I put on my saddlebags and went startling to the schoolyard. Only to find a lot of foals and fillies there.
"This should be fun." I said. Then I landed down where no pony would see, then I went to where I thought it might be, and there was a white pony with both a horn and wings. they had a wavy mane and tail that was pink and blue, and was my height. I sighed then went up to her to ask her if she could help me. "Can you help me with something?" I asked.
"What do you need help with?" She returned.
"Well, I lost a certain device, oh there it is!" I said, picking it up, happy I could leave before anypony bothers me. "Never mind." I said, then I started to walk towards my 'home' when I heard her sneeze. "Oh, bless you." I said as i turned around. But when I did she was the same as that pony I found in the snow. But different. Then she changed into a pony form, bat she looked kind of like a bat. She had a black coat with dark green and red mane.
"Go ahead and run like everyone else." She said, and she was crying! I was wondered why others would run, but then I remember that other ponys were scared. So I tried to make her feel better, and tell the truth.
"I'm not scared!" I said quickly, so that she would feel better.
She said, "You aren't? But I-" But I cut her off.
"My name is John, John Rim, and you are?" I asked, wanting to make possibly my only friend.
"I'm Candy." She said, and oddly I could see a tear form in her eye. Then I flew off to my 'house' to do some studies with the limited resources I had. I went up to my attic and looked at my scanner, it automatically scanned her, oddly. But in the end it was good, especially considering that this was its first test run.
"I hope I see her again. I'm not going to work on anything today, I'll just sleep." I said, before falling asleep. The next day I woke up and went to get some bread for toast. I had recently made a toaster and i had been eating toast whenever I felt like it. I didn't need to eat much. Well, usually only once a month. So I left for the market. However, while I was on my way there I saw the same pony I did the day before, the one who changed into Candy. So I decided to go say hello. "Hello Candy!" I said from behind her.
Candy yelped in surprise. "John? You startled me! I was just about to get a milkshake, want to join me?"
"Sure! I don't really know where anything is here anyway so, not much to do. Heh heh." I said, a little embarrassed.
"I'm kind of new myself, but my friend Starburst showed me around, so I can help you out!" Candy smiled as she hovered off the ground a little.
"Thanks! Oh, I need to ask you something, if you don't mind." I said with a serious voice.
"What is it?" Candy asked, still hovering.
"Do you know where the Everfree forest is?" I asked, still in a serious tone.
"Oh yeah! I spend most of my free time there actually, want to go there after we get some milkshakes?" She asked. She did a little loop in the air, seeming more and more joyful.
"Yes, that would help me greatly. Thank you." I said relieved. After that we went to get, well, Milkshakes. After we sat down I started asking her questions.
"How can you change like that?"
"Oh, well..." she seemed a bit hesitant, but then looked back up at me and took a deep breath. "I'm a changeling...a changeling hybrid to be more precise."
"What is a changeling?" I asked.
"Oh, what is a changeling?" she said, ignoring what she was about to say.
"A changeling is...well...this is what a changeling looks like." She then changed into the same thing with holes in its legs as the day before, and that pony in the snow! She then changed back into the white pony she was before.
"What's so wrong about being a changeling?" I asked.
"Well...we get a bad rep. You see, my mom is...the queen of the changelings. On top of that mess of evil my dad, who is thankfully dead, was King Sombra. And then there's me! The only one who WANTS to be nice."
"Wait, but I met a nice changeling in the past, and who is King Sombra?" I asked. She then changed back into the black bat-like pony I saw before.
"You don't know who King Sombra is? Didn't your parents teach you about Equestria's history??" She asked, obviously astonished.
"I didn't even know what Equestria was until two day ago!" I said.
"Wait a second...were you...born in the far-lands too??" She asked.
"Wait, how could you have been born there? Nopony has ever lived out there aside from my parents and I!" I said. Holding back a tear as badly as possible.
"I was born and raised in the wastelands of the far-lands! That's where the changeling hive was, I had to learn about Equestria for...attacks and our new hive." She looked ashamed of herself, obviously holding back tears herself.
