4 weeks later

As the weeks went by we continued to show up and practice morphing into a picture perfect version of Tenna. Sometimes if he was satisfied with our attempts he would transform into a species he's encountered when he left the hive and have us try to morph into the race he morphed into and let me tell you it is WAY different then just changing how you look.

First off, when you first change into a different race it feels like some of your body parts were either switched out, moved, or removed entirely. For example, Tenna turned into a Pegasus and had us try to do the same, but when I did try immediately noticed something something was added but also that something was missing, then I looked behind and I saw that instead of my elytra now I had wings and when I went to feel it it felt like I had real wings now which was very interesting.

Though apparently Tenna said that today we would be doing something very different so I was curious as what to that would be. As Tennant finished his last inspection on our attempts of making a form similar to him he seemed satisfied as he nodded to us.

"Good, it seems like you lings aren't incapable after all ,but, now that you've had time to practice these forms I've showed you, this time we're are going to move on to something a little bit more, advanced."

"As you know a changelings nature is to be able to morph into a form that helps us blend in or helps us defend ourselves, and since it seems like everyling here has been able to successfully morph into a form that would help you blend in with the outside creatures."

"So, i think its safe to say that you all can move on to trying to defend yourselves, some advice on a way to do that is morphing a few features on a form you've used to blend with the outside creatures into a disfigured monster that still has the same figure of the original creature you used in order to frighten those around you. So, in that case were going to be doing a little experiment today."

As Tenna finished saying that a good 50 changelings flew in as they landed side by side of eachother infront of us. "Now, these lings will serve as your opponent during this experiment how effectively you can use any forms you have seen me morph into these past few weeks, but if your feeling risky then feel free to try and make your form more threatening, it may or may not help but it all comes down to what you do with your form."

After he finished he allowed us to consume some more stuff to fill up our mass before he started to assign each of us to one of the changelings that flew in, though we weren't all going to fight at once we were apparently going to wait for a pair to go first before the next one went.

So while I waited I watched all the others go first and it was interesting to watch as the other pairs shifted into different creatures to fight eachother with. Minotaurs, Pegasus's, Unicorns, Timberwolves, one of them mophed onto a Diamond Dog 'i dont even know how they mangaged to see one.'

One of them turned into an Earth pony and that one was terrifying to experience since when one of the changelings who flew in morphed into an Earth pony during their fight they gutshotted one of my fellow lings into the wall making it crack a bit. 'Note to self don't mess with Earth ponies.' One of them even shifted into a HYDRA. Yeah, a fucking Hydra, that just caused the other ling in that pair to put both if his hands up and walk back to the line we formed. 'I don't blame ya dude.'

One of my fellow lings tried to make use of Tenna's advice by morphing into a Pegasus but with Timberwolf like features as them made a form that looked like a Pegasus but with bark like skin, glowing green eyes, and fangs that looked crooked and rotting just like the rest of their body as every thing they did produced a creaking like sound that originated from their body but like everyling else it wasnt enough and they lost the fight.

"Joseph, your up."

I breathed in and out as I tried to settle my nerves. I walked out of the line as I went up to the ling I was fighting they grinned at me before morphing into a dragon. My eyes widened as I was caught off guard, thankfully it didn't seem like a fully grown one as it seemed like it was a young dragon kinda like Garble or Ember. As I was busy trying to figure out what to morph into I could hear whispers coming from behind me.

"Woah, a dragon?"
"He's not gonna last long"
"Hopefully they go easy on him"

'Ok, think, Joseph, think! Yes its a dragon but its not indestructible but I still need something thats fast enough to deal with him and strong enough to actual hurt him but what cou-'

My eyes widened as I grinned to myself 'well Tenna did say to experiment, but how am I gonna explain this to everyone here...? Unless, yeahhh that could work.' Satisfied with my plan I started to think of the creature I wanted to morph into as my Corsucate started to hide my form from the world and switch it out for the one I was currently thinking of.

As it passed my body started to change starting with my legs as it was now replaced with slighter darker double jointed legs, moving upwards adding a tail that was about 5 meters long with an sharpened edge at the end of it.

As the Corsucate continued so did the changes to my body as my 4'8 self started getting taller to better suit the form being made as it continued to my upper middle section as my chitin like chest was replaced with a rib like structure sticking on the outside of my chest and 4 tube like vents was added to my back as it took on a more crooked look to it adding two near my waist and two near my head.

As it continued it started to change my arms to where before they were short with 5 thin like fingers now it was replaced with long arms sporting 4 sharp like fingers with 2 of them sticking next to eachother in the middle while the other two were situated at each end of my hands. Finally as it made its way towards my head my blue eyes, ears, horn, and fin like parts were removed as an elongated banana like head was made its replacment and my teeth were replaced as it took on a much sharper edge.

