“Skyla? Princess Skyla it’s time to get up!”
A soft nudging began to wake me from my slumber. Man, I must have been really out of it last night. I don’t remember closing being that bad, am I just getting old? Geez, it’s only been a few years since high school.
“You can’t lie around all day. Get up! You’ll miss breakfast!”
Breakfast? Now there was an idea. Crap, when was the last time I did any shopping? Was my milk still good? I think I still had some cereal left. Not the best of meals, but hey it worked. Man that nudging is really getting annoying. Can’t the voice see I’m trying...to...
Wait a second. How is the voice from the tv nudging me? I’m pretty sure that’s where it’s coming from. I don’t have a roommate. Did I invite a friend over? I don’t remember doing that, oh god I didn’t get dragged by my co-workers to a bar and get drunk did I? Am I in some random person’s house?
Blinking against the light, I managed to take a look around the room I was in. Aw fuck this isn’t my apartment. Wherever I am, it’s high class, like ridiculous level. I’m laying in a giant canopy bed, and I can just make out this girl’s vanity mirror to my right. Various other pieces of furniture are laying about. All of it is top notch, yet oddly not as feminine as I thought, at least going by the bed and vanity mirror. Though now that I look at it, I don’t think that mirror is used too often. Just where am I?
I still haven’t even gotten to the oddest thing in this whole room. This chick seriously has a pony in her room. She must be loaded for that kinda stuff. Kinda an odd color though, I mean yellow with a red mane? I didn’t think that was possible outside of cartoons. It’s even wearing a maid outfit-
Wait... Wasn’t there something with a Pony on my TV? What was the last thing I remember doing last night? Let’s see, the TV came on and... Oh shit... Oh shit! OH SHIT! OH SHIT! OH SHIT!
In horror, I looked down at my hands only to find pinkish hooves in their place. How’d I not even realize I was laying on my stomach this entire time? With a creeping sense of dread, I wiggle my right arm, only to see the pink leg respond. I feel a slight movement behind me as my tail involuntarily flicks. This can’t be real. I can’t be a pony, I just can’t. I especially can’t be a-
“Princess? Are you okay?” The maid pony asks me as she stares right at me. Fuck! I'm a pony, and I'm a princess! This is like the exact opposite thing I’d have ever wanted to be! Okay calm down, that princess pony didn’t say I’d be stuck like this. I’m pretty sure she mentioned a way back. Uh oh, that maid is looking at me like I just drank a bucket of pickles and chocolate. No doubt I look really odd right now staring horrified at my own body. I’m going to take a quick guess and say she knows nothing of the switch that just happened. So what should I do? Tell her I’m not the princess?
I shudder at the thought of being chased down while guard ponies scream ‘Changeling!’ at me. Okay no, not telling the truth just yet, but then what am I suppose to do? I have no idea who this pony I look like even is! What was it she was calling me? Skyla? Wait, that was the name of Shining and Cadance’s daughter in the show! Wait I’m their daughter right now? Oh crap, I’m a princess by every meaning of the word aren’t I? Shit what do I do?
“Oh I see, trying to pretend that you’re sick aren’t you?” The maid pony suddenly said with a huff, causing me to almost jump.
“If I may, Princess, I understand you do not care for Prince Luminare the way his parents and your own wish for you to, but you did agree to entertain him today. I simply can’t help you play hooky. Now get up, breakfast is in half an hour. Be ready.” She fixed me with a stern gaze as she stood there. Was she allowed to do that? I thought servants had to... I don’t know, bow down to their princess or something. This maid certainly didn’t seem all that nervous about my status.
“R-right! You got me!” I said trying to fake a laugh. Oh god my voice! It was so sing song and girly! If I wasn’t trying to pull this off so badly, I may have gagged. “I’ll uh, just get ready now so you can go and do... maid stuff?” Her concerned look from earlier was back.
“Skyla? You aren’t really sick are you?” She was coming closer, possibly to put a hoof on my forehead or something. That’s not good, what if she wants me to see a nurse or something? Could they tell I’m not really Skyla? I think I’d rather not find out.
“Fine! Fine!” Trying my best to sound cheery as I waved my hoof in dismissal. “I’m just uh, a little more sleepy this morning that’s all!” Ugh, did I really use the word sleepy to describe how I felt? What was I in magic kindergarten? I mean regular kinder- Damn it! What’s wrong with me?
Well the fact you are a pony princess is one... Came a voice in my head.
