A rewritten Past

Two months. Two whole months it has been since I arrived in the Hive and it has been fantastic, well, mostly at least. Every time I go to sleep or wake up, I am scared that if I open my eyes again, that I am still underground, mourning over the loss. Once I realize that all wasn't a dream, I am instantly happy again.

Of course, being in the hive had some drawbacks, like not being able to be a lot outside, which wasn't as bad as it sounded. Deserts were one of my least favorite biomes as there was so little life, which didn't mean that I would not occasionally leave the hive for a few hours of sunlight and fresh air.

Most Changelings didn't want to let me leave, who would, I am their unlimited food source after all. Still, even if I would be gone for a few days, they still had enough love in the hole, excuse me, the 'storage room' as they wanted me to call it, to live off it for a while. It is still kind of funny that they always tell me that it was too dangerous outside.

Sadly, my carefree life changed on one day, and it started so peacefully.

Bell lectured me and said."Auriel, you know very well that you have to put off the collar in the kitchen and wash your paws while you're at it."

Bell was currently giving me another cooking lesson in a room beside the garden, I think this is the 27th lesson? I am improving greatly and not a single one of the last five meal I cooked burned through the plate, or the ground, or the four floor below us.

I groaned quietly. It was a surprise for me to find out that after so many years, I would get used to wearing anything and now, I don't like taking it off. I didn't feel naked or anything, no, I just felt like I would take off a part of my new life, or maybe it had something to do with the fact that it was everything I possessed?

"Do I have to?" I asked with a slightly whiny tone.

"Yes. Yes, you do. All the dirt on your coat magically falls of your fur, but dirt can still stick to your collar and then land in the meals. Besides, if I had to learn to live without clothes all the time in the hive, you can survive a few hours without your collar."

"Fine... Hey Bell, you mentioned something about 'gaining weight' what did you mean with that?" I asked while slowly pulling off my collar and putting it on a table near me.

"It means getting fat," said Bell

"And what does 'getting fat' mean?" I asked while making my way towards a bowl of water and washing my paws. I enjoyed these moments where I could learn something new from the new world, even if I annoyed a Changeling or Bell a few times with my questions.

"Well, it means... how do I say this? Getting fat means that you store up fat, something that the body makes out of everything we eat to store it for later. The more fat we store, the sower we become until one can even die from it. Thinking about it, I don't even know if you can gain weight, You spend so much time in the library, you should at least have gained some weight." explained Bell as she was slowly putting the ingredients on the table for this lessons meal.

"Actually, it is not all too hard to understand. I once spend a few winters eating barely anything, maybe a few of these weird green ropes that grow on the bottom of the huge lakes. It could be that for me, everything is just magic." I explained as good as I could

"Wow, I think I would kill just to have no longer to worry to keep a slender figure, thinking about it, I think that even the greatest wizards would sell their souls to have your powers. Wait, what do you mean with 'for me, everything is magic'?" said Bell with a small on her face.

"Did you forget, silly? I made the land with my magic; this includes all food. I have read that casting makes unicorn at least as hungry as running a lot, but I do not feel exhaustion from that, I feel just that my magic was regenerating on its own. I guess that everything eats to keep itself alive with my magic but to do so, it first needs to convert the food into something else to then later absorb the magic. I don't have to do that because I am just endlessly producing it." I explained, but when I realized what I just said. I was confused how I knew all that stuff. I turned around to see Bell with a very shocked look on her face.

"Wait, oh my Faust-no, what, how, why?" Bell freaked out as her jaw hand wide open, and her eyes widened. I walked up to her and pulled her into a hug to calm her down. After a few moments, she calmed down.

"Are you okay? You scared me a bit." I said with a bit of worry in my voice. Chitin once told me that I had an excellent sense for empathy, maybe even better than the Changelings ability to taste and eat emotions.

"Y-yes. You broke my view on the world a bit there. Huh, I haven't even realized that I was talking to my maker all this time. Your existence alone is enough to prove all religion wrong. Still, that was not what made me freak out. If you die, we all will die with you, and the world as it slowly runs out of magic... I don't know how to feel about this, how did you prevent the parts of the world from dying out back then?" Said Bell with a very uneasy look as her face stitched expression a few times.

