Taken for War

"Urgh, where am I?" Jason muttered as he takes in his surroundings. A large, white room full of medical beds that ran along each wall. Jason was sitting up on his bed, running his hand across his forehead.

"This isn't home.." Jason declared. Then a sudden thought ran across his mind:

That talking pony was real; she's taken you to her planet.

"No.. I'm not going to believe that. Nope, not a word of it." Jason repeated to himself.

"Believe a word of what?" A femenine voice speaks from his right.

"Wh-" Jason turned around to face Celestia. His eyes widened. His thoughts here right. She has kidnapped him. "I-I'm not g-going to do it." He whimperd as Celestia walked towards him from the door.

Celestia sighed. "I'm sorry for what I've done. But, we don't have much time. Please, get up and follow me."

"O-ok" Jason said as he got up from his bed. As he walked closer to Celestia, the air around him got hotter.

"Why's it so warm around you?" He questioned.

Celestia chuckled. "I'm a Sun god."

"A Sun god?" Jason echoed.

"Yes, that is correct."

"So does that explain the sun on your butt?" He said, pointing towards Celestia's flank.

"Oh, that? Yes, that's my cutie mark. It resembles me as I raise and lower the sun."

"A cutie mark? What the hell is that?" Jason said.

"A cutie mark is something that resembles your special talent. You see, when everypony is born they are born with a special talent. When you discover that talent, you get a cutie mark from it. That cutie mark, like I said, resembles it." Celestia explained.

"Ok..." He replied.

"Please, enough talk, follow me. We don't have much time, and we need to train you as fas-"

"Wait, train?" Jason broke in. "Train for what?"

Celestia sighed again, "The war. Don't you remember?"

"The war" Jason looked at the floor as the memories flooded his mind, "I remember, all this 'Asmodes' crap."

"Just follow me." Celestia said as she walked down the hallway. Jason followed slowly behind Celestia, looking around at all the stain-glass windows there were. One particuarly caught his attention. It was a large, black pony with wings and a horn, standing in front of a ruined castle.

"Asmodes.." Jason whisperd. Celestia turned around and saw Jason looking at the stain glass.

"Yes, that was when Asmodes defeated the Changeling queen, Chrysalis."

"Changeling..?" Jason asked.

"A changeling is an insect-like pony that takes the form of any pony, and also feeds of off love." Celestia explained.

"Ok then. Y'know what they say, you learn something everyday.." Jason muttered as they took a left turn down the the corridor, out onto the training ground. Little did he know, he was about to learn a lot more today then he's ever learnt before.

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"Celestia, if you say I am this, 'Asmodes' guy, then how come I'm not a pony?" Jason questioned.

"You need to turn into him." Celestia replied.

"What? Like shape-shifting?" He joked

"Yes. Exactly like that." Celestia said. "You just need to learn the magic for it."

"How? No wait, let me guess. Your going to use your magic to make me learn it." Jason said, slightly annoyed.

"Well, now that you've got me thinking, that is a much easier way. I was going to get you to read books about it."

Jason just stared at Celestia.

"Go on then, cast your bloody spell." Jason spat in annoyance.

"Fine, if you wish." Celestia said as her horn glowed. A beam of magic shot out and entered Jason's brain, filling it with complicated equations that make up spells. As soon as it started, it was over. Jason's head spun rapidly and he almost fell to the floor.

"What the hell did you just do to me!" Jason shouted.

"I just simply put a few simple spells into your brain, such as Telekinesis, Shape-shifting, Teleportation and Fire Bolt "

Jason just looks at her. "Fire bolt? What for?"

"Don't you remember? We're going to war." Celestia replies stubbernly.

"Oh yeah.." He said, scratching the back of his neck, "How do I use the Fire Bolt?"

"You have to have some sort of way to harness the magical energy that floats around us. That is why Unicorns have horns." Celesia poked her horn with her hoof. "Well, Asmodes wasn't a Unicorn, he was an Alicorn, a Unicorn with the strength of an Earth Pony and the wings of a Pegasus."

"So, how am I going to transform into this 'Alicorn' if I don't have a horn? Jason pointed out.

"I'll do it for you." She said.

"Uh.. OK then.." Jason whimpered as Celestia's horn started to glow a bright yellow.

