CHANGING LIVE

Mark woke up later; he was flat on his back. His head was throbbing and he vision was blurry. He felt grass on the back of his neck. He was staring upwards, all he could see an orange blur. His ears were ringing, but he could kind of hear someone talking to him.

“Hello, you okay?”

Mark tried to talk, but all that came out were a few small groans. Mark could hear someone talking to him, a few seconds later, his vision and hearing was back to normal. He could recognize the voice; a sweet southern accent. Emerald green eyes locked onto his. Mark, jumped back, startled at what he was seeing. He recognized the pony as Applejack, but was still desperately afraid. Mark turned to run, he had no idea where to, he just felt like anywhere would be better than here.

“Oh no ya don’t!” Applejack yelled out. She readied her lasso and tried him up effortlessly to a nearby tree.

Mark was still shocked, he didn’t know what was going on his fear was obvious, his eyes kept darting around the apple trees.

“Ya don’t need to be afraid, I ain’t gonna hurt you.” She said, her tone a mixture of calm and annoyed.

“What ARE you anyway? You don’t look like anypony I've ever seen.”

“I, uh, um, where am I?” Mark was stuttering, still trying to wrap his head around what was going on.

“Welcome to Sweet Apple Acres!” Applejacks voice immediately perked up. She seemed happy to talk about the apple farm.

“Okay, um, how did I get here?” Mark asked while looking around.

“I duuno, one minute I'm buckin’ apples, next I see you on the ground.” Applejack explained.

Mark sighed, he was hoping that there would be more to it then that. Mark yawned, he was obviously tired. He nodded off still tied to that tree you in the acres.

When Mark woke up, he was no longer outside. He was laid out on a couch inside of what appeared to be a library. He turned his head to find a strange sight; six ponies staring right at him. Mark was afraid and confused, he would have run, but it did not go well the last time he tried that. The ponies were talking amongst themselves. After a little while, one of the ponies slowly walked toward him. She had a pink mane and a yellow body.

“Um... Hello?” She spoke so softly. Her voice was calming, Mark wasn’t as afraid as has was before.

“Hi” Mark answered, making his voice as soft as hers.

She went on to introduce herself as Fluttershy, as well as the other five ponies. The pink pony was Pinkie Pie, the purple one was Twilight, there was blue Pegasus named Rainbow Dash, a White one named Rarity, and the orange one from before, Applejack. Mark knew them already, but he figured it would be better to play dumb. Mark was now sitting upright on the couch, the other ponies were now standing closer.

“So... you’re... nice?”  Rarity said hesitantly, she seemed slightly confused that a person like him, being tall, standing on two legs, and being found near the Everfree forest was a nice creature. Mostly bad creatures are like that.

“Yes, I-I don’t want to cause any trouble.” Mark was trying to keep the calmest voiced he could have, the last thing he wanted was trouble.

“Phew, good.”

It was silent for a short time until Twilight broke the silence.

“Regardless of how you look, you can’t walk around looking like that.” She waved her hoof up and down at his human body.

“I’ve been working on a spell just for you, it will let you take the form of a pony.”

Her horn started to glow, soon Mark was covered in the light, all that could be seen was his silhouette. When the glowing stopped, Mark had been turned into a pony, even better, he was a Pegasus. He was light brown with a short dark black mane. He looked back at his flank to find a cutie mark; it was a mask, like ponies would wear to masquerade dances.

“Sorry, it only comes with one cutie mark choice.” Twilight told Mark.

“It’s perfect!” Mark said under his breath, just loud enough for them to hear. Mark figured the mask would be actually suited for him, considering he never told anyone about him being a brony, the mask seemed correct.

“Now, since you only know us six, I suggest you stay with one of us at all times.” Twilight instructed.

“OH OH OH OH OH OH OH! ME FIRST! ME FIRST! I LOVE MAKING NEW FRIENDS!” Pinkie Pie jumped over all the other ponies and landed inches away from Twilight

“Oh alright.” Twilight said with a smile on her face.

Pinkie Pie jumped into the air and grabbed Mark by the tail, and dragged him back to Sugarcube Corner.