If you're a mother, you know how I feel. You love your children, you would do anything, even sacrifice yourself, your life.

My children. They're gone, every last one of them.

It was the day after the invasion of Canterlot. What a fool am I.

Desperate.

That's what I was.

Desperate.

Desperate to feed them, desperate to help them live.

"... I'll miss you." I look at my children, I am the last one standing.

I was a fool, I brought them all, every single member of my hive went in, not one came out.

I sigh, in one week a new batch will be born, this time, I will save them, my children, I'm so, so sorry.

I walk, back to the empty caves of my hive. Alone. No one there to greet me, I walk to my bed, sighing I fall asleep.

"You left us!" Their faces, shouting, loathing, blaming. They blamed me they blamed me for everything.

"I'm sorry!" I cry, trying to get to them, but they keep moving, farther and farther away. "I love you!" I scream.

"No you don't." One voice stands out, the voice of my youngest daughter, she was two. Changelings are considered fully grown when they're one year old, so she was old enough to come with me. I was a fool. She was the only one to survive that year. Cacoona, my darling. "You don't care for us at all! If you did, you would've made such foolish mistakes."

"Please-" She had been destined to take my place.

"I don't want to hear it, you're alone now, because you didn't care, because you were a fool. You never loved us, you never will." Now she's gone.

"But I do, I'm sorry! I'm so, so sorry!"

"Sorry, won't bring us back... Mother."

I wake up screaming. Looking around I remember that they're gone. I pick myself up and walk away, away from our old hive, forever.

I soon reach a place, much like our old barren wasteland, and decide that it is there that I shall build the new hive. Piece by piece, I build my new home, my new life.

Soon, the hive is once again prospering, but we've got to find love, or we will once again fall. I stare at the globe, watching, waiting, a few tears trickle down my face. Remembering our last attack, I sigh.

I will not make the same mistake.

I will not fall.

Not this time.

I

Will

Protect

My

Children.