The Curse of Discord

by Creative Charmer


Chapter 11: Several Stops Along the Way 9/10

Twilight's body began wobbling and convulsing, and, unlike before, magic started shooting out from her horn at every spasm, with the magic blasting away sections of the surrounding area.
At the sight of this hazardous display, all of Twilight's friends ran behind Applejack, forming a straight line as they all stood behind the mare, poking their heads out from the sides so as to watch Twilight's transformation.
Following the multiple blasts of destructive magic, the magic around Twilight's horn suddenly changed from its standard magenta to a straight red. Now, whenever she fired off a blast, the blast did not destroy anything, but rather altered each nearby struck object in different ways, such as turning a bush into popcorn, giving a rock wings and causing it to fly away, and changing a patch of grass into a miniature tornado made out of spaghetti.
"Woah, this is just gettin' weird," Applejack affirmed.
As Twilight reared up on her hind legs, with her back bending backwards as far as it could go, the magic around her horn instantly dissipated, and Twilight fell back forward, landing on all her hooves, and she was now directly facing her aligned friends, so she was straightly situated with them as well. Before anyone could say a word, Twilight's back suddenly began to arch upwards, as if her spine was trying to pull itself up out of Twilight's backside. Her entire back started to glow as it continuously gave the appearance of being yanked up into the air; and, even more shocking, was that every time her back was pulled upwards, it got higher, but Twilight's hooves remained situated on the ground, so this time her body was changing gradually rather than all at once like the previous occurrences.
Applejack leaned forward as she watched the arch grow higher and longer, and the instant the glowing has ceased, Twilight's elongated body straightened itself out, which in turn sprang forward without much delay, causing her to slam into Applejack, who simultaneously crashed into everyone in the line behind her, with them all ending up in a pile a small distance away.
Much moaning and groaning emanated from the pile-up of ponies(and one dragon). Most everyone was underneath someone else(except for Fluttershy, who ended up on the top of the pile), and they were all struggling to get their minds straight after that rattling experience.
"Ohhh..."
"What just happened?"
"I don't know...I can't see anything," said the muffled voice of Spike from underneath his equestrian compatriots.
Rarity heard Spike's dialogue and made haste to assist her scaly companion. She used her magic to lift the others off of herself so she could remove herself from the heap and retrieve Spike from his equine grotto. Spike still appeared rather dazed, and looked around with his blurred vision, trying to ascertain exactly what each object in his field of blurred vision was.
"Are you all right, Spikey-wikey?"
Spike instantly turned towards Rarity, and at the sight of her, the blurriness in his eyes melted away, revealing the ravishing Rarity, with a prodigious gleam of luminescence radiating from behind her form, and a dazzling array of sparkles emanating around her entire being.
"Oh, yeah!" he eagerly responded, springing upright. "I'm a-okay!" he additionally gave a thumbs up with his response.
"Glad to know Spike's okay," Rainbow Dash said sarcastically as she pulled herself out of the pony pile.
"Yes, that is good to know, but I think it matters that we're okay, too," Fluttershy appended, to which Rainbow slapped her face in aggravation.
"Is everyone okay?" Applejack asked as she stood up erect, as did the others.
"Wow, that was pretty fun!" Pinkie said, wobbling around as she tried to stand upright upon the ground. "I'm gonna have to remember that to use at one of my parties!"
"Pinkie, this is no time to be thinking about parties!"
Pinkie blew a raspberry in response. "You make that sound like there's never a good time to think about parties!" she chuckled shortly after.
"Look," Applejack interjected. "I'm glad yer all fine, but what about Twiligh—" Applejack instantly gasped in shock at the first sight of her friend, after which everyone else did the same.
Twilight was feeling woozy after ramming her head into Applejack. She proceeded to stand up, but had trouble in doing so. She felt very unstable on her hooves, and her body felt very wobbly and unsteady itself. Still feeling a bit tired, Twilight lowered her head down towards the ground. A she did so, she peered between her legs, and was taken aback by the sight of her back hooves being so far away. She swiftly swung her head back upright and looked back, now seeing fully her newly elongated midsection, which had become five times longer than before, was green, and entirely covered with scales. Naturally, Twilight freaked out, which started with a yelp.
While yelping, she jumped up using only her front legs, flipping the front half of her body up, around, and backwards, her new scaly body wobbling all around, and Twilight attempting to gain control of her unsteady self. Twilight tried to force her body back forward, but every time she moved herself, she flung herself too hard, making herself feel like she was going to crash her face into the ground. She was also stumbling around relentlessly on her hind legs at the same time, trying to keep her balance on the ground, but this constant staggering impeded her efforts to regain the power to keep herself fixated firmly upon the earth beneath her.
This heart-rending display was beheld in dismay by Twilight's friends—still stunned by her latest transformation. This astonishment soon wore off, and now everyone realized the trouble Twilight was having right now; and after some immediate advocating from Applejack, the group rushed over to assist their distressed friend. Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy both held the front of Twilight's body while it was up in the air, whilst the others held Twilight's bottom half still until Twilight was finally able to situate herself at a perfectly level placement on the ground.
"Phew...thanks, guys," Twilight said, having calmed down somewhat—until she remembered her newest change and went into a bit of a panic once more. "What...what is this?!" she exclaimed as she examined her reptilian body all over.
"Looks like some kinda scaly animal body."
"Like a lizard?"
"I think she means more like a snake."
"Oh, great; I have a snake body now," Twilight remarked before she facehoofed herself. "That's just what I need in addition to my dragon arm, deer leg, and scorpion tail," she sarcastically uttered as she motioned to each body part she spoke of.
"Wait," Pinkie suddenly interjected. "Now you're saying you need these parts after all those other times you made such a big deal about how bad they were?? Will you make up your mind, Twilight? Sheesh!" Twilight said nothing in response to this, as she wasn't in the mood to deal with Pinkie's lack of sarcasm understanding.