//------------------------------// // Chapter 5: A New Perspective // Story: A Lost Hero // by Emerald Byte //------------------------------// Chapter 5: A New Perspective Kald slowly began to open his eyes, seeing the familiar site of Twilight’s tree library around him, Kald smiled to himself as he sat up to see he was lying on Twilights bed. Kald looked over the side of the bed to see all of his friends asleep on the floor, with Rainbow Dash right next to the bed, Kald looked around for his glasses, giving up trusting his blurred vision would be enough, but it did seem better than it used too. Kald quietly got out of the bed and went down stairs careful not to wake anyone as he went to the calendar Twilight kept around the library to see what day it was, to Kald’s surprise it had been three days since he fought with Teresia. Kald walked over to a nearby mirror and looked himself over noticing he seemed to have no injuries, but upon closer inspection Kald noticed the iris of his left eye had turned to a dark green. Smiling to himself Kald closed his eye and raised his hand covering his right eye and opened his left eye to see it staring back at him in the mirror with it’s new green color, “I see you” he said to himself. As Kald turned to head to the fridge to get something to snack on, his chest suddenly started to hurt, he paused for a moment putting a hand to his chest as a wave of pain hit him knocking the air from his lungs and forcing him to the floor. Kald grasped at his chest as if he could grab the pain and get it away, as another wave of pain hit him Kald fell over onto his side, feeling as if his body was on fire and his heart was being squeezed. Kald soon was able to breath as the pain receded a little, Kald stood up with a hand still on his chest wondering what had just happened to him. Kald heard footsteps coming down the stairs, he began to walk back to the stairs to meet whoever was approaching correcting his composure to look normal, he didn't want his friends to worry after all. As Spike reached the end of the stairs and saw Kald, he jumped from the stairs and latched on to Kald’s arm in a hug, “Kald you're awake, this is great lets go tell everyone they will be so happy and.....,” Kald cut Spike short and hugged the little dragon back, “I’m glad to be awake too buddy, but let’s let them get some sleep and i’m sure you could use some too,” Kald said with a smile. Spike yawned as he let go of Kald, “Yea your right. Hey I heard a crash before I came down here what was that?” Kald looked at Spike and laughed quietly, “O, I just fell is all,” Kald said as he and Spike began to walk back up the stairs to go to bed. Although the pain had subsided there was still some sort of weight in Kald’s chest, as he laid down in his bed to sleep he really began to ponder what was going on and if this was from what he had done with Teresia’s magic. *********** Kald awoke the next morning to excited chatter coming from the bottom floor of the library. Kald got up from his couch and put on his glasses and walked downstairs to find everyone talking to Spike. Pinkie Pie was the first to notice Kald and quickly bounce over and land ontop of him in greeting. “Kald, your finally awake, do you know what this means?” Pinkie said as she stared at Kald, “What?” Kald replied hastily, “Duh, it means it’s time for a party!” she exclaimed joyfully. Twilight stepped forward to interrupt Pinkie before she got too carried away, “Calm down Pinkie, we don’t need to overwhelm all at once,” she said as she helped Kald to his feet, “So how are you feeling?”, Kald laughed and ruffled her mane, “I’m fine Twilight don’t worry so much”. Twilight stepped back from Kald so as to keep her mane intact, “Are you sure? Nothing seems off too you?”, Kald smiled, “Nope, everything is ok,” he said while stretching to emphasise his point. “So now that i'm awake, what have I missed since I was asleep?” Kald asked everyone only to be interrupted by his stomach growling. “First seems, like you need something to eat,” Rainbow Dash jibbed at him as she nudged Kald in the side with her hoof, “Here let me get ya something,” she stated as she darted out of the room. Rainbow had returned as quickly as she had gone with a sandwich in hoof, “Here, I know you like these,” she said handing Kald the sandwich. Kald smiled as he accepted the sandwich and began eating it, “So, tell me, what happened to Teresia?” Kald asked between bites. “She ceased her attack and left to try and find a way to transform herself and her ponies back to normal,” Twilight said as she began to pack a