Fall of Two Worlds: Dark Days

The hydra looked at its pray, one was crushed and dead, the other sliced in half. The hydra was pleased with himself, picking up his two meals he began to wonder away, but suddenly he caught a smell, something unknown to him. The hydra looked to the cause of the smell and saw a pony, it looked dead. The hydra sniffed again and caught the horrible smell had come of this pony. Thinking it was just a rotting corpse, the hydra moved on. Not noticing the two bug like creatures in the bushes.

I opened my eyes slowly, my head was throbbing and I felt a deep pain in my side. I didn't dare get up as my eyes felt heavy and my head was burning. I caught sight of some dark trees around me and realised my head was at the stump of one.

"Where am I?" I asked. "What happened?" I asked myself. But I had no idea. The last thing I remembered was my friends, I had jumped in front of Rarity and then, blinding pain. One of them had shot me. No, they wouldn't do that, would they? I barely had any memories of anything, my mind was blank. Only a few moments with my friends, but who were my friends, I remembered Rarity, Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash, but none of the others who appeared in my mind and I also found I had no remembrance of them. Just names and faces, and one shooting me. I jumped up in panic. One of my friends had shot me and dumped me here! I rushed around, but after a moment, I stopped, throw up. And passed out.

Sap and Aeb had watched the Pegasus wake up and stare at the tree line confused. Then rushing around before finally passing out. Sap looked to his clone, they were all clones, mirroring the queens own son. No identity, no personality, just war and orders. The news in the hive had spread of the defeat of Discord, the closing off the rip and the 'death' of this pony, Bright Haze. The queen had ordered, in preparation to her invasion for her most elite soldier to steal the ponies body, dump it somewhere and stall the Elements of Harmony, or Humanity or whatever the queen had called them, by forging a letter by Princess Celestia telling them to wait three days. Aeb had been told about how the elite Changeling had actually done it but died fighting the returned Bright Haze. How the pony was revived was a, miracle some would say, but how Haze had come back was, strange and unpredicted. Any doctor could have said the Pegasus was dead, but he had indeed returned, fought his battle and then was ponynapped by some Sky Dwellers. These two Changelings had quietly watched from the bushes, watching for this moment. The two Changelings crept out of the bushes toward the passed out pony. He was breathing heavily and a wound had opened and was bleeding. Sap looked to his colleague and blinked.

"What do we do?" Sap asked. "Here there be the number one enemy to the Changeling race and he lays dying at our feet."

"We keep him alive." Aeb replied. Sap blinked again in confusion and then waiting for his clone to explain.

"We can bring him up as a Changeling. You saw him. He has brain damage or something. He has no idea who he is, what happened or where he is." Aeb finally explained after a short pause.

"But you have no way to prove this."

"Okay. Sap if you woke up here alone and wounded what would you do?" Aeb asked.

"Fly back to the hive." Sap replied.

"But if you had no memory of this place, only your hurt and have no idea this place is bad?"

"I would stay and try to heal myself-" Sap got the point and nodded.

"See, this Bright Haze is obviously a war hero for the other races. So what if we change that, make him believe he is a Changeling."

"He could fight for us and once he is officially joined in we can take back Canterlot and the rest of Equestria."

"And then we can be war heroes and be feed more!" Sap replied. The two laughed and watched the pony below them. Who stirred in his sleep and muttered something.

I woke again. Still unsure as to where I was. Two strange figures stood over me, they were both replicas of each other, both having the same identical feature. Black and green all over, wings and a horn. Green eyes and bug like features.

"Who are you?" I asked. Feeling sick again.

"Haze, do you not remember us?" One asked. I flinched as a shock of pain shot through me again. My head hurt and my side ached, it stung as well.

"No. Who are you?" I repeated. Looking to the two ponies above me.

"I am Aeb, this is my brother Sap. We are your friends Haze. Friends. You have been attacked by some ponies under the rule of one Princess Celestia, she sent her ponies to kill you but only gave you major memory loss and a few arrow wounds. You will be okay Bright Haze, but you must believe we are your friends." The first, Aeb, answered.

"Your a friend? I don't remember you. Just, just a white unicorn, and a rainbow coloured Pegasus." I groaned, seeing flashes of old memories.

"We are both friends Haze, you are a Changling and we are your mentors. The wound has rendered your morphing skills useless and you will be stuck in your dull Pegasus state for the rest of your life. Also due to the wound we will have to retrain you for immediate attack. As soon as you are ready again we can join the HiveArmy once more." Aeb replied. I nodded in understanding and tried to get up, only to fall back down again in weakness.

"No Haze, rest. We shall wake you when you are needed, but for now my friend. Rest." Aeb said, I nodded my thanks and closed my eyes to sleep.

Aeb and Sap laughed together as the Pegasus finally drifted of to sleep. Aeb had completly convince the ertswhile enemy that he was on their side and his friends were trying to kill him.

"He really believes he is one of us." Sap laughed. Aeb joined in until he spotted something.

"Well he may not be the best choice after all. Look at his wounds." Aeb pointed out where the arrow stab was raw and red, puss dripped out of it and scabs had began to form.

"The puss is colourless, meaning that the wound is infected. He could die soon just through this wound alone, and I haven't checked the other two. He also has a cutie mark, which can't be done by normal Changlings." Aeb said.

"But he doesn't need to know that." Sap replied, staring at the sword over a shield tattooed to the pony's flank.

"Aye I guess so. Any ideas as to what to do if he doesn't in fact, wake up again?" Aeb asked.

"Simple. Burn his body so he doesn't come back and we stay here and wait the war out." Sap replied.

"Which war?" Aeb smiled. It was true. There was three or four soon about to kick off and the two Changlings knew that, and with one of the strongest of their enemies, the Changling empire could win. But first, either Celestia or The Sky Dwellers had to fall. Fire was spreading, the fires of war.