My Inner Pony
Chapter 1, "Into an Unknown World"
There was once a time when I felt like I was alone in this world. I felt like my life didn't matter to anyone…even myself. This is the story that changed my life forever.
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My name is Agatha Wesman and my life wasn't the happiest of lives. I was just a normal 25 year old girl living in a deadend town in a deadend home. I still remember that crap apartment like it was yesterday; the leaky pipes, tiny room, rickety bed, loud radiator, the thin walls and noisy neighbors. I had no friends and my family had died in a fire when I was sixteen. Utter hell! For years I had pushed through the sorrow and pain determined that I could change my life around…but nothing I ever did seemed to work. Every time I tried to approach someone, I'd choke fearing rejection and humiliation. I soon began to feel completely invisible. Even at my crappy job fixing printers in an office it was if I didn't exist unless something broke down. One bad week I started thinking that I was such a tiny fish in the ocean of life, I could die and no one would notice… I was nothing special; a nobody.
It wasn't till I was let go from my job that I truly considered it. I was scrambling to get another job to pay my rent but with no avail; the eviction warning came sooner than I was prepared for. I couldn't take the stress much longer. To try and ease my pain, I attempted to drown my sorrow in vodka and cider. As expected, it only made things worse. The last straw came one dark night when I was packing up my stuff to find a new apartment. I stumbled across an old photo album of my family. The memories were to much for me to take. After a long cry I stormed out of there and toward the biggest bridge in town. I grasped my heart-shaped locket as I gazed down at the raging rapids far below. "I'll never be anyone special…" I thought as I climbed up the railings of the bridge, grasping onto a lamppost for balance, "it's better this way…"
"Is that truly what you belive?" A voice came from above. I looked up to see a dark blue Alicorn with a flowing sapphire mane and a moon symbol on her flanks. If I hadn't been such an emotional wreak I'd be shocked to see a flying pony in front of me, but I just answered her as if talking to myself. "I'm a nobody… invisible to the world. There's no point in staying in a world in where I'm nothing special."The Alicorn flew down to my eye level. "'No point in staying in this world' you say… Well, then allow me teach you how unique you really are."
The pony's horn began to glow cobalt blue as she flew higher. The dark clouds of the night began to twist and swirl, pale orchid colored lightning forked through out the clouds of the storm, and the wind started to rush and blow with great force. As the force of the wind pushed against me I tightened my hold on the lamppost. The power of the storm proved too much for me as I slipped from the railing of the bridge where I stood. I screamed as I braced myself for the long fall into the river below, but to my amazement I began to float upwards. Before I knew it, I was in the heart of the storm still flying upwards. Suddenly I felt a hot searing pain through my body and I started to see flashes of blue, purple and light pink. I could almost feel my body change its shape. Minutes of pain began to feel like hours and I could hear the Alicorn's voice echoed through the storm, "Find who you are, Agatha. When you realize how special you can be, you may return…" Very slowly, everything turned dark.
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I slowly opened my eyes. My head was spinning worse than any hangover I ever had. I looked around to see where I was. I seemed to be in a peaceful looking forest. The blue Alicorn was nowhere to be seen. As I picked my head up off the ground, my hair fell in my face… only it wasn't my normal straight brown hair but wavy light blue and dusty purple. I raised my hand up to brush it away and to my horror all I saw was a light pink hoof. "I'm hallucinating…" I thought, "…must still be drunk" There was a stream in front of me. "I gotta snap out of it!" I struggled to get up with no avail. I slowly crawled to the stream and splashed my face with the cold water. The ripples gradually subsided and I found myself staring, not at my human self, but a light pink pony. I HAD CHANGED INTO A PONY!!!! I still had my same heart locket and glasses, even the gold bracelet I wore on my left wrist that belonged to my sister. I struggled once again to get to my...hooves. After a few attempts I managed to get the hang of my new quadruped legs. I got a better look at my new body in the river. My tail, while slightly shorter than my hair, matched it in style and color. My coat was in in between bubblegum and baby girl pink. I had a magenta hair bow on the left side of my head and I was wearing a light blue jean vest. Suddenly the dizziness from before came over me again. "Hey, are you alright?" I looked up towards the voice just in time to see a purple unicorn run towards me before I blacked out.