I open my eyes. It's dark but still some dime light with bit of redness that seem too be filtered by some sort of fine skin.
My body is stiff with a comfy warmth, try moving my body is slow Like a brick moving through thick honey, I guess I am in a pod or something. I think, then I start moving slow, really slow but what comes out of my forehead gets in contact with the skin the pressure on the tip and my head feels heavy but I need to push and push I did. The skin is starting to give and give it did with a ripe and flush I hit the ground hard. The red goo did little to stop me from hit it really hard, I start to cough launching the red goo from my lungs and tears flow form the eyes now shut because of the pain. After an 5-6 minutes later I have calm down the pain a distant memory.

Opening my eyes I seem to be in a room, the light is dim like i lighting is set on the lowest setting, on the floor where I lay the red goo is mixed thick layer of dust. "That is not a good sign" I say to myself hearing my voice for the first time, yeah I'm a young girl with a two tone voice, about early teen years I might be a nymph, well then am I really a princess?.

My eyes look at a pair of ghostly white arms (fore legs), well they are equine changeling legs with hole and all with patches of red goo sticking to it. But why I am I white shouldn't they be black. Leaving the color to the back burner I start to pull my legs close to me and try to rise, with the goo under me making is a bit of a challenge but with work and focus I become standing.

"Good, now that's the first part. Now to start moving." I say to the silent room. I think back to how the equine move right fore leg then left back leg. Let's try is out as I move my legs with the focus of trained master I slip, letting out a scream totally girly scream that ends instant as I hit the floor hard, with a pain spreading on my right side I lay there in the silence.

As the pain fades, I roll back the my stomach and try again. This time I shuffle my legs not lifting them and so I move to the end of the goo pool. As I set my hooves on solid dusty floor I start look around. I'm in a oval big room wall made out of dark grey rock with a dull shine hoof made, the roof seems to be the same but in a dome form with big white crystal in the center that give off a dime light, I turn my head right ta the end of the oval there are two doors the left one close, the right is standing ajar. 'Hm, is that a bathroom I see behind the right door? I thought to my self, as I focus I can see a circular thing on the floor might be a bath. Well I look at that later.

Turning my head left I see three bookshelf on the right wall 2 meter high filled with books, at the end of them is a door with a bookcase blocking it. As my eyes continue left I see oval shape mirror, then my eyes lock on a throne like chair sits a dry husk of a dead changeling queen behind her is a desk with a chest on it. I start walk slowly towards the dead queen slow with a steady focus my eyes never leaving the queen.

As I get closer I see a red crystal between her back legs like its resting on the seat waiting for something, I let my sight wonder up and down her body she is covered in a layer of dust. That don't hide her colors, she looks like Chrysalis same size, black chitin but with red mane and tail both reach her knee, her wing cover is in the same color her head is laying back on the backrest eyes shut mouth open. As my eyes lock it's sight on a hole Is that a hole in her chest? What killed her? I turn my head right of her and lock eyes on the bookcase that blocks the door. And is she the one that made the bookcase to block the door? Was she locked in here? and why? I turn my sight back to her then the red crystal, I lift my right hoof the touch it as I do it starts to glow. I back peddle in panic and hit bookshelf behind my and few books fall to the floor, one hit my head then the floor but I didn't care as my eyes where lock on the red crystal as it glow stronger.

