I slowly folded and unfolded my wings. They were covered with an illusion of course, but I could still feel them and the air across them.
They felt a bit strange still. I glanced back at my right one as I spread it wide before folding it against my side again.
At anytime I could tell Discord to go fuck himself, to turn me back… and then Tempest Shadow would lose her horn again.
Taking a deep breath, I folded my wings again, squinting slightly against the bright morning light. It could have been a lot worse. It wasn’t all bad, not at all… my night vision was better for one thing. My hearing too.
But still.
If ponies knew… It was bad enough that I was an alicorn. If they knew this, I wasn’t sure what the reaction would be. I suspected nothing good would come from it.
They already knew alicorns. But batponies, real batponies, was a thing of myth and legends and nothing nice.
Fluttershy was the only real one I knew about. They were Rare with capital R, very rare.
Discord knew exactly how much I liked standing out and drawing attention to myself.
The bastard.
“Are you doing okay, sir?” Skitter asked as she moved up next to me.
I blinked at her in surprise before I smiled a bit and bowed for her, “I’m fine, you’re highness,” I answered, “I assume you know what happened?”
I think we were lucky not to have Amber do a dynamic entry at Discords stupid face when he did his thing.
An annoyed buzz erupted from her wings for a second as an answer and she nodded, “I do, sir.”
Sighing, I spotted the airship in the distance before I turned to look at her, “Do I taste like I’m doing badly?”
Skitter licked her lips a little, “...No,” she finally admitted softly, “not… exactly. But not like usual either.”
I frowned at her, “Oh?”
She shifted a bit, “Not bad. Just slightly different. You taste…. Hungry.”
“...I am a bit hungry,” I admitted, “I could use a sna-”
Skitter was holding an apple before my nose. A big. Juicy. Sweet. Juicy. Apple. The smell hit my brain like a heavy warhammer and before I knew it, I snatched it from her hoof and buried my fangs into it, sucking it dry, the previously red round and juicy apple turning into a shrunken and shriveled husk in my hoof.
“Hungry like a changeling,” Skitter said softly as I blinked before looking down at the shriveled up apple in my hoof.
I quickly glanced around and then tossed it over the edge of the tower, “Nobody saw that.”
The only ponies here were Skitter and myself, if that had happened during a castle dinner or something…
...Everypony would know.
Skitter brushed her wing against mine, “Sir, that’s something you are going to need to learn to control. How to deal with hunger is something all Changelings need to learn to handle. I might be able to help.”
I closed my eyes and took a slow, deep breath, licking my lips and trying to ignore the feeling of the fangs. It could have been worse, I had to keep telling myself. It could have been a lot worse.
It could have been the original curse he gave me.
It could have been ponies, not fruit. I was fairly sure that if Discord had not been ‘good’ now, it likely would have been.
Taking another deep breath, I nodded, “Tomorrow,” I said, “Tomorrow I’m leaving Canterlot for Ponyville. Lady Fluttershy may be able to help… I need to learn how to fly again and maybe she can help with that as well.”
Or yell at Discord until he reversed it but left Tempest her horn.
“I wanted to wait until Luna and Celestia got back along before I leave for Fluttershy,” I continued, “They trusted me to keep everything going until they got back. I couldn’t just leave.”
The airship was getting closer now. I could hear the wohf-wohf-wohf of the large rear propeller turning as it changed course, moving around in a circle to move in to dock with the tower we were standing on.
Skitter was quiet for a moment, “Do you think it’ll help?” she then asked softly, “It’s not an easy thing, dealing with hunger.”
I smiled a bit at her, “I suppose I’ll have to avoid fruit until then.”
Or just eat a lot more of it in private, I suppose. But no, I needed to get that in hoof or it’ll surprise me at a bad time. Now that would be a way to get discovered, by going nuts at the fruit display at some formal dinner.
The changeling princess frowned slightly at me before changing the subject, “After the wedding, you and Princess Luna had planned to leave for a few weeks. Are you still planning to?”
Sighing softly, I shifted my wings, “With everything that’s going on, we haven't actually discussed that yet. But that would be nice. Very nice. Maybe...maybe after I fixed…” I motioned at myself with a hoof, “...This. Or at least gotten it properly in hoof.”
Some time just sleeping on a beach with my nose in Luna's mane right now sounded like a very, very nice idea.
Oh Celestia, I need a vacation so, so badly. I covered for you once, it’s your turn now and I’m taking Luna along with me, maybe Sunset too.
Somewhere away from ponies and everything else, including yeti and lords of bucking chaos.
Soooo there was no trap by thestorm king?
Odd...
I wonder how much time left until they can so some dimensions hopping.
Because here, Twilight hasn't found a need to go back to the human world so the portal still has a time limit. Hmmm
Avoid fruit? As he's about to fly over Sweet Apple Acres?
Fanart!
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*has mental image of Applejack standing next to her
cabbageapple cart*"My cabbages apples!"
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Wakes up to a rooster crow.
“Uhhhh my head.” Turns over and sees a pile of shriveled apple cores. “Oh...no.”
