A rewritten Past

I stare into the nothingness as a black void surrounds me with its cold atmosphere, no sign of anything as far as I could see. I stare down and saw my body, a fox with golden fur, sitting on a small island made of gray rock.

The scenery changes, the left side turned into something that could be described as chaos. A land where no rules exist and everything shows hints of madness, a place Discord could only create, but without the nightmarish sights, it looked more like fun than terror, as the very, very weird animals didn't seem to be frightened.

The right side changed into the land I created, and that could be best described as order, but there was no 'real' live anywhere in sight. There were just plants, and other things that laid adorned the ground, forming my biomes.

I stared at the two paths for a few moments before rage starts to invade my every thought. I screamed with anger and hatred, almost malice."You think this is funny?! I am not just some toy you can play with and force me to chose this or that! I am my own master, and I will never listen to whatever you say again! Only I, myself, will choose my life from now on! Begone!"

Just as I said it, the scenery changed back into its original blackness, leaving me in this cold void, alone. I swallowed dryly as this place, this place was where I dwindled for so long that not even I know how much time passed. I was scared and intimidated.

"Ehm. . . I want to go back to Chrysalis. Please, I like it there." I said with a lot less bravery this time, but my words were still heard as reality was starting to blur.

Real World

My eyes slowly opened, my eyelids were so heavy, I could barely open them. I haven't slept so bad in a long time, yet, I haven't slept in a very long time.

I looked around the dark room in which I laid. I looked around and tried to see if I could figure out anything, but most things were hidden behind the darkness. I lifted my head and saw that Chrysalis no longer laid on top of me, but instead, cuddled with her mother.

'oh, how much I envy you changelings, especially you, Chrysalis, to be able to live with some of your kind, to always have someone to talk to, not like me, who is alone on this world. No, that's not true, I still have them, and that is all that matters.'

I laid my head back on the soft surface of this grass and moss bed and closed my eyes, to drift back into the realms of dreamless slumber.

I returned to my peaceful and dreamless dream, hours flew by in minutes and the sweet bliss of rest that my mind carved for oh so long was finally satisfied. After what felt like a few seconds of sleep, I could hear a faint voice, an unknown one too. I ignored it and continued my slumber, but my peace was not granted as I could feel a hoof, too small for Chitin, yet too big for Chrysalis, touch my fur.

I groggily opened my eyes while my pupil fastly shrank and my vision sharpened in an instant like the slash of a Bear. In front of me was a small Changeling, no, he was average sized, I was just too big. He looked like he awaiting my next move as if he wanted me to finally wake up.

I sighed loudly and slowly rose from the warm and comfortable position that begged me to stay just a few more hours. I stretched my limbs and body while a loud yawn escaped my muzzle. Many pops could be heard too, but the changeling didn't seem to be all too scared by me which was a nice change.

I asked while my body was still trying to wake up."So, why did you wake me so early?"

The Changeling answered."My Queen asked me to wake you up and tell you that breakfast is ready. Also, the sunrise was a few hours ago, and we even delayed things in the hive just for you."

I looked at the Changeling for a moment before signing and saying."Ok, could you please show me where Chrysalis and Chitin are?"

The Changeling nodded, and so I followed him through the hive. I was quite surprised to see how much more active the children were, I think they were called Foals, and to see how happy they looked made me a bit more comfortable. Although, there was a change that I didn't like and that was that there were now many more Changelings with armor in the halls who looked so serious.

After a few minutes of walking through the halls, we reached a room in which just a big long table with many chairs was. At the far end of the table were Chrylais and Chitin.

I smiled happily before my eyes pupils turned purple for a second and I teleported in front of Chrysalis and Chitin. I grabbed chrysalis off her seat and hugged her like a. . . Something cute and soft.

I said while hugging Chrysalis."You are just the cutest being I have ever seen and ever will see."

I hugged Chrysalis for a few more moments until I could feel her struggle against my grip. I Instantly let go of her as she looked at her mother with shaking hands and full cheeks.

Chtitn's eyes widened before her horn glowed with a green aura, that was a bit darker than Chrylsais's and brought a weird big green oval shaped empty egg. Chitin poked a small hole into the top of it with her horn and levitated in front of Chrysalis who vomited a lot of Pink goo into it.

