One stormy night there was a flash of light heading towards ponyville with great speed. The trees swayed in the strong wind as the light passed by ponyville. It was a full moon tonight and the timberwolves were howling in the everfree forest. The light suddenly stopped at the ponyville library. Then there was a shadowy figure walking towards the library. It Knocked on the the library’s door and disappeared.
Twilight opens the door and looks around, there was nopony in sight. “Huh..? I guess nopony is here...” She thought to herself, but when she was about to close the door, the black figure showed itself suddenly.
“Boo!” the figure jumped out at Twilight, as she fell back and yelled out a big, “YIKES!” Twilight looked up at the shadowy figure, who was on the floor, crying, yet at the same time laughing uncontrollably.
She walked toward this figure with a puzzled expression and asked "Moonwing? Is that you?" She saw Moonwing, a good friend of hers who was tall with an all black fur coat. His mane was black with the tips being finished with red. Along with his mane having the red tips, his tail had tips of red as well. His eyes were all red except for his pupils which were catlike, also black. All this came together to make an incredibly cool looking Colt who was complete with a cutie mark of a green paw next to a crescent moon.
Moonwing stood up, still shaking from laughter and he said to the purple pony, "Hi Twilight! I got you good, didn't I?" Twilight rolled her eyes as Moonwing followed her back into the library.
Twilight finally stopped shaking from the fright and walked towards Moonwing. “Ok Moonwing, are you ready?” She yelled to spike. "BRING THE BOOK DOWNSTAIRS TO ME NOW!!!” Spike could barely hear her from upstairs, but started to run down the stairs anyway. As he shuffled his little purple feet quickly downstairs, he trips and lands flat on his face, almost getting a bloody nose.
“OW! Here you go Twilight” Spike exclaimed as he handed her the book. She started to flip through the book, then she read out the words of the spell. Suddenly, a flash of blinding light shot across the whole library, blinding Twilight and Spike, knocking them unconscious.
The next day, Twilight woke up with a start of energy and looked around in shock. The library was a mess, so she started to clean up all the books. While she was cleaning, she found Spike sleeping underneath a huge pile of spell books. She started to shake Spike back to consciousness. Spike was mumbling, “let me sleep..” then, he opened his eyes and said ”WHOAH! What happened here?”
Twilight replied to her assistant with a dumbfounded look on her face, “Umm, if I am correct, we were testing out a new spell on Moonwing...” Twilight and Spike looked at each other and said in unision “Wait, where is Moonwing?”
Twilight and Spike started to search through the piles of books for Moonwing. Spike yelled at Twilight when the colt was located. “HEY! Over here! I found him! Hey... I don't remember him being this small...” Twilight looked at Moonwing and slapped him hard in the face, which in turn made him wake up.
Moonwing stretched his wings and gave a big and hearty, “Good morning Twi!” Twilight was looking at Moonwing in shock. Moonwing didn't see why, but then suddenly, it hit him. It hit him as hard as Rainbow Dash into a wall of rocks. “Umm... why... why do i sound different? My voice so high pitched and... I feel a bit smaller too...” Twilight looked at Spike with a confused look.
“Spike, what book did you give me yesterday?” she demanded as Spike started to look for the book in the big pile.
Spike found the book and handed it to Twilight. She started to read the cover, “The Forbidden Spells of Equestria” She flipped to the page that she was on yesterday. "Genderflip a spell that can change a gender. This spell comes with a warning though, you may use it once on a pony, afterwards it doesn't work and you need a special spell to reverse it.” This spell look so smiliar to the spell to enhance Moonwing power, darn it, i should of double check before reading it. Twilight just stared down at the book in shock for about five seconds before she glared at Spike, and said in a rather cold, yet aggrivated tone, "You Gave me the wrong Book Spike!”
Spike stammered out a reply, trying to find his words, “S-sorry! I-I-I might have misplaced this book!”
