5 hours earlier...
The bustling crowd in front of Ponyville town hall stood, waiting for Twilight's speech with apprehension and slight boredom. The majority of her speeches have never exactly been the most relevant to other pony's lives except for the occasional news of panic. She approached to podium, and the crowd instantly silenced.
Well, here goes nothing.
"Hello, everypony! I'm here with some rather-" Twilight looked down at the letter in her hooves reading
My dearest, most faithful student Twilight,
I have kept you in touch about our recently arrived "friend" so far. I'm sure you were just as surprised that something such as this had come up. And, apparently, so was my council. The nobles were not quite as understanding as you were. Also, I have been thinking about how our Changeling friends might react to this, in case they have been eavesdropping in our activities. Though now might not be the most perfect of moments to release the news, I have a feeling that my subjects must know what is hidden in their fair town. Don't argue that this may be the worst idea I have ever formulated; This is all according to my plan. I will be sending Luna for the planned task, as my hooves are a bit full right now with royal duties. It will be your job to calm her, as she did not have the most pleasant of encounters with our new guest. All will be explained later. I'm sure you'll bring the news to the Ponyvillians as gently as possible!
Your truly,
Princess Celestia
"-foreboding news from the Princess."
The crowd waited in anticipation.
"We have all come to accept our fellow ponies in this town. I remember the time when I found out Ponyville had ousted Zecora simply because she wasn't like other ponies. But in the end we accepted her with compassion and friendship. So now, Celestia has sent this letter to me directly to inform you all about a Changeling refugee that is in our midsts."
The crowd gasped. Some ponies started to gaze accusingly at eachother.
"Now, it's not like that. He is not disguised. In fact, Celestia mentioned to me how impossible it would be to not notice him if he walked into town. Princess Luna will travel here to take care of this issue, though Princess Celestia's letter had not made certain of what she means to do with the Changeling."
Smile and wave, Twilight. You KNOW what's going to happen to that Changeling. Nopony has to know that Equestria was going to be one bug-pony short by today.
"So have no worries. The Princesses will solve this, and I hope that you'll treat this Changeling with as much kindness as you had given me when I arrived here!" Twilight emphatically forced a fake smile. The crowd was silent in confusion, fear, indecision, just waiting for a catalyst to light the fuse and break the tension with an explosion. She knew what they were thinking. How could they possibly believe that the Princesses could protect them after they were nearly defeated by during the Royal Wedding.
Twilight, staring nervously at the crowd, was jerked out of the way by a pink blur.
Incoming Ponyville tradition in three.....two....one....
Pinkie Pie pushed Twilight off of the podium and screamed, "EVERYPONY RUN FOR THEIR LIVES!!!!"
And there we go. Mission accomplished, Twilight. Now we play the waiting game 'til Pinkie stops having her fun and the town's marching riots and the arson-lit domestic fires are put out.
Twilight sighed as she got back up amongst the general disorder. Everytime, there just HAS to be that one little pony to make everything worse...
Later....
"Uh, Twi? You mind answering mah question?" Applejack asked again, her voice laced with a hint of impatience.
"Heh. Depends. How is everything going on outside? Any buildings lit on fire yet?"
"Wha? No. everypony looks a lil' riled up. But other than that, they seem fine."
Twilight exhaled in relief and wiped her brow with a hoof, "Glad to know that's over with. The town took the news pretty well, I suppose. Now we just have to wait until Princess Luna gets here."
Twilight walked out of the library with Applejack, "So what will you be up to. Apple-buck season's over, so I expect you to finally get some rest?"
Applejack exclaimed, "Ab-SO-lutely! I mean, yeah I guess. Just after Ah check up on Applebloom."
"What'll you be up to?"
Twilight bitterly answered, "I need to have a serious talk with Pinkie...and her sense of timing."
"So you weren't hurt?," Cyr interrupted.
"Well, kind of. They don't visit me anymore, but they still bother me every now and then. I wish they didn't tease me though," Carrot Top said.
"How would you have reacted? I should have just ignored them."
Cyr grimly smiled, "Let's just say, contrary to how I am right now, I wouldn't have handled it quite as graciously as you had. Don't fret. Every being has their breaking point."
