I was lying on a bed, the scent of lavender was hitting my nose, the bed was softer than I had ever imaged. I stared to awaken, my head thudded like someone was hitting it like a jackhammer. I went to rub my eyes, only to realise I had no fingers, panic started flooding my mind until the memories of earlier finally came to me.

Sitting up I was finally able to take a glimpse of the room I was in, now that my eyes had decided to work. The room was unfamiliar to me, there was small hints to the owner of the bed, it was probably owned by a female due to the bed covers being a mild pink, and a lot of brushes being held on a shelf that was below a mirror. Looking to my left there was a small bedside cabinet with a burning candle, probably the reason behind the lavender smell.

I then turned my focus to the main elephant in the room, me, looking over myself, yup I was still a horse, yup still had the red fur and still blue and green hair.

“Ah fuck, what the hell did I do to deserve this” I said to myself not knowing I was alone

“oh, um sorry I didn’t know you were awake yet.” A soft voice said making me jump.

Looking towards the voice I saw another horse, or rather Pegasus if my Greek mythology was correct. It had yellow fur, with purple hair and tail. I stared panicking I had no idea how I got here and no idea where the hell I was. I tried to get out of the bed, but unfortunately I couldn’t seem to get my legs working how I wanted, resulting in me banging the back of my head on the wall.

The yellow horse winced from the noise of the bang and quickly walked over to my side of the bed “there there, calm down. You’re perfectly safe here, just lay down and relax, you’ve banged your head pretty bad. She said

I didn’t know why but when she talked I seemed to relax slightly, she just talked in such a softening tone. “w,w, were am I. I don’t know what happened.”
“I um don’t what happened to you, but all I heard was a big bang. I thought somepony had been hurt and when I found you, you were passed out with a big bang on your head.” She said while moving what I assumed was a bandage on my head

Laying back down while I asked. “how did I get here, and were exactly is here?”

“well your currently in my house, were just on the outskirts of ponyville, around three hours by train from canterlot.”

“ponyville, canterlot. What type of names are those?” I asked not fully understanding my situation.

“Oh my, you must have really hit your head. Can you tell me your name or were you came from?” She asked

“yea my name is.” I tried finishing that sentence only to have a weird whinny noise come out.

“what the hell I can’t say…” I then realised, my words her words. They weren't in English, I didn't know what it was, but my brain seemed to think it was, I mouthed some words only to feel my mouth move in different ways to how it normally should.

“Oh my, this is worse than I expected. I think you might have amnesia, no worry though I have a friend who knows a memory spell she should be able to help. We can go see her tomorrow.” She said.

“spell, how would she do that?” I asked, more curious than anything.

“Well there are unicorns and alicorns that can cast spells. Do you remember the three pony races?” she said looking panicked.

Well she’s a Pegasus, why not add unicorns into the mix. Wait why did she say pony, do all of these horses lose their wings and horns when they grow up.

“look I’m sorry but what do you mean by pony. Or there being three different races of them?” I Said.

She started sweating probably panicking that someone has fully gone and lost their memory. It made me feel sad seeing someone so nice like this.
She took a deep breath before saying. “well how can I say this. I’m a pony, you’re a pony. Everypony in Equestria is a pony. There are three main races of pony. Pegasus like you and me. Unicorns and earth pony’s. don’t worry I’m certain twilight can fix this, and then it can be a funny memory for you and your friends to laugh about. Now you just lay down and I will get you some nice warm soup.” She then stood up from sitting next to the bed and started walking away.

“urm thanks uh.” I said before realising she hadn't even told me her name.

“it’s Fluttershy. And I will be back in a minuet.” She said before walking out of the room and downstairs,
I laid back thinking about what she said. Where the hell was I. what the hell am I. and what about my friends, were are they, are they still stuck in the woods or even worse, are they here.

I continued pondering for a while trying to think of a way out of this. I could play the amnesia card for a while until I had a better understanding of my situation. But I knew It wouldn’t last long, as soon as a doctor saw me he would know that I hadn’t lost my memory. Knowing this I put myself at a ‘royally’ fucked up level class of situation.

While I was thinking Fluttershy walked back up the stars. I noticed both her wings were extended to help balance a bowl of soup on her back.
“here we are, just what the doctor ordered, a nice warm bowl of tomato soup. I know it always helps me when I’m feeling down.” She said while resting the bowl down next to me.

