When the changeling woke up. He found that he had been moved from where he had crashed into some ponies living room. He was laying on a couch with all of his wounds bandaged and his broken arm in a cast. The room was considerably clean apart from some blood on the floor. He guessed it was his. Laying at the bottom of the couch was a tray with a bowl of soup and a muffin.
The changeling slowly and carefully lifted the the tray with his good hand onto his lap. Changelings couldn't use food as a energy but he needed something to make him feel better. He slurped a taste of the soup slowly. Just in case his savior had some kind of evil plan. The soup was delicious! He had never eaten anything before as good! Wait.... This was his first ever meal. Oh well never mind he decided. He ate all the soup and then moved onto the muffin. He guessed if the soup was fine the muffin must be too. His hunch was right, the muffin was just as good as the soup, even better! he could taste some type of berry inside the muffin but wasn't sure what berry it was. Near the hive entrance was a few berry bushes hiding their hive. They're were all sorts of berries, from plain to colorful. He was warned though not to eat any as some were poisonous. The changeling left the bottom bit of the muffin for later as he wanted to save the taste.
The door suddenly opened and a mare walked in. She had long blonde hair and a light grey coat. her eyes were amber and she seemed to have Three white bubbles on her flank. She was the pony race known as a Pegasus. But there was also something about her eyes... They seemed to be weird. One was looking up and the other down. Then again he had barely seen any pony before so what did he know about weird.
"Glad to see your awake sleepy" The mare said "so whats your name?"
The changeling was about to speak but he realized he didn't have a voice or a name! It never occurred to him he would need to speak or have a name. He had to act fast or the pony might get suspicious, he quickly choose to use a voice he heard from one of the ponies he heard screaming in Canterlot. All he needed now was a name... Bingo!
"You nervous our something?" The mare was getting impatient.
" The names Strider and yours?" His voice came out abit raspy and dark. Hopefully he could make it look like he was tired. After all, he did just fall out of the sky and almost die.
"the names Derpy Hooves. Nice to meet you! So what happened to you?" Great, now he needed a story.... No matter he would tell the truth, just not all of it.
"I kinda... crashed" He lowered his head in the act of embarresment.
"Its good to meet someone else who crashes! I crash a lot aswell" Derpy replied. Atleast she was beginning to taking a liking to him.
Derpy inspected Striders body for any missed injuries, absolutely none. "So your a alicorn Strider? Thats amazing! I have never ever ever seen a alicorn before! Apart from princess Celestia and Luna! But your a real live alicorn!" Derpy was now standing right infront of Strider, he could feel her breathing.
"sorry about that.... I get over excited sometimes." Derpy said apologetically. Strider could see that easily.
"Thanks for the soup and the muffin Derpy. They were great!"
"thanks! I made them myself. Especially the muffins!"
Strider then thought how long had he been out for on this couch.
"So how long was I out for?" Strider asked.
"around two days. You really were in terrible shape when I found you. How did you crash?"
He wasn't really sure how he was going to explain this one and still make it look believable.
"well I was flying as high as I could. Then a huge storm hit me hard and I started falling, I couldn't get my wings out straight to catch the wind and that's the story basically."
"so..." Strider was running out of questions and he was beginning to feel his stomach growing again....
"Is their anyone else in the house?" Strider asked
"Yea! There's my daughter dinky and her father the doctor. But he isn't here right now."
"doctor who?" Strider questioned. He was interested to know as there might be a love source to feed on.
"just the Doctor" Derpy replied. Strider was confused by what pony would call himself the Doctor but Strider decided it didn't matter.
"well its good to see your awake and fine, it might be some time before you can walk again. Or fly..."
Strider tilted his head to look at his wings. He gasped at the sight of them. His right wings was broken and looked crooked. His left had a giant cut leading from the top nearly all the way down. He was surprised that the bandages on his left wing actually were able to keep it up. He then realized he hadn't thanked Derpy for saving him.
"Thanks for helping me"
"Sure! No problem." Derpy replied with a huge smile on her face. Strider didn't know why but he kind of liked her smile. Mainly because he had never ever saw some pony smile before. His thought was cut short when his stomach started growling. He would have to feed soon or it would be over for him.
Derpy then turned away from Strider and started to walk out the room. Now was his chance! He would feed of her love for her daughter and this stallion called "the doctor." Not much though as he didn't want to get caught, neither did he want to hurt his savior.
He concentrated on her love source and began to drain. A green glow illuminated around his horn and quickly absorbed the love energy from derpy. It may have been a small amount but it tasted so good! Not ever had he seen anypony who could love so much. He had to have just a little more.......
Derpy could feel something leaving her. She couldn't put her finger on what it was but it was something important. She turned to look at Strider to see if what was happening to her was happening to him or if he was the cause of this problem. Nothing he just laid there smiling at derpy. At least he seemed nice, for a pony who did crash and just woke up.
"oh yea, one more thing Strider."
"Hmmm?" strider raised his eyebrows in interest.
"Welcome to Ponyville Strider!" And with that Derpy left the room and left Strider on his own.
"Looks like this is my home for a while..." Strider said to himself.
He was right on that one.