"True companions accept your abilities and faults. Some friends you have; they believe that they have the right to persecute you based on the fact that you have a more successful experience with planting crops than they do? Even when you supported them with the fruits of your own labor? Good riddance."
"They weren't very nice to you. You should make new friends," Fluttershy brightly added. "Same thing happened to me during Flight School. I was teased a lot, so I only stuck with the ponies that truly accepted me, like Rainbow Dash."
Fluttershy looked away towards the setting horizon when she realized something.
"Oh no! It's getting late. I should have been back to my cottage already. It's been really nice talking to you!"
Fluttershy sped away, leaving the two alone under the colossal apple tree. From a distance, they looked almost comical, as they were both sitting next to eachother like old acquaintances, making the differences in their size all the more apparant. If a pony had walked by, and ignored Cyr's unnatural features, they would have given them an awkward look, and wonder how in Celestia's name a Changeling with the height of a alicorn and the girth of a manticore had gotten to know a regular earth mare.
Carrot Top asked, "So what are you doing here? I'm guessing that you're not doing this out of the kindness of your own heart?"
"No. Princess Celestia put me up to this, as joyful as today's work was. And Changeling's don't have hearts."
Carrot Top gave Cyr a look of disbelief, "Yeah, I'm not following you."
"It's a figure of speech. Well, I think. We steal love to survive, yes? So apparantly, over the millenia, other species branded us with the term "heartless" because we can't give nor create our own love, so that must obviously mean that we don't have said organ of compassion. But other than that, it's simply a joke among Changelings. No being ever really vivisected a Changeling before, have they?"
Cyr gave a short, sad laugh. He stopped when he saw an speck in the dusk sky. It had the familiar and distant shape of a chariot.
"Your brand of humor is really....off," said Carrot Top.
"Don't mind me. Just letting off some steam. And you said you were looking for Applejack, correct?"
"Yeah."
Cyr gestured with a massive hoof over to a very convenient figure trotting over the hilly path, "She's over there."
"Oh. Thanks!" She got up and started walking away. "I'll be meeting you again soon, right? I've heard about all the hubbub in town that Princess Luna was coming to see you."
Cyr spied at the chariot again. "Yes. But can I ask you something?"
"Sure. I already wasted your time with my life story!" The mare chuckled. "What's up?"
"Can we have that chat later? I've been looking to getting something off my chest. The past few days....haven't been kind to me," Cyr sighed uncharacteristically. He normally had a zen demeanor, but the slowly-developing preoccupied tone had started to creep on to Carrot Top's conscious.
Carrot Top went up and gently touched his hoof with her own. Cyr, not used to having his personal space compromised like the majority of ponies are, almost recoiled from the mere touch, but he resisted in case he hurt his new-found companion's feelings.
"Of course. Anytime you want. What are friends for?"
"Friends?" Cyr questioned. These ponies must be really easy-going if they make friendships as fast as rabbits spawn offspring.
"Well, yeah! What else would I be? You never had friends before?"
Friends? The only Changelings I've gotten to know were- Talc. Saifra. Oh, how I miss you both. Hopefully nothing happened to you...yet. Celestia sending Luna as a substitute over here can only mean one thing to me.....your safety.
"I've had some before. But not in a manner that you have just demonstrated."
Cyr gestured again to Applejack. The chariot was getting nearer.
"Now don't you have another friend to meet up with?"
Carrot Top facehoofed. "Oops. Forgot about her. Well, see ya later!"
Cyr waved goodbye and started to walk away into the fields and away from the farm.
He reached the outskirts of the fields, where the chariot was arriving towards.
As the chariot traveled across the sunless sky, the moon had risen in place of the sun, and waves of stars streaked from their eastern origin behind the chariot. Millions of the individual celestial bodies had lit up as if they had just blinked into existence and found themselves to be moved magically into their place throughout the space outside Equestria's atmosphere. Soon the moon had elevated passed the horizon, and joined its starry children in the night sky, beckoning them to stay close and away from the darkness.
The Behemoth continued to follow the chariot's path after watching the dynamic scene unfold.
Heh. Never get tired of seeing that.
The chariot angled down and, nearly heading towards the Everfree Forest, landed onto a grassy plain.
Cyr followed it and presented himself in the open.
