The acknowledgement between Adalricus and Fluttershy was less climatic than what many would expect, as Adalricus only smiled whereas Fluttershy was simply amazed. It was funny considering that Pinkie Pie waved happily to her friends where they were simply dumbstruck with how they ended up here. After what seemed like a few minutes, both Adalricus and Fluttershy began to move towards one another with the intent to never part again. However, her friends weren’t as supportive.

“Stay away from her!”

Adalricus froze as Rainbow Dash moved in front of him, shielding Fluttershy from his reach as she glared at him with hostility. Her wings struck out, and her arm prevented Fluttershy from taking another step forward. It didn’t take long before Applejack joined them, standing beside Rainbow Dash’s arm with a face full of caution, but not particularly hostility. As for Spike, he simply walked a few steps, facing the direction of Adalricus from his right-side. His feelings were harder to read, as he did not seem happy nor displeased to see Adalricus.

“And here I thought that you would be happy knowing that we’re ok,” Raúl commented, standing close to Adalricus from behind.

“Raúl you’re…” Applejack finally took notice of his true form.

“Really a changeling…” Spike frowned.

Fluttershy’s eyes widened, as Raúl did not bother to hide the truth from them. This clearly meant only one thing. “…Then Adalricus is also…” She slowly looked at him with an expression of uncertainty, as he appeared the same as she knew him.

Adalricus simply looked at Fluttershy as she seemed to have a lot of questions in her mind. Thus, he was expecting her to say something to him, only for Rainbow Dash to take that role.

“You have A LOT of nerve showing your face here!” Rainbow Dash snarled as she was beyond furious with him. “All this time you were living in Ponyville under disguise and when we were so vulnerable because of it! We actually trusted you and you turned out to be a good for nothing changeling-”

“ENOUGH,” Applejack said.

Rainbow Dash was confused by Applejack’s interruption. “Wha- WHY?”

Applejack gave a sternly expression before looking directly at Adalricus with a neutral one. “Adalricus, why did you and Raúl come to Ponyville? We’re you tryin’ to spy on us or somethin’?” she asked.

“Applejack?” Fluttershy asked with confusion.

“Look, regardless whether or not their’ changelins’, we should know what their purpose was for comin’ here and stuff,” Applejack explained.

“Because they ran away!” Pinkie Pie said.

Applejack raised an eyebrow. “Beg your pardon?”

“Yeah! Adalricus didn’t like his life-style at all living under his mom’s rules so he left! Raúl came with him because he wanted to make sure that he was going to be safe!” Pinkie Pie smiled with a nod towards Adalricus, who was pleasantly surprised.

“Seriously?” Applejack asked with her jaw dropping slightly. “THAT’S the reason why you came here?”

Adalricus frowned.

“You know, that’s kind of…err…what’s the word?”

“Childish?” Pinkie Pie suggested.

“Yeah that’s it,” Applejack said with a nod. “And Raúl, you just ALLOWED him to come here? Despite knowing that we-”

“Hold on I am going to stop you right there,” Raúl said. “It’s just pure coincidence that the ponies who represent the elements of harmony just happened to live where we wanted to.”

“Seriously??” Rainbow Dash found this quite difficult to believe.

“And after you realized that they were here you…?” Spike asked.

“Decided to not let it bother us,” Raúl said. “We enjoyed ourselves too much within this community to give serious concern over the possibility that you would learn the truth about us. Hell even developing a serious relationship with the lot of you just came naturally.”

“What the buck do you mean ‘naturally’?! You expect us to believe that you weren’t planning something that involved harming at least one of us?!” Rainbow Dash said with strong distaste. “Hell you’ve probably bucked mares left and right to take their energy in order to feed yourselves!” Funny enough this caused Rainbow Dash to blush heavily.

“For your information we haven’t!” Adalricus said with a blush as well. Mind you he seemed offended by their claims.

“Wait what?” Spike asked.

“Changelings can get love energy in any form even if that love isn’t directed towards us,” Raúl explained. “The only pony I’ve been with is Pinkie. As for Adalricus…” He looked at him and Pinkie. “…I am assuming that they haven’t done anything as of yet based on his response.”

Applejack and Rainbow Dash grew redder blushes as they looked at both their friend and Adalricus. “WELL UM,” Applejack coughed to control herself. “And this IS the truth right?”

