//------------------------------// // Chapter-2 Why is this happening? // Story: So yea... I'm a pony // by uraveragebrony //------------------------------// "Hey Cloud Rider!" You hear a female voice shout "Hey Cloud Chaser, hey flitter." You say after turning around to see the two ponies flying side by side. "So, you ready to send out this monster thunderstorm?!" She says while pumping a hoof in the air. "Ready as I'll ever be." You respond rolling your eyes at her antics. Arriving at the weather office, you see all the other Ponyville weather team members gathered in the lobby and conversing with each other. Right after you walk in the door, the talking begins to die down as a certain rainbow pegasus gets up onto the front desk and clears her throat. "Everypony quiet!" After this everyone diverts their attention to her. "Alright, we just got the shipment of weather clouds for the longest storm of the year. I expect every single one of you to give it your all and keep this on schedule. Everypony listen for you and your partner's name. After they are called, head out and get to work! Alright, let's see here... Flitter and Cloud chaser-" She continues on until your name is called. "Cloud Rider and Cloud Kicker" After hearing your names the two of you head out and into the cluster of clouds above nowhere in particular and get started *2 hours later "Whew, finally done." You say out loud while standing on the final cloud. You and Cloud Kicker were also the last to finish but who cares. The rest of the storm has already started so you quickly pick up the pace once you dive down beneath the clouds. You start to regret slacking off shortly after starting as you're now on the outskirts of Ponyville and have to fly through a thunderstorm to get home. *Bang* "Aah" You scream surprised by how loud that thunder was. You quicken your pace now even more determined to make it home. As your house comes into view, you let out a sigh of relief. "Ah finally, I'm almost-" *BANG* *BANG* You sit up in a cold sweat and take a look around to see that it is currently 6:37. Letting out a groan, you flop back down on your bed even if its only for another few minutes. After laying down, you are also able to hear the pitter-patter of rain against the roof and the occasional boom of thunder in the distance. Letting out a groan, you decide to just start getting ready now only to fall back to your bed in pain. "Argh, what the heck." You hiss while clutching your back. After a few minutes of laying there in pain, you decide to try and get up again, this time a little slower. After getting out of bed and doing your morning routine, you head out to your car and start is up while wincing at the loud sound again for some reason. After backing out of the driveway and heading to school, you start to think about that dream you just had. This is the first time you have ever been awoken by one of these dreams, or maybe that was just the thunder outside. You think back to the other dreams you had which were normally pretty calm and casual but this one, it ended differently, something happened to whoever I am dreaming about. Shaking your head, you pull into your parking spot and rush into the building to get out of the rain after grabbing your backpack and locking your car. Walking through the halls, you quickly spot Brock leaning against a wall scrolling through his phone. "Hey" You say walking up to him and holding out your fist. "Hey" He responds while giving you a fist bump. "My parents are gone this weekend so you wanna come and stay at my place after school?" "Sure, my parents are gone as well so I don't think it matters." You respond while walking to your first class of the day. "Alright, well I'll see you at lunch. Later." He says before walking into the science lab. Walking through the hall, you feel as if you can hear every conversation around you. Trying to tune this out, you pick up your pace to the first class of the day, history. After you arrive and settle down in your desk, you feel that strange sensation on your back you felt just before you went to bed last night as you lean up against the back of your chair. "What's been up with me recently..." You mutter under your breath as your history teacher walks into the room and starts taking attendance. Letting out a sigh, you rest your head on your hand while drifting off into your own thoughts. *5 very boring classes later You walk into the cafeteria only to scrunch your nose at the noise level of the room. Trying your best to tune everything out, you head over to the lunch line and take a cheeseburger with a side salad and water for today. After paying for your lunch, you head outside to your usual spot where you and Brock sit every day and see him sitting there already eating his lunch. "Hey bro." He says looking up as he sees you approach. "Hey, is it just me, or is it really loud in there?" You ask while pointing a finger back inside the lunchroom. "I don't know, didn't seem any different to me." "Ok, probably just me being me again." You say while letting out a small laugh. *Rumble* Upon hearing this, you decide that now is as good a time as any to start eating. You pick up your hamburger and take a big bite out- "Blech, what the heck, this tastes like garbage." You say while spitting as much of the burger and its taste out of your mouth. "Hmm, pizza tastes fine to me. Here, gimme a piece, and don't you dare give me a chewed up piece." He says while extending his hand. "Tastes fine to me." He says with a shrug after you gave him a piece. 