"I have no idea what a 'religion' is, can you eat it? No, that is not important right now. To answer your question, I just ran around the world in a few minutes every day. Thinking about it, I think I once saw the grass turn greener when I visited the biomes I was not working at the moment. Anyways, please do not worry too much Bell, I am sure everything will turn out perfectly fine in the end." I said with a reassuring smile while slowly releasing her from my fuzzy hugs.

Bell smiled and nodded before walking to the ingredients. I turned around to hide my slightly horrified expression.'Why Me! I don't want ponies and changelings to look differently at me. I don't want to be special. I just want to enjoy the day and not 'stop the world from dying.' *Mental Sigh* It is so weird in this new world where everyone says that I am so special, but in truth, this world is just so normal in comparison to the creatures of the old world.'

"Ok. Today we are going to experiment. I need a few of those potatoes, a green leaf ball, maybe an orange stick, a banana and lastly one of those weird red things that grow on trees." Bell listed off various fruits and vegetables while I levitate all ingredients from the garden to the table.

"Are sure that you have never seen an apple? They were the first fruit I created, and I am sure that it should have been resistant enough to survive until now." I asked with confusion and a bit of disappointment; everyone should've at least eaten an apple once.

"Nope, I am pretty sure that they didn't grow in flutter valley, or anywhere else at least. Ok, I think that was almost everything. We now only need... A GIANT WORM!!!" Shouted Bell

"Bell, I don't eat meat, I have no problem if you eat it, but I am a vegetarian." I sighed and explained it kindly as I already was asked this question way too many times already.

"NO! There is an actual worm sticking out of the wall!!!" screamed Bell as I heard a loud thud.

I turned around and saw that a giant worm dug its way through the wall and was wiggling its way to Bell extremely fast and then it jumped at my friend. My eyes color changed to purple as I teleported in front of Bell. The worm wasn't picky or scared, and without worry or care, it swallowed and bit into my arm.

I screamed and shouted in panic as I could feel the slime of the beast and the many rows of sharp teeth scrap on my fur, barely touching my skin, as it tried to take my arm. The pain was not all too strong, I barely felt anything, but I was so scared, I was even waving my hand so fast that it looked like a blur.

After a few moments, the worm let go of my arm and flew a few feet away. I shook the slime off my arm and saw that my entire arm glowed with a golden light. Blew as fast as I could air on my arm until I heard Bell scream.

I turned around and saw that the worm lost interest in me and made it's way to Bell. Many thoughts shot through my head as I tried to think of some way to stop the worm without hurting it, but in my panic, I couldn't think of any solution. I stopped pondering when I saw the worm jump at Bell; my heart pumped with the speed of light, my eye shrunk to the size of peas and my body began to shake.

Bell looked at the worm that was just inches away from her. The moment felt like an eternity as she could see the deep dark pit of the worm's body, the many sharp rows of teeth that were scattered around in the mouth of the beast, the slime that was dropping off its maw and the horrible stench the monster gave off. Bell closed her eyes as she gave up any hope.

Suddenly Bell heard the horrifying screams and roars of a dying animal. Bell looked to the ball on her right and saw that the worm was impaled by eight, three feet long ice spears, or at least that was what was not buried in the wall. The worms struggle soon ended as the spears were so big that there was almost not enough room for all of them.

Bell's heart felt like it stopped for a moment as she saw the beast die as the entire piece of the wall was painted green from the worm's blood while a puddle was slowly forming under the corpse and the stench was slowly spreading in the room. Bell slowly turned her head to Auriel.

Auriel sat there, with a horrified expression, widened and a slightly wet eyes. Her eyes were pale blue, and her paws palm was pointed at the worms corpse. Auriel was breathing heavily; it was clear that firing the spell hurt her more than it did for the worm.

Bell wanted to walk to Auriel and try to calm her down, but Auriel herself then broke the silence and said quietly."Run, tell as many Changelings to get away from this part of the Hive..."

Bell looked at Auriel and asked with a fearful tone."W-what? Why?"

"Just run already! Worms attack in packs hundreds! Run already!" Screamed Auriel as Bell could hear noises from the wall around them and in the hallway.