For several minutes, a stream of Pink would flow out of Chrysalis while I just sat there, filled with guilt that I possibly hurt my best friend. After about five minutes, Chrysalis stopped vomiting, and the thingy was full with the pink goo, and her mother separated the weird thing from her daughter's mouth.

"I was already wondering just how much Love you could create with a single hug and I must say, it is a more than welcome surprise to see a whole pod being filled in such a short amount of time." Said Chitin as she gave the pod to a Changeling who took it away.

My emotioned turned around faster than my mind could realize as I realized that I did not make my best friend vomit with my hug. Still, it was possible, I didn't take a bath in a very long time.

"So. . . What I did was good?" I asked curiously with a shy tone just to be sure

"It was more than that. We, Changelings, don't eat that often and a completely filled pod can feed many Changelings, of course, it is still not enough to feed all of us for a single day," replied Chitin

"That is good to hear, but I am sure that wasn't the only reason you let me wake up, right?" I said and asked.

The response that I got was in the form of Chrysalis who grabbed a big plate with all of her body and flew with it on top of the table. I smiled at the cute sight of Chrysalis dramatically panting before looking at the plate itself.

On the plate were a few neon green mushrooms that were hundreds of times smaller than the shroom trees that I knew from my time in the underground in the past, many little white and fat worms, a few colorful roots and lastly one green and very spiky looking fruit.

"Ehm. . . I don't think that this there is food besides maybe the green hedgehog fruit." I stated. Chitin and Chrysalis stared at me for a moment before both of them started to chuckle loudly.

"I can assure you that all of them are edible, especially the vandu fruit. I asked my Changelings to gather various kinds of food to be able to sustain you, Auriel. Of course, I am aware that you said you are and vegetarian, but even you probably need some kind of meat, and since fish is not an available source, we brought the next best thing here." Replied Chitin while trying to act as motherly as possibly

". . . I think I try the Vendu fruit. . ." I said while trying to not show my unhappiness.

My eye color changed to purple as the Vendu fruit was surrounded by a golden aura and floated magically towards me. Once it was in front of me, I grabbed it with one of my paws while trying to not poke myself, and took a bite out of it. Chewing it was a bit painful, but it was by far not the worst part as this fruit even made a lemon taste sweet.

". . .Auriel, you are supposed to peel it first before you eat it. . ." Said Chitin with a loud sigh

"You could've told me before I swallowed it. Besides, how am I going to peel it with all those Spikes? My magic doesn't work that way, I can't just 'snap' something peeled." I said with a hint of frustration as I have never eaten a fruit that was so bad in my whole life. Suddenly, there was a small white flash, and when I looked at the source of the light, I saw it was the now peeled fruit that showed off its blue fruit flesh.

"Uhhh~ You can make do that with you magic too? that is so cool!" Said Chrysalis in excitement and awe.

"But-but-but-but-but-but-but. . . But How! That is not how my magic works, it never worked this way! How, why, when, what!?!?" I said as my brain was slowly breaking apart. Hey, I would like to see you do something for thousands of years and then suddenly have the most awesome thing about you changed.

I looked at the fruit again and pictured the fruit in my head, but instead of blue, the fruit flesh was red in my imagination and snapped. Nothing happened. I snapped again and the same result. I snapped twenty more times and still, no results.

"I give up weird new magic, you won, I like my magic how it was. So, how about we eat something better than, whatever the stuff is that is wiggling on the plate." I said as my thumb hurt a bit, but luckily the pain vanished in just a second.

"And what are you going to eat, if you don't mind me asking? There is nothing else here unless you want to eat sand worms and or my changelings and I hope that you don't want to eat my children." Said Chitin with a slightly worried expression.

"*Sigh*. I already told you Chitin, I do not kill unless I have too, that at least counts for the Changelings. No, want I meant was that I could just grow food." I said

"Well, you did kind of turn a dead wasteland into a paradise, so I don't doubt that you could make a garden in a desert, but won't that attract predators if you plant food in front of the hive?"

