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// Going Away 
// Story: Settling in 
// by Honest Wisdom 
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I consider myself to be a normal person. A little crazy, I admit, but who isn't? Bad things happen to good people... I'm not a good person. I was chilling in my Foster home with my Baby brother trying to figure out how to use a Yo-Yo when all of a sudden a tingling sensation traveled through my body. I shivered and grabbed a blanket. My brother (His name is Benny, are you happy?) stood and glared at me. "I was using that."

"I know that, I'm trying to deter you from that." I grin wickedly and run out of the room before he has a chance to process what I said. Which normally takes about...

"GET BACK HERE!" Huh, Quicker than I thought. I shudder as the feeling comes over me again, more violently this time. I duck into the kitchen where our Foster Mother is cooking dinner.

"Looks delish." she smiles and mumbles something about as I run out the door into the yard, with my brother not far behind.

"GIVE ME BACK MY BLANKET!" I open my mouth to shout at him but I get a splitting headache. I clutch my forehead in an effort to dull the pain but it doesn't work. I yank on my hair and scream. My brother reaches out to touch my shoulder. "Are you alright?"

I shake my head. There's too much pain to speak. It feels like someone pumped me full of liquid fire. I fall down to my knees and scream. My bones creak and ache. My brother's mouth moves like he's saying something but I can't hear it. I just nod as he runs back inside the house and the whole world goes black.

That's the last I saw of them.





I groaned. I can hear two people arguing. I try to focus on what they're saying instead of the pain in my body. My back feels like a giant grabbed me and rubbed me against a cheese grater. I tried to move some part of my body, any part really, but all i managed to do was lift my head a bit.

"I don't see what the big problem is, it's not like I turned her into an orange."

"The spell wasn't supposed to bring a person! It was supposed to balance the magic.

I stood unsteadily. My bones felt wobbly and fragile. I open my hand and flex it. I felt someone touch my shoulder. "Are you Okay?" I nod. "Goodness! I think she's gone mute!"

I opened my mouth. "Dung Dyed." I open my mouth and flex to get some feeling into it. I stretched my body out and hear an audible crack. I feel the muscles in my back flex twice, almost reflexively. I opened my eyes and saw the furry face of a yellow Pegasus with a mark of three butterflies on her butt, a lavender unicorn with wings, and a bizarre creature with parts of many different creatures put together.

I screamed and bolted for the door. I think it was a decent reaction.