//------------------------------// // Day 4:Fel // Story: Surreal Joy // by LaxBrony //------------------------------// Fel I woke up with a start panting with cold sweat pouring down my face. “Ohmygodohmygod. Calm down… Deep breaths…” I let out a sigh. “That dream was messed up! Never in my life have I ever had a horrible dream that was so... REAL.” Pyra came trotting in with a potion floating in front of him. “Drink this; it will make you feel better.” I quickly snatched it with my magic and gulped it down, grimacing at the taste. “Thanks, how did you know I wasn’t feeling well?” I asked puzzled. “Well, for starters, you woke up screaming and sweating in the middle of the night. Two, you split the bed in half with your magic.” He told me nodding his head toward the broken block of ice behind me. “What exactly was going through your mind while you were dreaming?” He asked. “All I can remember from the dream was somepony was cutting odd symbols into me all over my body. Then they would kill me, revive me, and do it again.” “That sounds awful. Do you have any idea what could have caused this dream?” “No.” “Could it have been a vision?” “A vision… Like of the future?” “Yes, do you think you saw the future?” “No way! I’ve never experienced anything like it! Maybe it was because of the ice bed?” “It could be. The beds are designed to uh, immerse the sleeper in their dream.” “Okay, that’s weird. But cool at the same time. Now I’m scared that if I sleep in that again I would actually suffer the pain I did in my dream.” “I’m very sure it doesn’t work like that, little Fel.” Pyra said with a chuckle. “Alright, so when do we get to find my ‘inner power’ and stuff?” “Right,” He looked up at the clock which just struck seven, “now.” We walked over to a table with many beakers and vials strewn across it. He walked over to one of the Bunsen burners and thrust it down with his hoof. I heard stone grinding on stone behind me and turned around to see a section of wall rising up and revealing a set of stairways. “Just wondering, why do you need a secret passage? No offence, but it doesn’t look like you entertain a lot of guests here.” “Well, the inside of these walls are enchanted and keep any traces or hint of magical energy hidden from the ‘radar’ of unicorns with the ability to detect it.” “So whatever is behind this wall is very powerful?” As I said this, I could feel the warm touch of magic enveloping me. I sighed with giddiness while the magic tendrils wrapped around me and almost latterly pulled me into the room. We trotted down a spiral staircase that seemed unnecessarily long and clopped into a giant anti-chamber. I stood in the doorway in amazement at what lay before me. The best way to describe it is an upside down cannon barrel made of glass with thousands upon thousands of wires connected to it. Inside of the chamber was a table which had leather bonds strapped to it. Also, there were four pools of different colored liquids in each corner of the room. Tubes sprouted from these pools and also were connected to the chamber in the center of the room. Next to the center chamber, was a room made out of metal and had dials and switches. I thought it was safe to assume that this was the control room. Pyra Frost came over and closed my mouth chuckling. “Ho-How do you power that thing? More importantly, what is it?” “This is what will aid you to bring out your powers.” “How?” I asked with a hint of fear in my voice. “Calm down kiddo, it’s painless….. Mostly.” He said barely audible. I knew he was just trying to make it sound better but from all of the wires connecting to the thing, it looked like the experience would be… electrifying. I laughed at my own little pun and trotted into the chamber. I stare at the table in the middle before climbing into it. Pyra comes to strap me down and reassures me that the process is almost painless. “What we are going to do here-” he began with a raspy voice before clearing his throat. “is attempt to channel energy through through the liquids into your body.” “What’s in that soupy stuff in the corners?” I ask “Energy and magic.” he simply says. “Of course...” He finishes strapping me to the table and walks into the control room. I watch him through the glass as he fidgets with dials, levers, and buttons. He lifts up a rock from a tray and places it into a glass container, closing the lid. After a few minutes, he looks at something I cannot see at the angle I’m at and smiles satisfactorily. His horn glows to amplify his voice and he