"I won't make one up there, I will make one down here as not only is the warm and slightly wet air good for plants, but the walls should also keep the plants save. I just need to create a bit of water and make a few sun crystals. Could you give me a room to do said project please?" I explained with a bit of nostalgia for my first garden and asked nicely.

"Of course, it is the last thing I could do. Besides, we Changelings need to eat regular food too to create resin and to eat something fresh would be nice. Thinking about it, I haven't eaten something good in many years." Said Chitin with a smile on her face

After I avoided eating the rest of the weird things they served here, a Changeling came into the room and led me through the halls of the hive. In a few minutes, I was led to a big empty chamber that was once used for as an infirmary told me the Changeling, although he did not go into details.

Once I was alone, I walked into the center of the room and sat down, thinking of how I would reshape this room. After a few moments I came up with a plan, and one of my eyes turned blue, while the other turned green, before I touched the cold stone floor with my paw.

Like a single drop of water falling into a lake, the stone floor changed into a fertile soil of dirt upon which grass instantly grew. In the middle of the room, a miniature lake formed and a circle of water surrounding the soon to be garden.

I smiled when I saw that I still could use powers as good as I once could without problems. After the ground and water were made, I created several crystals that grew out of the soil. The crystals I made were three different kinds of gems, Sun crystals, moonstones, and water sapphires.

The sun crystals would create sunlight during the day that my crops would need. The moonstones would radiate moonlight, and together with the sun crystals, they would create a day and night cycle for the plants where they could grow and rest. Lastly, the water sapphires would use the magic out of the ground to infinitely creating water so the plants would never dry out.

My eyes turned purple as the crystals were surrounded by a golden aura and the jewelry levitated to their spot, sun and moon gems on the ceiling and the sapphires in the water.

Once everything was set, I thought of the various kinds of fruits and vegetables I ate, especially the ones that tasted better, before my eyes glowed green and I tapped on the grass once again. And like I commanded, various crops, trees, and bushes would grow scattered across all the available land while leaving a bit of space to walk and possibly rest.

I smiled as I saw my work done and was about to get my two favorite changelings, but it seemed like I was too slow as Chrysalis walked into the garden in awe.

'She must have never seen so much green in one spot, at least if we are talking about plants.' I thought with a slightly confused look.

"It seems like you like my work, little Chrysalis," I said with a small chuckle as she almost didn't even notice me while she was looking at a few fruits.

"I have never seen these kinds of fruits and vegetables, not even royal food transports or trades ever had them with them. Is it possible that you brought back extinct plants?" asked Chitin as she levitated a banana in front of her face.

"It is possible, I created many various kinds of plants in my time, hundreds, if not thousands, but sadly only a paw full of them were able to survive on their own, and I doubt even they survived the day of chaos. . . Chrysalis, I would not bite into that one just like that, that is a cry potato." I said as I took the cry potato out of Chryalsis hoofs and put it back into the ground.

The vegetable was round, had brown skin and was most of the time either white or green under it, sometimes even red, and would make you cry if you don't eat it with care.

"But why would you plant something that makes you cry?" asked Chrysalis curiously.

"Becuase you can combine them with other stuff and make even better food out of it, even though I am quite bad at it if you would count the times I created something not very tasty. . . One of my 'meals' once tried to strangle me while screaming with a very high pitched voice. . ." I said while trying to hide my frustration and embarrassment while Chitin and Chrysalis laughed loudly.

"Phew, I am not used to laughing this much, but I think you are not a good cook if the result of your cooking is that your meal tries to eat you. But, I think I have a way to deal with your problem. One of the Ponies we have put in a pod is an Earth Pony Mare with a chef hat for her cutie mark, maybe she would be able to cook you something if you can convince her not to scream or faint, that is." Explained Chitin before giving Chrysalis a banana and letting her eat it.

"I hope that she won't be too angry." were my last words before I began to eat a few fruits and vegetables before falling with my back on the grass and staring at the ceiling with a small smile on my face.

'I missed you so much, food. Sadly, I am only good with magic and not in cooking, or I would make something that is not murderous.' I thought

Chrysalis suddenly got an idea as she remembered her mother once talking about her childhood pet once. Chrysalis sneaked up to me and did the unthinkable, so cruel and evil! She began to violently, yet gently, scratch my stomach.

