Planet Earth
Year 2044, November 1st
I just had a long day of sitting and looking through the paperwork that is involved with running a country with my fellow princes, Prince Porkchomp and Prince Micaya, when I heard the doors opening to our throne room. I looked up to see my children running towards us with my wife, Light Caller. I have two children both unicorns: one a filly, the other a colt. The filly came up to me and cried “Daddy, Daddy, can you tell us how you got your cutie mark?”
I said, “Hm, let me finish up my work here and then I will tell you.” I finished up my work quickly and told my fellow princes that they could go to their rooms when they’re done and have fun with their families. I asked the two royal guards guarding our thrones, both strong and loyal stallions, to come with me and my family to make sure nothing bad happened to us when we went to the gardens outside the palace.
When we arrived at the gardens, which was a half-mile walk from the throne room, my wife found a tree to sit on while my children jumped on me to try to wrestle me to the ground. I played with my children, dodging them to see how well they can try to take me to the ground. My daughter managed to get onto my back while my son managed to pull me down by my neck. I finally fell over by their combined weight and I could see that they were beginning to pant a little bit. “Good job, my children, you will be fine warriors when you grow up.”
“Thank you, Daddy!” they both cried in unison.
"You both deserve to listen to my story. My story began 30 years ago. Back then, I wasn’t a pony, I was a completely different race, some of which you may see today. I was a human young adult at the age of 20 when things started to get strange…”
Year 2014, November 1st
When I went to sleep that last night in October, I thought tomorrow would be a normal Saturday for my family, sleeping in till late. But that wasn’t what happened. As I was getting into bed, I felt a tingling sensation on my shoulder blades, hands, feet, and forehead. I didn’t think that much about the sensation but when I woke up the next morning, my body felt strange and alien. I was very concerned and confused. I moved my hand to see what happened but all I saw was a brown hoof in front of my face. My brain froze right there with that information. I did not know why I had a hoof instead of a hand.
I wondered to myself what else had changed while I was asleep. I pulled the covers off my body and saw that I had wings on my sides. It took a moment for me to realize that these new limbs were attached to me. I thought about how hard it might be for me to get down the ladder from my bunk bed to the ground. I went down the ladder anyway, but very carefully because I thought my hooves would slip. I was wrong. Somehow my hooves could grip the rungs of the ladder. I had no clue how they did that but they helped to keep me from falling down as I went down the ladder. When I got down to the ground I sighed in relief and turned around to see if anything had happened to my older brother. I only saw a blue horn sticking out from underneath the covers, and I thought, Is my brother a unicorn?
After looking at my ponified brother, I went down the hallway to our bathroom. As I went in, I looked at the mirror and froze. I have a horn! A unicorn horn! As I examined my body, I looked at my hair, or mane now, and my tail and saw that they were a blond yellow and the color of my coat was brown, but I did not see a cutie mark on my flank. I noticed that my mane and tail had some hairs sticking up all over so I thought about how I should straighten them out. I saw that my comb was sitting out on the sink. I thought, If I have a horn, how can I use it to straighten out the hairs on my mane and tail? I concentrated a little bit to see if I could get my magic to work, and I was rewarded by my comb floating up through the air by a brown aura. I was a bit surprised that it came naturally to me but I dismissed it and ran it underneath the faucet to get it wet then got started on my mane and tail. A half- hour later I got all the hairs under control to look nice.
I wondered to myself if my mom and dad were also under the effect of what happened to my brother and me. I turned out the lights of my bathroom and slowly opened the door to my parents’ room. I slowly went into the room and what I saw surprised me greatly. I saw a gold-feathered griffin with a dark brown coat snoring soundly next to a black keratin changeling with a green shell-like thing around where its wings are. I was taken aback by this information because I thought my parents would be ponies, not a griffin and a changeling. I went out of their room and closed the door, then went down the stairs as best I could without making a lot of noise. When I got to the bottom of the stairs, I went to the TV and turned it on so I could learn if what happened to my family happened to others.
The first thing I saw and heard when I turned the TV on was a news pegasus mare talking about a strange occurrence that happened throughout the entirety of North and South America. She talked about finding herself as a Pegasus and freaking out about it until she managed to calm down and went to where her newscast building is. When she arrived she saw that she wasn’t the only one to be transformed in her newscast group. She told another newscast member, a male griffin who was out on a street, to interview a unicorn pony who was standing next to him. The griffin asked the unicorn mare about what happened and what the mare thought about what had happened so far and how this might affect her. As I was listening to the news about what is happening in America, I thought to myself, What is President Obama going to do about this new occurrence that has happened? What is the world going to think about these three new species that have appeared out to the blue during the night?
Author's Note
This is my first story, so please be friendly with your comments please? Thank you!
