Distant Worlds: Shards of Harmony (uncut and extended.)

We all began making our final preparations for our journey back to the human world. Living in Equestria was wonderful experience and to be honest it felt a little like home, Luna herself is becoming less of a mentor and more of a mother to me over the past few weeks I've been living here. The sad thing is after hearing and seeing some of the damage done I'm finding myself caring less and less about humanity, as for as I'm concerned I'm doing this to save the people I care for.

“Are you ready yet, Silent?” Solaire asked, I nodded. He gave me a sceptical look as if to say 'be straight with me here.

“I'm a little nervous Solaire, what we're about to do, my parents and our friends reactions to my new human form...you know how they are.” I said worryingly,

“Try not to worry about it, mate. You know we'll have your back no matter what.” Solaire reassured.

“Ah reckon it'll be fine.” Macintosh comforted me, as he entered the room followed by Frost and Luna.

“Mac's right it'll be fine if we all stick together.” Frost said cheerily,

“If everyone's ready we'll go over the final details.” Luna stated, we all nodded. “My sister will be opening a portal to the human world which will take us to our temporary home which Celestia has managed to obtain for us. Once we rest we'll begin to search for clues regarding these monster and crystal sightings Solaire told us about, if we are fortunate we should find some information regarding the worlds fusing together.”

“Now let us make haste to the royal throne room.” Luna ordered. This is it Solaire and I will be going home, I wonder how his family will react to seeing him back given he's been gone for so long.

“Is every one ready?” Celestia asked as we entered the throne room, we all nodded. “What your doing for us, Silent Passion and Solaire. I thank you on behalf of Equestria and please watch yourselves out there.” Celestia's horn began to glow giving off a soft warm light that enveloped the room in colours that reminded me of a warm summers morning. A portal opened up like before and we all galloped as fast as we could through the disorientating pathways.

The trip was a lot safer this time round, soon enough we all found ourselves in the living room of a large apartment. I gave a quick look round, the apartment had quite a modern yet minimalist look like something you would expect a very well off person to have.

“Is every pony okay?” Frost asked,

“Ah'm fine, ah feel a bit funny though.” Macintosh added. We all looked at ourselves, and found we were all...human?

Solaire looked like he did normally as a human, blonde hair, blue eyes, average height and wearing his usual dark slacks, button up shirt, trench coat and white pendant in the shape of a sword around his neck.

Frost's short hair and eyes matched her usual icy hues, a little shorter that Solaire and wore a stylish denim jacket, blouse and jeggings which were coloured in various hues of pale greens and blues.

Macintosh was easily the tallest of us, with very strong but slender build, his outfit was a simple red t-shirt and black pair of jeans, he now seemed to have some slight stubble around his jaw and he still retained his messy blonde hair though. I tried to hold my thoughts in check, but was failing miserably due to the blush appearing on my cheeks.

Luna gave of the image of woman of high class and her outfit gave her business like feeling. Her flowing shoulder length hair looked black but shone with a dark blue tint under the lighting of the room, all in all she looked like she could be a model with that body of hers.

“How bad is it?” I asked, Solaire pointed to a mirror. I took a look in the mirror and gasped.

I was now a little shorter than Solaire, my hair was now shoulder length styled so the back went over my left shoulder, My eye's hadn't changed much aside the fact I no longer had those dark marks around them that all my family seemed to have. Lips were a bit fuller looking and slightly pinker than I remembered. I looked down...my body hadn't changed much beside the fact I was a bit more curvy than I was normally and I was bit amused I had B-cup sized breasts.

I was wearing a dark blue dress with black jeggings, and I still had my favourite jacket on. I frowned and clicked my fingers causing two pairs of thin framed glasses to appear in front of Solaire and myself. “Much better.” I stated simply. Macintosh gave me a quick wolf whistle,

“If that's what yer look like now, ah ain't complain'.” Solaire gave him an curious look,

“You do realise she used to be a guy right?” There was awkward silence,

“So what if I was? This is me now, the real me. I'm as much a woman now as Luna and Frost, I know this is a subject your uncomfortable with Solaire but please bear with me here.” I added.

“Sorry.” He said simply.

Moving on we had a look around the apartment, it had two floors a bathroom on each, four bedrooms on the second and the kitchen/dining room combo on the bottom. Each of the bedroom doors had our respective Cutie Marks on them so well could tell what room belonged to who. I took note of my door and blushed a little. Solaire caught this and chuckled, as my bedroom door not only had my Cutie Mark but Macintosh's as well.

While the fact that Macintosh and I slept together due to that incident caused by Blueblood was not secret amongst our group, the fact Macintosh and I found ourselves getting to know each other better during my time in Equestria was not such common knowledge as I kept that between myself and Macintosh. He came one evening and asked if I would be willing to get to know him better, and it sort of went further from there.

“Something you need to tell us you two?” Luna asked amused,

“Ah ain't sayin' a thing.” Macintosh said flatly trying to hide a smirk, Solaire gave me a look and shook his head. “It's your life.” He said shrugging his shoulders.

“Shall I call your families to let them know your back?” Luna asked, Solaire nodded.

“Call hers first, they'll let my family know I'm back.” Luna did just that and passed the phone over to me.

