The fillies were running around all around me, the week had gone smoothly and today was the day of the adoption. I hadn't seen Lord Hatred since he introduced me to his friend.
It was a good thing he didn't come but I needed him to enter my world so I was a little afraid he would forget me.
I stopped walking sharply when I saw the director looking at me, an eyebrow raised.
"You should get ready Anon, the tour starts in two hours and you still haven't got dressed!"
"Sorry, Madam Director, I'm going to go get dressed," I said, starting to move away from her.
"Anon, wait! I know you have some difficulties doing things on your own, let me help you."
"I can handle it."
"Anon, don't insist, I'll help you whether you like it or not. Follow me!"
"Well, Madam Director," I said, lowering my head.
"Excellent."
Then we went to a room where there were dresses, I had not yet been there. Entire aisles of dresses on shelves were facing me. These looked like mountains to me.
The director noticed my astonishment at all these dresses because she added:
"Here are all the dresses that can be offered to you thanks to the great generosity of our charming Canterlot stylists who so kindly offered us all these dresses. I would like to point out that you can keep it after your adoption as a farewell gift."
"I... That's great, an extra dress for me. »
Despite the fact that I'm not a fan of dresses, I have to admit that these are beautiful. I realized that I was opening my mouth wide.
"You may want the dress you kindly offered Princess Luna for the visits earlier? You will of course have one of your choice here."
Even though these dresses were splendid, I was still quite uncomfortable wearing one. So I pretended to look through the shelves. All these dresses were of a very varied variety of colours. From a flamboyant yellow to a brilliant black.
I took a yellow and white dress and left for the entrance where the director was patiently waiting.
"I'll take this one," pretty and very sweet.
"And which one would you like to wear for this afternoon's visit?"
"I'll take this one, the other one tightens my waist a little."
"Perfect, I'd ask that the other dress be made for your size."Am I that fat?
" Now your bath, I have had one prepared by Mrs. Clear Now who is waiting for you in the bathroom of your room, I will take you there. "
That crazy canteen girl who makes strange boiled dishes was going to wash me? I didn't feel it.
"Madam, can I wash myself alone? "
"No, you could hurt yourself with your difficulty grabbing objects. "
"But... "
"Calm down, Mrs. Clear Now may be a little rough, but I assure you she's nice deep down. "
Deep in the bottom of her heart then because she looks like my neighbour from the pony version below. So I walked with the director to my place of execution.
We arrived in the room where there was a sweet smell of rose emanating from the bathroom. My roommate had already finished preparing and was therefore not in the room, so good.
Then we entered the bathroom doorway where the mare in question was waiting with a brush in her mouth and tapping the hoof on the floor as a sign of waiting.
Next door, a bathtub filled with water hidden by foam on the surface awaited me with the sweet smell of rose met in the room that emanated from it.
I suddenly heard a noise behind me and noticed the director who had just closed the bathroom door. Then I felt a shadow behind me, Clear Now was behind me. I swallowed turning back to her.
I felt myself caught and put in the bathtub where I felt the heat of the water and the foam on my coat. I breathed a sigh of relief as my muscles relaxed as Clear Now took the brush back into my mouth and rubbed me with it.
As surprising as it may seem to me, Clear Now was doing an exceptional job worthy of the greatest masseurs in my world, if I had had the chance to get a massage from them.
At the end of the Clear Now brushes on my coat, I was a gum on my hoof. She put down the brush and took another one where she took care of my mane floating on the surface of the water.
Then once finished, she lifted me up again and wrapped me in a towel where she rubbed me intensely and then used the equivalent of a hair dryer to finish the job.
My mane descended to my hooves and Clear Now took some time to restore them to their original shape. Then she took me out of the bathroom and started cleaning it.
I found the director waiting on my bed in the presence of the yellow and white dress next to it. I was still in a state of complete happiness that I didn't notice that she put on my dress. I was already sorry I didn't run away.
However, the worst was yet to come when she pulled out a make-up kit. I slowly backed away from what she pulled me towards her with her magic.
The make-up session was a real nightmare for me, all that powder to look prettier stuck to my skin. When she finally let go of me, it was time.
