Journal

by Ebony Lock

Rating: teen
Tags: Slice of Life, Human, Second Person
Length: 3706

Hooves off!

Thats it, a journal.

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2017-03-05 18:37:06 UTC

Day 1

Current location: the Crytal Empire, west to the city, The Abandoned  Cabin(selfnamed)

Well, what should i write in this? I was never that Diary writing type, but what strange(and AWESOME!) thing happened to me, i should document it, i guess. So here we go:  Now i am a pony. I know here this shouldnt be suprise, but four hours ago i wasnt a pony at all.

And i not existed in this universe either.I was a human,lived in my own world without magic, with my parents and i was a fan of a certain cartoon show My little pony:friendship is magic. Yeah a brony. A closet one more specifically. Dont ask me how i have arrived here, your guess is just as good as mine.Not an expert in this kind things. Well lets go in chronological order in the events, shall we?

-I wake up in the woods, laying in the snow some hours ago

-I realized immadietly that my "bodily condition" changed and sorta losed myself for a little(lots of cursing)

-After i calmed down and tested the waters with my new body moving around, i decided to search for civilization or at least some shelter

I founded the log cabin at the border of the woods(My best move yet its like a fuckin' treasure chest! i feeled like playing the long dark in real life!) and founded some answers for my whereabouts(though i should suspected it after realizing my pony body)

So im in Equestria, more specifically in the Crystal Empire, as a pony. And in my new homebase in The Abandoned Cabin. You can see the city from the front porch of the cabin, in matter of fact its seems close enough to reach it with some walk. As for my new home, from outside it looked old, but you can never know these things, so i carefully knocked on the door first before i broke in.(its a bit harsh word for it the door was a bit stucked because the lack of use, but was not locked) in the inside i seed that this place have not seen use in a few years at least, from the looks how dusty it was and full of cobwebs.Well if nopony else use it then i will! Dont judge me! I always wanted  a log cabin home, so have to grab the chance.  As for the the interior, the house haved a bedroom with a desk and yeah, a bed with sheets, pillow and all that stuff, a bit was dusty, i worked that out, and since i was there, cleaned the whole cabin too, and finded some awesome stuff there and there. I finded that the desk in the bedroom haved lots of unused paper, some still usable ink and a dip pen(so i can write this now). in the bedroom was a closet too, but all it haved was just a red scarf with white stripes, still it was in considerably good shape, so after i dusted it out i decided that i will wear it.(Despite having fur now i still feeled the cold)and a double sided old saddlebag, faded brown in color. While cleaning the cabins kitchen i found a lot of food cans in the cabinets, i seed no expiration date on them so they should be still good to go and an old can opener, you know that kind wich looks like some serial murderers weapon. So i can open them wich is good thing too. In the living room, i founded an old broom, its like which the witches use in the fairytales or in the fantasy storys but it makes work done and i cleaned the whole thing out. The living room is not closed off from the kitchen area, but that makes sense with that pot belly furnace in the living room, it should be used to cook too. the living room consist the furnace, an old red couch with some yellow patches on it there an there which  is facing the furnace, next to it paralell to the wall an empty bookcase with and old stormlamp on it(i checked, its not the usual kind, it works with some magic crystal i guess, i need to use it sparingly, dont know how much charge has it in) and a large basket next to the furnace with a hatchet and a half box woodmatches, probably for the firewood. As i cleaned the cabin i think i have solved the mistery what befuddled the bronys, that how can grab non-unicorns grab things with their hoofs.Well its quite simple(elementary you can say), the hoofs of the pony are pretty solid(so can Applejack buck the trees) but they have also two soft pads on the inner side which allows them(us now) to grab things. Though its grip not so good or is as versatile as the hands but you can manage with it. Decided i have enough from the chill, i checked the furnace for ashes, but it proved itself empty so no need to clean that out, thank you very much. I placed the matchbox on the top of the furnace and grabbed the basket with the hatchet with my mouth and headed out to found some firewood. I founded a fallen tree not much further from the cabin wich i using the hatchet with mouth and hoof, somehow converted into usable fire wood  and filled the basket with it and i dragged it in the snow towards my new home, withan intent using it. And in right time too, its began to get dark and i seed some clouds starting to roll in from north, probably filled with more snow. I reached safely the cabin and moved inside with my cargo, after i closed the door behind me i begin to start a fire in the furnace, praying silently that the chimney wouldnt be clogged. I sacrificed a paper from the bedroom desk but i managed to lit a fire in the furnace and thankfully finded that it works wonderfully.It warmed the cabin up so i dont needed the scarf anymore so i put it back to the closet. Suprisingly it i helped a lot to fend off the cold while i was out searching for wood. Which maked me somewhat hungry, so i opened a can open with the ancient opener, a tomato soup one. I grabbed a spoon too from one of the kitchens drawers, and wanted to start eating right away, but i stopped. Who knows how long was this tin in the cabinet, so its better to play it safe, even if this things are almost everlasting. With a brilliant idea striked in, i simply cooked it on the furnace . So i haved a WARM and delicious soup for dinner.