asks me, “Are you ready?” “I’m as ready as I could be...” I shout back A switch pull later and the chamber starts to hum. I look the the tubes in the water and they start to extract the liquids. I watched the purple substance slowly work its way up the tube. and above the chamber. It combined with the other three colors (orange, blue, and yellow) and oozed out of a grate at the top. The liquid turned a neon green and started to cascade down toward me. I gave Pyra a worried glance to find him in a relaxed position with his hooves propped up on the desk. “That is the most human position I’ve ever seen a pony in” The green ooze kept pouring down until I felt it touch my horn. It was definitely sticky but it was freezing cold. It reached the base of my horn and I heard an explosion. I quickly looked at Pyra in the control room to see him jump from his chair at the noise. I chuckled at the sight but then I saw him frantically pressing buttons and switching switches with a panicked expression on his face. I would have panicked myself but I lost consciousness. “Wow...” I thought, “I lose consciousness way too much nowadays. I’d be surprised if I can spend a whole day without blacking out.” It didn’t seem like I had blacked out though, I could feel, I could smell, I could hear, but I couldn't move anything except for my head and eyes. I looked up and saw a figure approach me. He, no SHE, it was a mare. She was a bright green like the substance that poured over me. Her mane and tail were a bright blue and the magic around her horn was a deep red. I looked for what she might be doing with her magic when I saw it: a dagger. She slowly clopped up to me smiling warmly at me with an expression that was somewhere between affectionate and maniac. I looked down and suddenly, I was strapped to a table and she was standing right over my with the knife. Her face stoic, she pulled the dagger across my chest and started to carve a symbol into me. She stopped cutting for a moment and touched her horn to the bloody symbol on my chest and whispered. “Mind.” As soon as she said this, blue flames erupted from the wound like the one that lit the main room. I felt a familiar warmth as the flames danced along my chest and around my entire body. Along with this feeling of warmth, everything became much more clear. The straps that were holding me down could be broken with enough force. “Force I don’t have.” I thought with a sigh. All feelings of joy were lost when I felt steel bite into my left shoulder. I scream in agony while the green mare carved another symbol into my skin. Tears were streaming down my face at this point, but the green mare didn’t let up or show any signs of letting up. She touched the symbol again and and whispered. “Body.” Red flames burst from the symbol in my shoulder and spread across my body. I felt a surge of power and strength and remembered the bindings that held me down. I found I was able to move my body again and strained my muscles and the bonds snapped as if they were made of paper. I leapt off of the table and charged the mare. She dipped her head and shot a bright red bolt of magic at me. The bolt hit me and my body fell to the ground completely paralyzed. She calmly trotted over and set to work on my other shoulder. I would have writhed in pain but I was paralyzed so, I couldn’t. When she was satisfied with the result of tearing apart my body, she touched her bloody art with her horn for a third time and whispered. “Spirit.” Green flames spewed from the symbol in my shoulder and again, wrapped around my body. Another surge of clarity coursed through my body and I realized, this mare was trying to help me with something but, I didn’t know what. This was probably the process Pyra was talking about. All three symbols on my body spontaneously exploded in their own color of flame. they combined together at the center of my body and formed a brilliant white flame. The flame tripled in size crackling and waving peacefully. Then, the flame started to waver. It became more wild and spewed superheated magic everywhere. The flame grew more intense and as quick as the flame had started its tantrum, it abruptly stopped. The flame was no longer a peaceful white, but a dull boring shade of grey. The green mare tutted and shook her head looking at me with dissatisfaction. “I’m sorry,” She whispered. “I thought you were the colt I was looking for.” “Wait... What do you-” The last thing I saw was a flash of steel and a dagger being quickly drawn across my neck. I came