- in a train -
"Thank you so much Princess Twilight for accompanying us to the orphanage. Me and Blueblood were so scared when we came, but with you, I feel more comfortable."
"It's normal, but stop calling me princess, it makes me uncomfortable. I had to go to the orphanage anyway to give the principal and Anon, the poor girl, the results of a test," said Twilight, lowering his ears.
"Who is Anon? And what is this test you're talking about?" Blueblood asked.
"Anon is a filly from the orphanage found by one of Princess Luna's guards in Manehattan. I did some tests on her to see if she was okay but.... "
She sighs," she seems to have an absence of magic in her hooves which deprives her of all magic and prevents her from taking objects with for example."
"It's horrible, are there any solutions?"
"The best would be a low quantity magic injection treatment in her body but it would be very long and there is a possibility that it won't work. But the worst thing is the magical diseases to which she would be very vulnerable."
"Poor child, what are you going to do?"
"I think after the visit, during the week of the parents' survey, I will take Anon home in an adapted environment."
"Why is that? Isn't she better off at the orphanage?"
"From what I understand, she seems to have difficulties with what surrounds her."
"Does the poor girl have any friends?"
"Yes, it saddens me to separate them like this without warning, but it's about Anon's well-being."
The train stopped at Canterlot station where the trio left. They headed towards the orphanage where when they arrived in front of it, a large crowd of ponies were waiting for the beginning of the visits.
"Carrot, I'm scared! Do you think we're ready and..."
"Calm down Blueblood, everything will be fine and then the princess is with us."
The headmistress, whom Twilight recognized as soon as she left the school, accompanied by some teachers. She gave a short speech on the importance of being a parent is a great responsibility.
Then she ended up separating the crowd into two distinct groups between those who wanted to adopt foals and fillies. Carrot Top and Blueblood went to the filly adoption group with Twilight.
Then the visits began with a visit of the building followed by the fillies meeting alone with potential parents. Twilight took the opportunity to look for the headmistress she could not find in the visiting groups.
Finally, she found Anon discreetly leaving a room. She walked towards her.
"Anon? What are you doing in the hallway all by yourself?"
"I... I wanted to go to the bathroom."
"Isn't there a toilet in your room?"
"Yes, but..."
"Then why are you in the hallway?"
"I... I'm scared!"
"Calm down, Anon, everything's going to be fine, do you know where the director is?"
"In her office, I think, she prepares the adoption forms."
"Thank you, can you come with me if you don't mind?"
"Sorry, but I have to stay, for the adoption you know!"
"It's very important, Anon, come on. Visits don't start for another 15 minutes."
"All right."
- Anon -
I was walking angry following Twilight despite my incessant falls. Twilight took pity on me and put me on his back, I felt like a bag of potatoes.
We went to the principal's house where she was organizing several piles of leaves, Twilight greeted her and then put me on one of the chairs where she herself sat in turn.
"Princess, what a wonderful visit you offer us before... the visits. Did this relate Anon's results to his test?"
"Indeed, Anon, before I tell you what you have, I'd like you not to panic, okay? "I don't feel it.
"All right."
"Well, uh..... How can I put this to you? You have some pretty serious problems, although I don't want to panic you. You have, as it were, a total absence of magic on your whole body, which makes you very vulnerable to magical diseases and prevents you from using your hooves."
I was stunned, how? Why? Why? I have just learned that I don't have any magic in me, which is logical but that I can die from it. Lord why?
"But there are treatments such as low-dose injections of magic that can work."
"Or not?"
"Come on, Anon, it's not that bad. We'll help you, I've already ordered these magic injections that will arrive tomorrow. Anon, I also have some other news for you!"
"Which one? "Anyway, it couldn't be worse.
"I thought I'd take you home after the end of the day so I could look for other solutions."
"Okay, if it helps me."
"Anon, come on, you don't say okay to a princess."
"Sorry. "I'll be embarrassed.
"It doesn't matter, I'll take you back to your room and pick you up after the visit."
And without further discussion, I was taken to my room. After a short time, I heard many voices in the corridor, recognizing Luckette's voice in particular.
