//------------------------------// // Whewe Am I? // Story: Foals Of Harmony // by Shadowmane PX-41 //------------------------------// It took a while for me to wake up and get a good grasp on my surroundings. But I could tell from looking that I was in my own AR fic; Foals Of Harmony. The last thing I remember was Discord sending me to this place with his magic, the rest is all a blur. I felt a little dizzy and rubbed my head. But I was surprised to see that instead of my hands, I now had little hooves instead. "Huh?" I gasped in fright and confusion, "Whewe awe my hands?" I covered my mouth as I realized what i had just said and how i said it. It finally struck me that I was my own avatar, but not only that, I was a foal now. Probably Discord's doing but i couldn't really remember. As I was trying to figure this all out, the Mane 6 came up to me and were sharing surprised looks with one another. Fluttershy was the farthest back, something that I'd expect, but the others were a mixture of uncomfortably close and the right distance. "Hewwo dewe." Twilight greeted me as she took my hoof and brought me onto all fours. "Whewe did yoo come fwom?" Rainbow Dash asked as she had never seen my character before in this world. "I tink dat dis one must have snuck into da castwe widout anypony noticing." Rarity tried to explain, in an apprehensive yet calm manner, "Eithew dat ow Mama's given us a new foaw to pway wid." "Girws." Fluttershy said as she came up to me and stood in front of me, a method of protection I initially thought, "We shouwdn't be so quick to judge dis new foaw. Aftew aww, he wooks da same age as aww of us." She then turned to face me, "Sowwy, i fowgot to say hewwo. I'm Fwuttewshy." "Hi Fwuttewshy." I said with enthusiasm, "I'm Shadowmane PX-41" I didn't want to use my human name for a good reason. The ponies might never have heard a human name before. So i went with my avatar's name. "Dat's a wong name fow somepony." Rainbow told herself, "How abouw i caww yoo Shad instead?" I mulled it over for a few seconds until I finally thought that i had nothing more to lose at this point, "Otay, Shad it is." I said happily. "Oh, whewe awe my mannews?" Rarity said as she composed herself, "It's unnatuwaw fow a foaw not to intwoduce demsewves towards anoder foal. Hi I'm Wawity." "If she's sayin hewwo, ah tink it's onwy faiw dat i do da same." Applejack said as she stepped forward, "Ah'm Appwejack, it's nice ta meet ya Shad." "Otay, now dat we'we saying hewwo, I tink it's time fow yoo to meet da best of da best." Rainbow Dash stepped forward now, "Da name's Wainbow Dash." "Hi dewe. I'm Pinkie Pie, but yoo can just caww me Pinkie fow showt." Pinkie said being as hyperactive and bouncy as usual. "I tink i've seen yoo somewhewe befowe, but i can't pwace my hoof on it." Twilight said as she placed her hoof under her chin, "Weww, it doesn,t mattew now, what is impowtant though, is dat yoo know my name as weww." She shook my hoof in greetings, "Hi, I'm Twiwight Spawkwe." "It's vewy nice to meet yoo aww." I said before the doors opened, revealing Princess Luna walking into the room and then immediately looking over at me with a surprised look. She wanted to get angry and defend her kids, but even when I was a foal, she found me adorable and lifted me up in her aura. "Hello little fella." She said with a kind voice I'd never heard before in the history of time, "Who might you be?" "I'm Shadowmane, but yoo can caww me Shad." I said sheepishly as Luna asked me the question. "Ok, that's your name down. Now where did you come from?" She asked as she levitated me onto her back and I grabbed a hold of her neck, so as not to fall off. "Aww we know, is dat he just appeawed out of thin aiw." Twilight explained cutely, "Oder den dat, I have no cwue as to whewe he came fwom." I wanted to tell her than Discord sent me here, but then again, if I did, she'd probably get angry and probably throw me out. So I just kept my mouth shut as Luna lifted me up and set me down on the changing table nearby. I suddenly realized it myself, I wasn't wearing a diaper. I didn't struggle or squirm as she laid me down and began the process, for some reason, it just felt natural to be diapered in this state. And for another unknown reason, I actually felt happy with being a diapered foal. I'll admit that once every now and then I let out a few giggles as Luna diapered me and picked me up again, but other than that, I remained respectively silent. "There we go, my little beauty." Luna said as she nuzzled my neck gently, "Just to make sure you don't make a mess." "Hehe, tanks, Wuna." I said cutely as I looked up at her face with a smile on mine. "You don't have to call me that." She cooed at me and lifted me up in her aura again, "As long as you're here, you're welcome in the family, Shad. Just call me Mama." "Otay, Mama." I giggled after saying it. I always fantasized about a real life Age-Regression facility or object in my human life, but it was completely different in this