bag, Kald smiled to himself as he finished his sandwich, “I’m glad she found a new goal to chase after.” “Kald dear,” Rarity began as she trotted over and stared at Kald with a hoof on her chin, “One of your eyes have changed color, are you sure you're alright?” at this comment everypony crowded around Kald and looked at his eyes, “Yea, your left eyes green now” AJ said pointing her hoof at Kald. “It’s fine,” Kald said reassuringly, “Infact, I feel that it’s a good thing, i'm slowly starting to remember some things about where i came from,” he said standing to try and escape everyponies lingering eyes. “Really what do you remember?” Fluttershy asked quietly, Kald seemed to lose himself in thought as he recalled some of his memories, “I remember some of my old friends, like Blanne, he was a cool guy who always loved a challenge and was very athletic, another friend of mine, Zak was a real character, he and I hung out alot and we were worked together in a labratory. I can remember I used to be a scientist and me and Zak used to prank all the others for fun when we weren't busy,” Kald came back from reality as he drew himself away from his thoughts. “Wow, seems you have some great friends back home dear,” Rarity assured him, “Yea and I like the sound of that Zak guy I wonder what kinds of pranks he could show me,” Pinkie said excitedly. Kald smiled at their comments but finally noticed Twilight finishing her packing, “Hey Twilight, you going somewhere?” Twilight snapped the bag shut and turned back to Kald, “Yea, I’m heading back to Canterlot to continue my studies on dimensional magic, Teresia was kind enough to lend me some of her knowledge but i still have some practice and research to do so I might be gone a while but take care of the library and Spike for me ok.” “No problem,” Kald said with a thumbs up, “Good, well i’m off then,” Twilight said as she walked out the door. Kald turned back to the rest of the group, “So, lets spend the day catching up since I have been out for a while.” “O, splendid idea darling,” Rarity complemented, “How bout a picnic at the lake,” Fluttershy suggested. Kald thought for a moment, “Sounds good, but i’ll need someone to show me where the lake is,” Rainbow flew over to Kald’s side and put a hoof on his shoulder, “Don’t worry I got ya covered.” “Great then we can all meet there in about an hour, i’ll bring snacks,” Pinkie said as she bounced off to get ready. *********** As dusk began to set, Kald and the gang packed up the picnic and began the walk back to town. Kald was deep in thought, wondering if Twilight was making any progress in finding his home, despite his distractions he couldn’t shake the thoughts in his head over what might be wrong with him from the odd experience that morning. As everypony began to depart for their homes, Kald told Spike he would meet him back at the library and departed to walk around for a while. Kald didn't notice where he was going as there was a rising pain inside him, Kald soon collapsed to the ground, his body burning and aching. “What is this? What’s happening to me?” Kald thought to himself as he barely held on to consciousness as he could feel his strength fading, as Kald slowly slipped away into unconsciousness. *********** Kald awoke sometime in the night, glad that he could keep this a secret from his friends, he didn't want them to worry and Kald knew he would be able to figure this out when he got home, he had too. Kald dusted himself off and began running back to the library, “I hope Spike didn't stay up too late, if Twilight found out she would kill me,” he joked to himself as he opened the door to the library. Kald was tackled in a hug from Spike upon his return, “Thank Celestia your safe, after you didn't come home for a while i tried to find but no one had seen you so I started to get worried.” Kald got up laughing, “I’m fine Spike I just took a nap for longer than expected.” “O well that's, good,” Spike said with a yawn. “Come on Spike, lets get some rest,” Kald urged on as he walked up the stairs to the bedroom. “You don't have to tell me twice,” Spike said with sleepy enthusiasm as he and Kald went to go get some needed rest. *********** “Kald! Wake up! Kald” Spike yelled as he furiously shook Kald awake. “Yes yes i’m up, what's going on?” Kald said groggily, as Spike thrusted a letter into Kald’s face. As Kald read the letter his face began to light up, “No way, she figured it out!” he yelled as he picked up Spike in an excited hug. “Yea, I thought that would make you happy. Twilight wants us in Canterlot by tomorrow,” Spike said putting up the