I just looked at the bowl, and back to my hooves. There was no way of me picking up the spoon. “Uh you might think this is crazy, but how do I pick up the spoon?” I asked.

“urm I don’t know how to explain it, here I will just hold the spoon for you.” she said. Looking somewhat confused at the fact.

She then somehow picked up the spoon and brought it towards my mouth. When I finally tasted the soup I realised how hungry I was. The answer was a lot. The minimum I could guess from when I properly ate would be around two to three days ago.

I didn’t know if was due to the hunger, or the bang on my head. But the soup tasted heavenly. The texture, taste and smell was just perfect. With every mouthful I found myself getting wary, the stress of the situation finally getting to my overtaxed mind. When the bowl was almost finished I was almost asleep.

“there we go, now you get some good sleep and I promise everything will be fine in the morning.” She said as I finally drifted off.

I was sitting at home watching something on TV. I knew I had something to do but I decided to ignore it for now.
Something moved behind me. I didn’t look fast enough, only to see a blue blur.

Looking back round I was now in a forest in the middle of the night. I tried to move only to stumble over. Rubbing my head with my hoof. I looked around, I was in a clearing with tress circling around It.

Shuffling myself I came across the mirror again, this time my reflection was still pony shaped, but completely black, even though the light of the moon should have been sufficient to see it, but alas the reflection was pure black.

The reflection started moving on its own, it was dissolving into the ground around it. The mirror started to disappear but the darkness stayed, growing in size and circling around me. My breath started to quicken as a sense of dread washed over me.

I started trying to crawl backwards only to stumble around helplessly, my legs just wouldn’t cooperate properly. still trying to put myself in a bipedal positon, I fell backwards, somehow giving myself a massive pain in my back.

When I looked up again I was in a room. It was the same as earlier but darker. Calming myself realising it was only I nightmare, but the pain in my back was still there. Focusing in on the pain I realised there was something on my back. A twitching sensation from two opposite sides of my back were the result of me trying to move them.

“I need to look in a mirror, this is just getting uncanny.” I said to myself. Looking down I examined the floor next to the bed.

Kicking the covers of me reminded me of the massive amount of red fur I had, but there was no time to dwell on that I had to get a good look at myself. I decided to try and roll off the bed, landing myself on the floor standing upwards. Unfortunately, no one decided it would be a good idea to tell me that horse’s rear legs bend backwards, buckling myself and falling over.

Trying to get back up was a difficult task, as I instinctively pushed upwards with my front legs, and bended my rear legs, sending myself bipedal, unfortunately my centre of balance is a lot further forwards so I just closed my eyes, bracing myself for when I eventually hit the ground.

When I hit the ground instead of feeling the hard floor against my face there was just a pressure at the end of my front hooves. Opening my eyes, I noticed I was now standing upwards like any normal horse or pony would. Shaky but standing.

Walking was a process I never thought I would have had to learn all over again. Slowly I put one of my front legs forward and then moved it’s the opposite back leg, I wouldn’t like to admit but every small movement took almost all of my concentration. I slowly started building up a pattern in my head.

left front right back, right front left back, left front left bac. Wait oh fu.
THUD.
I got myself up and started again.

When I finally got into the hallway there was only one other door and a stairway leading downstairs. The entire house had a ‘cosy’ feel to it. Looking through the first door I noticed it was a bathroom, walking inside I looked for a light switch to find a cord hanging from the roof.

I was thinking of a way to move the cord but I wasn’t having any luck, I didn’t have fingers to grab the cord, and I wouldn’t be good enough yet to be able to balance on two legs wile I griped it with my front hooves.

“this just keeps getting better and better.” I whispered to myself closing my mouth with an audible click.

my mouth. I thought to myself. Looking back at the cord, it was just the right distance to reach up and pull down with my mouth.

Click.

The room filled with light making me flinch. Looking around I found what probably is a full body mirror for a pony. And I saw myself.
You can never understand the feeling you get when not even your own reflection is familiar. Standing on the opposite side of the glass was a red pony with blue and green hair. Pegasus was a more fitting name noticing the wings on either side of my back. Remembering back to the half faded memory of waking up outside and seeing them.

Even my eyes were different instead of seeing the blue eyes I was always used to these were green. I remembered hearing the phrase “the eyes are the window to the soul.” Then what did that make me.

