Falling...

Flipping around in air for a bit.

Floating...

...

Wait.. Floating?

The heck?

No, I was falling, for about 7 seconds, but now, I'm floating!

Hey! At least I have that going for me.

As I got closer to the ground, whatever thing was making me float suddenly quit on me. I somehow managed to fall

"Ow! Stupid fall, stupid ground!"

Normally, I’d hear a few snickers from my siblings, but... nothing. Just silence.

I blinked open my eyes to see nothing but a barren, orange lands, with a few natural, and a bit a bit father up ahead, even more barren lands! But to top it up, In the distance, I could see a depressing looking castle-like structure.

SERIOUSLY?! OF ALL PLACES, I HAVE TO BE SMACK DAB PLACED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BADLANDS NEAR THE CHANGELING HIVE, YOU GOT TO BE... Ugh...

I sat there for a moment, thinking of the whole situation as a whole. I'm lost, who knows how far away from my only family and this is probably my fault since I might have taken to long which made the cloud move somewhere else...? Okay Flashlight, you're just making things up. Now is no time for panicking... Wait, shouldn't they have at least use the Hivemind to send me their location

"Pssst! Hey! You! Over there!"

Heck was that?

"Over here, you! Down here!"

I turn to see a pillar with a hole at the base of it. It was practically pitch black!

Suddenly I felt something grab my tail and yoink down on it sending me tumbling into the darkness, after a bit of getting myself together, I glow just enough to see... Another changeling...? And my knocked out siblings besides him?!

I'm going to fucking- wait... Let him explain. I'm not one of those MC that "attack first think later"

"Finally! Everytime one of you weird changelings fall from the sky they knock themselves out and I have to drag them in here or they'd risk getting caught by a patrol! Now I have one that hasn't knock themselves out... You're smaller than everyone here! I didn't even think that was possible! You're only a little bit bigger than a Nymph! If it wasn't for the way you speak, I'd think you were actual Nymph! Enough of me talking... But, I'd like to ask... How are you even glowing? I'd like to know! Oh and you are strange just like the others! Oh by the way, I'm Speck! Everyone from my hi- former hive say I talk to much, do I?" The Changeling, Speck, buzzed.

"Um... Maybe you do talk a little too much. And before I tell you our secrets to complete stranger, how about you tell me about how you are here and about yourself so you're not a complete stranger" I replied, adjusting myself to a laying position. It may be a tiny bit manipulative, but...

" Oh, oh! That's a great idea!" Speck sat down, clapping his hooves together. "I'm Speck, as you know. And I was rejected from the hive!"

"What-"

"Shhh! I'll answer all your questions without you even asking me them!" He interrupted, carrying on. "I was rejected as soon as they figured I don't eat love! What do I eat? Strong emotion, which you may think applies to love, and it does but it has to be strong! So they barely had enough to feed me, but luckily, I could eat up all the anger and resentment from the caretakers to pupate early. A soon as I learned to fly and cast spells, I got kicked out a few days ago. The only reason why I stay near the hive was so I can skim off some if that hate and frustration which is just enough for me! And... Maybe just because I miss the hive even if they hated me... But that should answer all you questions, correct-O?"

"Uh... Pretty much..."

"Now it's your turn! Tell me everything about you and the rest of you weird changelings!"

"Well... Let me start with.. the story first..."

And that's how it went for an hour or so, I spined a fake tale on how we got here and fell from the sky grasping all the bits of information we learned about Sparklings, and then told him pretty much everything about us. I found Speck's company pretty nice, and I thought I was a naive child! James Seymour, he's more naive than me and I'm ten!(Technically, I'm about 3 months which is about the age of a ten/elven years old. He's four months, but still...

It was getting darker and with that I glowed brighter. Speck told me that he didn't need it which made me have to go in depth to my light abilities and the drawbacks and stuff. Soon, he finally stopped asking questions.

"Uh, hey! I found this box before but I didn't want to open it till one of you guys wake up before you came along. What's in it...? It's near one of your siblings."

"Gift.." I simply responded. "I don't want to open it till we are all.(Big yawn).awake... I'm tired..."

"Really? Okay then, I'll watch Incase something happens!"

I looked out to see the wonderful moon and its moonlight. There was no pony on it... What season did we get dropped in...?

"Uh... Speck, what did your hive last talk about when you left...?"

