The Everfree Forest.

The symbol of fear for ponies.

The filled with hundreds, if not thousands, of deadly creatures.

And probably the absolute stupidest place to walk into.

Which is what I'm doing.... at night.....

Of course, I'm only looking for the changelings......

Who will probably try and take as much love from me as possible before locking me in a pod.......

....... Why am I doing this again?

Oh yeah. I'm a changeling now.... Maybe not the type of changeling from the show, but a changeling nonetheless....

Did I already say that I was walking through the Everfree Forest?

At least there was a path into it. Better, I knew where it lead.

"The castle of the Royal Pony Sisters!" I cried out in joy. "I can't believe it's right over the- WOAH!"

Unfortunately, in my joy and haste, I failed to notice that the rope bridge was broken. No, not down like in the pilot, there was a huge gap in the planks.

"GYAAAAAAAAAAA!" I screamed as I fell. I swore that I was going to die.

Fate had other plans, and I landed quite painfully and took into a roll that stopped when I crashed into a very luminescent tree.

"Ow." I said, trying to stop my head from spinning. "Ugh, where did I end... up?"

I couldn't believe it, I had just crashed into the Tree of Harmony.

"Wow," I said as I pushed myself up. "I can't believe it. It's..... glorious."

"Sir!" I heard a voice say. "We may have been discovered!"

"Hello?" I called out. "Who's there? Show yourself!"

I didn't expect what I saw. Then again, I'm still barely used to the whole 'this world has anthros" sort of thing.

Anyways, out from the shadows came a curvy obsidian figure with greyish-blackish hair. It had holes in its arms and legs, which I found odd. Behind the curvy one there was another creature of similar description, but it had a stockier build. I could only assume that they were changelings.

The stockier one spoke first.

"We should be telling you the same thing, cloaked intruder." it said in a deep voice. I could only guess it was male from its build and its voice. He was holding a sword that he was pointing in my direction. "How about you show us your face and drop any weapons you're holding. Now."

"Fine." I said. I proceeded to do as I was told and took off my cloak, revealing my face and everything else I had under it. I removed my sword, my knife, and my bow and laid them on the ground. "There, that's all I have. I mean no harm. I'm just looking for someone."

"And who might that be?" said the one with the more curvy build. Its voice was feminine, so I can only assume that it was female.

"Answer me this, first." I said. "Who are you? What are you?"

"Oh look, a stupid pony that-"

"I'm not a pony!" I yelled. "I'm a changeling!"

"No you're not." said the male. "We're changelings. Now tell us who you're looking for!"

"Really, commander?" the female changeling said. "He might just be a crazy pony."

"I'm looking for Queen Chrysalis." I said.

The two changelings just looked at me funny. It was like I just said that I was the King of Underpants and demanded to go to the moon to give it a wedgie.

"Under what right do you have to see her?" the female changeling asked.

"That is between me and her." I said in as commanding a tone as I could come up with.

The two changelings turned towards each other to talk. I couldn't make out what they were saying. Eventually they turned back to face me.

"We will take you to see her, foolish pony." the male changeling said. "But your weapons will remain with Fie here."

The female stepped up and started to take my weapons, but when she reached for my bastard sword, I stopped her.

"This stays with me." I said, picking up and sheathing my sword. "You don't trust me, I don't trust you."

"Grrrr. Fine." the male changeling said. "But the second you unsheathe that sword, you're going to be in a lot of trouble."

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The changelings led me away from the Tree of Harmony and up into the castle. The further they brought me into the castle, the more I noticed changeling presence. It looked as if they had been using the remains of the castle as a base. Hopefully I could find Chrysalis here.

"In there." the changeling escorting me said.

"Is Chrysalis in there?" I asked.

"No, she was never here in the first place." he said.

"What?!" I said in disbelief. "Then where have you been taking me? I thought I was going to see Queen Chrysalis!"

"You are. She is this way." he said, pointing me towards the door.

"What do you mean 'she's this way'?!" I said, looking into the room the changeling was trying to get me to enter.

The room itself was badly lit. There wasn't really anything in there but a large circular pedestal.

"There's nothing in there!" I screamed at the changeling.

"Just go in there and stand on the pedestal." he said.

I tried getting him to tell me more about it, but he wouldn't budge on the matter. Giving up, I walked into the room only to have the door shut behind me.

With nothing next to do, I just did as I was told to do and stepped up onto the pedestal.

The second I reached the middle of the pedestal, the entire room lit up. The pedestal lit up in strange archaic symbols that I couldn't understand. When the entire pedestal was glowing brightly, I could feel something:

Pure pain.

The last thing I could think of before everything went white was this:

I regret nothing.

Author's Notes:

And we're back to our irregularly scheduled chapters.

I'm sorry for the shorter chapter than the last three. As I've said, I'm not the best at writing. The only reason the last three chapters were so long is because I was writing them with someone else. It's more fun and it's easier to get words out when I'm working with another person. We both get our ideas out and then we check each other.

Anyways, that's all I have to say. DJ A String out.