“I Like that. Chrysanthemum.” The newly named changeling says after what felt like an hour. She kept chanting her new name over and over, and over. Luckily we got to Ponyville before it got really annoying.

“Here we are.” The chanting stops as Chrysanthemum, Chrysi’s her nickname now, looks at the town.

“This... is it?”

“Yeah, I the same reaction when I saw this place. You expected more huh?” Chrysi nods.

“Yes. I was.”

“Heh, well… be prepared how the ponies will react to you. But don't worry about it too much. They thought I was a monster, until I explained myself, and had help from some of them. So with me by your side, it’ll be better than my first exposure.”

“That's splendid!” She say a little giddy. I led her to Twi’s place, and took her inside the basement.

“I’m pretty sure Twilight won’t have a problem with you staying here… Are you sleepy yet?” She shakes her head. “Neat. Do you mind if… I ask you a few questions?” She raises a brow, if she had one.

“What for?”

“I want to know as much as I can about you and your kind.” We just got down to the basement, I got settled on my temporary bed, and Chrysi just sat on her haunches, looking around the room. At my question she put a wholed hoof to her chin.

“As long as I get to ask you some questions.”

“Fair enough. Do you want to start, or should I?”

“You just went first.” I think the buzzing will eventually get annoying… Probably not.

“I can tell we’re going to get along just fine.” Chrysi smiles. “Now that I’ve already asked a question, you go ahead.”

“Ok. What exactly are you?”

“I am a human.”

“A human?” I nod. “So they are real...”

“What?”

“Mother would warn us about humans in the past. She said they used to be all around this place. Some even living with uz. But they just disappeared. Zhe never stopped telling us about human.” She grumbles out the last part.

*We were here at one point?* “Interesting. And about your mother, can you tell me more about her?”

“I would appreciate it if we didn’t.” She gives me a sharp look.

“I can respect that, then your own kind maybe? What are changelings like?”

“Changelings, like me, are special. There is only one queen for each hive.”

*Just like bees…*

“And I, would have next in line.”

“‘Would have?’” She nods. “Why?”

“We were having problems with finding food. I decided to got find more for the hive. Of course my mother never sent any of her drones with me, that’s when that thing cornered me. I would’ve been killed if it wasn't for you. Thank you.”

“No problem.” Came my natural response. “I actually thought you were another pony.”

“Really?” She asks a bit skeptically.

“Yeah, with it being dark, and I concentrated more on the big animal more than you, it was only when I got a good look a realized you’re something else. No offence if I caused any.”

“You didn’t.” A quiet rumbling comes from Chrysi. She looks down as her cheeks turn grey.

*How can changelings blush if they have a charapiece as skin?*

“Sorry, I haven’t eaten in a while.”

“I can tell, I could go get something from the kitchen for you, if you want.”

“That won't be necessary.”

“Why?” *I’m not liking this.*

“I feed off of love.” That… statement stopped my brain from functioning for the second time in a row, making me freeze for minute, or ten.. The cranks in there slowly, but surely, began to turn again.

“What?”

“Changelings feed off of love. It’s hard to come by nowadays.”

“How..? How is love a food source?” She does the pony equivalent of a shrug.

“I don’t know, we just do.”

“I... don’t, know how to react to that.” I’ve seen a lot of weird things in the world, but this takes the whole fucking cake. “Are you feeding now?” Chrysi shakes her head.

“I can only feed with the host’s consent. Will you let me feed?” At this point I’m feeling really uncomfortable.

“I’m not comfortable with this… Will it hurt?”

“I can promise that no harm will come to you.”

“And what exactly do you do to feed on?”

“I just draw the love from another being and… it just goes into me.” I could make a sex joke here, but the current situation is preventing me from doing that.

“Well… as long as it get to feed...” *No! WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING!?* “And as long as nothing happens…” *Don’t you fucking do it…* I kept screaming at myself to say no, but it felt like as if something was forcing to say yes. *It must be her magic… FIGHT IT!!* I can feel my eyes twitching.

“Are you ok?”

“Get… the fuck… away… from me!!” I manage to croak out. “What… are you… doing to me!?” Her eye widen in alarm.

“Oh! Sorry!” Her horn flashes a dull grey and I’m back to normal.

“What, was that?” I ask sharply.

“That was my magic controlling you. I forgot I had it active.”

“Likely fucking story.”

“I really did forget! I’m sorry!” This time I can tell that is telling the truth. I don’t know how I’m able to all of a sudden. I pulse of power runs through my body.

*You continue to amaze me.* I really fucking love this medallion. “Alright, I can tell you're telling the truth… You… can feed...” I said a bit regrettably. Chrysi smiles thankfully.

“Thank you.” She says before her eyes close, and her gnarled horn is covered in the same grey mist. I then saw that something was coming out of my body. A bright pink mist.

*Does everything have a fucking physical form?* After a few seconds the grey mist around her horn disappears.

“Thank you.”

“Anytime, just don’t do any funny stuff.”

“I understand.”

“Good. Good night.” My tone went a little harsh. I use my magic to turn the lights off, and lay in the bed.

