Too young to die

So... being trapped in an underwater cavern is one thing, but being trapped in a cavern full of unconscious ponies that I can feed off of is another thing, along with the fact I never absorbed any. Damn. I could feel my energy depleting as I kept the transformation and this light on. Dimming it, the energy used was lessened, but still frightening high. It was almost like I had a magic-o-meter embedded in my brain or something, as I could easily tell how much magical energy was in the air around me. Interesting.

Swimming around a bit, I realized I could use my tail as a rudder, which is exactly what I did. After exploring the entire cave, nothing interesting came up, besides more ponies. How long have they been stockpiling here? Must've been a few generations not only to get such a large quantity of ponies, but to also keep the ponies alert down. Swimming back over to the white slab, which covered the exit, I began to examine it. If this was a storage bay for ponies, than changelings should have an entrance and an exit. Just gotta look for it! Splinter Cell mode activated, looking around for clues was harder than I thought it would be. There was literally nothing that seemed out of place. (Besides the pones)

when a thought slowly formed in my head, what about under the sacs? I eagerly swam and checked under the sacs, only to find nothing after the 163 one, which was practically all of them. The pit in my stomach region had grown bigger, I guess I really did need love to survive. "Ah yessss, so now you understand your predicament? I made sure the only exit, is to blow the exit *evil giggle*  not that you would actually feed from those ponies anyways." She finished off with another evil cackle and left my mind. I do have to say, she did way better than Sombra who went all out. She planned this like a boss, an evil, calculating bitch. It's official, they're all bitches in my book of bitch records, earlier I only had 3 people on there. Now I have reason to add two more!

I contemplated my problem again, could I possibly move it? First was a light push, next was a shove, and finally one last powerful heave before reassessing my situation. Now it's time to try magic, I winked the light out of existence, which was quickly replaced with the light of my horn as I tried to move the offending slab of stone. It moved a hopeful millimeter! Just a millimeter but still! Hope for escape! It was than I realized I wouldn't have enough energy to make it through without... feeding. I turned around while a tear flew off somewhere into the water.

Now it's time to do something I promised myself I wouldn't do. I grasped onto one of the love links, and began to suckle on it like a foal. However it was only mentally, soon I was chewing on it, love tasted... well, cookies and cream, with a mixture of vanilla ice cream. Quite delectable. I quickly pulled away as I realized I had bitten out a huge portion of a pony's love. Feeling bad for eating so much, I floated back up to the slab, and began to use the new found energy to move it. It was slow going but better than blowing it open and possibly harming any of the surrounding ponies. After a few minutes of working, I needed more energy as the all too familiar pit came back.

I chose a different pony this time, making sure not to look at the ponys' face, I took a good sized portion of it, but not enough to kill the poor soul. Swimming back up to the stone I inspected my work. The hole was big enough for a newborn foal to slip through, but no chance of a yearling. Damn. I continued my work for god knows how long, until it was finally wide enough for me to slip through. As I swam through I couldn't help but feel a sense of accomplishment, I had did it! But thats about when my mind stopped for two whole seconds as the entire lake shook.

Something was coming, something big! Shooting down the corridor heading to the exit do-.. wait, I backed up from the exit, it was a good thing I did, a large squid, yes a squid, was waiting there to grab and kill me. This reminded me of a song, oh yeah, it was the This is Aperture song. I backed up into the room that held the stone chest, as it waved it's tentacles around in a fanatic matter. Weren't squids salt water creatures? A razor sharp tentacle shot out, which I nimbly dodged. It had a dark blue body, and beady red eyes. Shit, it shot out another two which I barely dodge with my life, LITERALLY!

Firing a laser of magic at the beast, finally got it to calm down for a second, before going all out. I heard a laughing surround the room. I watched in slow motion I felt stuck in molasses, I could only stare as the tentacle went straight through my chest and out the other side. My mouth gaped at the new hole in my body. The laughing only grew, in higher intensities as I felt tears began to form. I was gonna die by a squid! At least I'll be honored by Sky! Seems Sky, had other plans for me as a butter sword fell from somewhere on the ceiling. Grabbing it in my magic, I chopped off the tentacle that still impaled my chest, and nearly hurled as blood began to seep from the wounds.