I stared at Chrysalis for a moment as I did not understand what she was doing, until suddenly all of my hairs pecked up and a wave of pleasure shot through my body that instantly became limb and relaxed. 'Ohh~ This is soo~. Relaxing~' I did not care that I may or may not have panted loudly like a dog with my tongue sticking out or that my back legs were twitching.

I could hear faint laughter from Chitin, but my ears were numb, and I could not hear a single thing.

Chrysalis smiled and giggled as Auriel was acting so funny. After a few moments, she realized that her slightly dusty hooves became clean and even shiny. Chrysalis looked at Auriels fur and saw that the dust from her hooves glided off Auriel's coat like it was nothing.

After a few minutes, Chrysalis released Auriel from her evil, genuinely malicious paralyzation spell of doom! Dun Dun Duuun!

Anyways.

After I regained my senses five minutes after Chrysalis stopped and tried to hide my now wholly red face that occurred as I was drowning in embarrassment, we went to the room where apparently a few creatures were put in pods. I was quite shocked to see so many weird and new creates at once, well, it where mostly just Ponies and what Chitin described as a minotaur, but still, they looked so odd.

"Why do these Ponies look so . . . Fragile. I mean, they look cute, small and soft, how do they survive like that? I mean, they could have a good sight with those huge eyes, but besides that, I do not see how they are such a threat to you." I said as I looked at the Ponies in the pods. There were some with horns, others with wings, and a few that had none of these traits, but more muscles. Oh, and the minotaur that looked like something that could've maybe survived it in the old world.

'Did the creatures all become weaker while I was away? It could be possible that my magic in the ground became less over the years, but still, did the world become so soft? Not that I mind it, the old world was often very dangerous for everything that was not me, but at least it was so much fun to see so many various exotic places.'

"You should not underestimate them, Auriel, they are much more dangerous than they might seem, at least for us they are. Normally, there are only three Pony races that are divided into three tribes, but a fourth race, combining the strength of all of them came into existence a few hundred years ago. Unicorns specialize in magic and can cast spells, but are the physical weakness of all races. The Pegasi have wings and can fly and harness the power of the weather, they are the second most durable, but because their bones are hollow, blunt weapons can easily kill them. Lastly, we have the Earth Ponies, although they don't have any of the other special traits, they are are very strong regarding physical strength and resistance, they also have a strong magic immunity and have a connection to the ground which allows them to plant crops very efficiently. Lastly, there are the Alicorns, and only two of them exist at the moment, and those two are Celestia and Luna, they have all the traits of the tribes and are much more powerful than they might seem as they control both sun and moon." Explained Chitin while I listened to every word, but when she said that those two are playing with sun and moon, I almost coughed from that.

"They have just taken sun and moon for themselves to control them?! Why would they do that?!" I didn't want to shout, but there were two things that I did not like, and when they happened I would be furious.

The first thing that could make me furious was to mess with my friends, we saw what happened with Discord, and the other is if you mess with the nature of this world and try to form it after your will. Chitin fell on the ground when she tried to back away.

"Oh, I am so sorry Chitin, I really didn't want to scare you, or shout." I apologized. Before my pupil turned purple and I levitated her back on her hooves.

"N-no. It's fine. In hindsight, it's understandable that you would react this way considering that you spent your whole life trying to keep things together. I would react similarly if someone would take away part of my Hive." replied Chitin a bit shakingly.

I nodded and said."Still, I should not have... exploded this way in front of you since you were not part of their doings. I would just love to meet them in person and talk with hem why they would take them."I said with a bit of hidden anger in my voice.

"I think I can explain it to you. In the last couple of thousand years, all creatures of Equus noticed how parts of the world became 'dead' or at least like the badlands if you want to be precise about it. At first, we did not understand, but soon even the celestial object just stopped so the Ponies took it as their duty to move them." Explained Chitin

My eyes were literally twitching when I listened to every word. The sun and moon would move on their own, even before I started giving life to the land, the only time the planet ever were not doing their jobs was when. . .

"Discord!!!!"

