I woke up to...a strange feeling, I can only describe it as being roughly similar to someone running their fingers through your hair, my mom would do that to me when I was younger and trying to fall asleep, it was extremely relaxing and usually worked to knock me out.
I say roughly similar because this feeling was not on my head but on the useless things connected to my back, it felt so amazing and so relieving after the past few days...like dealing with being a huge female horse, being taken from my home and sent to another world, running from ponies, finding out I burn in the sun...and the nightmares, I involuntarily shivered from the memories as well as the feeling on my back, a smile coming across my face from the nice sensation.
I suddenly realized something...no dream last night….don't know if that's good or not, I'm gonna go with good since I didn't experience any more traumatizing things…
I suddenly felt a sharp pain making me yelp and I turned my head around to see what happened only to come face to face with the large head of some chimera looking mother fucker, screaming I thrashed around to get away from it and my wings proceeded to flap in panic sending me straight up into the air and hitting my head into the ceiling causing a cracking sound, wincing I noticed….I wasn't falling down…
Laughter came from below making me look down at the chimera freak who was floating in the air laughing hysterically.
"Oh I was hoping for a scare but that!! That was more than I ever could have hoped for" the creature said before erupting into another fit of laughter, he wiped a tear from his eye, that voice sounded...familiar to me, but I was currently having trouble thinking as this creature who I thought was just a monster was talking!!...and why was I still up on the ceiling?!?! I growled looking up.
The creature cleared his throat to get my attention back on him, he then tapped his forehead, I looked at him confused, he huffed frowning and then snapped his fingers and a long black horn appeared floating by him, he proceeded to point a ruler at it much like a teacher would to a student.
I blinked and wiggled my head before wincing...yup...my horn was stuck in the ceiling...god dammit…
The chimera did a golf clap "woohoo the genius got it" he held two fingers up and put a rubber band around them before pulling the band back and releasing it like a slingshot and a small sparkly gold object flew at me before sticking to my nose, wiggling my muzzle I tried to look at it, and realized it was a gold star.
He smiled up at me before snapping his fingers and vanishing...what the fuck?!?! What was that?? Who was that?? Why was that?!?
None of my questions were being answered and I was still stuck to the ceiling!!! I growling I pushed my hooves against the ceiling to get my horn free, I wiggled my head before it popped out of the hole it made in the ceiling, I smiled victoriously...till I started falling, flailing around as I fell in fear of death till I hit the bed and bounced a bit back up, forgot the bed was beneath me, I fell back down and the bed collapsed thudding to the floor loudly.
I stared up at the ceiling, the small hole above me, what an eventful morning…woke up to a nice feeling, find out it was from some wacko chimera dude, stabbed my horn in the ceiling, and then broke my bed...I also….felt stiffness on my back which made me blink...it was slightly familiar and yet different, looking to my right and found my wing stretched out stiff, looking to the left I found the same thing on that side…..I had wing boners….looking back at the ceiling "..can..can I get a break??"
I suddenly heard a knock on the door before it opened and Twilight walked in.
"I heard a noise is everything al-" Twilight's eyes went large as she saw the broken bed, she then looked at Nightmare Moon "what...what happened?"
Thinking it over, there's no way she'd believe what actually happened "I...had a bad dream…" I sat up.
Twilight looked at Nightmares large stiff wings and blushed, she believed it was a dream just probably not a bad one "oh...uh..ok...well..I'll be in the library…come there when your um...ready" she quickly left closing the door.
That was weird...why was she blushing? My wings twitched reminding me of their stiffness "oh crap…." I just realized this was basically someone walking in and seeing you had a boner...god damn this world and it's intent to torture me!!
I tried pushing my right wing down but it was not budging, growling I figured the only way to get rid of these damn things was a shower….I got off the bed happy my hooves slipped less than before on the floor, I walked towards the door and opened it attempting to walk out before I was abruptly stopped as my wings hit the doorframe, stepping back I tried again and got stopped, grumbling I tried turning them to an angle and waking out only for them to not be able enough, I was steaming with rage at this point.
