A New Chaotic Life on the Road

by FeltyElk7

Prologue Part 3: The Journey Begins

I was falling through the portal, seeing all the different colours that passed around me. I lost track of how long I had been falling for. It seemed like forever. Suddenly, I saw the other end of the portal open up and was launched face first into the ground.

"Well, that was unpleasant", I thought as I picked myself up of the ground,"I'll have to work on my landings".

"Now then", I said,"Where and when have I landed?" I took a good look at my surroundings. It was nighttime, the moon was high in the sky and it had the Mare in the Moon symbol on it, meaning I had arrived before the first episode. Though it was dark, I was able to see the red, orange, and yellow leaves, so it must have been fall. I could make out the outline of Ponyviile in the distance. Wondering how far back I traveled, I reached into my fur and pull out an old fashioned pocket watch. When I look at it, it said:

Estimated time until Nightmare Moon's return: a year and a half.

"Looks like I ended up where I want to after all", I thought," Wonderful. Now, let's get started with that disguise. First off, do I want to be a unicorn, pegasus, or earth pony?". After thinking for a few seconds, I made a decision." Better go unicorn so can explain my magic powers".

Snapping my fingers once, I made a full size mirror appear, and with another snap of them, I transformed myself in a flash of light. Once the light faded, I saw my reflection. A grey, unicorn stallion with a black mane and tail, blue eyes, and a goatee. My Cutie Mark was a tornado. "Perfect", I said, my voice sounding the same as before. I then realised something. "If I cross paths with Celestia, she immediately recognise my voice. Looks like I'm going to have to change the disguise a bit".

As I concentrated on using my magic, the horn on my head started to glow. Then, I transformed myself once more. Once I was done, I saw the changes to my disguise. I still had the same Cutie Mark and the same color for my coat, mane and tail, and eyes, but I had the body of a mare.

"There, that's much better now", I said, my voice sounding more feminine,"I hate losing the goatee, but we all have to make sacrifices".

"Now, next item on the agenda, living arrangements while I'm traveling". Using my magic, I conjured up a trailer. It wasn't much, but it's home now, I guess. I'd take a look at the inside later.

" So, if anypony asks", I said, already adopting pony terms,"I'm a unicorn mare merchant, traveling across Equestria and selling ponies random and awesome things"

"Right then", I thought,"Let's get this road trip started, but first...". Charging my horn, I summoned a brown cloak, put it on, and pulled the hood over my head. "If I'm going to be a traveler, I might as well have a traveller's cloak". Then I hooked myself up to the trailer and headed north, towards the start of my new life.

Author's Note:

So, it finally begins. But, where will I go first? How will I meet first? What sort of wonders and dangers will I meet on my journey? Find out soon. As always, like and comment and let me know of any mistakes I made. Also, let me know if you have any suggestions for my disguise's name because I can't think of anything.

Comments

[Canary In The Coal Mine]

Suggested name: Eris (usually the female name of Discord)

[Eonflare]

Selling awesome things? So much for not changing history.

[Fictional Fanatic]

So... can we send in OC's? You know, cause the disturbance in space-time?

[FeltyElk7]

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You can if you want to, but I would normally use OCs as the citizens of the different towns.

[Fictional Fanatic]

6039632 That is completely fine by me. I just thought I'd ask as I'm kind of on a roll lending my OC's out. People tend to like their brief back stories and personalities that I give them.

As an example:
Cloud skater
A pegasus mare with a white coat and bright yellow mane. Her eyes are sky blue and she works as a weather pony even though she during her childhood lost both of her wings. She replaces her ability to fly with her amazing talent in cloud manipulation by using pieces of clouds as steppingstones that sit on her hooves as 'shoes'. Mobile steppingstones. She is extremely determined to keep going strong as a pegasus, despite her lack of wings.

[Major-Alucard-Wesker]

Oh please make Discord do an impression of the merchant from Resident Evil 4

[Malbutorius]

6039632
Careful about that, you might just open the floodgates.

Anyways, I really enjoy the story so far, but do be careful not to let the readers dictate the story too much. I can tell that this story has much potential and I will be keeping an eye on this.

[Lord_Kalbario]

As a name suggestion, how about "Breezy Day's awesome antiquities"
Seems legit with your idea and the name fits the mare.

[verypeeved]

hmm, is he... is he Trixie?

[Mr Swanky Hat]

7065411 "merchant" not "magician"

[Pinklestia]

Plus one point for the protagonist becoming female.

[Royal7]

"If I cross paths with Celestia, she immediately recognise my voice. Looks like I'm going to have to change the disguise a bit".

she'd or she would

[ErikPhantom]

Something I noticed and expect will persist as I read on.

traveling unicorn mare merchant.

^This makes it sound like she sells unicorn mares. It would flow better as "traveling unicorn merchantmare."
For examples: Trixie is a traveling unicorn showmare, not a traveling unicorn mare show. Or; replace mare with man and unicorn with human and see if it makes sense that way, eg: "traveling human man merchant" is an awkward way of saying "a slave trader who deals exclusively in human males," whereas "traveling human merchantman" is a traveling merchant who is human (and implied to be male but English's default gender is generally male.)

Both ways technically mean the same thing, it's more a case of the word order changing the specific emphasis and intent of the phrase.