"This will hurt, a lot" Celestia warned as her horn fired a bolt of energy that coursed through Jason's veins and muscles. He doubled over in pain as his muscles started to expand. His ears grew out and pointed, just like a pony's. His bones creaked and cracked as they grew twice the size they should be. His nose and mouth grew outwards into the form of a muzzle. Looking down at his hand he could see his fingers fuse together to form a hoof. Growing out of his body was black fur, just like Asmodes'. The cracking of his bones grew louder as his ribs where pushed out, making a pony-like torso. Immense pain flared in Jason's forehead as a horn was forced out of it. Blood slowly trickled down his forehead onto his nose.. wait not nose, snout. Then, all the pain stopped.

"How'd you feel?" Celestia said as she stood over Jason.

"I feel like I've been crushed.." Jason murmerd.

Celestia stook out a hoof, "Get up, we've got training to do."

Ever so slowly, he rose onto his feet.

"How the hell am I meant to walk?" Jason said, waving a leg around.

Celestia laughed, "You'll get use to it. Follow me over to these training dummies."

Jason sighed. "Pony's walk just how a dog would walk, that's going to be easy." Jason said as he lifted front left hoof forward, then his back right hoof, front right hoof forward then back left hoof, he started to get the rhythm and then slowly started to walk.... until he face-planted the floor.

He spat out dirt from his mouth and groaned, "This is going to be a long day...". He carefully walked towards Celestia who was rolling on her back laughing.

"Right, what now?" He asked

"Well, I was thinking that you should learn to use a sword." She said, lifting up a wooden sword with her magic. "Go on, take it."

"How do I use this if I can't hold onto it? I've got hooves, not fingers!" He shouted in protest.

"Your mouth, grab the handle with your mouth." Celestia pointed to the handle.

"Urgh, fine." Jason took the sword in his mouth.

"Good, now, you see that dummy over there?" Celestia pointed, "Hit it with the sword."

Jason just nodded. He slowly walked over to it. Rearing back on his hind legs, he swung down with full momentum and hit the dummy. Nothing happend. Grunting, he reared up again and swung down, this time aiming for the neck. He slashed at it as hard as he could. This time, the blade dug into the dummies make-shift flesh, getting caught on a fake bone. The sudden stop in momentum made Jason fall to the floor, along with half a sword. Getting back up, he looked up at Celestia who was smiling.

"Let's try some magic. I want you to fire a Fire Bolt at it." Celestia commanded.

"How?" Jason replied, a puzzled look on his face.

"Focus on the energy around you and draw it into your horn, focus on your target. Think about a fire ball coming out of your horn, and hitting your target. It's simple." Celestia explained

"Pfft, simple for you. You've been a Alicorn for like, a thousand years. I've been a Alicorn for just ten minutes."

"Just do it." Celestia retorted.

Jason lowered his head. He focused on the 'energy' around him. Amazingly, he could feel energy being sapped into his horn. Then, he focused on his target. Then, he focused on a fire ball. He could hear his horn cackling with the energy. He opened his eyes and looked up to see his horn glowing a crimson red. Then, he looked at his target and thought about a ball of fire coming out of his horn. He stood there for what seemed ages, and nothing happened. Then, he thought about a gun, how it fires a bullet. He pictured his horn as the barrel of the gun, and the ball of fire the bullet. He imagined he just pulled the trigger. Then, a fiery projectile shot out of his horn, hurtling towards the dummy. The dummy erupted into flames.

"Very good, Jason." Celestia said. "Follow me, I shall take you to your quarters and allow you to rest. You've got a very busy day tomorrow and I do not want you to be tired."

Celestia walked back into the castle with Jason slowly trailing behind. They walked in silence for a few minutes, before reaching a door. Celestia used her magic to open it up. Inside was a luxury room with a king-sized bed, wardrobe, a chest of drawers and a mirror, with a door that lead to an en suite. I walked in and admired the room.

"This is your room, for now. You'll be woken up by a Royal Guard at around 6am. He will escort you down to the Dining Hall where you will have breakfast, then you shall meet me at the training ground for your training. Good night Jason, or shall I say, good night Asmodes?" Celestia chuckled before turning around and shutting the door, leaving Jason to think about what she said.

"Who am I now? Jason, or Asmodes?" He let the thought roam about his head as he jumped up onto the bed. It was reasonable comfortable. Laying his head onto the pillow, Jason's let his mind wander. How are his parents? How have they coped with his strange disappearance?

"My parents must think I've been kidnapped or I've died. They must be so upset." Jason whispered.

His eyelids slowly drooped over his eyes. He let the questions roam around in his head as he slowly drifted off to sleep.

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