"Hey, it's ok. You couldn't help the attacks. You were forced to attend. Just because a lot of your kind felt a certain way doesn't mean you have to." I said, trying to make her feel better. but then she sniffled and said,
"I wasn't just forced to attend...I was forced to...lead them." Then she started sobbing. So I decided to help. I went next to her, held her and stroke her mane.
"It's ok, you couldn't help it. The important part is that you didn't do it because you wanted to. If it makes you feel any better, I don't care. I'm just glad that you are a good pony, and that's all that matters." I said. Candy smiled.
"Thanks," she said sniffling, "I've never met a pony like you before."
"Heh, still don't know anything about this land, but I now know about you!" I said happily. Candy wiped away the last of her tears.
"I could help you around if you want, and if you're at all curious about my abilities, since you seem like the sciencey type, I'm more than happy to share!" she smiled as she hovered a bit.
"I just need to know were that forest is." I said.
"Oh! I almost forgot, it's this way, follow me! We can walk and talk!" She changed back into the white pony and started to fly out the door, "You coming?"
"Oh, yes! Alongs-y!" I said, knowing what that word meant to the doctor.
Candy giggled as we left the milkshake place, "So I was wondering, what made you come to Ponyville from the far-lands? I ran away because my mom is, well, evil."
"I'd rather not talk much about it." I said with a sad output. Candy had a look on her face that told me she was thinking about something, and then I saw she had an idea.
"I'll tell you about my abilities and how being a changeling hybrid is different from a changeling, if you tell me why you left." She looked really curious.
"I'll accept to your deal. but I will become depressed or sad for a while afterwards." I said, close to tears with my head down. I didn't want to tell her, but
I knew that I had to for the sake of finding Dad.
"Well...if it hurts you to tell..." Candy thought for a moment, I could see that she wanted to know badly, so I just started to tell her without giving her a chance to change her mind.
"My parents died, and my mothers final wish was for somepony to keep me safe. So we ran,We ran and never came back." I said. trying to hold back from crying as hard as possible, but was loosing the fight.
"John...I didn't...I..." She seemed to have trouble finding the right words, but then she seemed to find them, "if it makes you feel better, at least you had parents who you actually loved." she looked down as another tear fell down her cheek.
"Please, don't make yourself feel bad for my own sorrow to be eased. I have been dealing with their death for eight years. They died, and I couldn't help. I wasn't allowed to. It has haunted me because of that for all of these years. I hold on to the past, so that I can eventually get over the fact that they died. But you don't have to. So please, do not make yourself be upset just to please me. I'm fine." I said,. I said it mostly because I couldn't bear to see her sad because of my own life.
"I...you..." she seemed confused at first, but then suddenly stopped and turned into her bat pony form, only red all over. I was shocked as she suddenly blew up in front of me, "YOU THINK I'M MAKING MYSELF FEEL BAD?!?! I'VE BEEN HERE FOR ONLY A MONTH OR TWO AND I STILL THINK ABOUT ALL THE HORRIBLE THINGS I'VE DONE, WHAT MY MOM MADE ME DO, WHAT MY DAD MADE ME LEARN, WHAT I...what I..." she shook off the red glow and turned back into the white pony, she was obviously a bit sensitive sometimes.
"I don't know. I wish I could help, however, I cannot change the past. If I could I would. However I cannot. So all I can do is say that I am sorry. I will go on alone, you should head home, try to relax. I will see you again soon." With that being said, I left to the forest.
"Wait!" Candy yelled after me.
"Yes?" I asked.
"I...I...I don't have a...a home." she said, looking lonely.
"Well, where have you been living?" I asked, quite worried.
"In there..." She pointed towards the forest. "It's where I sleep anyways."
"Would you like for me to make sure nothing harms you?" I asked, wanting her to be safe, and to be kind.
"It would be nice to have a friend in the forest with me." She smiled as she caught up to me.
"I need something to stop from sleeping anyway." I said as we walked into the forest.