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A Heart's Desires

"Mummy! Mummy! Look at what the spell I invented does!" A young filly chirruped happily, fluttering her newly cast butterfly wings. They were the prettiest thing the filly had ever seen, and she was proud of them. "Mummy! Mummy, are you coming?"

The filly sighed dejectedly. Her mother never wanted to see her new spells or anything she made anymore. Her mom used to love to see her creations, but ever since her dad died, Princess Crystal had been mostly on her own. She knew why, she looked so much like her father, which made it hard for her mom, but still... She was just a filly, she shouldn't be alone like this! She missed her mother's stories, baking cookies when it was rainy together, having her mum call her 'My little Gem' fondly.

Kris (as she preferred to be called) left the palace for a walk in the woods. Just sitting in a meadow full of wildflowers deep in the woods, which she had discovered shortly after her father's death, was calming for her. As she walked slowly down the path, her mind wandered to her parents. When she lost her dad, she lost her mother too. She wanted nothing more than to see her mum as she had been before.

When she reached her meadow, she tripped over the roots of a plant that wasn't there before. "Oof... what's this flower?" Kris muttered. She smelled the flowers, and her eyes went wide. It smelled delicious! She licked a petal, and quickly ate the entire flower, and rapidly moved on to the next, until she had eaten all of them. She sighed contently, she was happy for now. Kris began drifting off, and soon fell asleep in the shady meadow.

As she slept, the Heart's Desire began to work itself. Everywhere sunlight broke through the tree cover and hit her body, that part of her began to fizzle away...

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After a few hours, Crystal came to. She felt... different. Shrugging it off, she got to her hooves. She stretched out her legs, and gasped. They had large holes in them! Her lovely white hooves had holes in them! She turned to look at her hind hooves, and gasped again. In addition to her hind hooves having holes, her tail had holes in it too, which made no sense, the hairs had been cut, but the cut off part was still connected. "Mirror! I need a mirror!" Kris shrieked and ran to the lake that lay within the forest. She saw her horn, elongated but with holes carved out. Her mane, with holes like her tail, and both of them looked like they were soaking wet. And her wings, oh her wings! They were mostly gone, with holes all through them. Kris stared at her reflection in shock, what had happened to her? She began to sob, and with each tear, the water's surface began to change, becoming murky, and eventually, a strange pony began to rise from it.

"Who are ye, one who has disturbed my slumber?" Demanded the pony-thing, its voice holding an echoed quality, as if the creature was in a cave. It glared at her, its eyes scary, with a feline pupil within a regular pupil. It looked similar to how she did now, holes everywhere, mangled horn, cobweb like wings... the only difference was this pony was dark as obsidian, its entire body was as black as the volcanic glass, its mane and tail somehow darker, but its eyes... the strange eyes kept getting to her, they were red like blood. Crystal gaped at the creature. She was certain she was doomed.

"I repeat, who disturbs my slumber? Who are you to bother me?!" The pony demanded.

"I am Princess Crystalline Geode-Song, of the..." Kris began then stopped. After a bit of thought, she steeled herself and said, "I'm Kris, okay? I don't know who the buck you think YOU are, but this is NOT A GOOD TIME TO BUG ME!!!" Punctuating her statement by stomping the ground with what was left of her hooves.

"Well well, aren't we spirited. I will humor you, my name is Queen Cocoon, and I rule the Selkie race. You seem to be well on your way to joining us, Crystalline. Look at yourself, the holes in you hooves, your twisted horn. You are surely the filly meant to succeed me. Odd, I was certain one of my changelings would have been my successor. Tell me dear, do you crave to take the love of somepony?"

"What are you talking about?"

"Why, food of course. The Selkies feed on love. They change into a loved one and feed on the love somepony else has for the one they took the place of."

"I don't want that! I just want my mum to be happy again!" With that, Kris ran home, the Queen watching her leave, amused.

"Good bye, my little pony. I can hardly wait for us to next meet."

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