There's a flash of light and the smell of burning ozone as a griffin rises out of the smoke, looking around the room he notices that he is in a bathroom, there is some sort of loud music booming in the background. Pushing off the floor he trots over to a mirror, pulling the chain and purging the darkness out, sending the room into the light. Gasping as he looks himself over seeing that his head feathers are ruffled and matted with dirt and small traces of blood. Reaching out he tries to grab the handle at the sink and cringes as he looks at his talon, one of the claws is popped out of the joint.

He grabs it with his good one, biting his beak he pops in place, reaching out to turn the water on and splashed some on his face, looking around he notices some words painted on the wall "The Dawn".

"So that's where I am," Looking around some more then scratching the back of his head he lets out a yelp of pain. Looking at his talon seeing that there is some blood on it.

"W-Why....Am I bleeding?" He says looking at the mirror seeing that there is a cut above his eye.

"Did I get into a fight?" He thinks trying to remember something, but he can't remember what happen and starts to panic as he hears the door that he was looking for crack open reviling a earth pony, he stops walking and notices the griffin staring at him and panics running out yelling something about a griffin with blood on it and the music stops.

Blowing the feathers that fell in front of his face up "That doesn't sound good."

He gets up and walks to the door opening it a crack and looking out seeing the ponies running around in a panic, he opens the door the rest of the way and walks out, notices that his mouth is getting dry he walks over to the bar. The bartender hears somepony approach and turns around and jumps, dropping the cup he was cleaning.

"Are you ok" The griffin asks with a perplexed look, looking at the glass on the floor and back up at the bartender, Sighing he orders a drink. "Can I get a glass of water, Please."

The bartender looks from the glass to the griffin and walks away getting water for the griffin, he comes back with a glass and pours the water, he stops and backs away from the griffin.

"Thanks for the water" Picking of the glass and he starts to drink it as a blue glow surrounds it "What?". Scratching his head looking at the glass he turns around and his breath catches in his throat as he is now looking at five palace guards "What, why are they here?".

"Hello officers," He offers out his talon and they all tense up looking like he was going the attack them.

"What are you doing here griffin!" The guards states taking a defensive stance looking at the griffin who now looks extremely confused.

"What do you mean?"

"You have been spotted as the griffin that was breaking into a house, looking around and leaving, yelling in the street and then flying away with blood on your face. The ponies house that you broke into has not been found as of yet, so you are to be taken to the palace to be asked some questions!" The guard states looking back at the griffin trying to get the glass of water that's still floating, he stops and looks at the guard.

"And what if I don't know what you're talking about and don't want to go?" He asks returning to the glass.

"Then we will make you!" His horn starts to glow a bright orange as a ball of magic starts to form.

The griffin looks back over at the guard crossing his forearms. "Nope"

"So be it." He fires the orb of magic at the griffin, who dodges it to only get hit by another one. The last thought on his mind was. "But.....my water." Then everything starts to shift as there is a throbbing feeling in the back of his head and starts to fall forwards hitting the ground.

His eyes crack open only to be assaulted by the sun shining through the carriage windows.

"Stupid sun!" He grumbles sitting up looking out the window noticing the castle getting closer.

There is a sound as the carriage lands and the door open reveling one of the guards, they levitate him out and carry him trough the castle to the throne room, the door opens and sitting up at the top of the stairs in a very large throne was one of the princesses of equestria, Princess Celestia.

The guards bow as she gets up, she nods her head and they stand up and tell her about the griffin that they are holding but the griffin in question is not noticing that because he is to distracted by the size of the room and freaked out and confused about what's going on.

Celestia stops talking with the guards and walks over the griffin he has his back to her, she clears her throat, the griffin turns and jumps not expecting her to be there. A brief grin crosses her face going unnoticed by the guards.

"What is your name, griffin?" Her tone is demanding but calm.

"My name is Neo, your majesty" He says in a bow, well as good as somegriffin could floating in the air.

"Thank you and ..." She pauses looking at the guards then back at Neo narrowing her eyes. "and is what the guards said true about what you did"

Looking at her he shrugs, "I have no idea if it is or not, I woke up in a bathroom with blood on the back of my head" Neo reaches around to the back of his head and the blood has dried. " But buy the look of what might of happen and the fact that my head was bleeding and I had a splitting headache I would say, Yes" Neo goes back looking around the room as Celestia takes what he says in a couple of minutes later he looks back at her.

"I think we need to put you in the dungeon" His face falls as he start to freak out but Celestia put a hoof up to stop it. " But not because you did it but because you can't remember if you did or not and we would not want a criminal running around. That is why" She looks down at me. "Guards take him to cell number seven in the dungeons, I think that our guest might like that" She turns and walks back to the throne as the guards start to take Neo away.