'What's going on with me...' You think while pulling your salad over to you determined to get at least something inside of you. "Mhm, this salad is really good." You say after taking a bite. Normally these are the blandest things in the world but today it just seems to taste a thousand times better. "I can't believe you eat that paper they paint green." Brock says while looking at the salad. "Well it's good for me and that's all that matters." You respond After talking about some things you two plan on doing over the weekend, you get up to throw your garbage away only to lose your balance and fall flat on your butt. "Ow, what was that about." You mutter under your breath. "What's up with you today man?" Brock asks while holding out a hand to you. Grabbing his hand, you pull yourself up to your feet only to nearly fall once again. You have to hold onto his shoulder for a good ten seconds before you regain your balance. "I don't know either..." You respond allowing a small amount of uncertainty to leak out of your voice. "You sure your good though." He asks while looking me in the eye. "I've got to get to the bathroom." You say quickly as a wave of nausea washes over your entire body making you even dizzier. With Brocks help, he leads you to the bathroom door. "Hope you're ok man, I got to get to class, see you at the end of the day." He says before walking off and giving you a small wave that you return. Walking into the bathroom, you lock the door behind you only to immediately rush over the toilet and vomit your guts out. After vomiting until there was nothing left to vomit, you try to stand up only to fall right to the ground. Upon falling to the ground, you feel your conciseness slowly starting to slip from you. Just before you slip out of consciousness, you feel your entire body suddenly tense up. "Argh, what's...going.....on." You say just before falling out of consciousness on the bathroom floor. As the waking world starts to come back to you, you let out a little groan. Only, it didn't sound right. What the-" You cut yourself short upon hearing what sounds like a girl's voice in place of your normally pretty deep voice. With new determination in your mind, you try to open your eyes only to slam them shut after a fresh wave of pain washes over your mind. Rolling onto your back, you notice that same feeling you got earlier this morning, and last night only this time it is much more prominent. The tiled ground also doesn't feel cold for some reason as you're squirming around on it. With an undesirably large amount of questions in your mind, you slowly force your eyes open and see that your previous assumption was correct and you are still laying on the bathroom floor. Unsure of how long you have been here, you decide to stand up and get out of here. *Crash* Upon trying to stand, you immediately face plant into the tile flooring. Wondering what is going on, you look at yourself only to be met with nothing but white fur. 'What the fu...' You think as you see that the rest of your body is covered in this white fur. You also take note that you no longer have hands and feet but what appear to be hooves in their place. With this new information in your mind, you start panic. "What happened!?" You say in what sounds like a very familiar voice although you can't quite figure out who with your mind currently in pieces. Upon hearing your voice once again, a wave of fear comes over you as you realize why your voice is in fact so high. Taking a look between your legs only serves to confirm your previous suspicions. While you're panicking like any normal human would after suddenly turning into a furry creature and having their gender changed, you feel something move on your back. Taking a look behind you fills your vision with two snow while wings curled up against your sides. With these new appendages now in mind, you quickly realize why you recognized your voice. "I-I'm Cloud Rider...b-but there's no way! That was only a dream!" You attempt to rub your head only to be reminded that this is in fact all too real as you crack yourself on the side of the head with a hoof. "Ok ok ok ok, just take deep breaths." You say to yourself over and over while attempting to calm yourself. After a while of steady breathing, you finally are able to collect your thoughts and better process what is currently happening to you. 'Ok, so let's see, I'm now a mythical creature that has been plaguing my dreams for the past few months who also happens to be female and I'm currently sitting in the school bathroom.' You think to yourself while still trying to figure out what is happening right now. 'Alright, first things first, I've got to learn how to walk.' You think before quickly trying to get to your hooves only to collapse right back down onto the ground. 'Ouch, maybe a little slower this time.' You think to yourself as you put all four of your now legs under you and slowly extend them. Now that your standing up, although barely, you realize just how small you are. The sink that was normally just above your waist is now eye level. 'Wow, I'm like three and a half feet tall...' You think now having another worry on your mind. While standing in one spot isn't doing you much good, you realize you have no idea how a quadruped walks. Thinking, you decide to try alternating legs. "Ok here we go, front right, back left, front left, back right..." You continue to say this while shakily walking in a circle in the bathroom for the next 30 minutes attempting to relearn how to walk. 'Alright, I think I will be able to get out of here now.' You think while walking up to the door. As you look at it, realization dawns on you that you are now lacking something very important to opening doors, hands. You let out a frustrated groan as you realize that the only way to open this door is to use your mouth. Slowly but surely, you pull the door open just enough to slip out. After walking right into the hallway, you let out a sigh of relief that no one is here as you start walking down the hall. "Well, it's not like my day can get any worse-" *Ring* "Oh no." You mutter just before dozens upon dozens of kids start flowing out into the hallway. The first that lay eyes upon you can only stare. You start to panic again not thinking that school was still going on. Without thinking, you seemingly break out into a full gallop for the nearest exit. As your running past, you are able to catch a few looks of the stunned students and faculty. As you're running, you can't help but feel your ears turn slightly as you hear a gasp or an aww every now and then from the