Bzzt...Bzzt...Bzzt
Oh, no! It's here. The Monday Blues! Go away, you miserable clock! Maybe if I don't look it'll go away!.
"Sorry, son! Mondays won't go away!," I could hear my mom calling from the door. " Get up and face it like a man!"
"I'm not a man, maaaaa!" I groaned, "I'm a sleepy boy!"
"If you don't get out of bed in five seconds, your father will water down the milk for your cereal!"
Groaning, I forced myself to sit up and brought my legs to the side of my bed still with my eyes closed. Mondays, every teenager's arch-nemesis, have came and replaced Sunday. I smacked my lips, tasting the dry air before opening my eyes.
Immediately, I was temporarily blinded by a ray of sunbeam, peeking through the gap of the curtains. Millions of kilometres away from Earth, and BAM! Perfect hit.
I don't know how long that ray of sunlight had been peeking through the gap in the curtains before it found its way to my face; nor do I know how long it took me to become aware of it.
I'd been dreaming that I was flying a plane, which is strange, because I never had any ambition to be a pilot. It felt great to be up there above the sunlit clouds, seeing the green countryside through the occasional gap.
But that was minutes ago. I found myself fighting to ignore that errant sunbeam, and to get back to my dream, but the moment had passed. I heard my neighbour's SUV rolling down his drive, and somewhere a dog barked.
"Here lies Sleep, so suddenly taken away from us by Alarm Clock"
I rubbed my knuckles into my eyes to drive away the sleep and tried to remember what I had planned for today.
Oh yeah, school. Number one cause of teenagers having Monday Blues.
Bah, why can't they start the week on Tuesday instead?
I dragged myself, literally, to the bathroom. After the morning rituals and a change of clothes, I was feeling better...but only slightly. Greeting my parents as I entered the kitchen, I found myself wondering what's for breakfast when my mom placed a bowl in front of me. I sighed.
Oatmeal, my second arch-nemesis, is staring at me directly from the blue ceramic bowl that serves as his lair. I couldn't stand the taste of that thing, it's like drinking warm milk getting dumped with soggy biscuits. And if you leave it there waiting for it to cool off, you'll find a disgusting layer of skin that looks like a...a... It's disgusting, that's all I have to say.
"Dad, is it always going to be this way? Will I always dread Mondays?" I sighed as I fooled around with the white goopy stuff with my spoon, not planning to eat any of it.
"No son!" My dad looked up from his papers, "this Monday thing is something all teenagers go through! It's a part of adolescence. You'll outgrow it!"
"Soon, I hope!"
"Anyway, I hope you have been listening to your teacher, Dixon." My dad said. "Also, you're going to be late."
"Late?" I raised an eyebrow. "How can I be late?" I said turning around to face the clock. "It's only..."
"8:05 in the morning." My dad finished.
"I'M GOING TO BE LATE!" I yelled as I rushed out of the kitchen leaving my breakfast uneaten.
"Oh irony because I'd just said that a few seconds ago."
"You're going to miss breakfast!" My mom called out from the kitchen.
"I can hold out until lunch! See ya!" I waved goodbye as I burst out of the door.
The bus was already long gone, and that means I had to run...all the way unless I could catch up with the bus.
"Need me to drive?" My dad asked, still holding his coffee mug from the porch.
"No thanks, besides you always drive slow!"
"Suit yourself son! I just hope that you run as fast as you eat." He chuckled before walking back into the house.
I took off immediately as if I was being chased by a tiger.(For a more realistic situation, the neighbour's Rottweiler, Butcher) I found myself jumping over fences and bushes and might have broke the law about trespassing into other people's home.
"You whipper snappers! You ruined my petunias!" Old Man Jackal yelled as I went through his garden and trampled on his flowerbed.
"Sorry!"
I stared at my watch, 8:12. Oh shit, this ain't good. Really, who's the smart guy who decided to build the school on the other side of the neighbour hood? I would like to have a word with him.