The pony in the mirror started to cry, I watched as my view started to get blurry until I forced myself to look away.
Even as I forced my eyes shut I could still see the image from the mirror. That was what I had become, not even a scrap of my humanity had survived.

I slowly walked myself back to the bedroom still silently crying to myself, only letting out the occasional whimper until I climbed back into the bed and curled myself into a ball

My mind was going wild, having a full blown identity crisis.my mind trying to rationalise the situation coming up with different ideas. Have I always been a pony and somehow I’ve just had an entire lifetime of memory’s implanted into my head, or maybe I’m still on earth and I have just gone crazy. These types of thoughts continued flowing through my mind until I finally cried myself into a dreamless sleep.

When morning came I felt the sun hit my body from an open window, I had a small panic when I realised I still wasn’t human but it went as fast as it came. I don’t think it was because I had finally gotten over the matter but that I was just tired of it.

I laid there for hours trying to gather the courage to leave the bed, I just couldn’t find the will to. I finally got up because being under the covers was starting to get annoyingly hot. I walked back out the room immediately looking away from the bathroom remembering what would greet me in there, instead I looked towards the stairs.

Trying to get down stairs was a challenge that only reminded me how useless I was. It was different then walking down with two feet, instead of your body staying upright you tilt forwards, you also have to keep your feet in sequence otherwise a painful outcome will meet you at the bottom.
It took a long time but eventually I found myself at the bottom of the stairs. Looking around I saw that I was in a living room. There were bird houses, blankets, cages for small animals and tones of animal stuff lying around everywhere. Looking at the sofa I could see a blanket with a few pillows, it was obvious she was sleeping on it while I slept in her bed, this made me feel even more helpless.

A noise came from another room, it sounded like someone was moving pans around, so I walked in there to see if I could get any more information on this crazy world I was in.

When I walked in. Fluttershy I believe her name was. Was currently facing away from me, humming a tune while preparing assortments of animal food.

“morning” I said making her jump.

“ah, oh my, I didn’t expect you to be up so early”

Early? I thought to myself. I was never up early and I knew I woke up ages ago, I had only just got up.

“oh really what time is it then? It doesn’t feel that early.”

“oh well I think it’s about half seven. I just didn’t think you would be up at this time as you didn’t get that much sleep.”

“uh how did you know, I don’t think I look that bad, I didn’t wake you or keep you up did I.” I didn’t know why but even the thought of making her sad seemed to feel like an ultimate sin.

“well no, it’s just one of my friends told me that he saw you get up in the night and start to cry. He said he would have tried to help you but I kinda asked all my friends to give you some space.”

This made me worry, I didn’t see anyone else. And from the looks of it this house is only built for one person.
“I don’t remember seeing anyone.”

“you probably wouldn’t of he’s a bat. He came in with an injured fang a few days ago and said he would keep an eye on you so I could get some sleep knowing you were in safe hooves.”

“A bat. How does that work?” I said absolutely confused. How could someone talk to animals. Train them yes, but talking to them?
Is this the type of thing that can just happen here, in horse land?

“well bats are nocturnal, meaning he sleeps in the day and is awake at night. I would introduce you to him but as I said, nocturnal.”
“oh ok, is there anything I can do to help around, if it is really as early as you say we should probably wait a while before seeing your friend, just in case there still asleep.”

She looked around before putting her head in a bag and pulling out a carrot, holing it in her mouth by the stem. “if you wouldn’t mind could you go and give this to angel in the other room, I don’t want to leave all of this food in the open.” Of course it was more mumbled than anything but after being around my brother long enough slurred words were my speciality.

“yea Shure.” I said before looking at the carrot as she placed it on a counter. Was I supposed to just use my mouth or what.

Shrugging to myself I picked the stem back up in my mouth and proceeded to walk back into the living room. When my tongue brushed against the carrot, I didn’t know if the carrots they grew here were some sort of super rare breed or anything, but the taste I got from the outside was amazing. I put it on my mental list to try as many foods as I could in this world to see if they all were as good as this.

When I got into the living room I looked around for what I guessed was a bunny. I eventually saw a small bunny sitting in a couch looking somewhat impatient until he saw me, and the carrot I had in my mouth. He threw his paws in the air that looked like a finally type expression before hopping over to be and grabbing the carrot out of my mouth before returning back to the chair.

