Chapter 3:
For the remainder of the night Celestia and Luna spent time with the changeling now known as Ocean Blue. The first matter that was attended to was the bite on her neck much to the surprise of the castle's medical staff. Once the initial shock had worn off and they realized they would not be harmed, the medical staff quickly became excited to observe and study a changeling without it being dead or unconscious. It took only minutes to heal the wound, but the medical staff spent an hour asking Ocean Blue questions about changelings and asking if they may examine her to better update their books. She had no issues with this and was happy to see them happy around her. She had always wondered what it would be like around ponies and her mother always made it seem like she would be hunted down like a wild animal but that is not what happened.
After the medical staff had departed, Celestia and Luna talked with the changeling, telling her about ponies, Equestria, and about six other ponies that she was going to meet shortly. Both Celestia and Luna agreed that this poor changeling after having never experiencing friendship needed to meet the girls from Ponyville. There were some discussions about how that should be handled and it was Ocean Blue that suggested she appear as another pony and only later when the time was right reveal that she was in fact a changeling.
Just as Celestia was preparing to raise the sun and Luna lower the moon, Ocean Blue had decided on what form of pony to take. Ocean Blue was going to become a unicorn. She originally wanted to become an alicorn like the princesses but after being told that would raise too many questions as to where this "princess" would have come from she agreed it would be a bad idea. While Ocean Blue could fly, she never really enjoyed it much however she always enjoyed using her magic. Spending as much time alone as she had she needed ways to entertain herself so she spent significant amounts of time in the changeling library studying magic just as Twilight does.
With that detail settled upon, it was time to decide on the other aspects of her new pony form. Usually changelings would just copy another pony they saw but coming up with one from thin air was a little more difficult. It was decided that her fur would be sparkling white like Rarities while her main would be the same beautiful shade of blue as her eyes. Her mane and tale were styled very similarly to how twilight has hers. Her cutie mark was the more difficult part that she could not come up with as she still did not fully comprehend their meaning or purpose seeing as how changelings lacked them and their own library was short on information pertaining to the subject.
With the help of Celestia and Luna it was decided that her cutie mark should be a heart surrounded by flowers and butterflies in the same shade of blue as her eyes and hair. (look here 1ms ocean-blue-heart- 242767 . ht m l where you remove all of the spaces). When it was settled, Ocean Blue concentrated on the image in her head and in a flash of green light changed into a pony.
"Oh my dear you look beautiful." Celestia said with a wide smile.
Luna walked up to her, brought her hoof up to her chin and raised her head a little to look into her face.
"Thy was beautiful before, and now thou is even more so. You will have no issues fitting in at Ponyville." Luna said.
Ocean Blue lowered her head again, crossed her front hooves in slight embarrassment and blushed slightly at the complements as she was still getting used to zero hostility towards her.
"I am sorry if this comes off as a strange question, but do changelings eat food? We know they consume love but we honestly do not know if they eat food." Celestia said.
"Y-yes we do eat food. We tend to only eat it when there is not enough love to sustain us. Without a steady supply of love energy our ability to perform magic greatly diminishes and may even cease entirely but we will not starve. I must say that I have not eaten real food in many years and would greatly appreciate and enjoy it if we did. There is enough love in Canterlot that I can feed off just the residual energies of it to sustain my magic especially if I eat food to sustain the rest of me."
Celestia and Luna were pleased to hear this and invited Ocean Blue to the main dining hall. Before they departed the room Celestia told one of the two guards outside her room to tell the other girls to meet in the dining hall for breakfast.
After a short wait at the dining table, Celestia, Luna, and Ocean Blue were accompanied by Rarity, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Apple Jack, and Twilight.
"Good morning everyone, I hope you all slept well?" Celestia asked warmly.
"It was simply divine, some of the best sleep I have ever gotten." Rarity said.
"I slept like a rock, the bed was even better than a cloud; I did not even know that was possible." Rainbow Dash said.
"It was perfect, thank you very much." Fluttershy said in nearly a whisper.
"Oo! The bed was bouncy and comfy I have no issues sleeping at all." Pinkie Pie said enthusiastically while jumping up and down.
"Woo we, I need to get one of those beds back on the farm, although then I may never get out if it he-he" Apple Jack said while laughing a little at the end.
"It was just perfect Princess Celestia, thanks again for letting us stay the night." Twilight said.
"Of course, any time Twilight, and to the rest of you as well, I am glad to hear you all enjoyed your stay." Celestia said.
It was then that everyone noticed Ocean Blue sitting at the table with Celestia and Luna. Ocean Blue looked away from them and down towards her empty plate a little nervous.
"Who is the new Pony!? Someone new! Oh I have never met her before!" Pinkie said just before running up to Ocean blue. "Hi, what is your name, my name is Pinkie Pie, where are you from? Oh do you like parties! I like parities I will have to throw you a welcome party to…" Pinkie was saying a mile-a-minute before she was interrupted by Twilight using her magic to move Pinkie away from Ocean Blue.
"Pinkie calm down and let her speak."
"Okie-dokie-loky." Pinkie said and proceeded to find a chair.
Ocean Blue was a little unsettled by the enthusiastic energy from Pinkie Pie and kept her head lowered a little.
"She seems a little shy, just like Fluttershy." Twilight, Rainbow Dash and Apple Jack thought concurrently.
Ocean Blue then lifted her gaze and looked at the princesses. They each gave her warm smiles making her feel less uncomfortable. She then looked over to the girls and began to speak.
"Umm… my name is Ocean Blue. I am from a faraway area of Equestria, and I just arrived here in Canterlot Yesterday. I um… never… um… had a party before." Ocean Blue was saying when Pinkie Pie screamed.
"Whaaat! You never had a party! Oh well, I think we can fix that!" Pinkie said and then had a super large smile on her face while her eyes lit up and there was some kind of audible squeak that Ocean Blue could not quite identify.
"Well, it is very nice to meet you dear, my name is Rarity." Rarity then looked to her right where Apple jack was sitting.
"I am Apple Jack, great to meet ya." Apple jack then looked to her right where Twilight was sitting.
"My name is Twilight Sparkle, and I am very happy to meet you." Twilight then looked across the table to where Fluttershy was sitting.
"I… am... flu…tter…shy" Flutter shy said slowly and nearly imperceptibly while burying her face in her mane.
Rainbow Dash just rolled her eyes a little and said. "She said her name is Fluttershy. I am Rainbow Dash, best flier in all of Equestria, awesome to meet you. I think you already met Pinkie Pie." Rainbow Dash said the last part while giving a slight chuckle and looking at Pinkie.
Ocean Blue was clearly looking less nervous and was beginning to open up more as she was again realizing how kind everyone was being towards her.
"This will take some getting used to, but I am enjoying every moment of it." Ocean Blue thought to herself.