Bell ignored her fear and ran as fast as she could away from Auriel. While Bell was running through the halls, she heard many worms fall out of the walls but ignored it; I just ran away without looking back.

Soon many Changeling guards charged at worms while I fled and screamed out loud."Get away from this part of the Hive! Run, don't look back! Everyone who can't fight, don't fight and just get away from here!"

I stared at the door hallway as I saw many worms fall out of the wall, hungrily, they wiggled their way deeper in into the hive. I pointed my paw at the ground in front of me and watched as ten long and thick icicles of ice were growing before I broke them off the floor and levitated them beside me.

I stood back up on my four paws and remorse; I left the room without even giving the corpse a last look. I appreciated all life, in all its form in any way it existed, but I also knew that often one has to take another's life to save his own. These worms were not less worth in my eyes, but I promised them and myself to keep the Changelings safe, and I will protect them like it was my own life no matter what happens.

Just as I left the room, I stopped to levitated my collar back to me and put it back on, before looking in front of me. The halls were flooded with dozens of worms. The small ones were only a third of my size, or rather the size of changelings, the medium ones were as big as Chitin, and the large ones were a bit bigger than me.

I slowly made my way through the halls, trying to ignore what was about to happen. A giant worm saw me and jumped at me only to be impaled by a spear of ice. The worm squirmed and screeched in pain. I said quietly full of sorrow."I am sorry." The glow of my icy blue eyes intensified barely noticeable as the worm was slowly turning to ice, it's struggles and pleas ended with its life. Once the worm died, the ice crumbled first to shard and then to snow before being melted to water by the warmth of the Hive.

The other worm noticed the death of their friend and all of them wiggled their way towards me and pounced at me. They each flew fast towards me, the smallest one was almost the speed of a diving bird, but for me, everything happened very slow, all colors became dull, and my heart beat became slowly.

My spears either smashed the worm away with enough force to create a crack in the walls and floor while others were only scratched by my weapons. I could almost feel their happiness of surviving, which just hurt me even more as the dust-sized ice shards on their hides began to spread across each worm that was hit by me.

After the twentieth worm died, the realized that they were not capable of defeating me and wiggled away, deeper into the hive. I knew that I couldn't let the creatures go, they would hurt my friends, In the end, I decided with a heavy heart to end it the most peaceful way I could think of. I slammed all of my spears into the ground, embedding all of them into the floor.

"I am truly sorry that things had to go this way, I hope all of you can forgive me." were my last word as my eyes glow glowed with power or a moment before a wave of ice slowly grew until it covered the entire floor. The worm had no time to react as the ice was claiming their bodies faster than they could cry for help.

I stared at the long hallway, at all those frozen, screaming, almost horrified statues of the worms with disgust, not because of what they were or wanted to do, but of what I did, I was disgusted with myself. I hated killing, no matter what happened, from the smallest, most annoying fly to the most dangerous animal, I despiced it. I knew that it was my only chance, I couldn't turn myself invisible or teleport them and or myself away, no, that would not solve the problem as they might come back or would harm my friends.

My thought was interrupted when I suddenly smelt something weird, something I never smelled before. I looked in front of me and stared in shock as I saw the half-eaten remains of a few Changeling Guards. Their inner part was hanging out while a puddle of green lifeforce was slowly growing under the body. Those dead eyes, I felt like they stared at me.

I stared at the sight for a few moments; I knew those Guards, they were the ones that I first met. They were my friends; we would often play and talk while they were not playing Guards. I could feel tears form in the corners of my eyes, I turned my head away and continued walking deeper into the hive, but only after a few moments of walking, I gave my old friends one last look before continuing my way.

I tried to not think about what was happening; I did not want to see, hear or smell what is going on. I closed my eyes and just walked further and further, hoping to see Chitin, Chrysalis, and Bell, safe, happily and forget this day.

I stopped, I heard something deep in the earth. My ears pricked up trying to find out what this sound was. My heartbeat spiked and the sound of my heart filled the silent halls, my eyes opened, and my natural colored eyes shrank to the size of a pea. I ran as fast as I could within these tight halls.