So we have reached our current time right now i am here in the bedroom at the desk writing this at the light of the magic storm lamp(The sun goed down fifteen minutes ago) while listening the wind howling outside and the occasiaonal crackle from the fireplace. I looked outside the window of the bedroom, its started snowing too it seems. This somehow makes me feel so xmassy, where i lived before the last big snowfall was when i was just a little kid. ever since there was just black christmas.... It seems i have derailed a bit. Well now i am a pony in Equestria i guess, like in those fanfictions. Except in those the protagonist always end up in Ponyville, not in the Crystal Empire in the north. Not that its that much problem it think, If i would to appear there they would figure out in no time that im not from here, so much for living a normal life.

Right now i have time to examine my new body i think. I looks i am a dark chocolatebrown stallion(thank for all beings i was not genderbent!)

a spikey(heh) short white-blonde mane and tail, dark green eyes and an earth pony too(i checked my reflection on the glass window, yeah no horn, no magic, no wings )Oh and i dont have a cutiemark.Hence i said they would figure out in no time that i am not from these parts.

Ce'st la vie! How the french would say. Oh crap! I just recognised something! Its fact that im in Equestria mind of you(if im not in coma, or that sorta thing) but WHEN? Before i arrived the Sixth season just ended in the show.What if i arrived earlier? If this even a canon universe.

I dont wanna deal with those time travel things! If i screw up something, it will end in fallout equestria! Ok calm down, me. Lets look it rationally, like..like Sherlock! Yes that lets do that! What i know?Im in north just next to the Crystal Empire. Ok thats help a bit, its there, so Shining and Candence should be married now, and they defeated Chryssy for the first time, so thats done for sure. But Spike has saved it from Sombra? Has Flurry Heart born yet? The Crystalling?Thorax? Theres so many questions! And i am in  need some answers i guess. I thinked it before but it seems it would be necessary to go in the city tomorrow. I must anyways because even if i have food and water( i melted some snow in a pot) but they would not last forever. I need bits for buying food and other things, so i need a job, plain and simple.

Thats settled it then, beware Crystal Empire for tomorrow....ehh yeah i need a name i think, a PONY name naturally, i dont want unwanted attention towards myself. Maybe the name of my Ponysona?Though my Ponysona was an unicorn, but why not? Its not like they would know.

So beware Crystal Empire for Ebony Lock's coming at ya! ...Tomorrow. If the weatheris good. Now i puts some more wood on the fire and then go to sleep. Tomorrow there will be some walking.

Ebony Lock out.

Day 2

Current location: The Abandoned Cabin

Man, im tired....

I was busy all day trying everything to get done, but at least i managed to do everything that needed to be done. After i woke up today, and maked my morning business( i forgotted to mention that the cabin has internal WC too, though its a bit misshaped compared to what im used to,but its make job done. Its not the normal thing either, the "business" just dissapears in the hole and leaves no smell either...Yeah, magic does get the world around. First i just suspected, but now i know im such a lucky SOB for finding this place...No bathroom though, probably because no running water in the woods.) and checking the firewood at the furnace, wich i finded to be enough for now, i decided to try my luck with the crystal city.(i have no idea how they call it besides Crystal Empire) So i taked the scarf out of the bedroom closet, and after thinking a bit, the old pair of saddlebags too and put them on. Even if i dont manage to bring something to home, at least it will cover my blank flank, so  no ponies will raise an eyebrow at me. After i exited the cabin, i stopped to take whiff from the crispy cold air and take a look around. At night falled some snow and it looked just awesome how the sunlight maked sparkle the vast snowfield before me. Somehow, i feeled like a little kid again wanting to play gleefully in the snow like no tomorrow. This was so... nostalgic, i guess? Though im nowhere as old to use that word just so... Buck it! it was awesome! Grinning like a mad man, i pounced off the porch, right into the first big snowpile, while leaving the saddlebags on the porch's wood floor, due to wild takeoff. After fooling around a bit, i move back to the porch for the bags and while setting my sights on the city made of crystal and put them on again. "Now lets see, what the fluff is going on" With that thought i started walking in the direction of it. Now i will not write about the good half hour walk that happened before i reached the city, except that that changing into an earth pony, had totally maked better my psyhical condition. Lets summarize, what i learned in there, shall we?

