Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be torn between two possible paths that a situation could take even though you have nothing to fear, at least for your own health? Because I don't. I doubt that something terrible would happen, they were both similar looking creatures and after seeing Bell living in the hive, why would these ponies be hostile? Of course, I would not let a hostile situation happen, no, but for some reason, I felt so giggly. I was a bit confused about my 'sudden joy,' but I was more interested in the next events that would take place in just a few more minutes.

The two ponies slowly walked towards Auriel, not showing any signs of weakness-- which didn't mean Auriel could not see or notice their vulnerability --of the burden of their sore muscles, their hunger after many meal-less nights and tired look in their eyes. Auriel was sure that it would possibly only take a few more minutes until they collapse should they decide to trot towards her. Yet, something in these ponies made Auriel fell something familiar, not like a friend or sibling, but more like she was facing a small piece of herself.

On the other side of the hill were the changelings, armored to the teeth and their senses sharpened. Every warriors' expectation, should a battle break out with the opposing race, was not a glorious battle but more the be a simple mean to enable their Queens escape. Of course, that were only their darkest thoughts as they believed in their new gained strength from Auriel's love, and of course the help of the princess of food herself, to be able to win any fight that would head ahead of them.

So... two factions that hated another since the dawn of time- or whenever their hatred for another started would now face one another? The changelings were the first ones to climb the sandy hill on which the maker rested. Eight hooves were silenced the moment the insectoid ponies were in sight.

Chitin quickly moved towards the ball of fluff, not carrying for the ponies that stood in front of her nor the fact that this cute animal-like creature just beaten three o the most feared creatures history has ever known. Until now. And just rubbed Auriel behind her ear with one of her front hooves. The sound the fox made was an adorable one, one that was overshadowed by an audible 'thud' that came from the younger pony.

The look on the Ponies was one Auriel has only seen once in her life, in her own tears to be exact. It was one that a creature could just express if it lost everything, the look of having one's hopes and dreams, their work, and achievements, destroyed in front of their eyes. Auriel could only guess why they felt this way but was not sure how to act.

The mare with a blue coat spoke in shock, fear and possible denial."A-... After everything that has happened, after all that was lost in both lives and property, after traveling through day and night, this is how the creator rewards us? The hope of a new home and possibly a mean to survive turned out to be a pet? A slave of another race which reigns over a dead land?" with her sentence fished, her head dropped onto the sand and finished speaking with these last words."I am done, wake me in a week."

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"Ha... haha.... hahaha."

All eyes turned to Auriel who rolled on her back with her uproarious laughter filling the air and pounding on the ground carelessly with her tail and paws. The laughter was not natural, it felt less like a sound, but more like a wave of power that silenced all other voice. Slowly rose the fox in the air, seemingly not bound by gravity or any other rule that might disturb her amusement.

The looks on the ponies and changelings were priceless ones, for the ponies it was the face of complete and utter horror that graced their heads while it the was the look of confusion that most changelings displayed.

"BWAHAHAHAHIHIHIHIHIHEHEHEHE!"

Reality seemed to somehow bend to the will of the mad laughter. The earth trembled, the air shifted, magic seemingly vanished from the grasp of the mortal hooves and embedded itself into the objects surrounding the maker. Like a crooked and deformed chess board, the sand became almost every material the world had to offer: dirt, metal, water, wood even flesh and bone. The sky above them, not the whole, just the one in a hundred feet radius repeatedly changed color to a dirty purple, and everyone could hear that the very air was crackling and rustling.

At the peak of her levitation, roughly about 15 feet into the air, the madness stopped. There was flowing change, there was no crossing or even morphing before everything returned back into its original state, it was more like someone just pressed a button and reverted everything back in a blink of an eye.

Auriel sighed loudly, finally managing and bringing her laughter under control, with a few last giggles. "Oh... I think I have never laughed this much in my whole life! So... to answer your question, my little pony-" Auriel pulled her body back on two paws once again before stretching her arms out fully and moving her limb in a clockwise motion. Her arm ran over her body that seemingly vanished after the limb moved past. In the end, only the arm remained and snapped its fingers, creating a small flash of light and disappeared.

