Whoosh
Thud
In a giant room. A small piece of metal fell on a gigantic pile of trash. The piece of metal squirmed and took on the appearance of a spider like creature with claws akin to a crab.
where did i end up this time?
The strange creature was a changeling. A creature that could take on the appearance of anything it wanted with only one limitation, its size.
The creature looked at the place where it dropped down from. It was a wide trash chute that was currently dropping trash. Most of which was paper and metal. A piece of paper landed near the creature. It was a newspaper.
"After the death of Ms. Carament pitt, the 87th Queen of Avaritia at the hands of a changeling that took her form and masqueraded as her for 4 months, the nation of Avaritia has issued a national-wide hunt for all changelings. The reward for capturing a changeling is 900 vons which is enough for anyone to live a comfortable life without ever having to work again"
The creature hissed after reading that newspaper. He had been hiding from people for 4 years due to this very reason. The creature never forgave that changeling or the people that put a bounty on the head of it's entire species.
The creature started to climb the walls, going towards the trash chute to escape from this room. He made it to the mouth of the chute and waited above it for it to shoot out trash again. He knew that after the piston inside the chute pushed the trash out once it would wait before doing it againg. After all he had been doing this for 4 years. He did this to prevent being pused out by the piston back into the room.
After the trash was thrown out again, the creature started to run as fast as it could and eventually reached a pipe that connected to the chute through which trash was thrown.
The creature climbed the pipe and ended up in a street with people who were of many different species. The creature quickly hid into a dark secluded alley and decided to scavenge for food.
Before changelings were hunted down, the creature lived a normal life like any other person but was now forced to scavenge through trash for his food.
Not long after, it found some stale bread and decided to eat it.
Since the only limitation of a changeling was it's size, eating more which result in a larger size allowed the changeling to change into a stronger and larger creature. The creature did not try to become too large of a creature as it would result in if being easily found.
A changeling could transform into non organic matter but it's nervous system would had to remain intact or else it would die.
After eating its food, it decided to come up with a plan. It wanted to escape from such a heavily populated area as it would be quite easy to get caught here.
Previously it had not been able to escape because of the harsh weather but now it was the perfect time for him to leave.
The creature turned into a very small brown bird which was a very similar color to the buildings around. It started flying very close to the ground as it might get spotted if it were to fly high in the sky.
The bird quickly approached the edge of the city and stopped a distance away from the city walls.
There were guards in grey military uniforms of many species. One had the head of a frog and a humanoid figure, another looked like a lizard and walked on 4 legs.
The creature then transformed back into the same spider like creature and snuck near one of the vehicles exiting the city.
It snuck into thr vehicle and encountered a boy playing with his pet, a salamander.
"Aren't you the cutest little thing?"
Said the boy while petting the slamander with his finger.
After the boy stopped playing with the salamander and put away its cage, the creature started to move. The creature, with very silent footsteps approached the cage and stealthily jumped on the salamander.
The creature immediately cut its neck with its razor sharp claws and moved the body of the salamander out of the cage.
The creature then took the form of the salamander and decided to rest inside the cage, feeling sorry for the boy and the salamander but he had to do this to survive.
After a while the creature woke up to the little boy picking up his cage
What is he going to do now?
"Good morning Volo. How has the trip been for you"
The little boy said happily
"We are about to go to my grandpa's house to spend my vacation."
As the boy spoke more and more the creature ended up feeling worse and worse.
The boy was happy to be with volo, a salamander which it just killed.
The creature decided that it would not forget about volo and would remember volo in its heart but for now it had to pretend to he volo to escape from the city.
They travelled through farmlands and ended up in a quite old looking brick house and an old man waiting for them to arrive.