It was then I finally felt the pain, oh the pain. The excruciating pain! Oh how it hurt, how I screamed and became a killing machine. I finally plunged my sword through it's head, killing it. Using my last bit of energy, I swam out of the cave, and swam to shore. I washed up on the shore like some dead animal, I could hear a yelp of surprise, and someone shouting before darkness...

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Waking up with a pounding head, a gaping hole in my chest, and having to change my gills into lungs is not the best morning. Turns out it was Twilight I washed up next to, she saved my life otherwise I'd be dead. She stemmed the blood loss, and made magical organs, casts, and bandages. For a unicorn this was an amazing feat. of magic, "T-Twilight," I breathed through half lidded eyes, "Thank you..." I fell asleep as the unicorn lay her head next to mine.

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I groaned as I woke up the second time, I giggled as the entire Mane 6 sat around my bed, "H-h-how many times are w-we gonna be m-meeting like this?" I chuckled and winced as pain shot up my chest. Pinkie and Twilight had bloodshot eyes, did they really care about me that much? "Justin! That was stupid! Why would you do that? Did you not care how I-we would feel?" I was surprised as they both shouted at me, pink and purple mixing. They both stopped and looked at each other, before saying at the same time, "Why are you coping me? Stop it! Don't make me hurt you!" That was weird, they were synchronized with exact precision.

"G-girls, please. Stop fighting." They both shamefully looked away, I knew sometimes I could be a pussy magnet, but I didn't think that also applied to ponies. Huh. Applejack trotted over to me and whispered in my ear, "Hey'm sugarcube, I reckon those two like you." An invisible blush spread across my face, and I didn't try to hide it, but something must've shown because Rarity giggled. Fluttershy was somewhere, "Hey, wheres F-fluttershy?" She squeaked from under the desk that sat near the bed I was on.

I giggled, "S-so where am I?" My voice began to strengthen, I looked down at my chest to see bandages. "Ponyville hospital, I would've thought you'd remember, you were in here for a long time not to long ago." Everypony except me, gasped and quickly bowed. As you probably already guessed, Celestia and Luna came in the room! "Excuse us, for dropping in unannounced but we wanted to return this to you." They unsheathed a gold butter sword, the one I used to kill the squid. Great, not only Halo but now Sky.... wait, FUCK YEAH!

Using my horn, I grabbed the sword out of her magical grasp, much to the surprise of Twilight, Luna, Rarity and Celestia. I laid it in my hooves, and ran one hoof over it. It had an odd design in the hilt where the leather met the gold, it had the shape of the amulet Sky uses. Wow, universe fuck you, and thank you! I love you and hate you equally now! I just got Sky's personal sword, or atleast that's what I thought. "Thank you for going back for this. How'd you obtain it?"

"Simple, it was on the beach, nopony decided to grab it." Luna came forward, "And, we found the cavern full of ponies, when were you gonna mention this?" I cocked my head at her, what was she talking about? There was nothing down there, just bones and Sky's sword, along with a giant squid... wow universe really? "What do you mean?"

"The giant cavern full of our subjects in green cocoons. Your saying you don't remember?" I gave her a confused look before slowly nodding, "Yyyyeeeaaaahhhhh, I don't know what cocoons your talking about, I remember swimming in there, seeing nothing of interest, finding a brick I push it opening a door leading into a temple like place. After pushing a few stalagmites and stalactites, I swam through a small chest, into another cavern, all that was in there were some bones and this gold sword. After swimming out a giant dark blue squid attacked me. I killed it and swam to the beach. That's all I remember. Honest."

