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// The Scroll 
// Story: A Royal Secret 
// by Changeling 26 
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The following is what Twilight Sparkle read…
My name is Orange Mist, and I am writing this because I feel that everypony should know the truth before I lose myself. Before nopony in all of Equestria remembers any of what happened here.
It began awhile ago, before the Princesses and the Prince had any sort of power, they were to young to remember the day that their father, King Empyrean was slain in the great Equine-Dragon War. When word reached Queen Terra that her husband was dead, she changed.
The Queen had always been known for being kind and gentle, always helping the King find more peaceful solutions to the kingdoms problems. But the day that her husband died, the Queen we all knew and loved died, and a darker, more sinister Queen was born. She made the dragons fear her and the kingdom, ending the war.  She brought a new era to Equestria that made the land fall into the hand of an awaiting ancient being.
Its been said that Queen Terra actually had an alliance with the spirit of chaos, some even say that he acted like a father to the princesses. But the oldest of princesses saw the evil that had flooded her mothers heart, she saw the horrible conditions that her subjects were being forced to live in. Celestia forced her sister to see the truth and the pair decided that something had to be done.
They came into the Queens room while she slept and forced their mother to listen to them, they showed her what she had become. Queen Terra saw the shadow that lived inside her and became ashamed. She was going to leave, she should’ve just left right then and there, but she didn’t. She decided to allowed her children to help her find a way to remove the evil inside.
For day they tried everything, magic, potions, even medicine. But nothing ever worked. The family finally realized that what was in her was spreading, that they were losing their mother with each day. The Queen couldn’t bear to let her children watch her become a monster, so she decided to leave in the middle of the night.
But she wasn’t alone. For you see, the darkness inside the Queen had spread to many of her most loyal subjects, they to began to lose themselves. Began to turn into something they weren’t. So they Queen led everypony that was infected out of the kingdom and far way to a distant land. Leaveing Celestia and Luna the throne, but not before she could place a memory spell. It was one of the most painful thing for her to do, make her own children forget who she was.
With no homes, nopony to love we traveled as a herd, no, as a hive; Farther, and farther away from equestria. One by one, we all began to completely loose ourselves. The darkness inside us didn’t just stop at taking over our minds, but out bodies as well. We have all begun to transform into something horrible.
The Queen was the first to change, to forget everything. She turned from the ravishing beauty of an Alicorn into something inpony. She had become as black as the night with flowing green hair and insect-like wings. She grew fangs and holes began to develop everywhere. She told us that the holes were the pieces of ourselves that we gave up for a new glorious life.
She was right, we didn’t need anypony from back home. We soon began to embrace the shadows, forgetting everything one by one. Now I’m the last of us, I’m going to be turning soon. I can feel it coming at any moment. I wanted to write this before I forgot completely. I am Orange Mist, and this…
The writing on the scroll in Twilights hands just cuts off there. What happened to Orange Mist, Twilight could only assume. But this letter, this memoir of a changeling, changes everything Twilight ever knew about Equestria, The Changelings, and Celestia.