In a few just a few minutes, I reached the largest place in the entire Hive, the place where Chitin would always talk to all of her Changelings. I think it was called 'Gathering room' although I still did not know what they were gathering there. The room was huge and could easily fit the twice the amount of Changelings there than there were in the hive.

The inside of the room was a living nightmare. Corpses, of both worm and Channeling scattered across the room. The Gaurd Changelings formed a wall between the worms, and some others watched the walls. The worms, like a flood, tried to overwhelm the Guards who now hid behind a green shield of magic.

I saw Chrysalis who was cowered in fear behind Chitin who commanded her Guards to let a part of the wall fall and once it was gone, the worms sloshed into the leak in their defense. Chitin charged up her horn to the point it glowed like fire before firing at the worms, killing them and pushing them away.

I was directly in the line of the spell and was shocked in both surprise, and slight worry as the spell was much stronger than the one she fired at me when we first met. My eyes turned purple as my paw was surrounded by a golden aura. I backpawed the magic bolt into a group of giant worms. The spell exploded and killed many worms upon impact. I could see how proudly Chitin stood; I felt sorry for giving her false hopes as I empowered her spell up with my paw. I was a little disgusted that she was happy about killing, yet delighted that she was alive.

I shook my head to push my thoughts away and exhaled loudly; I would end this now. My eyes glowed even stronger with a pale blue glow, but before I could put my paw on the ground, the ground burst open between Chitin and me as dust filled the room. A booming, bone-chilling and genuinely terrifying screech filled the room with such strength that even chunks of the roof were falling.

I could hear the slowly silent becoming screeches from the worms, but how could their voice just vanish so fast, I wondered. When the dust was slowly settling, I could see a large hole in the ground around which was a big dent, forming a slope. Many worms who stood too close to it rolled down like rocks before falling into a sheer endless abyss.

Once the dut was gone, my ears fell on my head, and my jaw stood wide open as my fears became true. In front of me was a very, very large worm. Its body was so large that it barely fit into a room that was as high as the hive itself. Its body was adorned with spikes, and its maw was gigantic around which were four huge blades acting as Mandibles. What is a Mandible?

"...A Giga Worm..." was all that could exit my mouth quietly.

The worm, not aware of its surroundings, was slowly beginning to rotate its body. The Changeling in panic began to fire spells at the Giga Worm that did nothing. The Giga Worms hide shielded the worm from weak magic; even Chitins fully charged magic bolts only created a few scorch marks.

The worm rotated faster with every second until it was about to slam its upper half like a stomp on the Changelings, my friends. I teleported myself into the middle of all of them and created a large golden wall between the worm and me. Like expected, the worm attack was stopped entirely by my spell, but its spikes created dozens of cracks, but to be fair, It was by far not the most robust magic wall I ever made.

I looked behind me and saw many scared Changelings, some of them were crying, others were praying and cowering, a few of them even looked at me with pleading eyes and then there were Chitin and Chrysalis. The two of them looked at me with hope, they knew I could quickly end it and so did I, but it still hurt me much do to the next thing.

I jumped up with my forelegs while my hindlegs stayed on the ground. To my surprise, I didn't feel wobbly or even unbalanced. I slowly lifted my paw until my palms pointed at the worm who was pressing at my wall with all its strength. My eyes burned with purple light as a small, yet ever-growing golden vortex was forming as a golden ball was growing in my palm. Small bolts of lightning of magic shot out of the ball but vanished before hitting anything, and the very air was filled with power. The golden orb soon was the size of Chitin and glowed like a sun.

When the ball stopped growing, I looked away and closed my eyes; I didn't want to witness this act of cruelty. I released the magic bold, and like a ligning, it hit the worm and pushed it away. In a blink of an eye, the worm was ripped out of the ground and shot out of the hive, breaking all walls and creating a massive opening in the hives structure, before flying at the horizon.

Many Changelings looked at the horizon in awe while trying to get used to the light. I clenched my eyes as I knew what was about to happen. With a deafening boom, a loud explosion appeared on the horizon, forming itself into a massive dome of magic while the very ground trembled furiously. After a few seconds, a strong wind gust reached us forced the others to the ground.

