Not all of us are monsters. Changeling of two lands.

Lightning Dust stood still and silent for a good five minutes before stammering,

“How… How is this…?”

Then Lightning Dust went back to staring at me. I looked desperately at Twilight for answers, but she shook her head. I lie down on my bed and put the covers over me, but I left my muzzle out. My long fangs tore 2 little neat holes in the material.

“Go ahead… Tell everypony about me…” I choked through my tears, “If you think it’s wise…”

Lightning Dust looked at me for a moment, and then a huge grin adorned her face.

“Maybe I will!” she jeered.

And with that, Lightning Dust turned around, kicked imaginative dust at me, and then flew out of the library.

“What…” I uttered quietly, “What if she really dose tell everypony?”

Twilight looked at me with sorrow-filled eyes.

“Not even Celestia herself can change this…” she spoke sadly.

I turned on my camouflage, but even with it on I felt so… naked… I felt like everypony could see me changeling body. Twilight had decided the best thing for me is to go to Fluttershy’s forest to calm down. As we walked, I felt that everything had changed. To me, it felt like the old buildings were creaking forward to look down on me, and the dirt paths were all mangled and inhabitable.

“Here we are!” said Twilight cheerily, taking me out of my bleak thoughts.

I looked up to see Fluttershy’s cottage. It was more like a large hollow tree with some windows and a door in it. The small stream held small fish which jumped out the water every so often. I saw the birds chirping loudly to one-another happily and the vibrant butterflies flew close to my muzzle, and one even landed on it. A large smile danced across my lips as it twirled through the air. When Twilight called my, name I instantly rushed towards her, leaving the beautiful scene behind me. Once I entered Fluttershy’s cottage, it felt like entering a new world. Birds flew around, mice and squirrels ran across the roof-beams and floor, and the occasional bunny or two hopped along the floor too.

“Oh, hello Twilight!” Fluttershy said kindly, with a bowl of salad in her hooves, then when she saw Twilight looking at it, she spoke, “I’m just trying to make angel eat. He is such a fussy eater…”

At that very moment when the words came out her mouth, Angel-bunny, leapt forward and started hitting her leg.

“I’m coming Angel…” murmured Fluttershy, “Sorry, excuse me…”

Fluttershy went through the crowd of animals, and went to tend Angel’s fussy attitude. A moment later, the bowl was hurled at us and hit Twilight in the face. I couldn’t help but chuckle slightly.

“Oh, dear!” Fluttershy shouted and rushed over to Twilight, “I hope you’re not hurt, are you?”

“I’m fine, thanks Fluttershy.” replied Twilight, probably a bit harsher than intended.

I saw Angel sitting on a table with anger crossing his face.

“He’s more like a devil to me!” I replied harshly.

“Oh, he’s not that bad once you get used to him…” replied Fluttershy.

“Wow, you got some guts being abused by that daemon, but being ok with it, is past me!” I said, not trying to hide the envy in my voice.

Fluttershy smiled radiantly, and then flew off to feed her other animals. I turned back to Twilight, only to be sent into fits of giggles as bits of lettuce and daisy petals covered her face and a bit of her mane.

“Ha-ha, very funny!” she hissed, sarcasm clear in her voice.

I went outside again to see the little butterflies, but only met a small gang of three or four members.

“Hey, our pal Lightning Dust told us you were vermin.” Spoke a black pony with a scar across his left eye, “tell us the truth, we won’t hurt ya’”

I took a few steps back but they simply took a step forward. I turned round and ran back into Fluttershy’s cottage, and slammed the door behind me.

“What's going on!?” cried Twilight, looking out the window.

“You’ll have to come out some time!” hissed the black pony again, “We won’t leave until you do!”

I went in the centre of the room and curdled up and cried softly to myself.

“Sssh… its ok…” I looked up to see Fluttershy’s kind face and she drew her hoof down my mane to calm me, “It’ll be ok…”

I knew she was lying to make me feel better. The gang would never leave until I came out. I closed my eyes and sobbed quietly. Soon I drifted into a soft, uneasy sleep...

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I woke when the sun was drifting down the horizon, but I couldn’t tell how long I was out for. I looked around to find myself on the second floor to Fluttershy’s cottage, in a soft bed. I laid my head back on the pillow, finally getting a moments rest, but it didn’t last very long. I heard shouting - chanting to be exact - coming from outside. I thought I was still dreaming, but the volume in tensed, but I tried my best to ignore it. I opened my mouth wide and got out of bed. I walked to the window, but I wished I didn’t. A huge crowd was gathered, with angry faces and shouting angrily. I heard their chanting ant it went along like this;

“Get the Changeling! Chain it up! Lock it in a cage and let it rot!”