students that are flying past. Finally seeing an exit, you start running at a speed you didn't even think was possible until you realize that you're also flapping your wings as your running. Busting through the doors, you start galloping towards your car. Once you arrive at your car you realize that one you don't have your keys and two you are a miniature horse now. With this not in mind, you take off in the direction of home. While your sprinting, you take a look back to see dozens of students and teachers in front of the building, many of them holding their phones and recording you, watching as you disappear around a corner. After finally getting out of sight, you decide to stick to the outside of the road. Because of the time of day, not many cars are passing by and when one does, you just hide behind the nearest tree or bush. After what felt like hours of walking, or is it trotting now? You finally arrive in front of your house. You walk up to the front door only to remember that you don't have your keys. 'Speaking of that wear did my clothes and well everything go!?' You scream in your mind realizing that you just ran through your school naked. Although, you're covered in fur now so not really sure if it's the same. Shaking your head, you focus you mind back to the task at ha-hoof. You walk over to the welcome mat and lift it up revealing the spare key you keep there. It's a wonder how no one has broken into your house yet with the spare key in the most obvious place. Without thinking, you reach out with a hoof and pick up the key. Only after you've done this do you realize that you have just broken everything you knew about how the world works again. You stare at your hoof in disbelief of how you are holding the key. As soon as you think of letting go of the key, it falls right off your hoof. Placing your hoof back over the key, you think about grabbing it. As you raise your hoof you see that it is, yet again, stuck to your hoof. Bringing your mind back to trying to get inside, you place the key in the lock and turn it with your mouth. 'Blah, I am gonna have to get used to that taste if I'm stuck like this.' You think to yourself as you spit the taste out of your mouth. Now with the knowledge of your physic breaking hooves, you decide to try and open the door without your mouth this time. Placing your hoof on the side of the door handle, you think about grabbing it and pull down only for the handle to follow. After pulling down far enough, you give it a little push and the door pops open. After taking the key out and walking into your house, you take in just how small you really are as you look at all the furniture around you. Kicking the door shut, you look at it to see that you left a dent in the metal door. 'Wow, didn't know I could do that... guess that's kind of cool.' You think as you walk into your room and hop onto your now much larger bed. Now all alone, you start to think about what to do next until you remember who you had made plans with earlier today. "Oh no, if I don't show up at his place, he is going to come here and try to figure out where I am. What is he calls the police? I don't wanna be a lab rat err horse." You say to yourself with increasing amounts of panic present in your voice. "Ok, calm down. I will just go over his place and explain everything to him. Yea, that will work flawlessly." You say while shaking your head. 'Well, what else am I going to do' You think while laying down on your bed. 'I'll just head over to his place in a few hours.' You start to think. *Rumble* "Well, guess some grub won't hurt." You say while sliding off your bed. Walking into your kitchen, you feel your new flat teeth with your tongue and remind yourself that you are now an herbivore. Opening the fridge, you take a look around before your attention is drawn to a half-eaten salad sitting on the middle rack. "Guess I could go for another salad." You say having made up your mind. You reach up and grab the small bowl with your magic hooves and walk over to the table and set it down. After closing the fridge, you hop up onto a chair and sit on your haunches like a dog as you stare down at your meal. "Oh, what the heck." You say realizing that your and animal now just before planting your new muzzle into the salad. After finishing another one of the greatest salads in the world, you take a look over at the clock and see that it is 4:07 right now. 'He should be home right now. Time for a little surprise.' You think while walking towards your front door with a full belly. After repeating the whole door fiasco and putting the key back under the mat, you start your trot to Brock's house. Walking behind all the trees and shrubs, you are sure that no one will see you unless they are walking out of their house right as you're in front of it. Feeling movement on your back, you take a look behind you and are reminded that you have wings. "I wonder if I can fly. Hmm..." You say under your breath. 'Guess I'll find out later, now is probably not the best time to be trying new things.' You think while arriving in front of Brock's house. Walking right up to his door, you push the doorbell without thinking. "Hello?" He says after opening the door and looking down at me. "If this is some kind of prank Preston, you can come out now and take your little horse back to where ever you got it." He says while giving a forced laugh and looking around. "I'm right here." You say while looking up at him with a little grin. "W-What? It talks!?" He says while taking a step back. "I'm not an it, it's me, Sean." You say with your grin slowly being replaced by a frown. "No way..." He says one more time before staring off into space. "Umm hello? Can I come in?" You ask while poking his knee. "O-Oh umm I guess?" He says while moving out of the way. Walking into his living room, you hop onto the couch and take a seat. "I guess you want some answers?" You say to him as he is pacing around the room. "Heck yea I want answers!" He says nearly shouting while casting a few glances your way. "Alright, about 2 months ago..."