Silents, I loved it, it was over, finally, but now, I could feel the pain, the sadness and grief form my actions. I collapsed on the floor, without care, I just landed on the ground with my jaw first into the stone. I could feel the worry and fear around me, but I did not care for that in that moments. I wanted to scream, to shout and maybe even cry, but I couldn't. I knew that this time, I could not prevent it, but I hated it. I hate killing, I hated being forced to do it and most importantly I hate myself! Why did I have to do this, why!?

"I must thank you Auriel; You saved the Hive. I don't know how we can repay-" Chitin was praising my deeds, but I couldn't take it, I couldn't nor did I want to hear it. I snapped.

"Don't thank me for this! Don't thank me for killing! Don't thank for death! This is not happy; this is sad, just sad!" I shouted directly at Chitin face. Chitin looked at me in shock, like the other Changelings did, both normal and Guard, and then, I looked down and saw Chrysalis face, it was filled with fear.

I stared at them for a moment, realizing that they were scared of me. I turned around and slowly walked through the hole in the Hive, no one stopped me. Once I was outside. One of my eyes turned brown, and the other purple as the ground was closing, and the walls were magically rebuilding themselves.

I walked for a few minutes until I fell on the ground on purpose. My eyes watered until I couldn't take it anymore, I sobbed and cried for so long until the sun was setting. My heart and eyes hurt so much. I did not care if they were just worms that I killed, they were alive, they lived, and I just whipped them out. Then, what I said to my friends, they were scared of me.

"I am not better than Discord. I just murdered hundreds of creatures without worry, with no effort, a monster is all I am. Maybe Discord was just like me once, only to do it so many times until his heart was just gone, will I become like that too, to just end all in my path to achieve my goals? to do what I think is right?" I said, but my sobbing made it hard for even myself to understand it, it just hurt too much to think clearly.

Suddenly, I felt something soft and light on my back. I looked behind me and saw that Chrysalis who tried to hug me. "You are no monster! Stop saying that, it makes me sad!"

Out of the darkness walked Chitin with a small, yet sorrowful smile."Hello, Auriel. I wanted to say; I am sorry for today, I didn' think that it would hurt you, I am truly sorry."

I sniffed loudly and laid my head on the soft and warm sand while staring into the stars. They were beautiful; I knew they were more than just lights, they were so much more. Were they real light like I once was, or something else?

"Can I sit beside you, Auriel?" Asked Chitin to which I responded with a small and weak nod. She slowly walked beside me and sat down before putting one of her wings on my back and Chrysalis.

"My entire life, I wanted and did create life. I created this world so life and thrive, grow and exist. I knew that life would one day fade away like a snuffed out fire, but what I did today, was something I never wanted this ever to happen nor intended it to happen. I made all life, from the smallest plant to the biggest winged lizard, I cared and loved for it all. I although I am the maker of every single life, I am not the owner and never want to be the taker of it. I have no right to kill; I don't, no one has. Chitin, I am responsible for life, I always was, but death... death is not... It is wrong; it is just wrong." I said as my eyes slowly began to water again, all those memories where I try to preserve life, it only made my heart hurt even more.

"I understand how you feel, Auriel, from the day of my birth, it was my destiny to rule and take care for my Hive, just like my mother did and hers before. I care for them, I love them, and I try my best to protect them. I failed today, I failed my role as a Queen and maybe even my friend. Once you left the Hive, I only then realized, when the adrenaline wore off, just how grave this day was. A total of 154 frozen worms was found, but many large puddles of water made it obvious that were more, many more creatures who died." Chitin said every word with sadness, and I could understand her, this day was not only painful for me, but also for her as well. Chitin made a small pause before continuing to talk.

"16 Changelings died today, 11 Guards and five gatherers, many were injured, I even saw a foal with two of its legs missing.*Sob* They are healing, but I could feel their fear through the hive mind. The swarm is healing, but the pain still hurts, and even though all the wounded will soon be healed through the love, your love, it still pains me to think that I was helpless. *Sob* Without you, we would have died, all of us. You did what you had to do; it was them or us, no other path could have been taken." Chitin was talking out of my very being, I could feel how much it hurt her to speak, and I could understand why Chrysalis was silent, she was still a child, and this was just too much for her.

