> A strange stallion
>  by Cloudy Pillow
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> Day 1  The arrival
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When you saw that humans are involved in this story you probably thought: "Oh it's another story of a human popping up in Equestria to go on a HUGE adventure to become one of the elements of harmony and then go back home." Well I can tell you, right now that is not it. If you want to know how it's different then you got to keep reading... O.K! I give in! I'll tell you, just stop looking at me like that! It's about a boy with a past behind his past, now I know what you're thinking: "How does that make sense?" See, the boy wasn't always a human. Anyway, back on topic: Our protagonist arrives in Equestria, tries to start a new normal life in Equestria, however… fate has other plans.

Now to begin. A boy sat on his computer somewhere in the little country of Denmark. There was a thunderstorm which are decently rare in the little country. The boy (our protagonist) did not know there was a thunderstorm because he was too busy watching ponies on his screen.

A lightning struck on the antenna that was directly connected to his computer and it exploded.

We will now go into the mind of our protagonist "Daniel" as he was named by his mother before she even got pregnant. Because as you might have guessed, I'm Daniel.

Anyway. I looked at the exploded screen and thought "If it's destroyed then, why can I see Derpy in there?" I moved back from the screen and into a corner of the room in fright as Derpy Hooves moved towards me and CLIMBED THROUGH THE SCREEN!!! She asked me in that stupid yet adorable voice she got: "Do you have any muffins?" I slowly shook my head and Derpy looked disappointed.

We just sat there for a couple of seconds until she climbed back through the screen. A couple more seconds passed with thoughts flying in and out my head. "Should I go through?", "I might never be able to go back.", "There's nothing for me to come back for if that is the case."

Finally my humanity got the better of me, I went over to the screen and stuck a hand inside. "It's real alright." I thought to myself. I took a running start and head dived, right into the screen!

I opened my eyes to meet the trees of the Everfree forest and Zecoras hut, however, something felt wrong. I went over there to knock on the door and to my surprise I saw that i was about one and a half head taller than the door! I knocked three times out of pure good manners. There came a voice from inside. "I'm coming, I'm coming! Now you can stop all that knocking!" Zecora opened the door then saw me then pulled me inside faster than Flim and Flam can move their lips during their singing, which resulted in me hitting my head on the doorframe. Meanwhile she just whispered: "You must quickly come inside, you will need to stay and hide!". "Why?" I asked getting a little bit panicked, but got no answer.

She ran from table to table apparently making a potion. Meanwhile I got familiar with her hut. We all know what it looks like, but FEELING IT was different, it was all 100% smooth like nothing I have ever experienced before. But what really drew my attention was the smell! All those herbs and potions and fumes all blending together to create the ultimate scent! I was about to collapse on her bed from pure comfort.

She turned to me with a very big bowl filled with a soup-ish substance. "Better drink it." I thought and wolfed it down. I dropped the bowl as I felt every particle in my body alter or switch places or change completely… it was more painful than the time I landed face-first onto a road. I looked at my hands and saw that they were slowly getting deep purple! I panicked! "WHAT'S GOING ON!?!" I shouted. Zecora galloped over, laid me down on her bed and said: "You must stay calm and collected, for you are the one whom I have selected."

What felt like eternity passed lying there in pain, some places were worse than others. My hands appeared to be finished and ears were next. I felt them moving to the top of my cranium and then change shape. Then, came my hair, I could feel my hair grow all the way down my neck. Next were my bum, or rather just above it. I was growing a tail! Then I felt a stinging in my back, then realized somthing was growing back there! And, just call me slow 'cause I was, but it was only at that time I realized I was becoming a pony. But not just a pony, but a PEGASUS pony! Yes! Next thing that happened to my body was that it shrunk.

When the rest of my skeleton fixed itself to pony shape and I collected myself (because honestly my mind was all over the place) I asked her why she did that to me. "Like I said you must hide, so I had to free your pony side." That was her only answer and it was clear that she wouldn't answer any more questions, so I just shut my black hole of a mouth.

The next couple of seconds we just sat there in silence, until I mumbled "I'm going to find Twilight and her friends, they will tell me what to do."

"NO! You must not tell them. That would create a mayhem!" She responded with a mix of anger and panick in her voice. "You shall go to the princess first, please do not go headfirst."

"Alright, fine. I'll go see the princess first calm down, jeez."

And with those words I took off ... or at least tried to. As I stood up I almost immediately collapsed on the floor, destroying the serious atmosphere. "Perhaps I'll a wait a bit." I said as I looked up on Zecora who was doing a facehoof.

A couple of hours passed with Zecora teaching me to walk… that was the most embarrassing thing I have EVER experienced!

After being able to walk on my own I tried to fly away. Needless to say, I hit a tree since I was new to flying. But after what I had just gone through a little concussion was nothing, so I ran instead. I ran a couple of miles trying my wings bit for bit, hitting my head on tree for tree until I was finally able to fly. Sorta wonky and unstable, but flying nonetheless!

I reached Canterlot about 45 minutes later and thought of a way to get in. "They won't just let me in I'm sure of that. Maybe if I told them I had an appointment with the princess? No, they'd ask for my name. If I demanded to see Shining Amour and convinced him to let me in? AHA! GOT IT! To Canterlot! Allons-y! Damn I've watched too much Dr. Who."

A few minutes later I arrived in front of the castle gate and as suspected they wouldn't let me in. I did as planned and demanded to see their captain Shining Amour. They laughed and said: "He's in the crystal empire! Didn't you know that?"

I kept my cool and said: "Then I'll wait for him. Can you arrange a temporary residence for me?"

They did not expect that one so it took them some time, but they found an empty house for me to stay in overnight. "The family that lives here is on vacation, we've contacted them and they accepted you." They explained.

"Alright, thanks, very nice of everyone. Just come and wake me up an hour before Shining Amour arrives and I'll take care of the rest." I assured them and went straight for the bedroom.

The guards looked confused. "Why do we have to come and wake you up?"

I looked at them with a lazy expression. "Because I got a bad habit of sleeping in.", I said and closed the door and went to sleep, but just before I closed my eyes I shouted "I know you are spying on me, don't worry I won't cause trouble!" and then I fell asleep.

Meanwhile a silhouette was hiding in the bushes outside the house, literally pulling some strings. Each string pointing towards a pony. Three towards the guards and one towards me.

End of the first day.
> Day 2 My story
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Daniel was woken up by the guards like he had asked, but they looked puzzled for one reason or other. "Whats wrong?" I asked. One of them took a step foward and pointed at my flank and said: "When you arrived you didn't have a cutie mark."

"So you noticed! Oh my Celestia I hoped you wouldn't!" I shouted in a very sarcastic voice.

The guard simply kept his puzzled expression and said: "But now you do."

We stood there a few seconds in uncomfortable silence. "What?" I finally asked.

"You do!" Another guard said. I looked at my flank and saw to my surprise that I DID! It resembled a cloud in the shape of a pillow. "Who are you?" The first guard finally asked.

"You can call me... Cloudy Pillow." The guards had a hard time holding their laughter back that much was obvious. "Don't laugh!"

"Sorry Mr. Pillow." Another laughter was only barely held in.

"Well, Shining Amour will be here in about 50 minutes, I should probably use that time on getting ready. You can go."

"Why are you talking to us like we're your servants?" A third guard asked.

"Because you're not." I answered.

"But that doesn't make any sense!" The first guard shouted.

"Does it have to?". Another silence fell over the group, but this one was very comfortable for me since it meant they didn't have a reply.