to gasping for air. Sirens blared and the room smelled like burning rubber and wires that overexerted themselves. The green ooze still covered me all except for my mouth which I was thankful for. I used magic to wipe the stuff from my eyes and looked around. Pyra Frost was running around frantically and feebly trying to cool off the circuits. I smiled at how silly he looked. Suddenly I remembered what had happened. The pain came back to me as if it had all happened suddenly. I arched my back in pain and looked down to see the scars of the runes the mare had carved into me. The runes glowed their respective color, and the liquid flowing out of them was not my blood, but the brilliant blue that made up the mare’s mane. I look up, my vision blurred from the tears of pain and silently wish for everything to just... “Stop.” I whispered quietly. Suddenly there was a huge flash from my horn. I blinked away my tears and felt my jaw drop. Everything had frozen. Not like Pyra could freeze things, but literally everything was stuck in time. If I had a mirror, the look of astonishment would have probably made me laugh my flank off. I had done this. Everything is frozen because I wanted it to be! This is awesome! I savor the feeling of complete control but the eerie quietness of frozen time is too much. “Go.” I say. The room returns to its former chaos, but the pain from the markings had finally subsided. I sigh with relief and magically undo the bonds holding me to the table. The first thing that I noticed was how easy it was to perform magic. Pyra rushed up to me and checked me over in alarm. “Are you alright?” He yelled over the alarms. “Almost painless my ass!” I yell back. He looks at the markings and the “blood” flowing out of them and shudders. “What the hell happened to him?” Pyra thought. “I have no idea.” I respond. Pyra stood wide eyed and stared at me. “What?” I ask. “Did you just... Read my mind?” “I don’t know. Did I?” “What is your name?” He thought “Shouldn’t you know that my name is Fel by now?” I reply to his thought. “Aha! I knew it! You ARE reading my mind.” “You thought that? That sounded like you were saying it.” “Strange. It doesn’t sound any different at all?” “Well, hold on, think something.” “Do my thoughts sound strange in any way?” “Uhh, yeah. It DOES echo a little bit.” “By the way, what the happened while you were unconscious? Your eyes were moving like you were dreaming. And there are these...Symbols all over your body.” I let out a sigh and begin to tell him about the strange green mare and what happened in the dream. He only interrupted a few times to ask questions about details. “Hold on,” Pyra said after I had finished. “Wasn’t this the dream that woke you up in the middle of the night?” “Yeah, I guess your right. I had a similar dream. You don’t think that has anything to do with this, do you?” “Than it must have been a vision of the future.” “Hmm yeah. Oh, by the way, I stopped time.” “You WHAT?” Pyra asked astounded. “I stopped time.” I repeated lamely. “HOW?” “I wanted everything to just stop, and it did here I’ll show you.” “Oh nonononono wait!” Everything around us stopped. The alarms went silent, the electricity and sparks spewing from split wires were frozen in mid-air. Pyra emitted a sound that sounded like someone who was both shocked and had just been slugged in the stomach. “I...I wha?” Pyra stuttered. I laughed at how surprised he was and trotted over to one of the broken wires. Using my magic, I easily mended the wire and moved to the next one. “You gonna help?” I call to Pyra. He slowly nods and gets to work. We quickly fixed all of the important wires and tubes that would set off alarms. Pyra went into the control room and shut everything down. “Alright Fel, everything should be good to go.” With a silent thought, everything resumed. “Soooo, now what?” I ask Pyra. “We train.” “Train? Like train my magic?” “Yep.” I had noticed he’s gotten a lot more casual in his speech and his actions but, I decide to ignore it because it makes me feel a little more comfortable. We trot up the staircase again and he closes the wall on the entrance. “Oh look at that.” Pyra said. “You got your cutie mark.” I smirk at this remark as I would at any manly voice saying the words “cutie mark” but what he said was true. I had a cutie mark on my flank. It looked to me like three leaves half in, half out of a circle. The three leaves touched at the center of the grey circle each a different color. The one that pointed straight up was blue, the