"Calm stallions and mares, you will see Anon, a poor filly abandoned alone in the streets of Manehattan whose adoption is urgently needed because of her traumas. Who wants to go see her?"
I heard nothing more and then thought that no one was interested, I was already slightly more reassured, but when the door of my room opened to reveal two earth ponies that entered timidly, my heart flinched.
One was a mare with a navy blue mane and apple green coat with another one of those strange marks representing a pie. The other was a stallion with a yellow coat and orange and green mane with a caramelized apple mark.
I stared at them smiling at me without saying anything. He didn't say anything so I said hello to them. They replied and then the silence returned. Finally, they left without a word. I heard Luckette talking to them behind the door:
"Didn't you tell him anything? We didn't hear anything."
"We were so scared." Started whining in a male voice.
"Whatever, next."
What? There's more? And I thought I had avoided the worst. The door opened again, now revealing two unicorns looking at the ceiling. At least, that's what I thought because they both raised their heads so high that I could barely see their faces.
Then they looked at me in disdain and left without a word.
"We said we would only take one unicorn. So I don't see the point in having a chat with this child."
"Relax, a child is a child no matter if it's a unicorn or not! Anyone else interested?"
"We, aren't we, Blueblood?"
"Of course, we'd be delighted to meet Anon."
The door opened again revealing a mare with a yellow coat and orange mane with a mark of a pair of carrots. The stallion had a yellow mane and a white coat with a compass rose as a mark. This one seemed to sweat profusely. Maybe because of that fancy suit start around his neck.
"Hello, my name is Carrot Top and this is my lover Blueblood. Is your name Anon?"
"Yes, hello. "At last normal people.
"Hello, as Carrot Top said, I am Blueblood and although we don't know each other yet, we would like to adopt you."
"Twilight told us about your Anon problem and we would be happy to help you and welcome you to our home. "Said Carrot.
Too much kindness is suspicious. Maybe psychopaths, they have to try to gain my trust by talking about Twilight thinking I trust it. Lost cause it doesn't work with me or is it just friends of hers?
"I don't know... "What else could I say?
"We understand, we want to adopt you and you haven't even known us for two minutes, it's normal. I look forward to getting to know us."
"I too said Blueblood. "Sweating as if he was coming back from a marathon.
"We have to go, time is up. Goodbye, Anon!"
"Goodbye. "I added at the same time that Blueblood was leaving the room with Carrot Top.
When the door closed, I shouted with joy behind the door.
"Yyyyyyeeeeeeeeessss, we made it Blueblood, we did it. And we've done a great job of managing our stress. We're going to make it, we've done it like great real parents."
"Relax, you hysterical people, we heard you from here, so she can hear you from her room. All right, anyone else? All right, follow me now for the rest of the fillies in our establishment."
At last quiet, I lay all over my bed and enjoyed this moment of peace. When suddenly, three black balls came out of the bathroom that Clear Now had been cleaning for some time now. These rolled to the center of the room forming a triangle. Surprised, I watched the scene in amazement.
A hologram of Lord Hatred on a fishing boat with Lord Fear appeared, I backed away terrified. Both wore ridiculous fisherman's hats with typical fishing clothes. A bag full of dynamite was sitting next to them.
Lord Hatred noticed my presence by waving at me with his arm while Lord Fear hung dynamite on his fishing rod.
"Well, hello Anon, how's it going?"
"Well, I think so, but what are you doing?"
"We wanted to make up for some lost time with Hatred so we organized this little two-week trip to Canada. Today we are trying to dynamite fish in a lake I don't know where exactly. "Lord Fear replied.
"Yes, indeed, and Fear managed to make me promise not to bother you too much during this week. Not too disappointed by the last time?"
"When are you going to turn me back into a human Lord Hatred? You promised!"
"I promised you'd go home to Earth, I did. I never mentioned making you human again."
"How can you do that? You're playing with words, I'm tired of being like this. I want to become me again! "Did I start screaming.
"Sorry to sound brutal, Anon, but I don't think it's in Hatred's plans for you to go back to the way you were before on Earth. Am I mistaken?"
"No Fear at all. Anon, you're a filly now and you will remain so whether you like it or not."
