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// The New You 
// Story: The Element of Chaos 
// by JakeDrake 
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The Element of Chaos
by JakeDrake

Disclaimer: I own only my OC and a few ideas, nothing more, mostly it's owned by Hasbro and Lauren Faust.
Chapter Two

The New You

The only thing going through the old castle in the middle of the dark forest was a cool breeze and a few sounds of birds flying through the old enclaves where they had built their nests and homes away from the animals in the forest around them. Though a new addition which they gave it no attention, they had no reason to look at the strange creature which had appeared with a shine and another larger one like it.
One pebble from the ceiling had been finally pushed from its perch on the oldest timber high over head by a small bird which grabbed a bug from under it dropping the small marble sized stone onto the head of the strange creature. It hit it in the center of the forehead making it groan scaring a mouse away from it making it get up.
"Ow..." The creature said, now it's voice clearly male but not overly deep, "I should stop trying to push myself so hard for a girl who barely knows who I am." It started getting up rubbing it's eyes before opening them, they were a muddy green color with the pupils being slightly different sized. His glasses now perched on his nose again he got up rubbing his head now yawning.
He opened his eyes looking down and his eyes widened seeing his left hand. It had been a normal human hand an hour ago while now it was now like that of a bird. He stared at it flipping it around wiggling the digits seeing they had worked the same as when it was human.
"God bless." He said to himself, he had an odd family habit of saying that phrase when he didn't know what to say, "I have to be dreaming." He then looked at his right hand which he moved next to his left seeing it was now a lion's paw.
He shook his head pushing his body up looking down and kicked his legs which now were more horse like and he tried to stand. He balanced on them taking a few steps not changing his balance much but having to focus on how he moved with a clip clap across the stone floor.
"Where am I?" He asked himself, he stood there looking around, "But a better question where am I?" He looked around then saw a pool of water. He felt tired and first thing he needed was to get something inside of him, even if it was rain water. He hurried over to the puddle and stared at himself. 
His face was different, he could say it was longer, maybe even horse like. He was never one to change his looks, he was simple and this was the final straw where he went onto his new knees and felt his face in his new hands. He had a pair of teeth sticking out of his mouth, one coming down from the right and the other coming up from left. Both of his canines were like this like his fathers, never felt like they effected much at all.
"Am I a monster?" He asked himself running his hand through his hair, which looked more like some kind of red mane of a horse. He sat there finally taking a drink and getting up again looking at himself.	
He looked around and finally spotted something that could give him some kind of comfort in this new body, it was a large black case. Now though it seemed half his size instead of the normal third. He unlatched the two buckles seeing the wooden violin inside running his right hand over it softly, keeping to the wood as not to damage the strings.
"At least I know you’re here." He said closing the case and latching it seeing a yellow book on the floor next to the case. It wasn't the size of a phone book; it looked more like a text book which he stared at the cover, "Draconequus? Is...That what I am?"
He then saw something coming in front of him shining through a stain glass window, he stared seeing a the moon rise into the sky and shook his head strapping the odd case onto his back and moving somewhat awkwardly toward the doors under the window seeing an old path.
"I better start somewhere, maybe there is a whole town of whatever I am..." He said to himself half talking to the violin in its case moving through the bushes and trees. 
He kept walking for an hour after he crossed a rope bridge over some kind of creepy mist; he kept walking until he saw a gentle river making him smile. He nearly fell as he sped up to the river before he heard a voice coming from downstream.
He hid behind a tree while a giant purple sea serpent singing Broadway style music came swimming upstream grooming a very large mustache on his face. It sniffed and then looked over to where the young man turned Draconequus hide before saying "Oh? Hello? No need to fear dear sir, I promise you that you'll get no problems from me. No need to be shy." Oddly it sounded like a French men or someone who was kind though worked at a high classed restaurant.
He slowly moved his head around the tree and stared at the size of the beast. He could only blink when the sea snake smiled waving a little.
"Hello there, I have to say you’re a new face. Who might you be?" It said as it leaned closer making him move back a little.
"I'm...Jake. Nice to meet you..." He said in an unsure voice. He wasn't sure if the thing was being friendly or deciding what spices would go best on him while he roasted over a fire.
"A pleasure to meet you as well," He said with a smile clapping it's hands. "Now what are you doing out here in the middle of the forest?"
"I'm...not sure." He said looking away, "Just, trying to figure out a way to the nearest town." 
"I can point you in the direction of Ponyville if you want." It said smiling. "If you'd give a certain purple haired tailor for me, she's been so kind as to send me some grooming products for my wonderful Mustache!" 
Jake only stared and nodded not trusting his voice to make a comment. The sea serpent smiled pointing toward a path and said "Follow the path and cross the bridge. Keep going till you see the houses, if reach mountains you've gone too far."
"Thanks. I owe you one." He said walking over the stepping stones as he smiled nearly running waving to the serpent.
"The pleasure is mine. Have a good one and be sure to tell Rarity I said thank you!" The purple sea serpent waving him good bye sinking back into his river, while his odd new friend ran as well as he could on his new legs. 
After roughly half an hour he saw a bridge like one out of a children's book and walked over it tapping its rail with a claw before walking over it. He rushed a little while he walked up the now clearer dirt road. He smiled and raced down the road seeing a house not far from the forest.
He raced over to the house seeing it was mostly covered in grass and had quite a few animals, most wild looking, that seemed to watch him or simply glance over to him before going back to flying or running around the yard. He hopped over the gate and walked to the nice looking white door and started to knock quickly.
"Hello? Is anyone inside? I'm very lost and I really could use some help." He called into while knocking before hearing rustling from the upper floor before he stopped knocking, seeing it was nearing the middle of the night and he had woke up the person inside who was probably sleeping.
A small and sweet sounding voice came from the other side saying, "I'm sorry. I'll be out in one moment, I'll hurry if you don't mind that is."
He stood there looking around seeing the size of the door was only so big and he could see he wouldn't have to crouch, unless he grew about six inches over night. He shook his head trying to get the thought out of his head before he heard the door creaking open.
"Oh Hello," Came the same quite sweet voice before he heard a loud scared cry from inside. He blinked as he could only catch a small bit of canary yellow in the light of the full moon.
"Hello? I'm sorry did I interrupt anything?" Jake asked sounding confused and worried. 
"N-no, y-you aren't. B-but, you can't come in!" The voice said making him blink going slightly closer.
"Okay? I could stand out here if you'd like and you could maybe tell me exactly what I am?" He asked while he heard a small creak from behind him, he turned around and saw a blur of white and orange, "What the-!"
The white blur latched onto his face onto his face with a biting pain making him cry out running around trying to pull whatever it was on his face off. "Get it off!" He cried running around the yard making the animals scatter watching him. He finally got a good grip on the fluff on his face pulling off a small rabbit which glared at him.
"Oh it was just a little bunny, why did you do that you little," He asked before being cut off by another bite being taken out of his right paw making him yelp in pain running around before finally running toward the door yelling "HELP! RABID RABBIT IS TRYING TO KILL ME!" 
Now, the last thing he heard after a loud crack which brought him great pain, It sounded to him like a wooden door hitting his skull, which exactly what it was. Now the finally thing he heard was the same voice saying "O-oh...I'm sorry." Before finally slipping out of the world of consciousness