"Princess Celestia cordially invites you to the wedding of Princess Mi Amore Cadenza and Shining Armor. It'll all be held in the Canterlot Castle inside the Ballroom. Only closes friends of either of twos relative may attend. Thank You. Does that sound fine to you?" One of the guards read aloud.
He directed the question to a unicorn colt with a turquoise white coat, a mane with many different streaks of blue, has moderate cerulean eyes, and a cutie mark that has a dark blue shield with a pink-purple six pointed start in the middle and three light blue stars above it. The colt nodded. "That's fine. Can you tell Princess Celestia to add that to her report?"
The guard answered, "Yes sir!"
With that, the guard left the room. The colt sighed, "I can't believe we're about to get married."
He turned around and looked at a female Alicorn. She had a pale light gray cerise coat, dark violet with moderate rose and pale gold streaked mane, grayish purple eyes, and a teal crystal heart cutie mark that's wrapped around gold laces. She giggled a bit, "Well, it's not that big of a surprise. We have known each other since I was babysitting your sister, Twilight."
He remembered those days. He just ended up letting out another sigh. The Alicorn asked, "Shining Armor is there something wrong?"
He just shook his head. She came behind him and put her hoof on his shoulder. Shining answered, "It's just with the threats that Canterlot has been receiving, I just think…it's gonna be hard to have the wedding. Don't you think?"
There was a pause. He called, "Cadence?"
She was out on the balcony, thinking. He went up to her and asked, "Are you worried? If you are, we can postpone it."
She protested, "No! I don't want to do that. We don't know when the threats will cease so it could take forever to find another date. I mean…it's just…you know what, I'm fine. I know everything will be fine."
He just nodded to her. There was a long pause. She put out, "Well, I think I'll be going to bed, goodnight."
Shining nodded to her. He looked out into the kingdom. Maybe Cadence is right. It won't be right to postpone. Everything's fine. At least, I hope. With that, Shining left the balcony and shut the windows, noted that he saw Cadence was already asleep. carefully climbed in, and drifted asleep.
It was midnight and there were sounds happening in the hallways. There was noise on Cadence and Shining's door. Shining Armor instantly woke up. Trying not to wake his fiancé, he got up slowly out of bed. He got one of his swords and crept outside the bedroom. He looked around the hallway with eagle eyes. There was nothing there. What did the intruder take him for, a stupid foal! He wasn't going to be fooled so easily. He started walking around the halls more just in case.
All the sudden, he saw a figure swoop by. He instantly started galloping towards it. It went into a room. He burst through the doors, just to find…nothing. He was in the throne room. He shifted his eyes back and forth, yet he saw nothing. He sighed, "Must've been my imagination."
A voice laughed, "Guess again."
He swiftly turned around only to get zapped by some freaky magic. He saw a figure but couldn't really make it out. After a few seconds of being hit with the painful magic, he passed out.
Shining awoke in a weird cave. He called, "Anyone there?"
He was greeted by a deep laughter. He stomped his hoof on the ground. He demanded, "Show yourself!"
The voice groaned, "If I must."
There was a bright green light that came closer to Shining. He gasped. It was a tall pony with a twisted horn, his coat was a very dark grey, silver armor covering his torso, he also had a teal mane it was almost identical to his, except his bangs split when they reach his horn and they go pass his eyes, and he has dark green eyes that have oval shaped pupils.
Shining looked at him very shocked. He stammered, "You're a…a,"
The pony finished, "A Changeling." His voice was really deep, and it also sounded as if he had two different voices. Shining was about to use his magic on him, but when he tried, it gave him a huge migraine. Shining asked, "What's going on? What have you done?"
He groaned, "First things first, I am not a 'thing' an 'it' not even a 'you'. I'm King Metamorphosis. What's going on? Let's just say it's a little trick."
"This isn't a trick! It's a scandal, a villainous act!"
"Well if you want make things sound harsher, okay then. What have you done? I've drained a little bit of your magic. It's not much really. It's just that you won't be able to, let's see." He placed his hoof on his chin. "You won't be able to teleport, levitate things, conjure up anything, contact the outside, perform your acts as Captain of the Royal Guard, and teleport others to you. I feel like I'm missing something."
Shining looked extremely bored, but his eyes went wide at what he heard. He asked, "Wait! What did you say?"
He answered, "I feel like I'm missing something."
He just blinked. He shook his head. "No a little bit before that."
"Contact the outside?"
He facehooved. What did he think this was all a game? If he's a villain he's a bad one.
He shouted, "I'M NOT A BAD VILLAIN! Now if you meant I'm a bad villain then, thank you."
Shining rolled his eyes. What's wrong with him?
"Also, I said: You won't be able to perform your acts as Captain of the Royal Guard. But don't fret; I'll be doing the work for you."
"What!"
Metamorphosis was taken aback. He complained, "Nu uh! Don't say what! Say whaaaat! Like you're all surprised and happy, you should know the feeling."
Okay, Shining was really confused. Did he care about him or not? He asked, "You care about my happiness?"
The King rolled his eyes. "Not really. But, it's better to hear stuff that way. Don't you agree?"
"I guess."
"Anyway, I must return back to Canterlot."
Shining went back to being serious. He asked, "How're you gonna perform the spell to protect the castle? You may be able to change into me, but you don't have my magic, unless that's why you drained me."
King Metamorphosis sighed, "Well, duh! Why else would I do it?"
He looked down at the ground in despair and hopelessness. He looked at him weirdly. He consoled, "It may seem bad now, but it'll all be fine in the end. Granted, you'll be stuck in here for all eternity, but that's life. Ciao!"
With that, the King disappeared. When he did, Shining whispered, "A little too cheery for a villain, if you ask me. I realized I'm talking to nopony."
King Metamorphosis teleported into Shining's room, he looked at his surroundings. He looked over at the bed and saw Princess Cadence. His eyes widened when he saw the goddess. He exclaimed, "That's Cadence! I imagined something a little bit grotesque but, this! Woooo! This girl is a goddess, she's better than Celestia herself. Wait! I'm a married Changeling." He looked away.
He looked back at Cadence and thought, then again, I can tell Chrysalis it was just business.
Cadence moaned, "Shining, is that you?"
He looked over at the window, it was already morning. He transformed into Shining. He looked over at the mirror. "Ugh! I look horrible."
Cadence opened her eyes and smiled at her soon-to-be husband. She asked, "Why're up so early?"
He thought for a little bit. "I thought I heard a noise, turns out it was my imagination."
He got up and went to the mirror to groom. She started, "Well, are you excited to see Twilight and her friends?"
Oops! He just asked, "Uh…Who?"
She looked over at him. He thought he had been caught. She consoled, "Oh! My poor Shining Armor. This whole even has you so frazzled, that you can't even think straight. You know what; instead of you looking into the preparations I'll do it for you, okay?"
He shrugged. "Okay."
"Good! Don't you have to be commanding the guards?"
She teleported his uniform on him, he nodded at her and started walking away. The doors opened up revealing a servant pony. She greeted, "Good morning, Shining Armor!"
He exclaimed, "Hey! I have no idea who you are."
He left the two mares. She asked, "What's wrong with him?"
Cadence answered, "I'm sure it's just stress."