Shut up mind! It was a rhetorical question! Focusing back on the maid pony, it seemed she was accepting my bluff. Who was she anyway? Lemon squeeze, by the looks of her name tag. Wait really? Her name was lemon squeeze? What the fuck? Who the fuck names their kid that? Okay so yeah she was a pony and they all have weird names like that but seriously. Lemon Squeeze?
“Well I’d certainly say so. I found you passed out in one of the storage rooms. I don’t know what you were doing, but you’d better stop it before your parents find out. You know how they worry about you.”
“R-right. I’ll do that. Thank you Lemon Squeeze that will be all.” I gave her a slight nod as I made it look like I was getting up. In truth I had barely figured out how to properly control my two front legs. I really really hoped she left before I got to having to move my back ones.
“At least try to be careful,” Lemon Squeeze replied with a sigh. I was beginning to think this Princess Skyla was quite the handful. Or was that hoof full? Bah, how am I suppose to act like somepony I’ve never seen before? This would be so much easier if I was Cadance or something, at least her I have the show character to base off of. Thankfully Lemon Squeeze had already trotted across the room and was closing the door behind her, so at least for the time being I can get my bearings.
“Okay, ‘Skyla’ what’s first?” I asked myself out loud before wincing again at the sound of my voice. Speaking out loud was a sorta ‘sanity check’ thing I’d do at times. Whenever I was stressed or upset I’d find myself vocalizing my thoughts for any to hear. Luckily I had trained myself not to do it when anyone was around. Unfortunately, with my new girly voice, this wasn’t as effective as usual.
“Well first thing's first I guess. Getting out of bed.” I looked at the edge of the bed I was in, and my distance from it. I should be able to scoot forward enough to get my front legs on the ground. I think I can walk on those long enough to drag my butt out of bed.
Following through with my plan, I got close enough to the edge that I was able to drape my front hooves over the side. With a slight hesitation I was able to touch down on the ground, and soon had walked forward enough that I was able to slide my back legs onto the floor as well. So now I was standing on my new legs. That was progress right? Now to master walking. How did that song from Santa’s coming to town go?
“Let’s see,” I said absently as I began to recite the first line in song. I actually didn’t sound half bad if I do say so myself. “It starts... You put one foot in front of the other-” As I sing, I take my front right hoof and start to bring it forward about a short distance before placing it on the ground again. Next I just take my back leg-
The next few moments I recall are my surroundings spinning around me followed by smacking my new muzzle into a chair.
“And then you go tumbling across the floor...” I finish wearily. Seems I had tried to move my back leg too soon, and too quickly. Resulting in some sort of walk somersault that landed me in a tangle of limbs. After getting back up, I tried to walk much more slowly this time till I believed I had it down enough to pick up the pace. I did this for several minutes before concluding I could walk well enough to possibly get wherever breakfast was being served. I should be fine as long as I don’t run.
Hopefully the palace wouldn’t be that hard to navigate that I’d end up hopelessly lost either. Well no sense in worrying about that now anyway. I still had a body to freshen up. Wait did this mean I needed to shower? That... was certain to be a bit awkward. Let’s just go back to learning how to control this body shall we?
Looking to my sides, I could see my new wings curled up against them. I better learn how to move those as well, to avoid any awkward situations if anything else. I sure as hell wasn’t going to be using them to fly anytime soon. Okay let’s see: This is my left leg, I wiggled it to drive the point home in my mind. This is my right, this is my rear right...
I continued to do this with all my legs several times before I tried to feel out my extra appendages. If one could imagine suddenly growing a third arm, they might have an idea of just how weird this was. With a little effort I was able to ‘sense’ what connected to my wings and slowly spread them out. Feeling bold I flapped them a few times, letting the slight current they created blow my fur around. It was kinda funny how out of all the new things I noticed the fur the least. Guess becoming a pony just does that to you.
After I learned how to move my wings, I concentrated on my tail, then I tried posing in various ways, finding myself looking in the mirror as I did so. Now that I got a good look at her, Skyla was quite the little hottie. For a pony I mean. I tilted my head to one side while extending my wings just enough that they were half way extended. I then gave the best pouty face I could muster. Heh, I looked really cute, I bet I could have any stallion I wanted like this. Turning around I stared back at the mirror while wiggling my rear. Oh yeah that’s how you do it. With a little of that I bet any stallion would be proud to have me as their date!
My tail flicked up as I stood there, revealing a large wet pony pussy. MY large wet pony pussy!