To my surprise, a third being came and sat on the opposite site of Chitin. I looked at the new creature and saw that it was none other than Bell."Please, stop hurting yourself, it pains Chrysalis and me to see you like this, please, come home." Bell's words only made my heart sink even deeper.

At the end of her sentence, I finally found the strength to stand up. I could see the small smile on Chitin face and felt the happiness of Chrysalis on my back."Fine, let's go home, maybe a bit of sleep will help me." were my words before we walked back into the Hive without another word spoken.

Chitin, Chrysalis and surprisingly even Bell went into the big bed, and I intended to sleep in mine as well, but before I could lay down, Chitin levitated me into their bed. Before I could even respond, I was hugged by two Changelings and a Pony who liked the softness and fluffiness of my fur.

My dreams were not as welcoming as I hoped, yet, they were almost as painful as I expected them to be. It was about the first time I killed something, accidentally, but I still ended its life. It was when I still was relatively inexperienced with magic and would try my best to become better at it.

Auriel's dream

It was a warm day where the wind would something blow over a large green and with beautiful flower adorned meadow making them almost look like shallow waves of a large pond. I was just sitting under a tree near my mirror and looked myself in the eyes while trying to color my eyes in a new color.

This way was especially useful as I so could also figure many things out about myself. For example, my eyes do glow stronger whenever I use a stronger spell, but that does not indicate how much power I put into it, no, it just says how much I hold the real power of said spell back.

I also found at this point out that I was the only one of, well, me in this world, or at least I knew that there was no one in the biomes I already created. But, I made a rather shocking realization back then. After many, many years of looking after animals, I found out that they all had one thing in common, they either had something hanging between their legs or a hole from where smaller creatures of their kind came out. I had neither of them, not even the one both variations had. Although the news were painful for me, I would always push my worries and sadness aside for more research.

On this day, I found a new color yellow. I was so excited when I first found out about it as it would make those lights that made my fur rise even before I would even cast a spell, my eyes being colored yellow was already enough for it to work.

Like a child I was back then, I wanted to try it out and just carelessly pointed my paw at the nearest object which in my case was a tree. The new magic, this energy, was wild, it was crackling in the very air around me when I was just charging it, and when I released it, the sheer force alone knocked me to the ground.

I was used to pain up to this point, but my heart sank like a rock in water when I saw what I did. The tree was split in half, set ablaze and destroyed like the everything behind it for a few moments of walking. I was at first amazed by this new power, but when I heard a shriek of pain, my joy turned to horror.

A small red, blue and yellow bird fell out of the tree and hit the ground. At first, I thought it was just hurt a little and would stand up again, but it didn't. I walked up to it and carried it away from the fire and waited for it to wake up for several minutes, nothing happened.

I gently pocked it, but nothing happened. I tried to blow air into its beak, nothing happened. I gently pressed on the bird's chest, something happened, and that was that a red liquid was leaking out of its back. I did not know what the fluid was back then and turned the bird around with a small push.

I gasped in horror. The feathers, the skin, and even the flesh was burned to a rock-like material. The smell was disgusting, it was smelled sweet, so sugary to the point I felt sick. I stared at the bird, waiting for hours even until the next morning arrived and the bird never woke up.

In the end, I buried the bird under a large tree, one, that was a hundred times large than me, made out of a black wood that was very hard to be damaged by anything. I haven't used a yellow spell after this day, I have used white spells instead which could be used in two ways.

White spells made me able to control everything around me as it was, I could from it, I could move and reform it, even turn the power of a cloud into lightning I could control a lot easier, but I could not change it or enhance it like my other spells allowed me to. The other side of white spells was that I could, if combined with another color, have all of my spells made better in a positive way like making it faster or more efficient, but I could not hurt anything with it. I liked white spells, they were like me, at least if they were alive, then they may be even better than me.

