The Last Changeling

It was not easy to get into Canterlot, not after our failed attempt to take it over. Even after 3 years they still feared our return, beefing up security at the entrance, asking for I.D or scanning you over with a Changeling detecting spell. Oh how I hated that spell, it made my life hell the first year after the invasion. Still it was a little flattering that we left such a mark but there was nothing to be proud about. After we got thrown out of their city by a magic blast, we did not find a nice open field to land in or a forest even, hell the hot sand of the desert would have been nice, but no- it was a barren field, out in the badlands. It was full of rocks. Hard, sharp, painful rocks. The only thing I remember as I flew through the air was the screams of my hive mates before I felt searing pain then everything went to black. Then the horror that I saw when I woke up...

I shook my head to clear my thoughts. There is no point in dwelling on the past, for soon I will be joining them all and finally put an end to this pain I have had for all these years. I was in line to meet Her, the leader of all the pony's. It took one week to get here, one week with little sleep and food, and I was running on empty. I could of just let a guard pony see me in my real form and ended it then, but no if I was going to go out I was going to show them that even with all there effort I could still make my way into there castle. I would show them all that even as weak as I am that I was the master of stealth, that WE were the masters of stealth.

There where 5 pony's in front of me before it was my turn. "Not much longer, just got to hold out a little longer," I thought to my self as I obliviously swayed on my hoofs. It was not easy to maintain my disguise even as simple as it was. I changed my self into a simple brown earth pony stallion with a brown mane and tail. I was so weak it was not even a complete disguise, patches of my changeling body could be seen on my barrel. I did not even have the energy for a cutie mark, so I had on a old worn out and dirty cloak to hide my body as to not give me away, just yet.

I was brought out of my thoughts with a shuve from behind. "If you want to just stand there can you do it somewhere else, some of use would like to see the Princess today!"

I looked back at the pony, it was a stallion dressed up in some fancy clothes, no doubt a noble. I looked back to my front to find the line had moved up a bit, there where 3 pony's left now. I stumbled my way forward, to catch up to the line. When I caught up with the other pony's, the mare in front of me turns her head to look at me.

"Are you ok? you don't look well." she asked with a soft voice.

I stare at her with a blank expression "I'm fine" I reply. I can't help but laugh internally a little, pony's for the most part are nice to there own kind, but if she know what I really was she would be screaming and running from me.

She cocked an eyebrow at me "Are you sure? You have been swaying from side to side for the past five minutes."

I looked down at my self and sure enough I was swaying side to side. "Damn! Must be weaker then I thought." I look back up to give a reply in hopes it would get her to leave me alone when the stallion from behind me speaks up.

"Eww, are you sick? you must be, with they way you look and smell. You should just leave before you get me or even worse the Princess sick with what ever you have!"

I could not help but roll my eyes, the mare however did not seem to take kind to that comment. "He has just as much right if not more to meet the Princess, sick or not."

"As if I could expect a simpleton like you to understand." the stallion turns his head and scoffs, "I just had to be next to pony's so beneath me."

That sent her off and before I know it, they were at each other's throats. If I had to bet who would win I would put my bits on the mare. It was not long tell a guard pony in all his gold armor showed up to stop the fight before it got out of hoof.

"What is going on here?" The guard said. That got both of their attention, then they both tried to tell there side of the story at the same time. The guard pony simple said in a louder voice "QUITE!" and they both finally shut up, thank the Queen.

"You both will be civil or I will throw both of you out, got it?" He said in a calm yet commanding voice.

They both nod there heads, though the stallion noble seems to do it a little more reluctantly. I could not help but chuckle a little under my breath, lucky for me none of them noticed. After everything had calmed down the guard asked them to explain what the commotion was about one at a time.

The noble went first, saying how I was sick and how he feared I would spread it to the Princess. then he told how the mare started to verbally assault him for voicing a legitimate concern. After the guard heard what the stallion had to say he turned to the mare. She told him that she was just defending a pony, that looked as if he did not feel well, from the attacks of the stallion. When he started going on about how they were beneath him she admits how she lost her temper. She looks down with her ears flat to her head, and apologize to the guard for losing her temper and snapping at the other pony. After hearing both sides of the story, the guard pony looks at the stallion and says in a calm voice.

