Welcome to the sequel of Heart or Hollow! This is a alternate universe so that's why Skyla and Fable are here.
Queen Skyla sat on her throne, her head held her golden crown and she sighed. This day was truly boring. All day, just as the day before, duty after duty, proclamations, and speeches, rescue planning, as changelings did now. She was an adult and had Berry, her best friend and loyal adviser, but still needed breaks from boring things, right? Suddenly, the door creaked open slightly and she turned to it. "Yes?" Skyla asked. A guard came in. "Your majesty, news from the crystal empire." He said. The queen's ears perked up. "What is it?" She asked, longing for some sort of adventure. "The princess Cadance and prince Shining Armor, they are having a child." Skyla gasped and looked at Berry. "I'm going to be a sister?!" She cried.
A few months later, Skyla was in her chambers when a fierce wind came in. "Burr!" She shivered, running to the window and closing it. Skyla took off her necklace that always hung around her neck. It was a golden chain with a shard of crystal on it. "It's almost time for my sister to be born…" She whispered. Suddenly, the window burst open. Wind blew in and Skyla gasped as it surrounded her. It seemed to grab her necklace and tried to pull it out of her magic grasp. "Get… Away!" The queen sputtered. "Somepony help me!" She cried.
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Berry opened the door just as Skyla's necklace broke away from her. The changeling shot a beam at the wind. Skyla grabbed the shard from the floor and used her magic to fight it back. The two slammed the window shut. "What was that?" Berry panted. "I'm not sure, but if I'm correct, it wants to stop the baby's crystalling by stealing this." Skyla whispered, showing him the shard. Berry held it in his hoof. "The purest shard of crystal, it was supposed to be well hidden here, but we were wrong. That wasn't a normal wind. We must protect it and get it to the crysilling before that creature comes back." The Queen said, clasping the chain secure around her neck.
"Mom?" Fable called, running down the halls of the castle of friendship. Suddenly, she bumped into somepony. "Oh! Sorry, Starlight!" The princess laughed. "That's okay!" The light purple unicorn said, helping her up. "I'm so excited! I'm going to be a older cousin in a few days! But, since that's not the reason I'm here, how's she doing? Have you seen my mom anywhere?" Fable asked. "I'm afraid not, I always get lost here!" Starlight said. The princess finally came to the throne room and both looked inside. The bearers of the elements of harmony were sitting around the cutie map in their thrones and princess
Twilight frantically flipped through a book. Rarity brushed through her friend's mane in a comforting way while Fluttershy caught a book tower that Twilight had made beside her chair. "Twi, please relax!" Rainbow groaned. "Sugarcube, tell us why you're so… Upset." Applejack said. "Or why you called us over here." Pinkie added. "Mom?" Fable whispered from the doorway. Twilight looked up and saw Starlight and her daughter.
"Oh,Starlight… Fable? What are you doing here?" Twilight asked, for her daughter was now eighteen and married, living in a castle of her own. "I came because dad sent for me… Said you weren't doing so well, what's going on?" Fable asked, looking around at the clutter and stepping out. "Twi-" Spike was interrupted by himself having another large pile next to his princess, who interrupted him to begin with. "Queen Skyla has told me that last night, something tried to take the purest shard of crystal, which we've intrusted to her, last night, and asked me to find out what it was!" Starlight sighed. "Twilight, for the last time, Skyla did not want you to find what that was! She specifically said not to freak yourself out about this!" The rest of the mane seven besides her and Twilight gave her the " Chose your coffin" look.
Twilight slammed the book she was reading down, making Fluttershy jump. "I am not freaking out!" The alicorn growled. "Has she been like this all day?" Fable whispered to Starlight. The unicorn nodded. If looks could kill, Twilight would have murdered them on the spot, but the door creaked open slightly. Starlight and Fable leapt away from the door and it opened the full way. Six changeling guards entered, two holding trumpets and arranged themselves in two equal lines. A creature they all recognized as Berry walked in and stood in the very front of the left line, to the side of it. A royal fanfare begin and a young changeling with her golden crown on her head stepped out in the center. The small creature frowned in the middle of her walk and said, "Would you guys stop that? Everypony knows who I am!" The ponies tried to stifle giggles as one changeling, who hadn't heard her, played on. Skyla bowed to Twilight, who bowed back with her friends. "My fateful allies-" The queen opened his eyes and realized the player. "Er.. That's good." She whispered to him. The guard gasped and hid the trumpet behind his back. Skyla rolled her eyes and smiled back to her friends. "Aunt Twilight! Cadance had her baby! She's the sweetest! And, quite frankly, the strangest…." She giggled. The group squealed in delight. "Is she adorable?" Fable asked, embracing her cousin. "Very. I just hope she'll be safe." Skyla whispered. "The crystalling will be in a few hours, I'm sure, and then you can all see her!"
