Reflections
By: Moonlight Eclipse
"Ah, Saturday. My favorite of all days.", I sighed. I grabbed my bike and scram at mom, " MA! I'M GOING TO THE PARK ON MAPLE!"
"OKAY! DON'T FORGET YOUR SWEATER!", she scram back.
I was already off and going. I was prepared anyways. My blonde hair flew in the air, loose and messy as can be. My gray sweater had very long sleeves but it didn't bother me. Nothing would except a call from mom about the chores. The crunch of Autumn stained leaves and twigs were heard under the fast, swift wheels of my bike. I was nearing on Maple park, a small but beautiful place of scenery. I was on Iris avenue, not too far from Maple. But this is the street my "brony" or "pegasister" friends lived. They were nice, kind friends but sometimes over talked about MLP or whatever they called it. No one was anywhere to be found on the street. "Good. Now, I just need to make a left..."
"Hiya Eclipse!", scram a mildly energetic voice behind me.
I jumped at the sudden appearance of her. "Hi... Winter."
" Whatcha doin' on my street? Came to hang out at my place? Or even better, watch My Little Pony?"
"Uh, no. I just came for a smooth bike ride."
"Oh. Okay. Why not hang out another day?", asked Winter.
"Yeah. Why not um... Friday?" "Yeah I guess.
See you then.", sighed Winter. Winter walked away, feeling disappointed.
Great. Now I feel terrible. So much for smooth. Not wanting to waste time or hurt anyone's feelings, I turned left and cycled on to Maple. The ride was refreshing, but my mind replayed my friends disappointment. It made my cycling journey feel lonely. And to make matters worse, the sun was setting. I love sunsets and nighttime, but that meant cycling time is over. I bit my lip and decided to move on. Then the sound of gravel crunching was heard. It was the gravel crunch of Maple park trail. I smiled and glanced at the beautiful park. It was clean, and not visited much. Only the occasional couple walked by or an elderly person feeding the pigeons. The street lights slowly turned on, and the park was mostly silent. I stopped gawking at the park’s beautiful scenery and focused on my main goal “ Time to break the record.” I hopped back on my bike and began to push on the pedals. The gravel churned around and around, and my bike soared off on the trail as fast as can be. My hair once again flapped around in the stinging wind, and the determined smile on my face grew wider and wider. Even though the trail was meant for jogging, I used it for cycling. The bike sped up by the minute and according to my results, it was getting closer to the record. I was on my fifth lap, only seconds away from the record and saw a teenage boy walking on the track not noticing my speeding bike, probably looking at the scenery.
“WATCH OUT!”, I scram , providing a moving motion with a hand. Nothing. Did I see ear buds? Yup, I did. “For the love of-” BAM! I put a hand to my head trying to clear the dizziness of the impact.
“Whoa. That was close. You okay there?”, the boy asked.
“Yeah. Just got a couple bruises and scratches, but I’ll be fine.”, I replied. Wait. ‘That was close’? Oh. I looked to my left and saw my bike crashed into a tree nearby. Must have skidded off course before I was about to crash into the boy. I looked up and realized he had offered a hand to me.
“Gonna leave me hanging?”, he asked. I blushed and held on the hand as he pulled me up. He was tall, wore jeans, a blue shirt, and a navy sweater. And his hair was a soft looking black. Hard to find in some boys.
“Thanks. And I’m sorry I almost made you road kill.”
“No. It’s okay. It was my fault I didn't move out of the way and besides, you kinda crashed more into the tree than me. My name is Blazing Thunder. What’s yours?”, he said. A warm inviting smile was spread onto his face, and I’m pretty sure I blushed even more.
“Moonlight. Moonlight Eclipse.”
“Nice to meet you.”, he replied. We neared into each other feeling the magic, until my phone rang. “Uh, your phone is ringing.” I bit my lip as I fumbled through my pockets, and hoped it wasn't mom. I found it and it was my mom. I answered and put it close to my ear, knowing she’ll scream at me for being late.
“ Moonlight Eclipse! You are in big trouble when you get home Missy! You forgot to come by seven pm! Again! And your punishment is… uh… organizing the attic!” I hung up because that’s all I needed to hear.
