It was a dark and stormy night in Ponyville and a mysterious figure carrying a basket of sorts, as it swiftly made its way undetected through the town and eventually made its way to the Castle of Friendship home of Princess Twilight Sparkle. The figure sets the basket down and leaves a note, the figure then starts banging on the door hoping that the princess isn't what she is made out to be. The figure was told that the princess only help her kind, that she only help ponies and didn't help other species. But she hoped that they were wrong and that she is a good pony that will help all that need it. The figure then sheds a tear and blows a kiss to the basket and leaves.
Meanwhile inside the castle Twilight and Starlight Glimmer were making their to the throne room where their friends are waiting for them. Spike The Dragon was writing what friendship lesson he learned when meeting Thorax the Changeling
"I hope Thorax is doing well in the Crystal Empire and eventually makes good friends too". Spike said wondering how his new friend is doing.
"He'll be fine Spike, Shining and Cadence will make sure of it". Twilight said
"But it will be difficult for him and the ponies in Canterlot to come to terms with this new change". Starlight added
" It will be hard at first, but friendship always finds a way in the end". Twilight smiles
They stop when they hear the somepony knocking on the door, curious about who it could be Twilight asks Spike to answer the door.
"Could you please answer the door Spike, Starlight and I will be with the others in the thrown room catching up".
"Sure thing Twilight". Spike then makes his way to the door, while the girls head to meet with their friends.
Spike opens the door and sees, no pony there but a large basket with a note attached to it. As he reads the note he hears somepony crying a baby crying. He removes the blanket covering the basket revealing the occupants, and Spike in aw struck screamed one thing.
"TWILIGHT"!
Twilight and Starlight enter the thrown room where Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, and Fluttershy smile on as they reunite with each other.
"Twilight your back, your back, your back!!!" Pinkie bouncing over to her friend to give her a hug, which was returned.
"Yes Pinkie, I'm glad to see you too". Twilight smiled
"How was your trip to the Crystal Empire, darling." Rarity asked
"It was eventful Rarity, and I can't wait to tell you all about it". Twilight said
"Twilight"! Twilight and the others heard Spike scream.
"What's up with him, there must be something wrong". Twilight worried by the yell.
"Don't worry Twilight, I'll go see what's going on". Starlight assured her friend. Then leaves to see what's made Spike scream.
"Um, you were going to tell us how your trip was...you know if you want to". Fluttershy asked politely
"Well everything was great, Shining and Cadence are doing fine, and Flurry Heart is still adorable as ever". Twilight smiled telling her friends what happend.
"So, what else happened. I heard rumors that there was a Changeling still hiding in the Empire. Did you find it and send it packing". Dash said wanting to know if the rumors were true.
Twilight sighed "Well, that is something I want to discuss with you girls about".
"What exactly do you want to talk about, sugercube"? Applejack asked with a curious look on her face.
"Well first off, I would like to say that Starlight and I made a new friend during our stay". Twilight said trying her best to say this right.
"What new friend did you make, was it another pony? A buffalo, a another dragon, a caribou- (gasp) was it a changeling"! Pinkie spit balled.
Everypony was silent for a moment before the girls all laughed accept Twilight and Fluttershy.
"Yeah right Pinkie! Like Twi's new friend would be a changeling". Dash said
The laughing quieted down, but Applejack was the first to notice that Twilight wasn't laughing with them. In fact she saw that Twi looked like she was upset with a frown on her face, and Applejack new knew that it was directed at them. And from the look she was giving she was not happy with them.
"Um, Twi ya know were just joking right, that you actually making a friend out of a changeling is completely, Re...dicu...lous". Applejack slowly shut her mouth as Twi's look intensifies and she begins moving forward with purpose.
"Tell me something Applejack, was it a joke when we made friends with Zecora, when we meet her.? Or was it a joke when we made friends with the buffalos, after we made peace with them.?" Twilight get right in Applejacks face, then she turns so she can let everypony know that they are in the same boat as Applejack.
