Chapter 12
It was a good thing he was unconscious while going through the process of metamorphosis. Being awake for a few months while your body digests itself before being recreated would be a very disturbing experience. First his body released an enzyme designed to break down the majority of his body tissue, leaving only his major organs to float suspended inside the slurry. Then from the dissolved remnants of his larval body, his cells began the process of forming a new exoskeleton, legs and wings.
One of his untouched organs was his mind, left to dream and to remember.
He was sitting next to Chrysalis, who was resting on her throne. She was in the middle of teaching him about their main source of food and their species rivals, ponies.
“Ponies come in many colors, shapes and sizes,” she said to him. “First there are the pegasi. They have wings like us, but instead of being clear and membranous, theirs have skin, bones and feathers. While we can just easily rinse our wings clean with a little water, they have to spend time readjusting their feathers and removing old broken ones.”
Chrysalis buzzed her wings, lifting herself into the air briefly before landing on the floor. A circle of emerald flame arose from around her hooves and continued up her body until it reached past her horn. When it burnt away she was no longer a tall sleek black changeling but a shorter creature covered in a light grey-blue fur. Her dark cerulean mane was replaced with one of greyish opal and was done up in a large pink bow. She opened a pair of wings, spreading out the feathers for him to see.
“Pegasi tend to be show offs,” she explained while strutting around the room. “They like to be flashy and stand out. They have a strong resistance to the cold and are able to walk on clouds. Pegasi also have the ability to twist the weather to suit their own needs. They can create all types of rain and snow. Anything from a light drizzle to a terrible lightning storm or a dusting of snow to a raging blizzard.”
Another ring of green fire surrounded Chrysalis, replacing her pegasus disguise with one of a creature with a similar body structure. Instead of wings though, she had a straight horn that twisted out from the center of its forehead. This time her fur was an almost white grey, and her mane was a split tone of light magenta and white.
“Second are the unicorns,” she said while tossing her mane from her face. “Like us they also have horns and can channel magic through them. They have, over time, developed many magical spells; from simple tricks to teleportation. Unicorns can also use their magic to levitate and manipulate objects just like we can. Since many of them come from so-called ‘royal’ bloodlines, unicorns tend to act like they are better than other ponies.”
Once again flames of emerald flickered over Chrysalis, changing her into a pony lacking both horn and wings. Now her fur was light mint green and she had a yellow bandana with white flowers that covered the top of her pale reddish orange mane.
“Third are the earth ponies,” she went on. “While they lack the gift of flight or the ability to spell craft, they have greater strength and are very in tune with nature. They can coax plants to grow faster and help the soil replenish nutrients. Like our drones, earth ponies are hard workers; however they are often set in their ways and can be very stubborn.”
Chrysalis was about to change her shape again but the memory halted and faded away when he felt like he was moving. His body told him it wasn’t time to wake up yet so, once the motions stopped, his mind settled right back into dreaming.
Now he was in a beige room, looking ahead at white symbols written on a large green rectangle. A distorted voice was talking and some of the words were punctuated along with a loud crack. Moving shapes started to coalesce around him, becoming little thin creatures that sat at wooden desks. Though they had no muzzles he could tell each and every one was facing forward.
The voice was then given a body, larger than the rest and standing on its hind legs. A lump of black mane sat atop of its head while its ears stuck out from the sides as opposed to the top. One of its front legs had an extremely long growth that stuck out from a lump of a hoof and it would smack it against the symbols on the green rectangle as it talked.
“This will be on the test,” the creature repeated over and over again.
His visions turn downward to a book that lay open on a desk in front of him. A piece of paper slowly slid out from under the book’s cover with little black lined images drawn all over it. Then a yellow stick with a pointed black tip touched down on the paper and began to create a new picture.
“This will be on the test!” the creature suddenly shouted as it took three great strides toward him on its hind legs.
With a loud whoosh of air the creature brought down its long hoof growth, cracking it loudly against the book and paper. Everything around him began to shake about before the dream split apart like mist and curled in on itself.
He shifted inside the cocoon, extending out his stiff limbs and brushing away the remnants of sleep.
“Oh, oh, oh!” a chipper female voice excitedly exclaimed. “I think it’s getting ready to hatch!”
With his new sleek black hooves he pressed against the hardened strands of silk in front of him. His eyes clenched shut as the fibrous wall at his back stretched until the threads reached their breaking point and begun to split around his chitin. Then after one final push the rest of his body emerged.
Holding on to the outside of his cocoon, with his mane brushing against the side of his neck, he rested. A pair of little wrinkled wings extended from his back and began to straighten out as hemolymph was pumped through the veins. When he experimentally moved them, the wings created a small soft buzzing sound.
A slight grin crossed his muzzle and he inhaled deeply but the smile vanished when he didn’t recognize any of the new scents in the air. What he was breathing in was nothing like the tunnels of the hive that he was used to.
When he opened his eyes, instead of being surrounded by familiar stone walls with glowing lichen, he was in a square room with little yellow stars that dotted about the surface of flat light blue walls. Instead of hanging from the ceiling of a cavern, the cocoon he clung to was suspended from a hook of metal that branched out and curved up from a pole.
Nervously he turned his head around and stared at the strange collection of the rooms other occupants.
“Where’s my mom?” he asked with a small voice.