My paw bludged when I realized that this monsters deeds where still dwindling in the new world, even after his death, he still poisoning and corruption this beautiful place. When I couldn't hold my anger anymore, my first flew into a black wall, and the result made Chitin jaw drop.

When my fist made contact with the wall, a significant dent with many cracks formed before the wall started to crumble and then finally fell apart into a large pile of a chitin-like material.

Chitin and Chrysalis gawked at the wall in both fear and awe.

"Mommy said that that wall is like our chitin but much harder" muttered Chrysalis.

Once I realized what I just did, my pupils turned purple again, and the wall rebuilt itself in only two seconds.

"Ehm. Sorry, I am still not used to the whole 'not being completely alone' thing and I just realized that the celestial objects are like this because of Discord." I looked at Chitin and Chrysalis, and they still gawked at the wall. I said with an embarrassed tone as I rubbed the back of my head.

"Again, I thank you for not retaliating when we first met..." Chitin said emotionlessly.

I rolled my eyes before teleporting behind them and gave them a group hug.

"Don't be like that. I wouldn't have done anything to you no matter what would have happened." I said with a big smile

"Still, the thought of you being our enemy, or being anyone's enemy, is a scary one, even if you look like a pile golden fluff," said Chitin bluntly.

I smirked at her comment as it sounded a bit weird in my ears to her that me not liking anyone is scary. On the other hand, from what I could gather, my magic seems to be on a whole new level of power that they are used to. Of course, I was meant to create a world and not 'live' a 'normal' live.

"Well, if that is what you think, then I think you are safe from anyone that wants to hurt you since I will do anything to protect my friends from harm," I replied with determination.

"That is nice to hear, Auriel, and I hope other creatures will one day see more than 'Parasites' in us like you," replied Chitin with a bit of sadness in her voice.

I was about to say something to make her smile, but then I noticed that an Earth Pony with pink fur and light blue mane who looked at me with a horrified expression. Once the Pony saw that I noticed her, she began to silently scream while throwing her head and limbs as fast as she could, or rather she screamed as loud as she could, but the pod was apparently soundproof.

"Look, Mommy, our guest, has woken up." Said Chrysalis with a just too cute voice.

Chitin looked at the Earth Pony Mare and walked up to the pod. Chitin then poke her jagged from through the pod with a swift motion, causing the Mare to back away into the pod as she could. Chitin then sliced with next to no effort with her horn through the cocoon causing a weird green liquid to seep out of it, oh and also making the Pony fall on her snout.

"Ouch! Oof. Why does my muzzle hurt so much?" asked the Mare. Indeed, her red lifeforce was leaving her nose.

"Mommy, look, she is bleeding!" said Chrysalis as she hid behind her mother, apparently not wanting to see the leaking lifeforce.

"Auriel, would you be kind enough to help our guest with her wound?" asked Chitin a she looked at the Mare with a worried expression as she was slowly losing a lot of her life force. The green liquid must have made her skin soft.

"I will try my best. I used a bit of healing magic once a deer who lost his antler once to a falling tree and then was bleeding heavily through two holes where his prideful antlers once where, so I should be able to do something." I replied as I wasn't sure if I could do it as my healing spells were sometimes considered a bit strong under my animal friends.

My eyes turned purple once again, but this time, they were much paler as I weakened my magic to the lowest point I could to not possibly do more damage to her as the fall already did.

A soft and golden aura surrounded the Mares muzzle as the stained blood vanished from her fur and the bleeding stopped in a heartbeat, but the Mare then fearfully looked at Auriel and bowed so deep that she almost hurt he muzzle again. Wait, it was not bowing of gratitude, it was cowering of fear and... Sobbing?

"Please *Sniff* Please don't eat me..." begged the fearful Mare weakly as she slowly cowered into a ball. I stared at the Pony for a few moments while tilting my head to the right and raised an eyebrow.

"I'm a vegetarian," I said bluntly as my paw was doing something weird. It grabbed something soft behind my back and pulled forth a strange blue box with a thin white piece of clothing sticking out of it's top and showed it to the Pony.

