//------------------------------// // Chapter 3: The Visit // Story: Father Of A Changeling // by vinyl_dashy2 //------------------------------// "I can not believe you disobeyed me!" Chrysalis growled in anger as she paced back and forth in front of her son. "You broke all the rules of hunting, didn't you!?" "N-no, mother..." "Ok, name the one rule you didn't break." "I got my fill of love..." Chrysalis rolled her eyes. "You need to be better!" She stomped her hoof on the ground. "This will be your last failed hunt! Understood?" "Y-yes..." tears rolled down the colt's cheeks. "Don't you think your being too hard on him? It was his first hunt," Shining Armor said defensively. Chrysalis stopped pacing and thought for a moment. "Perhaps I can use this to my advantage..." The white stallion looked at his wife in confusion. The queen looked back at her son. "I need you to find out more about this... Dinky..." "But you just said-" "I know, I know, but... I feel this could be a powerful unicorn... her mother is a pegasus and her father is an earth pony... yet she is a unicorn... find out more about her. And bring me back the information you find..." "Chrysalis stop... it's getting late... let our little colt sleep..." Shining Armor protested. Chrysalis sighed, "fine. But tomorrow I will get more information on that unicorn..." the next day Zany was woke up by the calling of his mother. "Zany!" He rushed to the kitchen and licked his hoof to pat his matted hair down, having no time to brush as it sounded urgent. "Are you ready to get mummy the information she needs?" "Yes mother." "Then go! Not a moment to lose..." Zany opened his wings as he flew out the window. He sighed as he thought of the mare, losing himself in thought. Her purple coat, her straw colored hair, and... those eyes... he was pulled out of his thoughts as he ran into a mare, flying with another larger image. Zany shook his head, "t-terribly sorry miss..." The male beside her hissed in defense. "D-Discord it's alright... it's not anything out of the ordinary... just another changeling..." the soft-voiced mare sighed. "Just another changeling? There are more of my kind?" He questioned. "It's all you ever see anymore..." Discord spat. The yellow mare by his side gave him a small kiss on the cheek, trying to calm him. Zany had never seen anything like it before... An animal with a horse head, with one dragon wing and one pony wing, and a bunch of other animal parts. Zany examined him in curiosity. "What are you?" Discord crossed his arms. "I'm a draconequus..." The yellow mare sighed and ended the conversation, "we must be going..." The couple flew around the young colt, leaving him alone in the polluted air. He sighed and continued on his trip to Dinky. He traveled to the Everfree Forest where he had seen her last to find no pony there, except a peculiar looking zebra. Zany was not used to using his magic yet, but sometimes he had to use it. He would not want to come back to his mother telling her he had no information. But something else inside him urged him even more to see the filly. As his horn glimmered green, he tracked the purple filly to a small, worn-down cottage in the middle of Ponyville. Perhaps it could be easier than he thought. He began flying as things were starting to come together and make sense after the yellow mare had told him of his species. Now that he thought about it, he had realized the black stallions that lined the streets quite often when he would look out the castle window. They all had horns like his and wings like his, and a beetle-like back like the Queen. But he was different... he didn't understand... he was white, while the rest of the changelings were black. He had hair while the other changelings were bald. He was fed as a baby while the rest of the changelings had to feed for themselves. He did not understand how something so different could be considered a changeling... yet treated like a regular pony... as he thought harder he realized something about the couple he bumped into. The draconequus was so much different, yet the yellow mare treated him as if he was any regular stallion. It was nearly like him and Dinky. He soon arrived at the small cottage and hid under the window of Dinky's room. Dinky sighed as he mother scolded her. "What's so bad about changelings anyway?" She questioned. Her mother answered with a sigh, "Changelings are heartless creatures. They cannot love the same way we do, for they devour our love..." "But mom... he seemed dif-" "All changelings are the same... they are heartless monsters that drain the love out of you..." Derpy left the room, closing the door slowly behind her without letting her daughter speak anymore. Zany quivered at the thought of being a heartless monster. He slowly but cautiously peaked his head to see in the window, only to find being face to face with the purple filly. She gasped in sudden surprise, "y-you shouldn't be here..." "I... wanted to see you..." Zany's ears flopped back. Dinky sighed, "my mother has forbid me from seeing you again..." "W-what? But it was only one time we were together...!" "I know but... I can't disobey my mother..." she looked away in distress as Zany's eyes grew wide. "P-please don't leave me... your the only friend I've ever had and I-" "I'm... the only friend you've... ever had?" Zany nodded in embarrassment, meeting Dinky's eyes once more. Dinky looked away and thought. She sighed and looked back to her changeling friend. "I suppose it wouldn't hurt to go to the forest for a bit... meet you there?" Zany filled with excitement as he smiled, "you bet!" The small colt opened his wings and fluttered quickly to the forest. Without wings, Dinky decided she would teleport there for smaller travel. The two met at the lake and sat beside eachother. Zany stared into the crystal clear lake water as he gazed in wonder. "So... " Zany had to pretend he didn't know her father was an earth pony so she would be less suspicious of the conversation. "So I saw your mom is a pegasus... is your dad a unicorn?" "Actually, no..." "Then how are you a unicorn?" "Well... My father is a great inventor, and he goes to different places in this thing called a Tardis, with a bunch of cool gadgets. He might have done some weird invention to make me a unicorn or... I don't know..." "How do you know all this if you've never met him?" The purple mare looked away at the water, staring at her reflection. "My... mom told me... It's kinda hard... Mom knows nothing about what it's like to be a unicorn... plus without support from my dad things aren't all that easy... So... how about your parents?" "Well... My parents are Shining Armor and Chrysalis and-" "The King and Queen of Equestria!? So... your really a Prince!?" Dinky's mix matched eyes sparkled in amazement. "I guess so... but... not a very good Prince... I don't even know about my kind except-..." his voice slowly trailed off, thinking about when he was three and his mother began training him and telling him he was heartless. "Wow... you know... your really interesting..." Dinky gave a warm smile of joy to the colt beside her. "Changelings aren't as bad as every pony says they are... or at least your not..." they gazed into eachothers eyes, feeling calm and happy with each other. Their thoughts and gaze was broke when they heard the distressed call of a worried mother. "Oh no, I-I have to go..." the young filly got up and quickly ran away toward the cry, as Zany reached his hoof out as if to stop her. "Dinky- wait-!" But he was to late. The young filly disappeared into the distance as the eager colt stood up and drooped his ears. "Will I ever see you again?"