Petra let out a soft sigh as she sat in her bedroom, looking out of the window as she looked at the sky. There was nothing for her to do right now - sure the weather outside was lovely for once, but with nothing to do, there seemed to be little to no point of heading out.
"So BORED..." She groaned, tapping impatiently against the nearby wall. "Come on, there has to be something interesting to do... something that'll be a fun change of pace... but what can be done? Ohhhh..." She sighed again, falling back onto her bed, crossing her arms. "Come on! I'd give anything to change this boring life of mine!"
'Anything?', a cold, disjointed voice called out from seemingly nowhere. 'Did I hear you right when you said that?'
"What the?" Petra jumped up, reaching over to her bedside as she picked up a paperweight. "Who's there? Show yourself right now, and you better not be a thief!"
The voice chuckled, ethereal eyes cast upon Petra. 'There's no point in trying to look for me... I have no physical form, as of yet...'
"Then you're...a ghost?!" She yelped, turning a little pale.
'Well...yes and no'the voice cackled. 'I just heard you pining for a change of lifestyle, and I decided to answer your call. It's a kindness, trust me.'
"Well...what...exactly do you have in mind?" Petra asked, placing the paperweight back down.
'As you said, you were looking for a change of lifestyle... I can give you that and so much more... all you have to do is accept my deal.'
"And what kind of deal is that, miss..."
'Call me Chrysalis...' the voice laughed. 'And the deal is that you surrender your body to me, and aid me in restoring my kind to this world...'
"Surrender my body?" She blinked. "You expect me to just accept a deal like that? I may not be able to see you, but I can tell your intentions are anything but good!"
'You really think that, human?' Chrysalis hissed. 'I know what my intentions are and what I want to do, so why should I care if a feeble human tries to stand in my way? I can easily take my offer to another human after all and eventually leave you at the mercy of the Changeling army... and I would so hate to kill off a potential host...'
"Changeling?" Petra asked, confused.
'Yes... I am the Queen of the Changelings, but my kind are all but gone... and now we have a chance to return, to wreak havoc once again. Tell me, human... have you no desire to feed off of the emotions of others, to convert it to your own power/ Enough of it would practically make you a goddess!' She chuckled, noticing Petra's expression shift slightly, as if she was starting to consider it. 'Not to mention that you'd be able to fool anyone you come across - you could disguise yourself as anyone that came to mind, become almost anything... and the magic you would possess on top of that... What do you say then, human?'
"Well... I did say a change would be fun... but would there be any way to turn back to normal me, if I didn't like this?"
'But of course! I don't think you will want to change back though... I can hardly imagine you complaining...'
"Ok then... do what you need to do." Petra said, standing up.
'That's a good girl... now I should warn you, there might be some discomfort with the changes... and you might see some things that might freak you out, but it's all part of the change. Now brace yourself!' Chrysalis laughed as Petra was suddenly thrown back against the wall, the feeling of an otherworldly being flooding into her being as she was held in place, unable to fight back or resist. After a few seconds, she fell to her hands and knees, gasping for breath.
"Ghh..guhh.." She moaned, clutching her chest as she took in slow, heavy breaths. "Sheesh..." She pushed herself back to her feet, feeling a little sore from the impact. "I guess... that was the discomfort you were talking about?"
'Oh no, far from it... THIS is the discomfort I was talking about!' She grinned as a wave of searing pain crashed through her body, the silver-haired female dropping to her knees as she screamed in pain.
'Mmm... Now that is some good pain...' She laughed, Petra trying to push herself back up again, being unable to find the strenght to do so. She pushed herself up against the bed, raising an arm up as she glanced at it. Her eyes widened as she saw dark grey fur starting to grow around her arms. She brought her hand to feel them, discovering the hairs to be fine, needle like - almost like what you'd find on an insect. A burst of pain went through her arms as they began to alter, thinning out towards the top as they grew thicker around the bottom. She felt her hands stiffen up, the digits shrinking away as her hands reformed into rounded hooves. Just when she thought her arms had finished, she felt a burning sensation in her lower arms. Her wrists stretched a little alongside with her hands as holes began to appear in the limbs in various places, flesh, muscle and bone being eaten away.
"Oh my God... this is insane..." She gasped, looking at her forehooves, looking through the holes in her arms.
'What, it's all natural to me.' Chrysalis shrugged, the hair moving up her body, slowly covering her form. She felt her shirt starting to grow tighter, her chest barrelling out as it became broader, soon splitting the shirt open. She blushed, moving to cover her chest but finding that she no longer had breasts, just a barrel-like chest. Her midsection grew thinner as the hair parted, the skin flaking away as the flesh was replaced with carapace-like plating, three stripes along her front in a blue/green color as it covered most of her back.
"Ghh... hurts..." Petra moaned, biting down on her lip as she felt the changes spread to her legs. Her hips cracked and realigned, locking her into a quadrupedal position until she shifted into other forms. Her legs were quick to undergo a similar change to her arms, toes shrinking away as her feet became stumps, shifting into hooves as holes appeared in her lower legs, causing her to scream again.
'Mmmhmm.. but doesn't it feel good?' She asked, Petra's spine extending outwards as a long tail grew, teal in colour as it flowed behind her. Just like her legs, holes appeared near the tip of the tail.
"...Yeah... it...actually does..." Petra said with a smirk. She wasn't sure if she had just given in and accepted the changes, or if the pain had pushed her to the brink of insanity, but the pain felt good... she felt like she was feeding off of it, becoming stronger from it.
'That's good... you don't have much longer to go now.' Chrysalis said, Petra's back bulging as she felt a new set of appendages growing outwards. She arched her back almost instinctively, growling as a pair of large, insect-like wings grew outwards, flapping rapidly, almost a blur as a low droning noise filled the air.
"Grrrgghh..hehehe..." Petra chuckled a little, her neck cracking as it grew longer, carrying her head a foot away from her shoulders as she stretched her body.
'That's more like it!' She laughed triumphantly as Petra's jaws began to push outwards, cracking slightly as they pushed into an equine muzzle, but instead of growing broader and flatter, her teeth grew into sharpened fangs, her nose sinking into her upper jaw as the nostrils flared. Her ears twitched as they grew longer and slimmer, poking out behind her in an almost horn-like fashion. Her silvery hair grew longer, reaching down to the middle of her forelegs as it turned the same teal as her tail. One final burst of pain filled her head as a large, jagged horn shot outwards, various points protruding from it. To finish the changes, her eyes moved to the sides of her head, growing larger as they opened wide, the soft blue turning into a bright green, turning a darker green in the middle as the pupils pulled into thin slits.
'Mawahaha! Yes! After all this time, I'm' "finally back!" She laughed, the last words coming from her own mouth as she grinned, looking over her body with twisted glee. She stood at a good six or seven feet tall. "Feels so good to have a body again after all this time, but hrm... something is missing..." She said. As if responding to her statement, a small crown appeared on her head, tipped with four blue orbs.
"I really have to thank you for this, human... your actions were just what were needed to help set my plan into motion... now I just need to awaken my Changelings, and the true fun will begin..." She chuckled coldly, looking outside the window, her horn glowing a vibrant green as a green glow surrounded the window, opening it with her magic. "Perhaps there are more people around here who I can feed off off, grow stronger still." She told herself as she leapt out of the window, wings flapping wildly as a droning noise filled the air.
"When the time is right, my children will be reborn anew... so I shouldn't waste time!" She laughed as Petra, now the Changeling Queen Chrysalis, flew off into the night.
