//------------------------------// // A New Enemy Arises // Story: Snails Spicy Story // by Genderswapped //------------------------------// Dusk at Spice’s “Home”... ‘Why is Princess Twilight here,’ thought Spice. Well if she plans to move me she’s got another thing coming. She was talking to the head instructor there. She looked happy unlike the confused look on the stallion's face. “Oh, there “she” is now.” said Mr. Silver to, and not to his surprise the Princess was right yet again. “I’m sure you will explain while she’s being wheeled around by her friends later, but right now I need to ponder on how I missed the simple fact that he was a she.” After explaining herself to yet another pony. He just kinda at sat there. “Well, isn’t that something,” said Mr. Silver, “You should know literally there is a orphanage for fillies right down the street.” As he pointed towards a pink building. “I-I didn’t realize it till today,” Spice replied as she levitated her wheelchair away and pushed herself on the bench, “Well what happens next?” “First step is we need to move you over to the other orphanage.” replied Twilight with a smile. “Then?” asked Spice “Then we need you to gradually reveal to Ponyville that you are a girl.” said Twilight. Well that sounds a lot easier’ Spice thought. Well she wishes that she was in a better condition to move her stuff. Wait she remembered the most important piece. “How am I supposed to move my stuff?” she asked. “No need,” Twilight replied,”Rarity has already met up with Mr. Silver and had your stuff moved over to the new orphanage. Also she found this under your bed.” She handed Spice the one thing that she held higher than any other belonging she had. In her hoof she held a picture of Spice’s mother. On the back it read ‘I will always be with you even when I’m gone.’ Next to the sad text was a dried up blood stain. She took it from Twilight and wiped back a tear of relief. “Thank you.” said Spice. “No problem, but next time just tell somepony when you have a problem. I’m sure they can help you, or at the very least try to help you.” said Twilight. As she got back into the wheelchair and said her goodbyes to Mr. Silver. It probably would have taken 5 minutes, but Spice was kinda sluggish and it wasn’t because of the wheelchair. No, she was nervous. Ms. Gold’s home for Girls... “Hello, Ms. Gold is it, this is the girl that I was talking about.” said Twilight. “Spice is it. Well anyway you aren’t the first case we heard like this. Granted the mix ups were found way before the age you are.” said Ms. Gold “Really, like who?” asked Spice somewhat enthusiastically. “Well recently discovered to be around your age with similar stories. There was Pipsqueak who was literally discovered not just about a week ago, and Feather Brain recently known as Featherweight,” said Ms. Gold, “Just your luck too, there your room mates. Now if you would be so kind to follow me inside and I’ll show you around.” As they went into the building Spice waved to Twilight goodbye. “So tell me your story.” said Ms. Gold. After yet another telling of her backstory. “Well that sounds familiar to Pipsqueak’s story. She said her name has always been Pipsqueak, but was mistaken for a boys name, her secret was found out when she was on a check up and the doctor had suspicions that something wasn’t right on “his” check up. Feather Brain’s was found out when she talked out of character at the newspaper club,” said Ms. Gold, “The newspaper club didn’t talk for at least 3 weeks and barely produced any papers. I’m surprised you didn’t notice the headlined paper ‘FEATHER WEIGHTS SECRET REVEALED!!! ONE ANGRY NEWSPAPER CLUB!!!’.” Well Spice didn’t see that one because Pipsqueak and Feather Brain were in the other class, but she was still surprised she had never heard of that. “Well if you're wondering why you never heard of it. It's because I burned every copy I could find.” said Feather Brain. She was standing next to Pipsqueak. “If you’re wondering how I knew that. You thought it out loud,” said Feather Brain as she slowly shook her head,“Lemme guess... Wrong gender.” Spice just put her head down. “Hey we all felt that way at first. Trust me some of us more than others,” said Pipsqueak trying to cheer up Spice, “Anyways where did Ms. Gold go?” “Anyways, we might as well show Spice to her room,” said Feather Brain as she led the way to the room,”In each room here there are three beds and a bathroom.” She said as she walked by several other doors. She then stopped in front of a door that had a poorly drawn skull and crossbones on it. “Welcome to your room.” said Feather Brain. “Hey! That’s not how you were suppose to say it.” said Pipsqueak frustratingly. Feather Brain sighed. “Welcome to Pirate Island. Huh.” “With two best hostesses, Us,” Pipsqueak announced like somepony from the newspaper club, “To your nnnnneeeewwwww rooom!” As she opened the doors Spice started to look around at the room. On one side of the room it was covered up with newspapers everywhere some were recent and some of them were old. On the other there was a lot of pirate stuff. There were about 40 or so drawings of a pirate ships and skulls and crossbones. Other than that the room seemed like a room similar to the ones at the other orphanage. The rooms interior was a gold paint that shined when hit with any kind of light. The window was covered with a silver curtain. There was a closet that was meant to hold all of their clothes. Which spice didn’t really own because she did not need a P.E. uniform. As she rolled towards her new bed, she noticed a few cracks on the bed’s frame, but the thing that caught her eye was the engraved symbol on the bed. It was a grave with a hand shooting out of the ground. “You should be ashamed of yourself,” said Pipsqueak to Feather Brain,”And you call yourself head of the newspaper club.” “We never agreed to do that. Anyway, Spice what do you think of the room.” said Feather Brain. “Well they're similar to the rooms at the other orphanage.” said Spice. “Yeah, we know. We just thought that you needed some help breaking into a new room.” said Pipsqueak. “Thanks, but you didn’t have to go through the trouble.” said Spice. That’s when the bell rang for dinner. “That’s dinner.” said Pipsqueak. As she bolted out of the room and down the hall. “Well we better follow her, you coming.” said Feather Brain. “I’ll be there in a moment, go on without me.” said Spice as Feather Brain shrugged and flew out of the room and down the hall. Spice then refocused herself on the carving on the bed. It felt familiar. She went to graze it with her hoof on the carving when the carving began to light up with a black magic aura. “Hey Spice I forgot my.... Oh Shit.” said Feather Brain as she saw the black magic encompass Spice. “I see that you're busy, so I’ll... umm... come back.” she squeaked out as she flew out to go find Pipsqueak. Spice was given flashbacks of the day she had shown up at the orphanage. The images then turned to a black silhouette of a pony behind her mother. A pony claw cut her mother and stained her picture. “Sweets, today you die.” said the silhouette as the flashback faded. Spice sat there for a second with blood trailing from her nose. She had witnessed what had happened to her mother, and now she was angry. She would find this silhouette and make her pay for what it did.