Auriel vanished from everyone's vision, or did she? Suddenly a familiar and joy-filled voice chirped happily behind the white-coated mare."-Nope!" Both pony mares jumped from the sudden appearance of the voice.

The ponies turned around to greed the owner of the voice, only to be met by two fingers that tapped on their noses simultaneously, making their noses scrunch up in a hilarious looking way. The fox could only smile while walking past her guests on all four paws, brushing her fur against theirs and her tail swinging left and right."No, I am no pet, nor slave, nor property. Why would I? The changelings are my friends. Besides, I personally think that everyone should be allowed to do whatever they want, whenever they want unless it bothers another too much. And I am sorry to hear how much you went through, would you like to talk about it? I have aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllll time in the world after all." the last sentence that excited her mouth echoed around them several times, as if they were in a cave.

The ponies, both young and old-er stared at Auriel as if they were drunken, possibly insane or most likely dead as the display of reality warping power, physical strength and resistance, extreme healing abilities and massive magic reserves and magic regenerative capabilities were a tiny itzy bity bit stronger than the average royal magician. The ponies knew when the time to be wary would come, and this time it crashed through all walls and a cow.

Auriel chirped happily."Come Chitin, we have a lot to discuss! We don't want to let our guest wait, right?" the sound of the way the golden fox spoke was a naïve one, but not a spark or ember of foolishness was hidden under the sweetness of her voice.

Chitin was in a less mutual mood as she stared, slightly glaringly looked at the new creatures that entered the badlands."Yes... guests..." her voice was not filled with venom or hate, it was stern, and a hint of sarcasm could be heard too. Yet, her words were clearly meant in a rather sarcastic manner as she took her time to close the distance between the ponies and herself. "What is your purpose here, pony? I thought your kind disliked other races, so why now showing up here, in the biggest desert in this world, so far away from your home?" These words were carefully chosen to sound passive aggressive once she stood in front of the two intruders.

The white mare, a head smaller than the changeling opposing her, spoke for herself and her follower."G-Greetings, my sister, Luna and I, Celestia came here on behalf of the recently united tribes to possible find a solution to the Wendigo threat which has already been dealt with."

Chitin seemed barely faced by the Ponies words, yet she carefully listened to her words. The only thing that kept pony kind from invading other kingdoms was their hundreds of years of war between one another. Now was possibly the worst time to come fall onto the wrong side of the ponies, or maybe the best time?

Chitin spoke mutual and neutral while keeping eye contact at all time."I am Queen Chitin, ruler of the Changelings and the solution that dealt with your problems is princess Auriel, or just Auriel as she prefers to keep things to not become serious. I am going to drop the formalities here." The Ponies larger alicorn gulped silently. "You have what you want and unless you another reason to stay? Leave. You know very well that neither of our kingdoms had any interest in having contact with one another and my people have the least interest at the current time."

Luna's ears suddenly twitched when she heard that they would need to leave again through the icy hell. Yet, she wondered why a pony was standing right in the changeling mids. "If ponies aren't welcome, why is a pony of earth standing between all of your guards?" Bell blushed and quietly trotted behind a Changeling guard. Celestia glared at Luna with a hint of worry and whispered angrily."... Luna..."

Auriel had a broad smile on her face when she randomly appeared a couple hooves on the other side of the conversation, sitting on a branch of a large tree, a huge one at that, while leaning against the stem of the plant. Each branch was covered in another fruit and various flowers, surprisingly enough there was also a small pond beside the tree and grass was growing. "Bell is my friend, that's why! I don't care about what your meat looks like, we are all just skeletons with a fleshy coat after all!" And ended her sentence by taking a big bite out of a perfect looking and juicy appearing apple.

The smell that one apple emitted was divine, it could just be that their hungered bodies were just so desperate that they were willing to eat anything, or maybe they just were the lucky souls to discover Paia's tree. Luna, the one who had less meat on her ribs before they departed, was drooling without any shame.

