I laid on the ceiling with sticky hooves, pressing the side of my skull to the concrete, Listening and sensing the World above.
Tremors of hooves on cobble, soil, wood, the vibrations and murmur of speech and huma-... What was a human? Pony. They were the sounds of Ponies, going about their happy lives. The world was busy with life and motion, seen in shutter-shot images of sound that trembled up through my hooves.
Perhaps later I would return to this spot and listen to the rest, engage in learning more about them. For now I concentrated, tunneling my vision to focus on two very important Ponies. Or a Pony,and her Dragon at least. Spike's softer, skin-like tread hard to detect as he walked, waddling through the library and turning to face a following Twilight.
Twilight was easy to spot, to hear. She was currently ranting, little face all scrunched and red with confused irritation.
"Why did you call It DUDE?!" She barked, the click of her teeth audible from where I lay. "It is not a 'Dude', Spike, It's a dangerous, Deadly Monster! You hit me with a bucket, and made my horn Ache!" She stumbled in her anger, tongue trickling out a splash of scattered syllables before she wrestled it back into control "W-whya-What If it had attacked?! I could have been hurt, You could have been hurt!" There was an ache of sharp, almost motherly terror to her voice as she audibly trembled, perhaps in imagined fear at her little dragon being harmed.
Spike had taken a step, maybe two, back by now. I could imagine his little arms coming up to defend himself from the onslaught of nigh-maternal beration. His voice countered my assumption of his cowardice, however, as the drake straightened his posture and spoke back in a calm, strong voice "He couldn't have hurt you, Twilight, I was there and there's guards on every corner who'd hear the distress wards!" He drained of his indignant strength, and spoke softer, though only slightly.
"Besides Twilight, I'm sorry about the horn but I couldn't have let you hurt him."
Something in Spike's stance, his voice or his look that I couldn't perceive must have pierced through Twilight's anger. The unicorn recoiled away as if hse had been bitten by a snake. Her voice trembling as she spoke, talking quickly. "I-I wasn't going to hurt It Spike! I... I couldn't have.. I'm not the bad guy here!"
Spike sounded unimpressed, almost sad. "But you were going to hurt him, Twilight. You had the same look as when you were investigating Pinkie."
The words cut, Sparkle rearing and snapping hotly "I didn't hurt Pinkie!"
The dragon remained strong, pointing out that "You Like Pinkie Twilight. You're friends, but you still looked like you were ready to strangle her back then!"
Twilight stepped back this time, a blush in her voice of embarrassment "But I neve-!"
"You don't Like the changeling, Twilight. You never have, and you keep refusing to even call Him by his real gender. I know what spell you were charging" Spike spoke plainly, giving the impression that he knew exactly what he was saying.
"Th-.. What are y-?! ...What are you say-" Twilight had several false starts, stammering and treading nervously, eventually working through to irritation, Intellect failing in her anger. "Don't Interrupt me Spike! And don't try and use that against me!" She snapped, voice hot with a sheen of motherly anger "I don't know where this attitude is coming from Spike, but I don't want to see it again!" Twilight stepped forward "I wasn't charging /that/ spell, and I know I shouldn't have, even if I was..." She faltered, gritting through it with sheer willpower "b-but even If I had been, It would have deserved it. It is not a He or a him or a 'dude!' It is a heartless, terrible Monster that nearly Killed one of my Best Friends! If Cadence hadn't been there as fast as she was, to take away the pain and stop Fluttershy going into shock, then I might h-have lost her!!" Twilight choked at the end, her emotions welling up and merging with agonised pain and sadness.
Spike faltered too, stepping closer and halting on his words, even with my horn constrained I could almost feel the palpable empathy in the dragonling's voice. "Twilight... I know it's hard that Fluttershy got hurt, but you can't let that get in the way. I mean It's not as if it was really that bad."
Twilight practically blew the drake's head off with her snapping tone, though it lacked anger "Not that bad Spike? Fluttershy almost bled to death! Cadence said she was only a minute from being irrecoverable!"
Spike flinched nigh audibly, biting off his own anger to speak calmly "I k-know that's what Cadence said Twi... But I spoke to Redheart too, and she said that Fluttershy's shoulder was more cut than Hurt. Nothing important had been cut, and the incision was clean!"
Twilight stepped away with a heady clomp, snipping chillingly "are you saying that Cadence was lying?!"
Prompting a quick, stammering response from her smaller assistant "N-no!" He recovered his calm quickly, explaining through a skeen of nerves "I'm just saying that Cadence might have overplayed things! There must have been a lot of blood, and Rainbow was panicking, then there was that whole thing where you ran off into the woods with the guards!"
Spike's caretaker stammered without words herself, perhaps trying to think of a response, before she settled on a weak "s-s... Still!" the unicorn wracked herself before expanding "Still. my horn aches, and I don't think that Thing is going to speak to me..."
