A Great Change: Chapter Thirty Seven-Battle Ready
By: TammoWoodsorel
All of the Changelings were on the ground, yelling and groaning in agony. They were starving to death at a very rapid pace.
Knight Mare looked up and saw three stallions just standing there frozen solid in fear, and said, "You three! Go find help! We need food and lots of it."
The three stallions split up and ran in three different directions. They were going to either find food or somepony who had food.
Viñyl turned over and said, "But I thought that we couldn't eat food."
Knight Mare shook her head painfully and said, "No, we can. It's just that we have to eat a lot of it in order for it to do anything for us."
After some time, Hugo happened upon a road. To his luck, there was a very expensive-looking carriage coming down the road. Hugo stood in the middle of the road and waved a fore leg in the air. The driver, a white unicorn with a dark-blue mane, had the stallions that were pulling the carriage stop.
A mare's voice was heard from inside the carriage, "Is there something wrong out there?"
The unicorn yelled back, "Nothing yet, just stay in there for a minute," turning to face the out of breathe stallion before him, the unicorn asked, "I'm sure there is a very good reason that your blocking the road."
Hugo took a deep breath and said, "Please, sir, I have a group of friends that are about a mile in that direction that are starving to death. Is there any way that you can help them?"
The unicorn seemed to be genuinely concerned for the ponies that he had never met as he said, "Well I don't have any food, but my fiance can keep them alive until these ponies can go back to town and get some food."
Hugo brightened up as he saw the unicorn quickly unstrap the stallions that had been pulling his carriage, giving them a bag of money, and then knocking on the door to the carriage after the two stallion left to get food.
A pink unicorn with a rainbow mane poked her head out and listened to the white unicorn say, "Sweety, it seems as though there are some ponies in trouble and they need your help."
The pink unicorn glanced over at Hugo and, seeing just how incredibly worried he was, said, "Alright, just show us the way. I will do all that I can."
The pink unicorn stepped out of the carriage and Hugo was astonished to see that she was an alicorn.
Hugo immediately bowed and said, "Oh pardon me for interrupting your travels, Princess..."
There was a pause since Hugo didn't actually know who she was and the alicorn filled him in, "Cadance, just Cadance is fine. Now where are your friends?"
Hugo stood up and said, "Yes, they're this way. Follow me please."
He took off in the direction that he came from. Cadance followed him immediately but the white unicorn stopped to draw an arrow into the dirt so that the stallions knew which way to do when they got back. Once he had done that, he took off after them. He was obviously well-trained since he was able to catch up with them very quickly.
As they were running, Hugo looked to the white unicorn and asked, "I'm sorry, sir, I didn't get your name."
The white unicorn looked at him and said, "Shining Armor, and you are?"
Hugo just stated his name, "Hugo."
They continued running at top speed to save his friends.
Back at the Changeling Capital, Queen Chrysalis was trying to figure out a way of finding Draco. Without her being tied to him anymore, she had no was of tracking them. The same went for his companions. She had issued a red alert which had assembled every Changeling in the military in the palace. They all stood to attention and waited for the Queen's command. Queen Chrysalis was sitting in her throne with her eyes closed. It had been a few hours since everypony had gathered, there were a few that were late in getting there but that was to be expected. Eventually, she felt something. She felt herself lose a connection with Captain Fear. The only way a Changeling could sever the bond was through powerful magic that was only possessed by a few select Changelings and death.
Queen Chrysalis thought about it for a minute. Captain Fear was the fifth best fighter in the military. The only Changelings that were better than him were the ones that were with Dragonshy. So, no matter what the reason for losing the connection was, it meant that he was with them. Queen Chrysalis let out a loud whistle through her teeth. This was the signal for all the magic-using Changelings to pour their energy through her. What this did was allow for a faster start up or a larger teleport. Queen Chrysalis was going for the strength. She was planning on teleporting every Changeling soldier to Dragonshy. Feeling the energy beginning to well up inside her, the Queen began to concentrate on the last known location of Captain Fear.
All the soldiers saw the preparations and readied themselves for battle.
Sorry guys, i know that this chapter is A LOT shorter than all my other chapters, but I am really busy tonight and probably won't be going to sleep tonight. I felt bad for leaving you guys hanging so often, so I decided to post something. Even if this was it. Sorry again, I hope you all understand.