“It is,” Adalricus said, taking a step forward. “There’s no benefit for us whatsoever if we lied to you after everything that has happened today. It doesn’t match my goals for why I want to stay here…” Adalricus looked at Fluttershy, who maintained her shy posture. “Fluttershy, I am so sorry,” he said with a sad tone. “I really wanted to tell you the truth, as it continues to grow as a burden the more we spent time together. Unfortunately, I was a day late considering that Twilight told you before I did…”

Fluttershy’s expression softened entirely after she heard his words. “…” Her eyes averted to the side, as if she wanted to avoid the subject entirely. As expected this caused Adalricus to advert his own as well. “…Adalricus?”

There prince looked at Fluttershy.

“Why didn’t you tell me sooner…?”

Adalricus’ eyes widened slightly. “I-”

“You lied to me and every other pony!” Fluttershy cried loudly. “Y-You were lying to us this entire time! I-I thought that you were a pony that I c-could trust and b-be safe with-”

“Fluttershy!” Pinkie Pie said, showing a displeased expression. Even she knew that things were going to head in an ugly direction. “Are you saying that Adalricus doesn’t care??” she then asked.

Fluttershy wasn’t expecting Pinkie Pie to get involved as she took a step back. “I-I-I-”

“Yeah she is!” Rainbow Dash said, speaking for her friend. “She may not admit it but it just bugs her that we’re in this situation because he didn’t decide to approach us with the truth! Hell it bugs me too!” Rainbow said with great displeasure. She looked at Adalricus and asked, “Hell why is he still a pony?”

Applejack was confused. “What do you mean?”

Rainbow Dash pointed at Adalricus and said, “He’s…still in disguise even though Raúl isn’t.”

While it was not awkward silence, it did cause every guest in the room to consider what Rainbow Dash said. Why did Adalricus maintain his current form?

“…” Adalricus looked directly at Rainbow Dash who continued to point at him. Yet he still said nothing.

This time Spike walked towards Adalricus. “Adalricus, why don’t you show us how you really look like?” he asked kindly.

However, Adalricus did nothing despite the polite request from the purple dragon.

“What’s wrong Adalricus?” Applejack asked, growing concerned with his lack of response. Thus she slowly moved closer but remained wary of him.

But still did the prince say nothing as he avoided eye contact with her.

Even Raúl was growing concerned himself. “Adalricus?” he asked. “Just show them-”

“I can’t.”

Silence returned.

“What?” Raúl asked.

“I can’t,” Adalricus said again.

Now Rainbow Dash was losing patience as she lowered her arm. She then asked, “What? Did you forget or something-”

“I CAN’T ALRIGHT?!” he said loudly, lashing on everyone around him. “I can’t turn into a changeling again!”

“W-What do you mean-”

“It…hurts too much.” Adalricus faced away from everyone around him as best he could. “I feel…pain whenever I reveal my changeling appearance. It brings such discomfort to me that it imitates torture itself…”

Now things became more troubling as even Raúl didn’t know what to say. He never heard of such a condition before with changelings and this made Adalricus a real special case. Thankfully, Pinkie was there.

“Adalricus…? How does it… ‘hurt’ you…? WHY does it hurt you?” asked Pinkie Pie. Her expression was sad, as she really did worry for her friend that was in pain.

Adalricus closed his eyes for what seemed like a minute. “Because…” Adalricus lifted his head where an expression of possible disgust was still hidden. “…she fears them…”

“!” All eyes suddenly turned on to Fluttershy who was unable to speak her mind at that very subject. “I…I…”

“Fluttershy you’re afraid of us?” Raúl asked loudly, as he was quite surprised that a pony of her character was afraid of anything that wasn’t a pony. Especially when she socialized with a dragon quite often.

“EPP!” Fluttershy turned red as she looked away in order to avoid looking at him.

Raúl became displeased as he suddenly engulfed his entire body with green fire. Afterwards, his previous form returned as he was often recognized.

“Huh?” Fluttershy took note of the green flames and saw that Raúl returned into his previous form. However, Applejack did not approve.

“No, you can’t just be lyin’ like this; these disguises of you both are not how you really are! You shouldn’t have to hide your truth selves like this,” Applejack explained. She looked directly into Raúl’s eyes with a sad expression, attempting to convince the idea that it was better this way.

“What of Fluttershy?” Raúl asked, looking over at the pony of topic. “Could she handle two changelings?” he asked, looking over at Adalricus who refused to face them. “…”

“…Well?” asked Spike, as he looked over at Fluttershy who refused to say anything. He wasn’t liking the fact that Fluttershy’s fear over changelings could worsen her relationship with Adalricus. “Fluttershy-”

“Spike, what are you doing??” Rainbow Dash asked, not able to understand what his intentions were.