He bowed to the alicorn that trotted out of the chariot pulled by two Night-Watch Royal Guards.
"Rise. We have much to discuss," Luna said, a bit coldly. She summoned a book of ancient languages and walked towards an empty portion of the pastures.
Awkwardness doused the conversation into a quick silence. Luna obviously didn't want to be here. Cyr still felt absolutely guilty, and he kept a wary eye towards the rather Fenrir-like Royal Guards she had brought. They both kept a steady glare at him and followed at his tail.
"Stay still. We have to attempt to translate the glyphs on thine carapace."
Cyr did as he was commanded, and after a few minutes of poking and prodding, Luna came to a revelation.
"Aha! 'Twas such a simple solution!"
Cyr asked, "May I ask what it is?"
"Engraved on thee is an ancient, yet simple spell encantation written in Pri Equus. A counter-spell should disperse its effects."
"What happens next?"
"Simple. Stand over there in the open as I prepare the counter-spell," Luna replied.
As Cyr trotted over to a vacant, clear area, he asked, "And what will this specifically do to solve your problems and mine, if I may ask?"
"Thou don't have to worry about that. These aren't thine problems."
Cyr stubbornly continued, "They are. You have helped me beyond what any simple compassion would require. While I'm on this topic, why do you help me? I have apologized and I will do so again for anything my kin and I have done to your subjects, but I'm sure that you haven't accepted my sentiment, and neither do most of your subjects. Considering what you suggested last time we met, I'm sorry to be blunt enough to say that I question your motives."
Luna placidly looked up.
"We hath been rather out of character these few days. My sister hath, in a way, been a bit too trusting during our rule. But thou can say that we hath formed a grudge against thee. We hath given thine situation some thought, and we will follow our sister's manner. We shalt assist thou, and we shalt never bring up the past again. We accept your apology from our encounter. Final last words should be honored."
"You meant that pitiful 'I'm sorry'? Some glorious eulogy that was."
"Speaking of thou demise. Here's the thing....we have to kill you."
Cyr nearly tripped on his hooves and half-roared in a panic, "Wait. What? What was with all of the 'never bringing up the past again' sentiments?!"
"Not literally," Luna whispered. "The townspeople hath been warned of thou presence. Small towns such as Ponyville consist of ponies that keep secrets well. We first must discard thou mutated form in a manner that simulates thine death. The pesky nobles of the court in Canterlot will free my sister and I of orders to remove thine presence. And, from what thou hath told Celestia, thou Changeling kin will be safe.
"We should be considered more of a Royal Jester rather than a Princess if we thought Chrysalis wouldeth not placed spies in our fair country. After we conduct the counter-spell and display thou in a manner that would presenteth thee to be dead, any spy would relay back to the Hive with the information. The Queen and thou Hive will relish the idea that ye perished, and thou friends will not be harmed."
"And how will you make me 'dead'? I'm quite worried that you'll not be able to disable the PriEquus incantation. It's centuries old...."
"And we hath been here longer. Dead languages and transformations are quite natural to us, as thou can see." Luna bent her fair head towards the two Night Watch guards, still following behind Cyr.
"Leave everything to us." Luna gestured for him to stay in a spot, and back-trotted away from Cyr.
Cyr said nervously, "In case, this doesn't work. And if something goes wrong, I wish to say to you that.....
.....I've always enjoyed your nights. They kept me company over the years."
Luna gave a small grin. She's not that bad, I guess. More than I ever could be
"Well, hath no worries. Thou will be alive to experience a great many more."
Her horn ignited with a pitch of light that contrasted with the darkness around them in the field. She steadied herself and concentrated her energy towards Cyr. Soon a thin beam connected with Cyr's body and his outline slowly began to disappear with the light radiating from the powerful lunar magic.
For miles to see, a brief lapse of light expanded from the far fields of Ponyville, and as soon as it came, it faded away, leaving only the light from the moon and stars to guard against the massive gulf of night.
With the brief counter-spell over with, a titanic husk of Cyr was all that remained. The sheer weight of the center of his mass creaked the joints of his chitin limbs and finally fell to the ground with a teeth-shaking thud.
There. If the light show didn't clue in Chrysalis's imposter's, the slight tremor will.