“Um… I don’t-” I snap my fingers and a mattress materializes. “Oh, thank you.”

“No problem.” *Can you make a shield?* A shield manifests itself around me. *Thanks.* I then close my eyes,the blissful feeling of sleep embracing me…

I’m walking down a sidewalk. To where, I don’t know. What I do know is that I’m getting scornful looks from everybody. So are the other anthros. But most are directed at me. To say I was uncomfortable is an understatement. The next thing to happen was… unexpected. I rock was thrown to me, hitting me in the back of the head.

“Fuck you! You freak!” That set everyone else off. They all started to yell and throw things at me. Bottles, rocks, glass, and things I couldn’t make out, were flung me. The only I could do was fall to the ground and curls up into a ball. My wings tried to futally cover my body. The glass bottles shattered when they hit me, blood to pouring from the cuts the shards make.

“Go back to hell!”

“Go back to your filthy planet!”

“That voice.” I look up and see Twilight, and her friends, staring at me with absolute disgust. Rainbow smiling madly.

“I knew you were a monster! I WAS RIGHT!!”

“ENOUGH!!” The entire world literally shatters like glass around me. The shards falling into an infinite abyss. I’m left lying in total blackness, my body healed, like nothing happened. “We will not be tolerating that.” A new voice speaks out. I get back up and look at the source of the voice.

“Princess luna?”

“Tiss I Ember!”

“What are you doing here?” I really had no idea what was going on at this point.

“Ceasing that wretched nightmare you were experiencing.”

“Oh… another one...”

“You have had many like before?” I nod.

“Yeah… this isn’t the first one, just a different setting.” She pauses for a second, thinking about something. The blackness around was filled with millions of stars, galaxies, gas clouds, nebula. I never get tired of naming celestial objects.

“If I may ask. What started all of this?”

“Ever since I’ve been turned into… this...” I flare my wings half-heartedly. “When I got this new form, nobody accepted it. I was insulted, beaten, had shit thrown at me. My own kind shunned me for what I looked like. There were others like me, and like them, my life was turned into a living hell. Sometimes I’d end up in the hospital for broken bones, fractures, lacerations, stabbings, etcetera.” I chuckle darkly. “Shows how much people can fucking accept new changes.” This whole time Luna was silent. And slightly horrified by the looks of it.

“Tis a lie! Surely you are fabricating all of this...” I shake my head.

“Why would I need to lie about my past. I really was treated like that.” Her gaze hardens as she looks at me sharply.

“Let us make sure of that.” She disappears, and reappears, right in front of me. She touches the tip of her horn to my head. Next thing I know I’m thrown back into complete darkness. A few minutes pass, I think, before vision returns to me. I’m still within my own dreamworld.

“I will never understand how magic works.” I see that Luna is lying on some floor, her breathing loud and fast. “Luna? You ok?” Her eyes shoot open and she quickly gets up.

“Stay away from me!” She shrieks.

“Luna? It’s me, Ember.” A blue mist covers her horn, but dies as soon as it appeared. Her breathing still ragged and fast. “Are you ok?”

“Yes… Ember. *ahem* We are fine.”

“What happened?”

“We cast a spell that allowed us to see your memories.” She pauses. “We didn’t expect... what we witnessed.”

“Now you believe me?” She slowly nods.

“Yes, we do. But We just have one question.”

“What?“

“Why would your own people send under-aged children to war!?”

“Mortality rates were skyrocketing.” At that she pales a little.

“Why? Why are your kind so war-like?” I chuckle a little.

“At first we fought for land, then to expand religions, then to ‘Cure the world of the virus’. Before I arrived here it was for power.” I know I’m making it seem like the human race is nothing but brutish people who will do anything to gain power. But there are some silver streaks in the clouds. “Are you sure you received all of my memories? I would absolutely hate it If my personal life was invaded. And you would’ve seen that under the covers. My people are really divers, most of them anyway...” I shake my head. “Anyway, I would like it if we would move on. Besides I think I’m about to wake up.” The pseudo-universe around us is getting blurry.

“Alright, Ember.Fare Thee Well.” The stars and galaxies fade away. My eyes opening once again to see Twilight at the top of the stairs, gaping at me.

“Morning Twilight. Back for more studying?” I asks jokingly.

“Why is there a changeling in my house!?”

“I saved her from a fucking big… lion-thing.”

“A what!?”

“A big lion-thing that had wings and a scorpion tail.”

“A Manticore!?” I was getting up from bed, but I bumped my head against the fucking shield.

*You cheeky little jokester.* “Whatever you call those thing. I saved her from it, and her name is Chrysanthemum.” The shield breaks down, dissolving into the air.

“Whatever. WHY IS SHE IN MY HOME!?” Now Chrysi wakes up. I teleport right in front of Twi.

“Because I brought her here.” I think me acting cal over all of this is creeping her out a little.

“Why would bring a changeling into Ponyville!?”

“I have little to no knowledge of this place. Remember?” She hits herself in the face with a hoof.

“Right...”

“Besides, she’s not leaving. Before you ask why. I can keep her in check if she tries anything. She saw me kill that thing with my bare hands.”

