A Glimmer of Magic

Chapter 1

“Out of my way!” Starlight Glimmer ran down the streets of Ponyville. She was late. LATE! Sweet Celestia, she was late… “Keep it together, Starlight. Twilight won’t care if you’re late.” She remembered Twilight saying something to her the first day of their friendship lessons. “As my pupil. I need you to be on time. However, I won’t freak out if you are. It’s not like I’ll take your cutie mark away and force you out of the castle!” She had walked out after that. Twilight soon apologized, saying that she hadn’t been thinking straight. But Starlight knew that Twilight and her friends were her only friends before Trixie and Thorax. Now, Twilight had told Spike to tell Starlight that there was a really important meeting that Starlight NEEDED to be on time for. She was having lunch with Trixie when Spike told her- and SPIKE was 4 minutes late! Now Starlight was almost 30 minutes late… ah, there it was! The castle loomed in front of her. She burst through the doors, panting. “Twilight! I’m… here?” Twilight was nowhere to be seen. Also, why was the castle completely dark? She walked down the hallway. Then a light flickered at the end of the corridor. Twilight was standing in the middle.

“Hello, Starlight.” Twilight turned and looked at Starlight, who was sweating.

“Look, Twilight, I’m sorry I’m late! I just lost track of time!” Starlight blurted, only to be interrupted by Twilight.

“This meeting has nothing to do with you being late.” Twilight’s horn started to glow a light pink. “I hate to say this, but it’s almost time for your graduation.”

Starlight gasped. “What? I don’t want to leave your castle! I love our friendship lessons!” She started crying. Twilight came over to her and put her hoof on Starlight’s shoulder.

“Starlight, look. I’m not going to make you leave. I’ve got a better idea.” Twilight’s horn now glowed hot pink. She smiled. “You’re still going to be my pupil… just how I was for Celestia. And the exact. Same. WAY!” Her horn blasted a hot pink light at Starlight. Starlight screamed. Then everything went black.

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“Twiwight?” Starlight couldn’t see a thing. Why was her voice so… so… foal-like? That’s ridiculous, she thought. Twilight wouldn’t turn me into a foal! She stood up. Now she could see stuff- barely, but possible. The doors… when had Twilight gotten the time to make the castle huge? Starlight rolled her eyes. “Whewe awe wou?” Everything was harder for some reason. For one thing, she kept slipping on the floor. She couldn’t walk on the floor! “Spwike! Why’d wou mowp da flowr? It’s swo swippwery!” She fell again. Then Twilight’s face was shoved into hers. Startled, Starlight began to cry. Stop it! she told herself. You haven’t cried since you were a foal! Shut up, Starlight!! But no matter what she told herself, she kept crying.

“Oh dear.” Twilight said. Then Starlight felt a hoof punching her back. She burped, then put her hoof over her mouth, embarrased. Then she noticed she was in the air.

“Twiwight! How cawn wou wift me?” Starlight screamed. Then she saw a young foal in front of her. The foal kind of looked like her when she was a foal. Starlight lifted her hoof. So did the other foal.

Confused, Starlight thumped her left leg. The other foal did the same. Then Starlight shook her head. So did the other foal. She jumped up and down. So did the foal in front of her. As Starlight reached out her hoof, she tapped a glassy surface. She looked up, and saw that the other foal’s hoof was tapping hers… but what she was tapping wasn’t a foal’s hoof. It was a mirror. Starlight was tapping her reflection.

She had been turned into a foal. But how? She needed to find out. Then she was lifted up into the air again by Twilight.

“See Starlight? Now you don’t have to leave. You can stay here forever!” Twilight squee’d and hugged Starlight, then made an ewwww face as a she acidentally hugged Starlight’s diaper. But how did I get a diaper on? Starlight asked herself. That’s when she felt it coming off and a new one being put on. She had been so preoccupied with trying to find out how she became a foal that she hadn’t even realized that she had wet herself. Ugh. Starlight glared at Twilight.

“Sorry Starlight, but you’re a foal now. I’ll call up Princess Cadance. Maybe you can play with Flurry while the-” Twilight couldn’t resist. “big ponies find a cure.”

Starlight glared at her. “I a bwig poney too!”

“For now you’re not. And I am in charge of you while you’re a foal. This will be so much fun! Now I’m not only going to be the Best Aunt Ever, I’m going to be the Best Mother Ever as well!” Squee-ing, Twilight picked up Starlight in her magic and walked downstairs. “Spike!” she called.

“Yeah?” Spike poked his head out of the kitchen.

“Take care of the place while we’re gone, okay?” Twilight started to walk away.

“Hey!” Spike called. “Who’s the foal? It looks like Starlight.” The foal began to cry, causing Spike to grab a pillow and stuff it over his ears.

“It IS Starlight. She’s going to be my pupil now.” Twilight started exiting again. It was a few more seconds before Twilight poked her head back in. “And I mean forever this time!”

Spike’s jaw dropped.

Starlight started crying again. “Twiwight I hungwy!” Of course, to Twilight it was foal-speak, which meant that she couldn’t understand Starlight at all. But she tried.

“Hmmm… diaper dry…” Twilight patted Starlight’s diaper. “Ah! I know!” She levitated a bottle out of a blue foal-care bag and filled it with formula. Then she showed it to Starlight.

Starlight knew what formula was, and also she wasn’t thirsty, she was HUNGRY. She slapped it out of Twilight’s magic.

Twilight stared at her. “Ok, so you’re not thirsty… are you playful?” She pulled a plush toy of Sunburst out of her bag. Starlight raised an eyebrow.

Twilight smiled sheepishly. Then she levitated a plush Flash Sentry from her room, and a plush Rarity from Spike’s room. Spike shrieked and grabbed it, hiding it behind his back.

“We have plushies of of our waifus too.” Twilight smiled.

Starlight facehoofed. “Sunnybuwst nowt my waifwu! He a fwiend!” She punched the toy out of Twilight’s magic as well. This time Twilight rolled her eyes.

“Alright. Are you hungry?” Twilight asked. Starlight nodded and shrieked in foal-speak. Twilight handed Spike the foal food, telling him to make it and have it ready in 10 minutes. “It’ll be ready in 10 minutes, Starlight,” Twilight told her, smiling. “You’ll be fed soon.” And giving Starlight to Spike, she ran off to buy some more foal-care materials.