Twilight sighed, “No, I guess it's not all your fault, it's partly my fault too...” she looked at Moonwing, then walked towards him, “Sorry, I might have used the wrong spell and accidentally changed you from a colt to a mare....” she smiled meekly, cheeks blood red from embarrassment and guilt.
Moonwing was in shock and was stuttering “O-oh no...” a tear drop fell from his face and he said, teardrops in his now more mare-like eyes, “W-why am I so emotional? I usually don't cry. I shouldn't even be sad as there is nothing to worry about, because Twilight said before that there usually is a reversal spell as a back up for when any spell goes wrong!”
Twilight started to flip through the pages “Oh NO! There are no reversal spells in this book!” she exclaimed as Moonwing stood up and forced himself to stop crying.
He walked towards Twilight, dried tears on his cheeks. “OH sweet Celestia... Ok... don't panic... on the bright side, it shows your magic is getting stronger...” He forced a smile to try to give her positive reassurance.
Twilight covered her eyes with her hooves, “I'm so... I'm so sorry Moonwing... I wasn't trying to do this on purpose..." she started pacing to and fro, thinking of what to do next, then Realized, “OH NO! If Celestia finds out about this... she might send me to the moon!!!!” Twilight stopped for a minute, then she started to cool down.
Moonwing put his hoof on Twilight's head and gave her more reassurance, “You were just practicing and made a mistake. It's ok, don't worry!” she hugged Twilight, then Twilight pulled away from her and went on to say,“ Ok thank you Moonwing, I will try with the best of my ability to find a reversal spell for the spell that I casted! Umm... Moonwing, can you stay like that until I find a reversal spell?” she gave the same, meek smile from before as she asked this question.
Moonwing nodded “Of course Twi... but my special somepony will need some explanation.”Spike walked down the stairs and snickered at this statement, going on to say in a joking way, “That is, if you ever have one.” This earned a glare from Moonwing, who's cheeks were turning a brighter and brighter red by the second.
Twilight broke in on the conversation, “Of course! Bring her here, and I will explain the whole situation.” Moonwing was about to walk outside, when suddenly Twilight got in front of her and said “ Wait! Before you go, I need to tell you one very important thing!” Twilight pushed Moonwing down as a shadow loomed over the door. She informed Moonwing of some vital information to surviving as a mare,”since your body was made out of magic...” Twilight started to whisper,”You aroma is the strongest out of every known mare out there! Colts can't resist the smell and they will go crazy!” Moonwing peered over the window and saw a couple of colts roaming around the front of the library.
Moonwing gave a silent, "Oh no..." as she realised that this meant she'd have to avoid the colts.
Twilight walked to her wooden chest then opened it and took out a cape, then tied it around Moonwing's body and said, “Here, wear this, it should distill the aroma so it won't be as strong.” Moonwing secured the cape and looked outside to see that the colts outside were slowly walking away. Twilight peered outside as well and saw that there was nopony in sight.
She turned to Moonwing now and told her, “Ok we are clear Moonwing, but we need to start calling you by another name.”
Moonwing replied with, “Ok then, you can call me by the name Moonbeam.”
Twilight nodded to the mare, “Ok we have to also have to address you now as her instead of a him as well.” Twilight stood up and continued, “One more important thing we need to do is clean you up and give you a new set on clothes because your look so dirty.” Twilight started to walk towards the door and yet again continued, "I will ask my friend Rarity to clean you up! That's her area of expertise and I know that she will be happy to.” Spike snickered, earning him another glare from Moonbeam, but this time she had more anger in her eyes.
Moonbeam continually glared at him for nearly five seconds and began her next statement,“Just think Spike, you could have wound up this way,” she followed Twilight and in a rather confused way asked, “I'm dirty? I mean sure, I was helping AJ with a harvest earlier, but...“ Twilight looked back at Moonbeam.
She got a look on her face that Moonbeam read as Twilight calling her stupid and said, “since you are a mare now, you need to take care better of yourself, ok? But... only for the time being, until I can reverse it.”