“Um… guys…” a light mint earth pony said, looking away from him, to a blue cat bird; then a pink pony bird, an orange lizard and lastly a large brown ball of hair with horns. “I think we better show this to Twilight.”
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wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaattttttttttttttttttttttttttttt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Foalnapping now too?!?! Celestia's tyrannical state has become beyond out of hand. I'm not even sure I oppose hostile takeover anymore.
Oh. Ok. Uhm. I wonder what happened...? I guess a lot could happen in a few months, but dang!
Dos Bas Turds! They took him from the cavern! I was hoping for more Mom-salis story.
Im still hooked, however. And really curious where this goes from here.
OK.... so the Student Six apparently kidnapped a metamorphosing changeling from Chrysalis' nursery. Guess every changeling was out to lunch. Can't wait to hear how this was pulled off.
The excrement is about to make contact with the powered air current distribution device.
oooh..... Chrysalis is gonna be maaaaaad. You just kidnapped her heir while in the egg.
Well this certainly took a turn. Excellent chapter!
Interesting plot twist.
Ow. We've been severely cliffhanger-ed.
Oh boi, now for the waiting again
What could this mean...
It means, don't jump to quick on placing blame!
I don't think I've ever been cliffhangered both ways at once... what happened and what while happen... well played.
Not sure if he's regular changeling or a ruler-type of changeling
I have a distinct feeling that there was a very bad "accident" that happened when he was taking his nap and that the student 6 (minus the only changeling of their group at the moment of hatching (I also feel like it will be interesting to see his reaction to the 'traitor' changeling)) happened along the hive after a big fight? I just feel like either the hive was attacked by Equestrian forces or that one singer changeling that was hunted at being a royal had her own hostile take over. GAH!! I hate cliffhangers, they make my brain think things!
I'd comment on the situation, but my memory isn't the best and I don't remember much from the earlier chapters. Did this story start before or after changeling reformation and School of Friendship?
U change the picture to his current state?
its awesome that u did so we know what he looks like
Wow, just wow.
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After.
He has a mane.. So he's a royal (only Chrissy has a mane and she's a Queen) and the Young Six found and brought home his cocoon. Some Ling is getting severely punished for losing the new changeling Prince! I am curious why Ocelleus didn't know what it was, surely she saw her little brother and sisters cocoons, though maybe reformed ling cocoons look different and she never saw a regular one? She is smart though not being part of a clutch means her lavrahood was different. Poor little prince he's going to have to face changeling politics really early, ponies and Ocelleus teaching him to share love and his mom insisting he take it.
I kinda had a feeling that was gonna happen.
I get the distinct impression that Cicada might have told the ponies where Chrysalis was hiding, in an attempt to get rid of her, or convinced many of the other changelings to side with her and attacked... either way I say that Cicada is to blame for this
Oh you think
Wonderful cliffhanger by the way, hate you for it, but wonderful
Okay show of hooves who never saw that coming /)
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*Raises hoof*
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Ruler probably.
Is it me or does Pupa look kinda feminine?
Its back! Hopefully the update pace will start to pick up after this.
well.
shit.
Well "Pupa", since she/he officially doesn't have a name yet in the story seems to have journeyed a lot while he/she slept. As for the gender based on the population and stuff going on; you could be female but think your male or vice versa. So its all up in the air.
Out of all the chapters, I could not have chosen a worse one to hit a cliffhanger on.
God why me, I want to know what happened!!!
Aw man I want to know what happens next so freaking bad.
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Your icon summarizes my feeling perfectly
I be conflicted on the cover art. It's absolutely fabulous but ill miss the larva.pic I gues this makes more sense considering its a nymph now
I guess I should do a shocked thing since other people are doing it *clears throat* in the words of that one panel from ssec
Le whaaaaaat!
(Couldn't figure out accent on phone)
I'm more worried about how Ocellus is going to react since she does hate Chrysalis.
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Most likely old and new changelings work like the pony tribes, same base genetics but different genes being expressed due to how they are raised. All the loyalists are probably Chrysalis' children and grandchildren, sticking by mom/grandmom. Thorax's changelings and the traitors where likely raised in family units instead, thus being less aggressive since they didn't compete for attention and space as larva making them more open to sharing love. With exceptions of course, I am of the opinion Thorax and Phyrax are Chrysalis' sons
Oooohhhh let's see how they explain to someone that actually understands things that they beat his mother and she's on the run?
The squarish muzzle is at odds with Chrysalis chosen name. I wonder if all royals are capable of laying eggs and the external appearance has no influence on that, it'd make a lot of sense for changelings, I'd guess. That's bound to appear sooner of latter though, so we'll wait. Damn cliffhanger, though
Oh FUCK. I have never been more hype.
Oh man, that was a twist. Xp
Something bad must have happened to the other changelings.
Just as well I'm only reading this now, that's QUITE the cliffhanger!
D'aaawwww!
Ah. I guess having veins would be more suited towards changelings, due to how massive they are compared to other insects, but it still feels odd to me to see "hemolymph" and "veins" be associated with each other.
OOOOOOOHHHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
I think someone forgot to post a few dozen chapters between this one and the last...
wtf?
Amazing picture
O shiiiit... this cant end well
Uuuh. UUUUUUUH. I’m gunna go dig the graves for the poor students involved in this.
So she turned into Twilight Velvet?