"If you'll excuse us Mister, but we have other tasks to attend to." They finally said breaking the silence.

"Of course! Of course!" I said as I waved them off.

More time passed by. "What are you waiting for then? Move along!" All three guards turned around and walked away. As I stood there staring at the now closed door I was wondering: "What in the name of time and space happened to me?"

I walked into the kitchen and opened every cupboard and the fridge to search for a morning snack (wich to me equals emptying half the fridge and half the cupboards). After a good breakfast I decided to go outside and wait for Shining Armour. "I cant just stand here until he arrives." I thought to myself, then I looked up and saw one little cloud in the sky and then I got an idea.

I flew up in my wonky unstable way, it literally took me ten seconds to get up there, can you believe it!? But I finally did get to it and let gravity pull me down together with the cloud until I touched the ground, then I immediatly jumped onto it and laid down just staring at the clear sky.

The minutes passed, nopony said a word. I just laid there and listened... until Shining Amour FINALLY arrived in a carriege dragged by two royal pegasus guards.

The moment he landed he shouted: "What is it? I heard there were a stranger looking for me?"

"Um, yes! That would me!" I shouted half sunken into the cloud, "I wanted to ask for permission to enter the castle, sir!" I shouted from my dizziness after the most refreshing half-sleep I've ever had.

"And who might you be?" He asked with a face at least as puzzled as the guards'.

"I'm Cloudy Pillow, new in town!" I shouted still trying to pull myself together.

"Why do want to enter the castle?" He asked while looking curiously at me.

"To see Princess Celestia." I answered as if he should have known that.

"Why do want to see the princess?"

"Zecora told me to." I said as if this was a normal day-to-day chat.

"How do you know Zecora?"

"You're asking many questions, eh? Let's just say I dropped by."

"How did you meet?" Appearently he thought he had chased me up a corner. Like a cat and a dog. But the cat always ends up defeating the dog when that happens.

"I was just by her hut, thought I might say 'hello'."

"Why did Zecora tell you to see the princess?" His tone had not changed even once through this whole conversation. You could tell he was a good guard.

"I don't even know myself!" I finished in an excited tone.

And FINALLY a pause in our discussion as Shining Amour turned around to debate with the guards. I took the few moments to pull myself together, I don't know what went over me, I suddenly just started talking without thinking.

While they were talking I could've sworn that I saw something in some nearby bushes. I just looked away and ignored it. "It's probably just some animal." I thought.

Suddenly SA and the guard turned back to me and said: "Okay, you can see the princess, but we will follow you an keep an eye on you."

"I accept." I said and brushed right past them. Meanwhile I was thinking: "Did I just see a thread connected to them? Nah."

We passed by many important-looking, fancy ponies on our way to the princess, I don't like fancy stuff, never had, don't know why.

Finally we reached the huge doors leading to the throne room where Princess Celectia was waiting.

"Your highness," the gaurds and SA said, "We've brought this pegasus called 'Cloudy Pillow' who wants to speak with you."

The white alicorn with multicolored mane looked at me with interest. "very well, stand foward Mr. Pillow."

I did as I was told and stepped foward.

"You can call me Cloudy, your majesty." I said as I did a deep bow.

"And you can call me Celestia, Cloudy." The guards let an expression of awkwardness slip over their faces while SA remained expressionless.

"Zecora told me to talk to you alone." I said.

Celestia nodded and said: "Yes, of course. Guards, Shining Armour, you can go."

The guards didn't even look away from me for a second. "As you please princess." they all said as they backed off until they got outside the door which closed in front of them.

Celstia and I looked at eachother for a few seconds until she said: "I know you're not a pony." somehow that didn't surprise me

"Correct." I replied.

"you're a human." she said

"Correct again." Another silence fell over us until I said: "Why is that important?"

She looked like she was processing her own thoughts and shaping her words. "Tell me about your life as a human." she still looked very thoughtful.

"I will." I said.

My mother was physically a strong woman, but her mind was weak. My father was mentally strong, but he lacked physical strenght. With those two combining their DNA they should get a well balanced child, but look at me; I'm not strong and I'm not clever. I do, however, have an unnreakable willpower and have quite a few competions through my pure determination.

I was born at a very wierd time, my mother was only halfway out of her car when I stuck my head out and no joke, I didn't cry, instead I made a sound that kinda sounded like 'HI!'.

When I grew up I was carefree and happy about everything, however that did not keep up, I slowly lost faith in adults wich led to me sitting in front of my computer for like seven years straight. The only bright side of my life was all my friends over in school.

Then one day, while I was at the age of 8, I went to my family reunion and it went well for a few hours. We all sat by the T.V when our program was interrupted by an urgent message:

"We are interrupting this program with an urgent transmission. A patient has escaped from the local asylum. We will request that everyone stays inside. He could be armed and dangerous. If seen do not try to capture him. That was all."

The atmosphere at the party suddenly changed as we all hoped and begged that he wouldn't come here. It didn't take long before the atmosphere returned to being jolly and carefree, but lady luck was not with the Waterhook family that day.

We suddenly heard the front door of the building being smashed open, then we ran out to check what happened. When we got there we saw a man running into the kitchen. Some of us went in others didn't, when we got in there the madman was armed with two knives.

We called for help and the rest of the family came to our aid. The Waterhook family fought like we were a single being, but we were all weak and fell like flies, one after one, until it was only me and my uncle.

My uncle managed to hit the knife out of the madmans hand, but were caught in the process. I was now the last being on planet earth to bear the name "Waterhook". I was crushed, sad, but most of all: angry. I had never felt such anger before, it was… rushing. Adrenaline ran through my body. I felt power. I have never liked the feeling of power. Then, everything went black.

When I came to my senses I was standing on top of a bunch of dead bodies, then I ran. Never have I ever sprinted that fast or long. When I came back home to my mother I immediately locked myself in my room and didn't come out. In the end we had to make a hole in the door so I could get my food.

But back on topic: It was a whole week before that building with the bodies became public information. My mother and I suffered huge mental scars from that incident which resulted in my mother slowly becoming a drug addict.

However, one month later I had a dream, and I don't normally get dreams, but when I do have one, then it's either a short glimpse two years into the future, or a message. In this case it was message. I could see my dad, my uncle, my grandmother and the rest of the Waterhook family. My dad then told not give up, he told me that it was finally time to get into the family belief: as long as people remember you, you will never truly die. He then told me to fulfill the whole family's common wish: to make as many people as possible to remember the name "Waterhook" with honor.

I finally came out of my room. Packed my things and left. I had decided to help as many people as I possibly could, wether they wanted it or not!

I seemed to help kids the most. And as thanks from the parents I could stay in their houses whenever I wanted. It wasn't too long before I had established homes all over the country.

And so my life went for about four years, because at that time my mother had appearently heard of what I was doing. There had appearently been many articles and TV interviews about me, but I was never shown in either of them since I had left before they got to scene. Anyway, my mother found inspiration in me and stopped being a drug addict and invited me home.

I stayed at home for two years until I had racked up enough money to travel to other countries and decided to go so I could help more people.

My mom was devastaded to hear it and commited suicide. I was… inconsolable. I had just lost another family member. My three siblings —two brothers and a sister— was taken away to new families, but I wanted to stay. If they wanted to transfer me to a new family they would have to use violence which was against the law. But sometimes the police just doesn't care about the law so they tried to force me away, they tried to sprain my wrists… I broke their legs. They left me alone and transferred everyone in the neighbourhood away. From that day on, I had been marked as a villain.

