A new beginning
By Da Bunnana King
Chapter three: I’m home
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I trotted up to the bleached white fence of the thatched roof house painted in a happy shade of yellow. It was a small two story town house that had its own back and front yard with a path connecting them at the right side. It was a quaint little house and it reminded me so much of home, but it also brought back painful memories that I pushed back into the recesses of my brain.
“Come on Remi, were nearly there,” I said as the filly bounced around me with glee.
“Yay, we’re nearly home. We’re nearly home!” she sung as I chuckled a bit.
I trotted up to the door and raised my hoof towards the cherrywood door, but I stopped and wondered how I was going to do this.
‘Well, this is going to be interesting,’ I thought to myself as I knocked using my hoof.
“Coming!” sung the voice of my mother, but it also sounded less like my mother and more Equestrian.
The cream colored earthpony opened the door and was nearly shocked to see me. Her mane was the same color as chocolate and her cutie mark was a chocolate cake. It was strange to see my mother as a pony but I could see her old human features as her eyes were the same shade of brown.
“Oh, I thought you were somepony else, but may I ask who you are sir?” he asked shying away a bit.
“I thought you’d be happy to see me again mum,” I said as my mother’s face began to have that look of confusion she always had.
“Alex?” she asked as she stared into me.
“No, just your other son that was in the army and got ponified,” I said as I was nearly knocked off my hooves from her tackle like hug.
“Alex! Oh I missed you so much,” she said as she tightened her hug on me.
“I missed you too mum, but could we go inside, because I think Remi wants to go to sleep some more,” I said as Remi tugged on my tail, but my mother gave me that look of ‘what have you done this time?’
“Alright, but you have to tell me all about it,” she said as we all entered the house.
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The interior of the house was warm and inviting with candles on the wall that seemed to light up the room. It seemed like that ponies didn’t use doors as I could see an archway that led into the kitchen from the living room and a guest bedroom that was adjacent the main room. The stairs also seemed to be wider and longer in size as they lead up the the next level up where the main bedrooms likely were.
The living room looked nearly like the one in Australia expect it was missing a large television set, but it was replaced with a radio on a bookshelf filled with various books and a small necklace my mother had collected, including a picture with her and a pegasus stallion with burnt orange fur and a light brown mane. I could barely make out his cutie mark of a thundercloud as it was covered by this wings.
Remi darted from behind me and claimed the large couch and began to find a comfortable position to lie on it. My mother motioned me towards a couch to take a seat, which I did as I awkwardly sat next to Remi.
“So sweetie, how have you been? You stopped writing to me a few months back,” she said as I shifted around to find a comfortable position to sit in.
“Well after my last letter to you I had nowhere to go and the Human Liberation Force were gunning after me, so I decided to hide in the bush until things blew over,” I replied as I just folded my legs and just went with the flow.
“So I’m guessing they left you alone,” she said as I could almost imagine her reaction of what came out of my mouth next.
“Well, not exactly,” I said shuffling my hooves and flattening my ears against my head, “They still hunted me and well... I did some things I’m not too proud of.”
“Well..." she began as a sadden expression grew on her face before it turned into a smile, "well at least you’re safe but where did you find this adorable filly?” she said as she began to pinch Remi’s cheeks.
“Stop that,” cried Remi as my mother began to tickle her senseless.
“Well she was abandoned and I decided it was for the best that she came with me instead of being left in the wrong hooves,” I said as my mother looked up at me baffled.
“That still doesn’t answer my question,” she said.
“I did a lot of bad thing mum, and I’m ashamed of what I did,” I said as I began to imagine all the lives I ruined by ponifing most of the Brisbane’s HLF.
“Alright, but when you’re father gets back we’re going to have a talk mister,” she replied in that voice that always meant I was in real big trouble.
“Okay,” I said as I flattened my ears against my skull before picking back up again, “Wait, did you say-”
“Sweetie, I’m home!” came a stallions voice as the door flung open and the sound of wings flapping.
“I’m in the living room with somepony I want you to meet!” she called back.
In walked a burnt orange coated pegasus with a light brown mane, he looked to be the same pony from the picture. Then it clicked in my head that my mother had found love with an Equestrian.
“Oh, hello,” he said a bit baffled with my presence, “You must be the new neighbors Coco was talking about. I’m Sunset and you must be Mister-”
“Actually I’m Blue Rune, Coco’s son,” I said interrupting him as I got off the couch with relative ease.
“I thought your name was Alejandro,” he stated.
“I changed it before I came to Equestria,” I replied back as he extended a hoof which I shook.
“I see, so I guess you came by carriage this morning then,” he said as I could hear the giggles of Remi as my mother began to tickle her.