“I don’t understand why she would still be afraid of changelings,” Spike explained with a frown. “With the fact that they- who are changelings- have been talking with her, I thought that she would get over her fear.”

“Based on what?”

“Well she got over her fear of dragons because she confronted one and because of my relationship with her.” Spike closed his eyes. “Did she not become less prejudice and intimidated because she spent so much time with changelings? Like with me?”

Applejack looked at Rainbow Dash with uncertainty. She didn’t know if Spike’s words held a point or just mumble jumbo. “Spike, why do you feel so strongly about this?” She shifted her glance towards him.

This time Spike did not appear amused as he crossed his arms. “Because I am a dragon who was raised by ponies,” he said flatly.

Adalricus slowly turned as he heard those words, looking at the purple dragon with a now dried face. “You were raised by ponies?”

Spike nodded. “They’re the only family that I have in my life. And I am in love with one of them very much.”

Adalricus was able to form the slightest of smiles when he heard Spike’s words. Yet he was quick to change his facial expression as he looked over at Fluttershy. “Fluttershy-”

Adalricus was interrupted as a pink barrier pushed against him almost instantly with tremendous force. His impact against the wall softened thanks to Raúl’s body who took most of the damage. A small cry of pain followed by a groan came the moment they fell to the ground. Afterwards they slowly began to stand once again before looking forward to see the culprit.

“That’s as close as you’ll ever get!” Shining Armor announced.

“You recovered so fast?” Raúl managed to ask, as he helped Adalricus stand as well.

Adalricus looked to see that Shining Armor was indeed standing beside his sister Twilight Sparkle. Undoubtedly thanks to her teleporting abilities they were able to immediately counter-attack in the proper matter. Shining Armor was not bleeding anymore but red stains were shown across his face. Twilight was naturally unhurt but she gave quite a concerned expression towards the two changelings.

“And bit excessive don’t you think?” Rarity asked, appearing behind Twilight. “Honestly, I do think that you shouldn’t have added so much force Twilight!”

“Sorry but the spell that we use wasn’t made to be exactly ‘gentle’ towards changelings,” Twilight explained. As by a snap of her fingers, the pink barrier slowly vanished and allowed both changelings to walk for more than a few feet this time. “I didn’t think that it would be aggressive towards you from 5 feet,” she explained in an apologetic matter.

“Oh really,” Raúl “asked”.

Twilight was not pleased with the obvious assumptions. “I-I-It’s not like I want you to get hurt! I just can’t have you take Fluttershy away like this!”

That last remark greatly confused Adalricus. “What?”

“You’re attempting to take Fluttershy away from Ponyville right?” Rainbow Dash said, getting involved once again.

Adalricus blinked as his mouth slightly opened.

Everypony looked at Adalricus while Spike looked at Raúl who gave the same expression. “…” Spike suddenly began to laugh slightly, attracting the attention towards him as he found things to be ironic. “Adalricus, you weren’t planning to leave Ponyville were you?”

Adalricus gave a small smile. “I would never force Fluttershy to leave Ponyville; this is where her life is.”

Fluttershy glanced directly towards Adalricus, surprised that she was hearing him say those words. A small smile was formed soon after.

“It doesn’t matter Adalricus,” said Shining.

“How so?” asked Adalricus.

Shining Armor soon showed a more hostile expression as he heard his question. “You’re difficult to negotiate with. You have overstayed your welcome here in Ponyville and you must leave.”

Adalricus actually chuckled as he heard that. “Shining Armor, while I hold nothing against you I will not abandon Fluttershy like this. She means everything to me regardless of what you or your ruler says. And I am not going to leave here just because of your prejudice views towards me and my people!”

“Why you…” Shining Armor managed to hold back from speaking cursive. “You’re a stubborn fool you know that?”

“Oh yes keep talking dirty to him,” Raúl said in a mocking tone.

“Flattery won’t get you anywhere!” Pinkie warned him.

“Who’s side are you on??” Shining Armor asked.

“Move aside,” Adalricus ordered as he began walking towards their direction. “I only used what was necessary to move you beforehand. You’re tough I acknowledge that, but my magic is far superior than most beings in this world.”

Twilight was highly offended by Adalricus’ lack of remorse. “You did more than ‘What was needed’! You showed little mercy sending my brother into another pony’s home!” she argued with great dislike. “I thought that you were kind-”

“And yet it doesn’t seem to matter in the eyes of your ruler now does it?” Adalricus interrupted. “A changeling is a changeling regardless of how he or she is in personality right? That’s what most of your kind tends to think no?” asked Adalricus.