I didn't get to say anymore. Princess Celestia had wrapped her wings and forelegs around me in a close tight hug. I could feel her tears running down her cheeks. "Oh… you poor little thing," She wispered. "What are you going to do now?", that was a good question. Where would I go? Where would I live? What would I do? I didn't even know the Equestrian alphabet.

"I don't know," I whispered back "I don't even know why I'm alive!" My voice raised gradually until I was shouting. "WHY AM I ALIVE?! DOES THE GODS ENJOY MY PAIN? I SHOULD HAVE DIED! CELESTIA PLEASE, KILL ME!!!" This time, the tears were rolling down my cheeks, I had not cried since that incident. "Please princess… kill me."

Celstia bowed down and kissed me on the forehead just like my mother used to when I was but an infant. "I would never kill one of my subjects."

"Wait, WHAT?!" this must be how SA and the guards felt when I said something random. "Did you just call me your... subject?"

"Indeed I did," she said with a heartwarming smile, "I invite you to start a new life here in Equestria."

I looked up into her shining eyes, they were filled with sorrow, but also hope.

"But… what about reading and writing?" I asked.

"Oh yeah, that's quite emarrassing, see, you have to start from the beggining."

"You don't mean..."

"I'm afraid I do."

We were silent for just a second, until we simultaneously said: "Kindergarden."

And so, my story has been revealed. Celestia arranged a house in Ponyville (of course) for me to live in, and in the middle of the night I was escorted to my brand new house. For the first time since... ever, I actually felt like things were going my way, however, fate didn't want it to go my way.

End of the second day.
> Day 3 A new friend
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I was woken up (for the fifth time that morning) by a young mare dressed up as a maid. "Sir? Wake up, sir!"

"Alright! Alright! I'm up, I'm up!"

It had been a long night, for some reason I couldn't sleep. ME! CAN YOU BELIVE IT? anyway, I think the reason I couldn't sleep was that I thought about how my day would go. Can you imagine? A teenage stallion, suddenly turning up in a classroom surrounded by colts and fillies.

"It sounds like something a certain friend of mine would enjoy, he loves kids."

And with that thought I trotted into the kitchen where I poured up some cereal and looked out the window to study the surroundings of my house. To my surprise I saw that I was neighbour to Sweet Apple Acres! Thank you Lady Luck!

After cereal I took a quick shower. Who wants to smell like old gym socks on their first day?

As I passed the maid still drying my mane with a towel, I looked at her, smiled and nodded, then she blushed and turned around. "I can't be THAT charming, can I?"

I looked into the nearest mirror and looked at my new face; I looked like a masculine angel! "Thanks Zecora" I thought to myself.

As I was about to exit through the door (I don't say?) the maid turned to me and said: "I… umm… have a newcomer's gift for you.". She held out a tiny little box, I took the box and opened it, though I was wondering how due to my lack of fingers. PHYSICS!

And inside the box was the most shiny, most silvery, most excact watch you have ever put your eyes on! "Thank you," I said to the maid

"I never got your name?" She looked shocked, "You want to know my name?"

I looked at her like she was a child that just said something random. "Yes of course! We're gonna have to spend a lot of time together so of course I wanna know your name!" I said with a big smile.

"It's… umm…" I could see that she was very shy. "Feather… Feather Dust… that's my name."

"Happy to meet you Feather! My name is Cloudy! Cloudy Pillow!" I have no idea why I was shouting, appearently I just do that when I'm drowzy.

"You better go now sir. Have you brought any food?"

"Yes indeed I have!"

"Good…" She said as we both walked outside, into the bright morning light.

I never noticed her appearence inside because it was very dark, but now I could study her better: She had a bright yellow coat, deep purple mane and brown eyes. She was pretty short and looked fairly fragile, so fragile that it made her look cute. She was basically my complete opposite.

"See you later sir!"

"See ya later Feather, and just call me Cloudy!" After trotting foward for a minute or so, I remembered that I had no idea whatsoever about the kindergarden's location. "Dammit!" I whispered to myself. "Ugh… I'll just gallop around until I find it."

And so, I ran… into some poor earth pony, but wouldn't you know it; it was Applejack! "Watch out there, pardner," she shouted at me "Ah have this BIG delivery to make!"

I rubbed my head a bit, because coincidentally that was what broke my fall. "sorry, I'll be more careful in the future. Hey, can you tell me how to get to the kindergarden?"

Applejack looked confused at me, "Why do ya ask? Ya don't seem to have no foals with ya!"

"This is very embarrassing, you see, I'm the one who's going to sit at a desk."

"WHAT?!"

"Listen, I would love to stay here and talk with you, but this is not the right place or time. Just tell me how to get to the kindergarden."

"Just keep goin' that way." She said pointing her hoof in the excact opposite direction than I was running

"Thank you!" I shouted over my shoulder as I sprinted away

"No problem ya'all!" She answered and ran in her own direction.

I finally arrived at the kindergarden and just as I thought; everyone was surprised to see me. "Who are you?" Cheerilee asked

"I'm (huff) Cloudy (puff) Pillow!" I managed to say.

"Oh, I thought you would be-"

"Smaller? Believe me, this was NOT my idea, but it's neccessary."

"Okay then. Kids, say hello to our newest student: Cloudy Pillow! Any questions?"

A little filly stuck her hoof into the air. "How old are you Cloudy?"

"Where I come from I'm fifteen years old." I answered.

Another filly stuck her hoof into the air. "Then why are you in kindergarden?" She asked.

"Let's just say that I'm new to this place. You will probably know what I mean someday." A short pause came in, meanwhile I just stood there smiling mysteriously.

A colt did the same as everypony else. "Where do you live, and why are you not going to the Cloudsdale kindergarden?"

"It takes me ten seconds to fly fifteen meters straight up into the air, I hope that answers your question."

Yet another filly raised her hoof and guess who it was… Diamond Tiara. "Can you even read and write?" She said mockingly.

I hestitated to answer. "Yes I can, just not equestrian."

Then Sweetie Belle stuck her hoof into the air. "I couldn't help but to notice that, you have never actually told us where you come from."

I think I must have looked concerned, because I swear I saw Sweetie smile like she had accomplished somthing. "That was not a question." I responded.

"It was earlier!" She shouted at me.

"All you need to know is that I'm not from Equestria, I didn't plan going here, suddenly it happened and now I'm forced to study everything from scratch." Complete silence filled the classroom.

"That's enough questions for now! Cloudy, you can take seat between Applebloom and Daimond Tiara." The moment I planted my plot in the seat both Applebloom and Diamond tiara leaned towards me, and Diamond Tiara was the first to talk.

"Listen, if you want to be on the cool side of the classroom, then ignore those three." she said pointing her hoof at the Cutie Mark Cusaders.

"Don't listen to her," Applebloom said "you don't know her!"

I looked at her seriously "Oh no I know her."

"How?" Both of them exclaimed.

"You'll find that I know many things that I shouldn't know, for example; Your adventure with the love poison, or your many many collisions with mud." That made them both shut their pie-holes.

The rest of the day went with me just learning the equestrian alphabet and numbers. Except for the times where Diamond Tiara and Applebloom tried to keep me away from eachother.

When I got home I was greeted by the warm smile of Feather Dust. "Welcome home, Cloudy!" "Glad to be home! Man, I had completely forgotten how tough kindergarden can be." "I hear you," Feather said.