Backing all the way up to the other side of the room I ran full speed and went through the doorway hitting the wall in the hall, slowly sliding down it I grumbled "I...hate...mornings…"
Standing back up I looked around the hall "where exactly is the bathroom….?" Not getting an answer from the empty hall I started walking around, my new hooves clopping across the floor making a bit of an echo, I smirked slightly I always liked the sound of horse hooves on stone..
On my search I peaked my head in different rooms, most were empty, others had basic living stuff, one looked like it belonged to a boy...spikes room...oh crud spike got his own room...really moving up in the world from when I last saw him...
Another room I could only guess was Twilights but gosh dang that bed looked comfortable with all those pillows….hm my eyes felt heavy just looking at it...no no, I shook my head, I can not sleep in Twilight's bed...she's still here...maybe when she leaves I give that baby test drive…
Continuing my search I finally found the bathroom, dear sweet baby Jesus this castles huge!! And apparently there's only one bathroom in this hall, poor design choice if you ask me...
I walked in and closed the door, pretty big and...huh..it's got a small empty pool...oh crud that's the shower, it was like a step in shower that was lower in the floor so it could be filled up like a bath….gosh dang Twilight is living the life...
Walking closer I looked it over, this was unfair….she had this for a fricken shower?? I stepped in and looked at the knobs, hm still the same as Earth's good, little bit of hot, and a little bit more of cold, water started flowing from the bottom of the shower filling like a tub "ok what the heck? This is way to cool and unfair!" Looking around I tried to find the knob to switch it to the showerhead but couldn't find it, I looked between the knobs and noticed a button "huh...wonder if this is i-" I pressed it and water jetted out from the showerhead into my face making me stumbled back blinded by the water in my eyes "ah ah! Can't see!!" I slipped and made a splash from the water that had filled up.
I stood completely drenched, and huffed before standing under the running water and smiled as the warm water rained against my back, my stiff wings slowly lowering and became less stiff as I stood there "mmm I'm just gonna stand here a bit…." After the long past few days this was amazing, I hadn't taken a shower for like days cause of this body.
Taking a few stepped back and let the water run down my head soaking the flowing mane, still didn't understand this or my tail, I thought it was like smoke in the show but I guess it's weird magic hair….
I stepped out from under the water and looked at the soaps, how do I do this….? I'm smart enough to not try and push down on the nozzle while holding a hoof under it cause I can't stand on two legs currently.
Rubbing my chin and went into my thoughts before shrugging and going back under the water, I'd learn how to later, after soaking my front half I remembered I had a tail now so I stepped out from under the water and turned my self around and backed up towards the water starting to soak my tail.
"jeez showers are gonna take forever from now o-eep!!!" I jumped forward as the water touched a sensitive spot I was very new to on my backside, blushing bright red I quickly turned the knobs off and stepped out of the shower "o-ok shower time over!" My voice cracked slightly.
Trying to ignore what just happened I grabbed the towel with my teeth and threw it over my back...now what? Wiggling I tried to make the towel rub my fur but that didn't work, I laid down then and started rolling in the towel, this had some success but my fur was a bit damp still, pulling the towel on my head I rubbed it sound with my hooves as I sat on the floor, I yelled when I smacked my horn and it stabbed through the towel.
I put my hoof down on one end and pulled my head back causing my horn to rip upwards through the towel cutting it partially in half, I sighed heavily and picked it up in my mouth and left the bathroom, I made my way through the halls looking around before I saw the open doors to the library and walked in seeing Twilight, she smiled at me before it vanished seeing I was still wet and had a ripped towel "I...uh accidentally ripped this...not really used to the whole pony shower thing…"
Twilight took the towel with her magic and set it beside her, she took a deep breath and smiled softly "thanks for telling me and not hiding it.."
"Yeah kinda figured you'd get mad if I did that" I rubbed one of my legs.
