I slowly woke up, my vision was blurry and my leg hurt but I couldn't tell what was wrong with it. I waited for my vision to fully come back before I tried to get up, and when I stood up I became painfully aware of why my leg hurt.
"UGH!! My leg!" I looked at it and it was broken. "Ok calm down you don't want to be heard." I tried to walk lifting my leg up which proved to be harder then I thought I tried to send the other changelings a distress message and got nothing back. I had lost all contact. After walking for a few minutes I tried flying, I made it about ten/fifteen feet before I had to land. I tried not to land on my broken leg but I somehow managed to hurt it anyway. I started walking again, looking for any other changelings that might have landed in the general area. the only one I had found was.....dead. He broke his neck on impact, I spent a few minutes mourning and then gave him a proper burial. That had also nearly squashed my will to keep going but I knew I had to, I had to live for him and find other changelings.
I saw a town nearby but I knew it had ponies in it so I avoided it. I need help but they probably wouldn't help me. I turned around and started walking. I had no idea where I was going but I hoped I could find at least another one of my kind. I had to have hope or I might just give up. I tried to flying again and I got up high enough to see that I landed in a field. I flew a little further then last time and made sure to land softly this time around. I'm a little to tired to fly so it looks like I'm walking for awhile.
It's been a good twenty minutes and still nothing. I have thought about going into that town but I shook that thought out of my head quickly although that does seem to be my only option right now. I kept walking on my seemingly meaningless quest and I was starting to give up. With having searched the immediate area, I decided to widen my search. I saw a forest and went to search it. "It would be a good idea to leave a trail so I wont get lost." I thought, The first tree saw I marked it with a scratch. I did the same thing with every tree I saw. It was tedious but I don't want to get lost.
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It seemed like forever since I entered this forest and not one sign of my brethren. I looked back at the marked trees and again thought about going to that town. I looked forward and continued walking instead, but this time the thought was still in my head. I saw a small hut that was carved into a tree. I looked inside and saw a striped pony with all sorts of rings on and kept walking because I didn't want here to see me. I walked for another good while and I saw some sort of ruins, I searched it but didn't find anything so I piled up some rock as a marker seeing how there were no trees and continued on.
I walked for a little longer and saw a cave with a door on it. It looked abandoned. "Hey a changeling might b hiding in there!" I thought out loud and went over and opened the door. What I saw was something out of a nightmare. There were bloody pelts and animal heads hung up on the wall. I tried not to vomit and turned around to run out but I saw some kind of creature standing in the door way.
"Ah what is this I see hmm?" It said. I was silent and didn't answer it. "Can you not speak strange creature?" I remained silent. It shrugged "I guess not," It walked passed me an eerie chill followed behind. "come in I will not harm you." I shook my head and started backing away. "I haven't had a visitor in a while, would you please stay?" I stopped and sighed, and sat down at the small fire pit. "Thank you. I haven't seen anything like you in the forest before, so that means you are not from here." I suddenly got nervous. "And I would know, I've been all over the forest." It stopped and looked at me. "Don't be nervous I will not harm you as I have said. I'm Shadow by the way."
"I...I'm....M...M...Match."
"Oh so you can talk. Nice to meet you Match. So tell me, What are you?"
"A...a changeling."
"Hmm....I've not heard of changelings before."
"And w...what are...y...you?"
"A shadow beast. I doubt you heard of us before."
"No I haven't....wait! there are more of you!?!"
"Calm down Match, there aren't. It's just me." He looked at my leg. "Huh, you've got a broken leg. You should go into town and get some help."
"I would...but ponies don't really like my kind very much."
"Really?"
"Yeah ever since the wedding in Canterlot..."
"Oh so changelings are what attacked Canterlot. Hmm...oh well."
"You're not going to imprison me or anything?"
"Nope. Not my place to."
"I see...How long ago was the wedding?"
"You don't know?"
"No I don't. We were repelled from Canterlot and I crash landed in a nearby field, and I got knocked out on impact."
"I see well...It was three days ago."
"Three days!! I've been out for that long!?!?"
"Yep. you should be glad you're still able to move. Oh right...have you eaten anything?"
"No I haven't."
"I see, what do changelings eat? I'll make you something real quick."
I looked around. "Nothing here..."
"Oh.....I see. Well I do have these berries you can have."
"Those should work."
"Ok here you are." It handed me a handful of black berries.
"Thank you." I ate them within three seconds.
He laughed. "You should go into town and find Fluttershy, she should be able to help you."
"But I don't want to go into town."
"I know but you'll only make it worse. Follow me, I'll show you the path out of the forest."
He went out of the door and I followed him through the forest.
Hopefully I'll figure something out.