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-> The Messenger held his hand out and the document float up into the air. ''"Now it is official."'' The parchment warped, ripped, and fractured before Lero’s eyes, as if it was coming apart on an atomic level. As the swirling cloud of particles that was once the contract began to collapse, the Messenger spoke again.

-> ''"Bellerophon Michealides,"'' it said, a note of satisfaction in its dry voice, ''"you are hereby bound by word, Wyrd, and blood to your promise. You shall have your cure in exchange for your loyalty and servitude to the Lady. Upon the 7th birthday of your eldest daughter, you will enter the Lady's ranks and serve her dutifully until your dying breath. Thus I, the Messenger, do witness and attest."''

-> The Messenger closed his fist and the cloud was gone. A smile grew on his face. ''"But before that, there is something you must know, Ridire."'' It leaned down until its face was level with the human's. '''There has already been an incursion.''' The Messenger reached into a pouch on his belt and pulled something out. He handed that something Lero, who felt his blood run cold. It was strip of pink linen, worn from many years of use and dirty from weeks of activity. Lero's eyes widened. It was just the right size for a child's bow. A bow a certain yellow filly wore in her red hair.

''[[https://fimfetch.net/story/151951/into-the-hedge Into the Hedge]]'' is a ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' and ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost'' crossover fanfic by [=BadWolf9510=] based upon ''FanFic/DividedRainbow'' and ''FanFic/{{Xenophilia}}''.

For years, Lero Michaelides has enjoyed a peaceful life in Ponyville. He has a home, a job, and a loving family. Even after the Swap turned his world upside-down, he held onto that peace with every ounce of will. Lero’s future looked tough, but he knew that he and his mares -- old and new -- could weather it together.

But there had been always something that haunted him. Something in his past that had followed him to this new world. A force that even the Royal Sisters had learned to fear. It was something that Lero could not fully remember, but had always on the edge of his reason.

A face, a voice, a whisper in his ear...

''Mo ridire...''

Now his past has finally caught up to him. The Cutie Mark Crusaders have been taken by a twisted evil. Lero and his herd must journey together into the heart of a nightmarish and confront a force beyond all rational thought and morality.

Lero will have to confront his past and his sins as they all journey [[TitleDrop Into the Hedge.]]

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!!''Into The Hedge'' contains examples of the following tropes:

* HundredPercentHeroismRating: Once they all learn that Lero's going to rescue the Cutie Mark Crusaders, Lero is showered in esteem, praise, well-wishing, gifts, free meals, everypony admires him... with the singularly notable exception of [[FantasticRacism Honeydew.]]
* {{Arcadia}}: Lero knows that they ''need'' to rescue the Crusaders before they reach here, or they may never come back to Equestria at all.
* AssholeVictim: Diamond Tiara. Bad as she is, though, ALL the ponies are rightfully horrified at what happens to her.
* BilingualBonus: Irish seems to be the Fae’s native tongue.
* BlackEyesOfEvil: The Lost has jet black sclera set against electric blue irises, which initially shows he is in control of their shared body. After Lero returns to the Hedge and his nature as a changeling begins forcibly reasserting itself, Lero develops the eyes permanently.
* BloodOath: The Messenger has Lero bleed onto his contract with the Lady to make it binding.
* BloodSplatteredWarrior: The Lost is certainly not afraid to become this.
* BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler:Twilight and Rarity. Justified in that the Hedge is an entirely different reality and even in its own canon is known for interfering with non-fae magic.]]
* CellPhonesAreUseless: Not that our heroes actually bring their own cell phone into the realm of the Fae, but at one point The Lost still reminisces about other abducted humans trying to use their phones… which didn't work.
* ChangelingTale: While not involving any of Queen Chrysalis’ buglike changelings, this trope is still very much in effect... played in the most classic sense possible when "Silk" abducts the Crusaders and leaves [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Doppelganger fetches]] behind to cover her tracks.
* ColdIron: The Lost wield a dagger of this against a number of hobs.
* DeadFic: Marked as "Cancelled" by the author.
* DealWithTheDevil: The pact Lero forms with the Lady: in exchange for a cure to the Swap, he will re-enter the Lady's service on the day of his first daughter's seventh birthday. For the record, Herd Bellerophon still hasn't figured out how a human man and his pony sweethearts can conceive a child. Arcadian changelings are also notoriously prone to fertility issues even when mating with humans, as their damaged soul impedes the metaphysical process of procreation.
* DeclarationOfProtection: Rarity towards Lero, Rainbow Dash towards Lero, and Princess Luna towards all the ponies she rules.
* DeterminedDefeatist: Lero, after Luna convinces him to lead her into the realm of the Fae.
%%* EldritchAbomination: The Lady's Messenger.
%%--> The creature's face sent a small shiver down Lero’s spine. Like the rest of it, the creature’s skin looked to be laid over a bare skull. Cracked lips formed a smile that held a set of sharp teeth. It had no eyes, at least not on its face. Lero could see indentations of where eyes should be, but the sockets were simply covered in more yellow, leathery skin. A pair of brown horns rose up from its forehead, swooping back over its bald scalp and then tapering upwards at the end. A pair of black feathered wings rose up behind the creature and it was here the creature beheld Lero. [[EyesDoNotBelongThere Along its wings, eight golden eyes opened up]] and stared at him.
** As well as the True Fae (though we haven't seen them yet), a number of hobs, and Changelings (Lero's kind, not Chrysalis's).
%%* EveryoneIsBi: The majority of the ponies, in keeping with Xenophilia's setting.
%%* TheFairFolk: The Fae.
* FalseMemories: The Swapped Fives' rewritten memories and the Bewitchment which Discord cast on nearly the whole rest of the planet.
%%* FateWorseThanDeath: The Lost does not think favorably of The Cutie Mark Crusaders' prospects in The Fae's world.
%%-->"So, ma sister," breathed Pinkie Pie, "she... she's alive?"
%%-->The Lost looked at her. Pinkie and Applejack were both sharing that same hopeful expression. He wanted to lie. God, he wanted to lie so badly. Just tell them that their sisters were dead and gone and spare them both the horrible truth of the matter. Just let them remember their sisters as who they were, just a bunch of cheerful fillies trying to get their cutie marks. But...
%%-->"Maybe," he said. "There is a very good chance that all three of them are still alive."
%%* FunetikAksent: All the Apple Family, plus Swapped!Applejack and Swapped!Pinkie Pie.
* GoodIsNotNice: The Lost, in VERY stark contrast with the regular Lero. Although just as loving and protective of towards his friends and family, he has no compunction about killing enemies.
* HappilyMarried: Although the members of Herd Bellerophon haven't taken any official nuptial vows, this is still the nature of their relationship, even Rainbow Dash, the "newest" member, (who hasn’t moved into their house yet.)
%%* HeroWorshipper: Scootaloo (the real one) towards Rarity.
%%* HornedHumanoid: Kyria Ama.
%%* ImpostorForgotOneDetail: An oversight as huge as it is costly:
%%-->"If you were Apple Bloom, then how could you know that language?"
* InsistentTerminology: "Fae-touched" individuals like Lero are never referred to as changelings, due to the CrossCulturalKerfuffle that would cause, since Equestrians use that name for their own resident species of [[EmotionEater love-draining bug-ponies]].
