Luck from a Horseshoe

by my_little_medic


Falling Into a New World

From behind his tightly shut eyelids, he saw an extremely bright pink flash and heard the sound of the ambulance crashing into the ground. Only it was behind him that he heard the sounds of the crash. He quickly opened his eyes to find that he was still falling, but through nothingness. The ambulance, Jodi and the world around him had all disappeared somewhere. There was just still blackness.

“I’m dead…” He said out loud to himself. “This is what happens after you die…”

He looked down at the direction that it felt like he was falling only to notice a pale pink light glowing from somewhere. He quickly found that the light was coming from the pendant on the necklace he had received from the little girl. Not understanding what was happening he pulled the necklace out from under his shirt. The necklace shined extremely bright and he had to squint to look directly at it. Each of the pink stones around the necklace were shining very brightly.

“What is happening…?” He whispered softly as he glanced around for something other than the darkness around him.

In his head he heard a very faint voice say something. It was too soft to make out but soon he heard it again, and then again. He heard the voice in his head getting louder. It sounded like the voice of a little girl. He heard it again and this time he could make it out.

“You helped it bring me luck, so now it will bring its luck… and magic to you…”

Wide eyed he looked around trying to see where the voice was coming from, but there was nothing. Squinting he looked down at the pendant again. The bright glow from the pendant was getting brighter and before long he had to close his eyes to keep from being blinded. Suddenly he felt a strange warmth envelope his body. The warmth calmed him and caused his muscles and mind to relax. He opened his eyes to see that the bright light of the horse shoe pendant had enveloped his entire body. He was still falling through what appeared to be nothingness but as he looked harder he could see a tiny light coming towards him through the darkness.

As he watched this little speck of light slowly get bigger and closer. He could see what looked like a hole with a picture of the world inside it. He realized that he was falling from nothingness back into the world.

“I always wanted to believe magic could be a real thing but this surely proves it.” He said to himself as he looked back down at the pendant.

As the hole grew bigger and drew closer, he began to feel the warmth of the pink light surrounding him penetrate into his body. He closed his eyes as this feeling of warmth spread through every inch of him. Slowly, every part of his body went comfortably numb. The feeling was overwhelming and the light surrounding him continued to glow brighter and brighter. He opened his eyes one last time. Just long enough to see himself pass from the nothingness into this pictured world, before closing them and drifting out of consciousness.

~~~

“Wow Applejack! I never realized just how beautiful the sunsets are here on your farm.” Twilight said with a large smile on her face.

“You betcha! The west orchard’s a mighty fine place to catch the last glimpse of the day before it ends.” Applejack replied. “And thanks for coming out and lending me a hoof getting all the weeds pulled out. Sorry that it took all day.”

“That’s all right, I actually had some free time that I wasn’t sure what to do with today.”

Both ponies watched as the sun slowly dipped behind the horizon. Signifying the end of the day and the long walk back to the house on the Apple Family Farm. As the light of the sun slowly faded a few stars started to poke their heads out from behind the sky.

“Welp! I reckon we oughtta mosy back to the house before it gets totally dark.” Applejack said as she got up. She walked over to a pair of saddlebags that were leaning against an apple tree and grabbed them with her mouth. Turning her head, she tossed them over her back and pulled the strap tight underneath her belly.

“Sure.” Twilight answered. A pale glow surrounded Twilight’s horn and then surrounded a pair of saddlebags that were laying in the grass. The saddlebags levitated from the ground neatly onto Twilight’s back and the strap cinched itself snug around her belly.

Both ponies began to walk back to the farmhouse when they heard something rustling in one of the trees and stopped. Both of them looked up at the tops of the trees trying to see what was making the noise.

“Wha…What do you suppose that was Twi…?” Applejack said with a shakiness to her voice.

“I don’t know…” Twilight answered.

Both of them heard the rustling again and approached one of the apple trees in the orchard that they thought the noise was coming from. Both of them stopped at the tree’s trunk and looked up into the leaves.

From behind them a light blue pegasus jumped out of another tree and landed on the ground behind them. “BOO!!!” The pegasus shouted.

Both ponies jumped and ran head first into each other. The pegasus rolled over onto her back laughing at the sight before her.

“Rainbow Dash! That ain’t funny!” Applejack said while rubbing her head. “Twilight, it’s a good thing I got a hard head or that there horn a yours woulda gone straight through to my brain!”

Twilight got up and shook her head trying to regain her balance. “Rainbow Dash… That wasn’t very nice at all…!”

The pegasus rolled back over onto her feet, tears were in her eyes from laughing so hard. “All right, all right… I’m sorry. But it was just such a perfect opportunity.”

A few more stars had come out at this point and the night was starting to get darker.

“We better be gettin back y’all. Big Mac and Granny Smith will be worrying if we don’t.” Applejack said as she picked her hat up off of the ground and put it back on her head.

“All right, I’ll see you girls tomorrow for our picnic then.” Rainbow Dash said as she spread her wings and started to take off. “Hey! Check it out you guys, a shooting star!” Rainbow Dash pointed towards the northern part of the sky.

Both of the other ponies stopped and looked up where Rainbow Dash was pointing.

“Oh, wow! I’ve never seen a pink star before! That’s amazing.” Twilight said excitedly. “It’s too bad we’re not at my house right now, we could be looking at it through my telescope.”

“I call dibs on the wish!” Rainbow Dash yelled out.

“Hey ya’ll, that star actually looks like it’s getting closer.” Applejack said.

All three ponies watched the pink shooting star as it slowly got bigger and bigger.

~~~

Under the glow of the pink light surrounding Vince’s body, he began to change. The light grew brighter and unbeknownst to his unconscious self, his body was being reshaped. This new world was accepting him but only as one of its own.

The light grew brighter and brighter as his body changed. His skin was replaced with bright white fur that covered him from head to toe. His clothes slowly dissolved as the changes continued. His hands and feet changed into small hard grey hooves that met with the white fur. His joints bent and twisted and clicked into their new places. His neck craned out in length and slowly his face extended out into that of a muzzle. Now his ears had dissolved and new ones were appearing on the top of his head. His hair magically stretched out from the top of his head down the back of his neck. From the tip of his lower back a tail magically sprouted out.

The light began to fade from around him and he slowly began to open to his eyes. From his back, it felt as if the magic was slowly protruding out. But, what he couldn’t see was that he had a pair of white feather wings that were magically growing out of his back. When the wings had fully appeared, the pink light's brightness began to slowly fade and Vince began to wake.

As he woke, the feeling of the comfortable numbness began to fade as well as the light around him. Suddenly he realized that he was still falling. The ground was coming at him so fast, that all there was time to do was close his eyes before the landing.

Vince landed right on top of an apple tree, crashing through the branches, snapping them right off the tree and knocking many apples to the ground. Next was the ground which was met with a very hard ‘thud.’ As he finally landed on his back, the wind from his lungs was completely gone and he had all he could do to breathe. The pain in his right arm was almost instantaneous and it made him cringe. There was pain in what he thought had to be his right shoulder blade as well.

“Oohhh…..” He cried out in a hoarse voice. “…Those have both got to be broken.” He slowly opened his eyes only to have the world in front of him upside down and spinning. “A concussion as well….” He slowly tried to raise his head from the ground but found it very difficult. It felt as if his head weighed a hundred pounds. “I suppose a fall like that would break someone’s neck. Well... Now what?” He looked around trying to focus on anything he could. He heard footsteps coming closer to him and tried to focus in on where they were coming from. Slowly he began to drift back out of consciousness until he was back in the nothingness that he fell out of his world into.