A few hours later, Skyla and Fable were catching up in the royal suite after seeing the baby when they heard a loud screeching. "What is that?!" Fable cried, blocking her ears. They ran downstairs, when Skyla felt a jolt inside her. "Whoa." She whispered. "Are you alright?" Fable asked, helping her cousin up. "Something happened to the crystal heart, something big." Skyla said. The girls ran and stopped short when they reached the crystal heart.
Shattered and broken, it lay on the floor in a million little shards. Skyla felt her neck and caught her shard. The room was silent, even the baby princess looked shocked. "W-what happened here?" Fable whispered. Skyla hesitantly pulled back the curtain looking outside. "Oh no…" She gasped. Snow was approaching and fast. Being a former princess of the crystal empire, the changeling knew that the frozen north was a dangerous thing to the country, she knew it would consume it all. "We need a spell to help us, Skyla, Fable? Take care of the baby until the crystalling." Twilight commanded, giving the princess to the queen. "Why us?!" Fable cried, holding the baby who tugged at her mane.
"I hope they find a spell soon…" Fable whispered, cringing at the dark snow cloud inching closer from the window. "Me too, but right now we have to look over the princess!" Skyla gasped, and dodged a gold magic beam. Fable leapt at her younger cousin, trying to capture her huge wings, but the baby flew off. "Please little baby! J-just calm down!" Skyla cried, helping Fable up. Suddenly, the little princess stopped flying and landed gracefully in her crib. She curled up under her blanket and instantly fell asleep. "Really?!" Fable growled. Skyla sighed and kissed her little sister. "At least she's safe." She whispered. Suddenly the huge window flung open and a breeze came in, Fable fell over in surprise. Skyla rushed to help her up. They heard a loud screaming and the glass in the other windows shattered. They turned to the baby, who had screamed and saw that she was being lifted in mid air by the snowy wind, which held her in what looked like hooves. "Hey!" Skyla screamed. The mares tried to move but more hooves grabbed them. Fable struggled but the hooves that held the child turned to a full transparent pony and gave a glare at the princess. Suddenly, ice encased Fable's hooves. "Okay! That's scary!" She cried. Skyla gasped as her own hooves were covered and saw her baby sister crying as the snowey being started to carry her away. The queen suddenly saw a white light glow from somewhere and looked down. Her crystal shard glowed and lifted from her necklace and a huge blast came from it. She opened her eyes and saw the baby falling.
She flew over and scooped her sister up. "Don't worry, I got you." Skyla said, cuddling the child close. She placed the princess gently on the ground. The door opened suddenly and the girls looked. "I heard screaming, are you two alright?" Shining Armor asked, picking up his second born. "Not exactly…" Skyla whispered. She grabbed her shard and showed her father. "This saved us, it was about to take the baby." She said. "What tried to take the baby?" Shining asked, hugging his daughter to him. "I know!" Fable suddenly gasped. They turned to her. "The ice that grabbed our hooves and the wind pony that grabbed the baby, it's the windigos!"
"Aren't the windigos something that come out in arguing?" Skyla asked later. The crystal heart had been made and she had to give the purest shard of crystal to a unicorn named Sunburst, for whom she had barely met. She and Fable watched the crystalling from afar. "Besides, everything's back to normal now! We're even crystal ponies." Skyla said, nodding to her cousin's curly bun. "It's weird, I know, but it would be the only explanation, that's why the snow storm came. We need Flurry Heart to remain safe in the empire. Those creatures want her and I don't know why. For now, she must be kept hidden, if they find her… With her powers it could be our doom."
Is it weird to have the windigos as the villain? I don't think so.