"Sir, I can understand your worry for the Princess, but she has made no rule stating that if a pony was sick she would not see them. As well he would be several feet away from her so it is unlikely she would get anything." He then turns to the mare. "It was kind of you to try and stand up for this pony, but in the future try and refrain from starting anymore fights, and that goes for you to," he says as he turns to look at the stallion.

Having dealt with them both he then turns to me. "That being said you do not look well Sir, would you like to go to the infirmary to get looked after? I can usher you, you will get to meat the Princess regardless."

I shook my head " No, I am not sick, just tired. It has been a long road for me to get here, all I would like is to see the Princess and be on my way."

The guard nods his head "ok, but don't push yourself. Meet the Princess and then get some rest you look awful."

"I will thanks." I give a little nod back. He turns to the other two, gives them a nod as well then walks off. I was happy he was finally gone, truth be told a part of me wanted to just turn around and leave, but the constant aching oh my body and hunger reminds me that there is nothing waiting for me but more pain if I do. So I pressed on, turning forward and waiting my turn. Luckily the two pony's did not bother talking anymore, I liked the quiet.

After a bit more waiting I was finally in front of those big doors that lead to the thrown room. I stood there waiting for my turn. As if hearing me the doors to the thrown room open, with the mare that was in front of me coming out with a big smile on her face. Not wanting to waste anymore time I make my way in, as I enter the doors behind me shut closed. The room was big with pillars going from the floor to the ceiling. There where huge windows on one side of the wall giving a view of the city of Canterlot. Straight ahead of me was a few steps leading up to the thrown where she sat. Siting on the thrown was a mare with a coat as white as snow with a mane and tail of blue, green, purple, and pink that flows with a none existent breeze and the sun cutie mark dawning her flank, the ruler of all the pony's, Princess Celestia her self. What I did not expect to see was to the left of Celestia was a pink mare with her yellow, dark pink, and purple mane and tail with a crystal heart cutie mark, the new ruler of the crystal empire and one of the two responsible for all my pain and heart ache, Princess Cadence. Next to her was a stallion with a white coat and a mane/tail of multiple shades of blue with is cutie mark of a blue shield with a purple star in the middle with three little blue stars above it, Cadences husband and the other of my suffering, Prince Shining Armor.

As I stand in the middle of the room Celestia looks down at me with a smile. "Hello my little pony, My niece Princess Cadence and her husband Shining Armor are going to be siting in on today's court, I hope this is ok?"

I nod "I have no problem with it Princess," I really didn't have a problem with it. With those two hear I was guaranteed to get what I wanted no matter what. It looks like I finally got a little of luck.

Celestia nods but her smile wavers a little as she looks at me, "are you ok my pony, you don't look so well, is there anything I can do to help?"

I chuckled at that, finally it was time, "ya you can finish what you stared all those years ago." All of them looked at me with a confused look on their faces.

"I am afraid I don't understand what you are saying," Celestia comments.

I end up laughing which turns into coughing. As I come down from my coughing fit, I look up at them as my legs begin to wobble under me. "Its simple, I am giving you what you want, what all you pony's want. I want you to end my pain, I want you to kill me!"

With that the last of my strength faded and I collapsed on the floor. Not a second later my disguise, which I had been holding onto by threads, gives way and my body is engulfed in green flames revealing my Changeling body. My chitin which was normally black as the night, was now a sickly gray with cracks all over it from beatings I would get when I was caught out of my disguise. Unlike most other Changeling's I had a mane, all be it short, and a long tail, though both where in massive disarray. From head to tail I was covered in dirt and grime, 3 years of almost no baths can do that.

The last thing I heard before I fell unconscious, from over exerting my body, was the sound of screaming and shouting fallowed by the sound of hoofs rushing around. None of it mattered I did what I set out to do, now I can join my hive, and my Queen, in the after life and leave all this pain behind. As tears ran down my face only one thought filled my mind, "I am Aaron Blaze and I was the last Changeling."