At that point I was staring at Steely, he was staring at me, and everyone was looking at us. It was so messed up!

“You ... ponied ... up!” Steely said as he was looking at me.

“I guess so...” I responded nervously. “Wait! How long does this last?!”

“Don’t ask me, I never ponied up, but I recommend going somewhere else.” He looked around and everyone was still looking at us so we just left there and went off by ourselves.

“OK, this thing better wear off ‘cuz I don’t want my dad to see me like a mystic creature!”

“I agree, but, it’s not that bad!”

I couldn’t think of anything else to do, so I face-palmed!

“Hey, wait up!”

We looked back and saw Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie coming towards us. “Dude, that was awesome! I guess that was your first transformation, but you’ll get used to it.”

“Yeah!” Pinkie Pie added, “and then you will shoot rainbow lasers and get a superhero costume and then BOOM!” Unfortunately, she spoke so fast that I didn’t understand anything, but somehow Steely repeated it for me slowly.

“I know it’s cool and all, but how long does this last?” I just got to the point, and I just wanted to have a clear answer.

“Well, uh, not long. Actually, I’ve never paid attention.”

Thank you, Pinkie Pie. That was actually heart-warming, kinda. We said our goodbyes and walked down the hallway.

Fortunately it wore off before my dad arrived. The rest was expected: the bullies got punished and they are supposed to clean the whole school for a week. Dad brought me home, put me to bed, and forbade me from going outside. Grounded. Like always!

In the afternoon I called Steely to see if anything was happening and I asked him to pick up Beaky for me. As far as I heard, nothing really special happened in the school, only now I can’t practice magic with Steely.

“Hey, can you do me a favor?”

“Of course, what?”

“I want you to go to Fluttershy’s pet place and pick up Beaky for me.”

“OK, I call you when I’ve picked her up.”

He called me after some minutes and told me that he had picked her up and he was on his way.

Author's Note

make sure to check out other chapters too.

special thanks to my editor Daniel Drazen.