“You killed a MANTICORE!?” I wonder how my ears weren’t bleeding out.

“It’d be really nice if you stop fucking yelling and calm down.” *Since when does that work at all?*

“How can be calm when there’s a changeling in MY house!?”

“Because I clearly haven’t done anything.” She finally chimes in.

“I was about to say that.” I smile at her, she got up from her bed and calmly walked over to us, Twi tensing up and giving her a sharp look.

“What he is saying is true, I saw him effortlessly kill that thing. I wouldn’t dare provoke him in any way.”

“See Twilight? What do you have against changelings anyway?” That set her off.

“They bucking invaded and ruined my brother’s wedding, trapped me and my sister-in-law in a bucking crystal cavern, defeated Princess Celestia in a magical stand-off, and hypnotised everypony at the bucking wedding!”

“Oh. Well how am I supposed to know about that, huh?” *And I think she said the pony equivalent to fuck.*

“I wasn’t apart of that.” Twi looks from me to Chrysi.

“What?”

“That was a different hive.”

“A different hive?”

“Yes, and the queen was Chrysalis, wasn’t it?”

“Yes… Why?”

“I knew it. She was known as a tyrant amongst other hives. Nobody liked her, or her ideas. What she did at your brother’s wedding was a shameful act of desperation.” It is at this point I decide to interject.

“I think that clears it up. Do you think so?” Twi mulls it over for a second.

“I suppose… As long as she stays in-line. But if you-”

“I have it taken care of Twilight.” I say really slowly. “Don’t worry about it.” I wave to her. “No if you’ll excuse us please?” Twi huffs and walks back up the stairs. Giving one last look to Chrysi. I speak when I hear the door close. “That could’ve gone better...”

“I agree.”

“Anyway!” I clap my hands. “Lets get back to questioning, shall we?” She nods and we both walk back to the main part of the room, where are beds are. Chrysie sits in hers while I sit on mine legs crossed. “Ok, I think I ask the last question last night, so go ahead.” She nods.

“How is it that you know nothing of us changelings, or of this place?”

“Well… I’m actually from another world.”

“Really?” I nod. “How do I know you’re not lying?”

“I’m a completely new being here, even to these fucking ponies, and from what I know of this place, which is minimal at best, is that there are no other being that can walk on two legs and fly, except for dragons.”

“That’s a long explanation for a simple question.”

“How else do you expect me to reassure you I’m not lying?”

“Good point.” I smirk a little.

“Besides feeding off of love, what else is unique about changelings?” How else was I supposed to phrase that?

“We changeling changes our physical form.”

“What?”

“Let me show you.” She quickly is swallowed by grey flames, it dies as quickly as it came. Twilight taking Chrysi’s place. “This is what I mean.”

“Twilight?” This really left me confused. Twilight’s engulfed in grey fire again. They die again and Chrysi’s back.

“It’s still me.” That’s when the circuits in my head connect.

“Ooooh! Ok, I get it.”

“My turn, you’ve been asking me about changeling… What are humans like?” Shit.

“Eh… Let me start with this, at first glance, humans seem to be predator and war like. A vicious species.” She blanches a little. “But that’s not the case. We’re an extremely diverse group. We kind, gentle, y’know generally nice. Even though there are people who are… negative.”

“Negative?” Fuck…

“Yeah… Some of my own kind hate us. Humans and anthros, and there ones who will do anything to gain power, money, anything they want. Would it be ok if I stop talking about my own kind?” She nods.

“Fair enough.” Silence fills the room.

“I hate silence, I’m gonna go upstairs. Wanna come with?” She nods.

“I don’t see why not.”

“Alright.” We both walk to the door, I open it… and Twi’s right on the other side. She’s standing there, wide eyed. “I really need to get my own place.” I mutter, I walk past Twi, Chrysi closely following. “At least I could get privacy with my own fucking house.”

“Does she do that a lot?”

“Apparently so...” Just then I remember something. “Hey Twilight!” She comes up.

“What?”

“Stop doing that, it’s fucking creepy, and where can I find something to do around this place?” Twi puts a hoof to her chin.

“Well… Applejack can always use help bucking appletrees.”

“Bucking… appletrees.” I deapan.

“Yes… what?”

“That makes no sense whatsoever. What exactly is bucking appletrees?”

“Applejack and her brother kick trees on their farm and collect the apples that fall from them.” Silence befalls this room for a solid minute.

“I’m not even going to question this one, and just go with it. I’ll see you later if I get a job. Where is this farm?”

“Go to the market and keep heading in that direction. You’ll be there in no time.”

“Would it be better if you take me there?” She face… hooves.

“You’re right. Come on.” She was about to head out the door, but… “Oh, and...”

“Chrysanthemum.” Chrysi states.

“Right, Chrysanthemum. I suggest you change into a pony.” Chrysi nods as she’s engulfed in grey fire for the third time. The flames die once again, leaving a pony with dark green mane and tail, a pristine white coat, and two bright green eyes, with a horn on her forehead. “Better, now lets go.” She’s very short with us. Anyone can tell she a thing against changelings.

Author's Notes:

Updates will not be as often as before.