Fear's Fun

Deimos wandered through trees and shrubs, looking for something to scare. He'd decided to try out Twilight's theory of scaring the residents of the Everfree Forest, mostly to see if they could actually feed him with their fear.

As it turns out, they could sense him coming from miles away and would run off before he could get close enough to feed off them.

Deimos sighed in irritation as he once again found another empty clearing - though a sudden flash of green in the shadows across from him caught his eye.

To his confusion, an exact copy of himself walked out into the light... scratch that, make that several copies, he mentally added as half a dozen more 'Deimos'-s walked into the clearing.

Turning, he found another half-dozen clones behind him, blocking his escape as the first ones moved forward. Deimos glanced at them, grinning ferally.

"You think I'm trapped in this clearing with you, right?" He asked, the clones stopping in confusion. "Well, you're wrong."

An inky blackness suddenly surged forth from the shadows of the trees, forming a large dome around the clearing and trapping everything inside it. The clones glanced around in confusion and, to Deimos's delight, fright. Their fear tasted... delightful.

"You're all trapped in here with me." His grin grew wider as his body rippled and transformed.

By the time Deimos returned to Ponyville, he was fully satisfied - he now had enough fear from those Changelings stored up to last him a few weeks!

Back in the Everfree, however, those thirteen Changelings slowly began to change...