letter. “We gotta tell everypony, I want you all too see my home,” Kald said enthusiastically as he ran out the door. As Kald ran through town with excitement he could feel his heart racing, his home was so close, he could remember his house and the front porch and he could remember the feel of laying on his favorite couch. As Kald approached Rainbow’s mailbox, he threw the booster pack onto his back and was preparing to take flight when he felt the racing in his heart stop and become a weight inside his chest as his body grew heavy and he collapsed to the ground. Kald could hardly breath as he felt his chest grow heavy and tighten, Kald made himself stand and prepare to take off as he felt the pain subside although he still felt heavy. Kald kicked off the ground as his newly repaired booster pack kicked in and propelled him up to Rainbow’s house, his trip cut short however as Rainbow was already on her way down from her house. “Hey Kald what's up?” she asked in greeting. “Rainbow can you help me round up everyone at the library i have a huge announcement,” Kald said bursting with excitement. “Yea sure, no problem, but first I gotta have a rematch. Race ya to the library.” she said with confidence. “Your on,” Kald taking the challenge as they both took off with blinding speed towards the library. As they raced through town Kald was ahead with Rainbow closing in, Kald rounded a building almost clipping a wing of his booster pack, he could feel his chest tighten and the pain rising he knew it was going to be impossible to maintain control at high speeds like this. Kald slowed down his speed as he rounded another building, giving Rainbow the lead, with the Library in sight the mad dash to the finish was all that was left. Rainbow did a quick lap around the Library as she landed in front of the door in a triumphant pose, “Looks like i got fast enough to beat you huh,” she said proudly. Kald landed and gave her a smile, “Seems you did but don't let that go to your head,” he said as they shared a laugh. “Can you go round up the others Rainbow, I need a break after that,” Rainbow looked at Kald a little surprised, “You need a break after just that? Well I guess it’s fine, it’s not everyday you get to see somepony as awesome as me,” Kald laughed and waved as she flew off to tell the others. As Rainbow Dash disappeared in the distance Kald sat next to the door to await everyone’s return, needed a rest from the strange stress his body has been going through. *********** Kald awoke from his short nap when Rainbow dash returned with the rest except for AJ, “Hey where’s AJ isn't she going to come?”. Rainbow scratched her head, “She was but she has alot of work to do at Sweet Apple Acres, she doesn't think she can make it.” Kald thought for a moment, “Well, why don’t we go help her get done early so she can come with us, if we all help i'm sure we can get done in no time!” “Now you talkin,” Rainbow said as they all departed to Sweet Apple Acres to help Applejack. *********** Upon their arrival to Sweet Apple Acres, the group quickly found AJ at work in the fields, “Hey AJ! We’re here to help!” Kald yelled across the orchard. Applejack finished bucking some apples from a nearby tree, “Shucks, y’all don't gotta help me with this,” she said between breaths as she was clearly winded from an extensive amount of apple bucking. “Come on AJ, we get to see Kald’s home tomorrow we can't let you miss that,” Rainbow said as she placed a hoof on Applejack’s shoulder. “Yea, and besides I can't go home without the gang all together,” Kald said giving AJ a smile, “So what do you need us to do?” “Well, I gotta harvest all the apples in this field and fix the wheel on Big Mac’s wagon as well as fix the barn door,” Applejack listed off. “Well let’s get started then,” Kald said stepping up to a nearby tree and spinning up his rings he pulled his arm back and let loose a low power Impact Bullet at the tree shaking down the apples into the buckets below, at his first success he turned back to the rest, “Well what are we waiting for lets get to it,” he challenged as he ran to knock down more apples. Kald made quick work of a few more trees, with his enhanced strength from his rings he swiftly kicked, punched, and blasted apples out of trees and spun back to the gang with a confident smirk on his face. At this the rest of the gang all galloped off to get to work, Rainbow Dash flying and bucking trees at blinding speeds was making quick work of the apples especially with the help of Fluttershy all the apples were quickly gathered. Kald could feel the pressure in his