"What do you want for dinner?" I really wanted a nice, huge, schnitzel, but I remembered that I was a horse and therefore, a herbivore… dammit! I quickly thought of an alternative. "A vegetable stew would be nice."

She did a salute. "I'll get right to it!"

"Oh please, don't salute, I hate when ponies salute me." I said.

"Oh… right… sorry." She said looking down.

"You don't have any reason to apologize. I just asked you to not salute me." I said in an attempt to cheer her up.

"Right… sorry."

"You don't have to apologize for everything, when you're my maid, then you're pretty much free to do whatever you want!" I said with a smile.

"Th… thank you, Cloudy."

I couldn't help but notice that she had switched personality a few times during our conversations through the day. "Come on, I'll help cook."

Once again she looked surprised. "Really?" She asked. She looked like she was used to doing everything on her own.

"Of course! I enjoy cooking, except for when it involves dough."

After we finished cooking and was eating, I thought that would be the perfect time for us to know eachother better.

"I thought this was a good oppertunity to know each other better."  (HOORAY for me being repetitive!!!)

She looked up from her stew. "Alright, what do want to know?" "Actually, I thought you could be the one to begin?" I tried.

"Okay. Umm… do you have any hobbies?" "Yeah, I used to play this wierd instrument." I said holding my hooves like I would do when you play ocarina.

"Can I see it?" Now she looked very excited.

"I would love to play you a song, but I didn't get it with me when I left my previous home."

Now she looked dissapointed. "That was a shame. Now that I think about it. Where did you live before? Canterlot? Fillydelphia? Appleloosa?"

"I promise you that, you will hear, one day."

This time she looked like was wondering. "What day?"

"The day where Celstia sends me or Twilight Sparkle a letter." I said thinking she knew Twilight.

"Who?" Now she just looked plain confused.

"Nothing. Nothing. Don't break your pretty little head with that question, you'll meet her, in not too long."

And with those words we finished our stew, and proceeded to do our chores: Shopping, cleaning, etc. etc. Then we said "Good night" and went to sleep.

End of third day.
> Day 4 Happy reunion
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I was woken up by Feather Dust just like yesterday and everything seemed like it would be a normal saturday, which (of course) it wouldn't be.

"Good morning, Cloudy! Today's saturday so how about I show you around town?"

What was that smell? That was the best scent ever. It was better than the scent in Zecora's hut!

I immediately jumped out of the bed to find the source of that incredible smell. The trail of smell led me to the kitchen where Feather was making breakfast. I looked her over the shoulder, "What is it you're cooking?" I asked her.

She just smiled mysteriously and said: "It's my secret dish that has been handed down in my family for generations."

I tried to push myself closer to the cooking pot. "What's in it?" I asked still focusing on the food.

"Wouldn't be much of secret if I told you." She answered with a wink. I could see that ever since our chat yesterday she had become much more comfortable.

I tried to identify the ingredients with my sense of smell, it has never failed me before. It smelled a bit like... peas and grass? No, that's not it. Oatmeal and carrots? No. Roses, sweet corn and cucumber? No! What was it!?

Later we sat down to eat. "This is the perfect time for me to guess the ingredients" I thought to myself. I couldn't see what ingredients it was, neither could I taste it, but it was delicious! "You are the best cook I have ever met!" I shouted with a big smile.

She blushed. "Thank you. You're the first to compliment my cooking."

"How is that possible?" I asked in complete shock.

She started to look depressed as if she was remebering something she wanted to forget. "See, I used to work for Prince Blueblood—"

"BLUEBLOOD!?" I shouted without thinking. "C'mon, not even Blueblood could eat this without complementing the cook!"

"But he did." She said. "I worked so hard for him, but nothing was ever enough. Then, when I heard I was going to be working for another pony, I got happy, but then I thought that only rich snobby ponies would want a maid. I was wrong." She then started smiling again. "Do you know Blueblood?" She suddenly asked.

I hesitated to answer, but finally I said: "Not personally, but I know a lot about him. For example; he can't possibly be a real prince. Everypony knows that the royals are alicorns, so if he's royal, where are his wings?"

"I never thought about that." She replied while looking very thoughtful.

We then finished, wrapped up breakfast and prepared to go outside when suddenly; Feather gasped. "What is it, Frather?" I asked her.

She just stood there for a few seconds, looking like she had seen a ghost. "Y-y-your... cutie mark." She stuttered.

"Yeah, what about it?" I asked with an oblivous facial expression.

"It's... it's... gone!"

Now I was panicking! "How in the flippin' flip is this flippin' possible! First, when I entered Canterlot, it wasn't flippin' there, I can live with that. Then the next day, POOF! It's there and now it's flippin' gone Again! What the flippin' flip is going on!?"

Feather looked very confused. "Cloudy, what did you just say?"

"Did I just say that out loud?" I was now feeling very embarrassed.

"Yeah, you did, but can you repeat what you said?" She looked like she had breakthrough.

"What part? The flips, because I am completely flipped out now!" I was panicking more and more.

Feather looked very concerned. "That part about arriving in Canterlot!"

I couldn't see why THAT was important, but I trusted her. "First, when I entered Canterlot, it wasn't flippin' there?"

"Yes there! What do you mean by that? Is this not the first time?" It was was obvious that she was about to explode with questions.

I calmed down. I had some explaining to do. "This is gonna come as a shock, alright? You better sit down."

After we both had sat down and calmed down I explained how I was actually a human from another dimension who somehow got to Equestria. I told her my backstory which moved her to tears. I told her of my meetings with Zecora and Celestia and of course my reasons for keeping it secret.

"Do you understand?" I asked her. I was honestly afraid that she would think I was crazy. I was sure she would take me to nurse Red Cross to get my brain looked at.

She just sat there, taking the whole thing in. She looked me dirctly in the eyes when she said: "I believe you."

WHAT?!?!?!?!

After a short discussion of what to do that isn't even worth writing we decided that our best choice was to just roll with it.

Soon after she was touring me around Ponyville. She showed me all the shops, introduced me to ponies, etc. etc. However, when we passed Sugarcube Corner I noticed a pony that had never been featured in the series. He was green whith a dark brown mane, but the thing that drew my attention was his cutie mark. It was an Xbox 360 controller! How was that possible? Xbox's don't exist in Equestria! He appeared to be chatting with somepony... Pinkie Pie?

"Thank you for your help, friend!" She said in her usual manner.

"Any time, Pinkie!" I knew that voice! That was the distinctive sound of one of my friends at school!

I went over to him trying to confirm it. "Simon? Is that you, Simon?" I asked as if I was recovering from amnesia.

He looked at me as if I was a complete stranger, which –in a sense– I was. "How do you know my name?" It WAS him!!!

"DUDE, it's me, Daniel!" I shouted growing happier and happier.

"Daniel? Is it really you?" He seemed to grow just a little bit less happy than me, but still happy.

Just to prove it was me I did our old little thing and held out my left hoof in the air. "Courage…"

He smiled and responded by getting his right hoof to meet my hoof and said: "And wisdom…"

We finished our greeting simultaneously: "Reunited once again!" We then gave eachother a manly hug and laughed like we had heard a great joke.

When we finally let go of eachother Feather looked at us like we had gone crazy. "Do you two know eachother?" She asked.

"Like hay we do! We went to school together! He was the wisest, I was the bravest. We were like brothers so we and another friend created this greeting called: the Broforce, but who would've known it would actually come in handy!" I turned to my friend. "How and when did you get here, Simon!?" I asked still half laughing.