My mind nearly froze. Was I just monologuing to myself about how I could make a stallion HARD!?! NO! FUCK NO! I was not just thinking about how hot I was for a pony princess! Guys do NOT think about those kinda things! I could already feel the panic trying to take hold. I needed to stop for a second, take a breath. Something must be wrong with this body, that’s all. She said she was going into heat right? Maybe it was effecting my emotions or something. Yeah that makes sense.
Convincing myself of this, I could feel my panic edge away. Only to quickly be replaced by anger. All this was happening because that dumb twit didn’t tell me I’d be her while here! Did she really think she could just drop me off in this world like this and I wouldn’t immediately go tap the crystal again? At least I’m pretty sure that’s what she said I needed to do to contact her. Well I can tell you the very next thing I’m doing! Hopefully I can find that room without bumping into any of the castle staff. I barely managed to fool Lemon Squeeze.
Thinking of said maid. didn’t she say I had half an hour to get ready? Just how long have I been testing out my body? Was she going to come back to yell at me for taking so long?
As if on cue with that thought, the door burst back open. However, instead of an angry yellow maid pony marching in, I was tackled by a small white blur, which promptly propelled me several feet through the air. After landing on my back and having the wind knocked out of me, I was able to make out the image of a small white colt with a pair of wings and horn of his own. Taking stock of his mane and tail, I saw they were nearly the splitting image of Shining Armor’s style wise, though the colors vastly differed. While the top part of his mane and tail were the same dark blue Shining had, the next color down was a much lighter purplish color. Finally the final, lowest color was a bright yellow, very similar to the yellow streak in my own mane.
“Hey sis! Dad sent me’n Lumy up to check on ya! Now stop stalling and come to breakfast!” He stares at me intently while standing on my stomach. “We can’t eat till you’re there!” He adds, jabbing me with his right hoof. I could see a small bandaid above his knee from some earlier mishap.
Great, as if I didn’t have enough to worry about, now I have a brother to deal with? My brain blanked from the combination of my earlier freak out and having just been tackled. Grasping at the first thing that came to mind, I tried to utter out a response.
“Y-Yes of course-” I began before he startled me into silence by covering his face and horn with this wings. I stared at him, my excuse forgotten. Just... Just what the heck was he doing? He answers me by opening his wings just enough to peek out at me.
“Sis?” He asks with a hint of confusion in his voice.
“Um.. Yeah?” I respond slowly. Unsure of exactly how to proceed.
“You aren’t going to-” He begins while lowering his wings, only for his eyes to widen as he brings them back up, “Wait! I know what you are doing! You’re trying to make me lower my guard!”
I blink at him. “Um lower it for what purpose?”
“Like you don’t know!” He shouted, before suddenly jumping backward off of me. “You aren’t flicking my horn today sis! I’m too quick for ya!” All I can do is stare at him dumbly. Flick his horn? How can I even do that with hooves?
“I uh... well...” I try to explain myself, but nothing is coming to mind. How the hell did Skyla ever expect me to pass as her?
“Wow, I think you broke her Eos.” A deeper much more masculine voice says from the doorway. It was about the time I turned my gaze that way, when I remembered my ‘brother’ had mentioned somepony else had come to check on me. My breath immediately halted as I caught sight of him. The unicorn stallion standing in the doorway looked wonderful!
He was a stunning sky blue, with a body that seemed to be chiseled out of muscle! Then his mane! His luscious light blond mane! It hung around his head magnificently, a single white streak splitting it in half perfectly. He looks at me with his crystal blue eyes and smiles, my legs wobble in response.
W-what the hell is wrong with me? Why is my heart racing all of a sudden? Fuck, my body feels all weird now. The fuck is it doing? Why was I so intent on how this stallion looked anyway? Damn it, can’t I get any kind of break!? It’s like every five seconds I’ve got another crisis on my hooves!
“Geez Skyla, I didn’t think I got you that bad. You usually dodge me.” The little colt, Eos I think he was called, was standing there with a smug look on his face. Pfft, little brat probably thought he was hot stuff. Yeah big stallion attacking a helpless mare like that, wait no! I’m a man not a mare! Well, okay so I’m a mare at the moment but it doesn’t mean I’m a mare I- ugh, my brain hurts.
“Skyla? Are you alright?” The larger stallion was asking me, a look of concern on his face. Aw, how nice of him to care. I shivered, that is- He better care! They just knocked me for a loop!
“Y-Yeah I’m fine...” I looked up at him trying to ignore the weird feeling in my stomach. This situation was quickly turning from bad to worse. I had two ponies, one who was her own brother, whom I had to convince I was her.