"I can't believe that you girls have forgotten a friendship lesson that is the utmost important thing to making new friends." She looked down for a moment, before continuing.
"I admit, that I forgot that lesson as well, and I can't help but feel proud of the drake that did what everypony was too afraid to do, make friends with a-".
"TWILIGHT" Starlight scream interrupted her.
"Now what"?! Twilight thought.
Starlight and Spike both burst into the thrown room panting with surprised looks on their faces, and the basket that was found outside. Starlight also had something in her hooves sleeping, it was a baby, but it wasn't baby pony. It was a little smaller than a normal baby would be, but it was big enough to hold and it was wrapped in a white web like substance like a towel.
"Ch-Changeling".?! Twilight was in shock.
She then looked at Spike as he was pushing the big basket that was covered in a long blanket and noticed the movements under it meaning that there was something else under it. Spike saw he look and uncovered the basket revealing five other small changelings some were the size of the crusaders, but others were smaller than that, but where bigger than the baby Starlight held.
The baby changeling was soon awoken by its stomach growling and saw all the strange colorful place it was and it saw the colorful ponies looking at it. It tried to taste the love in the room, but all these ponies didn't have any it could eat and it did the one thing all babies do when their hungry. It began to sniffle and then it burst out crying.
"This is going to be one of those days isn't it". Spike thought as he covered his ears with his claws.
Author's Note
Please not heat!
If there is like a editor out there that can make this sound better please. I could use some assistance.
Please enjoy.
"Make it stop. MAKE IT STOP!" Dash shouted over the crying infant covering her ears with hooves.
The nymphs cries grew louder wanting food, and scared of the ponies around it. Starlight try to calm it down, tries cradling it back and forth like Pinkie does with the cake twins, but it only makes the crying louder. Twilight with her ears covered, looks around and tries something risky.
"Give it to me"! she spoke up, and took the nymph from Starlight and she starts singing a lullaby.
"Hush now, quiet now, time to lay your sleepy head, hush now, quiet now its time to go to bed. she sang.
The nymphs cries slowly grew quiet, as it fed off the little love that Twilight was giving by singing. As the song ended the baby grew sleepy, and gave a cute yawn. Twilight sighed glad that the song worked, the baby then began sucking its little hoof as it drifted off to sleep.
"How did you know that would work?" Rainbow said shocked at what she saw.
"I read it in a book." Twi answered.
Twilight horn then glowed as she cast a spell blasting the crystal floor of the castle, and something begins to take form from it.
"I've never done this spell before so everypony step back." Twilight says with concerned about her friends safety.
The form eventually was finished, and what was made from it was a crystal baby crib. Twilight was impressed that her spell worked, and making sure she didn't wake the little guy, she gently set him in the crib so he could get some sleep. She then turned and was now looking at the other new arrivals.
"Ok so now what to do with you five?" She now turns her attention to the other changeling nymphs.
The nymphs in the basket looked like normal changelings at first, but she did notice something odd about them, she noticed that they each were paired in two. Two of them just had wings, another set had no wings or horns, but their was one that just had a horn. That caught her off for a second, but then she turned to the baby in the crib. Its body was mostly covered in cloth, but she thought "If I had to guess then that one may just have a horn too."
She looks at each one very closely, and upon close observation she noticed some very close similarities that the nymphs share with her friends. One (P) changeling was shaking in fright from everything in site, as it covered its eyes with its hooves, the other (P) nymph was hissing at Twilight and her friends warning them not to come closer, buzzing its wings very fast making a loud noise as intimidation. Next was the nymph with the horn (U) it was admiring the crystal floor, and continued as it gazed at the inside of the castle. Then there was the (EP) nymphs, one was just staring at her not a hateful one, but just wondering what she would do. The last one was not what she expected it was changing into anything it could think of, and laughing at itself.
"Well, lets start with this one." She went to try and pick up the (P) that was shaking, but when it noticed her coming it squealed and flew away.