I was awe struck by the fact the bunny had just acted like a normal person, the situation I was in was weird enough. So this was just icing on the cake but it still took a small while for my mind to recover from this.

getting over yet another semi panic attack I returned to the main kitchen type room to find Fluttershy placing some toast on a table. “sorry it’s not much, I was going to go to the market but I didn’t want to leave you alone.”

Once again I noticed how hungry I was feeling, then the smell of the toast hit me and the hunger increased tenfold.

I then went to reach for the toast before stopping myself, how was I supposed to do anything without hands anymore. I pulled my hoof back, looking I contemplated myself yet again everything about myself had changed, my body, my gender and what of my mind, how could I return to my normal boring life after knowing this was possible.

I looked up to see Fluttershy standing with her back to me, prepping all kinds of animal food. I moved my head towards the plate on the table. Shrugging to myself I used my nose, or muzzle I guess and moved a slice to the edge of the plate until a corner came over the lip of the plate, I then grabbed the edge with my mouth.
I stood back with the toast in my mouth and sat myself on the floor. Holding the toast in-between my fore hooves and slowly ate through the toast, realising that just like the soup last night the taste and texture was better than anything I had ever had before.
I was snapped out of my sensory overload by a cough.

“would you like anymore; I can make plenty more if your still hungry.” Fluttershy said now standing in front of me.

Looking back down I noticed that I had eaten through the entire slice. “Uh no I should be fine with this. Look I am really thankful for everything but I can take care of myself from here. Just try to forget about me. I said knowing I needed to figure out how to get home and the longer I was around the chance of my ruse falling through would increase.

“oh please don’t, I know things might be a little confusing right now but I’m certain that twilight would be able to get your memories back, or at least might find some records of you and somepony who knows you, but I'm Sure she fixes your memories, she did it once before with me and some of our friends.”

I knew it was an unwise chose but something about it but I felt safe around her, would it really hurt to at least see this friend or hers. “All right I will at stay for now, but I don’t want to impose.”

A small smile appeared on her face “good I know thigs might look bad now but I promise things will get better.” She paused for a moment thinking. “it’s a bit early but I don’t think twilight will mind, we can go into town now.”
She stood up pulling her hair back with her hooves and walking back into the living room, I followed her through.

When I finally stepped outside I was taken back by the view, it was astonishing, the lush green, the vibrant sky. Everything was just better, even the air had a crisp feel to it. I knew from this singular view that I wasn’t on earth anymore, so where was I?

Walking along the path I found many sights that blew my entire perception of reality. Even the clouds were lower than they should be and all around the sky I could see small pony shaped objects flying around, looking back around I saw two wings on either side of my back. I didn’t even feel them there, I tried to move them but it was effortless.

When we finally got into town I saw plenty of ponies walking around the small town, some carrying bags of supplies and talking to each other.
It was strange to see things that I would consider normal thins for humans to do but done by ponies instead. Which in turn raised further questions, how would a prey spices evolve to become dominant, or how there could be ponies with wings that can fly with wings that small.
Stuck in my internal debates, I didn’t notice that we had both stopped outside of a tree that looked to have doors and windows. Fluttershy walked up to the door and very gently knocked on the door.

It took a while before the door was covered in a lavender glow and opened, to show a lavender looking unicorn. “Yes Fluttershy is there anything I can do to help, but can we make it quick I’m kinda in a major magic problem right now.” She said.

“well if it wouldn’t be too much of a bother twilight, I found a pony in the woods and she kinda has a memory problem, and I was wondering if you could do that memory spell for her, like when you did it on us.”

Twilight stepped out of the tree when she was fully out I noticed that she also had wings on her back. She did a quick glance over me before saying “sorry I can’t do the spell on a pony that I don’t properly know, and anyway that spell only reminded you of who you were. I’m sorry there isn’t any spells that can fully return a pony’s memory, I can at least keep an eye out for anypony looking for a pony that matches a description, hopefully there a unicorn and could at least try and remind you.”

Fluttershy sighed “sorry I really thought you could help us. Now were back to where we started.”

“look I’m really sorry I would give this more attention but I’m already helping somepony with something big right now, here at least me help you with your pains, I can see that whatever got you in this situation must have been painful.” She said before walking up to me, I had only a moment to looked surprised before her horn stated glowing and touched me on the shoulder.