I’m fucking DOOMED.
“Eos... Go tell your father we’ll be a few minutes more. Don’t worry I’ll help her get ready.” He said while giving a slight pat on the head. Something about the way he was speaking now concerned me. Almost like he knew something was up.
“Sure thing Lumy!” Eos says before flying down the hall with his wings. I’d have envied the little brat if I wasn’t so focused on what ‘Lumy’ here had in mind. Did he suspect me? Was I about to be imprisoned? Or tied down to be studied? Or tied down to be studied in the place I was imprisoned at?
Wait, what if it was worse?! What if this is Skyla’s boyfriend and he wanted some private time before breakfast? I could feel my new girly bits tremble at the mere thought of that. No! Bad girl parts! We do not desire that!
“So Skyla... You okay?” He asks, his voice soft yet cautious. Oh man, he knew! He knew something was up! I’m so dead!
“O-Of course I’m okay! J-Just a little shaken from the tackle...” Fuck not even I would believe me right now. Maybe I could run by him? Gain enough time to find the crystal and get out of here?
“Well that’s a relief. For a second I thought he’d really gotten you. Need a hoof up?” He asks, his expression one big smile while he extends a hoof toward me. Wait really? Had he really bought that? Well fuck, no sense in jinxing it, I reach out my own hoof to his.
“Yes, that would be most pleasant.” I say, once more trying to sound ‘princessy’. Hopefully if I messed anything up now, I could just blame it on the tackle.
“I’m glad you are alright my dear.” He says once I was on my hooves again. “How about a kiss for your boyfriend?” He puckers his lips at me. I barely stopped myself from backing up in horror.
Aw shit, of course there would be a catch. Fuck, what could I do? I can’t refuse him, I just barely got him to not be suspicious of me. Even if he doesn’t think I’m somepony else, he might think I hit my head too hard or something, which leads back to unwanted medical attention. Looks like I was going to have to suck it up and take one for the team.
“O-of course!” I say leaning toward him. Oh god this is going to be so gross.
My lips met his with a bit more force than I intended. I had never actually kissed while a human, so I had no idea what I was doing as a damn pony mare. Thankfully he certainly seemed to have experience with this as he quickly took over. The feeling was... very pleasent actually. Without even thinking about it, I was kissing him just as vigorously back, my entire spine tingling at the sensation. I was almost sad when he pulled away.
Before I had any time to process what just happened, he backs up and points a hoof directly at me, a look of triumph on his face.
“Ah ha! You aren’t Skyla! Not only am I not her boyfriend, but she’d never have kissed me! You’re an imposter!”
I froze. Fuck! He fucking tricked me! How could he play with my heart like that! No, that’s not right! He found me out! Crap! I don’t want to be cut apart and studied- Why is he laughing?
“Dear Celestia, your face! You should see the look on your face! Oh wow, I never thought I’d see Skyla with that sort of expression!” He was nearly doubled over with laughter. I just stood there watching him. Fuck it, my mind had broken too many times today for me to be able to deal with this anymore.
“Okay, I quit. I just quit. Who are you? What’s going on? Why aren’t you calling the guards on me yet?” He continues to snicker at my questions.
“I do apologize for my behavior, but a kiss from Skyla, even if it’s not really her, was just too good to pass up.” With that he straightens up, his composure completely restored.
“Allow me to introduce myself. I am Prince Luminare, a friend of Skyla’s.” I blinked. Prince Luminare? That was the prince who was suppose to help me!
“Prince Luminare!” I practically cried, a wave of relief washed over me. “She said you’d help me out! Hey wait that means you knew I wasn’t her the entire time! Ew! I can’t believe I kissed you!” The prince gave another soft chuckle.
“Actually I did not, though I suppose you could say I anticipated it. You see Skyla has been telling me of her plan to visit the human realm for months. I was skeptical at first of course. It was based off of stories her mother told her while young after all.” He began to pace around me as he spoke, causing me to follow him with my head. I wasn’t sure, but I think he took a peek at my flank...
“However, her mother’s diary entries? The spells being real? I quickly took into consideration that there might be something to all this after all. Then about two weeks ago she told me she had managed to get everything ready, and she’d be trying to contact a human very soon for a swap.” With that he stops back in front of me, looking me over with his eyes.
“I must say, I never expected her to actually succeed. Why you’re the splitting image of her!” He winks, causing me to feel all sorts of wrong.
