My Life as a Teenage Changeling

Getting Acquainted & A Serious Problem

After Escanor came back with the menu, Oscar casually browsed it and spotted a favorite dish of his as he placed down the order, "I'll have the Fish and Chips with a side of Ketchup, please."

Escanor responded before heading towards the backroom, "Not a problem at all sir, I'll see that our chef does his best to cater you." And with that Oscar waited once again as he turned his head leftwards spotting the young man from before sitting across from him, Chris, from what the girl had called him had a rather normal appearance than his girlfriend.

Describing him from his appearance, Oscar saw that he had short, dark brownish black hair, and green eyes. On his torso, he wore a white grey plaid sleeved shirt overtop a striped dark and light gray t-shirt, the sleeves themselves rolled up below his elbows. And finally from the waist down, a pair of black denim jeans with white laced shoes covering his feet as he heard the boy chuckle looking towards him.

"I'm kind of a fish guy myself to be honest, good choice man." Chris spoke up in affirmation before turning back over to Isabelle as the bartender returned laughing anxiously.

"It may take some time for your food to be ready sir, for the inconvenience would you care to partake in a beer while you wait?" Escanor spoke somberly as Oscar browsed the selection, stumbling upon a beer with a strange name he laughed briefly before speaking, "Dogfish head?"

"Hmm?" Escanor said before turning his head spotting it laughing jovially and grabbing it from the shelf, "Oh yes, this is a vintage I've been fermenting myself, the barley in it has just the right amount of 'oomph' to the senses i'd say. Care to endulge me with a taste?"

Without a second thought, Oscar took the bottle from him and popped off the cork before chugging the alcoholic beverage with the tenacity of a wildcat in the moonlight. Escanor and Chris looked at him in awe as he swigged it down in one go, letting out a content sigh Oscar belched heartily as the young man laughed at the scene before him.

"Man, you must've been really thirsty for you to drink that all in one go, nice burp by the way." He gave a thumbs up before continuing, "My name's Chris, Chris Young. What's yours?"

Oscar let out a chuckle, "The names Oscar, nice to meet ya." Looking over his shoulder Oscar spotted Isabelle drinking a Bud Light before turning back over to Chris saying, "Her name is Isabelle, right? I kinda overheard you two talking from outside while I was exiting my car."

Chris stood back a bit from the question before resuming his prior stance, "Yeah that's right." turning his head back over he called out to Isabelle, "Hey Izzy, I'd like you to meet a new friend of mine." Turning back towards Oscar he spoke, "Oscar, say hello to my girlfriend."

Isabelle giggled before turning towards Oscar as she introduced herself, "Nice to meet you, I'm Isabelle, Isabelle Arrington."

The Castle of The Two Sisters, Everfree Forest, Equestria

"Uhh, Twilight? We have a bit of a problem here!" Sandbar called out as Twilight flew over only to gasp at what she saw.

"What happened here?" Twilight asked staring at the downed changeling, "Did anycreature see what did this?"

Gallus replied sarcastically, "Well if it wasn't already obvious it was those Porkfudgy things." Twilight was removing quills from the infected area as he continued, "They hit Ocellus with those quills into her head, they almost got me before you guys showed up."

"This looks very serious, I'll have to inform Thorax and explain she's been hurt." Twilight replied sternly, "Now, you all need to go back to the rest of your families while I deal with Ocellus, we can't afford to waste any time here."

"But, Twilight she's-" Was all Sandbar said before Twilight interjected.

"Your friend... I know, but what matters more is preventing an international crisis." Twilight turned towards Starlight and the others as she shouted out, "Spike, Take a letter!"

~4~

Ponyville Hospital

After all but one of the missing students were returned home safe and sound, Twilight was standing outside of a medical room alongside Spike and Thorax as the changeling sighed, "If I knew something like this would happen, I never would have let her come to the School. I feel so powerless to do anything even after I sensed something was wrong."

Twilight held a sorrowful look on her face, "This isn't your fault, I share just as much if not more than you do. If only I had decided on the beginning to run the school my way instead of listening to the EEA, none of this would be happening."

The normally docile baby dragon spoke up in defense, "Oh come on Twilight, you know that's not true at all! It's all Chancellor Neighsay's fault, not yours. Blame him!"

Thorax nodded in agreement, "I'll have to agree with Spike, his attitude towards non-ponies is incredibly unpleasant putting it lightly. If I were in his position, I wouldn't treat any creature the way he did towards your students."

Just then, one of the surgeons came out of the room with a sorrowful look on her face. Taking off her mask she spoke solemnly, "We were successfully able to remove the toxins near her head but... some of it managed to seep inside her brain, and by the time we had removed it completely we-" Choking up a sob she continued, "I-it's best you see this for yourselves."