Half Monster
By Ravenguardian17
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Revelations
Mach Racer loved flying, the wondrous feeling of the wind pushing through his wings and the beautiful view from up in the sky, there was nothing that could beat it. To top it off the day was beautiful! The sun was shining, the birds were singing their beautiful songs and a calm, cool breeze glided through the air. Soaring over Ponyville Mach caught sight of the place he was headed, Ponyville High School. Mach glided onto the ground, his hooves finally touching the grass. Mach looked up, seeing a familiar sight before him. The high school wasn’t very fancy like the ones in Canterlot neither was it massive like the ones in Manehatten, it was small, neat, rustic and simple, similar to the town it resided in.
“Hey Mach!” a voice from behind him called. Mach turned and caught sight of his best friend, Hoof Print.
“Hey Hoof Print!” He said. Hoof Print was a brown unicorn colt, a little on the small side Mach and Hoof had been friends since Elementary school.
“Excited for the first day of school?” Hoof asked, betraying a slight trottingham accent.
Mach rolled his eyes, “Who do you always have to be such an egghead?” he complained, “And besides, when have I ever been excited for school?”
“Hmm, thats a good question let me think…” Hoof Print said, losing himself in his thoughts. Mach facehooved, Hoof Print just couldn’t take a joke sometimes.
Suddenly Mach Racer heard a new voice from above, “It was a rhetorical question, genius.” It teased.
Mach looked up and saw a pitch black pegasus hovering over them, “Hi Raven!” Mach called up to him.
Raven grinned and said, “Hey Mach! Say, have you guys seen the new the new filly?”
“What! A new filly where?!” Hoof asked excitedly, then he turned to Raven and asked “How hot is she on a scale of one to ten?” Both Raven and Mach facehooved.
“Hold on romeo, you still haven't got any of the mares to get out with you and you’ve known them for years!” Mach smirked.
Hoof Print’s face turned apple red, “Hey, I will get Rarity to go out with me, just you see!”
“Yeah because youre earlier attempts worked soooo well” Raven said sarcastically. Hoof’s face got even redder.
Suddenly the bell rang, interrupting the conversation.
“Alright guys lets get to class!” Hoof said, clearly trying to change the subject.
Raven and Mach followed Hoof Print into the school, unaware of the crazy day ahead.
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Ponyville High, as was said earlier, was nothing special. Similar to it’s counterpart, Ponyville Elementary, it only had one room. Mach and his friends sat down in the seats they had last year and waited for the teacher, Mr. Anglais, to begin.
“Alright class settle down.” Mr. Anglais said the students immediately stopped talking and looked at him.
The rest of the day was just the usual introduction to school like, “Remember to bring your pencils” and “Keep your hooves of the other students”. Mach had heard all of it already and he probably would have fallen asleep had it not been for an extremely painful headache. Despite the pain Mach waited for class to be over and was elated when he finally heard the bell signaling lunch.
He and his friends gathered their lunches and headed out to the picnic table they normally ate at.
“Thank Celestia that class is over.” Raven complained.
“Yeah, the first day is always the most boring.” Hoof agreed.
Mach snorted, “School is always boring, I mean why would you want to stay cooped up in a musty classroom all day when you can be outside?”
“What are you?” Raven laughed “A hippie?”
“Whats a hippie?” Hoof Print inquired.
Raven’s face was suddenly filled with panic, “What?! Who said that?! I certainly didn’t!” He said quickly.
Mach and Hoof looked at each other, Raven did this every once in awhile they had learned to ignore it by now, but it was still strange.
“Oh, hey there’s the new filly!” Raven said, eager to change the subject. I’ve got weird friends Mach thought to himself. He looked over to where Raven was pointing, seeing the mare for the first time. She had a messy mane and the strange part was; instead of just one or two colors like normal ponies, she had a rainbow mane, certainly an unusual sight. Other than her strange mane she was a cyan pegasus with an athletic body.
“Celestia she’s beautiful.” Hoof whistled.
Raven rolled his eyes, “You say that about every filly.” he muttered.
“Hey what’s her name anyway?” Mach asked.
“It’s “Rainbow Dash” just moved here from Cloudsdale.” Raven said.
“How did you know that?” Mach questioned, raising an eyebrow “Are you stalking her?”
Raven was suddenly taken aback, “WHAT?! No! She just moved into the house right beside mine! I swear!”
“Hey what's she saying anyway?” Hoof wondered out loud, “She seems to be boasting about something.”
The three friends quieted down and listened in on the conversation she was having with two other mares, Applejack and Rarity.
“And so then I performed a Sonic Rainboom and won the race!” She said proudly, finishing the tale she was telling the other two.
