//------------------------------// // Chapter One: Brand new day // Story: The Conversion Bureau: Green Tea // by Da Bunnana King //------------------------------// The Conversion Bureau: Green Tea; The Rewrite ~ ~ ~ Da Bunnana King Chapter One: Brand new day = = = = = I was there, flying. Soaring through the clouds at a breakneck speeds without a care in the world. Flying through the endless field of clouds, as I twisted and weaved through them. I was weightless; I felt only the cool breeze on my face, the cold water from the clouds as I flew through them. I could hear the air rushing past my ears and- - - - - - The alarm blared in my face with its annoying beeping and buzzing sound. I lazily swatted at it to silence it. “Mmmmm, five more minutes please,” I begged with the inanimate object as I knocked over some of the stuff that populated my bedside table. I found the alarm and began to search for the snooze button. Eventually I found it and slammed it down with my fist and the sweet sound of silence filled my ears once more. “Jaaaaaccoooobbb!” cried my mother, “Breakfast is on the table!” My eyes slowly began to open as the morning light shown through my curtains. The light hurted my eyes as they adjusted to the light. Then I sluggishly rolled off the bed, and dragged myself over to my wardrobe to find my cloths. They were the same school cloths I had worn for the past two years at school; a light blue button up shirt and black dress pants. It was the uniform I had to wear as a year ten student but next year was the year I qualifiy to senior year and can wear the white shirt. Then, no one would question me as I skip the queue for the tuck shop. That and the responsibilities I would probably have to do along with it, but the way the world was looking I would be lucky if I get to finish year twelve. “Jacob,” said my mother as she poked her head through my door. She had long flowing locks of brown hair that matched her brown eyes. She was fair skinned like me but unlike me she didn’t have freckles like me. “Jacob your breakfast is getting cold so please hurry up,” she said as I finished fashioning my belt. “Yeah, I’ve got to get going soon or I’m going to be late for school,” I said as I quickly ran my hands through my semi long hair to get the knots out. “Alrighty,” she said before she turned out to head back into the kitchen, “Oh and me and your father have to talk to you tonight, so no going out. Okay.” “Okay,” I said while in the back of my mind I was swearing in dread and terror for whatever they wanted to talk to me about. It was always the same, she would tell me that we needed to ‘talk’ and they would sit me down at the table and ground me for a month. But the thing that scared me the most was what I was in trouble for. Had I done something wrong in the past that had cascaded and piled up into a massive screw up that would doom me for the test of my life? “Don’t worry; you’re not in trouble,” she said in a recurring voice, “We just need to talk, okay.” “Alright,” I sighed as I felt calm again. She left the room as I found my tie. I could never get the hang of ties, as I’d always get them to long or far too short. This time however I had succeeded in tying it the first go. “Yeah, today is going to be a good day,” I said under my breath as I walked out of my room. = = = = = I strode into the dining room where my father sat reading the paper. Even though he was a pony now he still loved reading the paper. I guess it’s easier to start with how my dad became a talking pegasus colored like a drawing I would've done as a kindergartener. He had that burnt yellow color to his coat and a light brownish color to his mane, which kind of matched his feathers. But ever since Equestria had appeared and began offering conversion a lot of crazy stuff began happening. A bunch of terrorists killing Equestrians, the Australian government collapsing, and ponies ponifying anything that had figures; the first group was called the Human Liberation Front, or HLF for short and the last one was only know as the Ponification of Earth’s Rebirth or PER. But before the government collapsed my dad did a lot of work trying to take down members of the PER and the HLF as a Federal Police Agent. But in his line of work it was common of injury to happen. And well one day when he was spying on a PER hideout he was caught and ponified on the spot, luckily they were kind enough to drag him to a Bureau. “Mornin’ dad,” I said as I rubbed his head as I sat down. “Hey son, did you sleep well last night?” he asked as I scoffed toast. “Alright, cool dream though,” I said as some crumbs of toast flew out of my mouth. “Oh? What was it about?” he asked as he put his newspaper down. “Well it was a dream about me flying around in the clouds, and then the alarm woke me up,” I replied back as I began on the second piece of toast. “Ahhh, sounds like my conversion dream. But it’s probably because you want to be a pilot and all that. Your brain’s just letting you know it really wants to be a pilot too,” he said as he looked at the clock behind me. “Oh boy, I gotta get going,” he said as he sprung up in the air and glided over to my mother with his dark sun burnt yellow wings. He landed a kiss on my mother’s cheek as he packed away his newspaper into a briefcase he had. “I’ll see you guys when I get back, but I got to get to the office otherwise I’m going to miss that Equestrian case with that boy getting ponified at South Brisbane,” he quickly said as he picked up his briefcase as he darted out to the door and flew away. “Well I better follow him, because school and all,” I said as I finished my toast only to flush it down with a glass of orange juice. “Alright, I might be able to walk you to the train station as I go to work,” she said as I quickly grabbed my bag for school. “I’d love to but I promised I would meet Justin before school,” I said as I rushed out the door as I didn’t want to be seen walking to the train station with mum. Even though I could catch the train to school, I just found it easier to walk the entire way with Justin. I quickly threw the straps of my bag around my arms and set out for school. = = = = = As I began the semi long walk to school I noticed the new neighbours beginning to move in. The people that had originally lived there had all got ponified and moved out to live in Equestria. These new neighbors on the other hand looked… different. I couldn’t tell if the Earth pony moving boxes was a worker or my new neighbors. Then I saw the small off pink filly as she stood on a box barking orders to the moving men as the father rushed over to hush her. ‘Well this is going to be interesting,’ I thought to myself as I could already imagine the neighbourhood just leaving because of Eqeustrians moving in. I mean we got funny looks from time to time for dad being a pegasus, but we all got along… for the most part. I never the less sighed and continued on my way to school. = = = = = Author’s notes: ARE THOU HAPPY WINDYECHO?! And yes I shall be slowly rewriting it, but it’s not on the priority list of crap to write, but I might dabble a bit into it here and again. So I'll write it when I damm well please unless lots of people yell at me to do so.