“It’s not easy when you’re your mother’s heir Adalricus,” Shining Armor said flatly.

“That’s a bit unfair,” Spike remarked with distaste.

Shining Armor glanced at Spike with the same expression. “Regardless if it’s ‘unfair’ or not it really matters little. Adalricus is a threat whether he wants to be or not. His mother is an enemy to all ponies that is ruled by her majesty.”

“Will you listen to yourself?” Spike exclaimed. “Twilight-”

“Spike these are changelings who are close to Chrysalis!” Rainbow Dash argued. “Who knows what kind of shit Chrysalis could do if they stayed in Ponyville any longer-”

“Oh my gosh Rainbow Dash stop acting like a bitch!” Pinkie shouted with anger.

The room went deadly silent as all eyes turned to an obviously frustrated Pinkie Pie.

“EXCUSE ME?” Rainbow Dash asked.

“You heard me!”

“Pinkie that’s just rude!” Rarity said horrified. Things were looking ugly.

“Never seen this side of her!” Raúl said with a smile.

“So is your prejudice attitude!” Pinkie Pie argued back. This time she walked forward and jabbed a finger at her friends. “Ever since you learned about their true identities all I’ve heard from you is how much they disgust you!” She then turned to Rainbow Dash. “You pretend to worry more about their status within the changeling kingdom yet you make such terrible remarks over their race!” Pinkie Pie began to tremble before finishing with, “You just…abandoned them like the time we’ve spent with them has meant nothing! How could you do that to our friends?!”

While Pinkie Pie’s words brought silence, it did not prevent her friends from exchanging looks. Applejack was the first to step up and speak her mind.

“Pinkie, you know you ain’t exactly one to talk; you’ve been biased with them just cuz you’re havin’ a close relationship with Raúl!” Applejack argued with arms crossed. “And you choosing them over us isn’t easy for your pony friends to accept!” Applejack pointed out.

“Because no one else is defending them! You expect me to side with you and leave them defensive! It’s as if I am the only pony that cares about them!” Pinkie said loudly.

This time Twilight took the stand as she lost patience with the pink mare. “You think that you’re the only one who cares for their well-being?! It’s been HELL for me that I’ve had to care for this situation while making sure that no pony gets hurts! I don’t want to see Raúl nor Adalricus get hurt! I was shocked to learn who they actually were yes, but I don’t want anything bad to happen to them! Don’t you trust me Pinkie?!” Twilight asked with anger. “I DON’T LIKE BEING THE BAD GUY!”

Twilight was really hurt by how Pinkie Pie was treating them. They were suppose to be the best of friends, and here she was becoming completely biased with Raúl and Adalricus as if she didn’t even know them anymore! She naturally felt resentful towards the changelings, believing that they were manipulating her against them. However, she wanted to believe Adalricus and Raúl to where she could trust them to a certain extent.

“You obviously didn’t trust them enough that you felt the need to hide with Fluttershy because you think that she was not safe around them!” Pinkie argued.

“What do you expect Pinkie?! They lied to us! You think that we should have ignored the possibility that they were dangerous?!” Rainbow Dash screamed. Now she was getting frustrated, as she was experiencing feelings similar to Twilight.

Before things could heat up even more, Adalricus spoke up. “ENOUGH.” Adalricus took a few steps forward. “I’ll decide who is my enemy and who isn’t! I will not have my inheritance control my faith; judge me for my actions and not my bloodline!” Adalricus looked at the two siblings. “I am sorry for everything for the actions of my mother and my people. I know that my words are naturally not enough, but I give you my word and honor of what my goals are. And that is not to threaten your way of life. My only goal is to be happy…” Adalricus looked at Fluttershy with a soften expression. “…with a pony that means everything to me…”

Fluttershy turned completely red as Adalricus’ words really touched her. She truly believed that there was no lie in his words…nor his eyes. He truly cared for her and wanted only to be with her as his sole ambition. Her heart was racing at quite a dangerous pace, as the spark between them grew within every second. Completely touched, she took a step forward towards him.

However, the familiar pink barrier appeared between them almost instantly, knocking Adalricus back a few feet as it’s thickness increased. The imagery of one side became heavily toned with pink for the other. Thankfully this did not prevent Adalricus from seeing a troublesome Shining Armor being the cause of this powerful spell.