I held up my hooves in submission, Celestia walked up to me, "Well, we could still test that theory." Putting her horn on my head, she began to surf through my memories before quickly pulling away and gasping. "Y-you, know so much... so much about us..." She began to walk backwards her face scrunched into fear, "H-how do you know so much?!?!" I grinned, a sadistic grin. "It's part of being a human. We know just about everything. Just joking, it's complicated really. Can't really explain so I'm not." I thought for a moment, "Forget about what you saw, trust me. Your going to change WAY too much if you know what you learned. Trust me, you don't want that."

"Why should I even listen to you!" She stomped her hoof, "I could prevent these crysis's."

"Listen to yourself! What would happen if I know your future, you learn it. AND YOU TRY AND CHANGE IT?!?! YOU KNOW WHAT WOULD HAPPEN! I DON'T NEED TO EXPLAIN ANYTHING ELSE!" I screamed, hoping I got the point across. I took a huff of breath, as pain built up in my chest. She shamefully looked to the ground, "I-I understand, but I only want to do what is best for my subjects." I took a lighter tone, "I understand Celestia, but things have to happen how they have to... you know what could happen, even if they don't" I waved my hoof pointing at the other ponies in the room.

"O-okay, I'll forget those memories, but I still have to check your own." She put her horn back on my head, I saw as she cycled through the memories. I could feel her cringing as she realized that she couldn't prevent these disasters. Once she found the memory, she played it like a movie. I watched along side her as I swam through the temple. She could even hear my thoughts, along with Chryssy's. When I finally opened the chest, I felt a slight headache,and watched as I saw what, well, what I did see. A small cavern with bones, and a go-... wait... bones? Gold sword? Holy shit, Skydoesminecraft died here? What the fuck universe? Oh wait, the squid. VERY FUNNY UNIVERSE!

Celestia pulled away, her face scrunched into worry, "Justin, your memories were changed. Somepony did this. I think I know who." Well, thats nice, I spoke, "Seems like I'm a pawn among gods." I shook my head before continuing, "Just in the perfect place to cause the most damage." I sighed. It happened so fast I couldn't really do much against it, I sat up straight, a coldness lingering over my body, "Hello, once again. Well th- Agh! Quit fighting me you weakling!" I scrunched my face up, doing my best to close it.

I could feel her presence in my mind, Chryssy the fuck are you doing? "What do you think I'm doing? Leaving a message!" I sighed and opened my muzzle, my voicebox working on it's own, "Suck it! Bitch!" I quickly snapped my muzzle closed, encasing it with my magic, and gave Celestia apologetic eyes. "Well, that's Chrysalis for you!" I shouted, I felt her presence leave my mind. "Well, that was slightly amusing, but who is Chrysalis?" I facehoofed and said, "Chrysalis is the queen of the changelings, for some reason I have direct connection to her. Trust me, I've had enough practice with Sombra to know when she is in my head, and how to get her out."

Celestia and Luna seemed pleased. Rarity cleared her throat, "Well, she is quite brutish that much is sure, but I must really get back to my customers, see you girls later!" She trotted out of the door, Pinkie was walking slowly on a path out of the room, I could barely hear her say, "I need to get back to Sugarcube, see you later." Applejack trotted up to the bed and said, "See ya later, pardner. Gotta get back to buckin' them trees, they ain't gonna buck themselves!" Next was Fluttershy, "I've gotta go take care of my animals, bye. -squeak-" I nearly gave in to my giddiness at the cuteness I just witnessed. Finally Twilight, "I've gotta go and make sure Spike hasn't messed up the library while I was gone."

Now, with only Celestia and Luna in the room, I asked them. "Celestia, did you rid yourself of the memories yet?" She nodded. "Well, I guess you two can leave now. Nothing really important to talk about right now." They complied, and I was all alone. In the same room as before. Almost seems like the bed wants me to lay on it or something. I looked back down at the bandages, they looked like they needed to be changed soon, this was proven correct as a nurse walked in a few seconds later. Just as luck would have it, it was nurse Lilac. "Hey, Lilac Bloom, funny seeing you again. Except last time I was a human."