“A sonic rainboom!? That’s impossible!” Mach shouted, gaining the attention of the three fillies, “Nopony has ever been able to reach those speeds!”
Rainbow Dash looked extremely angered, “Dude, what the hell do you think you're doing?!” Raven whispered to Mach.
“She’s obviously lying, as a pegasus you should know, nopony can perform a Sonic Rainboom.” Mach whispered back.
“Did you just say I was lying?!” Rainbow Dash yelled.
“Of course you were!” Mach spat back, “even I am not fast enough to do that!” Mach had left his spot and was right in Rainbow’s face now.
“Oh and what are you? The fastest flier in all of Equestria?” Rainbow asked sarcastically.
Mach blinked, that was exactly what he said about himself, how did she know?! “Yes I am! Nopony had ever beaten me in a race and nopony will!”
“Is this a challenge?”
“Maybe it is!”
“Fine! Tomorrow after school we race! From the school to sugarcube corner?” Rainbow said, confident she was going to win.
“Fine! Prepare to lose tomorrow!”
“Hah! As if!” Rainbow shouted then flew away.
Mach trotted back to the picnic table, certain that he was going to win tomorrow. Both Hoof and Raven were staring at him, “What?” He asked.
“Um, Mach the whole schoolyard is looking at you.” Hoof Print said nervously.
Mach looked around and saw that hoof was right, everypony was staring at him or Rainbow but with the argument over the students went back to their normal business.
Suddenly Mach was struck with a shot of pain in his brain, “OW! What the buck was that?!”
“What was what?” Raven asked nervously, “Are you feeling okay?”
Mach grimaced and said, “Just a headache, it was kinda sudden though.” The pain returned, “crap, it’s not gone.”
“Hey, what's with your wing?” Hoof Print asked.
Mach turned and exclaimed “What do you mea- oh buck” Mach’s grey wings had strange blue tints at the end that were slowly replacing his feathers.
“What is it?!” Raven said, craning his neck to get a better look.
“Uh.. NOTHING!” Mach shouted, gaining some glances from the other students in the yard “Nothing at all!”
Raven gave Mach a skeptical look, “You’re the worst liar I know” He observed “What is it?”
“Nothing! I told you it’s nothing!”
“I saw something on your wings!” Hoof Print pressed.
“OW! This headache is really bad guys” Mach said, faking pain, “I think I will have to go home!”
“Dude quit the act.” Raven said, a serious tone in his voice “What is it?!”
“See you guys later!” Mach said, quickly galloping towards the schoolhouse. Raven is right, what is happening to me? He thought.
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Walking into the school Mach saw Mr. Anglais sitting at his desk shuffling through some paperwork “Mr. Anglais?” He asked.
“What can I do for you Mach?” the teacher replied.
“I have been having a really bad headache and OW” Mach was once again interrupted by the shot of pain.
Mr. Anglais glanced over at Mach and said “For once it appears you’re not faking, alright I guess you can go home. Nothing important was going to happen today anyway.”
“Thanks” Mach said and then he flew away.
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Mach raced home as fast as his wings could carry him, Ponyville didn’t seem as bright and welcoming as it had in the morning. Mach didn’t know if this was caused by his rushing mind or by the horrid turn of events but he knew for certain that it wasn’t a good sign. The worst part about the whole experience was that Mach knew something was off, but had no idea what it was, all he knew was that something about him was changing, fast, and Mach needed to stop it before it was too late.
Seeing his home below him he shot down and landed with a precision that most pegasi his age found impossible, but none of that mattered to Mach now. He thrusted open the front door and ran inside.
“Hi mom! Bye mom!” He called as he ran past his mother, Changing Tides, cleaning the kitchen.
“Mach! What are you doing home from school so early?!” She spluttered, shocked at the sudden entrance.
Mach didn’t hear her, he continued upstairs. Slamming his bedroom door behind him Mach stared into the mirror he kept in his room, he had wanted to remove it but had been to lazy to bother now he was glad he kept it.
The thing that stared back at Mach was not a pony, it had a horn like a unicorn but it was black and gnarled, it had wings like a pegasus but they were blue, translucent and bug like, it had holes in it’s hooves which were also blackened like they had been charred in a fire and the worst part was; the thing staring back at Mach was him. It shared his light red coat and his black and yellow mane in a deformed mockery of Mach’s real form.
Mach took a step back, shocked by monster he saw in the mirror. “Oh Celestia no…” he whispered to himself.
He heard the door creak and turned his head to see what had moved it. His mother stepped into the room, a pained expression on her face, suddenly she was engulfed in a sickly green flame.
Mach wanted to scream in terror, but he was too scared to make a squeak.
“Mach dear, I think we need to have a talk.” The changeling that was his mother said.