“Well she did succeed, and didn’t tell me I’d be walking around as her for my visit! So if you don’t mind, I’d like to go back to the room with the crystal and go home!”
“Tsk Tsk, ready to call it quits already? How dull.” He says with a yawn. What the? Was he saying I couldn’t handle this? How dare he!
“Hey! How would you like to be ripped out of your world and put into a body you have no idea who it belongs to or even how to use it?!” I was nearly fuming. I hadn’t asked for any of this and now I was going to be ridiculed for it!?
“Hmm, well yes you do have a point there.” He says rubbing a hoof against the underside of his muzzle. Was it his chin? Did ponies even have chins? “I suppose it wouldn’t be much fun becoming another species. I am surprised she didn’t inform you about becoming a pony. Did you not think it would be odd if you remained a human?”
“Of course she said I’d be a pony! She just didn’t say I’d be her!”
He raised an eyebrow at me. “Just why would that matter?”
“Because I’m suppose to be a guy!” I scream before covering my mouth. Oh geez, I hope none of the staff heard that.
Meanwhile Luminare’s expression had changed to shock. “YOU were a male?” He asks in disbelief. I nod timidly. Now maybe he’d understand why this was such a big deal to me.
Instead he began to laugh harder than he had earlier. “Oh my! This is too rich! Skyla you rascal you! You would do something like that wouldn’t you?”
My eyes narrowed. “It isn’t funny! Now help me find the room! You can see why I don’t want to stay this way! Besides, might I remind you that this means you kissed a guy!”
“Did I?” He replies with a smirk. “All I see is a very sexy mare before me.” I felt my face go hot at his words. Shit, I better not be blushing at that!
“B-but I’m, I mean I was-” It was no use, I couldn’t form the words.
“You’re a mare. A very beautiful mare for the time being. What you were doesn’t really matter that much to me.” He shrugged turning back toward the door. “At any rate, you are Skyla for the time being. May as well get use to it.”
I huffed, “No, I think I’ll go touch the crystal now thank you.”
Luminare sighed, “Look. I admit this isn’t the ideal situation for you right now, and I also admit I can not begin to understand how it feels. However there are a few things you really should know.”
“Oh?” I say shooting him a look. “And just what are those?” He was crazy if he thought anything he said could get me to stay one more minute here, let alone the days she asked for!
“One, Skyla is a very good friend of mine, and this is something she’s dreamed about for a long time. I simply can not stand by and let it end that quickly.” Nope that wasn’t going to cut it, I don’t care if her vacation is cut short, I want to go home! Strike one!
“Two, you haven’t even been here for an hour yet. The very least you could do is give it a shot.” Nope! Strike two! I’ve had enough of being a mare to last a lifetime! One more to go!
“Three, the crystals that open the portal between your worlds, and swapped your bodies aren’t that strong. It’ll take at least a day before they have the power to do either again.” Strike th- Aw fuck.
“So as the lady can clearly see,” he said, putting way more emphasis on the word ‘lady’ then I cared for, “You don’t really have a choice right now, do you?”
“Well no, when you put it that way I guess not. Wait, how do I know you aren’t lying to me?”
He shrugged, “You don’t. How is this, I’ll make you a deal. You come down and have some breakfast with us, before Eos wants to kill us both for taking so long, and after we are done, I’ll personally take you to the crystal room myself and we can see if I’m telling the truth or not.”
“I’m not-” I began to say, only for my stomach to interupt me with a sudden loud grumble. Looks like my body wasn’t going to let me get away with saying that. I guess it had been a few hours since I had last eaten anything, and despite him knocking me over, I do feel sorry for Eos. It’s never fun to have to wait for someone else to do something. If he was as hungry as I am, he’s probably about ready to explode.
“I- Okay fine, but only because I’m hungry and I feel bad for Eos.” I replied in defeat. What the hell? They say it’s not good to fret about things over an empty stomach, right? A little food couldn’t hurt.
“Excellent! Shall we go then? I’ll just tell your ‘father’ you were extra sleepy this morning.” He grinned his big stupid grin at me. It made him look rather silly really. I couldn’t help but smile back.
“But as soon as we’ve eaten it’s straight to the crystal!” I stamp my hoof to prove I mean it. For whatever reason this causes him to chuckle again.
“Whatever you say Princess. Now come, any longer and Eos won’t be the only one who yells at us.” With a nod, I began to follow him down the hall, doing my best to walk naturally, which thankfully became easier the longer I had to do it. I then spent the rest of the trip trying to convince myself that I was definitely not checking out his flank!