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Disregard the cover art until you reach chapter 3... I couldn't find a changeling pony creator. (i did make small edits with my mediocre skills at photo altering.)

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The ponies of Equestria had an overwhelming number of females, but for the changelings it happened to be the opposite. The birth of a female to royalty was normally celebrated as it meant the continued survival of a hive.

So why would this child, be hidden from the hive? Be hidden from even the father?

Because she shouldn't be possible.

Never before had the seed of any pony been potent enough to impregnate a changeling queen. But then again the Doctor was no mere pony. He was a Time Lord.

Ardith had taken every precaution, making sure nobody knew of her child with the Doctor, even if that meant keeping it from him. Now she was gone, having died much earlier than anticipated. This child, now barely at the age of adulthood, was alone.

~Hybrid: Prelude to Sorrow

Lilith shivered in the cold night air, wrapping her mother's blanket tightly around herself as she stood on the open balcony, watching over the hive like metropolis that would have been hers if not for the conditions behind her birth.

"Two hearts... What's so wrong with having two hearts?" She muttered to herself as she trotted back inside to the mostly barren living space.

Most of Ardith's home had been emptied, save Lilith's secret bedroom. She sighed as she grabbed a few of her belongings, placing them in a saddlebag before strapping it on.

She looked over the golden armlet that her mother had given her as a gift, securing it on herself without another thought. The mark of her father, an hourglass, was imprinted in the soft metal.

It was time for her to leave, without her mother's protection the hive would soon be destroyed from within or be taken over by another royal family. Royalty was in the blood, and without others to protect her she would likely be killed for it. Her only hope at a semblance of normalcy was to leave her homeland, to choose a new form for herself amongst the pony kind.

Celestia, who had been a friend to her mother might be able to help.

Lilith's ears perked as the balcony entrance she had come through minutes earlier opened up. She hastily shut the secret door to her room and scrambled over to a vent that overlooked the living space.

Two male changelings entered the house, one very nondescript the other with a hideous scar across one milky white eye. The scarred one was larger than the average changeling, possibly of some royal bloodline.

The regular changeling spoke in hushed tones. "Everything is finished now. Right? I did what you wanted, can you promise me that my family will be safe now?"

The larger of the two spoke, his silver tongue hiding the poisons behind his speech. "You don't ask a reward for becoming the Queen's most trusted servant? A reward for slowly and undetectably poisoning her to death?"

"Please, all I want is to have my life go back to normal. For my kids to know they are safe again."

"Walk with me, we have one final thing to talk about."

Lilith's blood boiled as she heard the conversation. They killed Ardith? Why? She had been the kindest changeling queen in ages.

The mastermind to the murder plot pulled a cruel looking dagger from its place hanging on the wall. His magic wrapped around the knife as it flew towards the other changeling's back.

It impacted with a sickening thud, the changeling's legs gave out, his lower spine severed.

"This is your reward, betrayal met with betrayal." The bigger changeling walked up and tore the dagger from the back of his victim, receiving an agonized scream."No evidence, no loose ends. I have my men taking care of things at the servants quarters as well."

He took a lick of the dripping green blood that was slowly sliding its way down the blade, his one useful eye lit up with a cruel passion.

"No! I didn't tell them anything! Leave them out of this." His family lived in the servant's quarters, just a building away. Despite the small distance he could do nothing in his crippled state to save them.

"Too late for that, and too bad I couldn't kill them myself. Now... Despair and meet your fate!" The knife was pulled across the crippled changeling's throat. His last gurgles could be heard throughout the house.

A visible surge of energy left his dying corpse, flowing directly to his killer. This changeling was certainly powerful, especially if he was able to use such forbidden methods of feeding.

Lilith was angry, but revealing herself would be suicide. She held her breath as he finished soaking up the other changeling's energy with his foul magics. He then walked calmly away from the scene, lighting a magical fire in the corner of the room to burn away any evidence.

He stood on the veranda as the heat began to increase behind him, smoke wafting up into the vent where Lilith was hiding. As the smoke reached her lungs she couldn't help but stifle a cough. It was barely audible but a sense of dread filled her. His spread insectile wings, that were about to take him into flight, paused lowering back down.

Suddenly the wall around the vent was torn open, falling to the floor along with Lilith. The chunk snuffed the flames where it landed, creating a small island amidst the conflagration.

Horn glowing the scarred changeling didn't even turn as he spoke. "It seems we have a little rat who thinks they can spy on a secret conversation."

Lilith stood there extremely alert, the fire and the unnamed aggressor between her and escape.

"There is something about you. I can't quite place my hoof on it... Will I have to kill another tonight, or is this one worthy to join my cause?"

Lilith spoke with hatred rising up inside of her, not thinking as she spoke. "You can sense part of Ardith in me can't you?"

He finally turned to look at her. "Ah, so that's it. A secret child, and a daughter at that. Come, I will make your end swift. There is no place for the weakness your mother has brought upon our race, it must be purged."

"Without the help of my mother you would be subjugated by Discord!"

"The virtues of ponies are not the changeling way, they never have been. A true queen would have killed Discord and both of the self righteous princesses! That is why I must now take up the mantle of king, to fix her mistakes."

In her anger something inside of Lilith snapped. Power she never knew of before manifested. Time itself slowed down to a near halt as she leapt through the flames, her movements appearing blurred to the half blinded changeling.

He swung out to knock Lilith back, but was slow in his surprise. Time reverted to normal as she collided with him, the two tumbling through the balcony rail.

Being smaller and more agile Lilith recovered from her midair tumble first, kicking off the other changeling's body for momentum. Time sporadically jumped as she flew, her twin hearts pounding with adrenaline. She made it absolutely impossible to track her motions, using her newfound power to make unpredictably fast dives and turns.

When Lilith was certain she had lost any pursuit she stopped stopped, flying normally to avoid any suspicion.

If her mother's death had been planned then there were greater forces at work here. And now they knew of her. There was no choice but to flee, at least until she had some sort of advantage.

She looked back once more seeing her childhood go up in smoke, the flaming pyre accented the peak of the hive.

Lilith would head across the desert and through the heart of the Everfree to reach the Equestrian territories, her mother had taken the reverse trip once before.

She swore to herself that one day the time for her vengeance would come. Some day the one behind her mother's early demise would be purged from this world, utterly destroyed.

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A death to begin the tale, and a promise to be one day fulfilled...

Author's Note:

Thanks for reading.

Yes, The Doctor "Fucked a bug" (thanks for that, user who will go unnamed...)

I don't know why you all hate on changelings so much, no she does not need to be "Killed with fire" (thank you another unnamed user)

Bug haters... every last one of you. :P