Here we go with the next chapter.
Adjustment
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The first thing I felt was the warmth of the afternoon sun warming my body and the cool feel of the grass under me. I gave a small groan as I tried to get my thoughts in order and make them coherent but they seem to be all over the place at the moment. I tried to open my eyes but even that action seemed to be beyond me at the moment. With nothing else to do, I decided to try and feel my body to see if there was anything that was in pain right now. What surprised me was the fact that as I was moving my body, it felt alien to me. It was my body but at the same time it felt like it was not. For starters, I seem to be not being able to move my fingers or toes at all and my neck felt longer for some odd reason.
I was not sure how long I was lying there before I felt my strength return to me. The first thing I did was open my eyes which felt like they were heavy. What I first saw was the clear sky above me. I was a little confused as to why the sky appeared to be more colorful then usual but I just chuck that up to the fact that I never really paid much attention to the sky in the first place. I reached up to pull my glasses away and started rubbing my eyes with my hoof…
“Wait a second…” I thought to myself as I focused my attention on what I had thought was my hand but all I saw was a rather dull white hoof in my field of vision. I quickly looked over at my other arm and sure enough it was the same hoof. Starting to panic a bit, I checked out the rest of my body and saw that I had somehow changed species. Two more legs with hooves were in the same spot where my legs and feet should have been and I could see the brown tail that was lying flat on the grass. The one thing that seemed to have been kept was that I was still wearing the same clothes I was wearing for the day; blue jeans and a red shirt.
I dropped my head back on the ground and thought to myself “This is great Richard, just great. I must be in some kind of coma or something because there is no way I should be a pony right now.”However, if I was in a coma, then how did I get in one in the first place? The last thing I remember was that rainbow colored vacuum sucking me into the computer. My rational thought process was out the window at the moment and the only thing I could think of that seem to fit the scenario was that the vacuum had somehow transported me into the land of Equestria and also turned me into a pony. While I was not at all okay with the idea of abduction (even though I didn’t mind that much), I understood the need to hide my real body from the public. However, it would have been nice to have at least an instruction manual on how to use this body.
I placed my head back on the grass and thought “Okay Richard… let’s take a deep breath and let’s work through this new ‘adjustment’”. I took a deep breath, making a note as to how clean the air felt as it filled my lungs before exhaling in a content sigh. I did that few more times as my body calmed itself from the tension and excitement. I was thankful at that moment that I had taken a few meditation classes while at college and have developed a way for me to calm my body. Once I felt relaxed, I started testing out my new body.
The first thing I did was practice my fore-arms; getting a feel for how they were able to move and how much they were capable of bending. I was thankful that this body was running on cartoon logic and I was still able to do almost all the things I was capable of doing with my arms. The only things I lack were fingers but I decided not to worry about that at the moment and instead focused on my back legs. I quickly realized that I didn’t have as much movement on my back legs as I did with my fore-legs which was something I kept in mind. I then moved on to working my ears, nose, mouth and eyes to get a feel for how my senses have changed in this new body. I was relieved that it wasn’t a major change to them and the only thing I really needed to practice was moving my ears around.
I closed my eyes took another deep breath to focus myself and thought “Alright…now that I know how this body will react, mostly, it’s time to figure out how to walk.” Before I could make any progress with that, a sweat yet familiar voice rang into my ears and judging from the sound of the voice, she sounded very close.
“Are you alright there sugercube?”
I thank you all for taking the time to read this. In terms of my grammar and writing mistakes, I’m using Word 2007 as sort of a base point and then copying the chapter onto the site before publishing it after making a few cosmetic changes. I’m still trying to get it to work so I apologize in advance if there are mistakes or run on sentences.