"Don't call me Simon here, in this World I'm Rainon, that's a nickname Pinkie gave me it stands for rainboe button. I dunno how I got here, but I got here a few months ago! Well, now that I finally got the chance; where have you been?! You suddenly just left school! I hadn't seen you in five years!"

"Now is not the place or time to talk about that. It's a very sensitive and private matter that only three ponies know about; Celestia, Feather here and myself. If you really wanna know, then come home with me and I'll give you the whole story." My sudden change in tone had altered the atmosphere dramatically.

"Okay, I understand." Everypony just stood there in complete silence until Pinkie broke it.

"Hi, new friend! Are you new in town? Because I kno—" I shoved a hoof into her mouth just like AJ usually does.

"Yes, I'm new in town and yes, I would like you to trow me a welcome party and before you ask: my name is Cloudy Pillow."

Pinkie gasped… then she gasped even more… then even more… then she ran away.

"As random as always I see," Simon said. "Well, can I follow you around town, we got a lot of catching up to do."

"Alright, Feather was about to show me the way to Fluttershy's cottage. I'm hoping I'll get friendly with her so I can speak with her critters." And with those words we took off.

When we reached the cottage we saw somepony unusual. He was big and scary-looking. He was black pegasus with red mane, but his eyes were warm and friendly even though they were red. His cutie mark seemed to be be a pair of dumbbells. "Please, let me in Flutter! I just wanna hug you!" Was what he was saying over and over again with a voice that didn't suit him.

There it was again. That feeling of knowing him. "Frederik? Frederik is that you?" He immediately looked at me with interest, then flew down to me.

He bowed down and looked at me. "How do you know my name?" When most ponies would tremble I just stood there, looking him directly into his confused eyes.

"It's me, Daniel! From school!" I said happily.

He grabbed me in a tight hug that nearly killed me. "It is you Waterhook! Where have you been? Oh, and by the way, in this World I'm known as Thunder Rider." I told him the same that I had told Simon and he understood.

"So I see you're trying to get close to Flutter. That's pretty hard when you look like that, don't worry though I'll persuade her into giving you a chance." I said reaching my hoof up to pat him on the shoulder.

He rubbed my head as a reply and said: "Thanks bro!"

I went up to the door and knocked only to hear Fluttershy scream in terror. "Fluttershy? Don't worry, the big stallion won't hurt you. He only wants to get close to you. Can I come in at least?" I said with my friendliest voice. I have always been a good actor, I'd be able to win an Oscar if it wasn't because I had stage-fright.

A little time went by, but then Flutter opened the door a little and peeked outside. "R... really? He won't me?"

I did a little smile. "No of course he won't. Try to look him in the eyes." She did and then came out, she was still trembling like I-don't-even-know though.

Fluttershy hid behind her mane and mumbled something. "I'm sorry. Did you say hello. My name is Fluttershy." She nodded. "Well, hello, I'm Cloudy Pillow and these are my friends. The big one is Thunder Rider, he might look scary but he got a soft spot for your adorableness. This is Rainon, can be a bit of a pain in the flank at times, but he's fun to hang around with. Last but definately not least: Feather Dust, my personal maid and a very good friend." Fluttershy was still being silent. "Right, umm… we can get properly introduced at Pinkies 'welcome to Ponyville, Cloudy party' okay?" Fluttershy just nodded again. "Well, see ya, Flutter!" Then we all went away.

As we walked we noticed a flash of light behind us. We quickly turned around and there was nothing, but Feather had noticed something. "Cloudy, your cutie mark is back!"

I just bowed my head low and said: "I don't even care about that thing any more."

We then got back to my home where I told my friends the story. When I was done with that we simply enjoyed ourselves until it was party time. The party was held at Sugarcube Corner and everypony was there. I managed to get my friends and myself on friendly terms with the mane six and their relatives like Sweetie and Big Mac and all the most popular background ponies. The party went on for hours and nothing special happened, although, I constantly felt like someone was watching me, but that feeling was always brushed away by the presence of my friends.

End of fourth day.
> Day 5 The truth
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I was woken up by Feather Dust like usually. We did our usual morning routine and everything seemed like it would be a normal sunday.

Feather and I decided to spend the day strolling around town. We were trotting down the main street when Dr. Whooves ran right past us. I couldn't see it clearly, but I think he had a serious, if not angry expression.

I stopped thinking and ran after him and Feather ran after me. We all turned into an alley where Dr. Whooves stopped and stared, still wearing the same expression. I soon caught up to him and saw what he was staring at; a shadow that appeared out of nowhere and disappeared as quickly as it came.

"Dammit," Whooves said. "I was so close this time!"

Before he had the chance to run off again I grabbed him (don't ask me how) and asked what the flip was going on. "Whoa whoa whoa whoa! Hold your horses Doctor," I said as Feather finally arrived, I honestly can't blame her for being slow, she IS very small after all. "What was that shadow and why are you chasing it?"

"I got no time to explain! I need to get to it's next location before it moves again!" He tried to get out of my grip, succeeded and ran again.

Feather had finally caught her breath and said: "What was that all about?"

"I don't know, but my wings are shaaaaAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!" I didn't get to finish my sentence, because my wings appearently wanted to fly.

I spent the next five minutes flying around town and incredible speed without actually knowing where I was going. Suddenly I hit whatever creature was hosting the strange shadow. Most of you have probably already guessed who it is, but I'll tell you anyway: it was Discord.

He rubbed his head as he said: "Was that really necessary? You could've just said: 'could you stop for a moment please?' You didn't have to ram into me!"

That was the last thing I heard before I lost consciousness.

When I woke up, both Dr. Whooves and Feather were leaning over me. "Are you alright, Cloudy?" Feather asked.

"I'm all right… I think." I answered as I rubbed my poor head. Then I suddenly remembered. "Doctor! That was Discord! What was he doing here?!" I tried to sit up, but he pushed me down again.

"Calm down. It's too late, he's gone." There was something about his voice that made me relax and think.

I looked around a bit and noticed that I wasn't in the alley anymore. "Where am I?" I asked.

He looked at me like he understood exactly how I felt. "This is my house. I brought you here when Feather and I found you knocked out in the alley." He explained.

I slowly sat up and said: "Now you owe me some answers. Why is Discord here? He should be at Canterlot."

Whooves hesitated, but finally said: "He's here becau–"

He was cut off by a voice sounding like it came from everywhere at once. "Don't you think it would be best if I told him? It is about me, after all." Discord had appeared from thin air! *Did I seriously just write that like it was a surprise?*

"Discord?!?!?!" We all shouted simultenously.

"Yes! It is I! Discord: The Spirit of Chaos and I am here to tell you excactly why I'm here." He said with a deep bow. "I am here to check on you."

I was astonished. "Me? You wanted to check on me? Why?"

"Because I wanted to see how my chaos turned out and I must say that I'm that I'm a little disappointed." He said.

I was astonished again. "Your chaos? Disappointed? Explain yourself!" I shouted.

Discord rolled his eyes. "Haven't you figured it out yet? I was the one that sent you and your friends here!"

I was still sore and collapsed. "This is a bit lot to take in."

"Then you won't like what's to come." Celestia had entered the room!

"CELESTIA?!?!?!?!?!?!" We all shouted.

"Hello my faithful subjects… and Discord." She said.

Discord was the first to answer her. "Good to see you too, I haven't seen you in… what, nine days? Ahh who's counting?! I'm certainly not!" He said followed by a flash of light that summoned a glass chocolate milk which turned out to be a chocolate milk of glass.