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The trip to the dungeon is not as far as Neo thought it was going to be, on the way to the cell there is a door that looks like it was reinforced to stop a dragon. He asks a guard what is behind it and he shudders so Neo drops the question. We finally come to a stop as the cell door open and he's thrown into the cell.

The cold floor and the musty smell of old water hits his nose and as he pushes himself up of the floor on to the cot, laying there I start to think about what happened.

"Why am I here in equestrian and what have I done in the town, why was there blood on the back of my head and what was the burn makes around me from and why am I getting tried all of a sudden"

Neo yawns starts to drift off to the land of dreams. His eyes snap open and he notices that he is not in the dungeon, he is not even at the castle, he's on the edge of a cliff looking off over the valley below. There is a breeze as it throws his head feathers in to his face startling him as he starts to fall into the opening behind him, using forearms and trying to dig into the muddy slope as he comes to a stop, flips over and slams his head into the floor jarring his vision. He shake his head clear as he starts to hear voices taking about something around the corner, he starts walking over and looking around it.

He stopped and saw two changeling taking one was a little bit bigger that the over one and they seemed to be figuring out what they have to do.

"What are we going to do, sssir?" The smaller one asks.

"I don't know let me think, and stop doing that in sounds strange" The bigger one says looking around the cave.

"Ssssorry.....'cough' Sorry" The smaller one says looking at the spot were I'm at.

Neo slowly walks backwards and steps on a rock with his hindpaw and yelps. He doesn't move and the changelings stop taking and look over to where he's at. The bigger one starts to walk towards Neo glaring at him.

"What are you doing here?"

"I was lost and didn't know where I was." Neo says taking a step back from the changeling.

"Were you going?" The smaller changeling asks as his wings start to buzz.

"Nowhere" Neo says backing into the wall as the smaller changeling lunging at him biting his shoulder there is tearing sound as a chunk of meat falls out of the changelings red mouth as the blood from his shoulder starts to stain his tan feathers red.

"Aaahhhhh" Neo rolls over holding his shoulder looking up at the changeling that has a manic look in his face as the bigger one knocks the smaller one out of the way, looking at the changeling then the griffin.

"Why, Did you do that!?" He yells at the smaller one. "We needed him alive not" He pints to the griffin. " on the floor in a" His eyes squint. "Slowly growing pool of blood?" The bigger changeling sighs walking over the other changeling and punching him in the side of the face. There was a cracking sound as the side of the smaller ones face starts to bleed an acid green.

"Now help me move him" He says as he starts to pick up one side on Neo and the smaller one picks up the other side.

They carry Neo through the cave and put the slope that he fell down, there is no sound other that the hoofsteps of the changelings walking on the stone floor. The cave wall are a dark gray with some splotches of red here and there, like the was a fight, but if you look closer at them you notice that it's not blood but of paint. Neo is still being carried to the opening as they get closer he can see that the changelings are malnourished and look tired. They got to the top and dropped Neo on the ground.

"There, now you're out." The bigger one says as he starts to fly away he stops and come over and picks up the smaller one and they leave Neo on the ledge as they dive over the side and disappear.

The ledge starts to crack and chunks fall away as Neo falls down the side of the cliff, he turns his head and spots the ground rushing up to meet him.

"Aahhhhh!" He slams into the floor and looks around to see that he is in his cell still. He hears a noise and looks up the see two glowing green eyes.

Neo lays there staring at the eyes, he blinks and they're gone. He looks around in the dark to find the eyes again but he can't so he climbs up onto his bed and lays down looking at the ceiling. Neo tries to remember where he has seen eyes like them but he falls asleep.

Waking up in a cold dungeon is okay, waking up in a cold dungeon with the same glowing green eyes that were starting at you but they also have a cheshire like grin is not, that is the situation that Neo finds himself in so he does the only logical thing he can.

"Aahhhhhh!" The creature blinks and continues starting slowly getting closer and Neo tries to sink into the bed more. The creature blink then moves it face out of his as it sits down, Neo looks over at it to notice that it's a changeling so he starts yelling again, the changing sighs looking at the yelling griffin before getting mad as it eye starts to twitch.

"Stop, your insolent yelling this instance," The changeling shouts.

Neo stops, sits up and looks over at the changeling, after getting a better look at the changeling noticing who it is he starts to shake before starting to yell, but is stop by the changeling.

"No, No yelling if you yell again I will end you," It starts to laugh at the scared look that Neo's face looks like. "Now that was funny, I was just joking about the ending you part"

"What?"

"I said, I was joking"

"Why?"

"It's boring in here," Says the changeling looking around the cell.

"No, I meant why are you here y-your ch-chr.."

"Chrysalis, yes that is me" Chrysalis says.

"Y-Yah you, you're t-the queen of the cha..."

"Former Queen" She says interrupting him starting to look depressed the fun atmosphere is frozen on the spot and Neo looks contused.

