To be a Breezie

by Obsi

Prologue- Journey's Beginning

My hoof traveled over the old parchment, carefully straightening the brittle paper to better see the illustrations. A swarm of breezies dancing around a campfire, their insectile wings spread wide open, allowing me to get a closer look. Of course, I had seen real breezies before, but there hadn’t been an opportunity to really study them up close. My eyes travelled over the beautifully detailed drawings, as if I could actually touch their membranes through the pages. Of course, I couldn’t quite trust the book, as it only contained information from second-hoof. Nopony had ever visited the breezie world before.

A loud cough pulled me out of my thoughts, and, suddenly very aware of my nose pressing against the page, I pulled up, giving the impatient conductor my most sheepish grin.

“Tickets plea- Princess Twilight!” he exclaimed, instantly losing his previous annoyed tone.

“Y-yes, sorry I made you wait.” My horn sparked to life, drawing the ticket from my bag’s leftmost pocket. “Here,” I said, hoping to distract him as I sheepishly smacked the book closed. A small cloud of dust burst out. I jerked back and shook my head, it was in my nose! A flap of my wings blew the remaining decade-old dirt away. “S-sorry again!” I wanted to yell to the conductor. All that came out was a sneeze.

“Are… are you okay?” he asked, slowly raising an eyebrow.

“I’m fine!” I took a deep breath, allowing my voice to return to a normal, calm inflection. “I just slipped up is all.” My cheeks burned. Hopefully he just took it as a sign of the loud sneeze that came right after.

“No problem.” the stallion said, showing a small, if slightly forced smile as he stamped the ticket. “Here.” There was a moment of hesitation as he looked at me, as if wondering whether he should open his mouth again. “If you don’t mind the question, what is a princess doing on a train to Dodge City?”

Anything to end the awkwardness. Plus, this was a question I loved to answer. “An expedition,” I said, smiling at his confused blink. With a spark of my horn, the book levitated, proudly displaying its title to the stallion. Facts and Myths concerning the obscure nature of the Breezies. “The portal to their world is just an hour of flight away from Dodge City, and yet nopony has ever gone through it, it’s too small.” I gave the stallion a smirk. “Luckily, I know just the spell for that.”

“That sound fascinating.” He tapped his hoof. “I should really finish my round though. Tell you what, If you went to the snack wagon in ten minutes, you could tell me more? I would pay for a coffee.”

“That sounds delightful,” I agreed, looking after the stallion as he turned to attend to the other guests. His coat was a nice shade of light-brown, with a short, dark mane. His cutie mark was made of three tickets, two of which already had a hole in them. Though somehow, I doubted his special talent was so obvious. That’d be a valid question for later, I decided, straining my eyes to make out the text on those tickets-

A sudden heat rose up in my face as I realised what it must look like to anypony else. I assure you, I was just trying to guess the meaning of his special talent, nothing else! I covered my eyes with my hooves, feeling my burning cheeks. If Rarity found out- I didn’t even want to imagine, she was already insistent on introducing me to a new stallion every other week- Not to mention, I thought, a shiver running down my spine at the memory, the time she set me up on a blind date. With another mare! And it was Applejack!

After another deep breath, I pulled my head out of my hooves and leaned back against my seat. All of this thinking about stallions and dating was just distracting me. I had an expedition to perform. I was totally going to get that free coffee though.

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I took a long sip, tilting the cup so I could lick the last warm drops out of the plastic. A bit unbecoming perhaps, but my mane was ruffled and my cheeks frozen from the harsh, cold winds that blew around Dodge City. But the hot waking juice was enough to rekindle my spirits, the spirits of exploring, of learning! With a large grin, I crushed the cup between my hooves (If only I could make it neatly flatten like Rainbow always did) and tossed it away (before floating it neatly into my saddlebags, Fluttershy would’ve given me a most gentle tongue-lashing for littering).

I WAS THERE! Right in front of the waterfall, looking up at the hole in a wall of rock. With a surge of willpower, I folded my flared wings. Not yet, preparation! Normally, I would have made a list of all the things to take with me, what to leave behind and where to go. However, there was a little complication with that. See, I could transform myself into a breezie just fine and maintain the spell for as long as I wished… but as long as I remained in that form, I couldn’t reinforce any other spells, including the one that shrunk my belongings. I think you can imagine yourself what devastation a heavy tome could cause if it suddenly appeared in the middle of a breezie village. And that means, I thought with a heavy sigh as I slid off my saddlebags, I can’t take anything with me. No maps, no books, not even a pencil. Of course, it wouldn’t mean I had nothing, Seabreeze was going to pick me up on the other side and he’d already agreed to provide for me at the start. I would live like a real breezie! Still, I would've liked to be able to document my findings before I came back.