“Mom, I'm back. Solaire's with me as well, could you let his mother know he's here. Okay I'll see you soon Mom.” The conversation was short and sweet, I never was one for talking over the phone. “They'll be here in the morning, if it's all the same to you I'm going to bed.” I said simply as I made my way to my room.

Inside I found that the dresser draws had been stocked full of clothing, I blushed a little at some of the contents...I really need to have a word with Rarity when I next see her. I got changed into a simple cropped vest and shorts and just drifted off. An hour or two later I found myself curling up to something warm, without thinking I cuddled up to it.

“Mm...warm...mine...” Macintosh gave an amused smile and kissed my forehead.

“How did ah get mah self into this situation?” He thought to himself, recalling the events that had happened over in Equestria.“Meh, no matter Ah'm a very lucky stallion.” The morning always came a little too quickly for my liking.

“C'mon honey, time to wake up.” Macintosh said gently,

“Mm, don't want to. Too comfy.” I mumbled tiredly, hugging him more tightly to emphasize my point.

“Passion! Solaire! Your families are here.” Luna announced, might as well get up then.

“Where's my son, is he okay?” Solaire's mother said worryingly,

“Jeez Mom, I'm 24, I'm not a kid any more.” Solaire said simply as he walked down the stairs to the living room. “Where the hell have you been, Sol?” His younger brother, Andre asked.

“We'll get to that soon enough Andre.” Solaire replied simply. A middle aged man looked at Luna, and asked.

“So where's our son then?” Luna sighed, wondering how to deal with the impatient man.

“Getting ready as we speak.” Mom was getting anxious, secretly hoping that their son was back to how he should be. She didn't realise though that this wish fell upon deaf ears.

“Silent will be down soon honey.” She reassured her husband. No sooner she said that I came down out of the bedroom, and was met with silence and the look of disapproval from my stepfather.

“Mom, Dad,” I greeted simply,

“H-how?” Mom asked, “I thought you would return to how you were before?” Dad had a frown on his face, which turned into a scowl when he saw Macintosh come out of the same bedroom. Andrew's response said it all.

“What the fuck happened to you?” Solaire slapped him upside the head, “Language Andre! That's no way to talk to a lady.” Solaire scolded.

“Explain.” Dad seethed, which Luna did. After she finished Dad shook his head,

“No I meant how come he.” Dad corrected pointing to Macintosh, “Is sharing a room with my s-...daughter?” Luna was about to explain, but I caught Mom eyeing him up and down. I gave her a look to tell her not to bother. Mom had that gleam in her eye that basically meant she was up to something.

“Solaire would you mind explaining to your family how you ended up with us?” Luna asked, before turning to me and my mother glaring each other down. “This is going to give me a headache, I know it.”

I tried to come up with some made up excuse, so my parents wouldn't kill us both. Until Mom started flirting with Macintosh much to mine and Dads horror.

“Macintosh isn't a piece of meat Mom! Stop eyeing him up as if he was...” I warned her, the way she was looking at him was unnerving to say the least...and he was spoken for but I didn't want them to know that. Macintosh was completely speechless, unsure what to say or do about Mom's flirting. Dad being Dad was fuming.

“You've been gone nearly a month, you come back as a woman and you're sharing a room with another man?” He stated simply,

“Yes so what if I am?” I answered back, “Macintosh is kind, caring, very loyal and understanding. He's been nothing but a wonderful friend, and has been showing me around Equestria?”

“Huh? Deja vu.” Solaire muttered, “Don't go there blondie.” I hissed, under my breath. “Look can I have a moment to speak with my friends in private please.” Mom and Dad both nodded as we went into the next room to chat. Luna thankfully cast a silencing charm so we wouldn't be overheard.

“How come you two kept this from us?” Frost asked, “I thought it was a one off between you two?”

We told them that after that night, it left us with feelings we both didn't know what to do with and well...I told him everything about me, how I was afraid of how my mother and stepfather will react, of how I kept my sexuality a secret from friends, and more importantly what I used to be. It made me happy when Macintosh had said he didn't care about what I used to be, and told me that the mare in front of him was the real person. Eventually we both agreed to try dating and to see where that went, because I was so insecure he would say nothing about the relationship between us until I was ready to say something.

“Given the fact we are talking about my private life here, I would rather not say anything in front of my parents.” I scolded at Frost.

“And why not?” Solaire asked worried,

“Because I knew you would react like this.” I replied a little upset. “Now is not the time to discuss this.”

In the midst of the arguing, Solaire's mother entered the room told us something that silenced the room.

“Your other friends have gone missing.”

A hooded figure walked down the streets of the colourless city, scanning his surroundings with his golden eyes he let himself smirk as everyone around him seemed to have fallen into despair. Couples arguing accusing each other of cheating on their partners, friends falling out and fighting each other accusing each other of stabbing each other in the back. The smirk grew into a satisfied grin as the various acts of betrayal were committed in his wake, piece by piece his satisfaction left him...it wasn't enough...

“They...all have to suffer for their betrayal, the whole world must suffer of what it's done to me!” The figure let out a cry of frustration as he smacked a nearby wall, before grinning once again, “They'll all suffer, even if I have to tear this world down to do it!”