warden may I ask why you're torturing prisoners again when Twilight said you shouldn’t do things like that” The stallion replied “Last I check the changeling isn’t equestrian plus he attacked princess Luna and his kind killed my grandma during their invasion so why shouldn’t I torture the...bug” The stallion slowly finished that sentence when he noticed the captain was even more pissed off at him and he said again in a even more strained voice “Warden release the changeling and head straight to my office” the stallion was about to say something and warden yelled “Now!” Causing the stallion to Yelp and immediately untie Shadow.

When Shadow was released from the rope restraints he wobbled to Fast Shot but stumbled when he realized one of his bones is broken and cried out in pain and before he fell to the ground fast shot quickly grabbed shadow in his magic and had a hoof keeping shadow up “Don’t worry buddy I got you.” When shadow was steadied they both immediately set off to leave the dungeons and Fast Shot said “I’m so sorry you had to deal with that Shadow I didn’t expect the warden to immediately put you to torture” Shadow nodded and said “It’s ok he didn’t do much except put a hot metal tool on my horn which is really painful but I'm glad you got there in time to stop him the last thing I need is to be neutered” He felt the captain wince at hearing that and they immediately reached his room “Ok shadow think you can stay in your room while I go get a nurse or medic to come look at you and fix you up” Shadow nodded and Fast shot left and shadow limped into his room. When Shadow limped towards his bed he decided to sit on it for a second to rest himself but decided against sleeping mainly because he is still in pain but is trying really hard not to let show. He then looked over at the covers that were on the ground then at the indentation of his head being smashed into a wall. Shadow then put his hooves over his face and sighing before talking out loud his thoughts “This has probably been the worst night in existence...actually close second” Shadow then looked at the piano he recently set up then looked around if someone was watching and thought ‘Ok since no one is around I'm going to just blow off some steam and play some music’

Luna

Luna was silently waiting for Twilight when she came in obviously not happy at the moment and said “Captain Fast Shot managed to get shadow out of the dungeon but my warden there apparently started to torture him and was probably going to do more then burn his chitin if he didn’t came in when he heard Shadow yelled for help anyway shadow is in his room right now Luna if you want to speak to him.” Luna was shocked at hearing that and a bit guilty that she sort of caused that to happen by sneaking into the changelings room and dream instead of asking but decided to not let it show and said “Thank you for letting me know Twilight I will head over to the change...ahem I mean Shadow’s room and apologize for intruding in his dream” Twilight nodded and said “Ok I'm going to go get a nurse to help shadow from what Fast Shot told me apparently the warden beaten him out of the cell and broke his front leg trying to block the punches the warden were throwing so he might look a bit bruise and have possible broken bones or actually cracked chitin ” Luna nodded and wished Twilight a good night then left to head back to where Shadow’s room was. When she reached the door she soon started hearing what sounded like a piano being played remembering the piano she saw in the corner of his room she was surprised to hear somepony playing so well and reminded her of good old times when the ponies used to be so skilled in telekinesis that they could play instruments like that well or manipulate multiple objects in the one same field at the same time. When the music was beginning to build up she opened the door and looked over to where shadow is and saw that the changeling wasn’t just sitting in front of the piano he was bouncing his head in tune with the beat his eyes closed obviously enjoying the tune he is creating.

When he ended the song Luna waited a bit for shadow to turn around but when the changeling wasn’t she decided to announce her presence by politely clearing her throat causing the changeling to jump a bit and make a chirping noise and saw Luna and immediately he adopted a neutral expression. “Hello Shadow” started Luna she noticed the changeling has some lingering doubts and suspicion showing in his eyes but she also noticed a bit of fear as well she continued and said “Shadow I'm sorry for intruding both in your room and your mind I wasn’t expecting you to act like that when I managed to go in your dream…” She quickly noted that shadow tensed up when she said dream which confirmed that the dream was more then likely personal to the shadow. She continued “I also heard about what happened at your brief stay in the dungeons and I wanted to ask if you are ok” Shadow simply sighed and said in a tired voice “Princess Luna I know you're just trying to get on my good side after what happened but I at least appreciate it and I'm sorry for tackling you like that and positioning my blades on you like that as well” Luna’s eyes widen with surprise again and she quickly adopted a neutral look just like the changeling did and shadow said “Princess Luna can you please not tell anyone about that dream I rather not talk about what happened in my past mainly because there are some things that I considered painful to talk about and that dream was one of them.” Luna thought about real quick and during that pause shadow soon added quickly “If you do that I’ll owe you any question you need me to answer at any time that doesn't involve my past or my home” Luna decided to agree with the changeling and said “I believe that sounds reasonable and I already have one I must ask right now and that's how were you able to throw me out of your dream and the dreamscape itself?” Shadow simply smiled and said “That wasn’t me” this three word sentenced caused Luna's thoughts to go into overdrive ‘If what that changeling says is true then I just attracted some unwanted attention with his family’ Luna nodded and said “I see thanks for telling me shadow though I have to leave I have to say that song you did on the piano was really interesting I hope you plan on pursuing a career in piano music” Shadow looked surprised at that and quickly rubbed his neck with a hoof and said “Yeah that was something I was planning to do especially with my old friends” Shadow then sighed sadly and looked down for a minute Luna took it as her moment to leave and gave shadow a goodbye before going through the door and before she set off to head back to Canterlot she thought ‘maybe that changeling wasn’t so bad after all’

Shadow

When Luna left Shadow was remembering all the trouble him and his old friends used to get and thought ‘Rest in peace Swarm and you to Ghost.’ Shadow then sighed again and thought bitterly about the events of what he just did in his mind ‘way to go shadow...Waaaaaaay to go. you just probably put yourself in a bigger hole than the one you're in right now with that stupid stunt. I mean who would wanted to defend themselves from the most respected sister to the changelings. I’ll be lucky if I don’t get reduce to ashes at this rate.’ Shadow then noticed the crack of dawn coming and he said “annnnd I didn’t get a good night's sleep...again. Seriously first my home gets ravaged by those monsters then the next I lose contact with my family then I get caught by the bucking equestrians while still being hunted by said monsters, what's next I'm gonna get run over by somepony going so fast it shouldn’t be possible while simultaneously be blasted with said pony from earlier by a different pony that has a cannon that fires cake!” Shadow then sighed in frustration at the fact of how idiotic he acted towards Luna and the events happening to him then he took a few deep breaths and counted each breath to calm himself down a bit he then gotten tensed and looked around real quick to make sure no one heard his little tangent and relaxed when he realized he was in fact alone. He then thought ‘Alright shadow hopefully everything turns out for the better and I will actually enjoy my time here’ Shadow then looked at the bed again and with a small sad chuckle said “Sleep who needs it, apparently not me”

Author's Note

Welp I did say that the peace wouldn't last long and already my mind is going through some dark routes(Actual spoiler about the future) kinda makes me sad that the interrupted torture scene isn't the one im gonna go all out on...the actual one I have in store is worse MUCH worse

In all seriousness I'm so sorry that it took this long to finish a chapter and hopefully i'll make the next chapter a lot more sooner then how long this one waited on. Enjoy and tell me what I did right or wrong if you want to.