Twilight was having a very stressful day as she pored herself over page after page of applications; all from potential students wishing to attend her school. Luckily she had the help of some friends. Alas, just to see the rooms other three grumbling occupants she had to stand on her chair and stretch her neck over the stacks of essays, which had annexed the majority of her desk.
Spike, Twilight’s faithful adolescent dragon assistant, was currently sitting on a wooden stool, scratching the mulberry colored scales on the side of his head and looking over a particularly long scroll. A bobbing quill stuck out of the side of his mouth, while he scanned over the paper with furrowed brows and green reptilian eyes. When he lifted the scroll to read the next part it ripped in half, having somehow gotten tangled up in the legs of the stool. His shoulders slumped with a sigh and he puffed out a small plume of grey smoke from his nostrils.
Starlight Glimmer, the former student of Twilight and now the schools guidance counselor, was chewing on her lower lip while scrutinizing an essay that she held in the grip of levitation magic. Her violet blue eyes were squinted in concentration and the turquoise glow from her horn highlighted some out of place strands of her purple and aquamarine striped mane. The paper suddenly balled up and flew across the room when she read something so apparently offensive that it caused her muzzle to scrunch up.
Last was Trixie, a traveling magician, who was actually more Starlight’s friend; currently asleep, sprawled on her back in the middle of Twilight’s office rug. The azure unicorn had balled up her purple cape and placed it behind her cornflower blue mane to use as a pillow. Somehow she also was managing to keep aloft a sheet of paper, floating in the air above her muzzle, just from the force of her exhaling breaths.
A sudden knock on the door caused the rooms three awake inhabitants to pause in the middle of their work.
“You can come in,” Twilight called out, “the doors unlocked.”
The door cracked open. A light magenta coated hippogriff filly with a striped mane of light and dark sky blue, peeked her head in. Silverstream, a normally energetic student, looked slightly worried with her tufted ears folded back and a frown creasing her beak.
“Good Morning Silverstream,” Twilight said as she walked around the side of her cluttered desk, “is something wrong?”
“Ah, well, we aren’t really sure…” Silverstream said, letting her voice drift out.
“We?” Twilight wearily asked.
The hippogriff pushed the door open a little more revealing Yona, a young female yak from Yakyakistan and also a student of Twilight’s school.
“Yona found something hanging up in a tree and brought it to school,” the ‘little’ yak said while she shuffled on her cloven hooves for a moment, causing her long pale cinnamon colored coat to sway from side to side.
“Please tell me it wasn’t a bee’s hive,” Twilight said looking panicked, “and please tell me I don’t have an angry swarm of bees infesting the halls.”
“No, not beehive,” Yona answered Twilight, “but it did have bug inside.”
“Yona?” Starlight asked “if it was up in a tree, how did you get it down?”
Once again the door creaked open a little more, brining another student of the school into view. Gallus, a juvenile griffin with brilliant cerulean blue fur.
“I, ah, sort of got it down for her,” he said while looking off to the side with his azure eyes and scratching the back of his neck with his bright amber talons.
“Just what kind of bug was inside?” Spike asked, hopping off his stool.
“That’s the reason we came to get you…” another male voice said.
The door opened fully, no longer concealing a fourth student; a spring green colored earth pony colt, with a messy mane of cyan and opal, named Sandbar.
The last thing Twilight expected to find in one of her student’s dorm rooms was a little changeling nymph. Not only that, but one that looked like a miniature version of Chrysalis and was still clinging to her freshly shed cocoon, that was dangling from a hook on a hat stand.
Currently the little changeling was glaring at another school student, Smolder, a teenage female dragon with burnt orange scales. When the dragoness took a step toward the nymph, the little changeling would buzz her clear blue wings loudly, as if instinctively trying to frighten away a predator. Then when Smolder, who was looking completely unimpressed, took a step backward, the nymph would silence her tiny wings.
“Smolder, please stop doing that,” Twilight said to the dragoness as she entered the room. “It’s clearly agitating her.”