chest again, it seemed the rings made whatever was wrong with him even worse, he could feel the strength leaving him as he continued to help fix the wagon making sure not to let on to his friends that he was in pain. As Applejack hit in the last nail with her hoof to fix the wheel, Kald lost his grip and dropped the wagon down hard. “You ok sugarcube?” AJ asked as she helped Kald off the ground. Kald dusted himself off, “Yeah. I just need a little break is all.” “Well looks like we are all done here since Pinkie fixed the barn door. Lets head back to the library and rest up till tomorrow,” AJ said with a smile as the gang gathered for the walk back to town. *********** As the gang settled in the library Kald noticed the time and that they had missed the train for Canterlot today, so the trip would have to wait till tomorrow but at least they would have time to rest up and make the trip early tomorrow. “Sorry I made y’all miss the train,” said Applejack as she took off her hat and got comfortable. Rainbow Dash flew over to the couch and relaxed, “Ehh don’t worry about it AJ, we can catch the train tomorrow.” Kald stretched and leaned against the couch, “Yea. Don't worry we will have plenty of time.” “Oh, i'm just so excited to see your world Kald, it must be so beautiful,” Fluttershy said as she laid on the floor. Rarity neatly got into the guest bed ensuring that it stayed neat, “Darling I can’t wait to see your home it must be marvelous.” Pinkie bounced her way atop Twilights unoccupied bed and bounced around ecstatically, “Oh, I can't wait to meet your friends Kald. Oh! And you gotta show me some of your sweets.” Kald chuckled at all of their enthusiasm to see where he came from, “I can’t wait to see it for myself you know,” he said with a yawn. “Better get some shuteye so we can be well rested fer tomorrow,” AJ said as she laid down with a yawn. Rarity used her magic and turned out the lights, “Yes dear we don't wanna be late.” *********** The sky was clear and the sun shining bright as the train went its way along the track on the way to Canterlot. Kald looked out the window and saw all the beautiful scenery and ponyville off in the distance, everything was so peaceful, Kald turned his attention back to his friends in the train car as they were all talking excitedly except for Rarity who was concerning herself with her outfit as she rustled through her many bags for accessories and such to make her outfit perfect. “Come on Rarity, you have been trying on stuff for hours and why did you bring all that stuff anyway,” Rainbow said as she packed away some of Rarity’s things that had gotten tossed about the train car. Rarity wore a look of shock, “Well of course I have. This is my first time going to a new world and meeting new creatures, I simply must look my best.” Kald laughed and walked over to Rarity and put a hand on her shoulder, “Just pick something Rarity, it will be fine.” Rarity finally settled on her apparel by the time the train pulled into Canterlot station. Kald was the first to step off, and with a smile on his face. He was glad to finally step into canterlot without a hostile or unpleasant greeting. Pinkie bounced ahead of him, “Come on everypony! We got a castle to get too.” Kald followed Pinkie with the rest behind him, Kald look around marveling at the sight of Canterlot and all of it’s beauty. It was funny, he thought to himself that even though he had been here before he never got to appreciate how beautiful it all was. As they approached the door to the castle Twilight was there to greet them all with hugs, “It’s so great to see everyony again, sorry my work took so long.” “Don’t worry about it Twilight i’m just happy I will be able to see my home again thanks to you,” Kald said while he hugged Twilight. Twilight turned back to the Castle and motioned for everyone to follow, “No need to keep them waiting, let’s get this started.” Twilight lead the way to the throne room where Celestia and Luna awaited them. Kald looked over to Luna who averted from his gaze, Kald figured there might still be harsh feelings. “Are you ready to get started Twilight Sparkle?” Celestia asked as she and Luna approached Twilight. Twilight positioned herself in the center of the throne room, “I’m ready princess, let’s get started.” Celestia and Luna took their places beside Twilight. Twilight began to cast her magic making it swirl in front of her and the princesses, Luna and Celestia both began to intertwine their magic with Twilights making the magic swirl faster as it changed colors rapidly and began to grow in size. Kald