//------------------------------// // A Whole New World // Story: A Second Too Late // by Thunder Seethe //------------------------------// Shayne POV I assume that bright light was Celestia's whatever to bring me to her dimension. Hopefully I can be a somebody here, it probably doesn't seem like it, but I've been very depressed at earth, no friends, only thing keeping me alive was random acts of kindness brought to me. I only had one friend and he nearly got himself killed trying to save me and... others. I never really had someone like me before, I'm told that I'm different. The only physical differents I claim is that my eyes are multicolored, they are golden around the outside of the pupil, and yellow for the pupil. Maybe people over here are less shallow about appearences, I guess I can only hope. Wherever this light is taking me. Moments later (its still really dark) but I can hear someone... It's Celestia! I can barely hear her. She's talking about my body or something I presume. "Sister, do you think this body fits him well?" Sister? This is a different voice... who is it. Ugh... now I have an agonizing headache... MAKE IT STOP! I guess I'll deal it with for now. That hole in my arm was worst, that reminds me, my arm doesn't hurt anymore! Did they put me under some painkillers? "Yes Luna, I've been doing research on him, and this body seems like the perfect fit. Quite fancy and handsome don't you think?" Luna's the other person... what are they doing to my body? Research? I have so many things going on through my mind, and I can't do anything about it. "Yes sister, how did you come up with something so... intriguing?" Luna asked dumbfoundedly. "It took work, but after a few trial and errors, I came across the perfect match for him. We should let him rest, I'm sure he'll be quite suprised when he wakes up." "Does he know why he's here yet?" "It's best we don't tell him... yet. Careful what you say here Luna, he may wake up any time now. Or he may just be in a half-sleep. If thats the case, he can probably hear us now, but can't do anything. Poor guy, we still need to come up with a new name for him. Any idea's Luna?" "We best discuss this in a different room. We don't want to wake him or leave him with more questions do we?" Wait new name? What are they talking about! My name is Shayne and I plan to keep it that way! "Agreed, lets go to the main hall." "Alright." I heard pitter-patters of steps... it actually sounded like they were gracefully running because there were so many steps! I have to wake up now! Just as they were about to leave the room, I awoke. "WAAIIT!" They stopped but as I looked at them, it took me to suprise. THEY WERE HORSES! "What the hell is going on! Why are there HORSES here?" "Oh Shayne! You're awake!" That voice... Princess Celestia? "Well now that you're awake I assume you want to ask us questions." Damn right I do! "Ok first question, how are horses able to talk? And two..." I looked down at my hands and realized... they were hooves. "and two... WHY AM I A HORSE TOO!" I am furious, why did they change me into a horse? How is that even possible! I'm not so smart in biology, but this shit is impossible! "I'm sorry Princess Celestia, but you do have to understand why I'm acting like this." "Its ok, apology accepted, we know you're in shock on why you're a 'pony'. Yes we aren't horses but we are pony's. And we can talk the same reason why you can, we have vocal cords. And for your second question, you've been changed to a pony because if somepony saw you as a human, they'd freak out and probably try to avoid you as much as possible. I have been watching you on Earth, and saw thats what most people did because of your multicolored eyes. So knowing how much you'd hate being avoided in a new world, we had to give you a new body so you don't feel excluded any." "I understand now... thanks for the explanation. What was it about changing my name though? Isn't Shayne a somewhat 'normal' name around here?" I just noticed that Luna was being awfully quiet, maybe it is awkward for her. She was looking at the ground... is that blushing? "Well for the name" Luna finally spoke up. "We needed to have your name fit in with the others. Unlike your world, ponies can just have a first name. Like Pureheart, Iron or Celestia and Luna. Some may have two names like, Fancy Pants. As you can see, these names are chosen very differently than in Earth. So its unlikely you'll come across another Shayne, or Josh, or John." Luna was anxious to finally get to say something, she was smiling as she explained. And it made me smile too. Just then I noticed something on the sides of there... rear end, Celestia had a Sun and Luna had a crescent moon. What does this mean? Hmm... I also noticed how Celestia's mane flowed without wind, the same goes for Luna. They both had wings and horns... I heard of pegasi and unicorns... but what is this? More questions... "Princess..." "Yes?" They both replied simultaneously, they both looked at eachother then back at me, then blushed with a nervous smile. "You girls are both Princess's? There hasn't been any fight for rule at all?" "No... Actually we don't like to bring that up." Luna frowned and looked at the ground with her head hanging low. I hated to se her like that, she was really beautiful. I mean not to like... you know, but she was pretty. "Anyways" I said trying my best to brighten the mood, "How's about we go to the names... I need one if I want to live right? I mean live without being shunned into a corner." It seemed to work, Luna got back up with a nice smile on her face. "Well first we should look at some details... You're a pegasus" I AM A PEGASUS?!? THAT MEANS I CAN FLY! I desperatly tried spreading my wings, with much failure... I only began to sweat. "and you have a shining gray coat, with dark blue mane... your eyes are golden and yellow... Something like a storm don't you think sister?" Celestia nodded in agreement. "If I do look like a storm... hmm WAIT! Before I forget, whats that Sun and Moon on your rear ends?" It was actually really hard to say that... I don't know why. "That's called a cutie mark, you'll get it when you discover your special talent. Mines is a moon, and one of my jobs as Princess is to raise the moon. My cutie mark represents night, as you can tell. My sisters is a Sun, she can control the Sun as how I control the moon. Its not that difficult actually, but it makes a difference thoughout Equestria." "So the sun and moon don't just come automatically like how it does in Earth then." This is a strange concept, luckily concepts are one thing that all CSE's are good at. You can't just learn on how to do something, thats useless. You only truly learn something when you can understand concepts. Like math, 2x2=4 well if you only knew that but didn't know how to use it any other time, its useless isn't it? If you had the concept down you can easily do 124x144=17856. Stuff like that, sorry for ranting on you. "No, we need to control everything, like weather. Pegasi like you are able to move clouds. If they don't move the, they stay there stationary forever." I think I have a pretty good understanding now. I wonder what my cutie mark will be? "Ok back to names... since you both say I look like a storm due to my physical characteristics... how do you think Thunder Seethe sounds?" It sounded pretty good to me, and I could feel a smile comming on my face at that idea for a name. "It sounds wonderful! Would you like to stay here, or make new friends." Friends sounds nice, I mean I only had one my entire life... It makes me feel bad to have to leave him like this, but then again... I won't be a burden to him anymore. Honestly I'm glad he won't see me anymore, now he can make better friends that won't rely on him all the time for help, and maybe he can become a better person like that. "sigh" its probably for the best. "I'd like to make some friends please!" I said happily to hide my inner pain. "Great!" Princess Celestia said cheerfully, "I know some people who'll be glad to be your friend! Just remember Thunder, nobody can know where you're from. We don't want any trouble or ponies freaking out!" she said hesitantly. "No worries, I'll keep my mouth shut." and with that a bright light shined from her horn then surrounded me in her magic. THATS SO FREAKIN AWESOME! I now live in a place where I can fly and magic exists! Moments later I started hovering above the ground with yellow magic surrounding me and eventually I was gone, and appeared in a forest.