A.D.D. Theater 10 · 4:30am Feb 20th, 2016
Twilight groaned, her voice didn't sound right. She tried to look around, but gause covered her eyes.
"Please do not try to move," Celestia said from near by.
Twilight obeyed, trying to relax. She felt so strange. "Where am I?"
“Your Castle’s basement,” Celestia answered. “What is the last thing you remember?”
“I.. I was in the lab. Spike was helping me study dragon magic.” The memory of fire and pain came rushing back. “Spike!” Twilight sat up, and the world spun around her. She could hear ponies scrambling around her as she moved, and felt herself knock something over. “Is he alright?”
“He is alive and healthy. Twilight, I need you to be still.”
“Sorry,” Twilight said, freezing in place. “My eyes... Am I...”
“Your eyes are fine. Now please don’t move, but I had them blindfold you so I could talk to you before saw anything.”
Twilight's stomach lurched. It was hard not to pat herself down, but she held still. “What’s wrong?”
“There was an accident, we are still trying to understand it. Twilight, you were changed. You look very different now, but the best we can tell, you are healthy. If i take the gauze off, will you stay calm?”
Twilight only nodded. Golden light pulled the bandages away, leaving her to squint against the room's light. As her eyes adjusted, she slowly looked around. Her lab was trashed, but she’d done worse to it. A host of medical ponies looked up at her with sympathy and trepidation.
Looked up at her... She was far too tall, her head was almost against the ceiling.
“You will hurt yourself and others if you move quickly,” Celestia warned from behind her.
With a slow movement, Twilight raised a hoof, only it wasn’t a hood at all. It was a scaled claw with five digits. “Princess.” Looking down, she examined the rest of her body. “I’m scared.” She was a dragon, of the shape that had once inhabited the mountain above Ponyville, though less than half the size. “I’m really scared.”
Celestia stepped from around her, and into her sight. “Would you like to talk to Spike?”
Twilight nodded.
A moment later and the door opened, letting in alicorn stallion into the room. Purple coat and Green mane told her it was Spike. A cutie mark of green fire and a ruby heart confirmed the idea.
The alicorn gave a nervous laugh when she looked at him. “You make a pretty dragon,” he said.
“Spike?” Her voice was way too loud to her own ears, and the reaction of the ponies around her confirmed it.
“Yeah,” he answered.
Leaning forward, she got a better look at him. Calling him a stallion was a bit of a stretch, but he was no foal. Certainly handsome by any standard. “Are you okay?” she asked
Spike laughed. “Yeah. I’m fine.”
Slowly, Twilight placed a claw against her forehead. “My horn is gone.” Looking to the nearest book, Twilight tried to levitate it. Something in her throat tingled, and lavender fire started to bellow from her mouth.
Gold magic kept the fire away from ponies and books alike. “You’re going to have to relearn how to use your magic, Twilight, but I do not believe you have lost anything.”
Twilight nodded, then slowly examined the rest of her new body. It occurred to her she was far bigger than the only door leading into the room. “How am I getting out of her?”
“When you are ready, I can teleport you outside,” Celestia said.
The room was feeling smaller every moment, she needed to stretch and move. “I’d like that.”
That's neat, though I've never seen a blog post of this sort before, could you explain the concept of ADD theatre?
I'd like to place an order for three more chapters of this please,
with extra shinanigans and a splash of the feels.
I understand delivery make take longer than normal, just rap on the door three times.
Interesting. Do you have any plans to write more of this, or is it just a scene idea you wanted to let out?
3765985 Sometimes I'm trying to focus on a story, but I get an idea that just cooks in my head. The only way I can refocus is to just write it down. Sometimes I keep them for a project later on, sometimes they get turned into a one-shot. If I can't make either out of it, I post it up as an A.D.D. theater. There's 10 or 12 of them in my blog history now.
3766869 I have an idea of where this would go. I see Spike dealing with the guilt of liking the transformation, and wanting to stay an alicorn. Twilight will have to learn her new magic, so that becomes a bit of world building as "dragon magic" gets defined. But a proper resolution escapes me for this story. So I'm calling it a vignette that I had to get out of my head and share with at least a few people.
3767710 Fair enough. There is definitely an interesting story following this, but putting it together would be a lot of work.
Also, if you do decide to expand this into a real story, you don't necessarily have to fully resolve everything. After all, this could easily be more slice of life than major adventure else with some character development and world building until Celestia comes up with a solution and turns them back at the end of the day.
Really interesting stuff. I hate when I have an idea like this, that I know I won't have the time or energy to pursue. Glad to know I'm not the only one.