A brave new world

staring at the blue sphere dotted with patches of brown and green was starting to get irritating, it seems getting dry eyes was possible in space or in whatever magical force that was binding me in space. To my right the moon hung gracefully watching over the planet below, the sun on the other side of the world giving a bright outline. Form my position being pulled in-between the two celestial body's, I was stuck in eternal twilight forced to follow them across the stars unable to move. bored out of my skull with nothing to do but reminisces on how i got here and enjoy the view, it might be an amazing sight that few ever get to experience but if you had been forced to look at the same thing for to long try it for a millennia, and counting the stars only killed a few decades its bad enough being frozen in this stasis iv had an itch on my neck for the last 400 years.

occasionally a comet and shooting star will give some slight change up to the view they are much better up close, leaving blazing trails across space. watching the world below i could see one of my favourite annual events the once in a generation dragon migration its an interesting sight with the drakes of different colours across the sky like a swarming rainbow.

So far the most interesting thing to happen was about three century's in was a screaming dark blue mass being hurled towards the moon changing the pockmarked surface into the likeness of a unicorn,'join the club' at least they got the entire moon to walk around on then after a thousand years of silence and several stages of near madness. some of which caused by having caramel dansen stuck in my head for two century's... 'no no don't think about it, don't think aboutit Shit'.

The blank eyes of the bone white mask staring back at me form its place on the shelf it's face marked with red stripes starting at the forehead angled towards they eye where they shifted to the corners if its chin passing behind a grinning smile of skeletal teeth the took up the entire width of the mask. looking at the mask appraisingly. ‘man this would be a nice add to the collection, if only I didn't already have a mask’ thinking to myself then turned away.

Looking around the cramped shop filled with various game and anime items they ranged from cos play outfits to simple memorabilia. My friends waited outside we were on the way to a con being held nearby, normally I wouldn't bother with crowds being the recluse type. At least this event had the added benefit of most people being in costume and would have a lot of common ground to talk about in the event someone attempted socializing, but the whole idea of going out and meeting people whom I'd never likely see again only to share a few hours of pleasantries seemed like an enormous drain.

But I had always been curious to see a convention, so when one of their original group was suddenly taken ill leaving prepaid ticket I happily accepted promising to bring him back some loot in exchange. Unfortunately I only knew a handful of the people in that group as they were mostly friends of friends. Met through the few true friends that I'd made mostly picked up from my days in college. Most of my time was spent trying to master the skills and techniques of blacksmithing, but one or two of my classmates managed to drag me out of the forge from time to time to meet new friends.

There was only one among the group I could say that I truly knew as a friend's name is Ollie though he seemed more out of place in this crowd than I did as he didn't watch much anime and didn't cos play, he was however an avid gamer and was more interested in coming to meet new friends and get pissed, An activity I'm sure many will join in with. Surprisingly he is one of the few friends which understood my desire to distance myself from the outside world as much as possible as he shared my realizations on the darkness of the human race.

Not being one to waste an opportunity to try and disprove my assumptions of the world I accepted the offer. The rest of the group had various anime/game consumes so as not to feel out I quickly donned the only cos play I had at the time an incomplete Natsu Dragneel costume. seeing as I didn't have a spiky pink hair piece to complete the outfit I just grabbed my Kitsune mask off the wall, since I was going to ruin the look of the whole piece it would probably be best to hide my face in the process.

So it was early evening when I came to be standing in this slightly run-down store, perusing the various artefacts to see if there was anything else to add to this amalgamation of characters. Looking at all the cheaply made anime swords that probably snap soon as somebody swung it, most of the stuff here looked quite cheap and low quality almost as if to reflect the store itself. glancing at the clerk behind the counter who was eyeing me with a vague interest and a slight smirk at my mottled getup thought I couldn't see any defining features as his face was obscured by shadows “I know that this is short notice but it there any chance that you have the scarf to go with this outfit?”.

A strange ominous smile sped across the section of his face that was visible. a shiver down my spine.
“of course sir” his voice was smooth and emotionless, he briefly rummaged around in the boxes behind him “hurry up man we don’t want to miss the exhibitors” one of my friend’s voices echoed from outside “yeah yeah” I mumbled back. I caught a low chuckle from the man behind me though it could have been my imagination.

I turned around to see one of the best replicas of Natsu’s scalf that I’d ever seen the black scale pattern was sewn into the fabric unlike most others I’d seen where it had just been printed on, this looked hand tailored the soft fabric flowing through my fingers like water. It almost seemed to have a slight glow in the dingy light of the shop because of its stark white.