Everything got cut off when I shouted from the top of my lungs: "WHAT IN THE FLIP IS GOING ON?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!"

Celectia was the one to answer. "I guess I owe you an explanation. Lean back, because this will take some time."

"Ooh! Ooh! Can I tell the story too?" Said Discord as he jumped up and down like a child.

"Very well," Celestia answered. "Do you want to begin?"

"I'd love to!" And so he began.

"It all began when Princess Luna got possessed by Nightmare Moon. Her transformation made such a strong pulse of Chaos that it set me free and I naturally sought out the source and found her."

Celestia took over. "They joined forces and somehow fell in love."

"That was all me," Discord shouted.

Celestia seemed surprised. "What do you mean?"

Now Discord looked kinda sheepish. "I was kinda attracted to her chaotic personality and... kinda... sorta... put a... spell... on... her." He just stood there and looked at Celestia. that just stared back. It was the stare of death. "How about we just get back on topic?"

"Yes, we should," Celestia said. "So, appearently, Discord put a love spell on her and... nature went it's way."

"Let's just skip that part!" I shouted.

Discord continued the story. "Shortly after Celestia found us, transformed me back into stone-"

He was cut off by Celestia. "And immediately after I sent Luna to the moon. Months went by and she got a strange-looking foal. A grey horses head, a green horses body with dark blue wings, White tail and mane and and a single goat's horn. She wanted the foal to grow up with a Family and sent him to another dimension. She didn't mean to send her colt to another dimension, in reality, she just wanted to send it back to Equestria, but something went wrong."

Discord took over. "That may, or may not have been because of me too," He said putting his eagle talon in the air. "It may have been a bi-product of my powers that stayed in her after our... relationship."

Celestia sent him another stare of death which made him shut up. After Discord understood what she wanted him to do, he sat down in a corner. Celestia continued. "Ever since that day 1000 years ago, there have been a prophecy: One day, when the powerful mother and the father without heads or tail have awoken, their child will return. It will be up to a foreigner to find the child. The child of the two beings will undergo many a transformation until it realizes it's true potential."

There was a heavy silence until I finally decided to speak up. "That's nice and all, but what does that have to do with... oh... shut your mule. So, you want me to go out and find the child of Luna and Discord without any kind of lead, clue or anything for that matter?"

"Yeah, that's the short version," Discord said over my shoulder. "Do not worry though, you can take all of your friends and allies with you as long as they say yes."

I got up and trotted out of the room whilst saying: "Fine. I better be off then. You comin', Feather?" Feather just stood there for about seven seconds until her brain finally caught up and ran after me.

LATER

I had assembled a team consisting of Feather, Simon A.K.A. Rainon, Frederik A.K.A. Thunder Rider, Dr. Whooves, Applejack, Twilight, Pinkie and Rainbow, with me as the leader.

"Alright, guys, first things first; we need an idea of where to go. Who do we know that can answer pretty much any question we might ask?" I already knew the answer, but I asked them just to see if they were in the same frequency as me.

"The princesses?" Simon said.

I answered by saying: "They were the ones to send us out to get clues, you flippin' moron... sorry. I don't know what happened."

He shook it off and said: "It's alright, bro. You've always been kinda quirky."

"The answer I was looking for was Zecora. She knows pretty much everything about this forest, so it's only logical to start there." I didn't even finish talking before I started walking.

"Aaahhh..." My old friends said whilst poking their heads with their hooves. They have never been too bright.

We walked through the woods without a word until we arrived at Zecora's hut. "I don't know how, but it would seem that I always get what I want, no matter how dumb I sound, so just let me do the talkin'."

I knocked on the door and Zecora came out. "Ah, I see that you are back. Now what is it, that you lack?"

I just stood there with a straight face and said: "We need information."

She looked confused. "Information about what?" She asked.

"A prophecy. About the child of Princess Luna and Discord. We need to know where to find him." I just continued.

I knew that face. That was the face people make when they know something you don't. "The child of the chaotic night," She said "Won't be found without a fight."

"A fight? What fight?" I suddenly shouted.

She hit me on the head to calm me down. I don't know what's worst, the fact that she did that, or the fact that it worked. "All of your questions will be answered in due time. Now just go that way, for I can no longer rhyme." She pointed in a direction and slammed the door shut.

I turned around and stared past the team. "Are you all right, Cloudy?" Feather asked.

I ignored her and shouted: "If you can make it this easy for us, why don't you just do it yourself, Discord?!"

Discord popped into existence behind the team. "No." He said and disappeared.

"What in tarnation just happened?" Applejack shouted.

"I dunno, but it was wierd, even for Discord." Rainbow answered.

"Alright, let's get this over with. I wanna get home before dinner." I said and just trotted in the direction Discord had made Zecora point.

We walked for like, two minutes, when Frederik fell down a hole. "Are you okay Thunder?" Simon shouted. Our only answer was a huge fart.

"He's okay!" I said and jumped down there. Everypony else followed. In the hole that turned out to be a cave there was a cave painting. I don't know how, but I could decipher the whole thing. It seemed to be an extended and more detailed version of the prophecy. 

"I... I can read it." I said.

"What does it say?" Rainbow shouted before she was pulled down by Twilight.

I started reading. "After the defeat of Nightmare Moon and the re-sealing of Discord, Nightmare Moon, now transformed back into the princess of the night, was banished to the moon for a thousand years. During that time she got a colt. A very peculiar little colt. The colt was sent to the dimension inhabited by humans. One day when the spirit of chaos and the princess of the night have both awoken, the child of the chaotic night will return to Equestria and realize who he is. During that time he will transform between three forms. The first being that of a human. The second will be the form of a blank one. The last is the form of whom nopony would look at twice."

I stood there, paralyzed. "Guys... Do you know what that means?" I din't even give them time to answer. "It means that I'm the child of the chaotic night."

Nopony said a word. A deafening silence loomed over us. None of us could comprehend it. Our brains were about to explode.

"I... I... I can't... alright everypony, let's go back and... report to the princesses tommorrow. I need some food and sleep." And with those words, we all returned to Ponyville and went to sleep after the longest day any of us ever had.
> Day 6 The new family
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Feather and I woke up earlier than we're used to. We didn't even eat breakfast, we just grabbed a quick snack as we left for the royal castle in Canterlot. We didn't say anything on our way there. Actually, we hadn't said a whole lot ever since the discovery we made yesterday.

Even though I didn't say anything, I was thinking so everypony would be able to hear it, and came to the conclusion that I'm in an alternate version of Equestria, which explains why Twilight doesn't have wings and why the mane six have no recollection of for example Queen Chrysalis.

We arrived in Canterlot and went for the castle. When we reached the castle we were stopped by three guards. "Halt! Who goes there?"

Can you believe it? It was the same guards as when I first came there. "'Sup guys! Remember me?"

They looked at me, but somehow couldn't remember me. "No. Should we?"

"It's me!" They were completely silent. "Cloudy Pillow? Does that ring a bell?" There were more piercing silence. "We met just a few days ago... you found me a place to stay for the night..." This was starting to get stupid. "I demanded to see Shining Armor."

They finally remembered me. "Ah yes, it's you! that wierd guy! Have you come to see the princess again?" One of them said.

I just ignored their attempt at irritating me and said: "As a matter of fact, yes! And this time, I'm actually awaited!"

"Are you now?" Another one said. "Got any proof?"

"Am I enough proof?" Celestia came trotting out. "Let him pass, please. Cloudy, Feather, this way."

We walked through the castle, and I was still bothered by all of the fanciness inside.

When we reached Celestia's quarters we walked in on a... very awkward scene. It looked like Luna and Discord was fighting. "Luna found out that Discord had put a spell on her while she was Nightmare Moon." Celestia explained. "If you two could stop fighting we should find out what Cloudy has to say!" Upon saying that Luna and Discord just froze.

We all sat down while I explained what everypony discovered the day before. Suddenly, Luna got tears in her eyes. "I... I remember. My child... I sent him away so he could live with a family... I never imagined something like this would happen... So thou art... my son?" She burst out into crying.

Her crying had an effect on me. She cried just like this when she sent me to earth! I had always felt like there was something missing, like my family wasn't as it was supposed to be. "Mother... I've missed you so much!" Now it was just me and my mother hugging each other while crying. It was the happiest moment of my life

When we were done, Celestia said: "So from how I understand it, Cloudy won't become his real self before he has transformed several times. So I think we should just wait. Cloudy and Feather, you two return to Ponyville and live normally until Cloudy becomes himself."

"Sound good to me." Discord said. "Well, I'll see you all later!" He then disappeared in a flash. Afterwards, the rest of us dispanded. Luna gave me a crystal ball which could be used as a direct communicator between us.

When Feather and I arrived back in Ponyville, I decided to take a stroll around the outskirts of town. After I walked for a good fifteen minutes, Applejack ran into me. "Ah! Sorry there, pardner! Say? Have y'all seen Apple Bloom around? She's been gone for an hour!"

I was so used to ramming into things and vice-versa that I didn't even need time to recover. "I'll help you look!" I simply said and ran almost as fast as Pinkie, straight into Everfree Forest. After having ran for a while, I heard a filly scream. "APPLE BLOOM!!!" I shouted and ran even faster. I found her being chased by timberwolves! I kept running faster and faster and faster until...

I came to my senses and saw to my surprise a bunch of ashes in front of me and behind me; Apple Bloom. From what I could gather at that moment, I somehow burned the timberwolves to death while protecting Apple Bloom. I tried to stretch my wing so I could fly her home, but I couldn't feel them. I looked at my sides and saw that I had transformed into an earth pony! I had a crimson coat, orange and yellow mane. Somehow I had gotten golden... "bracelets" I guess you could call them. One on the upper part of each leg, and one on the lower part of my hind legs. The timberwolves appearently got a single hit in on me, because a part of my left ear was chipped of. My silver watch was being heated so it was glowing white, and finally, my cutie mark was now a heart on fire.

Suddenly, Big Mac and Applejack appeared. "Are ya alright, sugarcube!? You're not hurt, are you!?"

Apple Bloom just stood there and stared at me and said: "I... I'm alright. Thanks to him." She pointed at me.

Applejack went over to me. "Thank you for helpin' her. Who are you anyway?"

I thought for second, then I said: "Let's go back to the farm first, this may take some time."

We went back to Sweet Apple Acres, where I explained the situation and I honestly don't know what's crazier: the fact that all this happened, or the fact that they believed me. I wouldn't believe me! Anyway, After the explanation me and Applejack started talking. "Have you ever felt that you would do anything to protect your family?"

That question caught me off guard. "No. I haven't. See, my whole life I haven't had a real family. I only found it today actually. So I've never had a family that I could rely on. Even in my fake family, there was only one person I could truly depend on."

"Ah! I'm sorry! I didn't mean to-"

"No. It's alright. You had no way of knowing." There was an awkward moment of silence. "You know, I'm actually quite jealous of you. You have a family that always stays together, and me? I was sent away at birth. I wish I could be part of the Apple family."

It suddenly looked like Applejack's mood had been lifted. "But you can! We can just adopt you into the family!" She ran outside and rang a bell there, then Big Mac, Apple bloom and Granny Smith arrived soon after. Applejack told them of her idea. "Those who vote for Cloudy being officially adopted into the family, say yes! Applejack, Apple Bloom and Granny Smith all shouted 'YES!', while Big Mac just said 'eeyup.'. "It's official then! Welcome to the family, Cloudy Apple Pillow!"

"HIP HIP, HOORAY! HIP HIP, HOORAY! HIP HIP, HOORAY!"

And with that, I returned home and told Feather about the news, and she congratulated me, served an omelette for dinner followed by an apple pie for dessert, and I went to bed happily for the first time in years.




END OF THE SIXTH DAY
> Day 7 Where's Derpy?
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------

For some odd reason I woke up early this morning, it was about 06:20 Am, as my usual calm pegasus self. I guess it was because of what happened yesterday, because I felt incredibly happy, I could start singing spontaneously! "Morning in Ponyville... What the flip am I doing? I'm horrible at singing!"

My maid, Feather Dust, came into the room. "Oh. Good morning, Cloudy. Did you hear anything just now?"

I was embarassed, but I had to tell the truth, that's what I do. "Yes, that was me singing. I don't know why I did it. I know I'm..."

She cut me off for the first time ever. "You're really good! Were you a singer in the human world?"

Hang on a sec! GOOD? ME? But that doesn't... Oh yeah. I have a new body, with new throat and therefore new voice. "T... thank you, but no, I wasn't. In fact. I was horrible."

She looked at me with a raised brow. "Are you sure? You're good enough to join The Ponytones," The Ponytones? I couldn't even imagine me singing side-by-side with both Rarity AND Big Mac, my new adoptive brother. She continued. "I think you should join."

Now I was just baffled. "Me?! Joining them?! No way! Nuh-uh! Not a chance! нет(No in russian)! όχι(Greek)! Nicht(German)! Nej(Danish)!"

She looked like she was directly afraid of me. "I'm sorry! I didn't even understand half the stuff you just said. But why? Why don't you want to join them?"

I was now calm and collected. "No, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have freaked out like that. I've just had the biggest stage-fright one ever did see ever since I was little. I don't know where it came from, suddenly it was just there. I haven't been up on a stage in eleven years and nobody has ever seen me sing or dance... before now," Silence filled up the room. "Why don't we just go out and eat breakfast?."

"Good idea." Feather said.

Ten minutes later we had just gone out the door when the biggest plothole in the show stood all high and mighty before us. It was Blueblood. "I have come to take back what is mine!" He proclaimed.

Feather immediately backed down. "What are you babbling about, Blueblood?" I answered. "I don't have anything that belongs to you."

"Oh yes you do! You have my maid!" He said in a pathetic attempt to be intimidating.

I just looked tiredly at him. "Like I said: I have nothing that belongs to you. One cannot own another living being, and those that think so will be victims to a rebellion."

He still tried to be intimidating. Pathetic. "So you say. How about we duel for her? If you win; she stays. When I win; she comes with me. Deal?"

"No. I'm not going to fight you for her, as if she was some objective prize." I told him.

But he refused to give up. "If you won't duel me for her, then I will just take her by force." He slowly approached her, getting his horn ready.

I jumped in front of him, cloaked in fire. "DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH HER YOU BASTARD!!!" I was now Fire Heart. "If you want to get your plot kicked, then so be it! I, Fire Heart, accept your challange!" I went into battle stance, ready to attack!

"What are you doing? We're not going to fight. We're going to duel," He pulled out a big box from gods know where. "In this box you will find your weapon, I have already got mine." He opened the box and out levitated a sword. It was a beautiful piece of work, but it had purposely been dulled, probably to avoid serious injury to the opponent. "The rules are simple. One. We use any means nessesary to get hits in on the opponent until they give up. Two. Unicorns are prohibited from levitating their weapon further away than their own front legs can reach. Three. Pegasi are prohibited from flying. Four. Earth ponies may only have their weapon come in contact with the opponent, since their legs are so strong. Any questions?"

I just stood there. At least, that's what it looked like to others. Inside my head, Fire Heart and Cloudy Pillow were discussing on how to go about this. "The rules seem to balance each race out nicely." Cloudy said.

"But things would be so much more balanced if we were a unicorn too." Fire answered.

"But we have no control over our transformation, or did you forget that?" Cloudy said tapping Fire's head.

"C'mon! Think! There must be a way to do it!" Fire growled, hitting away Cloudy hoof.

"Actually." Cloudy said slowly.

"What?" Fire shouted.

Back in the "real world".

All the others were startled when I suddenly shouted: "Discord! Come to my aid!"

Discord appeared in a flash. "You called me, my boy?" He asked me.

"Yes," I said with the voices of both Cloudy and Fire. "I want you to force the transformation process foward."

Now Discord looked startled. "Are you sure about that? It could cause great problems."

"I don't care! I need to protect Feather!" I shouted.

He rolled his eyes and said: "Fine. But don't come to me when problems arise." He snapped his "fingers" and dissapeared in another flash.

Suddenly I was in pain when my body repeadetly changed between Earth pony and pegasus forms, until it finally stopped. I was now a unicorn. I looked at myself to see how I looked. My body was now both pink and dark blue. My mane was neatly combed and was light blue. my tail was short and of the same color as my mane. I was for some reason wearing a green cape and a golden necklace. When I looked down I saw that the watch that Feather gave me had transformed as well, into four silver... jewelry things, two on each leg. They were each embedded with a gem, two of them with emeralds, two with rubies, two with amethysts and two with sapphires. I felt felt like I should be freaking out about that, but for some reason I wasn't.

It was only now that I noticed that Feather and Blueblood were just standing there the whole time. It looked like their jaws could fall off at any moment. "Why are you staring at me like that?" I said.

Feather came to her senses and asked: "Who are you?"

That was a good question. Who was I? I didn't feel like myself, but somehow I answered: "My name... is Alchemy Scale." When I said that name a gust of wind lifted my cape and revealed my cutie mark which was an alchemical triangle with a scale inside it.

Now Blueblood came to his senses and said: "I've heard about your tendency to transform, but to see it in person is... overwhelming. Oh well. Are you ready to duel now or are you going to waste even more of my time?"

I looked coldly at him. "As a matter of fact, no. No I'm not," WHY DID I SAY THAT?!?!?!?!?! No, wait! It wasn't me! I would never say that! It was Alchemy! I can feel it now. He's cold-hearted, acts only from logic, never from heart or guts like my other selves. He would leave even his mother behind if she was in danger. He's more robot than pony. "Now that I'm Mr. Scale, I no longer need a maid. You can have her."

Blueblood looked at me with a very surprised face. "Really? Just like that?" He was clearly baffled.

"AAARRRGGGHHH!!!" Scale was in pain as his body was shrouded fire.

Fire Heart was now present. "HOW CAN YOU POSSIBLY BRING YOURSELF TO SAY THAT!!!"

Fire was then shrouded in clouds. I was now Cloudy. "Yeah! She's our friend! And we won't leave a friend behind."

Now Cloudy got shrouded in sparkles and Scale came to be. I think you get the idea. "How can I not say it? The world is brought to balance when everypony let go of what they don't need, and I have no need for her."

Clouds. "But one needs friends!"

Sparkles. "Friends are not needed to survive."

Fire. "But they are needed in order to live!"

Clouds. "Hey, Fire! I got a plan!"

Fire. "Whatcha waitin' for then?! Tell me!"

Sparkles. "You two do realize that I can hear you, right?"

Clouds. So what?! That won't change anything! Listen, Fire! You got the strongest willpower of all of us, so I want you to hold Scale's mind down, and when you can't do that any longer, I'll take over! If Scale gets control the chances of us regaining this body will be minimal! You in?"

Fire. "ALL IN!"

Fiery clouds raining sparkles. For that one moment, my real body was seen. A grey horses head, a green horses body with dark blue wings, White tail and mane and and a single goat's horn. "AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I shouted with all three voices at the same time, then there was a small explosion and smoke cloaked me.

                                                                                                                                                                                         

The smoke cleared. Feather and Blueblood were waiting to see who would trot out of the smoke. It was Cloudy. I looked at myself to see who I was. "Hahahahahahah. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAH! IT WORKED! IT REALLY WORKED! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAH! Oh, BABY that felt good," I took a deep breath. "Alright. where were we?" I trotted over to the box I mentioned earlier and opened it. "...You've got to be kidding me..." I said.

"What?" Feather asked.

"Here I was, thinking that all of the weapons would be the same, and then I see this!" In the box there was three different weapons, each tagged with a race of pony. For the unicorn, a dull sword. For the earth pony, a brilliantly designed club, designed to put the force into such a big area, that it couldn't possibly cause any serious injuries. Last, but... actually very much least. For the pegasus two tiny little small dulled blades, constructed to be attached to the tips of the wings. It was power vs. agility vs. range. "Let's do this." I said.

The "duel" itself was a flop though. The second Blueblood saw my skillz, he ran away. I cracked my neck and asked. "Feather, what time is it?"

"Why do you need to ask me? I gave you a watch, remember?" She answered.

I looked down. "Thank goodness I still got it... What! It's only 06:45! I can still make it to school! See ya, Feather!" I waved at her.

She waved back. "See ya, Cloudy!" She shouted.

School day went without much trouble, until I found out that it was a special day that occurs once every month where Cheerilee invites in a random pony to talk about their job. "Alright class, today's speaker would have been our own mailmare, Derpy Hooves, but it seems that she's been missing in a whole week. So instead, I've invited Davenport, the clerk of 'sofas & quills'."

Derpy had been gone in a week. I saw her in Everfree Forest a week ago. coincidence? I think not!


LATER


I had collected a team of ponies to go look for Derpy. The team consisted of myself, Simon a.k.a. Rainon, Frederik a.k.a. Thunder Rider, Doctor Whooves and Discord was probably following us. We went out to Zecora's hut as that's where the portal opened, which is when I first met Derpy. I knocked on her door and she answered immediately. "What is it that you want. Are you perhaps on a pony hunt?"

I looked at her with wide eyes and asked: "How did you know that?"

"I saw Derpy pass through here. That she might be lost is what i fear." She said looking kinda worried.

"So you did see her," I said. "Do you know which way she went?" I asked full of hope.

"She went over that way," She pointed deeper into the woods. "But sadly that is all I can say."

"Thank you." I quickly said, turning around, but before I could take the first step, she hit me behind the head.

"She looked angrily at me. "What did I tell you when we met first? Be calm and don't go headfirst!" She paused, probably to give me time to think it over. "You will need a map a to not get lost. You will have to survive no, matter the cost."

"Yes, I know that. Just gimme the map so I can save Derpy." I said as I swiped the map from her possession. "See ya later, Zecora!"

She waved as I walked away, saying: "I do hope we see again, though it might not be the same."


EVEN LATERER


It was starting to get dark so we decided to make camp for the night. I took a look at the map and figured out where we were going. we were hugging the edge of the forest going towards Fillydelphia. Then we all went to sleep.

END OF SEVENTH DAY