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// Take Flight 
// Story: FiO: Hooked on a Feeling 
// by Cool writer 
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Author's Note: Humming key:
the bigger the "hmm" the louder, and smaller=more quiet.




The newly named Dusk Winds exited Canterlot Palace. He felt... happy. It was strange, he hadn't felt "happy" in a long time. But now, he had a bounce in his step, and swagger in his stride. He heard some ponies humming something, (unbeknownst to him, it was the "My Little Pony" Theme Song from generation 4) and started humming it too.
"hmm hmm hmm hmm HMMM! hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm... hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm!" He hummed quietly to himself. He'd have to try and find where that was from later. His walk eventually led him to a park. When he noticed shadows moving around, he looked up to see pegasi flying around. They were playing some kind of volley ball, only air-born.  The pegasi were swooping and diving, trying to keep the ball from falling too far. Eventually they failed, and the ball bounced over to Dusk.
"Hey! You mind getting that for us?" One of the players called out.
"Sure!" Dusk called back. He grabbed the ball between his hooves, and started flapping his wings. He focused on wanted to move in a certain direction, and his wings complied! He could fly! "Well that was easier than last time." Dusk muttered to himself. He rose up to the hight the players were at, and tossed them the ball. The red player that called out to him, thanked him.
"Hey, you wanna join in?" He asked Dusk.
"Really?" Dusk asked. "Are you sure?"
"Oh yeah! Isn't that right guys?" He asked, turning to the others in the group. They all nodded in agreement. It didn't even seem forced! They all seemed like they genuinely wanted him to join in. Dusk smiled, feeling touched.
"Sure, I'm Dusk." He said, flitting over to the outgoing-one.
"I'm RR," He said. They "hoof-bumped." And Dusk joined in.



Dusk felt as though he had been playing for hours. It turned out that this was an impromptu game, so no one really knew every one else. This was an event to help ponies meet each other. Dusk nodded, thinking it was a novel idea. Adalson wished that people would do more stuff like this. He thought about it, and (since chances were that most of the ponies he'd talked to were bronies in real life) he'd look in to "the brony fandom" when he got back. After the game was over, he felt a muted hunger, and realized it was coming from his real body.
"I guess it's time to log off." He said to himself. It was then, that he realized that he didn't know how to log off. "Ummm... Log off?" He said, trying to see of it would work. The world around him went black, and he felt like he had no body, for a moment, before all the sensation on his real body came back in full force. He was starving and cold. He raised his hands to remove the headset. Once he pulled it off, he looked around the room. It was dark, the only light from the moon through his window.
"Wait a minute... it dusk when I went in... how long was I playing for?!?" Adalson asked himself. He pulled off the hooves, and got up from the chair. It took him exactly 4.9993 seconds to realize he was on all fours. He stood up, and wobbled a bit on his legs. It was momentary, and he then started walking just as good as before.

In his kitchen, Adalson pulled a microwavable breakfast sandwich out of the freezer, and microwaved it. As it turned around in it's little cage, Adalson looked down at his hands. He clenched them, then opened. He stared at his palms. There was something less satisfying about them. His thoughts turned to Princess Celestia. She wasn't someone with a god complex... but she couldn't be an AI, that wasn't even possible! But he did know one thing...
As he looked in the mirror, he saw his human face, his human body, and sighed. He wasn't sad to see it any more, but... he couldn't deny how good it felt to be in Celestias world, how good it felt... to be a pony.