Finding Family

Five Years Later

Thursday, July 16th, 2020

        Eddie was never a light sleeper. in fact it never took much to wake him from sleep, so when the sun's rays hit his eyes this morning, he started stirring. He felt weird, like he slept on his side and he layed on his arm funny, and it was all tingly.

        It was this time that he noticed that the tingling was not coming from any limbs he was use to having. His eyes shot open and he saw something that he was not expecting, a large sky blue mass on his face. Eddie yelped in shock to what he saw and fell out of bed and fell on that tingly something on his back and he sent out another yelp of pain this time.

        As he lay on the ground wondering what the hell he saw and fell on, Eddie lifted a hand to grab what ever was on his face and remove it, only to find another sky blue mass raising up to bat the thing on his face.

        Letting out another yell of surprise, Eddie started to back up from where he fell. It was this time that he notice that his bedroom door was closed. He never closed it ever, in the event that Ruby wanted to get around the apartment.

        Thoroughly freaked out Eddie started to take stock on what the hell was happening. His bed seemed bigger, his clothes seemed bigger too and felt itchy, and why was it so damn hot!  It was like 60 degrees all day yesterday! It feels like a damn sauna in this room!

        Eddie then hazzard another look at his “hands” again after calming himself down. All eddie had were two light blue stumps that looked a bit like the hooves of a horse, They were hard and a slightly lighter shade of blue than the fur above them, and had a little soft part underneath where his palm would be.

These hooves moved strangely too. Eddies knowledge of horses were pretty much limited to petting zoos, which Eddie had not been to since childhood, and his obsession with Lil’ Sebastian from Parks and Recreation. They could move much like his arms could. it freaked him out to say a little bit.

Eddie tried to stand up to look at the mirror in his bedroom on his dresser, but found that standing on two feet was no longer possible, not just because it was hard to get up and stay up, but because he lacked feet too. those too were replaced with sky blue hooves.

“Oh god! What's happened to me!?” Eddie shuddered as he heard his voice, it was a bit lighter, but not too much. A spike of panic sunk into him. “No, I can't panic now, I need to find out what happened, then I need to call mom. She can keep me safe until I can get this fixed!”

Stumbling his way to the dresser was harder than he thought, and it was at this time that he noticed that something was off. Despite his cleaning yesterday, everything was dusty and dirty. His now huge bed was stripped of sheets and was dusty and dirty. A huge amount of dust was under his bed.

Eddie got to the dresser, now in full blown panic mode as he hopped up to see his face in the mirror. What he saw, he didn't quite comprehend. The first thing that he noticed were the huge, golden eyes, a head of hair that was an orange red color that reminded him of a sunset, a set of sky blue ears that looked like they would fit in quite well at an anime convention and a face that he didn't recognize. the whole fact that all he could see from this angle was his head freaked Eddie out, as the day before, he was over 6 foot tall, and had trouble fitting his torso and head in frame.

Eddie started to hyperventilate. He fell to the ground as he lost his hold on the dresser, and fell to his side, falling on something on his back again.

“Jesus, what do I keep falling on!” Eddie almost yelled, almost losing his composure. He got up to find that he had not fallen on anything.

Looking back he noticed two small lumps underneath his shirt that he slept in. Just the act of looking made him realise how much his body had changed, moving his neck around like that would have been impossible.

Putting his panic on the back burner as curiosity took over. As Eddie struggled to take his tee shirt off, he felt something like the hair on his arm being pulled on, but it hurt much more. One last tug and he felt like he pulled something out.

 “JESUS GOD TITS! That fucking hurt!” Eddie yelled out, sure that he woke up the neighbors. It was at this time that Eddie noticed what he pulled out when he saw it in his now removed shirt. A large blue feather was resting on his now inside out shirt sitting in front of him.

Eddie sat in shock, looking at the large, blue primary feather. After a few moments he put two and two together and looked back at a set of wings paced on his back. not only was he transformed into a micro hors, but he also had a set of wings to go along with the freakshow that he had been transformed into.

What could have caused this? Am I hallucinating, no the pain was too real? Is this the scheme of some mad scientist bent on transforming people into miniature horses for his petting zoo of evil? The act of an alien force? Eddie sat and wondered, while still staring at his new wings.

Eddie needed to get a hold of his mom, she could help him. Looking as his nightstand to find his phone he found nothing but his glasses and a lamp that had way too much dust for Eddies liking.

“I know I left my phone on the night stand. The charger is right there.” Eddie said no nobody but himself, if only to calm himself down. “I must have left it in the living room or kitchen.”

Eddie got to the bedroom door and found his first obstacle, the doorknob.

“How the hell am I going to open this damn thing?” He said to the empty room. He could bash the door down, but that might alert the neighbors, and the last thing that he needed at this moment was nosy neighbors poking their noses in on what has happened.

Eddie, decided that his mouth would probably work the best. He gingerly  stood on his hind hooves and  gripped the door knob with his teeth and turned head. The door opened quicker than he thought it would and he fell into the living room where he got another shock. growing in his living room, next to the  broken balcony window, was a young tree, growing in detrus blown in.

Eddie stared at the sapling. “How, where did this tree come from. You didn't just sprout up overnight!” He yelled at the tree expecting it to answer. “ This doesn't make any sense! The dirt and grime, this fucking tree in my front room, im a small blue pegasus that can fucking talk. And where is Ruby?” Eddie said listening for his cat with her little bell, but his new, more sensitive tiny horse ears heard nothing. thats when he noticed he heard nothing at all.

Living so close to Midway International Airport, Eddie had always heard airplanes flying over, but he realised that he heard nothing. No buzz of traffic, no sounds of his neighbor upstairs who always had some type of music playing, no trains from the nearby train tracks, no emergency vehicles with their sirens blaring running up and down the streets to get to the car accidents or arrests or what not. It was dead silent. This combined with the filth of his once clean room and his new front room tree, made Eddie fear for his mother's safety. He needed to get a hold of her.

Looking around the room for his phone, he instead spotted something other than the tree and dust that was not there the other day, a ziplock bag, with a book and some various letter inside in it.

Eddie shakely trotted up to the bag and slid it towards himself with a hoof. The book inside was a notebook that had in big letters written “For Edward Murphy Only, From Shannon Murphy”