To Change For The Better

As I was starting to wake up I felt my body being lightly shaken. Opening my eyes and yawning or I guess I would be hissing?

Anyway, as I was waking up I was let down gently by the changeling carrying me next to a hole that opened up when I was near it. Although, now that I was fully up I noticed someone was missing' where's Thorax?' As I was looking around trying to spot him the changeling that carried me here seemed amused at my worried state.

Chuckling, they said. "If you're looking for the other one you had wrapped next to you he was put in a separate hole with his brother."

I guess that made sense even if I cared about him we weren't exactly, close enough. Satisfied with the explanation I decided to waddle over to the hole and crawl on. Upon entering the hole I saw what I expected was my room, although seeing it for the first time I was very disappointed.

Seeing as what I could assume was my bed I slowly tried walking over to it. As I reached my bed I tried feeling it by pressing down on it, yep, definitely rock hard, I guess all the good stuff is for 'Queen Chrysalis'.

Disappointed with the state of my bed I looked around as much as I could but since it was so tightly packed together there wasn't much space to look at,disappointed with the state of my room altogether I just decided to go back to sleep since there wasn't much else to do.

I was abruptly woken up to a voice inside my head stating. "Make your way to the Feeding chambers if you don't want to suffer from Lunger".

'Lunger?, What the hell is that? Pretty sure whoever said that apparently doesn't know how to speak properly.'

Seeing as I also didn't want to go hungry I decided to get up from my bed and walked 'huh I guess changeling's motor functions take very little effort to develop, well works all the better for me.' Happy with how easily my body was developing I made my way outside my hole.

Upon exiting my hole I felt something in the air almost tasting it 'I guess this is what love feels and tastes like, let's just hope there's enough of it when I get there.' I started following the feeling in the air closer to the source and as I got closer the feeling got stronger and my mouth started watering as it started tasting better too.

After finally making it to what I assume is the feeding chambers I see that there were already changelings fighting over the limited supply that was left behind. It seems like that some love was contained in small egg like containers faintly lighting up as a pinkish color.

As I saw the black Friday sale like stampede happening I tried to see if there were any spare containers off to the side and thankfully my luck wasn't dead yet as I saw one knocked over off to the side of the ruckus going on.

As I picked it up I realized a fatal flaw of mine. 'How do I eat love? I mean I know in the show they just opened their mouths and it kinda flowed to them but did their biology play a part of it or was it something they learned?'

I try opening my mouth facing the egg and as I do a slight trickle of love starts flowing towards into me, and let me tell you, it tasted really good kinda like the taste of your favorite food and the feeling of your favorite memory combined together making me feel warm and kinda giddy.

'Well that was easy, let's try to save some of this.' Though as I was starting to walk towards the exit I saw a changeling going over to others as they tried to get some of the love from the containers only to be ignored and hissed at. 'Ah, God dammit i really wanted this for myself,' feeling bad for them I went up to them and offered the rest of the love In my container.

At first they regarded me with suspicion although the closer they got the more relieved they seemed to get, as they finally took and sucked the rest of the love from the container. Looking relieved they faced me. "Thank you." they said.

My eyes widened in shock as I started to feel stupid and annoyed with myself. 'I Could've talked this entire time?' I ask myself before I cleared my throat as I tried to speak for the first time. "Don't worry about It, what's your name".

"Thorax." They said looking shy about it.

My eyes widened in shock once again. "Hello Thorax, my name is Joseph" I said.

"Joseph? That's a weird name." Thorax says only for his eyes to widen as he stepped back panicking. "Not that its a bad name, I'm sorry. " Thorax says while looking a bit scared.

"Hey, hey, hey its ok, no need to get worked up over it, besides I agree with you my name is a bit weird compared to yours."

Thorax looked relieved as he breathed out some air. "O-ok thanks again for giving me some of your love".

"No problem I couldn't help but see that you weren't getting any anywhere else".

He looked a bit sad as I said that. "I was hoping that I could get one of my own but I saw that they were already gone, so I tried seeing if I could get some otherlings love hoping they wouldn't mind giving me some and I guess you saw how that went".

I frowned 'I guess that's only reasonable seeing as how this could be their first taste of love' shaking my head i wrapped my hand around his shoulder and pulled him to me. "Well don't worry, If you can't get some I'll try and see if I can give you some." I said

Thorax's eyes lit up, shocked at what I was offering him. "Really!?" He asks in disbelief

"Yes, but." I booped him on the nose before continuing. "Don't expect me to do all the work you should still try to get your own, just because you missed your chance this time doesn't mean you won't get another".

Thorax nodded his head "I will although I don't know if I'll be able to do it all the time." He says looking apologetic

"And that's ok thats why I'll be here to help you out just in case you need me." I say reassuring him

Thorax looked me dead in the eyes before proceeding to hug me."Thank you for doing this for me" I was shocked as I was caught off guard by the hug before slowly hugging him back.

"You're welcome." As the hug ended so did our time together as we both went back to our respectable holes, as I entered my hole I crawled onto my rock bed and slowly went to sleep.