I looked up to the clerk impressed.
“This is quality, how much?” his smile deepened in silent victory slightly unnerved I stood up straighter meeting the gleam form what I assumed to be glasses.
“That my friend is a meagre ten pounds”. Surprised I handed over the money wrapping the scalf around my neck. I was turning to leave the store and get to my friends. My foot should have hit solid ground instead it fell through the floor, I was hit by a sense of weightlessness and a slight burning sensation as my vision turn White…

Numbing tingling flowing through my limbs, it took a second to register the slight ticking sensation on my chest, ‘strange I don’t remember that store having carpet, what did he wash this scarf in chloroform!’ groaning slightly I opened my eyes. However, the view before me wasn't the expected grimy basement or padded cell, nor even the sight of the stuffy pawn shop instead i was greeted by a blue cloudy sky.

The tickling sensation turned out to grass looking around as some more feeling returned, I was in a clearing of a forest a nearby gurgling alerted me of a stream at the edge of the forest. In the distance there was hills and a mountain, the sky was streaked with thin wispy clouds. ‘don’t tell me I won a free holiday or something’ thinking to myself.
No that can’t be right everything looks to good, the sky the trees the grass I've never seen colours this clear and bright not I any field or forest I’d seen whether it on TV or in person pulling myself to my feet I felt something brush the back of my head.

“What the”? tuning around I caught a flicker of moment feeling something brush my other ear, spinning around trying to find what caused it after completing a few circles craning my neck I caught sight of the red tips of a what looked like large feather dusters flailing behind me, curious I reached back and grabbed one. I don’t know what hit me first the sight of my hand\paw or the tugging felling on the end of one of my apparently new. . . tails.

Suddenly the connection was made like an electric shock I landing on the ground In a tumble of flailing limbs a tangled tails and spending slightly longer than necessary rolling around on the grass, (hay it felt nice against my new fur don’t judge me) after the initial shock I began exploring my new body it was for the most part covered in white fur from what I could tell my head and face had been changed into that of a fox. I could also feel the furred tips of my longer ears.

For the most part I was still biped but i quickly discovered that i have a quadruped form. when i shift my spine my hands transform into paws. After some practice I began to moved my tails, they started white at the base and had a faint black scale pattern like the one from Natsu’s scalf. About halfway up they turned to a light red. At my count I had nine fluffy new extremity’s, they threw me slightly off balance. on my right shoulder instead of the fairy tail guild crest i was happy to see that I still had my personal emblem where I had had it tattooed as a human. it now seemed permanently part of my skin and fur.

"At the very lest that is unchanged" raising a brow at my now slightly unfamiliar voice that breached the silence of the clearing, it was slightly deeper than my usual tone and complimented with an almost unnoticeable growling tone underlining it. 'that will take some getting used to' a slight itching began behind me left ear it swivel'd slightly on instinct it was a strange feeling my body reaction with unfamiliar responses, almost like wearing a new type of clothing after wearing the same type for a long time not uncomfortable but strange nonetheless.

I walked over to the stream on stumbling slightly on a different set of legs. After a few trips from the tails trailing across the ground and caching on the grass. I lifted them up behind me and found balancing a bit easier if i tilted them in the opposite direction of my nest step. i moving to the waters edge. where it was calm enough to get a look at my reflection my face now completely alien. My new pointy ears were outlined in the same red on my tails, as were my eyes and eyebrows. There were two red markings across my cheeks that went down my muzzle ending at my nose and corners of my mouth. I was still wearing the bottom half of Natsu's outfit, a quick check to confirm that I was still male and that nothing had been tamped with.

After a few minutes the slight numbness had completely dissipated now it was gone I could properly feel the nine new appendages individually. Giving them a flick and watching them sway in unison like a red -tipped wave. With the numbness now gone my body, it was as if a fog had lifted from my mind I was acutely aware of a new feeling, a Sixth sense. It was definitely different from anything I had felt before almost like a light mental pressure in the vague direction of the mountains.

With it there also seemed to be another kind of force in the back of my mind.
'if wearing a Kitsune mask has transformed my entire body into that of a fox, then did I also have his power' I thought excitedly. I tweaked at the unknown, with an experimental mental prod. a nearby rock simply shifted slightly. Focusing more on
magic and lifted the pebble up and it floated over my palm.

I could feel the magic holding the rock almost like an extra hand holding it frowning.
"Well this is a buzz kill. I wanted fire magic dammit, real useful this is, stupid no good magic." suddenly feeling quite parched glanced over at the stream. 'If only I had a bottle or glass or something.' Suddenly the rock I was holding shimmered, like the heat waves bending the air like in a desert. In its place was a clear glass surprised I grabbed it and gave it a flick with a clawed finger. It rang like any other glass. But i could still feel a the possibility of its original form along with a slight draining of my energy almost unnoticeable. 'Of course the Kitsune's use illusion and transformation magic' after getting myself a drink I tried feel for any other kind of magical energy and found none.

Moving back to the centre of the clearing a single thought going through my mind.
‘I should have gone for the hollow mask.’ Feeling the pressure in the distance. I noticed a smaller magical signature that had missed under the larger magic power. It was coming from behind me, giving the clearing one last look over, I noticed a white orb sitting in the grass. It was away's off from my original position, it was about the size of a small orange. emanating a slight trace of magical energy however this signature was remarkably similar to the one in the distance, it almost seemed as if it was tied to the land's magic itself while still being remaining different.

