//------------------------------// // Chapter 1 // Story: Bubbles // by Multi Personas //------------------------------// Bubbles An anthropomorphic MLP fan fiction. You sigh loudly as you stare up at your bedroom ceiling. Two things are clear. 1. You are not going to sleep anytime soon, despite it being past midnight. And 2. You really should dust your ceiling. With another sigh and a grunt you sit up and swing your legs off your bed. You run a hand through your hair as you stand. You quickly dress in faded blue jeans, a red shirt and your converse shoes. You grab your mp3 player, keys, and phone, and slip out into the night. This was one perk to living by yourself in a small apartment in town. You put on headphones and start to play some Nightcore as you walk. The night is as beautiful as ever, the moon full and bright. “If this doesn't get me to fall asleep, then I have no idea what will.” You think to yourself as you walk. You take a deep breath, inhaling the cool air, along with a mouthful of car exhaust. You start to hack up a lung, and your eyes start to water. This was one of the many cons of living in the city. You shake your head clear and start to head in a seemingly random direction, though in a few minutes you come across your favorite place in the whole city: the park. With nothing else to do you start to walk the nature trail. As you walk you get lost in deep thought, as often you did when ever you went on your walks. You get so deep in though you fail to notice the deer in front of your face till is runs away, you get so startled you fall on your butt. “Ouch, what the-?” you ask to nobody particular as you stare in the direction the deep had gone. You get up and start to dust yourself off when you see a moving light down the path. You squint to try to see what it is but it's too far away to even try to guess what it would be. It was probably another person, your first reaction is to run but oddly you feel attracted to it. You start to move to the light, slowly so that if it is somebody, you don't give away your position. What feels like hours you come into range to see that the light isn't accompanied by anything, or anyone. You decide to approach the light until you are inches apart. To your surprise the thing emitting the light looks like multiple round orbs, the first thing that comes to mind is “Bubbles”. You reach out to them, but before you make contact the bubbles start to float away, you decide to follow them. No matter how fast you walk or how slow, they always stay just out of reach. The bubbles continue down the path and you continue to follow them, always just out of reach. The bubbles fly forward at a sudden pace and for the first time far ahead of you. You start to jog to catch up, then the jogging turns into a full run. You dodge branches as they appear in your vision, and the path becomes really rocky and uneven. You dodge under a low hanging branch and when you come back up your foot catches a rock and you fall face first on the ground. “Fuck!” you yell as you cough into the dirt, you slowly stand back up to see the bubbles floating right in front of your face. The moment you lay your eyes on the mystical bubbles you feel your anger floating away and soon you feel yourself become entranced in the mystical glow of the bubbles. They don't seem to be flying away anymore so you slowly raise your hand, the bubbles don't float away, even as you start to move your hand closer and closer, till your finger tips and millimeters away from the bubbles. You press one of the bubbles with your middles finger. POP! “Uh, oh,” was the only thing that escaped your lips before each bubble popped in a rhythmic tone. Soon each bubble was popped and the mysterious light faded with the last bubble. You start to feel extremely sad, and you hung your head. A sparking noise flooded your ears and you look up to see little static electricity in place of the bubbles. The sparkling doesn't stop and the mysterious light returns, the sparkling expands and soon in is at least as big as your head, the light expands with the now lightning. You take a step back the moment you do, the lightning and light disappear, the forest calm all around you. The light and lightning come back with a powerful vengeance and you are suddenly blinded, you can feel yourself being thrown. You don't know when but you feel yourself start to black out. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX You wake up and you suddenly notice something is wrong, the first thing you realize is the sunlight now peeking through the tree tops. The forest you see is the second thing that is wrong. It looks different as the trees are all thicker, and darker that before you blacked out. The next thing that you noticed wrong was everything seemed animated. You, slowly and slightly shaking, stand. This is when you notice the third thing wrong. You look at your arms and see them covered in light red colored fur, a few shades lighter than your red shirt. You start to panic when you hear music in your ears, till you remember you had your headphones on. You take them off with shaking hands and you spot a river nearby so you head to that. You peer over the edge of the river bank and look into the depths of the river, you jerk back in surprise, falling on your butt. After catching your breath you build enough courage to look at your reflection again. You see a being with your short hair cut and color, but with red fur all over it's face, and it's eyes are a deep indigo color. It's face apparently had grown a muzzle also. You bring your head back and you slowly feel darkness fill your vision, you don't even feel the ground as you black out again.