The Mare didn't respond at first, but after a few more moments of sobbing, she pecked out of her hiding spot and stared at Auriel with wide and scared eyes. Her eyes were red, her faces were wet, and her nose was running. The Mare stared at the box for a moment before somehow grabbing the piece of clothing and pulled it out before cleaning her face. The box and the weird cloth piece disappeared in a small white flash after her face was clean, still red, but clean.

I walked closer to her and laid down beside her in an attempt to show that I meant no harm. The Mare clearly tensed up when she cloud feels my fur brush against hers. I slowly lifted my paw and stroked her hair slowly.

"You do not have to fear me, young one, I am not interested in harming you. What is your name, if I might ask?" I told her and asked as I didn't want to call her 'Mare' or 'you' all the time.

The Mare slowly relaxed a bit but was still a bit shaken, not only because of fear but because the green liquid from the pod was now cold. My irises turned red, and my fur glowed weakly as my body temperature rose until it radiated a comfortable amount of warmth. Her coat dried up very fast, mostly because my hair caused the liquids and dirt to fall off her body as well.

"Diamond Bell..." said the Mare quietly. I, of course, heard her words and nodded weakly.

"That is a nice name, Bell. You do not have to fear us, my friends didn't want to hurt you, but they just needed food, food that sadly no one was willing to give. But you do not have to worry, I am enough to feed them from now on, and I hope we can become good friends." I said it with a soft and comforting voice.

"Thank you for the offer, but I just want to go home..." said the Bell quietly. I did not know what to say, nor did I really understand what this 'home' thingy was, but what I knew was that it was somewhere else.

"I am sorry, Bell, but I sadly can't let you leave," said Chitin in an almost sad sounding tone. I looked down and saw that Bell stared at Chitin with a heartbroken expression.

"But... But why? Please, I just want to go home to my family, to my friends..." Belle said in a shocked tone and was almost half-shouting, but her voice was slowly becoming quieter with each word that left her mouth.

"Auriel, I am going to explain the rest after you, but I want you to answer a question for me. What would happen if you would wander through the badlands on the ground for several days with not enough water and food." Asked Chitin as nice as she could, but it was clear that she didn't want to make the situation sound better than it actually was.

"If you don't have enough food and water, you would starve, dry out or fall unconscious and even though we have food and water, you won't be able to carry so much. The worse problem would be the sandworms. The Sandworms will catch you and eat you as a whole before you can even scream for help. I could be able to help you through, but then the Changelings won't have food anymore." I explained and at the end of the sentence, I even had to look away from Bell's eyes that screamed out how much pain she was feeling at this very moment.

"Thank you, Auriel. The bigger problem would be that Ponies might get suspicious where you were, they might ask questions, and if they find out where the Hive is, then it could even come to war.." The silents that Chitin has caused was absolute, no sound, no voice, even no breath could be heard for several seconds.

"I...I-I can't go home...?" said Belle while looking at Chitin without any motions or emotions, she just looked at her, until her eyes started to water. I knew what she felt right now all too well and wrapped my tail around her as she buried her face in my fur an cried loudly. Chrysalis walked up to the sobbing Pony and hugged her by wrapped her hooves around her neck in an attempt to comfort her.

Belle was very sad after hearing that she was stuck here, but I made sure that she would not have time to be sad. Bell would spend most of the time in the garden that I decorated with the most beautiful flowers from the old world, some, that even glowed, like the moon lilies.

It took two weeks for her to start enjoying the life down here, of course, I would sometimes go outside with her, but only an hour away from the hive which she was more than thankful for. We became good friends, and we shared a few stories. She also had a few plant seeds of the new world with her that we together planted and it turned out that the plants I help grow with my magic makes them dozens of time better tasting, at least that's what Bell told me.

Bell told me about of her life back then and, although I did not understand most of it like what this 'money' thing was, or 'true love' or even what a 'bill' was, it was quite enjoyable. Bell also became my official cook, and her cooking much better than anything I could ever cook. Bell even started to give me cooking lessons, and after my 20th try, I managed to cook something uneatable, well, uneatable as in 'it won't try to eat me.'