watched, wide eyed with amazement at the display of power and control that the three displayed in the spell they were performing. Kald’s amazement was soon interrupted when he heard his name, “Kald!” he heard bringing himself out of his daze. “Kald, I need you to touch the portal to complete the spell,” Twilight said without ever breaking focus on the spell, Kald walked forward and went in between the unicorns and stood facing the portal, “Now Kald! Place your hand on the portal,” and with that Kald raised his hand and laid his palm on the swirling magic in front of him, it felt strangely solid for a moment and then it sparked around his hand singeing his hand as he pulled it back. The portal began stopped swirling and rested peacefully for a moment as Twilight and the princesses stopped casting their magic, soon the portal pulsed sending ripples through it, “It’s ready Kald, you home is on the other side of this portal, all we have to do is walk through.” Kald stood amazed at what was before him, through this dark purple and sparkling portal was his home. Kald began to tremble as he stepped close to it and stared. A hoof came to rest on his shoulder, “We will all be right behind you,” Celestia assured him. Kald took a deep breath, “Alright then lets go,” he said as he stepped through the portal with the others quickly following. Kald could feel the massive build up of anticipation and excitement in his heart. *********** As Kald stepped out of the portal to the other side his heart fell as he stared he didn't understand anything before him. As he looked on he couldn't believe his eyes, nothing was as he remembered. The rest of his friends stepped out of the portal behind him with Celestia and Luna being the last to come through, as the portal shrank to nothing more than a small orb floating in the air. “I..... I don't understand,” Kald began to say as he started to walk. Twilight followed Kald and taking in her surroundings, “This is nothing like what you described,” she they continued on. Kald stopped and looked around with wide eyes, “This can’t be,....... this can't be my home,” he said with despair as he took in the view of the black, ashy, desolate waste before him, where building stood there was only rubble and ash much like what they stood in now, there was nothing but the sound of the wind. Twilight turned to Kald and saw the sadness in his face, “I’m sorry Kald, this is correct the portal used your genetic signature to open this place, this is where you are from.” Rainbow lightly landed next to Kald making a puff of ash rise up and blow away, “Kald I,....” she said as he began to walk off again. As Kald walked on he heard a crunch under his foot and picked up what seemed to be a burnt piece of newspaper, the title read, “People Revolt Against Government Betrayal of Local Hero” Kald’s head ached as his memory began to come back, he dropped the newspaper as he began to remember. “What does this title mean?” Twilight asked as she read the paper, Pinkie bounced over to read it too “Yea, what's a government?”. Kald turned to them, “A government is a group of people we elected to be our leaders.” Rarity saw the hard look in Kald’s eyes, “Dear have you remembered something?” Kald averted his gaze down to his hand and then to the piece or paper, “I remember what happened now. I was a self proclaimed superhero, I invented nanobots that I injected into myself originally with the purpose of fixing a brain degeneration problem i gave myself from a lab accident during my interdimensional research. To my surprise not only did they do that they amplified my body by allowing me to control the energy my body produced, I became stronger, faster, and even smarter than I was before, and with enough concentration and control I could fire concentrated blasts of energy, although a side effect was that the iris’s of my eyes had turned green. With this new discovery i invented that hover board that ran off my energy, the same way the nanobots did, a friend of mine helped perfect it to optimize it's performance, I always thought it was funny that I could never quite get my own invention to work right. I took to being a local vigilante and helped many people. But my power attracted unwanted attention from a neighboring nation who launched an attack on my nation, the government had me go to try and stop a devastating missile headed for us. I hurriedly accepted in order to protect everyone, but during my interception of the missile the government fired an interceptor missile at me in order to be sure to stop the missile off the coast line. I knew that