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// Chapter 3 
// Story: Life as a Pony 
// by Tray Hunter 
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Chapter 3: How do you even sit like that?

by Tray Hunter



When I arived at the park, it was at least as crowded as the townsquare. I looked at my watch to assure I wasn't too late. 

"11:59. Just in time. But how am I suposed to find this "L" in this crowd? Nopony can demand me to know everypony!"

'So, what are you going to do? Ask everypony if they know you are a human?'

"You're right. Plan A is for bust. On to Plan B: sit down and wait for them to make contact."

I sat down on a parkbench and looked around. There must have been at least 50 ponies in the park and none of them seemed much suspicious. After a minute or so, a unicornmare came near and sat right next to me. I wouldn't have mind that part but the way she sat, was just similiar to mine. I looked at her and saw her, eyeing me with big, creepy eyes.

"Can I help you?"

She came a little bit closer and said "I am L!" My world just froze around me. 

I looked at her and imidiatley recognized the mare with the mint-green coat and the strange sittingstyle. 

"LYRA!!!" 'LYRA!!!'

I doesn't happen often that me and my brain think the exact same, but this was a case of extreme suprise. 

"Wait! You know my name?"

We looked at each other in mutual suprise. After a moment of starring, it was on me to break the silence. Or at least, do anything that made a sound.

"How did you- When- Banana-"

"I could ask you the same things! But..."

She sighed and shook her head.

"Let's cut the chase. I know you're a human and that you have been here since yesterday. You on the other hoof, know my name and..." she looked at me "...and are probably the only pony except me that can sit like that. "

I whispered to my brain "Any ideas?"

Her horn began to glow

'No, I still wonder if we should run, stay or faint. How does she even know that much about us?'

"You should stay! Fainting would mean we would have to go through all of this again. "

"What?" 'What?'

She sighed "Yes, I can hear your brain! I would have said "I can read your mind" but in your case "mind" is a pretty flexible term. And I know all this because I was in the same situation one time. "

"Lyra! WTF?"

She rolled her eyes "I was a human and have been here for the last six years. "

"You think she..."

'Mmh...would explain a lot.  Maybe we shouldn't run and hear if she has some infos. But I still favourize the faintoption.'

She giggled. It was in fact the same giggle as when I was at the restaurant with my cider induced wingboner. 

"You two realy are a strange couple. And they said I was weird. "

'Do you think this is funny?'

"How do you know all the stuff about me?"

'And how did you uncover us?'

She looked a bit shocked as me and my brain joined forces to interrogate her. 

"Wow, you realy are two-minded, are you? Back when you blew the mind of poor Apple Cider, I thought you where just plain crazy but now..." she shook her head "Alright, I realy owe you some answers. I was at the bar yesterday and the strange feeling you had, that the whole bar was looking at you, was my spell. Usualy ponies don't feel it, but you are different."

'So you realy are a human?'

"Yes, one day I woke up in Canterlot and was like this. "

"Does anypony else know about that?"

"Oh, you already mastered the local tongue? It took me two weeks to get all this ponystuff into my head. 
By the way, how come you aren't freaking out more? I remember being depressed and confused when I arived here."

'For him it's like a dream coming true.'

"Yeah, I indeed like this. After all these hours I spent watching the show, I get a chance to actually be a pony. "

"The show?"

"There is a show about ponies back home. "

'It's like a window to this world although some things are altered."

"Like what?"

"For example, where I come from Cider and Chef are some fans of the show, that created the restaurant and their ponyforms for a podcast about said show."

'I wonder if something else was altered by fandom. You know, like cupc-'

"Don't you even think about that!"

'We must be sure! Lyra, do you know some ponies called Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie? And more important, are they alright?'

"Huh, these two? Last time I saw them, they were at the gala with their friends."

'So not everything created by the minds of twisted bronies became real. '

"At least not the worst-case-scenario. I wonder if this world has a grimdark filter or something."

"Wait! What are bronies and what is grimdark?"

'Bronies are fans of the My little Pony show.'

"And grimdark is a tag for fanfiction that contains themes of death, dying and the dead."

"Fanf-"

"Stories about ponies written by bronies."

"Did they write anything about me?"

'Let's just say... How is your relation to a mare called Bon Bon?'

Her eyes widend. 

"BB? But thats impo- They realy did-"

Tears formed in her eyes. 

"Hey, don't feel bad about it! These are just stories."

'And we didn't write anything like that.'

She looked at me. 