The dragon's response was quiet. I had to strain to hear it, the voice soft "Maybe if you tried calling him a 'him', not an 'It?"
The mouthy, intelligent librarian had no response.
"...Maybe we should go with a cupcake?" Spike queried, moving his carer towards the door gently, her hooves dragging with the fatigue of anger.
I didn't hear her answer, the pair already leaving.
great to see an other chapter of this great story, I hope to see more of it soon.
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^,^
Any comments on the story?
Always looking for Rs&Rs.
6957170 well it is interesting to see how a changeling is treated by the Equestrian, and we see the darker side the characters when being at the wrong end of their ire. for what I can see Fluttershy might have been brainwash by Chrysalis after she was done with the guy. I wander what happened to Rarity after the event. Still I love the suspense that you in your story so far all does, I feel strange that Luna made a 180 on her opinion on him after all the effort she had deployed to keep him alive.
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Luna's 180 does have reasoning behind it. ^,^
Good commentary though!
I did try to keep their bloodthirstiness within limits, and give them foils to bring them back into the light.
lookIng good. ContInue yo be a voIce of reason spike. though try not to have him say the perfect thing at the perfect time to often, while he its well read and mature for hired age he its ark young. However he was good this chapter.
I literally can't remember anything about this story and cbf reading it again. Anyone give me a rundown?
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IN THE LAST EPISODE
Edward was offered a deal by a Mysterious Mr Ord!
He landed hard in Equestria, and was found by a Father-Daughter pair, Silver Lining and Golden Oats.
Golden Oats thought he was a monster, and fought with his daughter about the captivity!
After Golden Oats left to gather evidence from Twilight Sparkle, Silver lining and Edward bonded, the new changeling learning his limits and his diet.
Twilight Sparkle and Friends returned! They demanded entrance, claiming the newly made changeling to be dangerous!
There was confusion and Terror! The changeling stunning Rarity with paralytic venom,
then escaping in her guise. During the escape, Fluttershy was injured.
Twilight and The changeling caught up in the woods, and were chatting when
Princess Cadence/Chrysalis appeared!
The Changeling Edward was nigh murdered, Waking up in hospital,
where he was spoken to via dreams by Luna.
Things went sour, and Edward woke in a dungeon with Twilight as his captor!
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Human conscious taking over the body of a (dead) changeling. I can't remember but I think Discord is the cause. He has the memories of the changeling still in him, and it appears the memories are taking over the human consciousness. Chrysalis faked out the elements convincing them not to kill him but also stopping him from revealing her. The memories tell him she killed a lot of changeling and stuff and he has a deep seated, instinctual hatred for her because of it. He can't talk in pony speak when not having access to magic to shape shift his vocal cords. Also, when he tried talking to Luna, she went way ooc and now straight up believes he is Satan himself.
Iunno, the story is okay, but needs some serious work.
Also, those capitalized letters to emphasize words. Just awful...
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Good commentary!
Sorry about the capitals. Imma bad pony for that XD
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I remember now, thanks for the rundown fellas! (I also agree that the random capitals are annoying and should probably be taken out, but just my opinion)
I feel like aiming 100 152mm artillery cannons at the ponies and keep firing none stop for 10 days straight due to their hypocrite attitude.
6958949 I agree with him, Luna was pretty OOC... She would have at least requested to see his memory of the events, if only to get the full account of what happened...
(EDIT: Celestia would have likely requested it, too... "Dear sister, seeing as you've at least made contact with the creature's mind, do you think you could check out on the memories of those incidents, so we have the full account of the crimes he's commited, if only to have the best case in it's trial?" Something like that, and Luna would begrudgingly accept. Then, problem solved. He could have even showed it, as they were in his bucking mind... I have no bucking idea why he didn't show the, you know, undeniable proof of his benign, albeit survivalist, nature! He never wanted to hurt anyone he did, they were for, in order: not under his full control, for the sake of survival (which he apologized for, and not his idea. This will go to show that something is pretty suspect about Cadence... Especially her, you know, INEXPLABLY GREEN MAGIC!!!
Honestly someone needs to slap all those ponies and call them idiots!!!!
Awesome story dude!
Tagging this with a downvote. Don't use character tags when they barely feature in the story.
UPDATE DAMN IT YOU GOT ME STUCK HERE SO NOW YOU HAVE TO KEEP IT GOING. DO ET.
TOASTER LUNA DEMANDS AN UPDATE!!!
sooo...are you gonna update this? Because it's quite good!
Hoo-rah another great story that an author decided to abandon.
This story still updating?
This is probably my favourite 'Human-turned-changeling' story. I like to read this whole thing once every couple of years. Sad that it never got finished.
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I'm not the Author. I just made a guess as to why this chapter was out.
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Can you not tell the difference between green and purple?
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In this story changeling magic has a perception filter on it. You havr to focus to notice.
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The filter is good that even author doen't know how to continue this story