I felt a jolt of energy flow through me, before vanishing as fast as it appeared leaving me feeling completely revived. I looked back to twilight, she was rubbing her horn, with a pained expression on her face.

“well I think we can say that whatever happened to you, left you with a massive amount of magical energy around you, try not to do much flying or be around to many unicorns for a few days until it dissipates back out of you.”

“Ok thank you for your help, good luck with whatever you’re doing.” I said.

Twilight nodded. “sorry, but I will defiantly keep an eye out for anything, and I defiantly would love you to come round for some tea sometime. And you two Fluttershy, you spend too much time with your animals, not like that’s a bad thing, but I would like to spend time with you when the entire fate of equestria isn’t at stake.”

“ok Twilight I can come round on Tuesday or something.” Fluttershy said blushing with embarrassment.

“look I would talk more but like I said I’m kinda busy, so I gotta go sorry.” She said before quickly jumping back into the tree.
I looked back over to Fluttershy. “So what’s with the whole living a tree thing.”

“well um, it’s the town library, and she’s the pony that runs it. She came here a year ago to study friendship before she became a princess.
“Princess? How could she become a princess, don’t you like inherit that form birth or something.”

“well I don’t know everything behind it but, one day she helped fix a spell and then Princess celestia did something to make her a alicorn.”
“Hu that’s strange, well if there is anything you ever need me to do, just hit me up ok.”

A panicked expression covered her face. “please don’t I know I said Twilight could fix this and I am really being sorry, and if you were just to leave now, you would just be stuck in a part of equestria with no pony to help you and no idea about yourself, what if you got hurt. Just please stay one more night and tomorrow I can help you get to know more pones, that you wouldn’t be lonely.”

Once again I wanted to agree with her. “Ok one more day, I just don’t want to impose too much.”

“Oh it wouldn’t, now how about we go and explore the town a bit more, that might cheer you up a bit.”

“okay I guess that wouldn’t be too bad.”

We spent a few hours walking around and though the town, introducing myself to tons of people, and seeing things that really made me question everything I knew about physics. I was constantly having semi panic attacks. I’m certain my blood pressure was at a high enough state that even a small cut would cause me to bleed out in seconds.

Constantly through the day I had to lie through my teeth to keep the ruse up. I was extremely thankful for being such a pathological liar back home.

When we finally got back to her house, or now that I could actually see it from the outside. Cottage would be a better definition. We continued talking through the day, for giving off an extremely shy and timid aura. Some of the things she said really painted her as a hero of this place, apparently her and a few of her friends have saved the day more than once.

Also I noticed that she kept care of dozens of animals even some that lived in her house were natural born predators and prey, like I saw owls and mice sitting right next to each other. There must be some kind of underhand deal or something going on.

When dinner finally came around I said that I didn’t really want anything too big so we decided on only a small meal. “well Fluttershy you defiantly should look into a carrier in cooking or something, that was the best meal I think I’ve ever had.” I didn’t realise my slip until it was too late.

“you ever had? Have some of your memories come back.” She said perking up a bit.

“heh well um, uh, well of course it’s the best meal I’ve ever had I can’t remember having any before so this is the best.”

“Oh.” She replied.

I faked a yawn before saying “well its getting kinda late I think I’m going to call it a night If you don’t mind.”

“oh not at all, have a good night’s sleep, I will see you in the morning.”

I walked up the stairs and into the small bedroom in the house. Walking straight towards the window I took a look out to the night landscape. Not even the star consolations were the same, but at least there was a familiar looking moon illuminating the landscape.

I raised one of my legs to look at it my heart dropped and a small tear formed over my eye, sickness started to spread through my stomach. I wanted to go home, I wanted to be in my own bed and most of all I wanted to be myself again.

Sighing to myself I dropped my dead to rest against the window looking back up

Man I wonder if James and Ryan are in the same situation, I could do with cheering myself up at their expense.

In two other points of ponyville there were two ponies having their own problems and both dealing with them in their own ways, one had gone on a late night run to clear their head, while the other was crying in a bed with their tail tucked in and slowly stroking it as a small safety blanket as they drift into a dreamless sleep.

Author's Note

Let me know if there are any grammatical errors. I haven't spent as much time prof reading this as i would like to. I got arc eye a few days ago and looking at a screen can be painful

Also I need to stop posting these at 4 am. Oh well Sleep is for the week, and insomnia is for the brave.