“I keep telling her we aren’t going to hurt her,” Smolder said as she leaned back against the wall and crossed her arms over her chest.
“This is a very delicate–” Twilight suddenly stopped talking mid sentence when she noticed the shocked expression the little changeling was giving her.
He completely forgot about the orange lizard when the new pony entered the room, a pony with a horn and wings. In that single instant his eyes widened and his pupils shrunk down to the size of a fang tip. He recalled the warning his mother had given about alicorns.
“While there are a few other types of ponies, this will be the last one I’ll teach you about today,” Chrysalis said as the magical green fire swirled around her once again. “This, is the alicorn.”
Unlike the last three ponies she had shown him, the one now standing in the center of the room was taller and had both wings and a horn. Her fur was just slightly darker than pink, with her wing feathers transitioning into a pale purple at the tips. The color of her long mane and tail was a triad of rose, violet and light yellow that curled up into itself at the ends.
“Alicorns are very powerful,” the disguised Chrysalis said before opening up her large wings, “and should never be underestimated. Two are so powerful that they can move the sun and the moon across the heavens. They hold places of royalty in pony society and advocate what they call ‘harmony’. They use the promoting of ‘harmony’ as a way of twisting other beings perspectives to better match their own. Alicorns are one of the most dangerous enemies our kind has ever had the misfortune of dealing with, so be careful around them and don’t ever let yourself be fooled by them…”
Twilight nearly jumped out of her hide from the shriek that the little changeling made and unconsciously opened up her wings while taking a quick step away. The nymph buzzed her small wings quickly and with a sound reminiscent of a large angry hornet, somehow managed to lift herself into the air. Looking like a oversized house fly that drank too much cider, the changeling hovered drunkenly about the room until landing on the far wall.
“Where’s my mom?!” she yelled at Twilight with her little voice coming out distorted, as if two ponies where saying the same echoing words but speaking just out of sync.
“Please calm down,” Twilight said as she took a few careful steps forward, “I’m not sure where your mom is but if–”
“Get back!” the nymph cried out, her voice losing the dual tone quality and now sounding like a frightened child. “Go away!”
“I swear nopony here is going to hurt you,” Twilight promised. “Please just calm down and we’ll–”
Without warning the little changeling reached over and flung a picture frame that was hanging adjacent to her. It narrowly missed Twilight’s muzzle then shattered into pieces at her hooves, scattering broken wood and shards of glass across the floor.
“I think I’ll wait outside,” Smolder said, slipping out into the hallway with her friends.
Twilight looked down at the mess and the photo previously housed in the frame; it was of six of her students, five of which were now watching from the doorway. It gave her an idea.
“Okay,” Twilight said as she backed away from the little changeling, “I’ll leave, see?”
The little changeling visibly relaxed when Twilight passed the door frame, entering into the hallway and out of view.
“Does anycreature know where Ocellus is?” Twilight asked the gathered students. “I think talking to another changeling might help to calm her down.”
“But Twilight, Ocellus is a reformed changeling,” Starlight pointed out, “and that one is obviously not.”
Silverstream attempted to stick her head in the room only to have to jump back when a book came rushing through the air at her.
“Oh feathers…” Silverstream whined to Yona. “She is totally wrecking our room.”
“Yak can out smash tiny bug,” Yona said, with a stern look on her muzzle. She peered over the room’s threshold and promptly received a face full of postcards from Mount Aris and Seaquestria.
“My letters from home!” Cried out Silverstream.
“Everycreature, just please calm down!” Twilight shouted, getting the assembled students and facility staff’s full attention.
“Starlight, I know Ocellus is a reformed changeling but I want to find a peaceful way to sooth this situation,” Twilight explained. “She’s already anxious and I don’t want to have to use force to catch her unless it’s a last resort. Now who knows where Ocellus is?”
“I think she’s helping Professor Rarity,” answered Sandbar.
“Spike,” Twilight said to her assistant, “can you go find her and bring her back here?”
“I’m on it,” Spike said with a salute before extending his wings and flying off down the hall in the direction of the classrooms.
