We, changelings, have a great history, filled with bravery, honour and tales. We also have a superior quality in our bookkeeping. That means, we know what happened over the years our kingdom had existed...
Who am I kidding? I've barely known my own mother.
My name is Chrysalis and I had ended up stranded in some forsaken part of Equestria. I needed a way to straight up my thoughts, a reason for starting this journal. It proved useful in the future, as I had usual needs to sit down and think things over.
But, I need to get to the point, right...
Story goes...
About a week ago, I was preparing to launch a surprise assault on pony capital, Canterlot. I had the plan down and everything was going smoothly. To catch you up with facts, we kidnapped one of their princesses. I think her name was Mi Amore Cadenza or something. I had assumed her identity so I could infiltrate into the capital. My changeling battalion was waiting in cover.
Our plan was to capture one love-starved stallion, going under name of Shining Armour. Things were simple because his wedding was coming up and his wife was the mare I had switched places with.
His love was toxic, and it was making me feel like I could shatter the world under my horseshoes. That led to unwise change of plans.
I wasn't planning to overtake Canterlot at all. I knew it would be a suicide mission. Yet, I dared to step down that path. I just couldn't help myself. Armour's love was so... overpowering.
Enough about that, you know how that ended. Everyone does...
My infiltration wasn't exactly an impressive job either. I had known another one of the princesses on a more personal level.
Princess of the night or Luna, like everyone, liked to call her, used to be a friend of mine. During more calm times, about a thousand years ago, we used to go to the same college. Changelings and ponies weren't exactly friends back then, but they weren't enemies as well. We were roommates, me and Luna.
So, she wasn't suspicious when I had sent her a letter, asking if I could visit her in Canterlot. She gladly accepted, thinking it would be a great nostalgic moment, to relive our memories. I would gladly sit with her over a cup of tea or something, but I had duties as a queen...
I and Luna under the cover of the night went on a little trip around Canterlot gardens. My commanding officer suggested to get rid of Luna on that occasion, but I had refused. My plan was to order one changeling to assume the identity of a guard and deliver a note to Luna. Timing was important because it had to be done while I was presented. Luna couldn't get any suspicion of me being double agent that way.
So, the note Luna got was falsified message looking like one of her sister's quill. Luna was tasked to fulfil a patrol flight around Equestria, visit everyone important, the usual.
I had her out of the way without risking an encounter. I wouldn't want to face pissed off Luna, she was even more dangerous than her older sister.
I am angry, you know, one thing that could go wrong did. I had no damn idea Shining Armour had a sister. Her name was Twilight Sparkle, the most annoying creature in Equestria. She was so damn curious and concerned about everything. She kept bumping into me such a way I grew suspicious. She had to sniff out something, or I wasn't careful enough.
The first minute I had met her, she showed me her behind after performing some silly dance. It took me a while to realise she had to know this Cadenza, and then I snapped. I had to get rid of her. I didn't have enough time to observe the situation to know how to act convincingly. I just got lucky, because no one seemed to know this Cadenza around Canterlot too well. Except for Twilight Sparkle...
I would go to too much detail if I were trying to explain the whole disaster somehow. It led to the situation where I was stranded and struggling to survive in some wasteland area.
I knew way too well I was the last one alive. Changelings have a thing called hive mind. We feel one another, we share information, we share the love. Not in the literal matter, of course. The only one who can feel emotions is me. We share love to literary survive, it is our source of energy. I wasn't sure if my species could even survive on classic food. Probably not,...
Anyway, getting off track...
A couple of days after the event happened so quickly. I had no idea if I was alive or just barely holding on. I knew I had been walking, my hooves hurt like hell. I could just go forward. I didn't care if I would run into timber wolfs or some other horrors living in that forsaken part of the pony kingdom.
I have no idea what gave me the idea I should return to Equestria in the first place. I think my brain just went 'buck it; you can't be a bigger loser'. I wasn't exactly conscious, to be honest.
I think some guards had to find me. I was lucky they didn't kill me on sight, or maybe I wasn't lucky at all. They might just be oblivious to the fact I was a changeling because they called me a 'black mare'.
I regained consciousness after some time. Where did I find myself? That's a story for the whole another time.