Book Horse

Book Horse

I unlock the door to my apartment and walk inside setting the groceries on the table. Opening the first bag I put the cereal on the top of the fridge and the jam in the cupboard with the bread. Looking back at the table I notice a new hardcover with an interesting title "Book Horse." I finish putting my groceries away with the incentive of this book as the reward. Hoping for once in my life that this day won't be soul crushingly mundane. I pick up the book curling up on my couch and open to page one. Admiring the quality of the binding.

This is the story of bookhorse who foolishly read a mystical tome they found on their sub par dining table. Little did they know that the dust they had brushed off was spell residue slowly changing them into a better form. Their face changes bone creaking as their sockets make room for their enlarged eyes or their mouth on the front of a purple muzzle which has a cute curve to it. How they don't notice is a mystery to me.

I sneeze suddenly before rubbing my nose noting that it seems like its further away from my face and that my legs seem to have fallen asleep. I kick off my shoes and keep reading.

Their ears slide upwards enlarging and shifting into cuddly points with purple fur as their hair grows and turns a dark shade of azure with two strips of different colour right next to each other one purple and the other pink. Their fingers tingle as the middle finger begins growing and before long covers the others turning their hand into a purple hoof. They would have difficulty turning the pages if they hadn't been using their magic since they got it, purple horn glowing strong and steady. Their arms shorten and crack as more joints than seem humanly possible appear. But then, they aren't human are they? They ignore this and keep reading the magic book. Their whole upper body has been covered by this gloriously soft purple fur smelling of old paper. They shift slightly in their seat as a purple tail shoots out of their backside, similar in colour to the mane on their head. Then their hips shift with a large cracking as they shape into a quadrupedal form. Their ass all but disappearing leaving their genitals exposed which now mentioned shift with a startling suddenness becoming an equine vagina with a purple ponut above. The colour of their body slowly turns to purple as their soft fur grows in. They squirm in their seat at these unfamiliar sensations resolving to finish the book. This is good because the transformation is almost complete and life for them would be very uncomfortable with human hind legs. Which now shorten and lengthen in accordance to the shape of a pony with the matter of joints out of the way the fur continues downward creeping towards the foot which shifts into a hoof this very same process happening on the other leg. Soon it ends and they are left as a very large pony. This will not last long as a dreadful yet pleasant heat begins to overtake them shrinking them and adding the converted mass to their mana pool leaving them slightly smaller than the average adult pony.

I close the confusing book and fall on my face trying to get off my couch. "Ouch." I groan in a suddenly feminine voice. I blink, my eyes widening at the odd tone I was speaking in. I blink again and glance down at my hoof. I mean hand. Right? Wrong. I glance down at a purple hoof noting that I seem to be much smaller than I was before.
"Oh gosh what's going on? What the fuzz? Why can't I swear?!" I yell in fright. The door shakes from someone knocking on it. "Hello? I heard yelling are you alright?" The new tenant. Horribly nosy and quite boring.
" Everything is fine!" I call out thankful I never met him personally.
He says "Okay." And walks away. I sigh in relief and reach out with my magic and lock the door. Happy for once that all those lock were a necessity.
"What do I do?" I groan in worry hugging my tail like a teddy.
"I'll tell you what you need to do." Suddenly a mismatched creature appears hovering in front of me. It picks its teeth with the tuft of its tail before continuing.
"You come with me and live a harmonious life in Equestria. Because let's face it if you stay here your life will be worse than it was before and that's not even if the government gets you. All the magic in the world would not save you. So come on."

"Why me? Why did you choose me? I'm so dreadfully mundane and normal. Heck not 'why me' but why do this at all?" I ask the first questions on my mind while keeping my mind off the fact I was female now.

"This was not meant to happen. I'm sorry but I can't change you back. If this was me then maybe I could but I got nothing. We'll talk about it later come on." He answers looking annoyed. I shrug and fall due to being stupidly quadrupedal. I stand back up and nod.
"How about I create a dead version of you? Have it choke on a sandwich or something. The less questions asked about why you're gone the better."
I nod. "Good idea! I'll get right on that. Need a picture?"
He nods. Having had a photograph taken recently I retrieve it for him. He snickers but does his voodoo. Soon I have corpse me sitting at the table with a half eaten sandwich in front of it. I hug it and tell the creature to -"Get us out of here. Please." He snaps his finger and everything turns licorice flavoured for a brief instant. Then we arrive somewhere else. I faint promptly after vomiting. A distant sounding shriek reverberates through the area.