____________*one week later Sound's attic 4:18 am.*___________
Sound walked into his attic and then walked to the left towards a large black chest.
"It's been a while......oh well.....it's time to open it anyway." He said to himself then unlocked the chest.
When Sound unlocked the chest another lock was revealed but this one had a seal.
The seal was a small green outlined triangle with a white colored changeling on it.
Sound looked at it for a time before speaking changeish.
"Skia hos yeka shsass." He said getting the seal to open.
Sound lifted the lid of the chest to reveal a large tome....after looking at it for a few seconds Sound opened the tome and went to the hundredth and forty eighth page.
"Hmm lets see....aha here it is.......creating a hive mind without a queen and without concenquenses such as.....controlling the other members killing the other member or forcibly seeing the memories of the other members.....hmm lets see.....willing participants.......someone with enough power to sustain the strain of making it.........and lastly.......the blood of three species......buck." Sound said to himself.
Sound looked over to the cocoon and saw Thunderlane looking right at him. "What are you staring at?" He said.
Thunderlane's eyes widened and then looked away slowly.
Sound locked the chest then walked out of the attic.
___________*Sound and Rose's house 5:31 pm.*__________
Giggling rang through the house as Aurora buzzed through the living room.
Rose however was not having so much fun and ran up to Sound. "Hey Sound.....help me out here." She said breathing heavily.
Sound just chuckled then walked in the filly's path and tapped Aurora's wings right on the muscle causing her to fall asleep.
Rose just stared in shock and walked up to Sound. "How did you do that?" She asked.
Sound picked up Aurora in his magic. "Well it's a certain.......weakness to the changelings......and before you try it just know it does not affect the male changelings....just the female ones." He said.
Rose picked up the sleeping filly and held her with her wings. "Why is that there anyway?.....and how did you find out about it?" She asked.
Sound motioned Rose to follow him and walked to the stairs. "Well for one the weakness is there to take out insane changelings...also if you are wondering why none of chrysalis's changelings did this is because she had full control over them.....as for how I found out....well let's just say I found out about it during me and Minutte's rebellious phase at the after party that me Minutte and Vinyl were at." He explained.
Rose reached the top of the stairs and walked towards the guest room. "Well are you going to tell me about it?" She asked.
After reaching the door Sound sighed then nodded. "Sure....besides that is actually the reason I was forbidden from seeing Minutte." He said walking into the room.
Rose followed and put Aurora in her crib. "Why is that?" She asked.
"Well for one the entire beach town knew what we were and the fact that the number one law of changeling society is never reveal what you are...and the fact that it was my idea did not help at all." He explained.
__________*thirteen years ago Sound Vinyl and Minutte's beach home.*_________
Vinyl walked into the main room where Sound was facing Minutte in chess and sat down next to him.
"Sound....why are playing chess......you stink at it." Vinyl said. Sound looked at her for a second then back at the board. "Shh........hmmm....check." Sound said putting the castle four squares away from the king.
Minutte sighed and put her bishop in the row to block the check.
Sound moved his knight and took the bishop. Minutte looked at his side of the board and sighed again then moved her queen onto the row that Sounds king was on.
"Checkmate." Minutte claimed. Sound looked at the board and his eyes widened....there on the board was a perfect lol.
"But....wha...how...did....gahhhhh." Sound gave up and fell backwards.
Vinyl however was laughing very very hard rolling back and forth on the floor before stopping and wiping a tear from her eye.
Minutte looked at the clock and saw that it was nearly four fifty seven pm. "Hey we might want to get ready for the party." She suggested.
Vinyl and Sound both looked at the clock and nodded when they saw the time and walked towards Minutte then they huddled.
"Ok Sound you get the drinks...Vinyl you get the music and I'll get the room cleaned up." Minutte said getting nods from the others.
Sound walked to the cellar door then stopped to look back. "And I'll get my camera as too." He said getting a groan from Minutte.
_________*5:12 pm*_________
Sound and Minutte were sitting down at the table having a drinking contest after Vinyl won hers with Sparkler.
Minutte took another drink at the exact same time Sound did and held in some throw up.
Sound however just fell backwards from too much alcohol before his head shot up due to him having an idea.
"He...Hey Everypony.....lets.....lets take a group shot......o...ok?" He said drowsily getting a cheer and a bunch of agreements in response.
All of the guests grouped up and looked in the direction of the camera facing them.
Sound let out some chuckles as he held the camera.......somewhat.
Two of the guests got a small table out and put the camera on it then returned to the group.
Sound charged up his magic and then aimed it at the camera........and right when Sound went to push the button Minutte fell over and started laughing before the camera took the picture.
__________*two hours later*__________
Minutte walked over to the table and started putting all the trash into the trash bag when the alcohol got to her and she started to get very hyper.
Sound had just walked in on her and soon regreted doing so as Minutte lunged at him and began to bounce on him saying random things at a speed that puts lightning to shame.
After a few moments of bouncing Minutte flew around the house quickly multiple times before Vinyl came in and saw her.
"Uh Sound...is something wrong with Minutte?" She asked getting a shrug from Sound before Minutte noticed her and lunged at her.
Vinyl soon found herself flailing her hooves around until one time her hoof ran over Minutte's wing muscle and soon the female changeling was sound asleep on top of Vinyl.
Sound walked over to her and picked Minutte up in his magic with some help from Vinyl and lifted her off of Vinyl and together they moved Minutte to her bed.
"Thanks......what happened?" Vinyl asked. Sound walked over to Minutte and raised and eyebrow......he then moved his hoof over to her wing muscle and tapped it and just as Minutte woke up she fell asleep again.
"Hmm I geuss touching her wing muscle puts her to sleep.....who knew." Sound said and soon feeling something tapping 'his' wing.
Vinyl raised an eyebrow. "Hmm must only run through the female changelings." She wondered.
Sound nodded. "I think we should let her rest......after all she was the most hammered out of Everypony." He suggested pulling Vinyl out of the room.
___________*end of flashback*__________
Sound had finished telling the story. "And that was what happened." He ended.
Rose looked at Aurora. "Do you think she will be able to build a resistance to it?" She asked.
Sound looked at her and nodded. "Of course she can....Minutte did it...so why can't she." He said happily.
After covering Aurora Rose looked at Sound. "So.....what do we do now?" She asked.
"Well for one we raise our foals right....and if necessary I'll teach Aurora everything I know about changeling martial arts and how to do all those other things." Sound said then he left the room.
Rose looked at the two sleeping foals and smiled then she left the room as well.
__________*Sound's attic*__________
Sound walked up to Thunderlane and knelt down. "You know if you hadn't gone after my family you would have noticed........we did absolutely nothing to you or the pony lands......but now.....I'm going to have to remove all of the memories you have of this house.......because if I don't you will just use everything you overheard against us......and frankly you have got to stop this stupid game." Sound paused.
"Because here is the funny part Thunderlane......I'm actually here under royal watch.......and because of you I'm in very big trouble......oh well it does not help that Celestia is after my head.....you are going to have to forget that too." Sound finished and then started the spell causing Thunderlane to fall asleep.
_________*twenty minutes later*__________
Sound finished the spell and smirked he then teleported Thunderlane and himself to the lake where he captured Thunderlane and dropped him on the ground then he left.