red leaf was pointed toward the middle at a top right to lower left slant, and the green leaf mirrored the red leaf. “Mind, body, and spirit.” I whisper to myself remembering what the mare had said before the colored flames erupted from the symbols. “We spent more time in there than I would have liked.” Pyra finally said. “Fixing up the machine and all.” “No, remember? We didn’t spend any time at all fixing the machine.” I reminded him. “What are you- oh... right.” “Haha. So, where are we gonna train?” “On top of the mountain.” “That’s what we are in? A mountain?” “Yep. The thick stone walls of the mountain also help conceal the magic in this place.” My stomach growled its opinion and I remembered that the last time I had eaten was when I was on Earth. “Ugh,” I moaned as the thought of food made my stomach twist in pain. “I need something to eat first. What kind of things do you have to eat?” “I’ve gotten use to the diet of mostly mountain grass.” “Um, yeah, I’m not eating grass...” “What else are you going to eat?” “Cereal.” I say matter-of-factly. “Good luck finding that on this mountain. The nearest town is a couple hundred miles away.” Pyra informs me. “Luck has nothing to do with it.” I say casting him a mischievous glance. “This better work...” I concentrate on a bowl of Cheerios and how it would look on one of his tables. I heard a crackle as my horn started to work its magic but something was wrong. Usually, my horn would glow a calm green but when I used magic now, it was the sickly grey from the flames and the grey from my cutie mark. Eventually, the magic did my bidding and on top of one of his tables, appeared a bowl of Cheerios. “Hmm, you have more magical talent than I would have thought.” “Don’t underestimate me.” I say cheerily spooning myself some much needed food and ignoring the strange phenomenon with my horn. We ate and discussed exactly what happened in his little simulation and I had to repeat the story a few times for him to shut up. The only time I had to actually eat was when he pondered what I had just told him. “Back to the present, you were just able to uhhh, create that bowl of cereal out of thin air?” Pyra asked. “Yeah, pretty much, I’ll bet I could just create or destroy anything if I really wanted to.” “Hmm, see that beaker over there?” He said pointing his hoof at a tipped over beaker on one of the tables. “I want you to completely obliterate it.” “That’s all? Okay.” With a quick thought, my horn started to glow its sickly grey and the beaker on the table shattered sending glass shards everywhere but in our direction. “Now put it back together.” Pyra instructed me. With another simple glow of my horn, the glass shards flew from their places on the floor and formed the beaker again. It looked seamless. “I’m surprised,” Pyra said. “Even with my magic, I’d have to use some sort of glue to put it back together. Even then it probably wouldn’t be able to hold any liquids.” “Yeah. I can basically just think of what I want to do, add a little magic to it, and it happens. I could probably kill you if I really wanted to.” I said menacingly with my horn glowing. Pyra took a step back eyes wide. “Y-you aren’t REALLY going to do that are you?” “Well of course no-” Pyra collapsed. “OH SHIT! WadaIdowadaIdio? I gotta- eh... wait...” I imagine him standing where he was a few seconds ago and him breathing, with his heart and brain functioning correctly. I had to concentrate really hard and it took a lot out of me but eventually, he gasped and twisted on the ground. “Oh thank god...” It took about an hour for him to muster the strength to speak and when he does, it is exactly what I had expected him to say. “You... ass...” “Ehh-heh-heh...Yeahhhh. Sorry. I didn’t mean to. Honestly.” “At least you were able to revive me.” “Yah but it took a lot of effort.” “You’re like a god you know?” “Like a god...” I say voicing my thoughts aloud. “Heh. I can create life and destroy it as I please. Damn, that sounds evil...” I stare at the ground in deep thought for a few seconds. “Lets get outside and out of this gloomy cave.” “Alright then.” Pyra said, keeping his distance this time. We made our way through another set of spiral staircases and hallways. The walls of the cave were as to be expected but the lights in the caves were magnificent. There were light blue crystals and whenever we passed by them, they would shine the brilliant blue that they were. when we passed by a set of the crystals, they would fade out and leave the path behind us in darkness. I