Chapter 1: Discoverer
“Bent-G.! Wake-up!” My mom called from the kitchen.
“I’ll be down in a sec, Mom!” I answered. I got out of bed, and went to my calendar: “Just two more months before my fifth birthday!” I said to myself. Afterwards I went straight to the door, passing my tea-set with all my dinosaurs and Army-Ponies drinking tea, while eating some imaginary-cake. I avoided stepping on my set of dolls that were lined-up for war.
I love playing war with my dolls then having Tea with my army of dinosaurs when it was all over.
I went down-stairs to the kitchen, my mom was levitating a frying pan with her magic, making pancakes, while my dad was reading the newspaper . When I was done eating the pancakes, my parents sat down with a serious look on their face.
“Bent ... I bet that you have noticed that... there’s something different with you, from the other kids?”
I knew that, I could still remember the day that I found out.
(Months ago)
“Mom.. Dad... where do babies come from?”
My parents look at one and other, then nodded their heads with a slight frown on their face. They went to the couch, sat, and levitated a book that said “the Phoenixes & the Manticores (the Birds and the Bees)”. I didn’t know how a book about animals would answer my question. Maybe they were going to start with where baby-animals come from? My parents gave another glance to one & other then decided to put the book on the side table, and started.
“Well... when a mare and a stallion REALLY love one another, they... give each other a special-hug.”
“A hug?” I replied.
“Yes, yes.” my parents said back to me.
I thought about it for a moment “Can you do that alone?” I asked.
“Noo.” they answered back. They know that there are species that reproduce asexually, but ponies weren’t one of them.
“Does it have to be a mare and a stallion, can’t you do it with two stallions or.. two mares?” I asked knowing couples that were that. Not knowing why ponies made a big deal about them.
“Umm..” They looked at one and other. They knew that they was a very rare spell that cold helped two mares to have a filly together, but for some reason the same spell couldn't make two stallions have a colt together. However they might need to find & know how the spell works.
I was about to ask more, but before I could, somepony was at the door, knocked on it. My parents went to open it . It was one of my parents’ friends; they left to have a chat in the kitchen leaving me on the couch. Starting to get bored,
I decided, to go outside and ask the ponies in the town, “Where do babies come from?”. But most weren’t big help.
The mother of the flower-Triplets, just fainted when I asked her.
Carrot Top’s mom said something about foals coming from a garden.
Vinyl Scratch’s mother said by making lovely music with one another.
Berry Punch’s mom said that if you drink a lot you would get a foal. I never understood why ponies would drink something that makes you act funny and become sleepy.
And the strange earth pony stallion with the hourglass cutie mark, kept rambling about Timey Wimey or something!
None of them made sense, why would you need exactly one mare and one stallion if foals came from gardens?
And now that I that I think about it, which one am I? And which one would I need to make a foal, do I need a stallion or a mare?
I went back home in frustration. When I got back, my parents were still talking with their friend. I saw that the book was still on the side table next to the couch.
I took the book of “The Phoenixes & the Manticores” and went to my room. I sat on my bed and started reading the book.
Skimming through the pages, the first part talking about the stories that I heard from the town’s pony, I found out really quickly that the book wasn’t about animals, the book was about an event called puberty, where a filly becomes a mare and a colt becomes a stallion. I was now more curious was I going to grow-up into a mare, who needs a stallion? or stallion, who needs a mare to make a foal? I flipped through the pages to one that had a growth chart. On the right side of the growth chart there was the average body of a grown mare and a grown stallion with transparent wings and horns. They were sitting on their flank with their back legs spread open wide. What they were showing made me uncomfortable, showing parts of the body that most ponies kept to themselves and their doctor. But based on what it said above the chart, it made sense why they would be showing that, yet, I still didn’t like to picture that that’s how my parents most likely look like. There was something off about those ponies´ body parts, something that I couldn’t put my hoof on. I shrugged it off and looked at the other part of the growth chart, on the left side of the growth chart there was the average body of both foals of my age, also with transparent wings and horns. I looked at myself in my mirror, my face looking like a mix of a filly’s and a colt’s. My eyelashes were half way between the length of the filly’s one and half the number. My muzzle was square yet round at the same time. I looked at the rest of my body confused; my hooves looked like they were between the ones of the filly’s and colt’s. I continued with the rest of my body, the same results came. I was even more confused now; I knew some stallions that had a physique that made them look like a mares and mares that were bulky making them look like a stallion, but even though those ponies were like that, I could still tell what gender they were. Yet for some reason I couldn’t tell what gender I was. I looked at more the images trying to find the answer. Then I noticed the parts between the legs of the two foals. Perplexed, I went to the door, closed and locked it, walking back to my mirror, looking back into it. Then I started removing my clothes. Levitating the book with my magic, I examined myself in the mirror. I was pretty sure that I was in possession of both of them. I opened my legs up…I was right. It’s at this point that I finally realized, “I’m both…” I began to cry.