“Well, I have to go. Bye Thunder.” I picked up my broken bike and lugged it beside me all the way home.
“Wait! I was going to ask… never mind she’s too far away.”
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“MOM! I’M HOME!”, I scram as I shut the door behind me.
“Moon, dear can you please get started on the attic after dinner?”
“Okay mom.” Dad came in with a frown on this face.
“Moon. Did you break another bike?”
“Yes dad. I’m sorry. I swear I was so close to the record!”, I replied.
“It’s okay. But if you break one more bike you wont have another PERIOD.”, he said firmly.
“Yes dad.”
“Now. What’s for dinner. “
“Spaghetti. Without meatballs. And some apple juice.”, sang mom from the kitchen. Me and dad smiled as mom set our dinner on the table and immediately dug in. I took somewhat elegant twirls of spaghetti. And medium sips of the juice. Dad ate plain messy but somehow slowly, and mom VERY elegant but slow. I stood up from the tabled after being excused and placed my dishes in the sink. I walked to the closet and grabbed a step-up ladder. I lugged it to the hallway and placed it below the attic door.I took each step on the ladder cautiously, not wanting to fall or get stuck. “Okay. You made it up the ladder without fail. Now for the hard part. Organizing.”, I muttered to myself. I moved carefully across the support beams and way in the back, I found a box labeled: Treasures. Out of curiosity, I bent over and looked through only to find jewelry and trinkets. Not exactly treasures but they were old. Really old. Except one in particular. It was small and golden, with only a red silk ribbon.The hape was unique, it looked like that butt tattoo from that one pony, Twilight Sparkles or something like that. I knew it was wrong to take it, but it was irresistible.
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“Whew. Who knew it was so hard to organize the attic?”, I thought. I had decided to go outside again, but only in my backyard. Still spacey, but not the same. I sighed and threw myself on the grass, and looked at the beautiful stars and moon. A jab of pain came from my right leg. “Darn bugs! Always biting me.”, I muttered. But it was in my pocket. I caught hold of something cold and pointy, possibly a slug? Or a spider? I grabbed it and looked at it closely. It wasn't a bug but the trinket I took. “Hmm. That explains it.” I toyed with it and even slipped it on my neck. It was way too long for my neck, so I took it off. Then sleepiness began to take over...
Chapter Two:
I awoke in a calm,grassy,morning setting- not quite at all like my backyard. “Where am I? This definitely does not look like my backyard. This looks more like wilderness.” I grabbed a hand, and raised it to my face to rub my tired, sore eyes. Only to punch myself with the force of a flung stone and fell to the floor on my back. I bit my lip as hard as I could to stop myself from swearing or putting more pain among myself. I flung myself to sit up and inspected my hands. Only, they weren't hands. They were gray hooves. Or so they looked like it. “Oh my god! What the heck are theses things! Where are my hands!” I searched around only to find more horse parts. Oh look! A red tail, more hooves,red mane,and oh,a MUZZLE. I was going to lose it! So I placed my new hooves on top of my head and scram in frustration and pure anger. But then a pair of gray webbed things sprouted from my sides. Bat wings? What else a unicorn horn? Then I realized what the horse designs were from. My little pony. Then I repeated my scream of frustration and anger. Then I thought of home. What will my parents do when they realize that I’m missing? Now the worrisome feeling moved the anger and frustration away. Then, my new wings and fuzzy ears flopped down to their sides. “Why me?”, I muttered. “WHY ME?!”, I scram out loud as a small group of horses galloping towards my direction.
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Twilight Sparkle sat down on her tree house floor, and sighed as levitating books soared past her. “It’s now use Spike, we’ll never find that new dimensional species!”,Twilight sighed, dropping the levitated books with her magic.
“Don’t worry Twilight. I bet we’ll find it soon- Hey look! I think I found it!” Twilight’s eyes opened wide and she used her magic to swipe it from Spike’s claws- and dropped him in the process. Twilight eagerly flipped through the book but frowned in disappointment.
“It’s...blank!”,Twilight scram. Spike stood up and walked to her, and gently gave a reassuring pat on the back.