So:

It seems i dont have to worry about messing with the timeline.(thank you!thank you!) From where i know? Well, these new kind of changelings with their colorful hides are everywhere, happily chatting with ponies or just buzzing around(:pinkiehappy:), so it seems that Thorax returned with his quest with Starlight, Trixie and Discord and bringed them back to the Empire from the old hive. So the streets are now literally buzzing with life with all these changelings and a lot of ponies in a  crowd. Why the crowd you ask? Well, here comes number

There is a great Hearthswarming Coming Fair now in the city and all week, till Hearthswarming Eve it seems, if i read right on the banner. So the streets are filled with booths and foodstalls and acourse, with ponies and changelings for good measure.

Its like 2 months earlier here than earth, though i dont mind it too much, mind you. So i just walked and looked around enjoying the festive atmosphere and occasionally asking around for work.(The fair is awesome, but i cant let the main goal slip, that would make the difference between a happy pony, and a pony without something to eat) After asked a few stallpony, it seems that not nopony hires at this time of year, but they redirected me to the local Royal Unemployment Office, where an older officemare, after some burocrative meddling, scribbling name ,some data(wich ones i just come up) dispatched me with 200 bits in a bag.(to my pleasant suprise, it seems the crown/goverment  puts you up with this amount money till you get a job. MONTHLY.Acourse its not that much, but mind you, i have a huge advantage, what other unfortunate ponys dont have, namely since i live in The Abandoned Cabin(TAC in short) i DONT pay ANY rent to nopony.I dont know how much similar is Equestria to Earth, but if any similarities are im sure that the rent for your apartment or house takes the bigger sum of your money.) So now as i trotted on the street again with my now not so empty saddlebags, looking the supplies of the stalls of the fair, i maked a mental shopping list in my head.

I will certainly need:

-More food, canned food preferably.

-A first aid kit, if they have it those here. I dont plan to be injured, but better be safe than sorry.

-Some kind of water can for holding my drink water, so i can use that pot for cooking and stuff.

Oh and also i need to be trifty with my founds, so i can hold out in this month. I will not turn into a beggar in this brand new life, enoope.

As i wandered on the streets, i noticed, that im kinda bigger than the avarage pony. I just dont noticed it earlier, because i haved nopony to compare to. And im not just taller than them, im bigger, like have a sturdier build. If i have to guess, i think i have the Big Mac type (kinda) body? I seed that the ponys in the crowd, mostly the mares stealing glances towards me. Maybe i am giving off some intimidating vibe?(awkward) I ignored the staring and entered a shop wich haved sign with a transparent bottle with a yellow liquid and a white and red capsule on it. As i entered the establishment, the bell over the door ringed and soon a female sound voice have heard:

"Coming! Just a minute!"

While waiting, i have taked a look over the shelves(made of crystal as EVERY FURNITURE in the shop ), overflowing with bottles and containers, who knows what substance the holding inside. Then, behind the door of the counter an unicorn mare has emerged. I taked a step back. Wow, she is pretty!... light red coat, rosey mane and tail with white stripes in them and as a cutie mark she has a green cross with a red and white capsule on it.(very nice flanks too)  She was a crystal pony and looked at me with a gorgeous pair of golden eyes with a smile of a godness....

"Welcome to the Bottles and Pill pharmacy and alchemy store! Sorry for the wait, i was busy behind checking the stock, we dont get much customers in this time of year.What can i help you with? Umm sir?... are you okay?" She asked with a smile turned concerned frown.

