I was getting annoyed at my friends’ accusations on Zecora. I mean, and I really mean, that they should respect somepony who was just getting into Ponyville for some things, and I was helping her before Rarity showed up and the others were not letting me speak for one second! Seriously, why the Hell should they be this way?
After what things didn’t really happen in these last couple of days, why act like the way they do now?
And Twilight was agreeing with me with my inner thoughts. “You ponies are being ridiculous!”
And I knew that too well they were being ridiculous.
“Well, I heard that Zecora eats hay,” Pinkie stated.
I rolled my eyes. “We all eat hay.”
“As Dawn said, I eat hay, you eat hay, Pinkie,” Twilight reminded her.
“Yeah,” Pinkie continued, “I heard it’s the evil way she eats hay.”
I was getting frustrated. How can she know that when she hasn’t seen her do those…’evillness’...stuff? She and the others are making no sense. I’ve been with her since I met Zecora, so that makes me the more logical one in this group about her. “Why do you keep thinking she’s evil? There’s no proof.”
“Proof?” Rainbow raised a brow. “We don’t need proof to know that.”
“Hey!” Applejack called. “Where’s Apple Bloom?”
“The door’s open,” Fluttershy noticed the opened door by the entrance to the building.
“She went outside!” Rarity gasped.
“And Zecora’s still out there,” Rainbow added.
Applejack sighed. “That silly lil’ filly! I told her to stay put!”
Seriously, why are they worried? They should know that Zecora is a kind zebra. I should know; since she’s only wanted to make friends with ponies ever since she moved to the Everfree Forest.
“Spike,” Twilight said to the dragon, “you stay here in case Apple Bloom comes back.”
“Will do,” he nodded in a salute.
(Later)
I was with the girls, looking for Apple Bloom, but I was more to make sure they knew that Zecora’s not evil and to give her a chance. However, while I was bickering with Applejack about the zebra, we spotted Apple Bloom in a bush near the Everfree Forest.
I couldn’t believe the brave, little filly actually went there. I was sure that she was afraid of the forest, as all ponies were, but she was bravely going in. I couldn’t help but feel a bit proud of her.
And Zecora looked behind to find Apple Bloom and us. I was trying to be friendly, as I was about to speak, but of course, Applejack beat me to it. “Apple Bloom? Apple Bloom! You get back here right now!”
“Zecora, please,” I spoke to my friend. “They are just uneasy with you. I wouldn’t want them to let you go.”
Zecora looked at me with kind eyes, but Applejack glared at her. “Beware! Beware, you pony folk! Those leaves of blue are not a joke!”
Not a joke? Oh. I guess she meant…
“Y—you keep your creepy mambo-jumbo to yourself, ya hear?” Applejack said, scooping her sister up on her back.
And…the girls were speaking over to each other against Zecora. Honestly, it was sad to see my friend being so accused of things she hasn’t done to the ponies. I was very angry at the girls, except Twilight. I glared at the five mares.
“Ugh! Can’t you girls just let it go?! Zecora hasn’t done a thing to you! How can you accuse her for something so little as entering the town? Seriously, I thought you were better than this!” I practically growled at them, except Twilight and Apple Bloom.
“And I thought you were good to us, Dawn!” Rainbow shot back.
I stepped back, surprised and shocked.
“How can you say that to him, Rainbow?” Twilight asked. “He’s helped us in our time of need!”
“Oh, I remember, but since he’s been hypnotized by that zebra, I dare say that he’s been manipulated,” Rainbow replied.
I was about to say more, but kept silent as I mumbled under my breath to Rainbow, “I thought you were loyal to your friends…”
I turned and left them, while the shocked group couldn’t help but feel a tiny shame.
(Later)
I was back at the Golden Oak Library, in my room, staring out at the window as I thought of Zecora and the event that happened earlier today. I was not having a good time, since what Rainbow had shouted at me back at the entrance to the Everfree Forest was something I pondered over.
“Dawn?” the voice of Twilight Sparkle came as she entered my room. “Are you okay?”
“No,” I replied. “This entire day has been…chaotic, to say the least. I never thought today that they wouldn’t be more acceptable to make a new friend of a species that was coming to live around these parts.”
“You should know that other species haven't been the least liked in Ponyville,” Twilight informed me.
I sighed. “I can get the picture.” I remember the griffon, Gilda, was a bully to the ponies for being friends with Rainbow Dash back then.
“Are you sure you’ll be able to convince our friends about Zecora?”
“I think not, since they’ve been very stubborn today,” I replied.
“Sure, they’ve been stubborn, that I can agree,” Twilight nodded. “But you shouldn’t have them judge your new friend for things she hasn’t done.”
“I need a good night’s sleep,” I told her. “I’m tired as it is right now.”
She nodded. “Good night, Dawn.” She left my room as the door closed behind me.
I sighed. Maybe a good night’s sleep will do me good to get the things in my head off of what happened today about Zecora. I laid down in my bed, as the dreamworld took over me.
(Later)
The next day’s morning, I was refreshed from yesterday’s event. However, something was off about me. I tilted my head as I opened my eyes, revealing…a human hand in front of me. I had an agape mouth, baffled, as I removed the covers from my body.
Yup. This confirmed it. I’m a human in Equestria…I panicked as I never thought I would transform into this body again.
“Dawn? Is everything okay?” Spike’s voice came as he entered the room. And let me tell you of how shocked he was to find me in a different form. “Wha…”
“Before you say anything, Spike…please don’t freak out,” I tried to speak, but he cried out in panic. I sighed in frustration.
“Spike, what’s wrong?” Twilight arrived at my door, and blinked in surprise upon seeing me as a human. “Is that you…Dawn?”
“Yeah, apparently,” I nodded, “it’s me, Twilight.”
“What happened?”
Thankfully she wasn’t freaking out as much as Spike did.
(Later)
We were in the main lobby of the library, trying to find a way to cure what happened to me in my ‘different’ form, but since I was born on Earth, this was thankfully easier for me to help with looking for a specific book about the Poison Joke.
As for Twilight, her horn was soft and wobbly, with blue spots.
I was grateful that she did not freak out earlier, due to me having told her of me being born human on Earth.
Twilight was frantically looking in the books. “No no no no no no! None of these books have a cure!” she groaned in frustration. “There has to be a real reason for this! An illness? An allergy?”
“A curse?” Spike asked.
“I said a real reason!” Twilight corrected him. “Something that points to something real, like Dawn being turned to human, for example.”
“Honestly, it ain’t bad being back to being human,” I said. “I missed having hands.”
“Is that so?” Twilight smiled.