Auriel smiled as she put a bit more effort in this tree and its fruits and seeing that it worked only sweetened everything up for her. She wasn't evil or sadistic, whatever the last adjective meant, but she felt weird and wrong feeling when they stated their names, but 'why' was a riddle for her. "You know, you don't have to just stare? Come, I made most trees to be eaten from."

'Made most trees to be eaten from?' thought both ponies.

Yet, Luna was less patient than her sister and flapped her wings with astounding speed towards the tree and ignored the shout of her name from her sister. Once there, her reflexes reacted to catch an apple that flew towards here with her mouth and with one bite, the fruit was gone. The look upon Luna's face was a blissful one, she seemingly found peace in the form of a single apple.

Celestia stared at her sister with high interest and mumbled. "But that's impossible. Any tree that was ever created or even had its growth accelerated only produced disgusting tasting fruits, Starswirl himself stated that's impossible to create anything good tasting with magic. So how is this possible?" That were the last words Celestia spoke before she realized that she was no longer standing where she did a few moments ago, but instead was looking down at the grass covered ground a few feet in the air. Yet, she knew she wasn't floating, she could feel something incredibly soft and fluffy coiled around her torse. Looking up, she saw a playful grin from Auriel. The mare with the white coat calmly said."Hello..."

Auriel happily tilted her head to the side and said."You had a question? Oh, and I didn't forget you Bell, just a moment." And just to shatter Celestia's world, even more, Auriel slashed her claws through the air, creating a hole in the air through which she pulled the mare known as Bell and sat her down on another branch. And magically, the rift closed once its purpose was fulfilled.

Celestia shocks her head before shouting. "Luna, get up here at once!" Bell rubbed her ears with her hooves in pain from the power of the alicorn's voice. The blue alicorn reacted quickly and flew up to land on the same branch were already Auriel sat, and Celestia hang. "Would you be kind enough to lift me on top of the branch, it's a bit uncomfortable to dangle here." And as the question was asked, the pony was lifted onto the tree.

Bell asked nicely."If it isn't too much to ask for, I have two requests. One, could you place promise not to scream so loud? I would like to one day hear my grandfoals." Celestia blushed in embarrassment and nodded slowly. "Second, Please be careful when you eat anything from Auriel." The two alicorns looked at Bell with worry. "No, they are not dangerous, but they are a bit addictive with their good tastes. Really, one day you have to try an apple pie made from these apples, I hope other ponies will like them as well when I visit my home." maybe one day I open a shop and sell them in my village. Ponies coming from far and wide to silver hoof for apple pie. Bell mused at the end of her sentence.

Luna grabbed a pineapple with hoof and bite a large chunk out of it, with peel and everything, and shuddered in pleasure from the taste. After swallowing she answered in a serious tone. "I am sorry to tell you this, but it's unlikely for any pony to return to homes."

Bell had all of her joy ripped out of her body when she realized what Luna just said. "Why?" Luna's mouth stood wide open, but instead of answering, she nudged her sister and took another bite from the pineapple.

Celestia glared at her sister who looked away while happily munching on the fruit. The older sister sighed loudly before answering."While the wendigoes may be improved in the crystal that Auriel wears around her collar, the damage has already been done. The earth pony lands are snowed in, the unicorn castles are frozen over, and the sky cities of the Pegasi are unreachable and have possible already fallen to the ground." Bell's jaw hung wide open, and her body was frozen.

"And that's very bad...?" Asked Auriel. All eyes turned towards her in a heartbeat which started the fox for a moment or two. "What? I don't know what these castles and cities are! I just heard that there is a lot of snow and ice. There is a lot of lands to live, like the great forests, the crystal caves, the sky-scraping mountains, and so many more places. It's impossible to starve or not feel comfortable."

Celestia rose an eyebrow and asked skeptically."These places you mentioned are just a mere myth and even thought Starswirl believes that they once existed, that would have been before the first pony walked or flew across the land, in other words, millions of years ago."

Auriel's smile disappeared when she heard Celestia's words and asked extra nicely."Ehm... how many thousand years in a million years?"