I snapped out myself from the gawking and  pushed my mushy brain to gear.

"Uhh...(very smooth i know...) Oh! Yes! Sorry, i just kinda dozed off here..."

"No problem, sir." She smiled at me again.(oh Faust!)"What can i help you with?"

"I would like to ask: Do you sell first aid kits here?" I asked remembering in the mean time why ive entered the shop in the first case.

"Oh yes! We assembly those ourselves with great care here and we give an instruction manual too with the kit to the healing potion vials. Would you like to buy one?" She asked. As if i could say no those eyes, even if i dont wanted to purchase one in the first place...

"Yes, i would like to. Its better to be safe than..."

"...sorry." She finished my sentence giggling cutely.(HNnnghh!)

"Im Sweet Pill, by the way." She extended a forehoof towards me, wich i grabbed gingerly and shaked it.

"Ebony Lock. Its nice to meet you."

"Excuse me for a minute."She turned back towards the door and shouted back:

"Dad, would you  put together  a first aid kit, please?"

"Right away sweetie! Just a minute!" Sounded the response from the back.

Soon a dark red coated older unicorn stallion appeared in the doorway, with white gray mane and a pair of glasses on his muzzle, holding a red box with a white cross on it(this seems to be universal everywhere) in his red colored magic grasp.

"Here you go, dear.Anything else?" He ask.

"Good question dad, can we help in something else ?" She turned towards me.

"No thank you very much." I smiled  at the mare.

"Then it would  be 10 bits" While i fished out my "purse", to count out the payment for the kit, Sweet Pill's dad dissapeared behind the back door."Ill be back here, sweetie if you need me!"

"Okay dad, but dont forget lunch will be in a hour!"Replied the unicorn mare, while she wrapped the box in brown paper.

"Okay sweetie!" we heard the answer, while i counted the bits out to the mare and then placed the kit in one of my saddlebags.

"Thank you for your purchase!" I heard as i maked my way to the door.

(phew, for the future pages, i think i will refrain from writing out the dialogs, its too hard for someone(or pony now) who is not that experienced writer like me)

After purchasing the first aid kit from Sweet Pill, i managed to get the rest of the things off from the vendors of the fair and from the stores.

I buyed:

-more food

-matches

-ink and paper

-teakettle and tea(fruit ones)

-a tin mug(from i can drink the tea)

a small jelly can for the drinking water

So, i think i have getted everything what i needed. I hope, i have not forgetted something important.

I thinked about going back to the cabin, when i seed a stand that selled books.hmmm.... Why not?

So im now back to the  cabin, writing this journal by the light of the magic lantern. I have purchased two books from the stand,wich are now resting on the before soo empty bookcase. One of them was the Supernaturals: Natural Remedies and Cure-alls That Are Simply Super which i recognized from the Bridle Gossip episode. I thinked it will come handy  sometime. The other was a thick red book with a golden silhouette pony head with a pipe in the mouth and the trademark cap. "The Adventures of Sherlock Hooves" i was intrigued that the pony version of the book was also as good as the original book.Plus there was some tales wich was not in the human version.  As i  was for leaving the salespony from the book stand warned me that there going to be a big snowstorm at the evening and it will be raging at the entire night. I thanked him and leaved for home. When i arrived back to the cabin i just putted down the saddlebags and hurriedly stacked the remaining wood from the basket to the wall, taked the axe and the basket and goed out for more wood.(freezing to death is a not so good death i think, eenoope) I was lucky when i commed back with a really full basket, it was already snowing in big flakes and the wind is started pick up the pace, when i closed the cabins door behind me. I put the basket and the hatchet on their place, and then from the old wood i lighted in the furnace. It was already dark in the cabin because the starting snowstorm, so i used the the lanterns light while i put away the purchased goods. I putted the food to the "kitchens" cabinets, also the tea and the teakettle, the mug, and the jelly can. The paper, ink, the matches, and the bag with the remaining bits inside goed  into the bedroom desks drawers.The saddlebags and the scarf goed back to the closet.Damn this all maked me so thirty i drinked all the remaining drinking water from the pot. Nevermind, as things looks like, there will be lot of snow to melt and boil tommorow and fill the jelly can. Im tired like for 'realsies' so after this, i put some more wood on the fire and then will sleep like a log.

Ebony Lock out.