Chapter 4
By Rainchaserbrony
“What?” said Shining Armor. He was dumbstruck at his wives accusation of one of his underlings. “He’s served under me since he joined the guard. He and his sister are a little odd but they fought the changelings just the same as any of the others. There brother may be despised by everyone in the guard but I trust them truly.”
“Well then. Let’s just check him for illusion magic. It’s an easy enough spell.” Said cadence, Shining’s wife and princess of love. “You just ask him to talk and ill cast the spell.”
“Fine. Let’s check him for illusion magic. But if he’s not using any you need to apologies.” Said shining with a true and well set face. “And if he is a changeling ill buy you a new dress.”
They headed towards their hotel to set up for RC’s test. It was an elegant room and shining called RC to his room for the meeting. He asked shade to be ready outside the door in case of danger.
“RC, can you come here for a minute?” said Shining as Cadence fid in the corner. Shining still had his doubts but to put cadences fears to rest he was willing to persevere.
“What you need boss?” Asked RC
“RC, I was thinking about how I got where I am now and remembered that day we went to check out the basilisk in appeloosa you remember that day? It is the one that pretty much set the way for my future. And it all thanks to you.” As shining was talking cadence had started to charge her spell. When she released it what happened next shocked them?
“RC what is wrong with your wings?” said Cadence and Shining simultaneously.
“shnit.” Said RC as he tried to conceal his no longer bat wings. Where they once were stood a pair of rugged torn up ‘shadow’ wings. In a flash of green they where gone and his regular wings where back. “well, now that you’ve seen my real wings I guess that I should tell you a bit more about my family history. Cadence you where close about me being a changeling, but not completely. I am what’s called a ‘shadow Pegasus’. I have wings made of shadow so that’s how I’m one. My sister and brother each have a leg that is made of shadow. It gives s minor reaches in to the magical plane, except shade who is a unicorn so she has magic, just more than the average unicorn.”
When me and my siblings where about 2 years old a dragon attacked our town where our father Sombra led. It was a place for ponies that were disliked by the people of equestrian. I and shade managed to escape to the badlands where our mother was originally from. She was part changeling. We thought that we were the last survivors of the town when we went back and saw it was devastated by fire and a dragon sleeping in the middle of it all.”
Apparently though dragon managed to escape to his grandfather steel skull’s cave. When he went back he saw a pony in a cart coming, that pony was ‘the great and powerful’ trixy. She was dragon’s cousin on his mother’s side. She, like dragon where both draconian. After me and shade left the hive 3 years ago, it was starting to fall in to shambles. And now after being reunited to our brother after 8 years of being separate we had our family back. Except for our mothers and father. And now 3 years after me and shade left the hive they come and attack the city to get food. Luckily charsl found a pony who didn’t want the hive to be hit with genocide since only charsl and the few banished changelings where left. She also didn’t want some ponies she was close to to have that mark on their souls.”
Luckily now that there is a new queen with a new hive we will have some new ponies to teach.”
Needless to say, cadence and shining where speechless. They felt that while RC’s speech wich brought both dragon and shade in to the room might have been a lie it was still well put and heart felt.
“well than, my turn to speak of the past” said shade…