She commanded her two, soon to be chiropractic patients, Royal Guards, "Drag the husk into fair Applejack's barn. And make thou movements as unnoticeable as possible."
The Guards, with an unsure look, saluted and proceeded with their manual task.
Thump
The ground shuddered in the wake of the spell. The now-alert Changeling that had been tailing the traitor and the ridiculous Royal Sister had woken up from its brief slumber. He rustled in the brush near the Everfree Forest to get a better look at his surroundings.
It chittered, "Everything is still the same. They both are still there, and...."
The Changeling stopped in mid-sentence in view of what the Guards were dragging behind them.
It's the body of the traitor.....
It stopped its rustling and froze in place when the Guards were coming nearer and nearer along the dirt path.
The Changeling even stopped his breathing in fear that it would experience the dishonor and fear that capture would bring forth. Not to mention the pain and the starvation it would endure if it was going to be thrown into a dungeon after a little "welcoming party" from the Guards there.
So far, so good. Almost there. And....oh no. The ponies are beginning to slow down. WhatdoIdo.WhatdoIdo. The Queen will-
In the midst of his hysteria, he quickly noted that the Guards stopped only to take a short break from their task. After they had uttered a few swears and phrases of complaint, they continued on, leaving behind the now-relieved Changeling.
The pure ecstasy that followed in the behavior of the Changeling once it determined they clearing was safe to escape, was the most triumphant in its short, miserable existance. It took flight, unknowing that its actions were expected by Princess Luna.
It eagerly hummed as it flew away, "The Queen will be pleased...The traitor has died at the hooves of the ponies."
It shortly added, "Though, Her Majesty was so looking forward to the executions....."
After this, and the short chapter that'll come after this, the "meat" of the entire story (the Slice of Life tag) will be more involved.
Cyr isn't going to be the same near infallible Titan he once was before.
If you only like it because of the action....well, read the story when i start getting to the end.
But hopefully you guys will like the direction it will soon be in, as I have to get through (and rush through) the entire complicated plot twist that the above chapter entails that will be continued only in the next chapter. From then on, Cyr will start to discover a whole new world.
/sigh......it never fails......every time a character shows up in a story with an awesome ability, they either have to give it up or their parents get murdered and they become a super hero......
I mean, I understand why it had to happen, but still......./sigh......
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Well you have to understand.
The whole characer-development procees would sort-off have to involve losing his size, as nopony would want a giant Changeling prancing through town and his behavioral failings and imperfections would be hard to show with his Behemoth mutation.
And what makes you think he lost ALL of his abilities?
1333650 Just a quick q I get that this has to happen otherwise he'll be essentially too "strong" in too many ways. So, with that in mind will he keep his wisdom and personality? Also which infallibility are you referring to the one granted by his age (emotional/mental) or the one granted by his sheer size and strength?
It just makes me wanna pull my eyes out, I sincerely hope something will happen to get me off the subject of him losing his size
1333762
He will keep most of his personality, but I am referring to his behavioral infallibility. I have gotten too many requests to stop making him fall into the cliche of a "ancient, wise creature".
I wanted there to be some substance in the story. Make his interactions with other characters more smooth.
Have you heard of Karen Traviss? She basically created a wide range of science fiction novels, and even landed herself as the leader of GOW3's writing department and even got into a deal with 343 Industries to start writing their Halo 4 prequels.
But her main fault? She repeated the same crap of morality OVER and OVER again. And there was absolutely NO character development, or unpredictable character development in her novels.
I, for one, want to avoid being another Karen Traviss....
He will keep his behavior, but expect him to start making some mistakes, and involving himself into the more "normal" shenanigans of Ponyville.
Thanks for understanding, and I'm sorry if you don't like where the story will go.
1333811
I'm sorry. All that kept him interesting was his size? Did I hear that right?
So you don't want there to be that "Slice of Life" tag anymore? You don't there to be character development that would further require him to lose his mutation?
If you honestly believe that if I had completely drove this story off a cliff when I reduced his size, Please inform me so.
I don't want you to be blind for life, or hate me for doing so
Now this is the kind of thing that deserved the featured box.
1333883
Thank you! (unless you meant that with complete sarcasm)
1333815 Ah I see, I'll look up her history, she sounds interesting. As for losing interest in the story, that's doubtful. Your writing style (thus far) has been quite palatable and makes me eager to see what happens next. I look forward to the adventures of Cyr and the road(s) he shall walk! Cheers.
