Dakota's Equis

The day I learned I wasn’t human was a Thursday in 2016. I’d been reading fan fiction online when I got an email that caught my attention it had this strange font and it looked like a different language but I understood it somehow. That was my first clue my day was becoming something for the history books. But since I spoke the same language without truely understanding what I would say. I brushed this off as someone who talked like me and decided to test if the phenomenon transferred into the written word.

The email said that the sender was looking for her lost daughter and she was using the language she and her daughter created for fun to try to locate her. It continued on saying that Tempest Flare -her daughter’s name- would be able to understand this message as her magic would translate it even if she couldn’t read the words on the page. The sender’s email address was a bunch of numbers and letters with no meaning.

After reading this I decided to write back.

“Dear miss,

While I can read the words you have written, I believe you have sent this to my inbox by mistake. I have four reasons to prove this, One my name is Dakota Keith Brown, not Tempest Flare, Two I’m male clearly this means I can’t be a woman but I digress, Three my mother died two years ago, and Four there is no spell I know of that can translate a language such as the one you use on this plane of existence. While I can speak it and read it that’s because I’ve used the language in everyday life to curse out someone at least once a day. I became  fluent in the language through that use, not through magic.

Sorry for your loss. Keep looking,

Dakota Keith Brown”

I had sent the message when I got another email from this woman. This time, the address was fewer numbers and more letters but still unreadable. The strange font was still there but the lady had dropped the size down like she was writing smaller to fit more in.

When translated this is how it read.

“Our Dear Daughter,

How can you not know Us your own mother? Have you lost it all? You say there is magic where you are yes, but if this is true then you should remember Us and your old life. Not actively deny it. Did the transfer wipe your memory?

You are the only one We ever shared this language with. The fact that your mother died two years ago is troublesome but not a problem, that only means you were reincarnated as a stallion. This means you are Our daughter even if you are a stallion where you are.

We’re having problems finding you Tempe but now that this link has been established between us We believe We can teleport to your location though We still need time to narrow down the exact spot for the teleport spell to work.

Your loving original mother,

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I started laughing after reading this. ’This is a joke, it has to!’ I thought as I got ready to reply to this latest email. ’the guys got some hacker sending me emails with changing addresses from some sad mother with a magic horse obsession. But hey I’ll play along for a bit.’

“’Mother’, I still don’t know your name. Your last message had an unreadable bunch of numbers and letters where your name should have been.” I sent

“Tempe you believe me?! Are you starting to remember Us?!” this is the first thing I read in this woman’s latest reply. The font had become more legible and some words were in English. “We understand that you have forgotten Our name. this saddens Us. Since Our spell is still narrowing down your true location some things might not be understandable even to you. Our name is Princess 2343143434sgsttrgeftfrgre.”

She sent back and her address said “Princess2343143434sgsttrgeftfrgre.”

’If she’s a Princess what would that make me? A Duchess or even a Lower Princess?’ I thought as I wrote “Wait am I actually starting to believe is a crazy woman. Is that why I pondered the concept of me being royalty just now?’ I chuckled. ”This is crazy I ’m not really this woman’s daughter I’m a guy! I told her that! So why’d I think about the possibility of what I could be?“

Little did I know, my human magic had started syncing with the sender’s proving me to be Tempe in human form. Causing me to start translating the words in the Princess’ letters on instinct instead of by memory.

As I pondered these thoughts, a new message popped up and this one had a completely legible address! The message itself read:

”We’ve got it, Dear Tempe. Your magic signature has been located! Prepare yourself young one, We shall be arriving momentarily.

Princess Luna of Equestria.“

The adress read pretty much the same,but for some reason the website after the @ was just a moon picture as if the thing was a stamp or seal. I kinda sat there staring at my screen, baffled till I saw a light behind me.

As I read this my room started getting brighter, the light's intensity growing. When I turned around to face the light a loud BANG! was heard and the light vanished leaving a near midnight blue cartoonish horse thing standing in front of my chair.  I looked at the horse’s face and when our eyes met I felt my brain SNAP!  My full magical potential of all three types of being within me awoke. Memories not mine started filling my head and I began to faint only this pony as I now knew her to be somehow, caught me in her hooves and hugged me to her barrel.

”Hush young one, it’s ok, you just Remember. Remember yourself, Remember Me.“ Luna said as darkness crept into my vision.

”Moma?“ I heard myself say as I fell closer and closer to unconsciousness.

”Just remember“

And it all went dark.