//------------------------------// // Chapter Four: Tales and Transformation // Story: My Littlest Pet Shop: Escape from Equestria // by Drizzle Quill //------------------------------// My Littlest Pet Shop: Escape from Equestria By Drizzle Quill With much help from nyc2dragon Chapter Four Tales and Transformation Twilight knew she was acting somewhat insane. She had been hyped up about things before, but never quite like this. She had been somewhat crazy before (“HIIIIII, GIRLS!”) but not quite like this. She couldn’t help it. This had to be one of the most exciting things that had ever happened to her, hooves down. “What the what?” the girl gasped, backing up into a shelf of books and knocking a few to the ground. Twilight winced but resisted the urge to yell. Instead she sat down, sighed, tracing her hoof in a circular pattern on the wooden floor. “If anypony else saw you, Blythe,” the lavender unicorn said, still tracing, “they’d try to send you back right away. They’d be scared, they’d be worried, they’d be nervous, but they wouldn’t be curious. That makes sense. I am the only pony who knows Celestia’s legend. The legend of your kind…humans.” “You’ve…heard of us before?” Blythe seemed confused, and Twilight wanted to facehoof but resisted. The pets actually stopped doing what they were doing and looked at her, with wide, wide eyes. “You’ll have to learn of the legend first,” the unicorn said calmly, lying down. “Luckily I have it right here…” Using her pinkish colored magic, Twilight made a weathered scroll appear right in front of her and opened it, cracking the seal. “Let’s see here…” The pets gathered in front of the unicorn, their eyes wide as they placed themselves down. The dog curled herself in Blythe’s lap, almost in a comforting gesture. The girl stroked her fingers along the violet fur and watched. They were all waiting on Twilight. The lavender unicorn coughed once to clear her throat, and then began to read. “Before the time of Equestria, when the Pegasi, Earth Ponies, and Unicorns were still divided by their leaders, Princess Platinum, Commander Hurricane, and Chancellor Puddinghead…” “What kind of a name is that?” gasped the little dog, looking slightly repulsed as she lifted her head to stare at the unicorn. “Not proper, is what it is…” Sighing, Twilight continued. “…there was an unsteady peace. This was before the coming of the Great War that eventually resulted in the founding of our magical land, Equestria. Star Swirl the Bearded, the most powerful unicorn of his time, had been working on a book of magical spells, ones that would be more powerful and advanced, yet more feared and dangerous than the rest. At about this time, he was attempting to create a spell for turning other creatures into ponies, but couldn’t seem to find a test subject that would work. He couldn’t get any simple animals to stay in one place long enough. It seemed as if all hope was lost. Suddenly an amazing discovery was made. There was a race of other creatures living on the outskirts of Equestria, the creatures that had once been the primal species that populated the world. Their kind had been reduced to a very small amount. Star Swirl was fascinated by their kind and wished to use them as his test subjects. The unknowing humans agreed. After they had been turned into ponies and knew just what they had agreed to, the humans became angry. They waged war on the pony tribes; indeed, this was what killed Princess Platinum’s father, the king of the unicorns. This was the first real pony civil war, but was not recorded in the history books, as the tribes didn’t want to admit this terrible revelation. Eventually the human-ponies were destroyed and banished to the far out north, somewhere near King Sombra had his lair back in that day. Although the humans are not remembered by any pony other than the Princesses and those they have chosen to inform, Star Swirl the Bearded’s remarkable spells used to turn the humans into ponies and make them audible to pony ears have remained in his rare and divine book Star Swirl the Bearded’s Guide to Advanced and Complex Magic.” Twilight used her magic to roll up the scroll; she looked around at all of the gaping faces. “That’s it,” the lavender unicorn informed the gaping animals and girl. “That’s all that is here, and all that Princess Celestia chose to share with me.” The little dog stood up on the edge of Blythe’s leg, staring at Twilight in absolute disbelief. “You’re…you’re sure this is true, then?” “If the princesses are to be believed, and trust me, they are,” the unicorn nodded seriously. She finally felt like she was slipping back into her old skin; egghead Twilight, bookworm Twilight, not crazy-and-practically-insane Twilight. Not that she had ever meant to be in the latter, but it just sort of…happened. “If no other ponies know of this story,” Blythe said cautiously and slowly, like she was contemplating every word she spoke, “then why do you have to turn me into a pony?” The girl shuddered, and Twilight felt bad at her obvious reluctance. “See, there’s never been a species such as yours in modern day Ponyville,” the unicorn sighed, placing the scroll carefully back into its little niche in the wall using her levitation magic. “Like I said before, if other ponies saw you, they would capture you and run tests on you—not in a bad way, I mean, but purely out of curiosity.” Blythe sighed and looked at the ground. She mumbled something under her breath not audible to Twilight, but the pets around her gasped. “A-are you serious, Bly?” the hedgehog almost shrieked. “But…” “I’m sure, Russell. Until we can find a way to get home, I need to fit in with the regular populace around here.” The girl’s blue eyes shone with sadness, and…was that regret? Then she stood up, looking straight at Twilight. Blue eyes hit violet as Blythe spoke. “Use the spell now.” “R-right now? Are you sure?” the unicorn asked nervously. “Yes, quickly! Do it, before I change my mind.” Twilight sighed and leaned down to study her book. Leaning down towards Blythe, the unicorn touched her horn-tip to the girl’s forehead and immediately it began to glow with a pinkish aura, swirling around the human like a twister, or a tornado. Small beads of sweat appeared along Twilight’s head, dripping down a little bit at a time. A sudden screech from Blythe made Twilight look up slightly to see that the girl’s skin was twisting, changing into a lighter blue color. Her eyes widened in shock as her hands and feet visibly disappeared, replaced by large hooves. The girl screamed as large wings suddenly burst out of her back. “Is it supposed to hurt her?” the dog shrieked as the hedgehog yelped, “BLYTHE!” Twilight couldn’t answer; beads of sweat were now collecting in a puddle on the floor, and her horn had been enveloped in a lavender and blue light. All of a sudden, a beam of light and multicolored sparkles shot out of her horn and enveloped Blythe. One final shriek pierced the air. And then it was over. As the light faded away, the animals gathered around, nervously grasping one another, waiting to see how their friend had turned out. The monkey saw it first. Her blue eyes widened, and she gasped with delight. “Blythe, look at you!” “Y-yes,” came her shaky voice. “L-look at me.” And look at her Twilight did, though she was so weak that she felt she could hardly stand. Pride coursed through the unicorn’s body as she saw what she had created. Blythe was now a light blue Pegasus, almost the same color as Rainbow Dash, but a little bit darker. Her mane and tail were the same dark brown color of her hair, and her eyes were the same light blue they had previously been. Her cutie mark was a pencil and a spool of thread. She stared down at her body, gasping as she ran her hoof over her body. “L-look at me,” she stammered. “I-I’m a Pegasus.” The pets all seemed to be having different reactions—the dog, hedgehog, and mongoose seemed equally shocked, while the skunk, gecko, monkey, and panda seemed somewhere in-between shocked and impressed. Twilight wanted to say something, but at precisely that moment the door creaked open, letting in the outside light. Blythe flinched, her wings spreading open, and pressed against the wall. The pets gathered around her, their eyes wide. “Twilight?” came the weary voice that the unicorn knew by heart as her assistant. Spike’s figure appeared in the doorway. “I’m back.”