“Not exactly how ahh’d like to be greeted in the Mornin’ darlin’.” Two orange hooves wrap around his barrel. “But after last night? Ah’ll take it.”
Only for Granny to burst in with a clove if garlic and a steak. “DRACULE! BEGONE FROM THIS PLACE!”
the worst-case scenario he waits until Tempest dies then the contract is up and he goes back to normal, or discord gets turned to stone again and all his changes get reversed
but to be honest illusion magic fall under his domain of stories, and being a bat pony would make illusions far easier than they already are for him so there is a silver lining atleast
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Another one joins the Harem
...I get the distinct impression that something is about to go wrong
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Give it another few chapters and will see
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Or he is just staring at her cutie mark, drooling a bit.
”Lord Page?”
“Yeah?”
I can’t help but feel you are staring.
“...I suppose I should stop.”
“.....”
“....”
Well?
“In a bit.”
Your highness, methinks.
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that and constantly using his magic is gonna improve his strength and endurance given the lore hiver has established with magic being partly like a muscle
Oh, yes, Page, go to the town right next to the giant apple farm.
That will work out well, I'm sure of it!
What about your Changelings Page?
You don't want to take your cuddle bugs with you?
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Well, this was good and all, but, who had the bag ? We may need it for when page flys over sweet Apple acres
Anywho, loved the chapter, can't wait for more also,
hail the moooonnbuck yes page is a bat, I love bat ponies and you have made me happy with this, also, good love bug, please train our bat9972276
Storm King disapproves and thinks that you should be ashamed to think that he would do something
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Flim and Flam seeking revenge attack Ponyville with their Applepult 3500. Instead of drowning the town in applesauce the apples disappear before striking, leaving behind a groaning Page looking like a vore fetishist.
So, with canines, does this mean Page has a relatively human set of teeth: shovels in front, grinders in back, and tearers in between? Or are the canines merely capable of sucking, as depicted in the show, but not representative of their function in reality? Has his digestive tract been altered significantly, can he eat meat safely? What about his sense of taste?
*few hours later...Page wakes up*
Page: Uggh Where am I? What happened?
Skitter: Sorry sir. I had no choice...I placed you in a cocoon until you got to your senses.
Page: Excuse me?
Skitter: Sir you ATE the entire Sweet Apple Acres and the Apple clan are outside with pitchforks. My changelings are the only thing keeping them at bay...SIR.
Page: Oh.....buck.
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Oh, I fully expect that King Algernon will turn around and promptly ignore whatever treaty he just signed the moment he thinks he can get away with doing so. He's just that kind of villain.
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Given that Sunset's communication journal is likely either in an evidence locker or returned to whoever her foster family was, it may be some time before anybody writes in it, informing Princess Celestia that the link still exists between the journals even with one of them in another world.
Whether or not she decides to either do anything or inform anypony about it is the question though.
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Prince Page's cuddlebug escorts will be following along, discretely of course, whether or not he tells them to stay of follow. After all, they primarily obey either Queen Chrysalis of Princess Skitter, not him, and their job is to be his bodyguards.
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Wouldn't it be Dracmule? Lol
...This can only end well. ONLY.
Knowing Hiver's stories, I think we're in for a twist, maybe two, more then it'll be on to the next story - Hiver, mate, you do have a fairly regular story size, both here and on SB/SV.
I personally think that there will be repercussions for trying to prank Celestia with his new form. Like, she has some sort of bad history with them or something. IDK, but I bet it'll be fun to read!
Keep up the good work dude!
Nice
Wonderful as usual. Keep up the wonderful work
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I'm pressing square
Huh... After all he had to endure he sure earned his vaccation. Wonder if his new Form spice things up. I cant see it not beeing 'better'
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MAGNIFICENT Would make a nice cover maybe?
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The apple familie sure will have a dedicated patron soon
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What could possibly go wrong? Wonder if Big Mac would cause the same reaction?
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Awww... This is a nasty guilty kick right in the heart... Dont know if to congratulate you on it or run for the hill in hope to escape it...
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Twilights might be perfect to help find that out. Luna sure find out how mutch better he performs now. I wonder how mutch difference between Luna Guard and Page is now.
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That a constant thing actualy
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Wait for it... Or rather a ambush? Most likely hes ignoring Equestria and go for everything else.
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Make that rapid fire!
Lets introduce him to MANGO`S
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Oh dear
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Maybe we get him so high on Mango Juice that we can Luna announce him the most fertile stallion + soon to be father? .... Hmmm... Mangooo~
Next Chapter:
Applejack: "Oh, hi Lord Page! Ah hope ya don' mind me hitchin' a ride on yer blimp. It was overflyin' Sweet Apple Acres, and Ah took th' opporturnity ta load up tha weekly delivery ta tha castle."
Page: "ohfuta--!"
Skitter: "EVERYPONY!! HIT THE DECK!!!"
Applejack: "Ohbuck!"
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Hm. That is probably the loudest I have ever heard Skitter speak.
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Hm... Apples ~♡
HMMM!!! MANGOSSSsssssssss
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Mango!
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Nice