//------------------------------// // The Mare Does Lunch. Part.2. // Story: The Mare Does Well. // by Undyne Devotion //------------------------------// Twilight lifted a large piece of hay burger into the air, dripping with house sauce onto the clean white plate below. Though this was a five star cafe, his sister still had a down to earth appetite. Shining chuckled a bit to himself watching his little sister eat, she had gotten more on the sides of her muzzle than in her mouth. Just like when they were kids, she had the mind of a genius and the table manners of a pig. He missed those days. He missed the times he could just open up to his sister and talk about anything. Now he felt as if everypony around him had drifted, not a soul around he could just talk with. Forced into a habit of routines. To hide away and go out under the cover of darkness, just to feel free. Why had he let himself fall so far? The better question was, could he ever find his way back? “You haven’t touched your food.” Twily softly spoke up as she placed the half eaten burger back on her plate. “Not really hungry.” “Is it because of what I said?” “Don’t give yourself so much credit kid.” “Big brother, you can tell me anything. You know that right?” Twily placed her slender hoof atop his own as he smiled back to her lovingly. His own sense of curiosity getting the better of him, she would never judge him or turn away. “I feel having a great support system goes a long way. Main reason I have Open Heart Night with the girls.” Twily snorted cutely. “Uhhh?” “It’s a night where we all just share about anything. It really does wonders brother to just have a pony you can trust to keep a...Moon.” “Keep a moon?” Shining tilted his head to the side confused. “No. I mean I see Moon Dancer here.” Her delicate hoof flaunted behind her brother, who felt his ears droop a tiny bit. “I need to just go talk to her for a minute. I’m hosting a whole discussion on friendship this weekend at her place…” Twily quickly shot up from her seat, cantering over to the far side of the cafe. Her mind was truly in another place. Maybe he should just let off on telling her anything till another time, his heart returning to a calming beat. The story of his life. Always just pushing things off to another time. He sighed and crossed his own slender hooves on the table before him, laying his muzzle atop them in a breath of defeat. “Ma’am are you ok?” The waitress walked over to his table with a slight look of worry across her face. Shining slowly raised a brow in confusion. He thought for a moment she had called him by the wrong pronoun. “Ma’am?” Shining snapped back into reality in haste. His eyes darted to a large mirror across from his table. Shock and fear hit him like a bolt of lightning, the pony in the mirror was not himself. It was the face of a mare. Large soulful eyes and a even longer silken mane, she wore oversized armor of the castle that was starting to droop on her delicate frame. “Ahhh-mmmm ok! I’M OK! “ Her voice cracked in mid sentence becoming soft and melodic in tone. Shining almost pushed the waitress out of her way as she stood up, trying with all her might to not make a scene. Yet upon lifting to her hooves the armor slipped off her whole frame, clanging to the floor loudly. Ponies began to look towards the noise. The waitress was confused as the white mare before her was blushing a dark red. “Igottagogoodbye!” She spat out in horror as she leaped over her own table and darted out the door like a blur. Twilight pushed through the small crowd whispering aloud. Her eyes locking onto their empty table and pile of royal armor left on the ground. Her muzzle scrunching up in confusion of what just happened. She stepped over to the pile of metal at her hooves and glanced around in growing worry. “Did anypony see my brother leave here...naked?” Gleaming winced in pain as she stumbled side to side in the dark alley. Her body felt as if it were compressing into nothing. Falling into a dirty puddle of water before she groaned aloud, her large waist cracking and pulling in slightly to a narrow shape. She bit down on her hoof as bones shifted near her hips widening, Her backside gaining more fat as it inflated ever larger than normal, gaining a soft curve. She felt as if she were on fire, shrinking a few inches becoming more of a mare by the second. The world slowly began to spin around her. This transformation was far more painful than the last. Gleaming could feel a small whimper escape her lips as a final crunch in her body shifted her bone structure into smaller proportions. A sickly cold feeling of her insides shifting and changing to that of female, causing her to nearly vomit. Why had this happened? She had done the reverse spell perfectly. Something had to have gone wrong. The first change was pleasant and calm, this change felt as if it were tearing her body apart. Taking a deep breath she knew she’d have to make it back to the book. Using all her power left in this small frame, she forced herself to stand back up. The world still spinning wildly around her, she felt her hooves give out again. Hitting the ground with a loud thud, she could feel her heart tightening in her chest. The beating growing louder and louder around her, she gazed ahead as her vision was fading. The world began to go to black. A soft glow of light appearing before her from the abyss. A slender and elegant figure cantering out of the aurora, those glowing violet hues watching him in worry. “What is wrong?” It spoke in a calming melodic tone, kneeling down at her side lovingly. “I’ll be there for you…” Soon all went silent.