Going out with a BANG!
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Blaze a Trail

Going out with a BANG!

Greetings, dear reader, as we today are off to Manteo once more, and to the store we go. The Christmas rush was over, and although Christmas as a season was still a concept that was going on, it was not currently the focus of people's minds as the end of the year was approaching. Soon were we to say to we to say goodbye to-

Start again. Soon we were to say goodbye to 2019, to welcome in the light of 2020, and hope that it was a better year than the previous one, as people always do with the new year (and almost invariably are proven wrong). And at the same time, also welcome a new decade in the 21st Century. As John Lennon put it, 'Another year over, and a new one just begun'. And thus, people were stocking up on supplies for the New Year's parties, which were but one day away. This meant the mall was pretty packed, and who else was there but the usual?

Jimmy. As he went in with his cart, he couldn't help but notice a woman with cream skin nearby, who darted into another aisle. He couldn't quite put his finger on it, but she somehow felt familiar.

He went onwards on his journey, as he and his mates (including his equally shapeshifting prone friends Tom and John) were hosting a party to mark the end of a hectic year. Boy had they been through a lot (him, Tom and Katrina especially!), considering the Walt Disney World incident. But the year would be set to continue, and Jimmy strongly suspected that a lot of crazy stuff would happen before it was out.

But back to now. The woman had seemed somewhat familiar, but as usual Jimmy was not sure why. Neither was James, Kimmy, or Jimmu.

"Somebody has to be the favorite-"

James, stop damaging the multiverse! Get back in your shed!

"Which James? I can see two!"

You know what I mean. Now go away.

Honestly, with random blue tank engines, whatever next? My life is a madhouse sometimes.

After that digression, Jimmy walked down more aisles, loading some cookies, and then some biscuits (if you are a British reader, those are biscuits and scones). He then found some bacon, some other useful food items, and then a whole pile of drinks, Canadian maple syrup, and of all things he recovered some extra air beds, so that his friends, in the style of Discord, could take 'some nap'.

As he rounded the bend, he noticed a desk with a FREE PROMOTION! on it. As he approached, he got closer and closer, and picked the bottle up. Foal's Breath, it was.

"Cool!" he said. "They're doing tie-in drink promotions with the show now? Must be a way of keeping the fandom going." So he did what any reasonable person would do in this case. Purchase it and take it home with him to try it out. Once that was done, he headed home and set down his things in his room. He got out the Foal's Breath and did what he wanted to do with it: Drink the entire lot in one go. And so, he did just that! He really should have learned a lesson from the ice cream, as he gagged and slammed into a shelf in his room, knocking it over. Thankfully he moved out of the way before it even fell on top of him. "That stuff tastes awful!" he exclaimed, before a loud shock echoed from his stomach.

It soon became clear what was going on in that department, as cream fur suddenly sprouted from his body, and his back shifted and broke apart, before reforming in such a way it forced him onto all fours. His legs and arms snapped and inverted, resulting in the appearance of a quadruped, as his hands and feet merged together into hooves. The tips of these hooves suddenly turned a light green, to complement the existing cream color. His body swelled rapidly, ripping his garments of clothing into pieces, as not long after his manhood vanished forth into his body, being replaced by the female equivalent. But not long after that, green scales grew forth upon her back, dropping partway down her barrel, and floating just over her hips (which were currently in the process of widening to create a pony silhouette). Cream fur hung off of her front legs, and some orange fur sprouted from her back legs. A tail erupted from her butt, but it was a long, whip like thing. And then, after that, more orange fur suddenly sprouted from the underside of this most odd tail, curving back and dropping down her tail like a brush used for house cleaning.

Now to move forward a bit. Orange fur sprouted from Jimmy's front and grew around her freshly elongated neck, running around like a poorly kept neckbeard, before connecting up to her existing hair, which was now sliding down the back of her head to create a mane of incredible proportions. A very odd looking brown horn with red inverted chevrons emerged from the top of her skull and grew to be about 8 inches tall, as more green scales grew down the front of her face. This face then changed into a pony muzzle, nose and mouth combining together, which of course wrecked her red glasses into pieces. Her ears suddenly reappeared on her sides of her head, tall and floaty, like an elf, as her eyes grew in size and turned yellow from their normal blue. Her transformation was now finished.

As Autumn Blaze began to walk around in her room, she saw her mirror on the door. She went over towards it and she said the following while also doing a cute expression:

Suddenly, she heard a knock on her front door. Having enough of looking at herself cutely in the mirror, she used the magic in her horn to open her bedroom door and headed towards her front door. Using her magic again, she opened her front door and her jaw dropped. It was the other woman that she saw at the store earlier. Only to realize this was also Autumn Blaze. "What's going on here?" she asked.

The other Autumn replied. "I'D RATHER-"

Then Kirin Autumn returned the favor. "SIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!"

It went on like this for a few minutes, as the two Kirin (well, human and Kirin) led the entire town in a rousing musical number to which they inexplicably knew the lyrics:

"'Cause rainbows won't light up the sky
Unless you let it rain:
And candles just won't glow until they're burned!
No, you can't give up your laughter
'Cause you're scared of a little pain:
It's a lesson that my village never learned!

"No matter how hard I schooled them
Fear of hurt is still what ruled them
Sometimes you gotta let it raaaaaaaain!"

"Yeah, sometimes you've gotta let it rain."

Human Autumn called out to the assembled folks. "Happy new year, everybody! And remember to have a cuddly Kirin at your side to help you through the cold!"

Kirin Autumn then turned to the reader, shattering the fourth wall with her singing voice. "And Jimmy shall return at some point very soon in the new year. Keep an eye out, and a Happy New Year to all of you reading this on your tablets, computer screens, and smartphones!"

And to close out 2019 with a proper end, both Human Autumn Blaze and Kirin Autumn Blaze winked to those reading.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Author's Note

And so.... 2019, as well as this decade, comes to a close for me in terms of my stories on here. Of course I'm not done writing just yet, as I will return on January 1st, 2020 with a brand new story and with my goal to have a story up in every month of the year for me. :yay:

Now normally I would put the entirely of Autumn's Song from Season 8 in this Author's Note, but to make it special.... I will put all the Original Series Beyblade Anime Insert Songs including the English Dub Theme Song as a special treat! If anyone knows this anime really well, sound off in the comments to do so if y'all do know it. :raritywink: