> Hu-mane > by LunaoftheNight > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Chapter 1 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The wind is howling really loudly. The rain thuds against the roof of my house. It is so loud, I can't sleep. But I know that isn't the only thing keeping me awake, something else feels wrong too and I want to find out what it is. But I'm only a fifteen year old girl and my mum would kill me if go downstairs, instead I just sit I n my bed and wait until it ends. It's not gonna end. It's not gonna end. I keep telling myself the same thing because I know its true, the storm is gonna finish me if I cant stop it first. And I love clouds and geography, I really do but nobody can control the weather. Especially not a random girl, even the officials cant do it. I whimper as a loud boom comes from outside and i leap out of my bed. It's a small bed, but I like it. It is covered with an old and tatty duvet, but I like it that way. It smells of horses and sweat but I find it nice and comforting. Horses are my life, even when I'm asleep. I creep to my window slowly and I feel scared as I slowly open the curtains. My hands are shaking and my legs are shaking too but I am a curious person and can't not know what happened. A tree. It's just a tree, fallen over into my garden. My fence is broken and burglars will probably break in now but that's fine. I laugh and try to smile but it doesn't go well. But I have to convince myself that its fine, so I go back to bed and bark laughs and tell myself that everything is ok and that it was only a tree that didn't land on my house. I'm fine. Kind of. I lie in my bed and try to distract myself. I'm being paranoid, so I start thinking of my horses. The first is a beautiful friesian mare called Nippy. She's horrible really and bites everyone who goes near, who names a horse 'nippy' after all, but once the biting ritual is over she's pretty fun to ride. Her field-mates AKA victims are both little ponies, one is a scruffy shetland called bubbles and the other is a twelve hand high new forest pony named Flicky. Flicky is a sweet thing, she carries herself beautiflly and would be really good at dressage if she was a bit bigger, but she's too small. I sigh and grin when I feel myself relax. Thinking about my horses always makes me feel better, but thinking about clouds—I'm kinda boring— is good as well. They're slow and calm and gentle except in a strom... No don't think about that, think about fluffy white clouds drifting in the sky like poofy marshmallows... What was that? There is a loud bang again otuside, but thi s felt more dangerous than the tree. The wind is screaming now and something is crackling. Why can i smell burning? I run to my bedroom door quickly and slam it open but there is nothing there . There is no fire, the house isnt burning down. I sigh and slowly walk back to my bed and quite literally fall in as my feet catch eachother. I lie on my face for a minute and breathe in the smell of horses, my rapid heartbeat thuds slow. I then roll over and close my eyes and snugle under my duvet. But there isn't time to sleep when the crackle comes again and I sit up slowly, rubbing my eyes and rolling from my bed. I fell on the floor and lay there for a bit before a got up and fell over to the window. I peeked outside again and then I realised what was going on. A branch was dangling from a electric cable and wires could be seen. As the cable snapped, it then swung towards the house. I scream and run backwards and trip, my bed cushions my fall but I dont wait this time. I roll off the bed and scramble out of my room, I begin to trip down the stairs but I know it is too late. I think one last thing, why couldnt' I have been anyone else, as I am thrown from my feet by a huge, massive explosion. I am weightless as I fly but I can only see dust and hear ringing in my ears before I smash into what must be the wall and pain roars liek the fire aroudn me inside my body. I cant scream, I can only scream in my head as the pain rips my life from me and everything is all black. > Chapter 2 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Why am I akwake? Why hasnt my life gone? I should be dead! I feel funny, my body is wrong. I feel light and my arms and legs feel funny. They're the wrong shape, I can't feel my fingers or toes! Oh my god! I lost my hands and my feet in the blast! I try to open my eyes but nothing happens and I try to scream but I still cant. I start to thrahs and my feet, no my legs because I don't have any feet, hit something thin. It breaks like the sound of shattered glass and I feel a big rush of very cold air. It is enough to make me feel stronger, I kick out again and throw my handless arms out, both hit the material and with a loud crash the material completey shattered. I tumble out in a rush of goo and water and suddenly realised that the cold was too cold. I shiver and whimper—I can make noise—and try to open my eyes. When it works, I am shocked to see some weird horse leaning close to me. It reaches out and licks me with its wet tongue and I squirm. As I look down at myself, I scream again and think only one thing as I pass out again. I look like the weird horse. I have black furless hooves and they have holes in them. I'm a pony. > Chapter 3 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I wake up slowly but I can remember everythign, the storm, the explosion, the waking-up-as-a-weird-holey-pony bit. I dont know what to think though, it's a weird thing and I've never heard anything lke it before. As I open my eyes I see that i am in some sort of tiny cave. outside a few of the weird horse things are flying, yes flying, around with beelike wings. They look into the other holes in the wall and when I look where they are I see lots of baby horses which look just like them. Based on my holey legs I am the same as those grubs. One of the bigger horses stops at my 'cave' and reaches in. It grabs me with sharp fangs and throws me down to the floor, I scream and buzz my wings quickly on instinct. ANd then I'm flying and I squeal with joy before I smahs into a wall. I crumple to the ground and blush as I try to stand up. My body is funny and small but I begin to walk without trouble and soon find myself in a long corridor. At the end of the corridor is a tall horse and she wears a crown on her head, my legs tremble—I'm with royalty! When she beckons to me I scamper forwards quickly and try to kneel at her feet only to fall flat on my face, no muzzle. It hurts and I whimper but it doesn't last long as something wraps around me and lifts me into the air. It must be magic. The queen takes me in her hooves and smiles at me, stroking my head, she then begins to coo slightly and I clam down. She then puts me down and whispers to me. "Hello Drone-86275, AKA Clutz." I pause for a minute, how is the queen horse able to talk and why can I understand? But I don't question it anymore and nodd and walk away in the direction the queen horse directs me. I guess this is my new life now. > Chapter 4 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Clutz!" I groan when i wake up and fall out of my bed, then I stumbled over to the door to the room. I winced when my hooves twisted aeound themselves and I fell flat on my muzzle, i then jumped back up to my hooves quickly and tried to walk confidently without showing all the other changelings around my that I was embarrassed. The single snicker proved that i hadnt done very well and I hissed, "Shut up Jokes" "Youre in for it now midget!" Jokes teased as she laughed in her bed pod. She gave me a evil smirk. "It's not my fault I'm small!" I whined and I buzzed my small wings before I zipped out of the nursery hive and into the main corridors. I didnt think i really needed to be with the other young drones anymore, sure I was small but I wasn't young! But I was going to see the queen, so maybe she would promote me! I knock on the door to my queen's quarters and hold my breath when it opens magically with a hiss . I then step inside slowly and wipe away the swaet on my head and I bow slowly as I say, "your highness." "Im most disappointed in you, Klutz. You should have been a big changeling, ot take part in the invasion. But you are feeblt and will never be good enough, so i have a different job for you. There's some ponies who will be bad for my plans. You need to become friends with the, and earn their trust, when the times comes you can then help your family, th hive, by betraying their trust and helping us successfully take canterlot!" I grin and stand tall as I said, "Okay, Queen! O wont let you down!" The queen nodded and pulled me into a hug. She sighed, "I always liked you. Be carefull ok? Now show my your disguise!" I nodded and turned into a like pink unicorn with wavy white hair and smiled as the queen brushed a tear away. Her horn then sparked with magic and I felt myself br thrown from the hive, far away into a strange new land with new friends to make. What I was doing felt wrong, I knew that, but the hive was my family now and I had to look after my brothers snd sisters. > Chapter 5 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The first thing that I realised was that thesee ponies who stood all around me in a big circle seemed really friendly. They were too friendly. After always being teasted for my size in the jive, it was nice to see someone being nice to me for a change. I did wonder if maybe they were just being a tease and waiting to attack me like normal but I didn't really think that was the truth since their smiles all seemed nice, they weren't forced at all and I can taste the sweet, sweet happiness. A pink pony bounces forwards a wraps her hooves around me and pulls me into a hug and I smile. I was a bit stiff but then I relaxed and returned the hug smiling at the love which then filled my belly. Yum, I had never tasted love like ti! "My name is... klutz," I admitted and I blushed on but the pink pony didn't mind. "I'm pinkie pie!" She yelled and I thought my ears would fall off, she then grabbed my hoof in hers and began to drag me through the crowd of excited ponies. " Yorue new here but iTs the summer sun celebration and its a party so you don't need to worry! I'm throwing s party for another new pony who's called twilight Sparkle so you can have a joint party!!!" She squealed and jumped high into the air. What a crazy pony. "Oh, ai'm so excited!!"