“It’s okay Twilight. Maybe we can ask somepony like Celestia?”
“It...hopeless-” Twilight was soon interrupted by a ear splitting scream.
“WHAT IS THAT?”,Spike hollered through the noise.
Before Twilight could respond, Rainbow Dash burst through her down and scram, “Hurry up and help us find that dreadful noise! Maybe it is a cry for help. Or an evil force on the rise! Come on! It’s by the abandoned mill!” Twilight nodded and opened her wings and flew behind Rainbow Dash and, thoughts swimming through her mind.
Is everypony okay? Where are the rest of the girls? And what is that noise?
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I stopped screaming and began to ask myself several questions. Maybe they came to help me? Why am I so tired? I’m sure I slept at night…
“Hey look! It’s just anothr’ pony.”, said a disappointed orange farm horse.
“And I absolutely love her necklace! And she looks so… strange…”, said a white, classy looking pony.
”Hey! That's rude Rarity! Its racist to call a thestral strange!”, a hyper pink horse snapped. I payed no attention to the offence that I didn't really care of, and looked down at my neck and saw the trinket.
How did i get here? And it seems to be like it got here too.
“And so sleepy too.”, said a gentle looking yellow horse.
“Hey I’m not… sleepy”, I said before falling to my chin and falling asleep.
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The sound of a faint beep in my bed was heard. I groaned grumpily and tried to smack at the alarm.
“Hey! That’s important medical equipment!”, a voice snapped. After hearing the voice my eyes snapped open and in what I thought was my mom, what's actually a white horse with pink hair.
I gasped and scram, “GET AWAY FROM ME!” The nurse horse backed away to the wall and pressed a red button labeled: ASSISTANCE. “You little-” The two metal doors burst open, revealing the group of four horses as well as two more. The nurse murmured something into the lavender colored horses hair with fear etched in her eyes. Then, the fear filled nurse ran out to the hospital’s hallway.
“Ahem. Listen… thestral. You have been causing too much chaos within one day, and you obviously need help.”, said the lavender horse. “Why not we introduce ourselves? My name is Twilight Sparkle, the alicorn. That orange farm pony over there is Applejack,that white unicorn is Rarity, the pink pony is Pinkie Pie,the yellow Pegasus is Fluttershy,and that cyan blue Pegasus is Rainbow Dash. Who are you?”
“Uh… Moonlight Eclipse.”, I replied,feeling more calm now. I can’t believe that they trust a stranger with their names! “Where do you come from?”,asked Rarity.
“I’m not from here…”,I muttered barely audible for them to hear.
“So she is a alien!”,accused Rainbow Dash flying in front of my face.
“Are you?”, asked Fluttershy backing away.
“NO! She is not an alien for the last time!”,Twilight reassured the girls.
“Actually according to you ponies, yes. But we preferred to be called humans.”, I replied biting my lip, awaiting their next move. The others slightly flinched, but Twilight’s eyes sparkled in curiosity.
“Well, human, how did you get here?”, she asked bubbly as ever.
“SPACESHIP!”, scram Rainbow Dash crossing her hooves and giving me a look. Twilight gave a look to Rainbow and Rainbow gave a groan. ‘I’m Sorry.”, she mouthed. Twilight gave a satisfied nod and returned her gaze back to me.
“I don’t know. That’s what I’m trying to find out. But this trinket appeared along with me.”
“Hmm. It seems to be glazed with a magic spell. Mind if i take it for research?”, Twilight asked.
“Sure. I guess.” She levitated the trinket and slipped it off and took a look at it. the minute it came off, A white flash surrounded me and once again, I felt different.
“Oh my stars!”, scram Rarity. As I squinted through the flash, I saw the ponies’ terrified expressions and a fainted Rarity. The flash then disappeared and instead of the hooves and head, there was my human limbs and body.
“Oh my gawd, I look like that Equestria girls thing!”,I scram. Indeed i did. I had thestral ears and wings. I bit my lip as I looked at my awkward body. Then another white flash occurred. But this time, I was completely human. I gave a sigh of relief.
“Interesting.”, Twilight muttered.