Twilight blinked...that meant she had considered hiding it…she shook her head "anyway, today Rainbow Dash is coming by to spend the day with you" she smiled.
"Wait what?...but..uhhhhh ok" I was excited and also not, yesterday sucked with pinkie because of my screw ups, today was gonna be worse, Rainbow Dash isn't the most patient of ponys from what I saw in the few episodes I watched...
Just then a blue mare with wings and a rainbow mane and tail flew in, she flew over to Twilight "hey Twi what didja need me for?"
"Well today you're going to help Nightmare-" Twilight started talking but the clearing of a throat made her look at Nightmare Moon.
"Uh...I'd prefer Blake…" I smiled nervously.
Twilight blinked and continued talking not looking away from Nightmare Moon for a few seconds "help Blake..learn loyalty" she looked back at Rainbow Dash smiling.
Rainbow Dash was doing the exact opposite "what?? But how?!? I don't know the first thing about teaching somepony!!"
"Well the princesses wanted us to prove she isn't a threat and to teach her the ways of regular ponys" Twilight explained but Rainbow Dash crossed her arms "Fluttershy also wants us to help her" she reminded.
Rainbow Dash cursed under her breath "fiiiiiine! Let's go Nightmare" she flew out of the room.
"I..but…." I looked at Twilight in hope of her changing her mind about this whole thing but she only smiled and gestured for me to go, sighing I started walking out.
Twilight sighed in relief and sat on the chair in the room, everything was going to be fine...yeah….nothing will go wrong.
Rainbow Dash hovered in the air flapping her wings regularly to keep in the air, she had not a clue how to go about this...how the heck do you teach someone loyalty??
She looked down at Nightmare Moon who was hiding in the shadow of the castle looking up at her expectantly while also nervously, and we have to do it in the shadows…
She groaned, why did this have to be so hard?? She wished she had ignored Twilight's letter and stayed in bed today...but no she had to be a good friend and come and help, how she was helping currently she had no idea..
Looking Nightmare over she ran multiple ideas through her head, but none really seemed to work and also took waaaaay to long for Dash's liking, suddenly something came to her mind about Nightmare that only now did she realize.
"Hey, you know how to fly right?" Rainbow dash asked which sounded stupid to herself, any Pegasus or...Alicorn knew how to fly.
"N-no actually…" Nightmare shuffled on her hooves as her wings twitched.
Dash blinked…"seriously?..."
"Yeah...wings are..new to me…" Nightmares ears folded back.
"Huh" she has been saying she's not actually Nightmare Moon but Dash was pretty sure that was bull, rubbing her chin she got an idea "what if I taught you? And then you tell Twi I told all I knew about loyalty but you wanted to learn some more from her."
"Uh….sure?"
Yes!! Rainbow Dash had to remember to pat herself on the back for that idea, now she didn't have to figure out how to teach someone loyalty, she flew closer to Nightmare "ok what do you know about flying?"
"Um...depends on which one, the wing kind is you flap your wings and fly?.....the plane kind is way more technical stuff and aerodynamics which I got no clue about…." Nightmare rubbed the back of her neck.
"Okaaaaay…well your kind of close about the wing part, you have angle your wings though in order to turn as well as keep yourself up in the air, you also can't just flap your wings and Bam your flying" she landed on the ground and folded her wings "copy me" she extended her wings.
Nightmare did the same only one was bent inwards a bit and other was raised to high up "can you fully extend that one?" Dash pointed at it with her hoof.
Nightmare looked at it and wiggled it "um...no."
Dash huffed and walked over "ok um...your fine with me touching your wings right?"
Nightmare gave a weird look "yeah why?"
"Well…. nevermind, this one needs to be fully extended" she used her hooves to unbend the wing, she hid her blush by being behind Nightmare, touching another Pegasuses wings was a very personal thing, they were the most sensitive part of a Pegasus.
Dash kept glancing at Nightmare as she walked over to her other wing and lowered it "this one needs to be lower and at equal height with the other."