"Wait! Come back here." The (P) nymph didn't listen and was trying to find a place to hide, but there were so many emotions running around it that, it lost control of itself and was heading toward Fluttershy.
"Fluttershy look out!" Twilight yells.
"Oh my!" Fluttershy sees it coming toward her fast, but with a flap of her wings she manages to catch it in mid air and cradle it like a mother with its child. The nymph (P) cries in fear and struggles to escape, but Fluttershy firmly but gently holds it as she tries to calm it down.
"Shhhh.....there, there I'm not going to hurt you, your safe." She lets her caretaker instincts kick in and eventually gets the nymph to calm down, and it stops shaking.
"There, no need to cry." She uses her hoof to wipe some tears away from its face. The nymph can taste all the kindness coming from her and it gives a weak smiles. It then nuzzling its face into her chest, and starts making happy chirps.
"Looks like it likes you flutters." Pinkie says smiles, she feels something tap her leg and looks down to see the (EP) nymph, smiling and waving his hoof at her. It changes into a little male version of herself and he begins hopping around, and pulls out a mini party canon, and fires confetti in her face and changes back to nymph laughing .
"You are so cute! I'm Pinkie Pie, and you and me are going to be best friends forever." Pinkie picks it up and places it on her back and begins hopping around giving the (EP) nymph a ride.
"Well there's three taken care of." Twilight sighs, as she looks at the last three nymphs.
"This is not what I wanted to do, when I got home."
The (EP and P) nymphs started wrestling each other like puppies or kittens would, while the (U) nymph continued to admire the castle. Until he looked at Rarity, he became mesmerized by her beauty that he started making his way toward her, slowly trying to take in her tranquil looks.
Rarity notices his advancement, seeing his curious and surprised look on his face. “Oh! He-Hello there.” she fake smiles and waves her hoof. The nymph slowly circles her taking in every detail of her appearance. He takes a special interest in her cutie mark, he looks at his flank and his horn flashes green fire that brightly envelopes the room.
“What is it doing?” Twilight shields her eyes from the bright light.
The light diminishes and instead of a changeling nymph is a unicorn colt that looks like Rarity with short curly main and tail, and diamond cutie mark.
“Absolutely remarkable!”
She paces around the colt taking in the site before her. "It is an uncanny likeness of me if I were a colt".
"Amazing". Twilight silently said. She then wen t over to Spike and whispered in his ear.
"Would you mind sending a letter to Celestia and Luna, to come here".
"Yeah, sure". Spike makes his way up the stairs, to Twilight's' room but he glares at the unicorn colt that was now floating in Rarity's magic. The colt is giggling as the magic tickles his body, which makes Rarity giggle.
"Well, you certainly are a rare find". She then gasps.
"And that is what I'll call you. Rare Find".
Meanwhile the two nymphs trying to wrestle each other, separate to catch their breath. The (P) nymph starts forming green sticky web like spit in its mouth, and then flies up to get an advantage, and starts spitting the goo at the (EP) nymph so it can trap him. But he saw it coming and dodges it.
"Look out!" Twilight yells in alarm as the green blob was heading toward Rarity and Rare Find, the blob smashes into the colt, that changes back into a changeling nymph ruining his disguise. He sees he's covered in goo bursts into tears and starts throwing a tantrum.
Twilight quickly uses a sound proof spell and makes a dome over the crib to keep the infant asleep.
"Oh my this is the. Worst. Possible. Thing! Your look is ruined." She picks the nymph up in her magic to not get her hooves covered in goo.
"What you need is a good warm bath to make you feel better. Twilight darling where is the bathroom again I can't remember where it was, it is so confusing with so many doors.?"
"Up the stairs pass my room on your right."
"Thank you dear." Rarity takes the nymph with her to get cleaned.
Twilight sighs glad that was over, but now she had two nymph wrestling each other for dominance.
"Great now all that's left are the trouble makers."
Author's Note
EP is earth pony.
P is pegesus.
U is unicorn.
Would like some ideas on names for the nymphs.