CHAPTER 2! YAY! Comment below if you like this story so far! :)
Far away from Equestria, There was a kingdom ruled in darkness. The wind howled as it soared across the dark, grey sky. On a little hill stood a large black shard with holes everywhere. The Changeling Hive. Inside the shard was worse than the outside, Holes grew and shrunk in the hive. Changelings flew in and out of the holes. The Kingdom was ruled by the evil Queen Chrysalis. She wanted all the love in Equestria. She was cruel, vicious and mean.
Changelings aren't friends. Not at all. They would gossip about anyone in the hive. They mostly gossip about one changeling, one changeling that was different than the rest. Her name was Heartsy. Heartsy was a changeling with blue eyes with a pink shell on her back. She wore a white bow on her left ear while her purple and blue holed hair sat on top of her head. Heartsy knew she never belong at the hive. When she was a baby, she snuck at to see what it was like to feed off a pony. Once she had feed off the pony's love, Heartsy could see the terror in the pony's eyes. Heartsy ALWAYS felt awful about feeding off but she had to do it for her majesty.
Heartsy walked around her room, bored. She had just feed over a pony's love. She looked out her dark green window looking at the desert of nothing outside. She sighed to herself. She used your dark green-blue wings to fly on her light green wings to fly on her light green bed. A loud knock on her door and Heartsy flew to the door.
"I wonder who it is?" asked Heartsy to herself. She opened the door to find a changeling with a dark blue shell and long light blue hair. She wore a lime green helmet and light green armour. She was the royal guard called Abelle.
"Heartsy, Queen Chrysalis wants to see you." Abelle said professially. Heartsy sighed. Abelle was a strong tough guard who watched Heartsy. Abelle wanted to make sure Heartsy didn't do anything wrong. Abelle was second in charge of the hive.
"Abelle! Oh. Um…. Yes!" Heartsy stammered. Abelle rolled her eyes and walked away. Heartsy walked and closed her door and quickly followed Abelle.
Heartsy and Abelle followed each other through the holes in the hive. That ended up near the throne room. 3 changelings looked at Heartsy then turned away whispering to each other.
"Look, There she is!" whispered a female changeling
"I know she's there, you fool" whispered another Changeling to the first one
"Look at her. She's so…different than the rest of us. " whispered a third changeling
"She's so stupid!" whispered the first changeling
"She's so dumb!"
"What an idiot!"
"She doesn't belong here!"
Heartsy was forced to suck up her tears as she continued to walk down the hallway to the throne room. Queen Chrysalis sat on her throne, her eyes closed, thinking in deep thoughts. Queen Chrysalis's plan to rule Equestria the first time failed. So she was thinking of another plan to take over Equestria. Abelle cleared her throat.
"Your Majesty, Heartsy is here"
Queen Chrysalis opened her eyes to see Heartsy standing behind Abelle. Abelle moved backwards and Heartsy looked up at her Queen. Chrysalis smirked and looked at Abelle.
"Abelle, You are dismissed" said Chrysalis.
"Yes your Majesty" Abelle nodded her head. Abelle flew down the hallway leaving Heartsy by herself. Heartsy never liked Chrysalis. She would always force Heartsy into doing things that she didn't want to do. Heartsy doesn't like her one bit.
"You wanted to see me?" Heartsy said nervously.
"Yes Heartsy. I wanted to see you. There is something I need to talk to you about." Chrysalis said smirking.
"Oh… What do you need to tell me?" Heartsy asked curiously. Queen Chrysalis stood up and walked to a large light green window leading to the outside world.
"Heartsy, I am thinking of you being third in charge of the hive. You have proved to me that you are capable of stealing ponies love. I'm very impressed my dear. And you are truly excellent in disguising as other's ponies love ones or friends which means two times the love!"
Heartsy stood there in shock. She couldn't believe it. Chrysalis wanted HER to be third in charge. Heartsy didn't WANT to be third in charge. AT ALL!
"Um, you're Highness, Um…. I kinda don't want to be third in charge?" Winced Heartsy waited to be yelled at. Again.
Heartsy waited for the yell to come but it never did instead of a loud, evil laugh. Heartsy stood there in confusion. Why was she laughing at her?
"Oh Heartsy! HA! Didn't you REALLY think that you can say NO?! HA! HA! HA!" Queen Chrysalis stopped laughing and took Heartsy's chin.
"My Dear, You CAN'T disobey an order! You WILL be third in charge of this KINGDOM! DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!" Queen Chrysalis yelled angrily. Heartsy looked into Chrysalis's green eyes that were filled with anger. Heartsy did NOT want to do this but she didn't want the queen to be mad at here.