1333761 Well, I assume he'll still have his magic, but most of the awesomeness we've seen from him so far stemmed directly from his status as a Behemoth. Not to mention that the only offensive abilities we've seen him use were his abilities derived from being a Behemoth. Now he won't be able to ROFLstomp goddesses anymore......
And just because I know why it had to happen doesn't mean I WANTED it to happen. He was so awesome as a Behemoth.....
1333908
Thanks, good sir! You have brightened my day!
1333914
I'm sorry if the whole "losing superpowers" bugged you so much.
It was a bummer for me too (believe me. Why do you think this took so long to crank out? Cuz the voices in my head were arguing whether I should REALLY do this )
But, alas, it must be done.
I hope that the polot device didn't ruin the whole thing for you. I would hate it if I lost a reader
very clever princesss very clever
1333897
Nah. At least not this time around.
'Thou' is 'thee' when it's a direct or indirect object or the object of a preposition -- "of thee", "from thee", "I saw thee", "I threw thee the ball". As a possessive, it's 'thy' when the possessed noun begins with a consonant sound -- "thy house", "thy carapace", "thy tree" -- or 'thine' when it begins with a vowel sound or when there is no possessed noun after it -- "thine apple", "thine ear", "It is thine". Unlike 'you', 'thou' and its forms can only refer to a singular second person, so you shouldn't have Luna address a group with it. I haven't noticed you doing that, but it might come up later.
However, 'thou' is informal, and given how Luna's not at ease with Cyr she should probably be calling him 'you'.
1333994
Thanks for the grammar check. Now to start editing.....
1334017
I like this guy too!
1333846 ugggh that isn't what I meant, it just came a shock to me. I never said that it drove it off a cliff she you reduced his size did I? I still look forward to future chapters, it'll just be weirder for me. It is still great, I never said it wouldn't.
This sounds REALLY exciting to read, but I'm kinda on the fence whether I should read it or not, because of the Tragedy tag...
im using this because i can
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1333846 ugggh that isn't what I meant, it just came a shock to me. I never said that it drove it off a cliff she you reduced his size did I? I still look forward to future chapters, it'll just be weirder for me. It is still great, I never said it wouldn't.
1333846 sorry if I seemed like a dick about it, just having one of those days where the laughter and smiles of children would be enough to make me kill someone
1334116
Sorry. I overreacted for a moment there! Heh.
My apologies! Here is a cookie for your troubles!
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Please don't kill me
1334101
Thanks man! And I'm loving that gif
1334132
It's ok! I hope that your day gets better tho! Everpony deserves to have SOME form of happiness in their lives.
DNIT PINKIE WHEN WILL YOU FIGURE OUT WHICH SITUATIONS CALL FOR THAT PANIC?!
*ahem*
Sorry.
1334174
Not a problem. That was exactly the reaction I was hoping to evoke
1333846 Cyr's size was part of what made him unique. You have a behemoth changeling too big to transform into anything and is immensely powerful. Learning how to deal with that in everyday pony life would be pretty interesting. Not too mention the title of the story is My Little Behemoth. So you know, people see that and go into the story expecting to see a story about a very large changeling. Making him smaller destroys part of that uniqueness of his character and basically puts this closer to being another "Oh no, a changeling having to adapt to friendship and become accepted!" story.
And personally, unless not doing so utterly breaks a story to the point of being unreadable, the de-powering trope is one of my most hated ones, right up there with "It was all a dream."
1334190 Yea well...
...
Cake.
Looks interesting. Hm, 17k words? I'll read it in the morning... or maybe now. Yeah, now sounds good, sleep is overrated. I'll edit the comment with meaningful (hopefully) thoughts when I finish.
Side note, my first thought from reading the description was Zerg.
Edit:
Well that was a rather depressing place for the story to go... oh well. It's a very interesting story, but I must say I was rather disappointed to have this last chapter be the first thing I read after waking up. The removal of what I would considered one of the most interesting parts of Cyr's character has been stripped, and while I understand your reasoning, I must say that I do not approve, not that that means anything.