The Hive became more alive with each day as the Changelings were becoming used to enjoying their lives and having fun and playing games. At one point, I even had to dig out an entire Chamber to store all the love I produced every day and not only was the sheer mass of love impressive but also how I managed to excavate several tons of dirt and rock away with just one swipe of my paw.

After one month of fun, Chitin asked me to become Chrysalis's magic teacher as I apparently was very good at it. Of course, I had no idea what to do and when I asked, I was shown the library or something like that was it called. In it where many different books of various origins that have all been translated into the Changeling language.

We ran into a small problem at first as I couldn't read, but I learned how to read very fast. Chitin decided to first teach me a bit about the Changelings like that the walls were covered with their 'resin' and some of the other species, but she did not let the other creatures out like the minotaur and the griffon as they would not survive it out there and would hurt her children.

After one week, I learned everything that Chitin considered as 'base knowledge,' but teaching me was not all too hard, as I had a photographic memory as Chitin said, whatever that is. Of course, we ran into a few problems. Although I was great at learning and saw many opportunities and possibilities for almost all spells that were shown me by Chitin, I had very little 'Imagination,' and a few weird things happened again that I later found out were because of Discord magic I absorbed and still have no idea how to use.

After I was educated by Chitin, I began to teach Chrysalis the various books in my way, and that was with demonstration, encouragement, no time limit, and fun. After every magic lesson, we would do something fun, like showing her a few of my memories of the old world. Chrysalis was fascinated by most of them, but also very scared of a few of them. I still regret showing her what she described as 'An ice-scarab swarm,' thousands of little small bugs that lived in the ice and snow, surviving off corpses, but where easily able to eat a whole hairy elephant in minutes.

Since I didn't have to sleep, I spend a few extra hours with reading spell books and history books, although I was also quite fond of the stories and legends too. Sadly, legends were by far not as interesting for me as they were for others as I had a lot of problems with certain adjectives, unknown words and well, the imagination part.

I would often demonstrate the spells that I improved with my powers, most of the time everyone was amazed, although there was one time I tried a lightning spell that would expand around me like a growing bubble, but... Let's just say it didn't quite work as I hoped it would.

Flashback

I stood in the middle of a large room, surrounded by a dozen piles of on top stacked stone acting as targets. In front of the wall that was furthest away from me where Chitin, Chrysalis, Bell and a few Changelings in armor that were also known as Guards. What surprised me was that Bell stopped being scared or bothered being near Changelings after only a few weeks which was a pleasant surprise.

I smiled at my audience, before closing my eyes and exhaling loudly as I shut out everything unnecessary. The hard part was not in making the spell work, no, it was keeping it on a tight leash to not let it become too strong and possibly hurt anyone.

When Auriel opened her eyes, her irises were purple, not white when she fought Discord as she is using her own power and not the power of her surroundings. All at once, a wave of yellow like light with Auriel at its center swallowed up the area. The puls took all of a moment, and the results of it were clear in an instant.

The stone targets fell to ash that was scattered across the room by a weak wind. I smiled at the results, but my happiness only lives as short as some of my hairs started to rise. I patted on the hairs that rose to make them stop and when I finally managed to keep my fur under control-

*Pomf*

• All of my fur straightened itself at once, trapping me in a large, fluffy and cuddly prison ball as I rolled a bit as a side effect form my escape attempts. Silents reign across the room until Chrysalis started giggling which caused a chain reaction that made everyone laugh.

I tried to free myself, but just when I almost found a spot where I could start my escape plans, the wind came again and made me bounce out of the room like a dead bush in the desert, just with the fact that this bush was alive, fluffy and shouted for help. I think I saw Chrysalis role on the ground while laughing, snorting and almost crying from laughter before I was blown out of the room. The wind was not my friend as it took a while until a Changeling caught me... after I rolled down all stairs in the hive, but luckily, I was not hurt as my fluff saved me from pain.

End of Flashback

All in all, my first month in the hive was delightful, even though there were some low moments like when some Changelings calling me 'Princess of food' as I was officially part of the royal family now, there were also many beautiful moments like telling Stories from the old world. All in all, it was the best month I had in my life. We laughed, we told stories, Everyone was happy, and I finally got what I desired most, a family.

I was happy, and I would make sure that no one would take this happiness from me, no matter what.