had to ask him. “Pyra, I’ve been wondering. What is death like?” He casts a glare that would probably kill me but answers the question nonetheless. “It was cold and dark. Not the kind of thing you would expect. It was not the heaven that you are told comes after death. It wasn’t hell either. It was complete nothingness.” I don’t question him further because I knew how it had affected his mind. His thoughts are darker and empty yet full of pity and disbelief. We turn another corner and I see it, the exit. I practically squee with joy and bolt toward the bright light of Celestia’s sun. When my hooves finally touch the cool grass again I collapse and spread out across it. “Ahhhhhh.” I sigh grinning a silly grin. Pyra trots over and looks down at me. “You look ridiculous, you know that right?” “Yes but I choose to look like this, you on the other hand are the unfortunate one.” say teasingly.” “Ah shit, that sounded like I have feelings for the guy... Well I guess I kinda do but more of a fatherly thing than anything else.” “Don’t lie there too long,” Pyra said seriously. “We have work to do.” “Oh go chew on your mountain grass.” I retort, “What could you teach me anyway? Nothing I can’t do obviously.” He opened his mouth to speak but changed his mind. “What?” I ask. “Go on, spit it out.” “Nothing,” He said with a sigh. “I honestly don’t know what to teach you if you can honestly do whatever you want without any restraint.” “Oh I have been meaning to talk to you about my magic. You see, my magic used to be green but now its this nasty shade of grey.” I explain pulling up some grass to show him my magic. I realised that the magic seemed closer to black now which shocked me and made me drop the grass. “Green huh? And now its that shade of grey. Well, I’d say it has something to do with your cutie mark being the same shade of grey. Either that or the grey flame in your simulation dream.” “Wait what?” I spun around to look at my cutie mark. The circle that encompassed the three leaves had indeed turned a darker shade of grey. “I wonder why that is.” I thought aloud. Pyra just shrugged and lowered his head to start eating some grass. “Oh, you know what I’ve been thinking about doing?” I exclaimed excitedly. “What’s that?” He asks through a mouthful of grass. “I’ve been thinking about turning myself back into a human!” Pyra gasped and started choking on the grass he was eating. When he recovered, he asked me, “A human? Do you even know what they look like?” “Didn’t I tell you that I used to be a human before?” “No, I definitely would have remembered that.” “Well you DID bring me from an alternate dimension riiight?” “Yes, what of it?” I facehoofed and continued. “It’s a dimension of humans and not of ponies.” “Than how come you were there as a pony?” He asked clearly confused. “I don’t really know. I woke up one morning like this and just kinda played along with it. Here I’ll show you what I look like in human form.” Being the arrogant character I am I had to set up a mirror by the clothes to admire myself in. I had noticed the symbols on my shoulders and chest. they looked... Ancient. I summon up a bundle of clothing that I would wear once I turned myself homo sapien again. Pyra looked at the clothes with a puzzled look and I explained that I would probably turn human and be naked. He was curious as to why this was a problem since I seemed fine without clothing as a pony. “Obviously humans have different anatomy and thought processes than ponies. It’s...different.” He seemed content with that answer but still seemed puzzled. I started to think of what I used to look like when I was human. I felt my horn glow its sickly grey as its tendrils wrapped around my body and started to transform me. Sweat formed on my forehead from the strain on my magic when I realized that this would be the hardest thing to do even with my god-like powers. I felt a surge of pain in my hooves -no, wait, HANDS-as fingers started to sprout from them. I bit my lower lip and tried to keep concentrating on the task at hand. My horn had developed a second layer of magic. I screamed in agony and frustration because of the pain and struggle. The adrenaline from the pain seemed to make my magic run faster and a burst of nasty grey energy exploded from my horn. All of my human parts stretched into existence all at once in a surge of pain. I opened my eyes and let out a breath that I didn’t know I had been holding. My eyes open and I hold out my arm in front of my face and flex my finger. I was