Chapter 1: Live and Regret
In Plain Sight: A Changeling Story
*Couch couch* So sorry..give me a second.. *clears throat* Alright, I'm good now. Sorry, pushing 60 here. But, I felt like telling you my story before I pass on. I start now, 'cause, while I know 60 isn't extremely old, but I've been cursed a shorter life when I was 50. Interesting story and I will get to that later on. Let's start from the beginning.
My name is Game-Sketcher. Well, that's my pony name. My real name is Cicada and I'm a Changeling. Born in a hive near Las Pegasus, since all hives are under rule of Chrysalis, things were rough. My mother, Anterra, wasn't too pleased with how Chrysalis was running things. So, one night, she fled the hive for a couple years disguised as a Pegasus mare. A few months in, she met an Earth Pony stallion and, in a year's time, they married. Eventually leading to my creation. However, my father didn't live too long after my entering of the world. He passed away 2 months after my birth.
My mother destroyed, she moved back to the hive so I could be around our kind during my childhood since young changelings aren't great at controlling their magic. So, I spent the first 30 years of my life in the hive, learning to be a changeling, starting in Changeling Basics Class 1 (Basically Kindergarten). In that class I met my best friend, Wasp. for those 30 years me and him had a load of fun. Playing jokes, hanging out, we were practically brothers.
In my advanced changeling classes (High school), me and Wasp met a third friend. Tenna was our third musketeer in our years of craziness. When our final classes came around, me and Wasp both developed feelings for Tenna. We both hid these emotions, since we were taught that Changelings aren't supposed to feel this way or attempt to find mates. Only the queen was to create offspring. It was rough and we eventually told each other, but, it didn't end well. Despite me telling him I'd back off, we lost some of our brotherly connection.
Years later, we all turned 25. Me and Wasp went to Changeling Military boot camp. After a lot of blood, sweat, tears, and other bodily fluids, we both made it. We bonded again over our years in the military.
5 years later, the Changeling invasion on Canterlot. A wedding was happening and the mission was to capture and contain the princesses. The Queen was to pose as Cadence and marry the groom to keep in the kingdom and harvest the love it provided. Everything was going according to plan, until not yet Princess Twilight showed up to ruin everything. The retaliation against our forces was rough and learned to fear pony kind. Their strength and everything they had was too much for me. Apparently the same could be said for Wasp. The ponies overpowered him and killed him. We were defeated.
After returning to the hive and holding a memorial for my fallen friend, I left the hive and lived in the Everfree near Ponyville. I lived there for 18 years before going into town from food shortage. I put on my disguise, adopted the alias Game-Sketcher and went into town.
-To Be Continued-
