Will we still be friends?
Even if you know the truth?
I’m still me.
The rays of the early morning light shone through the large window in the reading room of the Golden Oak Library. The local librarian stallion was sitting in his chair with his legs folded under him, he grabbed the edge of the page between his thumb and forefinger as he read the last few words on the page.
He was really enjoying the book, it was a little romance novel about Lord Solaris and his student, a mare of unknown name, that he found in the library. He had locked the door and was now on the last chapter.
Knock Knock Knock
He let out a meep and threw the book in the air. It spun around and around. Acting quickly, he lit his horn and caught the book and sent it under his chair. Rushing over to the door he opened it to find Barbara standing there, hands on her hips and a foot tapping away.
“Are you reading my romance novels again?” Dusk cheeks flushed red and he looked everywhere but at Barbara.
“I… I don’t know what you are talking about Barb.” This elected a sigh from the young dragoness.
“Dusk, I don’t know why you won’t admit that you like them. And ‘Solaris and the Lovely Student’ is one of the best ones we have.” Her eyes glazed over with a dreamy look. “Oh how I wish that I could be as lucky as that mare with Elusive.”
He waved his hands in front of her and even tried snapping his fingers. Barb’s cheeks turned bright red and she rushed down to her room to hide. Dusk just blinked and slowly backed into the room. He just decided to go back to reading the book.
Dusk sat back in the chair and pulled the book back out and started to pick up where he left off. His eyes slowly shut as he drifted off to sleep, as the rest of his body slid down the chair. The sound of a snoring stallion was the only thing coming from the room.
Dusk slowly opened his eyes and found himself in a room similar to his bedroom. He had to blink a few times to make sure what he was seeing was true. Before him stood a mirror and in that mirror was a reflection of a young mare that looked similar to him if he was a mare. He couldn’t believe what he was seeing, the mare that was looking back at him was really cute. Her mane was long and silky smooth, she was just a little shorter than he was, she was very curvy in all the right areas, and she had the warmest smile.
He looked down and saw that it wasn’t a trick of the mirror, he was now a she. She didn’t have long to dwell on what was happening. There was a light knocking on the door of the room. Feeling that it would be rude not to open the door for the pony on the other side, no matter how much she wasn’t her usual male self.
On the other side of the door was the one pony he never thought he would see, Elusive. He was standing there in a nice black suit that stood out against his white fur. Dusk could feel her heart picking up speed, she didn’t know what was happening to her. Elusive smiled at her and the blood rushed to her face and caused her to blush madly.
“Ah, you look lovely my dear. I hope you are ready for our date.” She just nodded her head and followed him out. The world around her grew brighter and brighter as she walked alongside him.
Dusk slowly blinked as the midday sunlight shone brightly into his eyes. He jumped up from his chair as fast as he could and started to give himself a pat down like no other. Dusk was making sure that he was still a stallion. Once everything came back as clear, he let out a sigh of relief.
Falling back into the chair, his mind started to work out what the dream meant. That was the curse of having a mind like his, it wants to understand everything. The first thing his mind went to was the fact that he was the mare in the dream and not a stallion. It was odd, he never dreamt that he was a mare before.
The next thing he couldn’t understand was why Elusive was there. Thinking about him from the dream was enough to make his heart race like it did in the dream. One troubling thing to Dusk was that he really liked what was happening in the dream and he it felt right to be that mare.
The dream felt so right for him, it felt more real than his real life. Dusk’s mind was stuck in this loop of conflicted thoughts about feeling right to be a mare and the feelings he felt for Elusive in the dream. His mind stopped when it came to an idea on how to test if any of this held any truth in the real life. He was told that sometimes it showed what the heart wanted deep down, even if the pony didn’t know it.
The only way he could test any of this was by first changing himself from a stallion to a mare. It wasn’t like it was the most easiest thing to do, but it was what his mind told him that would put to rest any feelings or thoughts he had about the dream.
Dusk’s cutie mark is about magic, which in turn told that he is very good at it. He had learnt all kinds of spells. Some of which he used on a daily basis, all because they made running the library easier. Then there were some spells that he kept in the back of his mind just in case he needed them or just for the fun of learning them.
The spell he was going to cast was the gender switch. The spell would be permanent till the user casted the spell again. The spell did more than just change how you look on the outside, it changed you inside and out. You would be mare or stallion in every way. There was one little catch to casting this spell, it took a lot of magic to cast it and it would take a few days for all your magic to return.
He stayed in the chair, Dusk heard that sometimes casting a spells like this would take a lot out of a pony and they would fall to the ground. Closing his eyes and focusing all the magic he could muster into his horn, the spell started to cascade down over his body and it started to tingle.
The tingling faded and pain gripped his insides. Dusk fell from the chair holding his sides as he felt his body starting to change. The pain was becoming too much for him to bear, he could feel bones change and organs moving around. It felt like a lifetime had passed before the pain stopped.
There was a sound of someone banging on the door. Dusk slowly got to his feet and walked to the door. He guessed that he must have screamed loud enough to have Barbara pounding the door down. He slowly opened the door and gave a weak smile to the worried dragoness. “I’m sorry, Barb. I didn’t mean to cause you any trouble.”
Barbara just looked him up and down with her mouth hanging open. “Dusk? Is that you?”
“Of course it’s me. Who else would it be?”
“I don’t know, some crazy mare breaking into the library?”
“Did you say mare?” Barbara nodded and that sent Dusk running past her and into the guest bathroom. In the mirror stood the mare from the dream. She couldn’t believe how well the spell worked. She couldn’t take her eyes off the mirror.
“Dusk, what did you do this time?”
“I’m testing something from a dream I had.” She couldn’t look away from the mirror. Dusk got to thinking, her old name didn’t seem to fit with her new look. “Barb, what do you think of me changing my name while I have this look?”
“I think Dusk Shine is not the best mare name that I have heard of.” She started to tap a finger to her chin and grin. “How about Twilight Sparkle? Sounds similar to your old name, just more mare-like.”
“I like it, it fits this body.” She looked in the mirror once more and smiled. It felt so wrong to even think she was born, a stallion. Was that dream right, was he meant to be a mare? “Twilight Sparkle...”