Ava: The Change

This is a story about me,Ava. I grew up not far from ponyville, in a small farm. I wasnt anything special or anything. Although i did have a rough childhood. When i was 7 years old, I had lost my parents....

I dont know what happen to them, or if they are still alive. But I never wanted to go to an orphanage, since I didn’t want to live with other ponies being my ‘’parents’’.

So without telling anyone about this, I was living alone in my house. I would always say my parents are either on vacation, or at work or something.

And so i lived like this for years, until i was old enough to have my own house. At that moment I just said that my parents moved out, and that they left the house to me. Anyway enough about my childhood...

So lets get on whats really happening. So now im 20 years old. It was the summer sale in ponyville, and I was shopping for some fruits and vegetables, and stuff that interests me. Walking around and shopping for some stuff i saw a nice hat. It was a straw hat, I really wanted it since it reminded me of my past.

So I walked up to the seller.

‘’Hello’’

’’Oh hiya! Does something interest you?’’ She asked nicely.

‘’Ah yes, how much does that straw hat cost?’’

‘’Hmm this hat?’’ She points at the straw hat.

‘’Mhm’’ I replied and smiled a bit.

‘’ That’ll be 10 bits please. ’’ I noded and handed her the 10 bits.

‘’Thank you,hope you like it!’’ I walked away waving and smiling at her.

As i was done shopping, I stumbled upon a stallion named Dwayne. He was light orange coated, with a long,red mane.

He seemed pretty nice. We were talking about some simple things like the weather and such. We just kept talking and talking, that I didnt realise where we were going.

I started to realize that it’s getting dark. As we were talking, I started realize that it’s getting darker and darker. I look around to see what’s the deal. And realized we went into an alleyway.

‘’I’m sorry for this’’ I heard him say from behind. Before I got to turn around I felt a strong hit against the back of my head. I fell unconscious and blacked out.

After finally getting to my senses, i was lying somewhere, cold. Slowly opening my eyes, I wasn’t paying attention to where I was, since I was wondering if im fine.

I touch the back of my head, to see how hard he hit me. Still hurts alot. After getting up and brushing off,I look up to survey my surroundings.

Is this the everfree forest?

I have never been here or seen it. As a child, my friends would always say these rumours, and dared each other to even get close to the forest. I’ve never been to the forest, or seen it. I was always afraid of it, since i didn’t really like big forests in general.

Hoping it was some normal forest, I couldn’t help the fact that it’s so dark and cold even though it’s summer.

'' Wait, where did my stuff go?''

‘’Did that fool take it?!’’ I was mad, but then realized that I’m stuck here.

‘’What am I doing here?’’ I say to myself

‘’And why did he knock me out?’

’ ‘’Have I done something, and he’s getting revenge?’’ I sat down, confused to what’s happening. Trying to make sense from all of this.

‘’Why me?’’ I say with tears forming from my eyes. As I look around to hopefully find something to help me, I find nothing of use.

‘’Whatever,’’ I say to myself,’’I wont get out of here anyway.’’

Quietly sobbing, I lay down and close my eyes. As I almost fell asleep, I heard kind of a roar from not afar. Waking up I realize it’s very close to me. So without giving much thought, I jumped in the bush to hide from whatever’s out there.

After listening to the sounds more, It all sounded alot like wolves. But after peeking a bit, I realized it that isn’t any normal wolf. Saying as quietly as I could :

‘’So the timber wolves are real?’’ The Timber Wolves quickly turned   their heads to the direction of the bush I was hiding. My heart is racing.

If I don’t do something soon, they will find me. They were only coming from one direction, so I tried to sneak away through the opposite way.

But I couldn’t sneak away, they heard me. I started galloping as fast as I could. Growls coming from behind, kept me running even faster and longer.

‘’Leave me alone!’’ I shouted.

After 5 minutes of galloping like I never galloped in my life, I was exhausted to my limit. I fell to the ground, sobbing, thinking this is it for me.

After a good minute of hopelessness, I realized that the timber wolves were gone.

Taking a deep breath I look around one last time, before I would think on what to do now.

I decided to take a nap, since ive depleted all of my energy from all that galloping. Thankfully, there’s a large enough bush nearby to sleep, and hide at the same time just incase. So I just layed down in the bush and quickly went to sleep.

I'm standing in my house.

‘’Were off to work sweetie!’’ My mom told me as she, and my dad were leaving the house.

I went to the window to watch them walk to work. Smiling and waving to them until i couldn’t see them anymore. On my way to the kitchen I blinked, and suddently I’m in my bed, and it’s midnight outside.

‘’What?’’ As I try to go to sleep by closing my eyes, I open them up again to see me sitting in the middle of the living room, looking at a picture of my mom and dad. I have tears all over my face. Suddently,I heard knocking from the front door, and as I look up at it.

I wake up to sounds of somepony, or something talking not far away from me.

Am i saved?

I didn’t want to trust it just yet, so I went to investigate it. Just peeking from a tree from my right side, I saw something unbelievable.

Those weren’t ponies, those were two changelings, discussing about some kind of evil plan!

I was trying to slowly back off, trying to get away quietly.

Sadly, leaving a bush without any noise is near to impossible. So the changelings heard the leaves of the bush move suspiciously fast. So I stopped since it was pointless to make more noise.

‘’No, they will spot me anyway and remember me. I have to do something’’ I thought.

So without caring anymore, I took a nearby sturdy and long stick in my mouth. And I waited patiently for the changeling to get up close.

As soon as the changeling got really close, I smacked him as hard as I could in the head with the stick. I managed to knock the changeling out.

The other changeling ran away, as soon as I knocked the other one out.

Taking a deep breath, I was worried about the other changeling that got away. Even if he, she, or it is a changeling, I felt bad for the changeling i knocked out.

But something caught my eye.

The camp that the changelinges had, the tent was for some reason glowing with something. So I went to check the tent.

I found a strange glowing orb. Feeling something from the orb, I decided to take it with me. I wanted to discover what this is, that the changelings had. And I will discover it.