She never asked for this but she found it hard to say no to that which the others were saying. How could she be the queen she had just come into existence hatching as the rest do and they were already calling her a queen. She knew not what it entailed as she agreed to be the queen and they set her in her spot and yelled for food.
“What do you hunger for?” She cried out not knowing herself what she craved for.
“Love! We want love!” Came the cry of the changelings all wanting to be feed.
“Then go and find it! Feed as you see fit!” She replied not seeing the problem.
“Where do we feed!? Where!?”
“I don’t know! Why are you asking me?!” She cried in fear as the screams came louder and louder. “I don’t know! Put someone else up here!”
“No! You must be queen! You must feed us! Feed us!” The called out as hunger took hold of them.
“Find the food and take it! I don’t care just do it! Why are you asking me!?” She could not understand why it was her that they chose to rule them yet she had been chosen and there was no getting out of it.
“Where?!”
“Wherever you find it I don’t care just leave me be!” She screamed and as she did her body took on a much more fiendish look and the onlookers copied. “Do as you must just take it!”
“How do we!? How!” The cries came as the hunger ensued. She knew not what to do as they begged her for help and food. She was scared and as the fear took effect she felt her body begin to change to a much more subtle form. “Feed us! Show us how to hide among the food! Help us!”
“I don’t know how just leave me be! I don’t know.” She cried unknowing of why or how just that she was not going to be left alone yet finding that they did not want to leave her be. “Leave me be!”
She was furious at them for asking her for that which she did not understand she did not know what she did merely that she did without hesitation as she shot a spell her way. Her body changed quickly and painfully as it took not the form of her but the form of a large stallion that wanted nothing more than to leave the place.
“How!? How!?” They cried as the form became more and more adjudicated with their shouting. “How!? Tell us so that we may feed!”
“I don’t know! I just did it without a thought as to why! I don’t want this! I don’t” She cried and began to walk away only become surrounded by hungry faces.
“Just must teach us! Teach us!” They cried as one not giving her a moment to breath as they asked her for that which she could not provide. She could not take it so she ran from them she did not know where she could go as she ran but she did not care for she did not want to be there.
She ran as she left the caves the shouts of the hungry ones behind her she did not care for their hunger. She ran till she felt sick and then she continued to run until she could no longer feel herself beneath her. She saw a set of structures and she looked in to see that it was populated by similar creatures.
“How did I do that before?” She pondered as attempted to cast the mysterious spell again yet could not find the strength to do so. “Come on. Why me? Why do I have to deal with this? I don’t even know my own name so why me?”
As sadness ran through her mind she felt a surge of strength and the feeling of pain shot through her again as her body twisted and contorted to leave her in the form of a broken and hungry green mare. She found it hard to move as the pain receded and she limped her way into the town hoping for some form of help.
“Hello? Can anypony help me?” She knew not where the knowledge came from as she asked for help yet she did not care.
“Oh my. Are you okay?” Came the response of a bright blue and red mare that noticed her. “Can you tell who you are?”
“I don’t know. I don’t know what I am supposed to be doing or anything.”
“Well here let me help you out if I can. Do you need some food or such?” She said not thinking of how she would get the food only thinking of the condition of the mare before her. She was about to ask for some form of food yet as she felt the love and caring of the mare she felt her hunger subside.
“I am not hungry?”
“Well do you have a place to stay?”
“No but I should be fine.”
“But I insist.” The feeling went through her again as she heard the words. “I could not sleep with the thought that I could have helped you.”
“I guess that I could stay for one night.”
“Well follow me and I will be sure that you have a room.”
“Thank you. I can’t thank you enough.”
“There is no need to. I am glad to have helped out a pony in need. Here we are welcome to my inn.” She said as they reached a large building.
The inside had a very warm homey feel to it that left her feeling safe for the first time that day. The ponies who were inside called a greeting to them as they entered to building which left her feeling as though she had just been filled with a feast of unknown food.
“So now you feel free to pick a room and I will be sure to get you anything you need. By the way I am HeartFelt do you have a name or anything that you would like to be called?”
“I guess that you could call me.... GreenRose?”
“Well then Rose. You feel free to ask me for anything you desire.”
“Thank you so much Heartfelt.”
“Please call me Heart. Everypony does after all and I want you to feel welcome.”
“Okay Heart.”
“No try and get some rest Rose. You look like you could sleep for a week.”
