Violent Night, Oh Bloody Night!

It was Friday afternoon and it had been a rather unpleasant week in Colgate's office. Given that school was out for Hearth's Warming Break, many of her patients had been bratty foals who had not been taking care of their teeth. What angered her further is that just to get the foals' cavities filled before the holiday, she had to schedule their fillings for the weekend. While Colgate would allow the occasional Saturday appointment, this time it was all day Saturday and all day Sunday.

Things had not gone all that well for her billing assistant, Amethyst Star either. All week long parents had been complaining about how they had not met their deductible and were having to spend the money they would have spent on Hearth's Warming gifts on their co-pays. As the final patient of the day left, Amethyst groaned, "Ugh, if I have to hear one more pony bitch about their bill, I'm going to smack them!"

Colgate was in an equally unpleasant mood, "Lucky you, all you have to worry about is taking their money, I have had to put up with bratty foals all week." She lit her horn up in anger and continued, "And thanks to me wanting a week long break after the holiday, I'm going to be here all weekend long filling those brats' cavities."

Just as Colgate was about to continue on with her rant both mares noticed something, they saw something glowing. Colgate was the first to say anything, "What the hell is that glowing?" She then noticed that her and Amethyst's cutie marks were glowing. While they didn't know a ton about it, they knew enough about what others had gone through that she knew what it was. "The map!" Colgate shouted.

The two saw replicas of their cutie marks fly off their flanks and take off towards the castle. The two were in such a state of shock over being called by the map that they completely forgot to lock the door on their way out. As they raced into the castle and arrived, Twilight was standing there in a state of shock.

She stood there with her mouth hanging open watching the cutie marks floating over the map. Colgate was the first to say anything, "Twilight, what's wrong? You look like you're about to drop over in shock."

Colgate's voice snapped Twilight out of her shock. Once she saw they were there she said, "Colgate, Amethyst, I'm just shocked that you're being called by the map. Never before have ponies that aren't that close to me or my friends been called."

Amethyst saw that their marks were floating right over Twilight's castle. "Here?" She asked. "The map is calling us to your castle?"

They then watched in shock as an image of the mirror appeared on the map and their marks began to circle over it, causing Twilight to be in further shock. "You two are getting called to the human world!"

"Human world?" Colgate scoffed, "Everypony knows there are no such things as humans."

"Yeah, they're nothing but the stuff of comic books and old legends." added Amethyst.

Twilight replied, "Actually they do exist. I have visited the human world a few times." She then saw something strange happen with their marks, they began to have blood dripping off of them. When Twilight saw this she freaked out, "Blood on your cutie marks? Are you two going to have to stop two friends from killing each other?"

Amethyst became nervous, "Stop friends from killing one another?"

Colgate sighed, "Oh it's probably just something due to the lighting in here, I doubt there is blood on them."

"You're probably right." Twilight replied. "Come on, let's get you two on your way."

Twilight motioned for them to follow her up to her chambers where she activated the mirror. Once it was activated, Twilight offered some information, "I want to warn you two, when you get there you will not have magic and you will wind up having to walk upright."

Both mares couldn't help but chuckle, "Walking upright, no magic? Yeah sure Twilight, whatever?"

Twilight sighed, "Just wait you two, you'll see when you get there." She then pointed towards the mirror and added, "Well good luck, you two stay safe."

Colgate replied, "Don't worry Twilight, we will."

Neither one of the two were exactly thrilled about the prospects of not having magic and having to walk upright. As they headed through the mirror, they found themselves flying through a swirling portal of colors before finally crashing on the floor on the other side. When they finally came to, they realized that Twilight was indeed right about what would happen, that they did become humans.

They both had trouble standing up but luckily for them there was a bed right next to them. They could hear voices downstairs so they knew they had to be quiet. Colgate whispered, "We've wound up in somepony's bedroom. I never knew this thing took you into houses, I wouldn't think it would do that."

Amethyst too whispered, "I didn't either." She held on to the bed and continued, "Let's go investigate the talking. Maybe we can get this problem taken care of and get back home pretty quick."

As they both got up and held onto the bed, it was hard for them to even stand up completely, much less walk. They knew that they would have to get the walking thing down before too long and just hoped that the inhabitants of the house wouldn't react too negatively to their unexpected visit.