Leaping over fences, trashing into people's backyards, messing up people's gardenwork and even made a kid dropped his ice cream cone at one point. God, I feel so guilty about it.
As I ran out of road at a T section, I realized that I could save a few minutes by cutting through the dense forest in front. Even though there was a big fence around it with a sign that says 'Private Property', I knew of a spot where I could enter from. Without thinking, I crawled through the hole and ran as fast as I could. There wasn't a lot of sunlight due to the trees blocking out most of it, it was still visible enough to see where I'm going. I might be trespassing on private property, but I hope that whoever owns the land could take it to heart. I'm sure he or she was a teenager once and had experienced the Monday Blues before.
I stopped for a while in order to catch my breath, looking at my watch I saw that I might make it just in time. Phew! Taking this shortcut is the best idea I ever had!
Then I heard the sounds of leaves rustling.
Maybe not. I thought to myself as I slowly walked back away from the source of the sound.
The same sound suddenly came again, this time from behind me. And before I knew it, something blue collided straight at me head on, sending the both of us flying into the air and I landed a few feet away on my bum.
"H-hello?" I could hear a female talking. "A-are you alright?"
"Nothing broken, thanks anyway." I opened my eyes to see the person who bumped into me. What I saw is something I wasn't expecting.
"Oh...my...god." I gasped. Standing in front of me was a pony, but not the kind you see in farms. The kind that looked as if it came from a television show.
In fact, she DID come from a television show. So here I am, in the middle of a dense forest, staring face to face with the blue pony that could only be the one and only Lunar Diarch, Princess Luna.
"H-hello?"
I fainted.
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I had no idea how long I was out for. When I opened my eyes, Princess Luna was standing there, staring at me with great interest.
"I-I-I-bu-bu-wa-wa-wa-ta-ta-ta" I tried to say something but all that came out of my mouth were incomprehensible nonsense.
“D-do you understand me?” She spoke.
"Ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma."
"A-are you feeling alright? I-I didn't mean to harm you."
I immediately shut my eyes and rubbed my temples
Oh god oh god oh god, I'm dreaming, I'm dreaming, I'm DREAMING!
"This is just a dream, this is just a dream. Either that, I'm going insane." I said to myself, still closing my eyes.
“I assure you that you’re not insane creature.” she said, “I’m just as real as you.”
"No! Please stop talking!" Then a sudden realization hit me. "This is one of those camera tricks isn't it? I know where your cameras are!"
I looked around me, trying to spot any hidden cameras in the surrounding. If this is the owner's idea for security, I said he done a great job at freaking everyone out. But there was no camers anywhere, either I'm hallucinating, or the blue pony in front of me is actually real.
"I knew I shouldn't have skipped breakfast."
"Breakfast sounds delightful."
"What? Uggh, nevermind. I just need to get to school and pretend this never happened. What's the time now?"
8:16, I am officially late.
"Shit! Shit! Shit! I'm late! I'm so late!"
"Why are you getting so flustered?" Princess Luna asked. "Are you in a hurry?"
"Yes, YES I'M IN A GODDAMN HURRY! I'M LATE FOR SCHOOL AND NOW I HAVE TO SIT IN DETENTION!"
"School? Do you mean your place of learning? If so, I believe I can help you."
"How can you help me? What are you going to do? Fly me there?" I said sarcastically.
"How far is your destination?"
"About 400 meters west from here...but seriously, how can you help?"
"If I have knowledge of the distance of your destination, I can conjure a teleportation spell and get you there."
"I see, but seriously, I don't think teleportation is going-"
ZING!
"to help..."
I suddenly found myself in the hallway of my high school. Most of the time, the hallway is packed with students walking about. Luckily, there was no one to see my sudden appearance in the middle of the school hallway.
Maybe what just happened is just some thought I've thought about when walking to school. Yeah! That's it! I was so into my own thoughts that I actually thought it was for real! Ha!
