Prologue

Another defeat at the hooves of ponies once again, but this time their beloved queen had deserted them and left them in the hooves of a new changeling leader. One who was considered to be weak and cowardly was now leading them into a new age of peace and harmony. Something one particular changeling didn’t quite like due to the manipulation the ponies had placed on his fellow changeling.

That changeling’s name was Abzan, and due to failing to capture Starlight Glimmer and her friends, he was banished by a high ranking changeling known as Silver Back, due to the silver shine of his carapace. He was in charge of Abzan and the squad they were a part of. Something he didn’t like as he felt like he was ready to lead his people, but was always turned down for a promotion. Now that Chrysalis was gone, and most of the changelings going through a sudden change had Abzan scratching his head as he watched his own kind prancing around like the ponies, acting friendly towards each other made the outcast changeling want to vomit, but he held it together. Despite being banished, he still had the pride of a true changeling, something that his hive had apparently forgotten.

“Can’t believe this is how we attain peace?!” Abzan said, raising his voice as to somehow catch the changelings and ponies attention, but all of them continued to laugh with joy, ignoring what he was saying. All except for one pony who had noticed he hadn’t changed colors like the rest of his hive.

“Um… excuse me? Are you okay, you don’t look particularly unhappy.” Abzan turned to face the very pony who made all of this possible to begin with. Starlight Glimmer, the student of Twilight Sparkle and the pony who had apparently ended the reign of Queen Chrysalis.

“Well, you can’t honestly expect me to accept all of this so quickly do you? I don’t know what you did, or how you did it, but I don’t think manipulating my kind to behave like you ponies was what should have happened!” Abzan explained, scowling at the mare as she gave a quick glare back at him.

“Your queen had captured all of my friends and the ponies of Equestria to drain our love!” Starlight replied.

“Well I see you aren’t denying the manipulating are you?! I would have preferred peace without having to resort to...This!” He hissed at the pony, trotting past her as she stuck her tongue out at the changeling in annoyance.

“Aren’t you going to stick around? Maybe if you gave this a chance you’ll-” But instead of listening to Starlight, Abzan stuck out his tongue and began making farting sounds, aggravating the mare as he ignored her.

“Abzan, come on, you can’t honestly say you aren’t the slightest bit happy that Chrysalis is gone right?” A bright yellow changeling said landing in front of him as three others approached him.

“Yeah, Evie is right… You should be celebrating with us!” Another changeling spoke up, standing beside Starlight. However before Abzan could say anything, Thorax, their new leader walked up to both his fellow changelings and Starlight as he confronted him.

“Abzan, I know this might be difficult to accept right off the bat, but this is a defining moment for our race. We dethroned a tyrant, made peace with ponykind despite us doing horrible, horrible things! We have a fresh start to show the world that changelings can bring harmony to all races.” Thorax explained, smiling as Abzan growled in irritation. He wasn’t thrilled at all to hear that come from the one being manipulated in the first place.

“Can’t you hear the absolute garbage that’s spewing from your mouth! This is the talk of ponies! Not a changeling! We are warriors who have struggled for the longest time, hunters of love and emotions. Bringer of hearts and love, and I do admit, our old queen was a complete bitch!” Abzan shouted, shocking so many of his fellow changelings with the foul word, even Starlight Glimmer was surprised, but Thorax wasn’t fazed by his words.

“Listen, Abzan-”

“No you listen Thorax! Everything you think you know is a bunch of lies! The only reason you're acting this way, accepting how things are, is because of those ponies brainwashing you into thinking that this is the way! I said this already, but we are warriors, and as warriors we should have settled our differences in either a duel! A battlefield! Or even hoof wrestling! Chrysalis may have been scum, but even she at the very least knows our traditions, our old ways and this isn’t victory! It’s total surrender!”

“YOUR WRONG! Thorax is one of the kindest and most caring changeling I’ve ever met and the only thing we did was make a strong bond with him. A bond of friendship and Twilight, Spike, the other girls, all of our friends are proud of him.” Starlight stated, giving a gentle smile towards Throax before throwing a glare at Abzan’s way. “And we know we’re gonna help Equestria.”

“You may have changed my Hive, but I know for a fact you won’t be able to change the other eleven hives out there,” Abzan mentioned, causing Thorax and Starlight’s eyes to widen in shock from this new information. “Oh that's right… you deserted us at one point and I don’t expect you ponies to know this, but our hive is one of the smallest out of the twelve total changeling hives. There are other hives out there, other outcasts like myself. And even though I’m a banished changeling, I will uphold the traditions of my kind, unlike the rest of you.

“Expecting me to celebrate with you, interacting with me, knowing full well that I am a banished changeling! Just because Chrysalis is gone and our hive following this joker now! Doesn’t mean I’ll abandon our most sacred traditions like you!”

With a deep sigh, Abzan’s wings flared up as his fellow changelings took a few steps back, looking in shame, anger, annoyance, disappointment. However for some odd reason, the look from the pony’s eyes made the changeling hesitate for a brief moment, before shaking his head rapidly and taking off into the sky, leaving his hive. No longer being held back by his old queen, his old superiors, or the ponies that had changed everything. Abzan was finally free to do as he pleased, he pulled out a folder he had taken from Silver Back after he had banished him from his saddlebags. Opening it to find documents of three missing changelings from his own hive.

“Buster, Clover, and Flower Patch? So this is what Silver Back had been up to… He was going to send a search party to find these three… but after Chrysalis was… Damn, if it weren’t for those damn ponies, we could have been out here searching for these guys!” Abzan said to himself as he continued to fly through the clear skies of Equestria. “Well, I guess finding out what happened to them should be a good start… the least I could do after giving the guys a shitty attitude.”

Author's Note

First chapter of Abzan's Journey is now out guys. And yes I know the prologue is unusually short, but I just couldn't wait to share this with all of you and yes I know... the Title of the story is named after the new anime movie coming out Burn The Witch

Either way I hope you guys enjoy the rest of your day :)