"Ugh" I groaned as I opened my eyes and began taking in dark forest I found myself sitting in, and it was so dark in fact that I could barely see the trees and bushes just a few feet all around me. I could hear and feel the rain as it poured down making the whole situation uncomfortable to say the least.
"Hello!" I yelled and immediately felt my head pounding as if I someone was trying their best to break out of my skull with a jackhammer. My mouth felt very dry as if I hadn't drank anything in a day or so and my entire body felt fatigued as if I hadn't slept in days, but my legs were the worst, they ached with every little movement for some strange reason. I got to my feet feeling slight weight shift on my back and realized I was still wearing my college backpack. I began searching through my backpack looking for anything that could be useful that this moment and found my zippo lighter that just brought up bad memories from my early college years. Not wanting to stand here in the rain I lite my lighter and started walking down the only thing that could be called a trail out here.
After a few minutes of walking came across a tall shadowy figure standing in the distance. "Hey! Are you friendly? I need help." I called out as I made my way closer to the figure. When I had made it close enough for the glow of my lighter to illuminate the figure it turned around. The site of this thing right in front of me made me want to piss myself. It looked like a lion, but when the huge scorpion tail glimmered in the light I started running.
"A lion is bad enough, but a lion with a giant scorpion tail.... Oh hell no!" I thought running as fast as I could with the sound of it's feet coming from close behind me. I tried to lose it by weaving in between trees close to the path hoping it would hit a tree, but it didn't even seem to slow it down and then I found a fallen tree laying across the path ahead of me.
"Come on! Come on! Please trip on this!" I mentality screamed as I jumped it and manged not to trip myself in the process. I looked behind myself to see that not only did it not trip, but now wasn't that far behind.
I saw several branches sticking out into the path ahead and decided to try for one to use as a make shift weapon. Putting on as much speed as I could muster to both distance myself from that beast and hopeful get enough force that one of the branches might break off as I grabbed it on the way by. I made grab for the first branch, and got lucky as it snapped off the tree, but it cost me some of my speed. I could hear the thing closing in on me so I did the one thing that seemed like a good at the time... I turned around and stabbed at the charging beast.
Again my luck seemed to be holding because not only was it close, but close enough that the end of my weapon plunged into the things left eye. It let out a roar as it barreled of to the right of me and into some bushes. Taking this opportunity, I ran in another direction as fast as my sore legs could carry me, but the sound of branches snapping told me it was coming after me again. I glanced behind me and saw it catching up to me again, though its left eye was bleeding from what I could see.
"I can do this! It's only got one eye now! And all I have to do is not tri...." I chanted before doing the one thing I defiantly did not want to do, and that was trip. It was on top of me before I could get back up, and with my luck still holding the beast miss with it first bite, probably due to it now lack of depth perception.
As I readied myself the best I could for it's next attack when I saw a gray object fly out of nowhere, I think it was a rock, smashing into the side of the beast's head with a sickening crack. It fell off to the side of me from the impact limp and unconscious or dead... I was really hoping dead at the moment. I sat up and looked around anxiously before realizing that I wasn't in the forest anymore, but outside on the edge of it. Soon my eyes found a figure standing on a nearby hill, and I could tell it was a she because of the size her bust.
"Who are you?" I called out to the figure, but it didn't respond. Instead it vanished into thin air leaving only small sparkle of purple light in it's wake. I stared at the place the figure was only moments ago trying to figure out what had happened. I was left confused, but decided to go up there and see where they had went. A low growl from behind made me freeze up.
"You can't be serious!" I groaned. Turning around I saw the creature starting to get up and I immediately ran as fast as I could down the trail I was walking on earlier leading over the hill. As reached the bottom of the other side of the hill I stopped and looked back glad to see nothing, but the empty trail.
"Thank god it's gone." I said sighing in relief, then continued walking down the muddy trail as the rain continued to fall. Taking in everything around me I began thinking to myself. "Am I dreaming?" If this was a dream, then I am defiantly laying off the blueberries.
The soreness in my legs was starting to increase and I took this as a sign to take a well deserved break. I was still scared to stop, but without the beast chasing me, and the dark forest around me I felt it was at least safe enough to stop for a few minutes. Spotting a large tree nearby that would help keep the rain off me while I rest. I made my way over and sat down against the trunk. I felt all the aches and pains catching up now that the adrenalin had worn off, and my right arm seemed to be the source of most of my pain, but it could wait as took off my back pack and leaned back against the tree, then closed my eyes.
"Well, maybe I'll wake up from this whole thing to find myself in my warm bed." I thought as slip into unconsciousness.
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"Gala rise and shine, Come on sis." I opened my eyes to see my sister, Applejack, an orange mare with blonde mane and tail along with her usual brown stetson hat shaking me awake.
"Hey sis. What ya need?" I asked wiping the sleep from my eyes.