Heartsy sighed in defeat.
"Yes you're highness…." said Heartsy slowly and sadly.
The queen smirked in delight.
"Good my dear, now go back to your chambers! And be prepared for tomorrow! I don't want you missing out on all the fun. Hahahah!" barked Chrysalis.
Heartsy bowed and ran to her sleeping chambers. When Heartsy got back, she flew onto her bed and sobbed. Tears streamed down her cheeks and onto the bed. Heartsy wiped away her tears and sniffed. She HAD to leave the hive! She just had to!
Another knock echoed through Heartsy's chamber. "Ugh, now what?" She muttered to herself. Slowly, she buzzed over to answer her door. In front of her stood a grimacing changeling who barged his way in. "Outta the way!"
Heartsy was knocked aside as the intruder closed the door behind him. After carefully looking at each other for a moment, she sighed in relief "Alright Thorax, you can cut the act. We're alone now." Out of every changeling in the hive, Thorax was the only other one who distrusted Chrysalis's ways.
"I'm sorry for pushing you Heartsy. Your guard was right outside your door and-"
"I know, I know, you have to keep the changeling mentality in front of the rest. You and me both. So lemme guess, you're here to go over our plan again?" She half smirked, half smiled to try to cover the fact she had been crying.
For months now, the hive had been buzzing around their Queen's master plan. She had been taking the place of Princess Cadence to steal the love of her future husband. Tomorrow was where everything would come into place- the royal wedding ceremony.
Thorax seemed a bit desperate, "Of course that's what I'm here for! Tomorrow is finally our chance to get out of here!"
Heartsy's smile was a lot more genuine and relieved now, at the mention of escaping, "It will be so wonderful to escape this dreadful hive. So the plan... During the ceremony tomorrow, Chrysalis expects us to be chipping away at Canterlot's defensive shield."
Thorax nodded, "Right, and during that time, we hold back as much as possible to give the ponies below more time to prepare. After the bubble breaks..."
"We pretend to swarm with the rest, hide with disguises, then get out of there as fast as possible!" Heartsy closed her eyes, trying to imagine what it would feel like. "So, where are you gonna go? After we're free, I mean?"
After pondering for a minute, Thorax replied, "You know, I was thinking about that. Should we split ways so we won't blow our cover? I was thinking I'd go to the Crystal Empire after this..."
"That does sound like a good idea. I heard Ponyville is a nice place..."
They were interrupted by a loud knock on the door. Abelle shouted, "Hey! You! You've gotta go! Scram, and leave the Queen's third in charge alone, would ya? She needs to get her beauty sleep for the big day ahead of us."
Thump! Thump! Thump! The sound of hundreds of changelings hitting a solid shield. Heartsy and Thorax were positioned on opposite sides of the bubble so they wouldn't arouse suspicion. Any minute now, it would crack and their plan would take place...
Thump! Thump! The cracks were getting bigger... Thump! Heartsy's heart was racing... THUMP! The shield around them shattered into a million pieces. Heartsy tore through the sky, her wings buzzing behind her at an alarmingly fast rate. She scanned the streets below, terrified ponies were scrambling to get out of the way of the swarm. After spotting an alleyway, Heartsy dove after it.
Surrounded by shadows, Heartsy hid. The sounds of the fight around her were something straight out of a nightmare. "Think, think!" Almost panicking, she transforms into a random Pegasus she saw on the street. "Ok, now to just... Fly away! Right..." She crept upwards out of the alleyway.
Her now gray wings beating behind her, she poked her head overtop of the building. She was met with the eyes of an angry changeling guard. "There's a pony over here, hiding! Get her!" Suddenly, the sound of buzzing wings surrounded her. Now her heart was really beating fast! One of the guards grabbed her hooves and attempted to tie her wings down with a sticky green slime.
Heartsy went into a blind panic that turned into almost a blind rage. She wasn't about to let the changelings keep her prisoner anymore! The yellow eyes of the mare she transformed into turned a sickly red as a magical blast sent the guards flying backwards. She scraped the goo off her wings and kicked a nearby changeling with her hind hooves. Zooming upwards, Heartsy was soon high above the city, never looking back.
After a few miles of flight, the mare's eyes returned to normal and an imense relief flooded over her.
"I DID IT! I FINALLY LEFT THE HIVE!" Heartsy cheered. Heartsy did loopy loops in the sky and admired the scenery.
She turned and looked at the sun slowly going down in the horizon. Heartsy started to head towards Ponyville. She was finally leaving. To start a new life. Hopefully she might make some new friends…