I'm still interested and will be following the story, just not as adamantly as I originally expected. At the end of the day, you're the author, and we readers are just along for the ride. You're writing fanfiction for your own enjoyment (hopefully) and you should make the story go wherever you want it to.
1334216
Oh, well, I'm sorry to see that the story hasn't quite met up to your standard of entertainment!
And I wanted to ease the tension involved in the story. I too have gotten tired of those "Oh no, a changeling having to adapt to friendship and become accepted" stories!
So that's kind of why I gave Cyr early interaction with other characters and a couple hundred years of experience to not be a complete stranger to friendship
And He isn't de-powered, Worker-caste can't transform into anything ( their evolution wouldn't exactly require it), but he starts to get a "silly" streak ( his behavior gets a tiny bit more "youthful"). Like I've said before, hopefully I'll make the story more interesting when you start to laugh at his now fallibility, and at the Slice of Life side of the story, to compensate for the loss of his size!
It's been a few days but it feels like months
1334167 it's a bit late for that, but did your day go well?
1334351
Nah. Not really!
1334329 What? Did you want endless praise or actual feedback? I'm just saying when the main selling point of your story is the main character is a monstrous changeling, de-powering him in what seems like a mid-story chapter makes it seem like a bait and switch.
1334360 I kinda figured, and what I said didn't help either, regardless of how much you can take, everyone had their breaking point. I guess I might have reached somewhere around that point.
1333948 Nah, I'll stick around. I've just got to find time to get through all the stages of grief before the next chapter happens.
1334474 that's how I felt!
1334501what is that robot off of
Yaay! Updates! Also, noooooo! What happened to Cyr sounded painful. And also, standard pony like tradition. Truer words have never been spoken.
I'm not liking how one of the main selling points for this story is being eliminated.
I'm not saying that Cyr's loss of him being huge is the entire idea of the story and that it's the only thing keeping it going, I'm just saying that it is an extremely important role for me as a reader... you know, especially since the tittle is: My Little "BEHEMOTH" Friendship is more than Magic. The tittle is a little bit misleading now that you have changed one of the main focus points in the story...
1334030 Heh, someone beat me to the grammar lesson. I learned a ton about thees and thines after Luna Eclipsed. This show is educational!
How the fuck is 'My dearest Brother' in the feature box and not this. DAMMIT FIMFICTION, YOU'RE TEARING THIS FAMILY APART!
So he will retain his powers... will he retain all the musculature he obtained over the years in his lighter more smaller form soz he can have a john carter of mars type thing?
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MAKE IT SO
"Thou" does not work that way. It is not a universal replacement word.
It's not "Thou family will be blah", it's "THY family will be blah".
It's not "What is wrong with thou", it's "What is wrong with THEE".
And so forth.
Basically, it would be best to either come up with a reason for Luna to speak normally, or if you're going to use the archaic thee thy thou bit, do it right, since doing it wrong results in dialogue that is kind of painful to read. (No offense intended.)
I recommend thou address thy writing in this fashion to improve the quality of thy story, but of course it is still up to thee to decide whether thou will act upon it. Thee thou thy thou thee thee thee. Until I wrote this post, I had forgotten how much fun those words are. Um...carry on.
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That rather accurately sums up my reaction to this development as well. :c
Wonderful chapter, though one tip regarding multi-paragraph quotes/dialogue:
"Start with the open quotation marks...
"Then, on starting a new paragraph in the same line of speech, throw in another starting quotation mark....
"Repeat as necessary, and only throw on the ending quotes when they're done speaking."
Apologies if this came out as rude or something of the sort, I just kept getting so distracted by it X_x (<--- Says the 10th grader in standard 10th grade lit. lol.)
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Seriously, though. I do think I like where this is going. I am always a fan of trickery, especially at the hooves of Luna, and it's hard to fit in when you're twice as tall as everypony else.
I'm still interested.
Wow, just finished the chapter and I have to say...
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1334562 Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.
But... WHY DIDN'T I GET A NOTIFICATION ABOUT YOUR COMMENT?!?!?!
Don't worry, I don't blame you, I blame the site
1334819
Basically the body and strength of what he used to have as a Changeling Worker drone, but the spells are pretty much intact. And he'll be able to use something that he had missed for a long time! His wings!