Bell, who already began to sweat a bit as she knew where this was going, answered carefully. "A-a millions is thousand times thousand..." Auriel's jaw dropped and hit the branch in a bizarre way that was also a bit disturbing.

Auriel's jaw slowly closed itself before allowing the fox to gulp and smile again, of course, this facial expression was more of a decoy to distract her disappear. She said in a goofy tone. "How time flies by! It feels like yesterday when I was born or was it reborn? when this entire world was dead and gloomy."

Celestia nodded, but wasn't really paying attention to Auriel's words and happily plucked a banana, not that she has ever seen one or even heard of such fruit, and peeled it before taking a big bite out of the fruit. Suddenly her eyes shot open when she realized what Auriel said and shouted."Wait what!?"

Crack!

The branch on which the alicorns and Aurile sat on broke from the sudden increase of weight and the sisters fell to the ground while Auriel just hovered in the air as if nothing happened.

Luna was smirking and chuckling and tried to hide her laughter behind her hooves while looking at her sister that was laying on top of her. Celestia grumbled angrily while glaring at her sister. "Not one word about my weight, sister."

Chitin stared at the scene in front of her and facehoofed in embarrassment towards the alicorns and the absurdity of Auriel. With one last shock of her head, she trotted towards the entangled ponies and asked in the tone that could fit an annoyed teacher."As much as I enjoy watching others have fun and tasting the laughter, I would now kindly ask you to go back where you came from. " Celestia opened her mouth to say something, but Chitin quickly added. "Yes, I was paying attention. I am sorry, even if am showing only a little of it, but even if we were willing to let you live in the hive, there would never be enough space or food to house all ponies. Besides, there is as far as I know only enough water to sustain my changelings."

Luna asked with hope. "But what about the forest over there?" She said while pointing her hoof at the small forest not far away from them. "Maybe we could stretch the food there so that we at least had a place to plan where we could wander next?" Abruptly Luna's vision was filled with light blue eyes as she jumped backward and threw her sister into the dust.

Auriel cleared her throat and said professionally. "That, dear Luna, is a very very very bad idea." and she ended her sentence. Everyone looked at her waiting for an explanation. "Oh, you want to know why? Ok! So, you see, the forest was an accident after I had to get rid of the worm there. Never eat or drink, or even be anywhere near anything I made without full intention or you might get really really hurt."

Celestia asked with a raised eyebrow. "Why?"

Auriel chuckled and explained. "Becuase A) The food and water could be unstable, and when it falls apart into magic again then it could end with a big boom! Or B) There could be a very dangerous creature lurking inside that forest. Just wait a moment, I have an error to erase." Auriel sighed and pointed her open palm at the forest before slowly closing her paw. For a second Auriel's eyes flashed grey before the forest and the worm corpse just burst into golden dust that vanished a few moments later. The place now looked like as if it was never touched by any sapient creature's hand/hoof/paw. "All done!" Auriel smiled at the end of her work.

Over a hundred jaws hang wide open while Auriel only titled her head to the left with her ears hanging loosely.

Eventually, Bell asked with a loud gulp. "A-Auriel? W-what and how d-did you just do that?" Auriel looked at Bell and pointed her index finger at herself. Bell nodded. Auriel then pointed at the place where the forest once stood. Bell nodded again.

The golden and silly fox smiled and chirped. "Oh, that! I just erased the forest silly, and as it turned out, there was nothing alive there besides the plants and ground of course. You see, if I make a mistake, I 'clean it up.' But don't worry, it wasn't that hard, I just had to be careful to not take to much magic back, or the sand might die, or in the worst case, I could accidentally erase almost everything on this world. Just think of how long that would take me to put everything back together!"

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Chitin started laughing and snickering. After calming down with the last few remaining snickers and ignoring everyone looking at her. "That was a good joke, but please, Auriel, could please be serious for a moment?"