"Huh....What do you former queen is you don't mind me asking that is," Neo says scratching his shoulder.

Still looking at the ground, "No, I need to tell someone this, here is what happened and this is the reason I'm all alone"

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Chrysalis looks around from the crater that she is in seeing all her changelings on the ground, some are bleeding profusely and some are not moving. She shakily gets up, the crack running up her the side of her chitin shifts making her grimace in pain, looking out at the mass of changeling that are on the ground she spots some that look ok but as she gets closer, one of them has stick in its side.

Walking through the masses looking more depressed as she goes on, the ones that can stand up look at her, then go help that ones that are not dead. The changeling group back up, they look over at their falling ones, then walk away and stand by the Queen. After a month of running and stealing small amounts of love they run out so Chrysalis decides to go look for some herself, she wanders in to a town and is surrounded by royal guards.

"We have to scan you to make sure your not a changeling," The guards says.

"What," She blinks looking at them before understanding what he said. "N-No" She takes a step back as the guards horn starts to glow as a wave of light crashes into her knocking her on the ground as her disguise is forcibly remove, yelling in pain as it feels like her chitin is melting off of her, it stop as she breath heavily there is a gasp.

"It's the Changeling Queen", "What's she doing here", "We have to stop her", "No, no no no she can't be here" The group behind the lead murmur.

The main guard snaps out of it, "Get her!" He yells as they start to grab her and pull her through town to a carriage with a cell on it, she sees this and starts to shake.

"No let me go I have to save them," She starts to trash around. "It's all my fault," Tears start to form under her eyes."I have to save them, let me go," They throw her into the cage, she tries to grab the bars but her forearms fall as she is too weak to grip them.

"Let me go," She mumbles over and over again as the carriage moves farther and farther away from the town and from her starving changelings.

They arrive at Canterlot and bring her to Celestia but she falls to the ground, Chrysalis looks up to see Celestia and shudders, Celestia looks at Chrysalis wondering why there is tear marks on her face, she dismisses it as the guards start to tell Celestia were they found her she sits there and listens to them. When they stop she tells them to take Chrysalis to the dungeons and see that Chrysalis shakes and starts to cry as they carry her out of the throne room, all the while Celestia is wondering why Chrysalis is crying.

In the coming weeks as she lays on her bed she can sense the changelings that she save start to die, after about a month and a lot of crying and depression the last changeling dies leaving Chrysalis all alone so she ends what connection to the hive she has, she just starts at the wall across from the cell not eating or caring what happens anymore because she know that she has failed all of her subjects by getting them all killed in a last ditch effort to save them all.

In the months that fallowed she slowly started to eat the food that was given to her, before if she didn't eat the guards just tossed it on the floor. Now they sit it down on the floor for her, but they are still worried that she might try to attack them. After a while she got better be still remember her fallen lings and wanted justice for them. One night when she was sleeping there was a sound and the cell open, she backed against the wall not knowing what they were doing, they walked in caring something in the air, she see that what they are carrying is a griffin and was wondering why they were until they through it on the floor. She sat there watching it with i

She continues to stare at the griffin as it starts to thrash around in its sleep before yelling, falling out of the bed and looking over at her, she just stares at it before closing her eyes and lays down to sleep, but as she falls asleep she grins.

Waking up before the griffin, she slowly got out of bed and walked over to the griffins bed as it looked like he was about to wake up, she got right in his face staring at him as he wakes up she starts to move closer as he moves away she blinks, then moves her face, she sits down waiting for him to do something.

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"Stop," Neo says holding up a talon.

"What....oh sorry, but that's what happen," She says looking at the floor until there is a banging sound and they both look up and see a guard with trays of mush. He sits them down and leaves as they start to eat. Once they finish eating he looks over at Chrysalis.

"Does Celestia know that because of what she that all the changelings that were with you died?" He asks looking at her with a sad look on his face, he never thought that Celestia would let something like that happen.

She yawns looking over at him, "No she does not and I'm not telling her because she wonder believe me anyway,"

"Oh, then I will tell her," He looks at her. "Because she needs to know how much pain she caused you and you won't or can't tell her so I will!" Neo stats, he looks back at Chrysalis she looks angry, her horn starts to glow a sickly green as one of the food tray launches through the air and imbeds itself in the wall with a hum about an inch or two away from his neck, he looks at the tray then looks back at her with wide eyes, he horn glows again.

"I think it's time to go to sleep," She glares and Neo "Don't you think!"

She unleashed a wave of energy from her horn the glow surrounded him as his head starts to buzz and the buzzing noise keeps getting louder as he covers his ears, his vision starts to fade, he falls over as she levitates him onto his bed as the buzzing stops he passes out.

Author's Note

I did a rewrite of this because the first one didn't sound good. If you could tell me how to make it flow better or how to make the dialog better. Really if you find something that needs fixed comment on it, if you want to that is.