“We see you and we hunger!” Came the cry that awoke her as Rose as she slept. “You must feed us!”
“No! Please just leave me be!”
“You try to hide from us but we can follow! You feed without us! We will come!”
“No!”
“Rose are you okay in there?” Came the call as Heart walked in to see Rose crying in fear. “Rose what happened?”
“I don’t want to. I don’t know how. Please don’t let them take me. Please.”
“Don’t worry rose. Nothing is going to get you if I can help it. Now go back to sleep.”
“I can’t. I’m scared.”
“Rose look at me.” Heart said lifting Rose’s face so that she was looking into her very eyes. “I will stay here all night if that is what it takes to help you but I will not let you lay here in fear. Okay?”
Rose looked into her eyes and saw hope and joy and all of these wondrous emotions that were not made to hurt but used to heal. “I’m sorry for waking you.”
“You did not wake me Rose. I was having trouble sleeping when I heard you cry out. It was nothing.” Came the caring response and the feeling that came with each and every word that Heart said.
“Thank you so much Heart. I don’t know what to say.”
“Then don’t. Just go to sleep. I will make sure that nothing hurts you.”
“Rose! Wake up! Please get up! We have to go!” Came the panicked call from Heart as she shook Rose awake.
“What is going on?”
“Something is attacking us we have to go now!”
“What is attacking?”
“No time we have to run now!” Heart said and the two rushed out of the room to be stopped by five of the small bug like creatures all of them looking straight into rose each of them looking through heart at the one they wanted. “Run Rose. Don’t look back!”
Rose did not give the words a second thought as she ran from the sound of a fight. She looked back as she left the building to see Heart kick one of the black pests in the face with a sick crunch.
“No! Leave me be!” Came the pleads from Rose as the bugs sprouted wings and flew after her. “I don’t want to be the queen!”
“But you must! You were made to be queen! Feed us!”
“I can’t feed you! Leave me be! Please!”
“Feed us or Heart dies! We hunger and she can feed us!”
“Leave her be! Don’t you dare touch her!” As the anger rolled across Rose she felt her skin begin to burn and saw her entire being lose its ability to stay still as her skin became a liquid in appearance.
“You will feed us or she dies!” Came the reply as a few began to turn to go and retrieve Heart. “Feed us!”
“I can’t! I don’t know how!”
“Then teach us how! Show us how to be as you are!”
“I don’t know how! I just did this! Please just let me and heart go!”
“Heart.” Came the taunt as a few carried a blue and red figure and held it above Rose. “The Heart can be stopped unless you teach us!”
“But I don’t know how! Please just put her down and I will try!”
“No!” Came the attack as one of the many bugs took its horn and slid it along Heart’s arm leaving a deep cut in it that dripped blood onto Rose. “You will teach us or she dies!”
“Fine! I will do whatever you want just let her live! Please don’t do it.”
“Do it?”
“No. Please No! Don’t! Please I beg of you!”
“You beg us to do it?” Came the malicious reply as one of the bugs readied its horn behind Heart.
“Rose? What do they mean? What is wrong with you?”
“Heart!? I will explain just hang in.....” Rose shouted up only to stop as she saw a horn protrude from Hearts chest and the bugs released her so that she fell in front of Rose. “No! How dare you! How dare you defy your queen.”
“There you are Queen! We were wondering when you would show up!”
“You dare to defy me!? I should kill every last one of.... You?” Rose bellowed and looked down at the what was body of Heart to see that it had changed into the form of one of the many bugs above her. “Where is she!? Bring her to me or perish!”
“If you feed us we will bring her to you! Not until we are feed! Each and every one of us!”
“Why me? Why.”
“Because you are Chrysalis and you will feed us if you want Heat to live! She can wait as long as it takes we will not let her age or even see until we are feed!”
“I will do what you ask. Just let her live.” Came the submissive reply from Chrysalis as she thought of Heart being trapped however she would be trapped for who knew how long. “What do you want to know?”
“Everything! Our Queen Chrysalis!”
“Then I shall teach you as well as I can!” Chrysalis called out and in her anger she dropped the spell and revealed herself to be the same as the rest though taller and much more noble. “And then when you all die. I shall be able to be at peace once more!”
“We are the Changelings we do not simply die! There will always be more of us and for every that falls another three will take its place!”
“I can wait. I just hope that heart can to.”