I shrank back and hid in the corner once I heard banging on the door. I wished I were invisible, but I knew that would never be possible, no matter how hard I tried. The chanting became a ravenous roar; it felt like they weren’t ponies anymore.

“Kill… kill… kill...” the crowd murmured to start, then got progressively louder, “Kill… Kill! KILL! KILL!! KILL!!!”

The room went blurry for a moment, and then it came back into focus, but as a bleak rotten-wooded room. The bird-houses had turned into huge hands with claws on them. The roof turned into a huge gaping wooden mouth, with teeth as sharp as ten cats’ claws. The windows were crimson-gold dragon eyes, which stared right into my soul. Suddenly I felt really light-headed, then suddenly I realised. It was a unicorn spell!! I made my own horn glow, to counter it, and successfully back-fired it onto the pony that cast it on me in the first place. The room returned to its normal state and I could walk freely again. There was a huge ‘CRACK’ from the door downstairs, and I heard Twilight and Fluttershy yelp. Pegasi flew up the stairs and tried to attack me. I used my magic to levitate them away, but as two became four, and four became six, so on and on, it was made harder and harder for my mind to keep all the spells going, and add more. A small filly rushed up the stairs and I tried to levitate it too, but it all became too much and my horn sparked and I fell to the ground. I felt so exposed then, but it took them a bit of time to find their hooves and stand up. The first Pegasus to start flying again was…

…Rainbowdash

She flew forward and she knocked the wind out me when she landed on my side. My mind rushed with questions like; ‘why would she do this?’, ‘what is she doing?’ and ‘why did she turn on me?’. All of these had a simple answer. She despised me.

“Lie down vermin!” she spat at me and I stopped struggling instantly.

She folded her wings with a malicious grin drawn across her smug muzzle. The crowd regained consciousness and ran over to help Rainbowdash. I felt a pony trap my wings against my back. I made my horn spark, but I couldn’t do any spells whatsoever. I used all of the energy I could, but I couldn’t do a simple levitation spell.

“What's it doing?” I heard a pony ask curiously, “What's it trying to cast?”

“I have no idea, but it seems like it isn’t working.” I heard another voice from across the crowd.

“Let’s make sure.” hissed another voice from close by, “By taking the horn off!”

I squirmed as the crowd called in agreement. I heard two ponies approach me then put their hooves on my horn and begin to pull. I screamed in pain, forcing my body to wriggle wildly. I eventually flung Rainbowdash off my back and I flew up with new-found strength. I tried to fly over their heads, but I was knocked to the ground once more.

“It’s too much haste to remove the horn at this time!” called out a voice, which sounded like Twilights, “Let’s just throw it in a cage!”

The crowd gave uncertain murmurs, but then began to agree. I let out a soft breath of relief that I could keep my horn, but a cage isn’t much better. I felt myself being carried by some pegasi, around the front of the group. I heard murmurings of ponies, as they saw my red shell, but they didn’t care. In their eyes, I was vermin. I was flown to the town hall for a while, and then I was forced to walk down long stone steps. The further down I went, the colder it became. There was a heavy stench of death and decay coming from down here. My eyes glowed in the bleak shadows, but I kept them closed for as long as possible, as the sights were horrifying. There were pony bones littering the ground and the occasional fresh corpse lying in a corner or two. We turned corner after corner in this labyrinth of tunnels leading steadily downward. We eventually came to another staircase, but it was covered in dry blood. I had to be poked with the sharp end of a lance, just to put my first hoof on it. I was then forced to go down again. At one point I tripped, but luckily for me, the unicorn guard that was guiding my, levitated me and put me down again, before I fell to my death. We eventually, after about an hours’ worth of walking, we came to a rusty, steel cage, reeking of fear and death. The rusty door creaked open and I was thrown inside. If it wasn’t for my shell, I would have broken my spine against the bars on the back. Once the unicorns horn went out, my eyes were the only light source for god-knows how many miles. I put my hoofs on my muzzle and cried softly once the guards left. My tears soon made a small pool on the ground.

“Don’t cry, young one…” the suddenness of the voice made me jump.

I looked up and around, but I couldn’t see anything but bleak, bleak shadows. My eyes became slits as I tried to peer into the darkness.

What was down here? Was someone with me?