#honey rays

There’s only 3 of us… Octavia, Honey Rays, and myself; Vapor Trail. We’ve been running for a while now. When all the creatures began their initial transformation, we found each other in the chaos. We didn't think, we just grabbed each other and ran. We hid in Octavia’s home, for a while, before her housemate Vinyl tried to get in, mid transformation.

Octavia and Honey Rays grabbed the closest saddle bags they could find, and packed it full with the first things they could find. Octavia bucked down their back door as Vinyl used… some kind of dubstep power she had gained, to break down the front door. The path from Octavia’s house was almost a beeline to Fluttershy’s old cottage. We saw her flying toward Princess Twilight’s castle, the opposite direction to us. Obviously we didn't stop to chat…

We took refuge in Fluttershy’s cottage to collect our thoughts, and look at what we had grabbed. There was a good amount of food, a couple of books, a journal… Which I'm currently writing in with a pen I found… And a knife.

So all in all… Relatively good haul, given everything that's happened. We waited for the chaos to settle before deciding what to do next… Much to my protests, we decided to make our way through the Everfree forest. There were no creatures in there that could have transformed, say for maybe Zecora.

I hate it here… The forest is just as dangerous as the monster filled town we fled from. We found this cave we decided to camp in about an hour ago, but there was… one problem… Thorax, I believe his name is, he had already taken up occupancy within the cave, with another changeling, but he had already transformed…

He looked like some kind of… Spider… thing… The gems on his chest had transformed into extra legs, and the middle one became an odd claw. When we entered, he was standing on the ceiling, it was very bizarre…

Because he was considered royalty to Changelings, he still had access to his magic.. And he had forced some kind of mind control on the changeling beside him. We all began to panic, attempting to create distance between Thorax and ourselves, but we agreed to keep him within the cave, because Celestia forbid he escape and joins the other creatures… But for some reason, he wasn't moving, the other changeling was doing all the work for him.

Before I could try to piece together why, Octavia shouted for all of us to keep still. So we did, and we noticed that Thorax’s spines, that ran along the length of his back, stopped vibrating, he was pinpointing where we were, through our movements, or some kind of echolocation maybe? Given he had no eyes… He couldn't see where we were, and had changed to find other means of pinpointing his prey, which is what the other changeling was for. It was attacking where Thorax thought we were…

We all theorized this once the event was over… How did it end? Honey Rays managed to move slowly toward Thorax… Slow enough that Thorax didnt detect her slight movements, and with the knife she grabbed earlier, she drove it through the top of his head.. Between the antlers he had.

But… He didn't bleed. What came out was a weird, black substance, that seemed thicker than any bodily fluid should be… Almost like a strange goop. Once he fell, and the magic stopped, the brainwashed changeling that was with him, seemed to return to normal. Aside from the additional jaw mandibles he developed, he was perfectly normal.

So… Silver lining I suppose.. Another survivor… After looking over Thorax’s body, trying to understand the transformation to write into this journal, we took the time to finally relax, and process what we've seen.