Joe took a deep breath, steeling his nerves.
"Ready?" Lyra asked. Joe nodded. "Yeah... let's do this." Lyra channeled her energy. Joe felt the tingeing in his horn, all the way to his tail... both of which suddenly went numb. Joe's hooves began to grow fingers, and his fur and mane began to recede. A large amount of changes took place, until all that was left was a naked human.
"I'm... I'm me!" Joe exclaimed, patting himself down, just to make sure everything was there... and other things weren't. Lyra sat, starring in awe.
"You're so... beautiful!" She exclaimed. Joe ignored that, and walked over to the mirror they had set up before hand.
"Hello there Joseph, good to see you again!" Joe said to his reflection. Lyra giggled... then grabbed and started caressing his hand.
"Gah! It's even more defined than the hand spell!" She squealed. Joe smiled and rolled his eyes, pulling his hands away. Lyra's face turned to despair and she reached for his hands.
"Wow there, settle down." He laughed.
"But... what's it like?" She asked. Joe thought about it for a moment.
"It's... not as good actually. Now that I have a choice, I prefer the pony body." Lyra looked confused.
"But... you have hands! And... hands! What more do you need?!?" Lyra exclaimed.
"I... don't know actually. It just feels... better." Joe said.
"I'll be the judge of that!" Lyra exclaimed. "I'm gonna change you back, then you'll change me! I'm gonna be a human!" She chirped. Joe rolled his eyes.
"Ok then, change me back." Joe sighed. Lyra removed the spell, and Joe felt his body morph. Red fur began to grow over his form, as it changed shape, and sent him onto all fours. Then, Joe was a pony again. He smiled as he looked at his hooves, and his reflection in the mirror.
"Alright! Cast the spell on me, cast the spell on me!" Lyra bounced. Joe readied the spell.
"Lyra! I'm home!" Bonbon called from downstairs. Joe lost concentration, and the glow on his horn faltered.
"No!" Lyra shouted. She ran downstairs. "Bonbon! Go out for a bit! Go... to the library! Read a book!" She pleaded to her room-mate. Bonbon narrowed her eyes at Lyra.
"Why?" She monotoned.
"We're experimenting, and we need a little more time!"
Joe peaked his head around the corner.
"WHAT!?!" Bonbon shrieked. "Please tell me you weren't testing anything on a foal!"
"Oh no, he was testing on me." Lyra said. Her room mate looked at her.
"I'm not sure if that's worse." She mono-toned. "Look, imagine if he'd seen that projection, he'd need a psychiatrist for years!" Joe rolled his eyes. After seeing a few horror movies, he could handle a pastel pony-human hybrid.
"But the only reason I projected it was because he wasn't here! And it wasn't my fault I got distracted during the casting."
"I'm still not sold that was a projection." Bonbon said. "Whatever, but what were you experimenting this time?"
"A mirror, we were trying to enchant it to see into other worlds." Lyra lied. She was scary good at lying.
"Yeah, and we're so close!" I chimed in. Bonbon looked at me.
"What if you saw something you... didn't like?" She asked me.
"Seeing something disturbing is the least of my worries." I said to her. "And even if I did, I could handle it."
"But you shouldn't need to! You're too little to be wrapped up in this... it isn't normal!" Bonbon exclaimed.
"My life isn't normal!" I snapped. "I've been ripped from my family and my life, with out a trace! They don't even know where I am! They think I've been kidnapped or worse! And the cherry on top, the big finally, is that I'm not even on the same planet anymore! I'm not the same anything! Not the same world, not the same country, not the same species, and heck I'm not even the same age anymore! You wanna know how old I was a month ago? 15! Now, I'm 8! I have to re-grow up! I even had to re-learn how to hold things with these stupid, useless, hooves! And I've jumped through an ungodly amount of hoops just to survive long enough to get back, but let's not forget the ungodly amount of hoops I still need to jump through! So you know what?! Square up mate! Get in the ring! Fight me!" I said, stomping over to the door, and punching it open.
"Joe, where are you going?!" Lyra asked.
"I don't care!" I shouted, running off.