Aspects of Herbs and Rhymes

It was around evening time, as a young teenage girl entered her bedroom and closed the door with a small sigh. Her short, red-crusted, dark brunette hair casted bangs over her hazel, near green eyes, behind a pair of black-rimmed glasses and pale Caucasian skin.

Her name is Eleanor May Carter. She currently lives in Alberta, Canada. In the basement of her parents' house. She just got back from a Dungeons and Dragons roleplaying campaign in the city's library.

Eleanor put her backpack on top of her bed and she collapsed beside it. Her mother called from upstairs, "Ellie! I left some chicken pot pie in the oven for you. Be sure you eat it before you go to bed!"

"Thanks, mum!" Ellie replied in a thankful tone.

She sat up and made her way to a computer desk and opened her black HP laptop. Ellie entered her password and the computer notified that she had a new email, that was sent an hour before the campaign.

Curious, Eleanor opened her email account and clicked on the email, 'I hope it's not spam, like last time!'

The email opened, it wasn't spam, but a letter with a link at the bottom.

It read;

'Dearest Apple Frost,
We deeply appreciate the fantastic writing and voice work you have submitted. You have truly captured the characters' personality, as well as the heart of a certain zebra, to make her more of a main character.
As a token of our appreciation, we present to you this video. We hope you enjoy it.
Yours truly,
The MLP Theory Analysts.'

"MLP Theory Analysts?" Eleanor finished reading with a raised brow.

Everybody knows that MLP is the initials for 'My Little Pony'. An old cartoon show with a toy franchise, that has four generations to keep it up with modern-day views for children. A cartoon show about pastel-colored equines going on numerous adventures and learning the true meaning of friendship.

Eleanor has been a fan of this series since she was a very little girl. Whilst no one else seemed to understand the lessons behind the episodes, Ellie picked it up by the end of the episodes.

Diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome and an IQ of 152, Eleanor was able to understand the characters, as if they were created just for her. Which she knows they weren't.

Friendship is Magic is the fourth and most modern generation of the My Little Pony series and it's just finished its sixth season and four movies. The main character, Twilight Sparkle was once a young unicorn, then became an alicorn, earned the title of Princess of Friendship and has two students from her world and the world of humans under the same names.

Eleanor joined the Herd as a fanfic writer on FimFiction, a reviewer and fan-dub voice actor on YouTube, under the name: Apple Frost.

Ellie cautiously moved the mouse over to the highlighted, blue link. She has heard from the news that high school students from Australia going missing and anthropomorphic equines were taking their places, claiming to be the said students. Ellie knew better: Something is causing the student to change into these characters of MLP:FIM. But the question is what and why?

In order to find out, Ellie bravely clicked the link. A window opened and showed a music video clip of a zebra character, that was named Zecora. At the end of the video, the screen went light grey with dark grey stripes and a symbol of a tribal sun.

Eleanor stared at the screen, as the glow from the screen enveloped her. She quickly switched off the computer and shivered, unaware her eyes have changed from their normal hazel color to a strong cyan color. And a mark of the tribal sun has appeared on both of Ellie's hips.

With Asperger's, Ellie is very sensitive, emotionally and physically. Enhanced hearing, smell, touch and taste. So she felt something pulling out of her pants.

Eleanor used her hands to cover her pants and ran upstairs to the main floor bathroom. She closed the door and locked it. She pulled her pants down to her knees and looked in the mirror. Her coccyx was growing out from under her underwear and fusing into a coccygeal vertebrae. Her neck grew in length as well. Eleanor leaned over the counter and gritted her sharpening teeth in pain.

Bones cracked, snapped and fused, as her neck grew over an inch longer. And a tail grew just past her knees. Ellie's ears moved up to the sides of her crown, morphing into pony ears. Ellie's throat tickled, as she coughed. With each cough, her voice deepened and her British accent changed to an African-esque accent.

Her hair morphed and changes into a mohawk. The red-crusted brown hair lost its color and was replaced by a stripped pattern of dark Persian bluish grey and light grey.

Ellie was in too much pain to notice the other changes to her body. She grew an inch taller and slender in size. Her B-cup breasts remained the same. The bottom half of her face stretched forward, forming into a strong muzzle.

Light heliotrope-ish grey fur grew a thick coat around Ellie's new body, with dark bluish grey stripes. Strong, thick hair in the same color as Ellie's new mohawk, grew on the tip of Ellie's tail and reached to her ankles.

Her finger and toe nails hardened and turned indigo-ish black. Her feet grew and her toes fused and the nails grew until they were hooves. Ellie's molars flattened and her canines and premolars sharpened to look somewhat like fangs.

The changes complete, Ellie sighed and caught her breath to calm down. She opened her eyes and looked at the mirror. Her glasses didn't fit her face anymore, but she could see that she was transformed into an anthropomorphic zebra. More specifically, Zecora. The zebra character from Friendship is Magic. Her favorite character.

"Excuse me for my language subject, but this is just fucking perfect!!" Eleanor shouted in anger and frustration. As well in rhyme with her new voice.

She's transformed into Zecora, just by watching a video! She never expected this.

Realization hit her. She put her hand over her throat and she spoke again, "What is this at time? I am now speaking in rhyme?"

She hit her head with both fists and closed her eyes tight, "Please I want to scream, this has to be a dream!"

Eleanor repeated this mantra in her head four times, until a yawn caught her. Her eyes struggled to stay tight. Ellie took a step back, but not used to walking unguligrade, her left hoof slipped and she fell to the ground. Hitting her head against the door of the tumble dryer, Ellie blacked out.

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