My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

A Changeling’s Lament

Chapter 1

A Normal Life

Her hoof prints echoed though the cave as she made her way in.

“Come out, come out, wherever you are.” she playfully called out. Something stirred to her left. She took noticed and sadistically smiled. Her horn glowed green and stopped a hand from grabbing him. “I should warn you, I’m no weakling.” her magic grew stronger and slammed the hand down, pulling Oscurita into view. “now that I have your attention, I have a proposition for you.” Oscurita snared and tried to bite her but his mouth was clapped shut by a green whip. “be sure to hear me out before trying to turn me into lunch.” she walked forward a bit. A green orb appeared beside her, representing the hold she had on his mouth and hands.

“I’m about to go on a… violent property venture soon. Violent as to I’ll have to crack open a few skulls and break a few spines. And when I’m done, a new age will dawn for this world. But, there’s a problem with that. See, I tried this last time by trying to send my troops in during a wedding. Needless to say, it didn’t go well. I made a foolish error by announcing my attack beforehand and I certainly wasn’t expecting…” she paused and stopped with that part of the explanation. “so, I plan to invade again, but this time, I planned for every possible contingency. And the only way for it to go off without a hitch…” she glanced over to Oscurita and smiled.

He snarled at her and attempted to break the magic holding him. “oh well.” she sighed. “I guess you can stay this way forever. I know of a way to turn you back the way you were.” the cave became silent, much to her pleasure. She looked back at the more timid Oscurita. “now you’re interested, aren’t you… eTu`nes?” Oscurita went wide-eyed when he heard that name. he hadn’t heard it in forever, not since…

the mystery pony sent the orb away, breaking the magic hold over him. She flew on over and got a bit too close for comfort. “Listen carefully.”

The cork of a champagne bottle popped off as the gang celebrated Luna’s and Trixie’s engagement and Rarity’s pregnancy.

Edge felt a shiver go down his spine and shook with it. A fearful Edge gasped and looked out the nearest window. Fluttershy noticed him this and got worried.

There was a storm coming, a powerful one that will change the very foundation of the world.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4By8YHOnILo

Edge fell to the ground, bloodied and beaten. Above him, Chrysalis and the Changeling horde mocked him.

“how could you join with those vile ponies?” Chrysalis demanded. “They will never accept the real you as one of their own. You would have to keep up your pathetic excuse for a disguise for the rest of your life.”

“but they aren’t all bad.” Edge retorted, hoping to get thought to his queen.

“like that Fluttershy pony? Please, she hates you the most.”

“no. no, that can’t be true.”

Chrysalis’ horn glowed green, the glow forming into a blade. “for acts against the Changeling horde, I sentence you to death!”

“no.” Edge gasped. Chrysalis smiled a sadistic smile and sliced down at him. “No!”

Edge shot awake and nearly fell from the couch. He panted, trying to wrap his mind around his dream. Thankfully, it was just a dream. He held his head as he panted, only to feel something wet. He moved his hoof back to see water on it. He must’ve been sweating in his sleep.

“heh. Didn’t know Changeling’s could sweat.” he panted to himself. He looked out the window and saw that it was still night. He looked at the clock, seeing the time as 4 o’clock A.M. he sighed and fell back.

“5 months. Has it really been that long?” Edge lamented as he closed his eyes.

5 months, 12 days, 8 hours.

Mirror’s Edge has been counting the days he had been rescued from near death by Fluttershy. Since then, he had been grateful to her. So grateful that he found himself unable to leave until he paid her back. Of course, that’s when she say’s he finally paid back. But during that time, he had grown into a productive member of the town, becoming one of them. For a Changeling, this is quite the feast. Changelings feed on love but everyone’s giving it to him willingly; mostly due to the fact that he has himself disguised as a crimson unicorn.

During his stay, he realized that Chrysalis’ plan of taking it by force is stupid. There was a better way, even if he has to be in a eternal disguise. He has a good life and he’s not going to ruin it by revealing the truth.

Edge grumbled as he woke up again that day. He had another nightmare, worse then the first one. With puffy eyes, he got up and looked out the window. It was already mid-day.

“Damn.” he groaned. “Rainbow’s going to kill me.” he moaned and groaned as he got off the couch and cracked his back. He really needs to find a bed; even bad backs can effect changelings.

He looked around and saw that Bahamut was already long gone. He started heading for the kitchen when he noticed a certain yellow Pegasus sitting in the snow outside. “Fluttershy? What’s she doing out there?” he grabbed a scarf and headed outside to find out why.

Waking up with the love of your life next to you is something not everyone can experience. For Spike, however, it is the best feeling in the world.