“Don’t you ever lighten up?!” Adalricus shouted angrily.

“I don’t want to be the bad guy here Adalricus but I have my orders.” Shining Armor closed his eyes. “However, that doesn’t mean that I want to hurt you. Thus this barrier that I conjured up again.” He opened his eyes and gestured at the pink barrier. “You can’t get through it and if you try to, you’re hurting yourself. Thus my consensus is clear overall.”

Adalricus couldn’t help but growl at what Shining just told him. The barrier was unpleasant in more ways than one. Not only did it sting when he was close enough, but it smelled very unpleasant. This annoying spell was perfect when dealing with changelings like him. Hell no matter what spell he attempted to use, it had little effect whatsoever. It became increasingly frustrating as he knew that not even Raúl could help him while he shot spell after spell in order to assist him.

“I won’t attack either of you anymore, but what you attempt to do next is completely up to you. You are completely responsible for what this barrier does to you should foolish try to attack it head on,” Shining Armor explained. Their attacks did not even phase the white unicorn at all, as he knew that changeling magic was quite ineffective against this spell. Only catch was that he was about to use any other spell until this spell was released. Or if he ran out of magic by a certain point, which was becoming more and more possible by each passing second.

“Argggh damn this spell!” Raúl cursed. Now he was becoming exhausted as Adalricus continued his attempts to break the spell. “You’re going to pass out at this rate Adalricus…”

However, the changeling prince refused to stop. More and more did he attack the barrier with whatever powerful spells he could muster from his knowledge. Pinkie’s own attempts to assist him had little effect, given that she wasn’t a unicorn.

“Shining lower this!” she complained. It was a stupid pink wall that had no effect whatsoever on her, but prevented Adalricus from getting to Fluttershy. “Fluttershy- Get over here!” Pinkie plead loudly. “This spell doesn’t work on ponies!” she added, before attempting to kick it only to hit nothing but air.

“Y-Yes!” Fluttershy said, as she broke through her friends and hurried to towards Adalricus. However, her movement ceased as she found herself within a magical bubble. “?!”

“Fluttershy, please don’t!” Shining Armor shouted. He looked over to Twilight whose spell contained Fluttershy entirely. “Sis?”

Twilight frowned as Fluttershy did her best to break free from the spell that she casted on her. “Fluttershy- Please don’t!” she begged.

Fluttershy only continued to bang her fists against the bubble that she was contained in. She grunted and continued her attempts to break free. “T-Twilight p-please let me go!” she cried.

“Fluttershy it’s for your own good!” Rainbow Dash shouted, as she rushed to her side. “You’re only going to make things more difficult for Twilight!” she explained sadly.

However, Fluttershy shook her head and continued to hit the bubble as hard as her gentle fists could. “B-But Adalricus-!”

“Fluttershy!” Spike shouted, moving to her side as well. “Things are getting out of control here! Twilight, Shining! Please stop this!” He then looked to Adalricus. “You also need to calm down!”

“Not like this I can!” Adalricus shouted with rage. “LET HER GO!” he yelled.

“ADALRICUS STOP IT!” Shining Armor shouted back. “We’re in a difficult position right here! We don’t want to force a separation between you too but we can’t disobey Princess Celestia! Wait until she gets here first!” Shining said, trying to reason with him.

“Yeah I don’t think that you’ll find us trusting her so easily after that little ‘ambush’ that you all set up for him!” Raúl argued.

Rarity and Applejack looked at Twilight. “What does he mean ‘ambush’?!” shouted Rarity.

“It wasn’t!” Twilight said with disbelief. “She vowed to reason with him and not attack him!”

“Exporting me from your homeland is NOT reasoning!” Adalricus shouted back. As if on cue, he then wiped more blood from the corner of his eye. “I don’t trust you Alicorns at all…not after what has happened today…” Adalricus glanced at Fluttershy. “Your kind calls my own as ‘monsters’, yet you do your best to prevent one of your closest friends from being happy…hell you do your best to prevent one of your newer friends from being discriminated!”

“Adalricus you know we’re not like that!” Spike argued. Frowning, he made his way towards Adalricus and phased through the barrier with ease. “I understand that you feel targeted and mistreated, but I can vow for these ponies here. They’re good ponies who only want to find the best solution for all of us and would never do anything to deliberately hurt their friends.” He looked over to Fluttershy and then back to him. “And we are friends…right?”