if I didn't do something about the explosion it would hit the coast and harm innocent people, so I created a stasis field around myself and the missiles when they collided and in the chaos of it all it imploded throwing me to your world.” Kald walked a few more steps looking around, “There must have been another attack after that, and without me here and the people rebeling there was nothing to stop it.” Fluttershy hugged Kald, “That’s awful just awful, i’m so sorry,” Kald walked out of the hug and kept looking around the rubble they were in. Applejack walked over to Kald and watched as he kept walking around and looking, “What are you looking for sugarcube?” Kald began to pick up his pace searching furiously, “I don't know. I just feel like there is something I haven't remembered yet,” as he tossed a piece of rock over and walked forward something cracked under his foot. Kald knelt down and picked up a cracked frame that had ash all over it, but he could see himself in the photo, he removed the photo from the frame and began to wipe off the ash. Twilight and the rest caught up too Kald, “I think we should head back, we don't wanna stray too far from the portal,” Twilight then noticed Kald was holding something in his hands, “What’s that?” Kald looked up to his friends with tears in his now green eyes, “I remember,... everything,” as he dropped to his knees crying and holding the photo out from himself so that his tears wouldn't get it wet. Rainbow flew over to try and comfort Kald, “So who is that with you in the picture?” Kald’s tears began to flow faster, “That’s.... my wife,.... her name was Lita.” The ponies were all shocked at Kald’s words, and could not imagine the pain Kald was in, having to rediscover who he was only to find that everything is gone. Kald’s rings appeared around his arms and began to spin as he cried, he clutched the photo in his left hand as he balled his right into a fist. As he screamed out into the sky he stood and threw a punch forward launching an impact bullet into the sky so hard that it laid Kald flat on his back. The impact bullet soared away and glowed in the sky like a star, as Kald lay on the ground with tears still streaming down his cheeks he turned his head to face his friends, “Do you think it reached her?” With her subjects speechless at the display they just witnessed Celestia walked over to Kald, “Of course it did, and i’m sure she is happy to see it.” “That’s,...... good,” Kald said as he closed his eyes. Celestia noticed Kald’s breathing had slowed, “Kald?” she poked him with her hoof to no avail, Kald wasn’t moving, “Kald are you alright?” Twilight quickly galloped over, “Kald!? Kald wake up!” she shook him with her hooves with no effect on Kald. Twilight pressed her ear to his chest and could hear a weak heartbeat as well as Kald’s troubled breathing. “It must be the magic he absorbed from Teresia. She warned me he would suffer from it. Quick we have to go back, we have to help him.” Rainbow and AJ lifted Kald onto Celestia’s back as they went back to the orb and reopened the portal to travel back to Equestria. *********** As they all arrived back in the throne room of Canterlot Castle, Celestia lightly laid Kald onto the floor. Twilight stood over Kald and turned to Celestia, “Princess isn’t there anything we can do for him?” Celestia put a wing around Twilight, “There is a spell I know but it will require alot of magic in order to be done, and since we would have to cast more magic than Kald’s body could reject we would need a gem as a focusing point. Sadly we don’t have that kind of time.” Rarity started rummaging through her bags quickly throwing stuff everywhere, “Rarity, what are you doing?” Twilight asked as she dodged some of Rarity’s things, “You said you needed a gem right? Well it just so happens i have an emerald in here I was going to give to Kald as a present but this seems much more important,” as she pulled out the emerald from her bag and used her magic to levitate it over to Celestia who gladly accepted it. “Rarity would you assist me with this spell as well?” Celestia asked looking over to Rarity. Rarity stammered on her words, “Of course princess,... but... I don’t know how to perform such a spell.” “Do not worry, all you need do is focus your magic into the emerald along with Luna, Twilight, and myself and I will handle the rest,” Rarity shook her head, “Of course I will help princess.” Celestia hovered the Emerald directly over Kald as she, Luna, Rarity, and Twilight circled him in preparation for the spell, before anything started Twilight looked to