> A Chitinlot Wedding > by Normal > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Chapter 1 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "- A threat has been made against Chitinlot. We don't know who is responsible." Shining Carapace looked down at the smaller and younger member of his personal hive. She wasn’t a practical thing. Not rational, not strong, he could not figure how some days how she made it past larva hood without those traits. The safety of the whole kingdom was at stake and she chose the smallest of matters to complain about. Typical of the lesser females in a hive struggling to assert their eligibility for breeding. He blinked one eye slowly and then the other. "This, you have got to see." There was an easy way to lead her mind down another path. Magic. The showier, more impressive, the better. With a pop that rattled everychangeling’s shell for a mile around, the magenta color of his magic expanded from his horn, until it covered his whole body in a transparent covering. But it did not stay there, as young Twilight Sparkle was led to expect through her learnings. It expanded, soon shooting across the empty training field out to the very outlying reaches of the capital. Didn't work on impressing Twilight though, all knowing, insufferable, magic prodigy. "But who even is this Princess Mi Amore Cadenza? How can you be settling down to mate for life with some breeder that I haven't even met!" "Twilight, Twilight, Twilight! Princess Mi Amore Cadenza isn't just some breeder. She is your," He chokes out the next word, "old larvasitter, Cadance. Don’t let her know I said that. She’d eat my head for sure then.” His eyes took on a more crystalline appearance as the horrific though laid its talons deep into his frontal lobe. The fangs, no long gleaming, but covered in a thick green goo that could only be... He shuddered and the imaginary sensations changed, he could here it now. The gleeful chittering, the tongue slurping, the crack of his... "No," It wouldn't happen! The soldier’s look of worry metamorphosed. He found himself having to work hard to maintain his hard earned composure from boot camp as he noticed his sibling's eyes widened with surprise and then, with the burst of shining fangs, glee. "CADANCE?! The Cadance?" A new voice enters now, speaking before either of the two changeling siblings could look, "The one and only. There's only one. And that's me, Cadance." Twilight startled, hooves hovering off the floor, and Shining Carapace beamed. "Cadance?" "Cadance!" Twilight Sparkle looked up and down the length of the newcomer’s shell with a critical eye, "You're not Cadance." Her, the supposed changeling known as Cadance, face fell with devastating emotion. "Twilight," Shining Carapace admonished, "That's not very nice!" "But it's not her!" "Oh, Shiny, I'm sure little," she paused, " little Twilight is just a little surprised by all this." Twilight stiffened up, all four hooves firmly digging their graves into the soft dirt, "I have to go. I have real things to deal with, what with the whole wedding coming up. Maybe you've heard of it?" Twilight Sparkle could just hear her brother's murmured apology as she stalked off. Not to her, oh no. He was siding with that...that thing. While it was true that she did have work to do, in fact she had quite the well organized list about what she had to, that was not what the magic favoring changeling went after. She had others to round up and it was easy enough to make doing so...subtle enough to not arouse any narrowed eyes. Almost all of the five ponies that she had to see were, in some way or another, related to her list of jobs. Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash. They would believe her, they were her friends, her pseudo hive mates. They would she that this, this, so called Cadance was a squishing.. "Imposter!" The guards standing watch at the doors looked startled as Twilight's voiced echoed down the middle of an otherwise empty hallway, "Oops." Her friends were not hard to track down. Ok, that was a blatant and obvious lie. That's how things should have been at least. The squishing castle seems squishing empty... Each turn was just more hallways void of anything but the watchful eyes of soldiers. Yeah... they were everywhere. Twilight ended up in the secondary throne room several hours later with a stomp of anger. Finally, somechangeling... "Oops." She squeaked out. The whole wedding party and diarchy was there, staring at her entrance most dramatic. If she had followed the list, if she had remembered about the practice... Wait...practice, if her list was not featuring a typo most erroneous, was tomorrow. So what was everychangeling doing here, today, right now? The rolled up parchment fluttered to the ground, the letters on there showing that no, the practice was tomorrow. "Twilight Sparkle," Her queen's voice boomed cross the marbled walls, " We are afraid some grievous news has befallen us today," Pause for dramatic effect, "The changeling before us calling themselves Princess Mi Amore Cadenza is, in fact, an imposter. She is not even one of our own kind. She is a member of the ponies." Twilight's brain rolled to a halt as the train in her mind ran into and through the station, "Wha-? But, how did you find out? I've been trying to find someone to tell! All. Squishing. Day!" "She asked for hay fries,” Celestia snorted, “Can you imagine? Also did you see her face? I mean really, she could have found some better paint." "Black face," Luna clucked, "Thou disgraces your own name."