The lone human rushed through the streets of ponyville, a few mares watching him as he passed by at a steady clip, what looking to be a small stuffed animal perched upon his head. He bounded up a set of steps and up to the door and slamming his fist against it repeatedly…
“Twilight!!! HELP!!!” He yells at the door. Several ponies standing across the street look up watching the strange human. When he stops beating on the door a small giggle can be heard as a small filly pokes her head up looking around at the mares at the other side of the street, The filly waves at the mares while perched atop the human's head causing the mares to titter.
One of the mares, a yellow one with a fiery mane smiled at the antics.
Just them the door before Shepherd opened revealing a small purple dragon still rubbing his eyes from it being so early in the morning at noon. “Shepherd you woke me up, also, you know you have a filly on your head right?”
“One spike, it's noon, and two yes, yes I do, she's my…” He sighs. “Hair raiser.” At this, the little filly takes up hoof fulls of Shepherds hair and begins to move the clumps around all the while making spooky ghost noises. This, in turn, caused the three mares across the street to chuckle behind their hooves, one of them only smiling softly at the antics.
Shepherd pinches the brim of his nose as this all happens, Spike laughing all the while. “Spike, if you could get Twilight I need to have some Tests.” And that's as far as he had gotten with his words as the purple pony princess appeared in a flash squealing in glee and dragging shepherd and the filly through the door with her magenta magic. And leaving three mares across the street in a fit of giggles.
As far as Shepherd could tell, he was just standing at the front door but now, he was strapped down to a chair with a large strainer attached to his head, sans filly of course. Said filly was now firmly attached to his shoulder. For unknown reasons , she refused to be separated from him.
Shepherd groans as Twilight flitters around the room, which could very well be her basement or Frankenstein's Laboratory, Shepherd couldn't tell at the moment. “Twilight…” He monotoned the best he could, which at the moment was not a difficult thing. But Twilight was quick if not precise taking readings and measurements all the while zipping up and around and back and forth. The filly moving her head back and forth and up and down and around following twilight with her every movement. “Twilight?” Shepherd said once again.
But Twilight was already off looking over a long paper that was coming out of the machine now with a wide smile on her face. Shepherd sighed, he’s been doing a lot of that today.
A giggle came from the small filly, as she watches Twilight prance on the spot while reading the new data she was getting. “Sh’es funny Addy.”
“Her name is Twilight,” Shepherd says.
“Twiwite?” The filly speaks aloud, and a Daww was heard from across the room both filly and human look over at Twilight who was now standing in front of them with her hoof placed on her chest and a look of strange longing. You know the one.
“And what's your name little one?” Twilight coos at the filly. Which causes the filly to latch onto Shepherds arm a little tighter while staring at Twilight.
“Twilight please, I need to ge-” But shepherd was cut off again this time by the filly.
“I’m S-shade.” The filly squeaked out which only caused Twilight to coo, and Shepherd groan.
“Twilight!” Shepherd said a little more forcefully to grab the mare's attention. “Focus Twilight, I need you to run some tests.”
Twilight rolls her eyes and smiles. “Your tests are done, Shepherd.” She says while she unbuckles the human from the chair. “Fascinating results but nothing abnormal.?
“That's not the tests I wanted you to run.” Shepherd deadpanned once more.
“I run every test Shephe-” but this time Shepherd cut her off by grabbing the filly and placing her nose to nose with Twilight which caused Twilight to pull back slightly.
“I need you to find out if this filly is related.” Shepherd paused before continuing after a moment to make sure Twilight understands perfectly. “To me specifically.” he ended.
Twilight looks around the filly at Shepherd with a perplexed look before stating. “She's a pony Shepherd, ponies and humans can’t…. Intermingle. Like that.” Twilight says taking into account the filly still hanging in Shepherd’s hands between them.
Shepherd stares into Twilight’s eyes before shifting his hands getting the filly to set in the palm of his hand and with a single finger gently moving it towards the little fillies forehead causing her eyes to cross as he booped her on the nose which caused her to sneeze. This caused several reactions at once. One the filly within Shepherds palm sneezed, which in turn caused a lot of green flames to shoot up from his palm shooting around the filly changing her back into a Changeling. Two Twilight pulled back away from them both in shock while Spike who was sitting across the room reading a comic but also watching the others from spoke up.
“Cool!” The drake said.
The filly on the other hand, gasped while buzzing her wings and cheering. “YAY! W’m Wormwel agwen!” And then she was off bouncing around the laboratory like the spawn of discord.
Twilight looked on, her jaw dropped as she watched the black and purple ball of energy bound around her lab. There was a breaking sound in the distance and everything stopped, aside from a few pieces of parchment still floating down to the ground though the air around them. “Oops, I arry.”
That was three hours ago now… After that Shepherd managed to get Shade to calm down enough to allow him to leave the room without her, she was a very clingy filly. All the same, he now sits with Spike at the kitchen table, Spike was eating gem encrusted waffles, and Shepherd was drinking his third cup of Coffee. He had a feeling he was going to need the energy if he was going to make it through today.