"You have no right, I want to go home, find my house, my parents... "Tears were flowing from my eyes
"You're so stupid, Anon."
"You're just a filthy son of a dog, I hate you. You're a liar, a manipulator, a scumbag of the worst kind! "I started screaming without restraint, continuing to cry.
"And I'm proud of it, Anon, see you in two weeks. »
"Come back here, you untalented bastard, I... I... I... "
The hologram disappeared and the beads became soap bubbles that exploded.
The door opened the next moment I saw Princess Twilight in complete panic.
"Anon, what's going on? Are you all right? We heard your screams from the director's office. Why are you crying? Did one of the visits go wrong?"
I didn't answer and just turned my back on him. Lord Hatred had lied to me and I'm stuck like a stupid green horse for the rest of my life. I'll never see my.... I couldn't even think clearly anymore.
Twilight sat next to me on the bed and stroked my back and mane. I want my body back, everything that was there before that monster.
"Anon, calm down now. Everything will be fine, no one will hurt you, I'm with you!"
I ended up lying on top of her, continuing to cry, she too began to cry. I watched her slightly surprised.
"Why are you crying?"
"I cry because seeing others cry makes me sad too, so when I think of all the things you had to go through to get here, I... "She couldn't finish her sentence.
After some time, the director arrived very surprised to see everyone crying in the room, especially the princess of friendship.
"What's going on here?"
"Madam Director," said Twilight between two tears. "Anon was crying so it made me cry. »
"Anon? But why is she crying? Was there a problem during the visits?"
"To tell you the truth, I don't know, but I think it's mostly bad memories coming back to the surface. "Says Twilight trying to pull himself together.
"Anon, is that why you're crying?"
I didn't answer.
"I don't think she's as able to answer us right now."
"I see, the end of the visits is in thirty minutes after which you can take him away. From what Luckette told me, there would only be one family potentially ready to adopt Anon anyway, provided they meet our adoption criteria successfully."
"Blueblood and Carrot Top?"
"Luckette didn't tell me the names so I can't tell you yet. I'll need Anon one last time before you take her for your week with you."
"Why is that so?"
"Anon must be present when signing the paper I would spend with the family in question. Don't try to understand, equestrian jurisdiction can sometimes be complex to understand for me alone."
"I'm sure, call us when Anon comes. I'm going to stay with him for a little while."
"As you wish, princess. »
I finally calmed down and took several breaths after that under the wise guidance of Twilight. She looked at me smiling.
"I'm glad you're feeling a little better. Do you want to talk about what made you cry?"
"No."
"Okay, but reassure me, this has nothing to do with any pony here?"
"No."
"We have to go it's almost time, are you coming?"
"I'm coming, but... could you carry me on your back? I have trouble walking. "
"Sure, let's go!"
Twilight quickly placed me on his back with his magic and began to gallop through the corridors to the director's office. It was quite funny.
After that I sat on a chair in a corner and faced with incomprehensible legal terms, I started playing with a plastic train that was on the coffee table next to the magazines. I also noticed that it was indeed Blueblood and Carrot Top and that they would turn around from time to time and smile at me.
Then the session had to end because Twilight caught me with its magic, greeted the director and left with me on my back with Blueblood and Carrot Top. I noticed in front of the door, a long line of ponies waiting to apply for adoptions.
We or rather they walked calmly to the station. The sun was dropping on the horizon revealing the end of the day. I felt exhausted that I had to fall asleep because the next minute I was on the train next to Twilight and in front of my future parents.
"She's so cute when she's asleep."
"I look forward to adopting her to read the stories to her at night before bed."
"I think someone's awake here. "Says Twilght pushing me gently.
"Where are we going?"
"At home, in Ponyville."
"Do you promise not to have any strange experiences with me?"
"I promise and if I do experiments I will ask you first."
"Thank you Twilight," I yawned as my eyelids became heavy.
I must have fallen asleep again, my body probably wasn't used to so much stress. I woke up one more time in the dark on what could be a cloud. Only star lights could be seen from a window.
I must be in Princess Twilight's house, I hope she's as kind as she seems.
I was hungry now, I had not had dinner but the fatigue came back again and the laziness especially then I left for the land of dreams.