"Ok…." Nightmare looked at her wings.
Rainbow dash stood a couple feet in front of Nightmare "ok now-"
"Do wings normally get stiff?"
Dash choked on air and coughed "w-what??"
"Well...uh..this morning...my wings were stiff..after...they were rubbed?" Nightmares face reddened as she seemed to realize her sentence "you know what nevermind..let's get back to flying!"
Dash was blushing but nodded, this day was taking a seriously weird turn "raise and lower your wings and then slowly pick up the speed."
Nightmare nodded and started doing so, the process afterwards was very long, Dash had to keep helping her readjust her wings so that they were even, after a bit more practice she was keeping her wings straight and even, after that it was getting off the ground time.
This time Dash had her flap her wings harder, she lifted up but panicked and fell down again, a couple more times she was wobbly but in the air a feet off the ground.
"Alright time for moving, aim both wings back slightly" Dash commanded.
Nightmare complied and angled them back causing her to move forward, she was surprised but smiled "wow..this this is actually exciting!"
Dash smiled as well, she remembered what it was like flying for the first time, she watch Nightmare flying forward "ok now keep one wing straight while flapping the other."
Nightmare did that and turned left before switching back to flying forward she giggled excitedly "this is awesome!!"
Dash smirked "it is, and all thanks to your awesome teacher."
"Thanks Rainbow Dash" she smiled at her.
Since when did she look so adorable?? Dash rubbed the back of her neck blushing "yeah uh..no problem…"
Nightmare blushed as well looking at her and still flying forward..
Dash's eyes widened "hey watch where your go-" there was a loud thud.
Nightmare had flown right into the castle wall, she groaned softly.
I groaned as I peeled my face off the wall "ouch…."
Dash snorted "that's why you keep your eyes forward."
"Note taken…" I turned to look at her and glance down, we were really high up! I quickly clung to the wall only to start slipping as I didn't have any traction "no no no!!" I slipped off and started falling.
"Flap your wings!!"
My wings flapped but I was panicking and not following any of the steps I learned to fly properly, I was gonna die!!!
Dash flew over in a rainbow blur and quickly caught me just before I hit the ground, she set me down "...ok so you still have some lear-"
I cut her off by hugging her tightly "thank you!..."
She blinked "um...no problem...what'd you think I was just gonna let you fall?"
"...I know you girls don't trust me...so I just kinda assumed...you wouldn't care…"
"Hey...if you're in trouble we would help...I get the idea you're not at all like Nightmare Moon, you've been pretty nice compared to her…"
"Thanks" I smiled softly.
"Can you let go now? I can't breathe" Dash squirmed.
"Oh sorry!" I let go of her and stepped back "um...thank you for the flying lesson...it was fun..till I fell."
"No problem, just don't tell Twilight I didn't teach you about loyalty."
"I won't" I chuckled.
"Cool I need to get back to Wonderbolts so cya!" She waved with her wing before flying off.
"Wait!" I called out to her to stop and come back.
"What's up?" She questioned.
"How did you do that with your wing?" It was almost like a hand when she waved...in fact if I remember correctly, pegasi could use their wings like hands in the show...that'd be useful.
"What? You mean wave? You can't wave your wings either?"
"I can't really do much besides fly with them now, and I use the fly very lightly" the castle wall isn't meant to be flown into as I learned.
"Oh hm...I'm not really sure how to teach that, I just sorta make it do what I want" Dash rubbed the back of her head with a hoof.
I looked at my wing and thought about pointing a finger, it did as my arm would though my leg also rose at the same time, using new muscles while also picturing them as old ones was gonna be hard, but I could learn...maybe "I'll work on it...thanks for the help Rainbow Dash."
She smiled "no problem again" she flew off then.
I watched her leave envious of her ability to fly so easily, I had a lot of practice ahead of me if I ever wanted to be a good flyer...just the thought of being able to fly made me giddy and smile widely.