When twilight managed to catch up on some well deserved sleep she was awoken by an amazing aroma that was coming from the castle kitchen, getting out of bed and stretching her body she proceeded to leave her room and walk downstairs to the ground floors oblivious to her now taller size causing her to be the same height of a changeling queen. By the time she had reached the ground floor and entered the kitchen she could help but stare in shock at her new drone preparing breakfast for the two of them, with a warm smile she entered the kitchen to offer any help but looking at the where the drone was setting up it seems she was too late to help with that; instead she resorted to grabbing her notebook and quill and sat at the table which startled the poor pink changeling.
“My queen I’m sorry for all the me-“ begun the drone
“It’s fine don’t worry about it, we can both clean it up later. For now let’s eat and you can tell me some things about our um….. hive?” Asked twilight
“Yes we are a hive albeit a bit small but it will gradually grow so don’t worry about that, unlike the teal changeling hive ruled by queen chrysalis, we pink changelings feed on the um…. sexual desires of ponies but we can also survive on normal food as well as positive emotions”
“So because of our main emotional food our hive colour is this shade of pink?”
“That’s correct, every hive is a different colour meaning they feed on a different emotion”

Nodding her head twilight proceeded to make notes on this while eating her breakfast which also had an odd light blue honey on it, said honey also had small crystals in it which looked like rock candy. Before she could ask about it however her drone began speaking again
“And another thing our hive can do is create what’s called changeling honey, much like bees can we can turn excess emotions into a type of honey which also contains small crystals which are actually small traces of magic”
“Ok, but how come our hive can do this?”
“When the first pink changelings came about they lived in harmony with a pony village, as a sort of peace treaty the queen would hand over small jars of changeling honey to the villagers which is safe for all creatures to consume, the magic crystals act as a sort of natural pick me up”

Twilight once again nodded at this information as she continue writing notes and eating her waffles which were cooked to near spike perfection, even though she was visibly writing notes in her notebook on the table, under the table she was writing three identical letters to the three princesses. Hoping they may be able to help her in any way possible, she hoped deep down there was a way to reverse this process which she undertook unwillingly; changeling spells always had counter spells…. right?
“Oh right, I forgot to introduce myself yesterday, I am monarch, your first drone and head of your royal guard….. when the hive gets bigger of course” chuckled the changeling now dubbed monark
“Isn’t that the name of a butterfly species?” Question twilight
“Yes it is, the monarch butterfly, most members of our hive will have butterfly species names as our wings resemble their wings”
“That’s actually quite interesting, a friend of mine knows a lot about animals so maybe she can pinpoint which subspecies our wings represent and if we share any common qualities with them!”
“Calm down my queen, other than the shape that’s all we share with the butterflies”
“Oh, well hopefully we can still give her a visit”

After breakfast the two washed all the dishes that were used for the morning before going their separate ways to get ready for the day; twilight to get cleaned up and monarch to prepare some changeling lessons for his queen…. seeing as how are talked in her sleep about originally being a pony. Lessons on changeling magic, the two ways honey is produced, changing forms (obviously) as well as flying with her new wings as they were not like her old ones; even though monarch was a brave changeling he was nervous about meeting his queen’s pony friends since he wasn’t sure how they would react to seeing a new type of changeling. Shaking his head to clear that trait of thought he proceeded to plan lessons for his queen to undertake in order to understand how to be a changeling, how to accept emotions, which was another part of the peace treaty; only accept emotions if the changeling is given permission or it is directed at the changeling.

Checking over the different plans monarch nods to himself and collected everything with his magic which was a soft shade of pink, leaving the drone room he trotted off to find his queen which ironically enough was in the study, the perfect place to learn and teach. Going up to the third floor he found twilight sitting at one of the tables with a small stack of paper, a quill, ink jar and had a few books open and spread out around the desk; it was as if she was looking for something in particular that one of the books all shared in common, something she hoped to find by piecing all the information together.
“So, are you ready for your first lesson then my queen?” asked monarch
“Yes i’m ready, there’s never a day i’m not ready to learn new things!” twilight said with a silly grin on her face
“Good, our first lesson will be about the shapeshifting capabilities of the changeling race”
“Ok so i guess the important lessons are going to be first”
“Correct again my queen”
“Just glad i know a few things about changeling magic and powers”
“That's good, alright. When changelings take on a different form, most do it from memory of ponies or creatures they have seen; but we pink changelings are able to create our own forms however we please, we even get what you ponies call cutie marks”
“That’s actually really interesting, i though other creatures such as changelings, griffins, dragons and dragoneqi couldn’t get cutie marks”
“That was how things used to be in times of old when the world was still new, but now we pink changelings so far are the only ones that have adapted to gain such marks, which is why during your change from alicorn to changeling queen your cutie mark remained there on your flank”
“I never noticed that! I thought i had lost it!”

Monarch only nodded while twilight proceed to make notes on this seeing as she never knew of this information about changelings before, but since she was a changeling queen now she was bound to learn some new things about what she had become other than the basics. While twilight was making notes on this lesson and was being oblivious to the rest of the room, monarch kept his senses open to make sure that no one broke into the castle or a visitor came that twilight wasn’t expecting; yet while doing this monarch kept teaching twilight the basics of changelings and their capabilities to change forms.

While the two were discussing different creatures that would be good for beginning transformations they were both oblivious to the small dragon entering the castle, spike had finally returned from rarity’s place as he was helping her move some things around in the beautique. As he walked past the library spike stopped and took a few paces back to look in again, onto to freeze in shock at seeing a changeling and a queen that looked similar to chrysalis and her hive, as he turned to run off he was stopped in his tracks by the deep pink magic that covered his form resulting in a yell of shock to come from his small frame.

Once feeling he had calmed down twilight brought spike into the library to hopefully explain to the small dragon about what had happened to her,though… that’s if he was willing to listen to her that is considering how stubborn dragons can be. Monarch looked shocked at how his queen managed to notice the small dragon when even he couldn’t smell the young drake entering the castle, while he was mentally freaking out twilight simply brought spike over to where she and monarch were sat and give him a warm hug to welcome him home; even if he was regretting it.
“Spike it’s ok, it’s me twilight, i may have um… become a changeling queen somehow but it’s still me spike” warmly spoke twilight as she smiled at the dragon
“How do i know its really you twilight?” questioned spike
“I’ll tell you something only I would know”
“Ok then, shoot”
“When i heard that i was accepted into celestia's school for gifted unicorns after i had raised you for a week, i decided to pull a prank on shining, i replaced the filling of his pillow with jelly and his atres with a balloon full of peanut butter, both of which burst when he got on it”
“Uh…. ok no changeling would have ever known about that, you really are twilight. What happened to you?”
“That’s the part i’m not exactly sure about spike”
“Well there has to be some way of figuring out what happened to you to make you turn into a changeling queen”
“Yes i know spike but the problem is i don’t know where i am to start looking”
“Oh boy, this is going to get troublesome”
“What do you mean?”
“Anything could have happened to trigger this kind of affect, an item, a spell, a bite, or maybe you was a changeling ever since you was born!”
“Ok that last one is ridiculous spike”
“Hey it’s still a possibility twi”

Twilightly could only let out a groan after that, even if it was ridiculous it is still a viable explanation of why she was a changeling queen now; yet she still had to find the primary cause for her transformation but her library currently contained little to no books about changelings or the changeling queens; so where could she get the books to gain this information.

Author's Note

hey guys! I'm not dead, new chapter right here, hope you guys enjoy this chapter and I will try and get the next one out as quick as I can. thank you guys so much for reading this and supporting me through out this.