"Hmm... I heard that there's a wedding in a month from now, apparently, Queen Chrysalis is gonna do a... Invasion there or something...?"

Welp... That gives me some reference on where we are, hopefully the GULFF(Our group name) will wake up soon. I really wanted to be there...!

"Alright, Of to sleep you go! I assume glowing takes a lot from your light reserves!"

Eh... It not that bad, but I honestly wish we could photosynthesis to gain light energy... Can we? There's probably lots of things teach didn't tell us.

I stared to curl up best but this want comfortable, I decided to do a toothless and spit some nice, glowing, slightly stick, soft slime-like spit(basically over-chewed gum) in a circle around me. Soon enough, the warmness (or tiredness) made me sleep off.

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When I woke up I could hear my sibs through Hivemind talking nervously. Comments like- "Guys, why are we here...?" "Why isn't our information Flashlight awake...?"

I stood up and yawned.

"Hey Speck."

"Oh hey, Flashlight, you're siblings didn't wake up the whole night, at least the parts of the night that I was awake-"

"Nuh-Uh. I know y'all are awake, you guys are basically screaming for me" I snorted, oh beautiful Hivemind.

Firefly was the first to stand up. "Hey, we were not crying for you! And what's up with the Changeling, regular."

"Uh, Speck..."

"Alright, who is this Speck?"

"Banished changeling." I responded, the rest of the GULFF decided to sit up.

"Oh? Really then? Well, Speck, I am Firefly. The rest will introduce themselves."

"Ultra Violet Light... But call me UVL or UV, please!"

"I'm Glow-Plankton. But you can always call me Glow, Plankton or whatever name you give me."

"And my name is LightRay, but please call me Ray."

"Okay! Are you guys gonna open your... Gift, right?" He turned for confirmation, I nodded in response. Do changelings don't know what a gift is or is it just Speck that doesn't know what a gift is...?

All of my siblings gave blank stares for a second.

"You told him?!" Ray shouted in surprise which the blue-eyed changeling shushed in response, causing Ray to glare at him.

"Shh! There might be a morning patrol... I don't want the guards to discover us!" Speck urged, he looked kinda scared of the guards, or at least nervous.

"Why wouldn't I? He's probably the ones that saved both me and all of you!" I glanced at the now cheerful Speck.

"Why are you that protective of him?" Firefly asked.

"Yeah! Why are you...?" Ray agreed, narrowing his eyes.

"Nuh-Uh, Ray. You are not gonna 'agree with me'. I'm asking a genuine question here. What did he do that he got your interest...? (Firefly...) Apart from acting like your friends."

"(Flashlight...) Yeah... It's mainly the fact he's super similar to one of my friends. Well, it's kinda how love at first sight works except it's, 'Friendship at the first hour you met each other'."

" (Firefly...) Aw... That's sweet... Good enough..."

"(LightRay...)Oh... Sorry... Alright, I guess..." LightRay 'apologized', "Are we going to open this box or what?!"

LightRay grabbed the box from wherever it was and placed it in the middle of the circle we unintentionally formed by grouping together.

After a while of struggling with cutting the rope with our fangs(Non of us wanted to depend on our magic so much). The box feel away to reveal a soft towel with a bottle with greenish-yellow liquid and two orbs. The bottle had a card reading, 'Timberwolf Growth Food and at the back of the back, it read, to help your Timberwolf grow F.A.S.T

Wait... If this is "Timberwolf Growth Food", not only is it Sea-monkey flashbacks but also... The orbs should be...

"Timberwolf orbs!"

You see, Sparklings have a relationship with Timberwolves as they use them for protection while somehow they feed off our light energy in photosynthesis. As well as eat dead bodies and stuff as fertilizer. And plus, wood-puppies!

"Timberwolves? Oh, did your Hive give you these as parting gift, you told me that these 'Timberwolves' are companions to you all?"

"Parting gifts...?" Asked UVL.

(Flashlight) "Just go with it! I'll tell you the fake backstory later;"

"Well then, now that we got the gift open and stuff. Let's get out of here." Glow-Plankton tried to get out but Speck got his tail.

"There might be a patrol out, you don't want to be caught. I could either take you carefully through the sky or on the ground. I recommend the ground."

"Okay... Ground it is! Let's get started now."

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Author's Note

I'm going to work on the next chapter immediately, but I want some opinion.

If changelings had Autism and ADHD how do you think they would react to them, would they eat something different as well? I just thought of this...