Celestia, “Princess, what exactly will this spell do?”, Celestia sighed, “It will turn him into an Equine like us, turning him into a magical creature so that his body will no longer reject the magic within him.” Applejack spoke up, “But how will that solve it, what if he turns into an earth pony or a pegasus, we don't have magic.” “That is where you are wrong Applejack, all ponies have magic be they a unicorn, pegasus, or earth pony we all have magic. Think back to the elements of harmony and how it brought out the magic in all of you. Unicorn’s may be the only ones who can control magic but we all have it inside,” Celestia said as she turned her attention back to the task at hand. Celestia’s eyes turned completely white as her magic began to fill the emerald and begin the spell, “Please direct all of your magic into the gem and we shall begin.” Luna’s magic joined her sisters connecting to the gem as well as Twilight and Rarity, and with the magic connections complete Celestia started the process of the transformation spell as a gold trail of magic began to seep down from the emerald and begin to cover Kald, sparking as it made contact. Kald awoke yelling from the sudden shock of the magic and the pain from his body trying to reject the magic that was being forced on him, with fear and tears in his eyes Rainbow flew into his view, “I’m sorry Kald don’t worry we are trying to help,” Kald locked eyes with Rainbow Dash as he gripped his photo tighter and passed out with another set of tears going down his cheeks. As the spell continued Celestia forced more magic onto Kald, due to the massive resistance of his body, the process was slow but soon Kald’s entire body was bathed in the golden magic and soon the cocoon of magic thickened until you could no longer see Kald and once it touched the gem there was a bright flash of light. Celestia and the others stopped casting their magic to turn away from the bright light. When the light had died down there was a golden glow coming from the magic cocoon which slowly dimmed and faded with no trace of the emerald and in the cocoons place, laying on the ground was a green unicorn that wore a small dark green jacket and glasses with black ruffled mane and a short messy tail accompanied by a blank flank. They all gathered around Kald, Twilight looked him over, “Princess did it work right? I thought he would have been an earth pony,” Celestia thought for a moment, “I thought the same Twilight but it would seem the magic within him forced his transformation to be a unicorn.” Luna cleared her throat in order to gain attention, “I believe we should get him his own house in Ponyville,” Celestia looked at her sister with surprise, “This is unexpected of you sister, have you finally begun to trust him,” Luna tried to avoid their gazes, “I only think it would help him feel more accepted here, since we did just change him to one of us it would be comforting for him to have his own home.” Celestia put a wing around Luna and turned to face the others, “I think that would be a wonderful idea sister. Let’s give Kald a home for him to wake up in.” *********** Kald finally awoke in some strange building, it appeared to be someones house, he was on a couch and could see there was a nice rug on the floor and a vanity with mirror near the door. Kald tried to get up but seemed to have problems moving and fell to the floor, when he reached up to rub his head he didn't find a hand but a hoof instead. Kald stared at it for a while then attempted to stand up again only to fall over once more but catching himself on the vanity and what he saw in the mirror was not the him he knew but instead a unicorn. Kald put a hoof to the mirror confirming that it was infact him he was seeing, but he couldn't hardly believe it. Kald soon noticed the picture of him and Lita in a stunning new frame that was lined with gems standing next to his hoof on the vanity, he grabbed it between his hooves as he sat on the floor with tears coming to his eyes. The door swung open as Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, and Twilight walked in the door and at the sight of Kald Rainbow swooped in for a tackle hug, “Kald! You're awake!” Twilight and Pinkie quickly trotted over to join in the hug, “I’m so glad your ok” Twilight said as she backed off from the hug along with Rainbow Dash, Pinkie still remained in the hug, “Oh gosh. I thought you would never wake up, you had been asleep for so long and i’ve been wanting to talk to you but you couldn't and we kept checking up on you and you just kept sleeping. But i'm glad you're awake now