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// Chapter One 
// Story: Champions vs Changelings 
// by WolfGoddess1990 
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When Jackpot pulled the wagon into Ponyville, he was immediately met by a male earth pony with bubble gum pink hair that was as poofy as cotton candy. As his banana yellow body bounced in place. Jackpot barely got to see the cutie mark which was a cheese pie or cake piece, when bright seagreen eyes were shoved in his face, "Wow your new, you must be new because I met everypony in Ponyville, is that your house? Why is your house on wheels? Is it heavy? Why are you pulling it? Why does it look like that? Why..." He was yanked away by a storm blue male pegasus with electric yellow eyes, rainbow mane and a cutie mark that was a storm cloud letting out three bolts colored red, yellow and blue. 

"Whoa there Lil' Cheese! Give the poor pony some breathing space!" He said putting Cheese down slightly away, "Oh but Stormy this is a new pony, new pony means a welcome party, to make a welcome party I must know everything about them, and to know everything about them I must ask tons of questions, mom's rule book for throwing a party is pretty clear." He pulled a big thick book out of his mane and opened it, "Rule number one; always get to know the pony or creature in question before throwing the party." Storm grabbed the book flipping through it, "Rule number 25; always have balloons if six ponies have gathered..."

He flipped through again, "Rule number 221; when celebrating the end of anything even if it's sad to see it go always send it off with a smile." He flipped to the end, "Rule number 1,000; always have fun." He gave it back to Cheese, "Yeah that's totally your mother. Anyway I'm Rainbow Storm and this is Cheesecake." 
"Uh... Nice to meet you. My name is Jackpot, I'm a traveling magician, and in this wagon is my sister." 
"Why did you come from the quarry?" 
"Oh I'm afraid I got terribly lost! Been walking all night with only my horn for a light and a world map to help me find my way, so where exactly am I?" 
"Oh I know this one! Your in Ponyville!"

Cheese threw confetti, "What did I win, what did I win?!" Storm shook his head slightly, "You won a cake at sugarcube corner but all the ingredients have been hidden, you have to put them together to make the cake." Cheese gasped going star eyed, "Oh my gosh that is so genius!" He ran off and Jackpot watched him go, "How many times has he fallen for that?" 
"Every single time... Anyway welcome to Ponyville. Follow me, I can show you to a nice place to park so you can rest those sore hooves." Jackpot followed until Storm stopped suddenly. He looked around for any obstacles until he saw Storm staring in a certain direction and Jackpot looked as well. 

There was a light amber unicorn talking with guard trainees. Her mane was a vivid cornflower blue with brilliant amaranth streaks, and her eyes were a beautiful peacock blue color. He looked back at Storm, "Who are you staring at?" Storm seemed to snap out of it, "Oh that is Evening Shield." Jackpot tilted his head to see her cutie mark was a shield with an evening sky on it. "She's very beautiful huh?" Jackpot teased and Storm blushed trying to hide his face, "Very beautiful for sure... Anyway this way." They reached an empty space so that Jackpot could unhook himself. He tapped on the wagon door and Trixie poked her head out, "Oh so we are finally here." 

Trixie jumped out wearing a purple star cape and hat, "Greetings! I'm Trixie Lulamoon the best traveling magician in Equestria." "Huh funny first time I've heard of either of you, and I've been around all of Equestria, being the son of a weather pony and all." Trixie got a bit mad but Jackpot jumped infront of her, "Oh we're new, just starting out in fact. But have to have the confidence to be the best of the best in the traveling magician world, I'm sure you understand that." "Oh sure I totally get that." Jackpot's belly rumbled slightly, "Oh silly me, didn't eat breakfast yet." "Oh well your both in luck." He lead them over to a marketplace.

He then went to a stall where a pale gamboge earth pony female was working. Her slightly curly mane was light olive with tangelo streaks, her eyes were bright teal and her cutie mark was a caramelized pear, "Caramel pear, we got some hungry ponies." Pear tilted her cowboy hat up slightly to see them, "Howdy strangers. Here, help yourself to a free sample of a caramel pear." Both Trixie and Jackpot took the caramel pear and looked at it oddly before trying bite, "This isn't bad, tangy yet sweet." "It's very different, you would think a combo like this wouldn't make any sense." "Make sense? Oh, what fun is there in making sense?"

Both Trixie and Jackpot looked around confused when a pear turned into what liked like a chimera. He had a zebra head with maroon eyes with a single fang in his mouth. His mane was black and white, he had a dark brown body with a yellow serpent tail with a white and black tuft at the end, light gold pegasus wings and blue and pink horns. "Chaos, have you been hiding in my pear barrel this whole time?" "Who me? No I swear!" He made an angel halo appear above his head as he prayed with his dragon claw and griffon claw but it burst into flames and got devil horns instead. "Okay yes I did but I was playing with Cheese and fell asleep." 

On his flank was a cutie mark of eight arrows pointing in every direction and he stretched his bugbear and cragadile back legs, "Honestly I've been asleep for hours! Almost like he forgot we were playing... He did, didn't he?" Pear chuckled, "What were you expecting with somepony with such a short attention span?" "I was expecting nothing but hoping for something because that makes the least sense in the world!" He snapped his griffon claw vanishing with a laugh. The two siblings looked at each other. This place might be a bit more difficult for changelings to sneak in so the best course was to eliminate all obstacles.

Their thoughts were broken by a voice that sounded as soft as the wind, yet hard as stone, gentle as water, and yet fierce as fire, "Oh hello there, never seen you two before." Both siblings looked but Jack... Thorax stared. She was a female lavender alicorn almost as tall as his mother. Her eyes were like chocolate, deep and rich, her cutie mark was the planet Earth and her magical mane looked like it was made of fire, water, air, and earth. Thorax managed to squeak out a hello as she walked up to them, "My name is Peaceful Climate, but you can call me by my nickname Harmony." "I'm Th..." Trixie slapped him upside the head. "Jackpot and this is Trixie."

Harmony frowned slightly at Trixie who chuckled nervously as she rubbed her brother's head. At this she smiled at them, "It must be nice to have such a sibling connection." 
"Oh yeah we have a such a deep connection." Trixie said as she noticed Jackpot drooling slightly, he looked like he was in a love trance, changelings get it when they are around to much love, but she felt fine so that couldn't be it. "Brother are you okay?" She gently poked him and he simply fell over as stiff as a board. "Oh dear, is he alright?" Trixie picked him up with her magic, "Oh he's probably exhausted from the long trip, all he needs is a bit of rest." She tried not to look like she was running off as she left.