A loud crash came from the room.
“And please hurry!” Twilight called out to him.
Well, I can tell you're doing something right, because I really want more!
Well then, this should be good
Huh, I thought our newest lovebug was a male. Unless Twilight and the others are simply incorrect in their observations. Hopefully he or she can make it back to Chrysalis soon! It was plainly obvious that she cared for her child. Nice chapter!
Hoo boy I am incredibly excited for this new arc.
Let's see if the living crayon will help...
My bets are on not at all. Perhaps even making it worse.
TFW Twilight realizes her students pretty much kidnapped Chrysalis's child
Huh, I'm still curious on how the heck did their chrysalis () get out of the hive/near the school. Something problematic happened, that's for sure.
Okay, you've left us on another cliff! D:
How did he (I hope Twilight is just incorrect. I don't get good 'Son' of Chrysalis stories) end up on a tree? Don't tell me that interloper managed to attack the hive successfully D:
Dis gunna b gud.
Well that's gonna be one interesting conversation between the 2. Xp
oh.
shit. x2
Knew it! Knew the grub was physically female and the grub only thought of itself as a male!
Oh jeezes, I have no idea whats going on I mean how did "Pupa" have her/his cocoon stuck in a tree? Whatever happened, I bet Leech did some sabotage. Or it could have been that Pegas Filly Cosy Glow.
Did Twilight really "pour herself" like a liquid, or did she just pore over the applications?
Also, I think you meant that Starlight was Twilight's former student rather than her formal one.
"where squinted" should be "were squinted".
Just as expected
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Humm sabotage getting rid of Chryissy's new heir. Does make sense, Thorax is a soft touch so well defying him rouges wouldn't care about, but Chrysalis is a vindictive one, she finds out you betrayed her for you own benefit... Not pretty. But a nice squishy hostage...
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Well my current theory is Cicada having molted into a ‘royal’ changeling either convince Leeched to get rid of the new competition for the throne or she did it herself.
What we know is that the cocoon was moved twice, the first was to a tree out side the hive likely in the evergreen forest, which would make it an easy meal for any nearby predators. And the second to the student six’s room.
While the initial move could be apart of some grand plan Chysalis is plotting, it seems more like an assassination attempt to me.
...she's not entierly wrong there
Loving this so far by the way
Haha! I was right, it was a female!
Now I'm intrigued. My money's on either a grand conspiracy within her hive or that other queen from a few chapters back.
My money is on the initial move of the cocoon to the tree being a version of the classic "baby basket down the river" gambit.
Chrysalis' new hive was probably compromised somehow and the nymph's cocoon was taken and hidden for it's safety with the changeling who did so most likely then sacrificing itself in some manner to keep the cocoon hidden/protected.
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I believe the author's intent is a human male (judging by the odd dreams) was reborn as a Changeling, and Queen Chrysalis had the nymph he was born into fed Royal Jelly to turn the (presumably genderless) nymph into a princess-ling.
So he wasn't kidnap that's comforting. But now we have a new mystery. Why was he in that tree. I really hope he gets back to Chrysalis soon.
Guessing female?
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please tell me pupa not going to be reformed into a "pretty" changeling I really like the black with holes look it stealthy and cooler looking than the glitter crayon look with deer horns i can accept it as a desguise for them for safety reasons i mean how can you tell since there kind share love so freely now as shapeshifters.
side can she even really reform into there "normal" ways as a true queen? since she a naturally royal ling comapred to the two drone rewarded by harmony magic?
Interesting, the cocoon was placed there to be found, or the students are uncharacteristically lying. What happened to the hive?
Keep going! ;)
That was a quick update.
Nice
Well... They fu**ed up
Are we going to have an angry momma chryssi on our hooves soon?
Moar! If you want too...
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TFW Pupa realizes he is actually a she.
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Right, so based on everything we read just far we really don't know the state of events that followed after the grub "Pupa" cocooned.
However, its highly unlikely that Cicada would go out and do her dirty work herself. As such, we have Leech once just a love gather now promoted to "Royal Consort" of a new hive.
