//------------------------------// // Chapter 1: The Beginning...? [Edited] - Due for a Rewrite // Story: My Unexpected New Lives as a Pony in Equestria // by SketchBPegasus //------------------------------// Chapter 1: The Beginning…? I awoke groggily, groaning as I slowly stretch out my aching body like a cat, letting out a tired yawn as I do so. My body ached; feeling like it got rammed by a truck. It took me a few minutes to finally wake up my mind fully and take in my surroundings. "This... This isn't my room.." I sat up and looked around, I was not in my room, nor my house. I was in a forest somewhere. This was a problem. Not because I was not in my house and in a forest, just that there are no forests where I lived. "Where the hell am I?!", I screamed out as I tried to get up on my feet, only to fall over onto my rump. Confused, I looked down at myself... Only to see a body with a blue coat, hooves and a brown tail, wearing my black leather jacket and steel colored jeans. I stare down at my body in confusion, not believing at what I was seeing. "T-this can't be happening... T-this-," Then something clicks in my head. "This is all a dream! That's gotta be it!" I then slowly get up, slightly wobbly on all four. "This is all just a dream. A lucid dream! All I have to do is wait and wake up,” I told myself with mild confidence. I looked around in the dark, dank forest. To my side I noticed my black and green school bag. Curious, I reach for it and pull it over, opening it and taking inventory. "Huh, all of my stuff is here..." I start taking things out of my bag one by one, first my tablet, then my computer, my solar charger, my 4 boxes of chocolate flavor Calorie Mates(Best things ever), my satchel bag full of random assortments, and lastly my books for school. I then pause as I look to the box of Calorie Mates. 'I could read that...' I was able to read the label on the boxes... I then looked over to my school books and noticed that I could read the cover of them too. "T-this could be nothing, maybe I can read things in my dreams.." Still unsure though, I looked down to my hand- no my hoof and brace myself before slapping myself in the cheek as hard as I can. "OW!" I rub my cheek to soothe it, hissing in pain. I then pause once again, "I-I felt that... I-I... This is not a dream!" I then look up and all around, I really am in some forest in a body of a pony. An idea came to my mind and I then looked over and grabbed my tablet, clicking it on and struggling with my stylist, I go to the camera app. The first thing I saw was a familiar blue face with violet eyes, a groomed mane, and a gold band ear ring on my right ear. "I-I'm my own pony oc..." I then gasp as I finally just notice the sound of my voice, it sounded way too high to be my own voice, and too feminine for what I thought of Sketch's voice would be. In a shot of fear I quickly look in between my hind legs. Then groan as I remember I'm still wearing my jeans. Fumbling around with the button, I was soon able to unbuttoned them and slide my jeans down a bit. I would sigh in relief as I saw what I wanted to see. Confirming that I am still a man... Stallion... After pulling up and buttoning up my jeans, I sit on my haunches, and try to think up of why I am here and how I got here. 'What happened..? The last thing I remembered was..." I pause for a moment as I try to remember. Soon My eyes goes wide as I slowly start remember what happened. "D-did I d-di-die..?" I stammered, not wanting to believe it. "Oh goddesses, please no... P-please tell me it's not true.." I look around as my eyes starts tearing up a bit, trying my hardest not cry as I think back to all that I have lost.. My friends, my family, and my dreams... As I sniffle and hold back a sob, I then had a thought, 'If I've died, does that mean this is heaven..? H-hell? Maybe even purgatory..? O-or.. is this a new world..? Equestria maybe..? And if so, why am I here?' As I shakily get back up onto my hooves, I would soon replace my belongings back into my bag, zipping it up, and placing it onto my back. It felt awkward on my back as the bag was not made with a pony's body in mind. After wiping my eyes, I look around once more. "I b-better leave..." I said to myself. ‘If this place is what I think it is, I better get out of here before something or someone undesirable finds me.’ Just as I thought that my ears turn to a sound to my left. I looked over and saw two glowing yellow eyes staring at me. For a moment there, I froze in fear as I look towards the yellow orbs. The sounds of growling snapped me out of my trance, and before anything else could happen, I quickly turn tail and ran as fast as I could. Nearly tripping over myself a few times. The sounds of wood thumping the ground behind me echoed through the forest pretty loudly. Looking back and nearly stumbling over myself, I see a creature made of wood in a shape of a wolf running towards me. 'A timber wolf?!' I then looked back in front of me as I continue my run, nearly gagging on the horrendous smell coming off from it. The show does not give the smell it's justice, it smells like rotting wood, sap, and death. I had to do something quick, if I don't I might just end up as plant food. I looked around for something I could use, but there was nothing, but rocks and trees. Then up ahead I then noticed a low hanging branch. Thinking back to the show and praying to any divine beings out there that this would work, I ran towards it I grabbed the branch in my mouth and pulled it as I ran, letting go not too long after, and letting it swing behind me. I heard a crash and the sounds of a pile of wood falling behind me, looking back I confirm that is what it was. The Timberwolf was in pieces. Stopping and letting out a victorious laugh, I then stumble and start panting a bit from all the running and exertion. I look around once more and notice a trail leading to the outside of the forest. "Hahaha! Auf Wiedersehen Everfree!" I exclaimed, as I walked the trail outside, humming a tune as I walk into the bright light outside the forest.