But enough worrying, my explorer-spirit shouted. First, discoveries have to actually be made. A grin formed as my horn lit up, the lightwaves from my magic dancing across the waterfall as it slowly enveloped my body. It felt like my insides were filled with sour, melting jelly beans, squeezed by a pair of extremely powerfuls hands, kneaded into a new form. The world grew larger. Suddenly, pain. Gasping, I turned my head to see my feathers being pulled inside my wing, feeling like a hundred needles sinking into the flesh. Just a moment later however, the pain stopped, and I sat on a large rock- that was really only a pebble, but with my new size, it could just as well be a boulder. Running a testing hoof over my head, I felt two long, spindly growths coming out of my forehead, surrounding my horn. Good. I looked up at the mountain wall, up at the large hole that was my destination. Funny, as a pony, I could have reached it with a good jump, or a friend boosting me. Now, it seemed like it’d take a day of dangerous climbing, at the very least.

Well, that’s what I’d kept my horn for.

I swear, the poof-sound of my teleporting had a higher-pitch. Either way, I’d successfully skipped an unattended flight lesson, which would have very likely resulted in injury, if Rainbow Dash could be believed about my first attempts at flying. And even more than flight, Rainbow was an expert in all kinds of crashes, so you better believe I was going to follow her advice on this matter.

Closing my eyes, I called upon my inner magic. It was harder now, I was no longer built to weave a spell as before, but I could very well complete one. Puffing out my cheeks, I channeled every bit of alicorn magic left within me. For a couple of seconds, my head throbbed, as if caught up in a terrible headache, then it faded. My horn was gone. I was a fully-fledged breezie now. I felt my feelers twitch, possibly as a reaction to my excitement. If only I had a mirror, I’d love to see how that movement looked on a breezie. I bet it’d look cute. I had to see it!

With a giddy grin, I galloped towards the shimmering portal, bursting out into fresh, cool air, the idyllic sounds of rushing leaves around me, as I set my eyes on my new surroundings.

Something had gone very, very wrong.

Author's Note:

Obsi here,

This is just an intro for the story, though this one will have much shorter chapters than my previous project, which will allow me to post new content every week!

(expect one or two empty weeks)

Have fun, I've been burning for a long time to finally write something with breezies, so I'm excited!

Comments

[Starlight Nova]

How do I know this story won't die after only one chapter?

[Cipher800]

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You and me both. I hope it continues.

[CrimsonWalker]

9362150 and 9362288
Look at the author's other stories, and seen how many are still Incomplete.

[Tranquil Serenity]

A story where Twilight visits the breezies' world? RESEARCH! What a cool idea! I don't know how she managed to arrange it so that Seabreeze would be meeting her though, since the portal had been closed off. Maybe an offscreen exchange during the MLP episode? I hope you elaborate on that later.

[Obsi]

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9362150

just to soothe all worries, I tend to pre-write. I finished chapter 2 yesterday and just started number 3. Also, as CrimsonWalker pointed out, I haven't left a story incomplete yet ^^

[EverfreePony]

Very interesting story concept, with very well written Twilight—I can easily imagine her doing all this I hope to go through the remaining chapters in the morning, it’s getting pretty late here

[Texus]

Okay...not sure where this is going the "rarity is matchmaker and Twilight thinks she looks as if she is checking out others", is going.
I'm not judging your story yet, this is simply me noticing what could lead to one of the several bad examples I got over the years if not done right.

The way you have wrote the descriptions of her feelings and everything else looked good so far. Maybe i read the second chapter already but if this continues then I think I could enjoy your writing style.

Now I only hope you have a slow built romance or just a believable one, you know where they both maybe develop feelings before they land in bed with each other or whatever could feel rushed. I wanted to say more but I'm not sure if I would like to see Twilight being in the defensive in the romance if you can call it that or not.
Normally it's as far as I had seen mostly the main char who is blushing like an idiot everytime, only recently I got the feeling that fact was changing.

I also think that I never or hardly saw a story in which one character was in love with another one, but the other one didn't loved her right from the start or something like that.

The same with an adoption storie where the let's say guadsmare was put in a situation where she had to take care of a little one because that one had decited to follow her everywhere after they rescued them. The thing is that the Mare maybe doesn'T even likes kids.

[Luckyfanisaac]

“That sounds fascinating.” He tapped his hoof.

[Yoshifan30]

Ohh very interesting way to start out the story of Twilight visiting a different town where the portal to The Breezies are and looks like she also transform into a breezies which it's pretty cool they did that back in season 4 and I wonder what they mean something went wrong I guess I'll find out