A hologram comes alive it's the queen in all her glory she stands tall, prideful eyes sharp with a determination, then they change to a motherly love as she speaks.
"My name is Tek'nistar (spoken as Tech ni star) I am queen of the Everfree hive 'She tsk her tongue'. "Former queen, My child, my daughter. As you wake up and is listening to this message I am long dead as I stored all the love I had left in chest on the desk then toke my own life so I wouldn't go feral and attack you.
'She takes a deep breath and her eyes look sad.' "Sorry I can't be there for you and guide you my child but you're probably the only one left alive in the hive"
'She turn her head left as her horn glows the sound of something crashing as she turn her head fowards she continue.' "Sorry my child it seems that dose things tried to enter my room. You will have questions and many of them. But I can't answer them I will tell you what happened in the hive."
'She takes a new deep breath' " 6 weeks ago one of my changeling hunter found a blue and white mushroom and toke them back the hive, we analyze them but didn't hind anything wrong with them. So one of the drone ate some the see if we can live on them."
'With a sigh she continue.' "It only toke three days and the drone was gone and lost from the hivemind. Then more of them vanish without a trace. That's when we found them they had been corrupted by the blue mushroom as it was growing from their body, eyes changed color form red to blue. We tried to use all we could to stop them but they didn't care if they got hit by weapons or magic. It's like they where walking corpses no blood no life."
'She sags a bit then straitens and focus again.' "We lost the hatchery, so I commanded your pod be moved from nursery to my personal quarters so I could save you. I also send for help from other hives but none returned, don't know if they didn't get pass those things or left us for death." 'The queen spits the last part. Then she lock eyes with me or is that a play of the hologram?'
"My child. This crystal will transfer all my knowledge to you, you will be in pain. But fight through it, your my child a princess of this hive and my heir. With that I will give you a strong name. Your name shall be "Tec'ondra" it means strong flame, wear the name well my daughter." 'the queen eyes my mothers eyes are filled with sad motherly love as the hologram starting to disappear my head explode with pain the headache make me scream, scream tear the throat sore and the world becomes dark.

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I woke up with a sore throat and eyes I push my self to a sitting position. Headache still strong I automatic put my right hoof against my head rubbing it. I sits there quite until the pain lessen, looking around I lock sight with the mirror and stagger forward against it. I sits down before it and wipe the layer of dust from it. I see a young changeling queen a nymph by the new memory I have it says that I'm about 1 year old molted once. My chitin is ghostly white the same with my mane and tail, but the eyes are ruby red a powerful red with a shine and a understanding that I am not a normal changeling, red goo tainting my chitin. 'It seems that I am albino or something like it. Odd I don't know if it will be a problem in the future.

I break from the mirror and look at the desk or more specific the chest about 3 wide, 1,5 deep with a height of 2 decimeter of dark wood.
I activate my magic as a season veteran, an red and silver magic aura takes the chest and levitate it towards me. I reach out my hooves as I takes it from the magic.
I hold it out and and look it over, over the bronze lock in the center of the chest is a mark, my memory says its my mothers mark (my mark), it's a diamond form with a tree into it split in two right side looks normal, the left side seems like a burning tree burning with magical power. I open it and inside on a bed red silk are 12 red dark crystals pulsing with power of love, my food for the next days. I take out one and absorb the love inside. The feeling that fills me is the love of a mother doing everything for her daughter even her life. After the crystal have lost it glow I replace it in the chest. I close it and hugs it against my body a few tears fall from my eyes and drops down on the chest and stain the dust.

A few minutes later I walk over to the other side of the room I open the door that's ajar as the door open the light in the roof a crystal like the one in the main room. It's the bathroom a circle room about 3 meter in radius in the center is a circle with about 1,5 meter diameter about 0,5 meter deep I am surprise how clean it is. I put down the chest and activate my horn and manifest water until the tub is almost full then I use fire so the water gets hot enough. With the bath ready I take a long relaxing bath.

After the bath is done I drain the water with magic and then I take the chest and walk into the other room as my new memory tells me this is the bedroom. As I enter the light starts to glow another circle room with a big circle bed that almost fill the room, with 2 big pillows at the head on the bed with red like color, a red duvet is covering the bed. I move the duvet and jump onto the bed, lay down and cover my self with the duvet as I hugs the chest I let the sleep take me.

Author's Note

Hello all.
this is the first chapter. It gives me a bit of dark feelings. The next chapter will be more battle filled.