"I still remain, young one. You have yet to tell me where I am and who you are"
Ack! Did I just heard the voice of Princess Luna in my head? My thoughts are getting too rational!
"You are not dreaming, I'm real."
"Wait, if you're real...then...where are you?" I asked.
"I'm behind you."
I turned around and immediately saw Princess Luna, right behind me just as she said.
"What are you doing here?!"
"Please! You have to help me!"
"Wait, wait, wait what!? Me?!" I exclaimed, not believing what I'd just heard. "Why?"
“Because… I wish to return home…” Luna whimpered. her eyes starting to well up.
I was in a dilemma at this point, part of me wanted to say no, but the other part of me told me to say yes as Princess Luna is in a new world that she has no knowledge of and there's no one to help her. Except me. And who knows what psycho she might meet on the street.
"Fine...You can come with me..." I sighed. "But you need to change your form out here! Do you have any idea what will happen if you came in just like that?"
"I think I know what you mean." Luna backed up a few steps and her horn started to glow. Her body then turned a white gradient before
her form started to change from a pony into something that looked more and more human. When the light show is over, a beautiful young teenage girl, around my age or so with cerulean eyes and brown hair . Also, I immediately looked up...for obvious reasons.
"No, no, no! That's not going to work at all! My parents aren't going to be too happy when I suddenly bring back home a girl and said she will be staying with us. Also, you can't come in just like that!"
"Why not? My form is the same as yours."
"One! Non-students can't enter classroom, and that means you. Two!...You're naked, outdoors, in public, public indecency, flashing, OH FOR PETE'S SAKE CHANGE BACK!"
"You are hard to please." She said before turning back into her original form.
"Thank you, now. Why don't you change into a hat? A blue one more preferably. It allows you to blend into the surroundings and wouldn't incur much attention." I suggested.
"A hat? Well with my magic, I can most certainly try." She said before glowing white again, this time turning into a blue baseball cap. I picked it up and placed it on my head.
"Well. Let's go in." I said as I opened the door to my classroom.
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RING!!!
A lot happened in just 6 hours, Princess Luna knowing my name, knowing human educations and also hearing lame jokes.(I have to thanks Brandon for that one.) Anyway, as we walked out of the school compound, Luna began asking me questions that are more on human technology and stuff like that.
"If you really want to, then I suppose you should prepare for a long talk."
It was weird talking to a cap while walking at the same time. I got some weird looks from people as they past by a kid who is talking to noone apparently. The talk and walk back to my home went uninterrupted except for a few ocasions where Luna would suddenly shout what was that shiny metal cocoons(cars) and that giant metal bird(plane). A few minutes later, things were starting to get more and more familiar. At last, we came to a stop in front of my house.
"Well here we are. My humble adore, please make yourself comfortable."
"You are too kind Dixon, until I find a way back home. I shall be your humble guest."
"Mom! I'm home!" I said as I step into the warm cozy indoors.
"I have your lunch on the table, son!" My mom replied from the kitchen.
"That's my mom. My dad wouldn't be here until he gets home from work."
"Dixon? Who are you talking to?"
"Just a friend on the phone mom!" I lied before turning towards Luna.
"Listen, you might need to change your form around here or else my mom would think I'm crazy for talking to a hat!"
"What form do you suggest of?" Luna asked.
"I don't know... a cat? Wait! A cat!" I snapped my fingers. "Our family cat Tom has gone missing for a few days and I'm sure that no one would suspect a thing if he was to return!"
"A cat? I suppose I could try, but how does he look like?"
"He's a Siamese cat, with grey fur and brown eyes. About medium sized and his tail is 10 centimetres long. He also-"
Before I could finish, Luna's horn had already begun to glow and her body started to shrink. Features of a cat started to ('grow'?) and when the light died down, Luna had transformed from a pony to a grey Siamese cat that my family had loved and known as Tom.
"So how do I look?"
This is going to be a loooooong day.