As I my Corsucate was finally done I was now 7 feet tall dwarfing the 6 foot dragon in front of me by a bit as he looked at my form shocked, confused and a bit terrified. Turning around I saw that the effect was more obvious on the other changelings as they looked more terrified than confused.

All of them except my two friends as I looked at Thorax i could've sworn I saw stars in his eyes as he looked at me like I was the coolest thing in the world meanwhile Pharynx proceeded to nod in respect from my form looked over at Tenna and he seemed morbidly curious of my form. I ignored him as I went to face my opponent again as he was still a bit scared before he shook his head probably trying to focus as he got ready.
"Ready?"
I nodded

As soon as finished he took to the sky as he proceeded to shoot fireballs at me from above caught off guard a bit I panicked as I barely dodged some of the fireballs shot at me, getting singed on some of my skin. I proceeded to get on all fours as I tried my best to scurry away from the fireballs as fast as I could thankfully outrunning the fireballs due to my speed, 'I cant do this forever though I need to catch him by surprise.'

As I tried to think of something I noticed that he stopped shooting, I looked over to what he was doing and my eyes widened as it looked like he was inhaling as much as he could for a more powerful fireball but it was still taking him a while to get it ready.

'Ok Ok think what can i do to stop this' as i racked my brain for an answer I heard a dripping noise below me, as I looked down I noticed that the rock below me was starting to become to turn white. 'But that only happens if ac-' I quickly realized something as I proceeded to spit on the floor, and sure enough the rock like floor went from a dark like green to a more whitish color.

'Of course I forgot that this thing produces acid and if remember correctly then.' I turned to face the dragon still breathing in air 'I might be able to do something, hopefully.' Hoping that my plan worked I got as close as I could to the dragon as I proceeded to build up acid in my mouth.

A couple of second later and he seemed like he was done as he prepared to shoot me with his now fully powered up fireball 'Here goes nothing' but before it could start to get near me I spit a concentrated amount of acid directly towards the fireball causing it explode sending me backwards a bit as everyling else tried to stay in place.

As the black cloud was starting to disappear my heart sinked as I saw that he was a bit singed but other than that he didn't look any worse except a bit annoyed that his fireball blew up in his face. Trying to think of something he suddenly started to fly towards me with his claws out though I was able to scurry away from him but every time I tried to get away I he was already on me again leaving me barely anytime to think 'this guy just doesn't quit, I cant do anything with him always flying towards me, but maybe I can take care of that.'

Coming up with a new plan I proceeded to stop abruptly turning and tried to spit acid at him. Luckily he was unprepared for me to stop so he panicked before he tried dodging towards the left, but he wasn't quick enough as some acid caught onto his right wing rendering it useless as he proceeded to crash into the ground.

Trying to seize the opportunity I ran up to him trying to get a lucky hit in but he threw a piece of the floor at me forcing me to stop and scurry away giving him time to rush towards me as he tried to tackle me but my tail instinctively lashed at him stopping him from making any sudden moves.

As we stayed their staring at eachother i tried to make the first move spitting acid at him making him dive to the side as scurried as fast as I could over to him but as he got up he had dugg his fingers into the floor pulling up a piece of it to smack it against my head causing me to stumble back shrieking in pain as he then tackled me to the floor pinning me as he got a couple of punches in before I was able to use my tail to impale him through the shoulder making him scream in pain before I then there him as far as I could away from me causing him to tumble a bit before he righted himself, we then stared at eachother a bit longer as we got ready to rush at eachother again.

"That will be enough" we looked over at Tenna as he continued "I think that we can its safe to say that Joseph has proven themselves with their rather, intriguing, form to say the least, no need for anymore violence." I looked back towards my opponent and he had already morphed back to a changeling, I shrugged also morphing back as my Corsucate proceeded to remove my form and turn me back to normal.

As the 'experimental' test ended I was told to stay behind as Tenna said he wanted to speak with me. "You asked to speak with me sir?" He nodded "Yes, I was curious as to what kinda form you morphed into during our little test since I don't think I've experienced a creature quite like that." Thankfully I had an excuse that would hopefully fool him. "Well sir I just kinda took the minotaur body and proceeded to make the tail a bit more sharper while making it more taller and darker." Tenna raised an eyebrow "and the head?" I shrugged "I thought it looked cool."

As he stared into my eyes my heart started to beat faster and faster due to how terrified I was to be stuck in this situation. "Interesting, very well you may leave to join your fellow lings."

"Thank you sir." I then proceeded to walk as fast as I could out of the room and meet up with Thorax and Pharynx.

Author's Note

A bit of a shorter one for today. So sorry if it feels half-assed I didnt really know what to do for this chapter but I will try to make the next one longer so like always bash and enjoy hopefully.