Picking it up, my hand suddenly went numb and the skin under my fur burned from the cold i almost dropped it.
'this thing isn't just cold it's like it's drawing heat from the air.' It got noticeably colder the closer to the sphere, and was beginning to pull the warmth from my arm. Grasping it in my telekinesis i moved it above my head. If I held it much longer my hand would likely get frostbitten. After checking the clearing for anything else out of the ordinary, I began walking the general direction of the mountain, and the magical signature.

Remaining in my bipedal form due to the familiarity,slowly making my way through the surrounding forest. Admiring the lush trees and trilling birds. My predatory appearance drove away the nearby animals leaving my immediate area unmoving bubble. but my hearing had been changed with along with my physical form and i could clearly hear the birds and animals that were further away. they still stayed on the lofty branches eyeing me suspiciously protecting their families.

The mountain neared after about a day of travel. Strangely the sun moved very little in that time, and settled in the centre of the sky. All sense told me that it should be several time hotter than it was. Almost as if something was protecting the land from the suns heat. then the sun moved at steady pace, setting on the horizon as the moon swiftly rose to take its place in the sky. The cool night settled in bringing its evening chill long with it, the stars adorning the inky black of the sky. perplexed by the odd celestial activity, a few more hours passed the new eyes bringing a brilliant new night vision. I had reached the Mountain, looking up I recognised none of the constellations.
'so wherever I am it certainly isn't earth could explain the suns activity.'
The closer i moved to the mountain, the magical energy had grown stronger. About halfway up the mountain there was the large opening of a cave, seeing no other shelter I began to climb.

By the time I pulled myself up to the edge of the cliff I was only slightly tired, my legs only had the slightest hints of fatigue Staring down at my new body and then to the direction i had come. Had I still been human such trek would leave me barely able to move.
'At least this body does have its benefits.' Turning I moved into the cave, Around the shadows farther in there appeared to be a slight glittering, moving forward to get a better look it look I saw what appeared to be a large pile of gold coins and gemstones.

"Now whoever would leave such fortune in a place like this." I moved forward frowning stepping into the cave, there was a dull rumbling in the air though I saw nothing strange. Moving further in, suddenly a nearby pile of gold shifted and the slight tremor raked the ground.
About four feet in front of me there was a set of large curious if slightly threatening cyan eyes.
The rest of the gold shifted revealing the head of a glaring black and blue dragon with hints of red on his frame was revealed slowly by the cascading gold. His large head had two sets of horns cyan horns, the bottom set curving outward, the larger top set curving inwards. blue spines went down his neck, the remainder of his body was hidden under the piles of gold and jewels. I stumbled and fell backwards flat on my ass, with my tail flaring around me."For here there be dragons".

The stars aligned behind the moon, all of a sudden it felt like the world and surrounding space became darker. And the dark entity that had been my sharing my imprisonment was free once more.
'Some people have all the luck' I hung there disturbed by the sudden occurrence, looking at the moon, it had regained its standard pale white face without the likeness of the unicorn. My attention was drawn to the planet below, it appeared as if the sun had dimmed to the point where it only illuminated the moon and the stars leaving the planet below.

'No way that can't happen, all the plants will die without sunlight to nurture them, this will destroy everything.'I flexed against my bonds for the first time in centuries. pushing as hard as i could with all my strength, knowing that there was nothing I could do. Hours past, thankfully the sun regained its former glory, at the same time the moon seemed to shine all the brighter.
Many new constellations that had been hidden from the world took on a new veal, ones that would be invisible to the planet below suddenly brightened as if renewed with energy.

Suddenly the force that was binding me lessened, And I was rapidly being pulled towards the planet.
'yes finally this and this torture is up, I care how why but thank you flailing my arms excitedly. . . Wait i was put up here by some form of teleportation magic, if I'm falling back that means, oh man this is gunna hurt'.

Meanwhile to young colts lay in a meadow staring up at the stars, the shorter of the two turned looking to his friend.
"Hey do you think that there is somepony up there looking down here wondering what it's like down here?" His friend turned to answer. when suddenly a bright white/orangey/red light began training across the sky.
"Oh look a falling star, maybe that's a sign Star gazer." He said smiling, "wait a second. you hear anything strange?" Star turned once again to the sky watching the falling star drift ever closer.
"No not really what do you mean..."

The rest of his reply was cut short, as the falling star flew closer. He herd what his friend meant, straining his ears he caught the the quiet but steadily growing sound. "FuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucK"

the Falling star flew past overhead and into the distance, leaving both colts staring each other wide-eyed and confused.
"I think you just got your answer".

Author's Note

Hey guys thanks for reading this my first attempt at a Displaced fic so any useful criticism be appreciated if you notice any flaws let me know. Give you an idea on the face markings is the mask I was going off

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