End of Auriel's dream

The next few days were painful, but I knew I wasn't alone. I woke from my sleep with a lot of salty water on my face, I knew I cried in my sleep. I would eat breakfast, I would try to make as much love as possible, even if I barely managed to make half as much as I usually did, but it was not too bad as we had enough to live of it for another month. I didn't have cooking lessons or taught Chrysalis anything for the next three days as everyone was busy with dealing with the pain their very own way.

I would stick to my books while Chrysalis would not leave her mother, I did not know what Bell did, but at that time I was in the mood to ask. On the third day after the worm attack, we did something called, 'letting go of the dead' or as Bell called it, a 'funeral.'

Chitin carried every corpse with her magic to several stones where everyone could say goodbye to their friends, I spend all the time I had left with the Changelings I knew best and healed all of their missing limbs and wound with my magic.

I can still remember Chitin pleading eyes to which I only shook my head slowly. I can heal everything, even something that would die a second later, but I can't bring anything back to death. Chitin nodded and sadly and then put all corpses in pods were they slowly became husks as their love was taken out of their remains, what was left, was dust.

Chitin then brought the dust on the surface where she released the dust to the wind. She did everything while tears were running down her face and in the end, she broke down and cried. They were her children, every last one of them was born through her, she was their mother, and a mother should never see their child die.

The next week after the funeral was silent as everyone was slowly returning to their normal state. Chitin and Chrysalis were very quiet, so was I who decided to spend her time with them as I tried my best to make them happy.

At that time, Chitin sent guards to find out where the worms came from, but the Giga Worms actions destroyed all tunnels, Chitin was angry but relieved that they would not be able to find them. I chose my words wrong when I told them that ti was a male and males were smaller than the females who could even produce offspring with the smalled sandworm.

Chitin wanted nothing more than to avenge her children but knew I would not be able to help. Instead of attacking their nest, I spend a lot of time carefully creating a bowl like underground wall to protect the hive from any attacks. I spend hours with a lot of care creating a crystal shield so big and strong that it would take a female Giga Worm a thousand years to break through while being big enough to not be in the way of the hive for a very long time.

After a week, everything was like it never happened, life became more colorful and happy again, my love would even taste better again. But for me, I would always remember what happened. I can't forget, I remember my whole life, every second of it like it was happening it the very moment, but I can push my thoughts away, deep into my mind so I will not remember them unless I want to. One could say, my mind is like a library.

I don't want my friends to be sad, neither do I want to feel the pain of loss again. I know I can't always prevent it from happening, but I can at least I can help others to overcome the many burdens that this world, my world, has to offer.

Far, Far, very far away

Far away from the hive and even the badland themselves, where cold reign over all, where the wind cut through your flesh and bones in a second and the frost claimed all, some creatures dared to venture through it. A terrible storm made it almost impossible to see further than yours muzzle and so loud was it too, that you would have to shout to one's words.

A feminine voice shouted, "Starswirl! How long till we reach the new land! I can barely see anything in front of me, and I am scared that I froze to the ground if I stop moving!"

The Pony known as Starswirl replied with an even louder masculine shout."We-we are almost there! Just a few more days and we have reached the source of the magic surge!"

Another feminine voice asked with a shout that was a little less loud than the one from the owner of the first voice."Art thee sure that is not just a coincident!? This as well may as well just hasn't been a natural phenomenon or a trick of these frozen beasts!"

Starswirl shouted as loud as he could through the cold snow with hope in his voice."No, it was too unnatural, no, it was too natural and very powerful! We may be able to get help from whatever spirit that magic belonged too, maybe it can help us with the frozen spirits!"

The first feminine voice shouted."And what if it's hostile or does not want us on its land?!"

Starswirl paused for a long time until, he finally shouted with a less powerful voice." if that's the case, then it was an honor being your mentor!" Starswirl then said quietly to himself."I hope Faust has mercy on our souls and will save us from these truly dire times."

The travelers continued their path through the ice and snow as much as they could while hoping to live long enough to tell the tale to their children. Above the wanderers were spirits that looked like they were made out of light and frost with glowing pale blue eyes that could turn the very soul of a mortal to ice. These creatures used their magic to bring as much suffering to the wanderers as possible as an act of vengeance for using the purple flames that drove most of their kind away.

Neither of them knew that all of them would soon meet their maker, but not in the way one might think.