human again! Than I looked down and realized that, like I had predicted, was naked. I blushed in embarrassment and scrambled toward my clothes and hurriedly put them on. It was just my casual clothes that I had conjured up. A pair of jeans and a plain black T-Shirt. The mirror reflected my own image and I smiled at how I looked. I got up to my feet to admire myself further. There was an odd itch on my left shoulder and a bright white light shone from underneath. I lifted the arm of my T-Shirt to see my cutie mark. “Well isn’t that nice, I still have my cutie mark!” I thought to myself I turn to look at pyra to see his jaw literally on the ground. I almost fell over laughing and walked over to help him close it. “Ha-how di- What?” Pyra stuttered obviously flabbergasted. “Ahhh, your surprize is very amusing.” I said with a silly grin. I turn back to the mirror. Yep, there I was. Five foot seven, semi long brown hair with a slight curl to it. “Yep, sexy as ever.” I said to myself making a weird face. “Oh right,” I reminded myself. “Magic!... Wait where does it get channeled from?” I looked around my body for anything that looked abnormal but found nothing. Then I remembered the runes. “Hey Pyra I’m going to need your help. Could you get me a piece of parchment and something to draw with?” “Hm?” Pyra said snapping out of deep thought. “Oh yes, paper.” He returned to after about ten minutes in which I had the time to lie in the grass and think about how much fun I will have once I get my magic again. “Here you go.” Pyra said floating the paper and pen to me looking at me with an expression of... terror? “Thank you.” I said with a warming smile. I start to draw the symbols that were on my body on the paper. I then hand the paper to Pyra and tell him which symbols to carve into my flesh in each spot accordingly. He looked at me with confusion and went back inside. I followed him in this time because I needed to be strapped to something or I would struggle and run from the immense pain of steel splitting my skin. With a few modifications to the table, Pyra strapped me in as tight as possible. He took a moment to stare at the sketches on the parchment and looked at me. “Are you sure this will work?” He asked me. “Yep, this is what gave me my power last time and it should work this time. Just make sure to carve body and spirit into my hands because my shoulder is already covered by a cutie mark.” He began the procedure of splitting skin with metal. I screamed in pain and struggled to free myself from the bonds. He kept ripping my flesh on my chest and touched his horn to it. “Mind.” he said, though much more audibly than the mare did.. The familiar blue flames erupted from the carving. Pyra jumped backward, shocked at the sudden outburst. I smiled while the blue tendrils wrapped around my body and knew that this would work as effectively as it had before. Pyra regained his composure and set to work on my hand. I flexed my fingers trying to get him to stop carving into my hand but I had prepared for this and we had strapped each individual finger down to prevent me from doing so. I struggled to free myself but couldn’t escape Pyra’s horn when it touched my hand. “Body.” He voiced over the noise of the blue flames. I felt a familiar power course through my veins. The same red flame burst from my hand almost catching Pyra. I strained to keep still while Pyra started to destroy my right hand. I was able to tolerate the pain a little more because of the sheer power that was inside of me. When he finished, he touched his horn to my hand. "Spirit.” He yelled over the two other flames. Green flame once again spew forth from my right hand and edged toward the center of my body. Both the blue and red flames followed suit and they mixed their colors near my stomach. Pyra watched in awe as the three flames slammed together and formed their bright white flame. Then, like before, it exploded. The flame sputtered and actually sent ash into the air. I looked at the base of the flame to make sure it wasn’t eating away at my flesh. Thankfully, it wasn’t but the flame exploded a second time and abruptly stopped. The flame had turned a demonic and possessed looking black. Pyra walked over to me and floated the knife over my neck. “Hey nonononono wait!” I shouted. “This is REAL life, I would die for real.” I reasoned. “Oh!” Pyra exclaimed realizing what he was just about to do. The flame died down and sank into my stomach. The inky black of the flame quickly flew through my veins temporarily