Chapter 1: Adjusting and Beginnings of Royalty
As I was listening to the news, I heard my Mom’s iphone go off. I walked over to it and saw a message from my horse riding teacher saying that riding was canceled for the day due to unforeseen stuff. I went back to the TV after responding to the text. What I saw on TV was a griffin male interviewing a unicorn mare about what the unicorn had gone through this morning. As the unicorn was talking to the griffin about changelings, a changeling walked by and overheard the comment. The changeling introduced himself and the griffin interviewer asked the changeling about how his morning was so far. Just then I heard movement upstairs, either in my parents’ room or my brother’s room. I then heard a loud thump and something falling down a flight of stairs close to me. I looked up and heard a thump noise of something hitting a wall. I stood up to investigate and when I went upstairs I saw a changeling moaning in pain a little bit. I asked the changeling “Are you OK?”
The changeling said, “Maybe…oww!” My only reaction was sigh, and face-hoof. I helped my Mom up back on her hooves.
“Thank you,” my Mom said.
I said, “Mom, I’ll need to teach you and the rest of the family some basics about going down stairs, OK?”
“OK,” my Mom said. I taught my Mom how to carefully step down the next flight of stairs down to where the TV was still playing. I told my Mom about the text regarding our riding lesson being canceled and my Mom said she hoped that our riding instructor was OK. I told my Mom about our new forms that we now possess and I had her watch the news so she could understand what happened not only to our family but to others throughout America.
I told her about what to expect about being a changeling and some abilities that she might have, like being able to disguise herself as anypony or griffin. I told her about what changelings usually look like and I told her that she is different from normal changelings from the show My Little Pony, Friendship is Magic. My Mom is basically like Queen Chrysalis but without the holes in her legs and wings and also different eye color.
I asked my Mom if she could start making breakfast for us so we could have a nice breakfast before we went off to work, if they had work. I heard two more thumping sounds from upstairs. One sounded like it came from my parents’ room, and the other one from my brother’s room. I then heard two thumps and something that sounded like two things falling downstairs again. I immediately ran up the stairs to make sure the other two members of my household were OK. When I arrived, I saw a griffin entangled with a unicorn pony with the unicorn’s horn dangerously close to the griffin’s eye, while the unicorn and the griffin stared at each other with eyes wide open and mouths agape. I looked at them then sat down on my haunches and did a double hoof-plant. I looked at my brother and Dad and asked them if the two of them were feeling alright. They both said “Yes.” I helped them up so that I can teach them how to go down the last flight of stairs so that they can catch up with the news and relax after their ordeal.
I told my Dad that he should probably help my Mom with breakfast. In the meantime I told my brother about what had been happening recently and I asked him if he had used his horn yet. He said “No,” so I decided to teach him how to use his magic and other important things that ponies that have horns would need to know about. Two minutes after my lesson for my brother, my Mom and Dad said breakfast was served, so we washed our hooves and sat down on our chairs to begin our breakfast. My family talked among themselves about what a very strange morning we’d had so far and about what we should do about what was happening in the rest of America.
Just then, the phone started to ring. My Mom stood up to answer it. The person talking on the other side sounded familiar to me. They were identified as one of my two friends from high school. My Mom told me that he wanted to talk to me so I took the phone and started to talk to him.
He sounded very desperate and confused about something that happened to both him and his family. I told him to slow down so I could understand him better. He told me that he was turned into some kind of winged unicorn of some kind and that his dad and brother were turned into half-bird, half-cat creatures and that his mom was turned onto a bug-like pony. My eyes widened as I realized what had happened to my friend’s family. His Dad and older brother were turned into griffins, like my Dad. His Mom was changed into a changeling like my Mom, and he was turned into an alicorn like me. I asked him if he had called our other friend from high school about what happened and he said he did but he hadn’t received an answer back. I told him that when they did answer to ask whoever answers the phone if our friend was turned into a winged unicorn, if his mom and older brother were turned into bug-like ponies, and his Dad into a half-bird, half-cat creature. He asked me why I would like him to ask our friend that question and I told him I had a prediction that I want to test out. I asked him if his family was awake yet, and if they are to tell them what I told him. After that I told him “Have a good day,” then I put the phone away and walked back to the table to finish my breakfast. My family asked me what we should do today and I told them maybe we should take a walk outside like to the beach.
They said “OK,’ so after we finished breakfast and cleaning ourselves up, we took our keys to our house, our phones and wallets and other things we might need on our walk, and headed out. As we started to walk down Rosita Road, a couple of ponies stopped and bowed to me. I thought to myself, Hm, so some ponies know about alicorns. I won’t mind being considered royalty. I then saw some changelings stop and bow to my Mom. My Mom just took it all in stride, but my Dad and brother had a confused expression on their faces because of me and Mom taking all the bowing in stride. I thought to myself, I wonder what my two friends’ reactions will be when they see other ponies bowing to them or their mothers by changelings?