The door to the kitchen opened and in walked Twilight with Shade perched upon her head. Shepherd smiled at them not finding it slightly amusing. “Now she's your hair raiser.” He said while smiling as Shade took Twilight's mane in her hooves and started making ghost sounds while lifting it up, Spike burst out laughing falling into the floor and coughing on his waffles before clearing his mouth and continued laughing.
Twilight huffed but smiled lifting the filly in her magic which caused the filly to release her mane, and hovered her back over to Shepherd, which he took the filly in his hands causing Shade to giggle as his fingers tickled her. “Well, I have the results.”
This caused Shepherd to look at Twilight while holding the filly in his arm like one would hold a newborn baby. “And?”
“Well, aside from learning a lot about Changelings in the process of the testing, I took her readings and matched them up the the readings I took from you. She is one hundred percent changeling.” This caused Shepherd to let out a sigh of relief Chrysalis was just messing with him. “But she is still your daughter.” Say what now?
“But you just said.” Shepherd was cut off once more.
“I know what I said, and I stand by that. But she is also your daughter. Her magical signature is very similar to yours on a very deep and fundamental level, with a few variations that I suspect are from her mother.”
“Wait? I have a magical signature?” Shepherd asked but pulls back. “Nevermind, not important. So, because of this, she's not genetically mine but her magic is so close to mine that she is my….. Daughter?” Shepherd paused at this pulling his daughter closer to himself while also looking off across the room, his eyes slightly glassy.
Twilight nods at him. “That is correct!” She claps her hooves together. “I’d love to know more about how this all happened in fact, it's an amazing discovery.”
“Um, Twilight?” Said Spike causing Twilight to look into his direction.
“Yes, Spike?”
“I think you broke Shepherd.” He said pointing at Shepherd who had a little filly hanging from his shirt and waving a forehoof in front of his face but no reaction was forthcoming.
Oh snap!
Never expected this to get an update
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It happens... lol, I just got into the mood... It's a difficult thing for me to pull off these days... XD, I need to figure it out so I can do it more often. I also need to work on my stand alone story some more... I just have to find how to move forward.
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Almost forgot about this...
More please.
Yay! It's back!
Great after 2 years of waiting for this story our little human has got broken... Properly have to find the nearest human repair shop in Ponyville 🤔🤔🤔
Thanks for the update, love this story!!
So how did this happen?
Aww, this was cute
Now cue Shepard wondering how in blazes did he manage to become a dad and who he screwed to do it. If he did, that is
Hahaha changelings, amirite?
It's not so bad, really! Taking care of a foal is almost easier than a child in some ways!
Keep going! ;)
dude! welcome back! also, im curious too! ......did, did chrysalis do THINGS to him?
This was a really cute story and i love shade to pieces. If you were to keep updating i definitely wouldn't mind.
Said filly was now firmly attached to his shoulder. For unknown resins, she refused to be separated from him.
Yup resins will do that to a fella. In all seriousness, tho, i'm glad this story got an update.
Is this out of hiatus? If yes, you should probably switch the tag.
Welp, now i'll spend all my time at work pondering how the heck this happened.
Don't forget about the belfry for the bat ponies.
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yep, They will do that LOL! Yeah Unedited does that... Also I'm a bad speller, But I got it fixed, thanks....
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Good, good....
Thought this story was dead , glad it updated
8324582 Chrysalis sucked out some of his love-magic-essence and used it to form a new chernglerng?
Shepherd glances down, "I've lost my mojo!"
Hooray for another chapter! I was worried this story would be dead like so many other I love ! Thank you for getting your creative juices flowing again!
Yay it's back! I can now die with no regrets.
Be prepared for a lot of "ITS ALIVE".
Some people just have no patience.
8324878 is right. A belfry for thestrals would be hilarious!
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Two years is a lot of patience. XD lol
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Please don't die.....
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You don't want to see the ending of the story? It's just another chapter update...
Hahahaha, well, this was... interesting, good show, good show!
Hahah, now I'm curious... how dafuq did this happen?
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Bitch please.
I got a couple of stories over on FF.net that haven't been updated in over 10 years and I'm still waiting. Sure I poke the author every few years, simply asking if they're alright, but I'm still happy and willing to wait!
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Well, It feels like a long time to me lol... I hope you will like the next chapter when it comes.
I'm glad this story is still alive, and I hope to see where it goes.
Now there's a story I'm happy to see pop up again.
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Thank you!
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I'm working on it....
And all he wanted to do was drink coffee and have a nice garden.
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LOL I know right!
I was so excited that I saw that this story has updated again! Glad to see it's not dead
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Not dead, and working on chapter 9.
Glad to have this updated! It's just so cute!
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Thank you! I try... Not sure where the story is headed right now but expect fluff at the very least.... And torment.... Lots of torment...
Words do not do justice to how excited I am that this story updated again.
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Expect more in the next couple of days....
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Marry me.
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Um.......
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OMG I LOVE YOUR ICON.
Oh god! This is funny! More please.
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Soon.
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Thanks, i found it somewhere
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Uh... I was talking to Sober, but ok.
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Yeah, best way to catch Threstrals, Mangos on a stick... lol
It's always nice to see some of that good stuff come back after so long. Beautiful.