“No, I walked here with Remi on my back,” I said as we walked into the kitchen, a quieter room, as Remi began laughing hysterically.
“Oh, must of taken a lot out of you,” he said as he poured the two of us a glass of water from a jug that was near the sink.
“Yeah, but I’ve had worse,” I said as I took a seat at one of the chairs on the marbled floating island that was in the middle of the kitchen.
“I would imagine with what I’ve heard from your mother, but she never did tell me what you did exactly,” he questioned as he took a sip of water.
“I was a rifleman in the army that got a bounty placed on his head when he killed a bunch of Human Liberation Force officers,” I said as I waved a hoof dismissively.
“Wow, sounds like you caused quite a stir,” he said as I picked up the glass with my teeth and drank slowly.
“I’m guessing that you didn’t go to a Bureau,” he said chuckling.
“Yeah, how’d you know?” I asked as I carefully placed down the glass,
“Well first of all your posture is terrible, almost all unicorn newfoals know how to use a little magic and you seem to be on edge most of the time,” he said as he read me like an open book.
“Look,” I said as I checked to make sure my mother was out of hearing distance, “The reason I’m a pony in the first place is because I made a deal with the PER to get revenge on the people that killed my father and nearly killed mum. So I went there, got my revenge and downed a vial of the potion because I was on death’s doorstep from the Thaumatic Radiation poisoning.”
“By Celestia’s bea-!” he began before I covered his muzzle with my hooves to silence him.
“Please don’t tell mum, it would break her heart and I think she’ll also kill me for causing that much trouble let alone if she hears about what I did,” I pleaded Sunset.
I removed my hooves as he reflected on my words. I began to sweat bullets; he could use this information to ruin my new life.
“Well we’re family now and I guess it would have to be our little secret,” he said as I hugged him.
“You have no idea how much this means to me,” I said as he returned the hug.
“Sure, now I’m sure your mother would love to hear about your time away from her because she’s always talking about you,” he said as we trotted back into the living room. Remi was getting her mane groomed my my mother who held a comb in her mouth.
“Oh hi Runey, grandma was just telling me about your colthood,” she said giggling.
I felt my cheeks flush and my ears flattened against my head. It had become very annoying but it felt right. It must’ve been my pony brain helping me adjust or it could be social interaction from observing other ponies talking to each other.
“Oh boy,” I said as I imagined my face looking as red as a cherry.
“It wasn’t that embarrassing,” she said as I felt my face begin to return to its natural state.
“I hope so. Anyhow, where is the bathroom because I smell worse than an open sewer.” I could feel the dirt and oil that had built up on my coat.
“Oh sure thing sweetie. It’s through that arch, down the hall and on the right,” my mother said as she pointed her hoof at an arch on the other side of the room.
“Now lets see if I can’t get these knots out of your mane Remi,” my mother said as she picked up the brush in her forelegs and began to fight the tangled mess that was Remi’s mane.
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I trotted up to the bathroom door and pushed it open with my head. I entered a surprisingly roomy bathroom complete with a large bathtub and a strange looking toilet. Hay, I couldn’t even call it a proper toilet because it was closer to the ground as was almost like a hole but had some sort of collection system.
‘Please don’t tell me I can make fertilizer,’ I thought to myself as I eyed the toilet.
I put it out of my mind and trotted over to the bath and turned on the hot water tap along with the cold one to create a torrent of warm water, but it looked like it would take some time and since there was a mirror in the room I couldn’t resist.
“Daaaaaaaamm, I look good,” I said as I began checking out my complexion. I still had my pale navy blue coat but some of the hairs changed color as they got closer to my mane, they slowly changed from the pale navy blue to a more defined electric blue along with bright red hairs mixed in. My mane was a mess. I considered styling my mane to something besides messy but I would probably do more harm than good.
My eyes wandered towards my long muzzle, where I flashed my pearly whites to see that they were no longer sharp and pointy buy all flat and fairly uniform. I learned in school that most herbivores teeth are flat as their diet of plant matter didn’t need to be cut up by sharp incisor teeth.
I began to look directly into my dark crimson eyes and how wide they were. They were almost like the size of dinner plates and I could almost see everything in super high definition. Everything was so much clearer and everything seemed to have more color to it.
I checked on the tub and saw that it was nearly full, so I turned off the taps and let the water sit for a bit. I looked around for some soap or shampoo so I could get clean and make myself look presentable.
I found a small bar of soap and a small bottle of shampoo and settled into the tub. The warm soapy water hit my coat and I could already feel the dirt come off. I sank lower into the tub and began to relax for the first in a long time of living on the edge in fear.
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Author’s notes: I’m really enjoying myself with this story.
Editor’s notes: At least SOMEpony is enjoying themselves with this story.
Author’s notes: Oh you know you love it.