"But I am serious!" Said Auriel with an even happier sounding voice while tilting her head to the left, stuck her tongue out playfully and formed a 'v' with two fingers on her left hand. The faces of everyone surrounding her slowly became filled with horror and fear. They stared at Auriel with shock, which slowly built into a look of a new high, or was it low, of terror.

What the ponies and everyone around the golden fox had yet to realize was that Auriel's 'erasing' power was not as powerful as it may seem. The spell merely destabilized the conjured mater, or to be more specific, dismantled the created or transmogrified mater and return the used magic back to its user. Of course, it would take days for Auriel to break down all of the created matter without running the risk of suffering mana burns, she was not a goddess or anywhere omnipotent, the creatures that she created just weren't made to be powerful enough to actually oppose her.

"Anyways... What are you two now going to do? It is a bit cold out there-" said Auriel as she pointing at the frozen dessert behind everyone in an attempt to distract everyone from the fact that she could undo everyone around her if she wanted to, and it surprisingly worked! "- so what is your plan? If you're hungry, you can take a few fruits on the tree if that helps."

Celestia sighed with a smile on her face, but in the end, shook her head and said sadly. "It is nice that you are concerned about our wellbeing, but I am sorry to say that unless you can pull a fertile land out of your that there is little you can help with."

A huge smile spread across Auriel's face, with the difference in this one that she now was revealing all of her sharp teeth, and the looked slightly mad. She said super energized and goofy. "Okay Loki Dokey!" as her left eye turned dark blue while the other turned green before she slapped the sand with her right paw. Small lightning and sparks could be seen near her paw. Auriel gasped loudly in shock, maybe even pain before grabbing her right paw, pulling it away and started to breathe heavily.

The ground began to rumble, and the equines were thrown off their hooves while clinging to the ground as if the end of the world was near. But the rumbling didn't stop, it only got worse while green and dark blue light was slowly glowing brighter and brighter around them. Just a few moments later, the ponies and changelings were blinded and closed their eyes and then... then there was silence, yet no one dared to open their eyes until their senses stated to sense various different things.

The smell of plants.

The comfortable warmth of the sun, not too hot or too cold.

The soft touch of the grass under them

The smell of tasty fruits and vegetables.

and lastly the sound of running water.

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And a certain heavy breathing predatory vegetarian.

Gasps filled the air at the sight of the land surrounding them. A large chunk of the badlands, less than a third but more significant than a fourth became much more alive in just a few moments. It was no garden Eden, per se, but for creatures who lived in a dessert most of their lives, or for the ponies living in constant war and surviving the harsh winters of the north for months, was this a breathtaking sight for the tired pony eyes.

The grass was greener than on an earth pony gardener's lawn, water so pure it was barely visible for the mortal eye and fresh air that was filled to the brim with natures personal fragrance. No, we are not talking about dung...

Celestia stared at the scene before quickly shaking her head and saying to her sister, or instead demanded. "Luna, come, we must report this to Starswirl." Celestia then turned to the Changeling Queen, Chitin and said in a very thankful tone. "I can't thank you enough for your hospitality." and with these last words said, the two ponies flew towards the frozen lands again to meet the rest of their 'friends'.

Chitin could only stare and hope that she did not make the wrong choice in not interfering more. Of course, she was not going to just watch idly while ponies would slowly immigrate into this land, she still would have a say in this once the pony leaders and she would meet.

Auriel, already almost forgotten by everyone, thought while holding her hands close to her chest and her pants started to become slower before eventually stabilizing. 'T-. T-. T-too much... I-I should have been a bit more careful. I compressed too much fire into hundreds of fireballs and even kept heat shields around them that could even stop the sun, but I didn't want to set the ponies aflame... or the frozen north... or herself. But there was something else, something strong and powerful, no Light's power could compare, but it felt so weird, bad and good at the same time, yet it didn't want to change to my will... Do I really sound like this in my head? Patties' pebble's pan pulled perfect pallets. Ohh~! I sound so cute!'

Author's Note

Sorry for the short chapter, but I will work on the next chapter for "A rewritten Past" right away. I didn't want to have a strange flow of time in the next chapter, so I decided to make this one a bit shorter than usual.

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