First she was confused, before it dawned on her. "Oh my, how did it happen? The transformation I mean." I shrugged, "I don't really know much about it, except it had to do with a black figurine." She thought for a moment before shrugging, "Oh well, we still need to change your bandages." After some pain, nice words, changing of the bandages and a sip of love, I felt much better. I snuggled deeper into the bed, letting the warmth spread over me. I switched to my trademark form, for some reason it felt better when I was a changeling. Changing back into my base form, the softness and warmness of the bed soon put me into a deep slumber.

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I was jolted awake by a pain in my chest, at first I was confused, than I remembered I was in the hospital, moving the covers off of my torso, I could see nothing wrong. The pain wasn't immense, it was kinda like getting pinched. I began to slowly take away the bandages, to see a clear carapace. I rubbed my hoof over the spot where the wound had once been. It was now just a memory. A thought hit me, did changelings molt? That would be weird. Staring out the window, I could see the sky was now turning orange. Another thought came to mind, how much sleep did changelings need? If the fictions were true, less than the average pony.

Pros and cons, less sleep, less laziness, capital 'd' colon. Less sleep, more awake time. Whatever, I guess I never really care for sleep anyways. As I got up and stretched, I could tell I was the only living thing in the room. Maybe they didn't want other ponies to see me. Whatever once more, the door opened and I jumped, giving a tiny yelp. Nurse Lilac blushed, "Oh, sorry didn't mean to scare you. I brought you food." She carted it over to me, she looked over my now unbandaged chest, "When did your wounds heal?"

"Not to long ago actually."

"Really? That was fast."

"You have no idea." I held a fork in my magic, and began to eat the greens on the plate. After finishing my meal, I still felt hungry, but not the kind of hungry you get when you haven't eaten, yeah. That kind of hungry. "Nurse Lilac is it okay if I take some of your love?" I asked, she reluctantly nodded. I found her love energies in the air, after taking a few small nibbles and one small bite, I was good, but not satisfied. "Thanks nurse." I smiled, with which she shuddered and left. Hmm, I guess we went from friends-to-stay-away-you-creepy-thing. I shrugged it off. I switched into my pony form, and it was than I remembered! MY GLASSES! Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit, oh shit! Where are they?!

It was than another revelation hit me, I've been able to see without my glasses this whole time... the fuck? No seriously, what the fuck? Finally a gift from the universe! Thank you! After trotting to the receptionist area I signed out, and walked out of the hospital. Eager to get some fresh air. As i took a step outside, I took in a deep breath and let out. I was finally out of that stuff hospital, it smelled tooooo much of cleaner and air fresheners that didn't work. I finally reached Sugarcube, no pony gave me much attention, the most I ever got was a market vendor trying to sell me fresh beats.

Walking inside, I headed up the stairs, into my room and flopped onto my bed, and gave a sigh of relief. I was finally back in my room! Finally! But before I go to sleep I wanna try out some outfits. Opening my wardrobe I found the Mare-Do-Well costume gone, but other things were in there. Pulling out an outfit, I put it on and looked at myself in the mirror. It was a simple yellow jacket. I put it back, and pulled out another outfit, it looked like a teacher's outfit, um okay. Looking back into the wardrobe I pulled out another, I began to blush what was up with these? The next on was a dragon costume. I was afraid to look back into the wardrobe, but I did one last time and pulled out a metal suit.

What was that doing in there? And what the fuck was up with all the feminine clothing? I guess I could change into a mare, but I don't like doing that. Whatever, I mean really. Pinkie set up my wardrobe, so I guess it would make sense, but really? I spotted a blue cuff under my bed, grabbing it with my magic, I pulled out my old human clothes. I pulled out my MP3 player, which had surprisingly survived everything it's gone through. I began to play, Hey, Soul sister. As I listened to the music, I felt myself nodding off, and let the sleep come. I didn't have anything better to do.