He stared down at his slumbering mistress and smiled as he rubbed her belly. Growing inside her was their child. His child. Even two weeks after finding out, he still couldn’t believe it. It seems like a dream.

Rarity woke up to the feeling of him rubbing her belly and smiled. “Morning.” she said.

“morning.” he replied with a kiss on the snout. “how are you feeling?”

“Well, not getting any morning sickness yet so that’s good.”

Spike chuckled. “you know, I keep thinking about how our little guy or gal will look like. After all, Dragon/Pony hybrids haven’t been seen in centuries.”

“I know; I was thinking that too till Req found a book that focused on Hybrids. Turns out it all depends on who the mother is. And since I’m the mom, it’s obviously going to a pony with elements from you like wings or a tail or something like that.”

“And if I was the mom?”

“Then it would be a dragon, like you, with pony elements like my hair or charming personality.”

“I think Applejack would disagree on the personality thing.”

Rarity chuckled. “yeah, guess she would.” Spike was about to get up when Rarity stopped him. “we’re gonna make great parents, aren’t we?”

“certainly. And we had practice. You raised Sweetie Belle; I’m raising Peewee.”

“but she’s 7 years old and he’s a phoenix.”

Spike went ‘un…’ for a moment. “well, I didn’t say it was perfect.”

Rarity got up and out of bed. “well, nobody is. And those who think they are are stupid.”

“No argument here.”

Speaking of perfect, Trixie woke up to a perfect day with her perfect fiancée. Just 2 weeks from now, she’s going to be married to Princess Luna. She’s practically giddy with anticipation. And both of them didn’t have to worry with planning the wedding by themselves. Celestia helped, Twilight helped, Rarity helped, Amelia, Sora, and Requiem helped; everyone they knew was helping. Heck, even Cadence is saying this looks to be a bigger wedding then her’s and Armor’s.

And she was right… in more ways then one…

Someone else, who’s hiding not far from Canterlot, was giddy as well.

“another royal wedding after just 8 months?” she snickered. “how intriguing. And it’s not some out-of-nowhere princess. It’s Princess Luna and some street performer. This sounds too easy and too hard.”

“what do we do now, my liege?” her subordinate asked.

“There’s lesson’s to be learned in defeat.” she looked back to the subordinate and smiled. “we won’t make the same mistakes twice, my little changeling. No we won’t.” she looked down at her hooves. They were still injured from the last time they tried this. “and I know how to go about this.”

Something stirred not far from them. They both looked back at it, the female smiling. “and with HIS help, it will succeed.”

Edge dragged his way though the snow to Fluttershy‘s location, complaining as he went along. “I hate snow. It’s always wet and inconsistent. Plus, it’s cold.”

As he got closer, he could hear the faint sounds of singing, getting louder as he got closer to the animal lover. When he finally got close enough, he heard the song and was instantly mesmerized by it.

Begin Song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDfqCNgeHTU

Serah’s Theme - Final Fantasy XIII OST

Fluttershy was singing all by herself to the remaining woodland critters that were still awake fro the winter. Edge slowed to a crawl when he heard it.

Fluttershy:
♪Make my wish come true, let darkness fade to light
Show me there's still hope, show me it's not over
Battles we can win, our struggle lies within
Will we live to greet the dawn?
Love will not leave you, hate will not heal you
Promise me one day that peace shall reign♪

1:03. End Song.

Fluttershy closed her eyes and held her heart when she stopped. She heard snow being trampled and looked back to see Edge walking up to her. “Edge? What are you doing outside? I thought you hated the cold.”

“I do but I saw you sitting out here and wondered why. And when I came… I heard your beautiful singing.”

‘Shy blushed. “it was nothing special.”

“no. it was the most amazing singing I ever heard. There’s no words to describe it.”

Fluttershy blushed even further. If he was a regular pony, she would swear he was flirting with her. “you really like it?”

“like it? I love it.”

“well, truth be told, it’s a lullaby my mom’s sang to me when I was a baby. I wasn’t able to remember till I reunited with them in Las Pegasus. Thanks, by the way.”

Edge smiled. “No prob.” he winked at her. “what are friends for?”

Fluttershy silently chuckled. “oh. Speaking of which, Rainbow Dash was looking for you.”

Edge freaked out. “Ah! I forgot.” he concentrated and put on his disguise. “thanks for reminding me.” he turned around and ran as fast as he could to Ponyville. ‘Shy smiled as he ran off. Edge really changed. he wasn’t resentful and out-of-place; he was fitting in quite nicely. If only other Changelings were like him.