The True Sequel

“Hey!”

A voice from what seemed to be miles away called to Phil. He could only respond with a groan from the now splitting ache coming from his head.

“Hey! Are you alright?”

The voiced seemed to be growing closer, but it's almost as his brain was unable to understand what the voice was saying.

“HEY!”

A shaking jolt forced Phil to open his eyes only to have them blinded by the light of the sun. A silhouette was over him and he could hear the voice of a girl. “Oh my gosh! Are you alright? It took me forever to find you! I can't believe I was so stupid. Why in the name of Celestia would I attempt a transportation spell so quickly!?” The silhouette said before stepping out of his view leaving the sun to finish it's work in blinding him.

In a feeble attempt to block the light, he lifted his arm in front of his eyes, but they grew wide as he saw the appendage come into view. Attempting to sit up, Phil felt a pain in his back as his new body was not meant to bend in the way he attempted to make it bend.  Lying now on his back, Phil could only stare at his hooves in shock as the female rambled on about some kind of school and a library.

“Wh-where am I?” he questioned quietly out loud, before slapping his hooves over his mouth. His voice had deepened significantly, to the point he could just barely recognize it. Removing his hooves, he uttered a quiet “H-hello?” before replacing them over his mouth.'What's going on?' he questioned mentally, almost as if expecting an answer, but one never came.  Phil ended up trying to roll over on his stomach again, this time folding his hooves beneath him.

The area around where he was seemed to be a small glade with a small flower patch not far from where he was sitting, if you could call it that. Phil watched the, by assumption female whatever race they were, walk back and forth talking to herself as if attempting to debate on what she should do. Her coat was a snowy white color, while her hair was a lighter shade of silver with a turquoise stripe running through it. A horn stuck out from the middle of her forehead giving her the appearance of a unicorn.

“Shine, what are you doing out here?” A new feminine voice sounded off behind the mare standing not too far from Phil making both of them freeze in place. “Oh! Um, nothing Gem! Just practicing a bit of magic!” The mare replied, the fear evident in her voice. “Well maybe I can help?” The voice said again, the mare still standing before Phil, in a feeble attempt to hide him.

“What're you hiding there?” The voice asked much to Phils despair, only for the mare to lean to the right. “Nothing, nope nothing to hide here.” The mare tried, but some kind of large lizard jumped around her.

The lizard paused as it looked at him for a moment staring at him before straitening up, it's red scales glittering in the light with two red fins on either side of it's head as well as a pair of small curving horns to either side of what appeared to be a row of small spines going down it's back and ending at it's tail. A small smirk fell across it's face  revealing two rows of sharp teeth, before it turned to look at the mare. “You didn't need to hide him from me! I mean you could've just told me you had a coltfriend!” The lizard said making Phil's eyes go wide.

The mare looked at the small lizard-like creature for a moment before a smile came to her face and she rushed to Phil's side. “Yes! My Coltfriend!” She said nuzzling him, much to his confusion. “Just roll with it” she whispered in his ear, but he could only stare at the lizard.

The small lizard turned and started walking away and as soon as it was out of view the mare broke away from him and brushed herself off.

“What... What happened?” Phil asked, his new voice still alien to him. The mare looked up at him and scratched her head. “Well, I don't really know myself. When I attempted to teleport you here last night, I had assumed the spell failed, but early this morning my magic started acting funny almost as it wanted me to go here” She said, “Well, as you probably know, Unicorn magic is hard to predict when you're not controlling it, so I followed it knowing it could be leading me almost anywhere. In the end I found you lying in the grass here.”

Phil gave a her a confused look, but worry was eating at him as the mare tried to explain. “I don't really know where you're from, or how I could send you back... Sorry.” She finished only for Phil to lay his head in his hooves. “Now what do I do?” he asked, feeling scared and alone.

With a sigh the mare sat back down next to him. “Well, I doubt it's any consolation, but you can live with me until we find a way to get you home. I'm Starlight Shine by the way.” She said before angling her head so she could see one of his eyes. “What's your name?”

Phil wasn't listening to her though, having a breakdown muttering to himself “What am I? Will I ever see my family again? No, this can't be right, no, no I was supposed to be going back to school this week...”

The two of them sat there for a good while, Phil trying to cope with the sudden change before Shine brushed away his hooves and grabbed his face. “Hey, calm down, I know it's hard to deal with now, but we'll get you back to your family, alright? Just don't lose hope.” She said, trying to calm him.

Phil nodded before holding a hoof up to his head. “Sorry, I just lose it sometimes... I never was very brave and then this happened” He said, “What was that creature by the way? The talking lizard?”

Shine laughed for a moment before realizing he was serious, “That was my assistant, her name is Gemstone. I know weird name, but I was still a filly when I named her. She's a baby dragon”

Phil let out a sigh and rubbed his temples for a moment, 'Alright well, I'm talking to a unicorn, am a horse myself' He felt at his head for a moment and his hoof bumped into a horn 'strike that a unicorn as well, and this one has a baby dragon as an assistant, well I'm probably dreaming'

“So...” Shine said after Phil's lack of talking. “What is your name anyway? Where are you from?” Phil turned to her and looked her in the eyes for a moment before letting out a sigh, “My name is Phil Ralgas, I'm from a place, that...” He found himself struggling to think of the correct word. “More or less it's extremely far away from here” He finished finally holding a hoof out for emphasis.

“Well, it's a pleasure to meet you, though I wish the circumstances could be better” Shine said getting up. “For now, lets get back to town. Canterlot is pretty big, so you may want to stay close.”

Phil nodded, but was having a hard time getting up. While somewhat like walking on all four legs as a human, walking as a unicorn, or whatever he is, was proving to be difficult. After a few moments, he had gotten the basics down though he was still shaky. Panicking as Shine was looking at him oddly he smiled warily “I guess whatever got me here took a lot more out of me than I thought”

With a roll of her eyes and a sigh, Shine walked over next to the stallion and smiled “You're quite troublesome Phil” she said in mock annoyance “here lean against me at least until you get your bearings strait.”

As the two of them walked the path back into town the forest was starting to come to life with the sounds of animals scurrying around and birds chirping that for some odd reason was not heard back in the open glade.

“Hey Phil?” Shine said after a couple of minutes of walking. Phil had been paying attention to his hooves while walking so the sound of the mare next to him speaking startled him slightly, “Yea?” he answered once  his heart had slowed down. “Sorry for teleporting you here. I couldn't really tell you what made me decide I needed too, but...” she trailed off.

“It's alright, as long as we can find me a way back home, and preferably something that will make me human again, there's not really any harm done.” He said, muttering the part about humans. “I just hope my family doesn't worry once they notice I'm gone”

“Philip! It's ti-” Phil's mother called from the kitchen only to be interrupted by a thundering crash coming from the direction of her son's room. Thinking only on the safety of her youngest son, the mother cleared the table she had been setting, flying past her eldest's room who was now looking at his brother's door worriedly from his own doorway. Opening the door in a rush, the woman was greeted with a ruined pickup truck. The driver, obviously incapacitated, or possibly dead, hung lopsided from his seat blood dripping from under his baseball cap. Barbra's eyes were more focused on the small arm pinned underneath the pickup surrounded in blood with what seemed to be the ruins of a crumpled bed encasing it.

A high pitched scream came from her throat before she jumped for her son's arm. “PHILIP! Can you hear me??” She screamed her grip on the arm. With no response coming from the appendage tears streaming down her face, she tried again, this time squeezing harder “Philip!” she cried only for her husband to place a hand on her shoulder. Despaired she looked up at her husband, but he could give no support only shaking his head as tears formed in his eyes.