//------------------------------// // Episode 4: Castle Exploring Time!!! // Story: The Life of a Wanted Changeling (Comment Driven Story) // by Down with Chrysalis //------------------------------// Quick! Hide under the bridge, they'll never look there. You can hear the angry mares getting closer to your location. You think fast and you start to run for the bridge at full speed. You are have way to the bridge when you notice something interesting about whats under the bridge...ITS A 50 FOOT DROP!!!! You immediately come to a screeching halt. You stop right on the edge of the cliff, barely stopping yourself from falling off the cliff. Once you regain your balance, you sigh to yourself in relief. You immediately thank Luna's moon for not falling off the cliff. But, you suddenly hear the angry screams of the mares again and they are closer then before. run to the other side of the bridge then cut the ropes with your magic You look at the bridge and your pretty sure that it can't even hold a fly for a second. You juggle your options, you either get pulverized by two angry mares and then probably sent to a dungeon for the rest of your buggy life, or probably fall to a quick and painless death. *Crash*thud*crack* and that was the sound of a tree being crushed by something either very big, or something very, very, MAD! Well...to the bridge! You run across the bridge as fast as you can. Luckily, the bridge is stronger then it looks, so you manege to make across safely. As soon as you make it over to the other side, you immediately begin to use your magic to cut the ropes. *Snap* you watch as the bridge falls down into the dark abyss. You run inside the castle and shut the two huge doors closed. You sigh in relief that you might actually make it though this. But, what do you do now? You then go into the castle to try to find something to eat. All that running made you hungry (also, it's a little known fact that changelings can temporarily stave off hunger with normal food, but love IS necessary for survival) *Rumble* that would be the sound of your stomach wanting food. You sigh to yourself at how unlucky you are. But for some strange reason this isn't your love hunger sound, this is your "real food now" sound. You wonder on how that's possible, seeing as how you been running for the whole day, but decide to worry about it later. "Its a long shot" you say to yourself, " but there might be food here." You begin to look all over the place, but you can't find any food. Well...edible food at least, lets just say you found the kitchen of this place, and the food there is way under cooked. After for what felt like hours, you appear to have found the main hallway. In the center of the room there are two statues, one looks like a fountain top that looks like it used to hold six objects. The other statue looks like a pegasus standing on its back hooves, and also crying maybe with its front hooves. For some odd reason you really don't want to look away from the statue, but you ignore it when you see something even weirder then the statue. At the very far end of the hallway you see what looks like armor that looks like this -> You don't have a clue as to what you should do now. That and the pegasus statue is starting to give you the creeps. What do you do?