Chapter 3
As we step outside of the hospital, I am greeted with a street view of ponyville. I quickly recognize a few of the ponies on the street. Some of the ponies looked familiar but I did not remember their names. Down the road I can see the carousel boutique.
“Down there by, Rarity’s place is where the mansion landed.” William pointed a hoof toward a spot in the middle of the road near the boutique.
“Where is it now?” I ask, seeing that it is not there.
“Well they couldn’t leave it blocking the road so, Twilight got together some unicorns and together they levitated it to the edge of town.” William started walking down the street away from the boutique. I am slightly surprised at how easily, William is taking all of this. However, on the other hoof, he had always been my voice of reason when I needed him to be.
“Does it have running water? I would imagine that the plumbing was damaged in the moving of the mansion.”
“Yes, the plumbing was damaged but I explained the situation to, Twilight and she enchanted the building’s taps with water summoning spells.”
“So, no water bill?” I ask hopefully.
“Only you miss, would think about money in a world of magic.” He chuckles lightly.
“Hey money is a big concern, since you know we left it all in the other world. Besides even if we did have it wouldn’t be the right currency.” I sigh realizing how unprepared we were for something like this to happen. Then again how could you prepare. Ok maybe you could keep solid gold bars in your house but still.
“Hmm perhaps we could sell some things. Or rent out the spare rooms we have plenty of spare rooms in the mansion.”
“Perhaps that would work.” I say walking besides him.
“On a brighter note the Apple family has graciously provided a basket of apples, as a welcome gift.”
“That is very kind of them.” I say turning a corner with William only to come face to face with the menace of Ponyville.
“Hi I’m, Pinkie pie! And you must be, Feather luck and, Mr. William! Welcome to Ponyville!”
“Thanks, Pinkie we are excited for the party.” Says William looking a bit flabbergasted.
“Hey, who told you about the party?” Pinkie interrogates.
“Miss, Rarity I believe it was.”
“Okey Dokey Loki Well see you at the party.” Pinkie hops of a smile on her face.
“Well that was nice.” I say with a smile.
“Pinkie is a very friendly pony.” William says walking down the street.
“How much further is the mansion?” I ask looking up at the sky to see a few pegasi moving clouds around.
“Just around the corner and down a few buildings. Why are you getting tired? do I need to levitate you there?” Teased William with a slight smile.
“No, I was just curious how far out the house was. Also, I wonder why you are a unicorn and I am an earth pony, what’s with that?” I say exasperated.
“My theory is that the magic affected us differently, when we were sent here. For instance, your gender changed while mine did not, and I got magic while you did not.”
“Looks like you also stole my good luck.” I say frowning. We around a corner and see the mansion a few houses down.
“Let’s hope I didn’t steal all the good luck, we both will probably need a tremendous amount before we get back home.” Williams smile is gone now replaced with a slight frown.
“If we ever get back home.” I say effectively silencing us both, till we reach the door to the house.
“Hey what do you know we made it back to our home sweet home.” I say sarcastically rolling my eyes.
“Almost funny miss.” He says opening the door. I step through and he follows. First thing I notice is that the house Is clean and the air fresh.
“Would you like a bath, a snack, a nap, what can I get for you?” William asks closing the door behind him.
“We need to get the power on, then see if we can contact our world.”
“As you wish miss. However, it might take me a while.”
“That’s fine I have some things I need to check on.” I say turning and walking upstairs.
I walk into my room and close the door. I know that I have a large mirror in the closet. I walk to my closet door and thank the havens above I was a billionaire. I place my left front hoof on the wall to help stabilize me as stand shakily on my hind legs. With my right hoof I press a button that was on the wall. It would have been at my shoulder height as a human but as a pony It was a bit more difficult to reach.
The closet door slides open to reveal a closet the size of a small room. The power may be off but the door worked because, it was powered by a spring. The button simply released a latch holding the door closed. Inside the closet specially tailored suits hung perfectly in line that would make any OCD person say that it was too perfect. At the far end of the room sat a full body mirror. I stood in front of the mirror and forced myself to look at myself.
I was a yellow pony with bright blue mane and tail. I noticed that I apparently had a cutie mark. It was an odd one that made no sense to me. I knew that cutie marks are supposed to reflect your talent but I had no clue what my talent was. It was a blue feather with three stars beside it. I struggled to come up with what it meant but fail miserably. I looked at my face, I noticed I still had my blue eyes. “Well at least I kept something of my old body.” I sigh and walk out of the closet. I leave the door open, so that I can enter it without having to press the button.
I count myself lucky that I installed lever door knobs instead of the round ones on every door in the house, excluding the closets as those had buttons. I open the door to the balcony, and take a deep breath of air. I sigh and walk to my bed. It seems massive in my current state of ponieafied shortness. I leap onto the bed. The bed had been made since I last had slept in it, and I didn’t wish to mess it up so I just laid there and closed my eyes. I tried to sleep but I couldn’t, though the fresh air was nice. The air was untainted by the burning of fossil fuels.
Eventually I got up and went to find, William. Maybe I could help get the power on.
Turns out that, William had misjudged the amount of time it would take to get the Soler panels on. Working together we got them up and running by dinner. Unfortunately, the sun set before we could gather enough energy to fully power the Mansion. We luckily had enough power to cook dinner but that was it.
I was starving by the time dinner finished cooking. I hadn’t eaten anything all day, possibly days! The last thing I remembered eating was that steak and egg breakfast.
Unfortunately, with this new body I could no longer partake in the consumption of meat. I also will be missing out on bacon, probably the worst fate imaginable. William tried to console me with the fact that I could still eat chocolate and other sweets, however despite his best efforts I still was besides myself with unimaginable sorrow at the loss of meat. Maybe it was a combination of all that had happened today, but it was all just too much for my mantra to contain. I shed a single tear for the loss of my dear beacon.
On another note, dinner was excellent. William out did himself we had fried okra, mashed potatoes with mushroom sauce, (In place of brown gravy, which contains beef fat apparently.) asparagus and boiled spinach with salt. It was dark out so we had to eat by candle light.
While, William washed the dishes using one of the candles for light. I found some batteries and headlamps in the kitchen. I gave, William a head lamp and he looked grateful. I put mine on and walked to my room. In my room I kept a small collection of books I hadn’t read yet on a small shelf. Most were sequels to book I had already read. I grabbed one at random and carried it in my mouth to my bed. I read for a while but quickly fell tired. I set the book on my nightstand and went to close the balcony doors when I had an amazing idea. I walked onto the balcony I sat down and looked up at the night sky.
“Goodnight, Luna.” I say into the quiet night. I turn and go back inside closing the balcony doors behind me. I go to my bed and burrow under the covers. I move my head out from underneath the blankets, and rest my head ageist a white fluffy pillow. In mere moments I am asleep.