Author's Note

I'm thinking of changing his name to Knight Winger. Beware to have your feels taken.

Pony napped!

It's been a week since his mother's last visit, and Night Winger was beginning to miss her.

He stared out the open window and into the cold night. He was at least happy he was with his father. Night smiled out to the starry sky, gazing upon the full moon. A cool draft chilled against his hard chitin, making the colt shiver in the slightest. He noticed the town of Ponyville below, watching as few ponies come and go at this time of night. He wondered what they were up to as the trotted along the dirt roads. How he wished he could go out and join the crowd, but being a changeling would make for a challenging changeling challenge the changeling would challengingly challenge. Challengingly.

He giggled at that thought, a hoof over his mouth to muffle it, hoping not to wake his father.

Suddenly he needed to pee. Still, he did not want to wake Shining, so, quiet as he could, he tip-hoofed his way out of the room and into the hall, dimly lit by many torches. He'd used the bathroom before, so he knew just where to go, and went off left down the hall. He passed a few doors, all the same, being double doors, until he came to a single wooden door. He smiled and quickly went in to relieve his business. For a minute or two he sat, releasing his "apple juice" and "chocolate fudge chunk pudding" into the toilet.

He let out a sigh of relief, wiping himself clean. Next he hopped onto the sink and began to wash his hooves, giggling how the water flowed through his holed.

"Why do changeling legs look like Swiss cheese?" He asked himself aloud, giggling a little more afterward.

After he finished washing his dirty little hooves, he gazed into the mirror, large blue pupils staring back at him. He was a changeling of royalty, so he had pupils for eyes, instead of the, being flushed with one whole color. He noticed his eye color matched Shining's and he smiled, thankful to have a father who loves him. For a minute he mad random silly faces in the mirror, hoping to appease his boredom, which is what awoke and kept him awake this night.

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door.

"Yeah?" Night Winger answered.

"It's me, son!" Came Shining's voice.

The changeling smiled and left the bathroom, seeing his father.

"Hi daddy!" He said happily.

Shining smiled and rubbed the colt's head ever so gently. "What are you doing up so late?"

Night Winger blushed. "I had to go pee, daddy."

"Oh," Shining chuckled. "Come with me. There's something I want to show you!" Shining said with a smile and began walking down the hall, away from their room.

Night Winger tilted his little head, but followed anyway.

"Where are we going?" Asked the curious Night Winger.

"You'll see!" Replied Shining and as the rounded a corner, Night Winger took notice of Cadence and Twilight there, too.

He was confused. "What are you guys all doing up?"

"Oh nothing," said Twilight. "Just this!" She smirked and before he knew it, he had a strip of tape wrapped over his mouth and all the way around his head to the back where the two end met.

Shocked, he mumbled for them to take it off, at least until Cadence slipped a sack over him, which she tied shut, sealing him inside.

"Knock him out." Said Shining.

Night Wingers pupils shrank when he felt a hoof come into contact with his skull, and be blacked out from the force of the hit.

*****

As the sun rose, Shining woke in his bed, the feeling of his son cuddled against him was missing. His eyes flew open, and suddenly he sat up, he checked if he had gone to lay with Cadence on her side of the bed, but Cadence only cuddled a mere pillow.

"Honey!" Shining yelled, nudging his wife with his hooves.

Cadence moaned and rolled over and smiled upon seeing her husband's face.

"Yes, my knight in Shining Armor?" She asked.

"Night Winger is missing!" He said suddenly, jumping up from the bed and he began to search the room, frantically for any signs of his son.

"What?!" Was Cadence's only response as she began searching just as hard, if not harder.

"Go tell Twilight!" Shining ordered.

Cadence nodded and ran out of the room. Sadly, after two hours of searching, they came to the conclusion Night Winger was officially missing.

*****

Night Winger struggled in the bag in which he was contained, crying, pleading, confused as to why the ones he thought loved him would suddenly do this to him. He wasn't out for long. Having a thick skull like his mother served him well for that. Suddenly the bag was opened and he was dropped out. He saw only Cadence and Shining this time.

"Awe, look at him cry!" Said Cadence.

Shining shook his head. "I'm disappointed in you, son!"

From where he sat, tears were streaming down his cheeks.

"Who would love such a nasty changeling like you, huh?" Cadence spat.

As Night Winger cried his pleas, he noted the surrounding. Creepy trees surrounded them, and a cold breeze made him shiver.

"And don't go running back to your mother! She was only using you to get to us! But we can't let that happen. So, we found the only conclusion would be to get rid of you!" Shining glared, his face mere inches from Night Winger's.

"Let us go now, honey. We've got an empire to protect!"

Shining nodded and ripped the tape from Night Winger's mouth.

For a second they smirked upon him before teleporting away, leaving Night Winger on his own.

A sharp pang was felt in his chest as he sat there, registering what had just happened. His father has suddenly dumped him here in the forest, and it turns out his mother is just using him. He took in a deep breath as he simply laid down in the soil. He curled up and began to cry.