All of the rage within Adalricus’ heart was slowly melting away by the words of the purple dragon before him. His expression had softened to an extent, as he could tell that Spike truly meant them well. “Yes…we are friends Spike…”

Spike’s expression was slowly converting into joy as he moved a claw onto his shoulder. “Then you’ll-”

“Unfortunately, that doesn’t change the fact of what has happened today,” said Adalricus. Gently breaking himself from Spike’s kind touch, he then said, “Maybe if things didn’t turn out the way that they did today, things would be different. But they’re not and with both my father and Princess Celestia here, today is not going to end pretty.”

The room grew deadly silent as he said those very words. His vision focused his attention on Twilight whose reaction did not surprise him at all. She too knew that this was going to turn out ugly regardless of what happened in her home. Both wanted things to well enough to where a happy ending would occur. Yet both were at fault for not handling this issue a lot sooner and more secretive for the sake of peace.

“And I am sure that I don’t have much time left,” Adalricus remarked, as he took a few steps towards the barrier with little regard. Before any could follow with what he said, a loud rumble was heard from outside.

“What was THAT?” Applejack asked nervously.

“Sounds like the climax of an argument between mommy and daddy,” said Raúl. However, he too seemed increasingly nervous with how close that rumble sounded. “Um Adalricus?” However, Adalricus continued to walk towards the barrier with little care. “Adalricus, no spell is going to work against that thing-”

“I know.” Adalricus clenched his fists. “However, this barrier is not completely impregnable for changelings…”

Raúl raised an eyebrow. “What?”

“Adalricus,” said Shining Armor from the other side. “I am asking you to NOT attempt to take on my barrier head on; you’ll only hurt yourself!” he warned him. “Nothing you can do will-”

Adalricus silenced Shining Armor as his forelimb penetrated the pink barrier with little resistance. That being said however, Adalricus immediately yanked his arm back and clutched it as he howled in pain. Smoke soon followed between the barrier and his arm as he dropped to his knees while trying to control himself.

“ADALRICUS!” Pinkie screamed as she rushed to his side. An easy 3 second sprint was all that she needed to cross through the barrier and rush to his aid. Both Raúl and Spike were already doing what they could for him while the other ponies watched in horror. Especially Shining Armor who was shocked with Adalricus’ actions.

“What were you thinking?!” he shouted. “Adalricus you can severely injury yourself if you attempt to force your way through!” Shining Armor did not expect that from Adalricus.

“Adalricus-” Raúl started, unsure of what he could do in this situation for his friend. He then noticed that his hand had restored into their traditional changeling characteristics. The black color and various holes seemed like a typical changeling appearance, but he knew that smoke emerging from a seemingly unburnt changeling arm was not a good sign.

“GRH!” This time, Adalricus forced himself to stand much to the surprise of everyone around him. Shaking his arm once, green fire engulfed his arm reverting back to pony appearance. It looked good as new but the smoke betrayed the truth. Satisfied, he began to move towards the barrier again.

“ADALRICUS!” Shining yelled, causing his horn to glow brightly. This time, the barrier thickened adding more layers to indicate that his attempt would be pure suicide. “You will die if you try again! This is your final warning!” he added with anger. Damnit Adalricus, don’t kill yourself! he screamed in his mind. Hopefully this could convince the changeling prince that he could lose his life if he continued like this.

“ADALRICUS DON’T!” Shouted Applejack.

“You’re going to die!” Rarity shouted with the upmost concern.

“PLEASE ADALRICUS!” Twilight screamed, unsure of what to do. She wanted to a spell to stop him, but her focus on containing Fluttershy prevented her from doing so. Hell she wasn’t sure that Rarity knew of a spell herself that could help in this situation. “I can never forgive myself if I allow you to do this!” she begged.

“You have your orders, I have my desires,” he said flatly, coming face to face with the barrier yet again.

“ADALRICUS!” screamed Pinkie Pie, who started to cry.

“DON’T!” yelled Spike, who started move.

“ADALRICUS!” screamed Raúl, horrified.

All three of his friends rushed in order to restrain him from making contact with the barrier. However, that proved futile as his changeling magic launched the three of them away, causing them to groan and regain their footing.

Rainbow Dash was completely stunned as she tried to rush him by a surprise tackle in order to help the others. And just like with the other three, she was sent backwards and crashed into the sofa with little effort from Adalricus. “Don’t-!” she managed to yell.

Fluttershy stood there helplessly as she was dangerously close to tears while she attempted to free herself. “ADALRICUS!!!!”

Once again, his arm entered the barrier.

Author's Notes:

Next chapter in a little bit.