perspective. All I felt like doing was playing, and not playing my games as i usually do, I felt like being a foal and doing foalish stuff, and this was the perfect opportunity to do it. I was quickly set down onto the floor again where I immediately ran off with the Mane 6. "What do yoo girws wanna pway?" I asked them once we all got together and sat down. "Dat depends on what yoo wanna pway." Rarity said as she raised a brow. "I don't know about yoo girws, but I wanna pway hide-and-seek." I finally said with another grin forming, "Does anypony agwee wid me?" "I agwee." Pinkie shot one of her hooves up and wiggled it around frantically, "Is my decision vawid yet?" "Yes, Pinkie. It is." I nodded as I turned to face the other ponies, "Anypony ewse agwee wid us?" "It wouwd be nice to have some competition in dis pwace." Rainbow Dash said as she raised a hoof as well, "Otay, I'm in as weww." "I'd wike to see how Shad does when he's wooking fow us aww." Twilight rose her hoof now as well, "I'm in as weww." "Shad, yoo wook wike da cutest foaw I've evew seen." Fluttershy complimented, "It wouwd be an honow to pway hide-and-seek wid yoo." Rarity and Applejack were discussing it among themselves in private, mainly whispering in inaudible cartoon whispers, "What the hay. We'we in too." They both said in cute unison as they rose their hooves as well. "Otay. Since Shad bwought up de idea, he gets to count and wook fow us fiwst." Twilight said as she announced it to her other friends, "Weady, Shad?" "I'm as weady as I'ww evew be." I said enthusiastically, "Evewypony find a good hiding space whiwe I count to ten." As soon as I covered my eyes with my hooves, I began counting upwards until i reached ten. I let out a few giggles with each number and I was eagerly tempted to speed up my counting, but i played gracefully and kept my counting speed normal for them to hide. "Weady ow not, hewe I come!" I said, announcing that I was now looking for the Mane 6. I quickly dashed around the nursery in a lap-like fashion, making sure everypony wasn't hiding from an angle where I could easily find them. Once i scanned the center well enough, i spread out to the other regions of the nursery, keeping my keen eyes open at all times. I then heard a giggling noise coming from underneath Dash's crib and i ran over there. I checked in the bed to see if one of the girls was hiding under the covers, no luck. I then looked underneath the bed and could make out a little blue and rainbow colour in the darkness. "Found yoo, Dashie!" I said as I saw the colours inside move to the outside, revealing the blue and rainbow coloured foal. "Howsefeathews." She said looking a little peeved that I found her first. As Dash took sat down in the middle of the nursery, I ran off looking for the other members of the Mane 6. Later on, I found them in this order; Rarity hidden behind a mess of blocks in her mini-room, Fluttershy hidden in plain sight, disguising herself as a stuffed animal, Twilight was in her costume chest which I had difficulty opening with my foalish hooves, "Applejack was a hard one. I had to look under the changing table to find her at last, and finally i found Pinkie hidden in the maze of tubes connecting the 6 mini-rooms. Soon after our game finished, we started a game of tag, starting with Dash being "It" and the rest of us running like sprinters. Dash landed a tag on Fluttershy, who landed another tag on Rarity. She passed that onto me, I passed it onto Applejack and it went on and on with us tagging different ponies each time until eventually we all crashed into each other and landed belly first onto the padded floor. Instead of crying however, we were all laughing from how fun that felt. "Hehe, dat was WEAWWY fun." I said once Luna picked us all up in her aura again after applauding us on our efforts and how we didn't cry and look helpless. "How wong awe yoo gonna be wid us, Shad?" Rarity asked as Luna let us fly in her aura. The other foals were used to this, but I for one was new to the experience. Albeit me being a newcomer to foal flying, I was giggling and laughing and proclaiming Wheee! all the while. "Weww, i don't weawwy know how to cwoss dimensionaw pwains anymowe." I explained as I regained my composure and answered the unicorn's question, "And even if I did wemembew how to do it, I don't weawwy wanna weave." "You're staying den?" Pinkie asked as she was levitated next to me. "Yup, wooks wike it." I calmly said in acceptance, "But I don't weawwy feew sad about dat. I tink i'm gonna have a wot of fun wid yoo aww." "Gwad to heaw dat." Twilight said as she clapped her hooves together mid-flight, "Wewcome to da famiwy, Shad." With those 5 words, I knew my life was just about to get better and better. I wasn't gonna tell them about Discord and him bringing me here. I only felt necessary to bring it up if he started meddling in my fanfic's affairs. But until then, I didn't tell them and they remained happy and welcoming. A feeling I haven't felt for a long time.