Changeling by Cobalt Ravenscroft
CRASH
Both mares in the quiet house leapt to their feet at the sound coming from the garden. Vinyl rushed towards the back door to see a smoking crater at the bottom of Octavia’s garden. At least it missed her rose bush, Vinyl thought sarcastically. Octavia soon joined her friend – after straightening her mane, of course – and the two mares went to investigate.
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“So… what is it?” Vinyl asked, looking down on the small pony shaped thing at her hooves.
“Were you living in a cave last week, Vinyl?!” Octavia practically screamed at the DJ, “These… things… almost ruined the royal wedding!” She pointed an accusatory hoof at the creature, which shrunk further under the cellist’s gaze, hiding its face behind its apparently broken legs.
“Really?” Vinyl questioned, tilting her head to the side, “But it’s so cute.”
“Great,” Octavia flung her hooves in the air in annoyance, “now Vinyl ‘Greatest-DJ-in-Equestria’ Scratch thinks it’s cute!”
“Full name, I like it Tavi,” the now massive-headed Vinyl punched Octavia’s shoulder gently, much to the surprise of the Changeling.
“You hit her,” it began in a very weak, feminine voice, “but you love her.”
This stopped both mares, the garden they were in falling into silence, not even the birds in the trees chirped. The two mares looked between each other with blushes starting to form on both muzzles.
“What did you just say?” Octavia asked, too calmly for Vinyl who had never heard that tone before.
“I can feel the love she has for you, it tastes very nice,” the Changeling copied Octavia’s tone but her voice still sounded like it had gone through Vinyl’s remix machine.
“That’s it,” Octavia shouted and turned towards the house, hiding her blush with her mane, “Vinyl. Inside. Now!”
Vinyl and the stunned Changeling looked between one another, the unicorn shrugging at the bug. Still on the floor, the Changeling copied the gesture, making Vinyl giggle at it.
“So cute,” she said before following the grey mare inside, leaving a rather confused Changeling laying in the small crater it made in the grass.
The last sound heard from the house was the back door being slammed shut after Octavia pulled Vinyl inside, but no one knows, or will ever know, what happened to the Changeling.