Which means Leech is now a spy and a traitor. This makes Xanderfox's hostage idea extremely likely.
My guess is that during cocoon faze Leech continued to bring love to Chrysalis's hive as a cover for information. Possibly out looking for changelings willing to switch sides to Cicada as well. Either way, once the cocoon's hatched the strength of the hive would inevitably increase making them a bigger threat. Since Cicada was basically starting a hive from scratch she didn't have the forces to compete against Chrysalis she had Leech steal the cocoon to be used as a hostage.
However, Odonate and/or someother ling caught Leech in the act and made a break for it. I bet Leech ended up dropping the cocoon during the chase and do how close it was to Twilight's school it was not safe to search for it. Which is how Yona, Silverstream, and Gallus found it.
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I imagine she treats changelings differently based on their blood line. He children and grandchildren get much better treatment than the "commoners" as well as since they have a cast system she treats different casts differently. Like I said before she also likely hasn't "mothered" very many changelings for years, so how well she knows a ling effects how she treats them. Some drone she never met who is a child of a mated pair gets worse treatment than a Solider who is her son she raised personally. The first is just another subject and should be great full to her, the second one is HER child and clearly deserves the best!
Everyone acts differently around people base on their relationship with them, villains too. Every changeling will see her differently based on their relationship. Thorax's group would clearly see her as a tyrant cause she treated them poorly.
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I’m not saying your not wrong, but I’m not saying your right either.
When it comes to Chrsalyis’s brood they may be loyal to her, but she has never shown any form of affection or motherly love to them besides “Pupa”. In fact she only took an interest in “Pupa” because the grub acted strangely, being far more mentally developed compared to the other grubs.
As for bloodlines, she favors bloodlines based on individual merit. Odonate’s bloodline was filled with extremely loyal and compitant guards. A blood that has traditionally produced competent Changelings are favored by Chrysalis based on this track record. As such their standing in the hive is based on their performance. Which is why they’re all so competitive.
As for her old hive, they took Thorax’s way for a verity of reasons.
A) They were sick and tired of being beaten by ponies
B) Thorax beat Queen Chrysalis, he defied her and because he had the “backbone” to do it, the more cowardly members backed him up.
C) Thorax was able to prove based on his transformation that his way of gathering love was better.
Those that stood by Chrysalis did so by choice. Not because of any maternal love for her but because they were either actually loyal to her or simply weren’t interested with Thorax’s way. Or simply refused to follow Thorax because they personally didn’t like him.
Look at Leech, he jumped onto Cicada’s bandwagon quite easily when he was given the choice of her or Chrysalis.
Heh! It's a *very* good thing Moma Bugpony used *that* particular image to teach Pupa about stranger-danger.
This is gonna be fun watching.
The time has come to enjoy the chaos. .. Pretty sure Discord would be pleased
... honestly, I'm not a fan of reincarnated/changed into the opposite gender stories but you've definitely gathered my interest enough to keep reading
and I don't think that the student has much room to complain when they brought an unidentified object from a magical forest into their room without even warning anyone
... How the hell did that cocoon end up in a tree?
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Seriously Smolder isnt the brightest to expect a newly hatched Nymph to trust her. If not for her human mind she would even be able to communicate with anyone non Changeling. Odd she can now... Anyway...
Twilight should reaaallllly call Celestia while waiting for her Rainbow-Changeling to arrive. To have a Child/Foal get taken from its resting place delivered to her Castle that looks like Chrysalis? 1000% red flag!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA THAT CALLS FOR A WAAARRR!
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I sincerely hope it's the other traitor and not the damn kids stealing a literal baby.
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The Cocoon was inside a cave. Guarded by Changelings. Plus they found it in a tree. Changeling traitor is the only option.
The primarch were stolen from their father and this young king was stolen from his mother......... HERRESY
Bringing
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No matter who wins, this would have never ended in something... Nice
Someone needs to tell Equestria that that's not even what harmony is. That's order.
Well written as always. Good job!