Lyra's Changeling

Since Bon Bon's visit, the two have decided to do some close observation of there guest. Lyra decided to experiment with what it eats. So far she has learnt that the Changeling will eat anything given to it, but it seems to like soup, stew and other bowl foods the most. It also seems it's favourite fruit is pineapple, however it seemed to go wild for Sweet Apple Acres apples and cake from SugarCube Corner.

Bon Bon was walking up to Lyra's door on the fifth day of the Changelings arrival when she heard a loud scream coming from inside, followed the sound of rushing water. Bon Bon quickly ran trough the door to find her friend head first in the sink wile the Changeling, who was tied to the table, happily eating from a large bowl. Lyra with her tong hanging out and sweat poring down her red face looked up to her friend.

"Appara *pant* apparently *pant*" Lyra shook herself off "apparently he likes extra spicy"

The two turned to look at there guest eating. Bon Bon turned her head back to Lyra and looked at her in silence for a moment.

"You said he"

Lyra looked back at her friend. "What?"

"You said he, are you sure your not getting a little too attached to it?"

"Wha...no no of corse not!"

Bon Bon looked at her for a moment "ok, but watch it in future"

She walked up to the table and placed a bad down. The Changeling finishing the contents of the bowl sniffed the air for a second before looked down at the bag and plunging its head into it, there was a series of munching sounds before it came back out licking its lips in satisfaction. Bon Bon took the bag back and tipped out the contents, there where bright red apples alongside an equal amount of fresh apple cores. The apples and the cores all had little tags attacked to there stems, all the untouched apples had various names on there tags wile the cores had Sweet Apple Acre on them. Bon Bon examined the pile of fruit and cores.

"I knew it"

Lyra looked puzzled "what, so he likes apples from Applejack's farm, can you really blame him?"

"You did it again! You said him!"

"No I didn't"

"Yes you did"

The Changeling nodded in agreement.

"You stay out of this! And you tell me why a Changeling eating apples is so interesting"

"Lyra, you ever hear the old saying, made with love?"

"Yeah, what has that got to do with..." Lyra thought about it for a second. "You don't think that...?"

"I did a bit of reading at the Library, and it says that a Changeling can get love from more than just ponies, anything made with love, grown with love, heck it even says that they can feed off the love in the air of places that are full of it"

Lyra thought about this. Bon Bon made love sound like a kind of background radiation, off corse that might be the reason that the Changelings originally attacked Counterlot and later of Ponyvill, although the latter was more revenge than feeding. Anyway it would explain why the one they had wasn't starving to death.

"What about objects like paintings and stuff?"

"I think that counts but I'm not sure if they could get the love without eating it"

Bon Bon then untied the leash and pulled the Changeling away from the table.

"Well anyway it's my turn to watch over him, you have to go to the musicians guild today remember"

Lyra smacked her head "that's right! I'm practising that new song for the mayoral dinner next month!" Lyra rushed past the two and grabbed her lyre from a desk draw "don't wreck the house wile I'm gone now!" And she was out off the house and half way down the street. There was a moment of silence and the two characters left in the room looked at each other in puzzlement.

"You thought that was a little bit much too right?"

The Changeling nodded. Bon Bon then led the Changeling to the basement under the house and tied it's lead to the table. She then took out seemingly from no where a metal ring with lights all around the edge. Bon Bon placed the metal ring on the Changeling's unresisting head and sat on the chair opposite.

"The thing I just strapped on your head is a lie detector, it's immune to all forms of tampering magical or otherwise and works on all species" Bon Bon put her two front hoofs together. "Now I'm going to ask you a few questions, the device doesn't need you to actually speak just answer, do you understand?"

The Changeling nodded, the lights on the ring flashed green and made a *Ding* noise.

"Good! Now then. Are you a spy for the other Changeling's?"

The Changeling shoot its head to say no.

*Ding*

Bon Bon thought for a moment "ok...good, do any other Changeling's know you are here?"

It shook its head again.

*Ding*

"Alright then..." Bon Bon thought about what her next question "are you popular with girl Changeling's?"

The Changeling nodded and the lights flashed red and made a *Bzzz* noise. It rocked its hoof to say sort off...

*Bzzz*

It put its hoofs close together to say a little...

*Bzzz*

It lowered its head in defeat and shook.

*Ding*

Bon Bon looked to the side a little ashamed for the Changeling. Now it was time for the seriousness questions. "Do you plan to hurt Lyra?"

The Changeling's head shot up right looking surprised as the mere thought of it and shook its head violently.

*Ding*

Bon Bon raised an eyebrow "...you really care for her don't you?"

The Changeling nodded looking down at the table without making any eye contact to Bon Bon.

*Ding*

Bon Bon wanted to ask more, but she felt she had learnt enough. She took the ring off its head and undid the leash. There was a moment of silence with her holding it, before the came to a decision and took it off the Changeling completely.

"Lyra is my best friend, but she's reckless and easily gets into trouble, there are things that I don't know about her, but there are things she doesn't know about me. I only want her to be safe, and happy. So just know if you do anything to hurt or upset her I will come down on you like a rock filled tornado!"

The Changeling nodded its head in understanding. Bon Bon looked at the creature again, just what was this thing...no...this guy thinking. He was a monster, but so fare he was proving to be more humane than most others she had met in her past. Waite did she use the word he? Bon Bon started up the stares with the Changeling following.

"Oh! One more thing..." She said half way up "mention any of this stuff with the lie detector to Lyra, and I will pound you..."