* {{Interquel}}: ''Into the Hedge'' takes place at some point between Chapter 25 and 26 in ''Divided Rainbow''.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: It's heavily implied that The Lost does this to Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle's fetches, when he sends everyone else at the house ahead to Sugarcube Corner.
-->The Lost paused. "You put up a silencing spell around the library, didn't you, Princess?"
-->Luna knew where this was going. "Aye, We did."
-->"Put one up on the basement too, if you'd please." He opened the door. The faint sound of clattering chains came up from the basement. "I may be quite loud when I ask them."
%%* EnfantTerrible: The Cutie Mark Crusaders' fetches are quite the little sociopaths.
%%-->"Girls," cried Pinkie Pie. "What were y'all thinking?!" She grabbed Apple Bloom by the shoulders and shook her. The filly hardly gave any reaction. "D'ya even know what y'all done?!"
%%-->"Ah broke her jaw," Apple Bloom answered.
%%-->Pinkie Pie gasped and stopped shaking her sister. "Wha..."
%%-->"I broke her legs," said Sweetie Belle, as if she'd been asked "how was the weather?" Her mother clutched her father's hoof tightly.
%%-->"And I made sure she'd never be mean again," said Scootaloo.
* LetterMotif: Lero, Lyra, Luna, the Lost, the Lady.
%%* MindControlMusic: Such a mesmerizing melody Silk plays...
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: The band of heroes who unite to rescuing the abducted Cutie Mark Crusaders are comprised of all the adult members of Herd Bellerophon... and Princess Luna.
* MythologyGag: [[spoiler: When Lero comforts Twilight and Rarity over their magic being gone, he mentions that other mages have had similar problems. He is referring to the canonical effects that [[TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening the Awakened]] suffer from being in the Hedge.]]
* NarniaTime: Kyria reveals that the Fae-Lands don't operate on the same clock as Equestria. Unbeknownst to Herd Bellerophon, months have passed back in Equestria during the days they've spent in the Hedge.
* {{Polyamory}}: Since this is a ''Xenophilia'' story, polygamous herds are an established pillar of pony society.
* RecursiveFanfiction: Of both ''Fanfic/DividedRainbow'' and ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/107542/ask-the-swapped-ponies Ask the Swapped Ponies]]'', which are, themselves, recursive works of ''Fanfic/{{Xenophilia}}''.
%%* RedBaron: "Ridire" translates to "Knight" in the language of the Fae.
* RepressedMemories: The Lost. He embodies everything Bellerophon Michaelides sought to forget about his time in The Lady's world. Even going so far as to strengthen Lero's Mask to the point he forgot that's what it is.
%%* RoaringRampageOfRescue: What Princess Luna intends to do, once she's on the other side of the Hedge.
%%-->'''Princess Luna''': So let me tell you this, human: I will not allow some foul abominations to enter into my home and snatch my subjects away to become their playthings! Least of all, the sisters of the mares who saved me from my own darkness! I will go into their lands, into the heart of their power, and make them know that Equestria is off-limits to their schemes! They will know to fear Us and Our power! I will send them a message, one that will last a thousand of their lifetimes, that they may never trespass into Our kingdom and that no incursion of theirs shall ever go unpunished!
%%** Of course, given that the Gentry are PhysicalGod[=/=]EldritchLocation [[GeniusLoci hybrids]], [[spoiler: to say nothing of the fact that much of Luna's powers are stripped away by the Thorns,]] this may turn out to be RevengeBeforeReason.
* RockMonster: The Garganstone, a living hill that wakes up to assume a human-like form.
%%* SpeakOfTheDevil: The Lady.
%%-->"Never. Speak. That. Name." he warned. "It only attracts her attention."
* SpellMyNameWithAThe: Seems to be something of a naming convention among the Fae. There's the Lady, the Messenger, the Lost, the Silken Harpist, the Dollmaker...
* SpiderSwarm: A mass of "several large spiders" serve Silk.
%%* TheRoyalWe: Hi, Princess Luna!
* TheSoulless: The "Cutie Mark Crusaders" that return from the forest. They go about their daily lives on an emotionless autopilot. Although they're not quite so unresponsive as to put up with schoolyard bullying, as [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown Diamond Tiara can attest to...]]
* SwappedRoles: Since the story takes place right in the middle of ''Fanfic/DividedRainbow'', the Swapped Five are still, well... swapped.
* TrappedInAnotherWorld: Lero Michealides' situation to begin with as a resident of Equestria, but he warns his traveling companions that this may befall them as well, once they pass beyond the Hedge. [[spoiler:And as of Chapter 5, it does.]]
-->'''Lero''': This will probably be a one-way trip.
-->'''Lyra''': Now you're just making this sound fun.
%%* WouldHurtAChild: Lero/the Lost, when it's a Fetch-child, at the least.
%%-->Apple Bloom was about to say something when it happened. The walking stick came down and struck the yellow filly across her face with a harsh crack, knocking her to the ground before a hand latched itself around her small throat.
%%* {{Youkai}}: The best way of explaining what sort of creature Silk is.
%%* YouKilledMyFather: Pinkie Pie's reaction upon seeing the Lost snap the Apple Bloom fetch's neck.
%%-->The only thing that mattered to her right then was hitting that sister-killing thing over and over until she was pounding wet chunks of bone into the ground.
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