do you like your house?” Kald finally got released from Pinkie’s hug and looked to them quizzically, “This is my house?” Pinkie twisted her head upside down, “Well duh, everypony needs their own house. So since you were asleep everypony in Ponyville helped to build you one.” Kald looked around and then back down to the framed photo as he traced the figure of Lita with his hoof. “O! We also brought you food and all kinds of snacks,” Pinkie said as she darted out the door and back again with bags of food. Kald got up slowly getting used to his new pony form, “You said I was asleep. How long was I asleep?” Twilight looked over at a calendar hanging on the wall, “It’s been five days since you passed out from the transformation spell, so we brought food this time to stock your house incase you woke up and were hungry.” Kald sat back down on the couch dangling his back legs off the side and using his front legs to keep balance, “Why did you turn me into a unicorn?” Twilight scratched her head nervously, “Well we had to transform you into an Equine to stop you from dying we didn't know you would become a unicorn. Honestly i thought you would have been an earth pony.” Kald just looked down taking in her words, “Why did you transform me at all, why didn't you just let me die. My world is gone, along with everything I had, why didn't you just leave me there.” Rainbow flew over to Kald and nudged his shoulder with her hoof, “Hey what’s wrong with you. You know we couldn't ever leave you like that, we’re your friends.” Kald just shook his head with tears falling down his cheeks, “What is there for me now? My home is gone, my life is gone.” As Kald picked up his picture and held it close to him as he sat on the couch Twilight got the girls together to leave and let Kald process what had happened, “We will check up on you again ok Kald? Just try to get some rest,” and with that they left leaving Kald in his new house. Kald looked at his photo again and set it back on the vanity and began to try and put away the food in his kitchen but not to much success. As he got curious of being a unicorn he attempted to use magic, but couldn’t figure out how to make it work, not even a single spark or even of the feeling of doing something remotely right. Eventually exhausted with getting used to his new form he walked up the stairs to his bedroom and looked out the window to see it was late and tucked himself into bed as best he could and went to sleep. *********** Kald awoke the next day to knocking at his door. He stumbled out of bed and made it halfway down the stairs before falling the rest of the way to which his door was magically unlocked and was swung open with a worried Twilight Sparkle bursting in, “Kald are you alright?” Kald got up and rubbed his back with his hoof, “Yea, just getting used to all this is all,” Twilight looked him over making sure that he was really ok. “Well it seems you're doing better. So what do you want to do today?” Kald looked back at Twilight and she could see the sadness in his eyes. Kald walked off into the kitchen to get a snack, “Oh. Well I don't think I want to do much of anything today. But can I get you anything?” Twilight followed him into the kitchen with a look of puzzlement, “No i’m fine. But how can you not wanna do anything surely there is somewhere you wanna go besides your house.” “Not really,” he said as he ate some hayfries that he left on the table and tried to reach up into a cabinet to get something else but was having difficulties. Twilight noticed he wasn't using any magic and was having trouble reaching what appeared to be some cider in the cabinet, “Here let me get that for you,” Kald got down and watched as the cider floated from the cabinet and to the table with Twilight’s magic, “So would you want me to try and teach you magic. Since you are a unicorn you should be able to use magic.” Kald sighed as he knew Twilight was going to be persistent on getting him out of his house, “Sure, lets give it a try.” With that Twilight clapped her hooves in excitement, “Great! Come with me to the library we got a lot of practice to do.” As Kald followed her he knew that getting used to being a pony was going to be difficult but as he walked through town he found that everypony greeted him warm heartedly and seemed to accept him as if he never was a human. As he walked by a apple stand the same pony who had shunned him before now gave him a free apple. As Kald ate the apple and arrived at the library to try and learn magic he knew that getting used to this new life was going to be a long road ahead of him.