"Ah know it's yer day off, but Applebloom is coming down with a cold after playing in the rain with her friends, and I need you to go to Zecora's. She has some medicine that will help her."
"Alright sis." I replied as she left my room. I slid out of bed then stretched out my arms above my head making a few joints and my back pop before letting out a sigh as I saw myself in the full length mirror on the wall. I saw myself , but it wasn't the real me. I missed how I used to look on the outside and felt the inside. Every time I see my reflection it feels as if I died a stallion and came back as cute mare with a rather large set of Sweater stretchers that I see now.
Letting out another sigh I set about getting ready for the day and my trip upcoming trip to Zecora's in the Everfree forest. I brushed my soft orange mane which felt silky to touch after that I was done. I never need more than that before I changed and didn't see the point to do more now because the mares aren't interested in another mare and most stallions won't talk to me anymore because they think I might fall in love with one of them now. They think that would make them gay and that I'm gay or something like that, but it's just a bunch of ponyfeathers.
"At least I still have the best family in all of Equestria." I thought to myself as made my way down stairs. Walking past the living room I see Granny napping in her rocking chair as usual. I left the house quietly so I don't wake up Granny. She can be down right cranky when and if she wakes up from her naps.
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After twenty minutes of walking I made it to the edge of the Everfree forest and decided to visit Fluttershy at her cottage. The timid butter cream pegasus with a pale pink mane and tail was one of only several ponies willing to talk to me without making it awkward.
After a few minutes more of walking I saw Fluttershy's small cottage and saw Fluttershy dressed in blue jeans along with her usual light green sweater she wore. Even in the hottest weather she would wear it because she felt embarrassed at the size of her bust. I thought her bust was alright, but that was before my change and now I felt slightly awkward thinking about it because I have a bust matching hers. I shake my head trying focus back on meeting Fluttershy as I watched her feed the chickens, and went to greet her.
"Hey Flutters!" I called out walking towards her. She let out a Eeep! as her wings flared out and she jump in fright at my casual greeting. She quickly turned around to see me standing there, and began blushing when she realized how her wings were still stretched out. Tucking her wings back she returned the greeting as she picked up the bag of chicken feed she had dropped from being startled.
"Oh hello Gala." It was hard getting used to having a new name because Big Mac doesn't fit me anymore.
"Hey Flutters, how's it going?"
We had a long conversation about her baby chickens and how bad the rain was earlier that morning before I finally went to the trail that lead into the forest and to Zecora's home. As I got to the final small hill that separated me from the Everfree I saw something sitting under a tree next to a custom made saddle bag just off the trail. It didn't look like a normal pony. Walking closer I could see it was wearing shoes that were completely different than anything I have seen before and it had no hoofs, no muzzle or even a tail although it had a short mane on his head and a thick beard.
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"Hey there! Are ya alright?" I heard a cute feminine voice call out to me.
I cracked opened my eyes only to feel my cheeks instantly heat up and threatening to burst into flames as a beautiful yet exotic looking red furred girl with an equine like muzzle, and brilliant emerald eyes staring at me, but it was what she was wearing and how she was positioned that made me feel like my face was going to melt off.
She was wearing blue jeans, but no shoes there was just red hooves for feet, and a plaid button up shirt with torn off sleeves, but the top two buttons were undone and her lean down to meet me face to face gave me a complete and unobstructed view of some rather large breast. I quickly looked away before she caught on to me, and what I was staring at.
After a few moments of silence I tried to get to my feet so I could try and maintain eye contact with her without staring at other things. As I moved my arm to help myself up she quickly gasped and put her hand on my chest pushing back against the tree. I started to get worried that she might have caught my staring earlier and was going the hit me, but instead felt the sleeve on my right arm getting pulled up.
"Are you going to hurt me?" I asked as I looked at her. Her eyes had widen at what she was looking at before answering me quickly.
"Nope." She said simply. I saw her cheeks turn a slightly dark red as she looked at me.
"Who are you?" I asked curiously.
"Names Red Gala, just call me Gala," She responded as started tearing the bottom of her shirt. "Who and what are you?"
"Names Leo, thanks for asking and I'm a human." I said holding out my right hand which she took and held firmly. I felt a searing pain shoot up my arm, and tried pulling it back, but she kept her hold on it.
"That hurts! Let go!" I shouted at her before I notice a piece of her plaid shirt in her other hand. She brought the piece of cloth up to my upper arm where I found the source of my pain. A jagged and deep gash about five inches long in my arm from beast from before.
"Well I guess that thing didn't miss me." I grunted as I looked into her green eyes.
"Your lucky I found you, but this is going to hurt like a motherbucker." She stated quickly before tightening the cloth around my arm, and the last thing I heard before passing out from the pain.
Author's Note
thank my great editor Jcn8 for fixing it up