making me look demonic. I shuddered when it rushed to my head and chilled my body. “Well, that was, different.” I finally said. “Why did the flame turn black?” Pyra asked. “Wasn’t it grey before?” “Yeah it was.” I took a quick glance at the cutie mark on my shoulder. “And now the circle on my cutie mark is black too...” “It is very odd for a cutie mark to actually change since it is what you would be doing for the rest of your life.” “Yeah... Hey, I could probably do magic right now.” “Try it out.” Food came back to my mind and my stomach let me know that it was nearing empty. “So soon? Whatever at least I can have a nice juicy steak again.” I thought happily. I concentrated on the table closest to me. The warm feeling of magic enveloped me. My hands started to feel warmer and I realized that that is where my magic was being channeled. I look down at my hands to see them covered in the black flames that recently floated above my body. I let the feeling sink in and let out a satisfied sigh. I. Felt. Badass. But, I needed food so I had a plate with a large T-Bone steak appear on the table. Hungrily, I sat down and started eating. Pyra watched me with extreme discomfort. “What’s wrong?” I asked. He shook his head as if he were daydreaming. “I’m still kind of getting over the fact that there is a HUMAN in my cave eating meat.” “Dude, humans are omnivores. We eat meat and green leafy stuff.” I finished eating and walked over to Pyra. “So, what do we do now?” “Honestly, I don’t know. Have you felt that this day has gone by ridiculously slow?” “Yeah, for the events that occurred, this day seemed like it dragged on for way too long.” “Yet it’s nine o’ clock.” “Yep, definitely weird.” I say with a yawn. I summon up a bed in the same room with the ice blocks while Pyra settles onto into his block. “Hmm, I should see how Frasier is doing. He’s probably worried sick! Assuming that he made it to Equestria and all.” Using my mind, I search for Frasier in Ponyville because if he was with Twilight Sparkle, he would probably end up there. I found him lying asleep in Twilight’s library. “Awww, isn’t that cute.” I think with a chuckle. My mind/body hovers over Frasier for just a moment before I swoop into his mind. The scene before me was a beautiful valley between two grassy hills and a river flowing between them. Frasier rose from one of the hills and started to trot down toward the river. He stopped just at the edge of the river and looked up. Rainbow Dash trotted over the opposite hill and upon seeing Frasier, she squealed with joy and flew toward him. “Hey Frasier!” I call out. “Don’t you think it’s too soon to be having these kind of dreams?” He looked up in shock to find me floating on a cloud eating a small bag of popcorn. “F-Fel?” He stuttered and the peaceful scene around him evaporated. “Aww, that was so nice. Why’d you get rid of it?” I ask floating down toward him. “You- I- You’re alive?” “Yep. How have you been?” He laughed. “Ok, seeing as I can go faster than Rainbow Dash. It was my turn to be surprised. “Faster? You can make a Sonic Rainboom?” “Even weirder. I turn into some sort of comet, and I am immune to air resistance.” “Oohoohoo, fun. Did you race her?” “Yeah, I tricked her by slamming into a rock. I actually thought it was you, though. I swear it was... But yeah, I did win. I actually want to get a job as solar and lunar forecaster, because I can breathe in space!” I stared at him, surprised again. “You tricked Rainbow Dash by slamming your face into a rock... And how are you going to apply to be a solar and lunar forecaster when the goddesses move the sun and moon by their own?” He blushed and said “Well, not everypony knows that Celestia has... um... tantrums? Yeah, tantrums. And they cause solar storms. They can interfere with magic, and cause clouds to randomly release their water and lightning. And the moon... well, Princess Luna can make lunar eclipses whenever she wants to as well. I can see them before anypony else, so I can tell the general population about it so that there isn’t widespread panic.” The dream started to get fuzzy, and Frasier said “Sorry, time to wake up now! But it's nice knowing that you are ok... but how did you get to be human?” Before I could respond, the dream cut out completely and I was forced back to my body. I lay in my bed staring at the ceiling. I’m going to Ponyville tomorrow under Pyra’s consent or not. “This will be fun.” I thought aloud with my best impression of an evil laugh that left me coughing. “Meh.”