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// Ch 17 Confession (rewrite) 
// Story: Enforcing Change 
// by Scootaboom1 
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Nightlight

The full truth of what happened was a little darker than any knew.

Using my spell to send my memories back in time I when through the events around sixty times.

There were times that I took a small army though it worked best with small groups.

Settings up those one on one fights with Orochi members were for a reason.

To weaken them.

Cerastes may have been skilled at magic but she lacked physical strength and Iron Shield has a mean right hook.

Cerrejonensis was simply the strong to stop with an attack from anyone other than himself.

Silver Arrow was supposed to be a diversion for the changelings to steal the jars.

As for Crotalus Atrox well he and I have similar ideas.

Crotalus Atrox was known as the illusion striker.

Being a diamond back rattlesnake his enchanted rattle in tandem with his dancing traps his opponents in an illusion.

According to the opponents from previous attempts being affected by it is like having a really bad acid trip.

When I was facing against him his swaying motions caused me to see about twenty of him and about eighty of his arms.

But those weren't the only tricks he had up his sleeve.

One of the previous Orochi members who sided with Bashmu was like a cockatrice.

Crotalus Atrox had taken his eyes and hands.

Though he couldn't use the eyes to there full potential.

He had to charge them up before firing them in a single large burst.

One of the weaknesses was that it required opponents to look into his eyes.

It also caused rocks to form in his stomach causing him pain.

As for the hands slashing with them causes the areas around the wound to turn to stone.

I took both for myself.

When I was trapped by his illusion I knew he would attack from the left.

In every one on one fight he would do this.

During the fight he came from the left but being prepared I leaned back to dodge and shot a spell to knock him out.

Though I messed with his memories to make him think that the fight went on for a longer time.

While he may not have been able to make use of of these abilities but I felt that I could.

As for Princess Nigricollis the poison her father used to possess her was not cured by the blast of love from Cadance.

Once Bashmu starts to take over once more she would likely take the first opportunity to stop herself.

Most likely by taking her own life.

I felt it would be a waste of perfectly good love.

At least that was how I had to make it seem for the changelings.

When Cadance created that powerful burst of love countless changelings were laying in wait to absorb all the excess love.

After we left with Cadance and it was safe to do so they are to attack and subdue the nagas in order to drain them of all their love and then feed off their flesh till nothing but bone remains.

Hopefully Cadance forgets about them.

Regardless Cadance apparently loves to help with children which is good for us because we have been black listed from every foul sitter in Canterlot.

Like I had anticipated Cadance give off so much love that Shining Armor and Twilight were instinctively drawn to her.

It was nice that Twilight finally had some pony that she liked to spend time with when she was not reading books well above any other her age.

As I told all this to Velvet she silently nodded.

Now it was her turn to tell me about the exciting news.

After all the excitement about a new alicorn that no pony had taken the time to tell me how Shining Armor got his cutie mark.

Velvets' eyes widened in shock and she gave me a smile.

Velvet

When I realized that I had not told Nightlight about how Shining Armor had gotten his cutie mark I was shocked.

Shining Armor had never been the type to get into any kind of fight.

In fact when he was Twilight's age he refused to fight back when bullies got physical. He said that it hurt to be hit.

Nightlight said that it was part of the changeling traits that he inherited.

Honestly I remember Nightlight telling him that there were times where one had to stand for what was right.

I didn't really think that the lesson ever really stuck.

Shining Armor had eventually been written off as a nerd.

Twilight on the other hoof was made fun of for different reasons.

Since she would spend her time in the park reading books other children her age couldn't.

Naturally some made fun of her by saying that she was faking it.

When she show that she understood the subjects better than the older ones they got defensive.

And the first push was done.

Before I could step in to put a stop to it Shining Armor was already in between them and saying that they needed to back off.

When I saw this I stayed back remembering what Nightlight said about Shining Armor getting his cutie mark.

Sure enough when Shining Armor cast a defensive spell to make them back off it appeared.

A shield with a six pointed star.

Nighty made no effort to hide how proud he was about it.

Then his face grew a little darker.

He said that he would like to take Shining Armor on a camping trip to give him some training.

I sighed.

I knew that there was going to be a bit of a tough love moment coming up.

Nightlight felt that if our son was going to be in so many dangerous situations in the future that we should prepare him for it.

But Nightlight cares a lot about family and would do anything for our children.