Planet Earth
Year 2044, November 1st
I just had a long day of sitting and looking through the paperwork that is involved with running a country with my fellow princes, Prince Porkchomp and Prince Micaya, when I heard the doors opening to our throne room. I looked up to see my children running towards us with my wife, Light Caller. I have two children both unicorns: one a filly, the other a colt. The filly came up to me and cried “Daddy, Daddy, can you tell us how you got your cutie mark?”
I said, “Hm, let me finish up my work here and then I will tell you.” I finished up my work quickly and told my fellow princes that they could go to their rooms when they’re done and have fun with their families. I asked the two royal guards guarding our thrones, both strong and loyal stallions, to come with me and my family to make sure nothing bad happened to us when we went to the gardens outside the palace.
When we arrived at the gardens, which was a half-mile walk from the throne room, my wife found a tree to sit on while my children jumped on me to try to wrestle me to the ground. I played with my children, dodging them to see how well they can try to take me to the ground. My daughter managed to get onto my back while my son managed to pull me down by my neck. I finally fell over by their combined weight and I could see that they were beginning to pant a little bit. “Good job, my children, you will be fine warriors when you grow up.”
“Thank you, Daddy!” they both cried in unison.
"You both deserve to listen to my story. My story began 30 years ago. Back then, I wasn’t a pony, I was a completely different race, some of which you may see today. I was a human young adult at the age of 20 when things started to get strange…”
Year 2014, November 1st
When I went to sleep that last night in October, I thought tomorrow would be a normal Saturday for my family, sleeping in till late. But that wasn’t what happened. As I was getting into bed, I felt a tingling sensation on my shoulder blades, hands, feet, and forehead. I didn’t think that much about the sensation but when I woke up the next morning, my body felt strange and alien. I was very concerned and confused. I moved my hand to see what happened but all I saw was a brown hoof in front of my face. My brain froze right there with that information. I did not know why I had a hoof instead of a hand.
I wondered to myself what else had changed while I was asleep. I pulled the covers off my body and saw that I had wings on my sides. It took a moment for me to realize that these new limbs were attached to me. I thought about how hard it might be for me to get down the ladder from my bunk bed to the ground. I went down the ladder anyway, but very carefully because I thought my hooves would slip. I was wrong. Somehow my hooves could grip the rungs of the ladder. I had no clue how they did that but they helped to keep me from falling down as I went down the ladder. When I got down to the ground I sighed in relief and turned around to see if anything had happened to my older brother. I only saw a blue horn sticking out from underneath the covers, and I thought, Is my brother a unicorn?
After looking at my ponified brother, I went down the hallway to our bathroom. As I went in, I looked at the mirror and froze. I have a horn! A unicorn horn! As I examined my body, I looked at my hair, or mane now, and my tail and saw that they were a blond yellow and the color of my coat was brown, but I did not see a cutie mark on my flank. I noticed that my mane and tail had some hairs sticking up all over so I thought about how I should straighten them out. I saw that my comb was sitting out on the sink. I thought, If I have a horn, how can I use it to straighten out the hairs on my mane and tail? I concentrated a little bit to see if I could get my magic to work, and I was rewarded by my comb floating up through the air by a brown aura. I was a bit surprised that it came naturally to me but I dismissed it and ran it underneath the faucet to get it wet then got started on my mane and tail. A half- hour later I got all the hairs under control to look nice.
I wondered to myself if my mom and dad were also under the effect of what happened to my brother and me. I turned out the lights of my bathroom and slowly opened the door to my parents’ room. I slowly went into the room and what I saw surprised me greatly. I saw a gold-feathered griffin with a dark brown coat snoring soundly next to a black keratin changeling with a green shell-like thing around where its wings are. I was taken aback by this information because I thought my parents would be ponies, not a griffin and a changeling. I went out of their room and closed the door, then went down the stairs as best I could without making a lot of noise. When I got to the bottom of the stairs, I went to the TV and turned it on so I could learn if what happened to my family happened to others.
The first thing I saw and heard when I turned the TV on was a news pegasus mare talking about a strange occurrence that happened throughout the entirety of North and South America. She talked about finding herself as a Pegasus and freaking out about it until she managed to calm down and went to where her newscast building is. When she arrived she saw that she wasn’t the only one to be transformed in her newscast group. She told another newscast member, a male griffin who was out on a street, to interview a unicorn pony who was standing next to him. The griffin asked the unicorn mare about what happened and what the mare thought about what had happened so far and how this might affect her. As I was listening to the news about what is happening in America, I thought to myself, What is President Obama going to do about this new occurrence that has happened? What is the world going to think about these three new species that have appeared out to the blue during the night?