"You mean I found the mare of my dreams just because someone wrote about it?"

"Lyra? Are you alright?"

"Alright? I bucking love bronies!" She smiled and began to hug the dear daylight out of my lungs. 

'Daaaw, thats good. I'm so happy for you Lyra. Wait. Are we getting strangled?'

"Lyra....stop....breath....grimdark when I die...."

She released me from her deathgrab and made a shocked face. "I'm sorry! It's just- I'm so happy right now!"

'Yeah, did you know, your name is considered fanmade too?'

"What? No, it isn't!  It was my name since I was a human."

"Maybe because of your cutiemark?"

"This thing?" she looked at her flank "Come to think of it. I had this since I arived here and were playing the lyre back in my/your/our world. Kind of ironic if you ask me. But you..."

Her look went down to my haunches. 

"What about me?"

That was the first time I realy paid attention to my flank. On it was a cutiemark shaped like some kind of blue whirl. 

"Where did that come from?"

'And what does it mean? Is our special talent spinning in circles?'

"Hell if I know! Maybe..."

I ordered my inner engeries to flow to my marks. They slowly strated to spin. I noticed Lyra looking at it as if she was hypnotized by its slow movement. 

"Lyra? Lyra. LYRA!" she shook her head and blinked a few times. 

"Wow! You have some serious magic inside you!"

'You mean this whole sensingthing is about magic? Where does it come from?'

"Sensing? Have you tried to sense something outside your body?"

"Not yet."

"Try it! Close your eyes and concentrate on your suroundings. "

I did as I was told but nothing happend. 

"This doesn't work, Lyra!"

I opend my eyes and there was a blue shine in front of me. Soon the whole world turned blue before my eyes. Everypony in the park was glowing in a different color and intensity. They also seemed as if they were slowed down by some force. Hay! The whole world was slowed down!

"Lyra what is this? Whats happening?"

I looked at her and saw as her horn glowed brighter and larger than before. Also there was a line between it and my forehead. 

"Whats this, I don't even-"

'Maybe it's the brainscannerspell. But why can we see it now?'

I closed my eyes for a second and as I opend them again, everything turned back to normal.

"Wow, you realy looked shocked! Why where you moving so fast and what were these sounds you made? I think I heard my name but couldn't make any sense of the rest!"

"Lyra, everything was blue and in slowmotion! What was that?"

"What you saw, was the magic that exists in every living creature and even some plants. But for the slowmotion..."

'Maybe I can help. Our reflexes were at double capacity, but without any of my adrenalin.'

"Lyra, how does that work? Please you have to explain this."

"It's magic. I ain't gotta explain shit."

I looked at her as if she just exploded...twice!

"While you had your little colourtrip, my spell copied a big amount of your memory inside my head. 

'Are you going evil magician on us now?'

"Neeeeigh, but maybe I'll go pissed mare on you, for all these pictures of me!"

My heart stopped for a second. Suddenly she smiled.

"Or maybe I'll go happy lover on you, for all these pictures of BB."

My expresion froze. 

She laughed so hard, she almost fell of the bench "Oh my, you should see your face right now! Priceless!"

'Aaw, you got him! Good job!'

My brain laughed at me. It laughed at me! Ok Smokey, it happend. You finaly lost your mind. 

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Hey there folks, Tray here!

I think it's about time to say something. 
You probably figured it out already, but this is pretty much a self-insertion fic. 
I'll probably keep it that way, although I won't let Smokey nag about missing his fingers that often. 
It's easier for me like that, since if I can relate to my own character I can figure out my/his reactions better. 
And maybe you wonder about my writingstyle, being a little bit strange. 
Damn, probably I missed some typos or grammatical errors aswell!
If that happens, please just tell me.
Although I take proud of my english skills, it's not my native language and english literature was never taught to me in school.
I don't want to excuse anything, just for your information. 
'He just read that new "Through the Eyes of another Pony" chapter and found too many similarities and proskills.'
Thanks for that... We'll talk about that later!
Anyway, B is right.
I found way too many things that seem as if I just copied them. 
Whatever, it wasn't my intention!
Maybe I have been nodding too hard  to the fandom. 
I'll try to limit this because I don't want to be a ripoff of CardsLafter or anypony. 
He's got his thing(which is awesome, shouts to you CardsLafter) and I want to have mine. 

That said, I'm going back to work my way through chapter 4. 
If you have any suggestions, critics or kudos(hey, one can still dream) just leave a comment or send me a message. 

Tray out