Equestrias Legends - Tale of the Little Changeling
by Gabushe Shy
“Mom, I’m bored!” Flurry Heart complained “I know that I should learn how to run an empire, but this is tedious and annoying!”
“I know that you don't like it, but you need to learn it, and practice it so you will keep the Crystal Empire strong and safe as it is today. And you should be little bit quieter.” Cadence whispered. “But you can talk to King Thorax afterwards; maybe he would finally tell you the Tale of the Little Changeling.”
“Oh, ok. I really hope that he would tell me, he always says that I am too young, but I have my cutie mark already!” Her daughter went through a pile of emotions in once, ranging from disappointment to happiness.
A few hours later
“Uncle Thorax! Uncle Thorax!” Flurry Heart ran through halls of the crystal castle, trying to catch king Thorax before he wanders of somewhere else.
“Yes, Flurry?” Thorax asked with a kind smile on his face.
“Could you tell me the Tale of the Little Changeling? Please, please, please.” Flurry Heart said making puppy eyes “I even have my cutie mark now, so I am old enough to hear the story!” She continued, stomping her hoof to the ground to make her feel more serious.
“Well…” Thorax pondered for a minute, then continued on “since princess Twilight told me that she already told you some of her stories I suppose you are old enough to hear the Tale of the Little Changeling. But beware! It is not sunshine and rainbows.” He added after another minute or two of thinking, warning Flurry Heart.
“Okay, but why it isn't sunshine and rainbows. Every story that aunt Twilight told me included rainbow at some point, so why not this one?” She asked giving Thorax puzzled look.
“You see...” Thorax chuckled “the rainbow was made by the Elements of Harmony. And since your aunts were not present, the Elements of Harmony were not used and therefore there wasn't any rainbow.” He explained to her.
“That makes sense. So when will you tell me the tale?” Flurry Heart satisfied with her answer went back to the original topic.
“Yes. It all began almost thirteen years ago at the wedding of your mother and father…” Thorax started.
***
Thorax was buzzing over Canterlot with rest of the swarm, waiting for the signal from his queen to begin destroying the protective shield that was covering the whole city of Canterlot.
Finally the signal came. He began flying and jumping on the shield to break it. At start it was strong and it seemed unbreakable, but as the protector - he was pretty sure it was a stallion named Shining Armor, but not entirely sure - strength weakened, the whole shield started to crack on its own. Work is now so much easier, he thought.
Not so long afterwards the shield fell and some of his swarm mates flew off to Canterlot. Thorax stayed on his spot, because he needed to wait on signal from queen Chrysalis again. Only the changelings that were higher ranked or pleased their queen in some way short time ago had the privilege to go and feed before the signal came through the Hive Mind.
“I should go too,” Thorax sourly muttered under his breath ‘I'm her son after all,’ he ended his thought in his mind. He then realized that he hadn't got the queens blessing like some of his brothers or sisters, the only thing that separated him from the ordinary changelings was his slight discoloration.
While at his sour thoughts, the signal to come and feed came, so he missed it. When he finally realized that the signal came, almost all of his swarm mates already came down to Canterlot, so he could say goodbye to a good meal.
He flew down to Canterlot, where he saw few ponies running, trying to fight other changelings, but came to a quick halt few meters above them when he felt the feelings of love for each. No, on second thought that wasn't love, it was something less romantic but equally strong. Maybe it was the friendship thing that he heard his mother - no, she wasn't his mother, she left him to be raised like the other changelings - talk about. What did she said? Oh yes, ‘that pernicious thing called friendship will destroy our kind one day’.
Anyway, he felt that he couldn't feed on it nor steal - even if the feeling was strong enough to feed him for days. He instead flew to a small alley where he found few ponies that he - with disgust - fed off.
One love bomb and few days later, Thorax and the swarm finally came to their hive. Even if the love bomb wasn't a pleasant form of travel, it certainly fed Thorax and let him store enough love for few weeks at least. There was still one thing that was bugging him; the inability of his kind to share love - yes, after he saw the ponies fighting in friendship, he realized that he didn't want to steal love, he wanted to share it.
***
“And that is why I snuck one late evening out of my hive…” Thorax ended the first part of his story.
“Wow, but there is more to it, isn't it? I already figured out that you are the changeling, but that doesn't explain why you look like you look like this,” Flurry Heart pointed at Thoraxes chest “from what mom and dad told me, at their wedding the changelings were only black and blue. And you are everything but black and blue.” She ended.
“Well, if you would listen, I would tell you how it all happened,” Thorax said, giving Flurry Heart a wink. “So, since the hive was at south, I went to the north…”
***
Thorax stood at an entrance to some village. He didn't really care what the name of the village was; he just wanted a permanent home and some meal.
When he entered, the ponies gave him scared looks and were running into their homes. ‘Well, this isn't a really pleasant greeting’ he sourly thought, his mood quickly went downhill.
***
After many months of starvation Thorax finally caught a faint trace of love. The only problem was that the ponies in the city ran him out like any others. He tried to survive in the frozen north, but the place was too hostile even for him. That is until he met a certain dragon.
***
“And for the rest of the story you will need to bug Spike or Starlight.” And with those words Thorax ended his tale.